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CHAR LOTT E M ESS EN G ER. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2(i. 1887. OUR CHURCHES. .St. Miohael's (P. E.) Church, Mint St. I Services al 10 a. m. and 8 ... m. Sitmlav school at 4p. m. Rev. P. i>. Alston, nas. tor. M. E. Church, Graham Street. Ser- 1 T| ce» at Up. in. and Bp. in. Sunday- i sctiool at 10 a. m. Rev. E. M. Collrtt I pastor. First Baptist Church, South Church St. ; Services at 11 a. m., 3p. m , a tid Bp. in. Sunday-school at 1 p. m. Itev \ v Powell, pastor. Klienezer Baptist Church, East Second St. Services at 11a. m., 3p. m. and 8 i». m. Sunday-school at 1 p. m. Rev V. inAUOHTON, pastor. Preshyteriuii Church, corner Seventh and College Sts. Services at 3 p. ni. ami Bp. in. Suuday-school at 10 a. in. Itev R. P. Wyche, pastor. Clinton Chapel, (A. M. E. /.) Mint St. Service*at 11 a. m., 3p. m. and Bp. m. Sunday-school at Ip. in. Rev. M. Sum:, pastor. Little Rock, (A. M. E. Z.) E St. Ser vices at 11 a. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. Rev. W«. .Johnson, pastor. W If your paper has a blue j cross mark, it will be stopped till you pay up. We cannot continue to send it to you without some money. Please pay up and let us continue it to you. LOCJYL. A. W. CALVIN, Local Editor. [I am personally responsible for all I may write under my signature.] The blind singers arc here and are giving concerts in all the churches. A revival is going on at the Zion Church and much good is being ac complished. The Winona had a delightful time \ at the residence of H. Evans, Esq., I last Friday night. The Knights of Labor here is one j of the most splendid organizations ever gotten up for the benefit of the labor ing mcu. We learn that Miss Annie Walker, of Chester, S. C., and a former teacher it) the graded school here, is lying : very sick at her home. We would suggest to the Legisla ture to be on the lookout for John W. Wilson, Esq as he has a petition to ■ present to that body three miles long. f It may not be generally known, bnt Mr. James Foster is training his mag nificent voice to a high C tenor, and will soon be the loading singer in this | flection. Rev. J. Horton is very sick and is ■ confined to bis bed. As everybody knows Rev. Horton, and everybody likes him, he has the earnest hopes of all for bis speedy recovery. A man who will accept a position : under a Democratic government is a Democrat, and a colored man who seeks government position under Dem uoratic rule needs watching. Col. H. B. Kennedy, of this city, j as a member of the mail service, has a fine record. He is one of our solid j citiieos, has traveled extensively, held a great many positions of trust and honor and is the owner of valuable city and suburban property. Charlotte is certainly blessed with social societies among colored people. Tbey are the Winona, Oriole, Young Mens’ Pleasure Club, Young Ladies' Pleasure Club, Young Ladies’ Inde pendent Club, and Married Ladies’ Social Tea. They arc all in a pros perous condition. At last the negro has no represen tatives at Washington. Smalls got swindled out of his election in South Carolina; O’Hara got bitten by bis • own dog in North Carolina; Bruee bus gone to lecturing ; Langston is in Pe tersburg, Va., and Fred. Douglas, with his white wife, is in Europe. Alas, we feel that the colored dude is tke only thing that the Democratic air of Washington does not stifle The accommodations at the places of amusement for oolored people in this city sre such that many of our best oolored citisens never attend. It i« very poor comfort for e colored man to take his wife or sweetheart to an eperw konse, take a seat in the peanut tfleet a»4 be hemmed in between wo taen of qweedooablc character and a lot pf bowling ruffians. Colored peo ple am fend of amusement, and the managers would find it to pay them to furnish good accommodations for re spectable colored people. m lie do not advocate color.line, church line, or any other line, but w. notice that when election time coincf to vote for aldermen, the voters ol j wards 1 and 4, who have a large whit . majority, never nominate Mr. Nigger. | Wards 2 and 51 have large colored I majorities and they should have col | ore-1 aldermen or none. If we can’t | elect enough to do some good we ha i better let it alone. One or two col j oreil men on the Board of Aldermen is as useless ns a broken jug in a “dry town. We want the whole hog or none. The Chain (Jang. The recent shooting of two colored convicts at the stockade here has been talked about considerably, and strange to say-not a man can say anything about it only as hearsay. Now, the proper way to have done would to have bad a number of our best colored citizens to investigate the ease, and if the case warranted it present the guard | who did the shooting to the grand jury or the solicitor, and prosccut him. But I am informed that not a colored man appeared, either befori the grand jury or the solicitor, to saj a word against the man who did th shooting. These men on the chain gang are human, and should he treated as such, and while they may deserve punishment for their crimes, they de serve fair treatment, and if the guardi overstep the law in inflicting injury on them, they themselves should be pros ecuted and punished. It shows a weak spot in a man to say what legal steps should he taken and never show himself before the ; grand jury. The solicitor informs me that not a single colored man lias j made any complaint to him whatever ( • regarding this shooting. Wants tlie Facts Known. Mr. Editor—l and my neighbors ' have been led so many times into buy ing different things for the liver, kid- 1 nevs and blood, that have done us | more harm than good, I feel it due i ; your readers to advise them when an i 1 honest and good medicine like Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic can be had. Yours, truly, An Old SußscmiiKn. The Happy Farmer. We have often noticed that a certain class of newspaper men assert that the , farmer is the most indep indent man on , earth, and that he has nothing to do , but enjoy life. That when winter , comes and the blizzard is on the wing, he toasts his feet in the oven and reads the 1 cal paper, that the only ! thing that disturus him is a call thre ' times a day to banquet on mince pi- and other luxuries. Jt is a larg-- mis- ‘ take. The industrious fanner logins 1 1 working long before the sun thinks of \ getting up. With his sml shrouded lin gloom he proceeds to build a fire I | and soften his hoots with the hammer. I He then takes a lantern an I shovels i liis way to the barn and feeds his hogs. , It is then time to feed the newly arrived calf, which seems to delight in hunting a pail of milk all over the i tiller of the soil, until he only needs to be stamped to pass for a package of | , oleomargarine, lie crawls through a | barbed wire fence and digs his hay out j ' of the snow; feeds his stock, milks the t cows, cleans out the stable, gathers up the frozen chickens, chases a stray pig ! 1 worth 25 cents for four miles, doctors j ' a sick horse, freezes his fingers, gets f 1 kicked by a one-eyed mule, and when j ' j gloaming comes and quietness broods I 1 over the earth he has a simple half j hour to meditate and wonder how in i the d—l lie will make next payment 1 on that machine note. Organize. On every page of history stands out in blood-red letters the mottor‘-Might is right.” At the head of every de cree issued by a potentate, and of every law enacted by a class parlia ment, those who can see read: “Might is right.” Every class in turn must win its rights, and the poor, who arc many, come last, because Might resides less in numbers than in organized intelli gence. Therefore, Right extends as Liberty expands. But be who wants Right j must have Might, in which alone his freedom is safe. For what lie* cannot take he shall not obtain; what he can not defend lie shall not preserve. Workingmen you know your wrongs. No one hut you can right them. Let no question divide you. What to do and how to do it is of little moment while you can do nothing. First, he ; your own masters. Intelligence you have, and hearts, and knowledge enough to then, make the world what | it should be. Come together; bo one ; for all and all for one. Assert yogr . power by organization. Take tlia ship of Htute! Hold it'. Govern! That is today the only question.— i - Daily Leader. Charlotte lias about 1,000 Knights of Labor. Charlotte will have another assem bly K. of L. in a few weeks. The biggest strike now before the country is that of the Boston street car drivers. Gaston county lias ten assemblies Knights of Labor, with a total mem bership of about 1,500. Wheel moulders of the St. Charles, Mo., car works struck for an increase of five cents per wheel. The strike is still on in the Walker county, Ala., coal mines, and miners are-warn d to stay away. Mountain Island Assembly, in Gas ton county, N. C., is making artangc inerits to erect a fine ball. The weavers of Alaniance county want better wages. They are now paid 20 cents per “cut” of 48 yards. Hudson (Wis.) Knights made every poor widow in that city a present of a sack of flour during the holidays. The masons and plasterers of Indi anapolis, lud., will continue the nine hour system during the coming season. The strikers in Hoboken, N. J.. have been told by their landlords that they need pay no rent until the strike ends. A hill requiring all employers to pay wages weekly after July 1, lias been introduced in thg Ohio Legisla ture. Win. Kraft, a clothing manufacture in New York, reduced wages a shor time ago and now 150 of his employe ire'out on a strike. The lusters in Flynn’s shoe factory, Lynn, Mass., are on strike against the firm’s demand that tbey pay ten cents each per week for gas light. The convention of the Brotherhood >f Locomotive Firemen, comprising 240 lodges of 17,000 members, wa held in Scranton, l’a., last week. The boiler makers of San Francisco, Cal., have passed a resolution to fine any of their members S2O if they ride on either the Geary or Sutton street ears. The carpenters of Catnden, N. J., have passed a resolution that after the Ist of April no member of the union shall be allowed to work with non union men. The coopers of Chicago all struck recently against a reduction of wages. Four firms have withdrawn the de mand and th ir men resumed work. About 100 are still out. -Theft; are many gills in Belgium who work in the coal mines from 5 a. m. to 9p. in., and sometimes to 11 p. m. They each load from CO to 70 coal ears daily and they earn 40 cents a day. The school children at the St. Louis graded schools struck a few days ago for longer play hours. The strike only lasted for a short time, as their parents and the professors soon brought them to terms. The Wyandotte (Kan.) co-operative association has passed the first SI,OOO limit, having 201 shares subscribed for. They expect to open a first-class store for the sale of general merclian chaudise about the first week in April. Between 300 and 400 hands are on strike in the Edison electric light works at Harrison, N. J. The cause of trouble was the discharge of the hoys who it was discovered had broken about 200 of the glass lamps stored in the building. The Knights who were discharged two years ago in a large wood working establishment in Rnshville, Ind., be : cause they were Knights, started a co-operative concern in opposition and are doing a large arid profitable busi ness and greatly injuring the business of the men who discharged them. Os course they should be indicted for conspiracy. Comes Out Just the flame. “There must be somebody hacking that paper, for I ordered my paper stopped, and I know three or four more who got mad and stopped theirs, but the blamed paper seems to come ; out just the same.” Foolisli man, don't think that because you get on | yoiir ear and stop your paper it will make any perceptible difference with the run of the office. The same arti cle that you got mad at tickled half a dozen other men and they came and subscribed. Always remember that a paper is not run for the benefit of one person, hut for all. Go and take a drink out of Lake Sup crior and then look aloug the sliofle and see how much you have lowered the water. When you have asctj'tumed the exact figures, you can put it down as repre senting pretty accurately how much you amount to individually, to ward the sucecsii or failure of the average newspaper. i Father—“ Tommy, you should try and he a better hoy. You are our only child and we expect you to he good.” Tommy—“lt ain’t my fault that I am your rifily child. It is tough : on me to be good for a lot of brothers and sisters I have not got. 4 ’ 8801, WEIIM I i'll, Hardware Dealers, CHARLOTTE, X. 0. The largest stock of Hardware, CUTLERY, GUNS, WOODEN - WARE. ROPES, Agricultural Implements, BLACKSMITHS’ AND HEATERS’ AND OTHER TOOLS, ia the State. A call is solicited. $ Brown, Weddington k Co. A. W. Calvin, —DEALER IX— Family Groceries of all kinds. Country Prcduce al vays on hand. 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