CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. ’
SATURDAY, MAROB idhj.
OUR CHURCHES.
St. Michael's (I>. 15.) Church, Mint St. !
Sen-m c- a I 10 a. in. and 8 i». m. Sundar
~ M'stl at 4p. 'm. Rev. P. P. Alston, pa's-;
M. E. Church, Graham Street. Scr-!
vi S at 4 p. in. and 8 p. nt. Sunday.
••h i !at 10 a. in. Rev. R. M. Collett
{Kistor.
h irst Baptist Church, South Church St.
Si . sat 11a. 111., Bp. m. and 8 p.m. i
S inilav-s -hool at 1 p. in. Rev. A. A. I
i’on-at.L. pastor.
f / uc/.i'r Baptist Church, East Second •
St. Servkus at 11 a. m., 3p. in. and Bp. I
it. Sunday-school at 1 p. m. Rev.
in • uonrox, pastor.
Pres'nytorfcm Church, corner Seventh j
College Sts. Services at 3 p. in. and i
s ;-. i:t. Sunday-school at 10 a. in. Rev.
I!. P. Wvein', pastor.
Clinton Chapel, (A. M. E. 2.) Mint St.!
Services at II a. in., 3 p. ». and 8 p. m.
Sunt! tv-school at Ip. nt. Rev. M. Slide, !
|i \ 'tor.
1- tile Rock, (A. M. E. Z.) E St. Ser- !
' • • ». m., a p. m. and 8 p. ni . I
ilev. S\':4. Johnson nastur.
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.1 l! . t-f A ! IN. Ij’/ral Editor.
[1 am personally responsible for all I \
may write under ray signature.]
i L'uess Smith will be liome soon,
and your humble servant, who has
run the local department for five
« As, will retire, aud seek much,
n fled rest from his journalistic labors.
Mbs Minnie lionncr, of Atlanta, is*
visiting friends in the city and is the
it it t of Mrs. fraffuey.
Mrs. Nannie L. Leary, of Fayette
ville. is in the city, visiting her sister
Mrs. Hattie L. Calvin.
If you want your own daughters to
virtu uis, you must help protect he
vi.vif of your neighbor’s daughter.
The W. C. T. I’, will meet at the
t !.•- of Mr. Joseph W. Smith,
«< on street, next Monday evening.
A full attendance is requested.
C1,...10th- has' about 3,0110 colored
citi.: us and yet lias no brass hand
among them. Our musical people arc
cide r mighty lazy or very indifferent.
The chain gang is growing bigger
tit every sitting of the ctiminal court.
Tills is the only crowd T know of
where white folks walk behind colored j
people.
It will he quite refreshing to have !
u Ji’tv set of aldermen during the next
two years, and a new set of policemen, j
We think some of them have been on
th . e long enough. j/^
Th members of Grace M K Zion
Church are trying to build a house of
worship, and have appointed G. W. j
Johnson. Jethro Sumner aud W. W.
Smith as a linancial committee to raise j
funds.
Ilev. Mr. Pearson has concluded his
lab Ik re. The religious awakening
was the greatest ever known among'
tin white people, and some lii'ghty
had people arc trying to lead better
liv< - as the results of lii.s preaching.
Tii * colored baseball players of the
city are organizing a strong team tor
the coining season. They have some
(in players among them. They will
build a large inelosnre around their
grounds, and propose to beat any club
in the State.
Tii-- New Verb World, of Sunday,
giv ■■ illustrations of several prominent
colored editors, with short biogra
phi—. It is to he earnestly hoped
that lJro. Cromwell, of the Adrocutr.
is not half as ugly as the picture rep
resents him to he.
There are more Idle people in Char
lotte than there has been for a long |
time. Work is scarce and money still
scare* r. and men who are willing to
work can't got it to do. A great
many first-class workmen have gone to
Birmingham, Charleston and other
If you want the Mksjbeokh to live
you must pay your subscription. Smitli
maki s his living off this paper and you
ought to pay him, as he tries t» rep
rtit you to the world. There are a
good many men who, had it not been
for this paper, would not he known
out of Charlotte.
•several of our young ladies arc pos- j
sessors of fine, new pinuos. Some of
them are quite costly. Miss Mary |
Foster is the possessor of one that cost
sooo ; and what is still better, they j
can play them. Charlotte girls are j
hard to head off.
The Rising Star Lodge of Odd Fol
lows of this city will celebrate their
thanksgiving day at the Graham Street •
M. K Church next Sunday at 3
o’clock p. m. Rev. Id. M. Collett,
pastor in charge, will preach a speeial
sermon for the occasion.
It, very time some of our people have i
a little fuss with each other they run !
for the magistrate’s office and in nearlv !
every case both parties have to pay.
Going before a magistrate docs not;
help make friends. Some people are !
born fools and can’t help it; others j
become so by practice.
I am certainly tired of that Salva
tion Army, or what is left of it. About
a dozen boys and ladies parade the
streets every night with two drams, ;
and it makes me siek to see them.
The main body has left here, and the !
recruits furnish noise enough to make
Ned Davidson’s “fee da” hand asham- :
ed of itself.
Mr. J. M. Goode, of the Virginia
House, had the misfortune to have the
entire roof of his hotel burned off by
fire Tuesday morning. He saved all
his furniture, bedding, Ac., but a part
of it was damaged by water, breaking,
Ac. His loss was fully covered by
insurance. He has moved across the j
street into the large and commodious
Carson building, where he is ready to (
care for the traveling public.
Cleveland has appointed James M.
Trotter, colored, of Boston, to be re
corder of Deeds for the District of
Columbia. lie was formerly a clerk
in the Boston postofficc and was turned
out for working for Cleveland, who
now appoints him to office. As he is
evidently a political bushwhacker, it
is to he hoped he will fare the fate of
Matthews, the colored ward political
bulldozer of Albany.
The colored people of Charlotte
spud enough money for groceries to
keep up fine, large grocery stores, and
yet we have only a tew small grocery
stores run by colored men, aud they
would starve to death if they had to
depend exclusively on colored trade.
IV hen colored men exhibit a race pride
and try to build each other up iu bus
iness, we may expect results. Colored |
men who are supposed to bo leaders I
arc, as a rule, the last ones to patron
ize colored men. We all associate
together, pray together, hut when it
eouies to business we spend our money
with people who sit on the front seats
at the opera house, while we sit in the !
peanut roost.
Letter from Wilmington.
February 27, 1887.
“Some men are horn great, some
achieve greatness and some have great
ness thrust npon them.”
The writer is typical of the latter—
“greatness thrust upon them.” She,
like the . violet hidden amid the fra
grance of home, is suddenly summoned
by a call to appear before the puhlie.
VV'liat an apprehension ! A curious
sensation chills her very soul when she !
thinks of the glances of the serutiniz
ing eye of the many readers of the
newsy and popular Charlotte Mkssen
oer. She, like the morning glory,
shrinks beneath the scorching rays of
the noonday brilliance of criticism and
the expressions of the gilt-edged
i tongue so full of blarney.
Your flattering announcement that
she had consented to become your eor- j
respondent from this city causes hosi
tauey ou the part of the writer —for
really she had given no positive assur
ance to the request of the editor. She j
admired the paper, liked to peruse its;
columns, and thanks the editor for
having confericd upon her such a dis
tinction ; would like to become a reg-:
tilar contributor, hut mast confess that
i the writer feels a lack of adaptation to
such work, as she thinks it one of the
highest pursuits of our times. Be
sides, her duties at home and at school
forbids any ambition iu that direetiou.
Fk J l . Uool'EK.
An Expensive Delay,
| Is failing to provide the proper means i
to expel from the system those disease
germs which cause scrofula, indigea- 1
i tion. debility, rheumatism, and siek
. headache. The only reliable means ■
i is Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic.
Salisbury Items.
l'cbruury 20, 1887.
Superior Court is in session, Judge
Gilmore presiding. His charge to the
grand jury was pointed, practical and
very interesting.
Lucy Morgan, found guilty of in
fanticide, has been resenfenced to ho
hanged March 18. It is hoped by all
that the Governor will commute the
death sentence.
We find a preat many colored peo
ple attending court. It is hoped they
may soon learn that the court house is
not the place for them, and that their
time could he better employed at their
farms, factories, Ac.
The festival at the A. M. E. Zion
Church, on St. Valentine’s night, was
quite a success, despite the had
weather.
Pres. Price is home from his lectur
ing tour. He is looking well and liiw
friends are glad to see him
again
Henderson Brothers have purchased;
a new white marble fountain and will
soon he ready to furnish their custom
ers with first-class soda water. F’resh
fish on hand Tuesdays and Saturdays.*
Miss Annie Sloan was at home last
Saturday on a visit to her parents.
Her many friends were glad to see her.
She was looking as well as usual, and
is now teaching at Millbridge, Rowan
county.
A very pleasant time was had at
the Good Templars’ meeting last Mon
day evening, the members bringing
dainties. We noticed among thost?
present Mr. and Mrs. W. E. HcDder
son, Hon. J. C. Dancy, Misses Maggie
Davis, Mira Low and Irene Lord, and
Mr. L. B. Henderson.
Miss Annie E. Haynes, Vvc learn,
will he home next week from Scotia,
to spend a while with friends.
Wilmington Twinklings.
All is quiet in the little “City near
the sea.” Even Miss Grundy is un
usually quiet.
Wilmington is blessed with the
presence of one of the most learned
and distinguished sons of the Nutmeg
State—Prof. H. M. Shephard, who is
one of the greatest instrumentalist
tmtl vocalists of this enlightened tlay.
Already the Professor has organized a
vocal class of near 100, and has also
many instrumental pupils. These, as
well as the vocal class under the in
struction of Mrs. L. Fk Chambers, are
long-felt needs here, and so apprecia
tive arc we that we don’t hesitate to
bespeak for both great success.
We have just had the pleasure of
welcoming to our city that very ex
cellent lady from Ohio, Mrs. Johnsjn,
mother of our distinguished citizen,
Rev. A. J. Chambers.
Quite a pleasant and successful gath
ering was that at the Wise Men’s Ilall
Monday evening, under the auspices
of the Seventh Street Baptist Church.
The lads and their lassies seemed to
enjoy themselves much. Even the old
maids tried to he voting again. We
failed to learn the successful contestant
for the ring.
The Lenten season has begun, and
if we arc to judge from the strict at
tendance at services, Wilmington is
aroused to a sense of its religious duty.
We aro also pleased to welcome our
lovely, spring-like weather, which so
characterizes this part of our South
land. The cool, evening zephyrs waft
into our window at this twilight hour
the delightful and delicate odor of the
violet and hyacinth; those sweet har
bingers of spring, and we bid you
adieu for an evening stroll.
Birdie Bradshaw’.
A ('aril of Tluiuks.
Rising Star Lodge Kiaf), G. U. O.
O. F., return thanks to the “Ladies’
Social Bouquet Club” for delicacies
furnished them at their Lodge rooms
Thursday night.
J. M. Hag LEE. Sec’y.
T. J. Weddixoton, N. G.
No, don’t learn a trade, young man.
You might soil your hands, wilt your
shirt collar, and spoil your complexion
sweating. Go hung your chin over
counters; learn to talk twaddle to the
ladies ; part your hair in the middle ;
make a fool of yourself generally ;
work for wager that would not keep a
Chinese laundry-man on riee-fed rats,
aud have a big enough balance to pay
liis washerwoman just because it is a
little more genteel in the eyes of peo
ple whose pride prevents them from
pounding rock or hewing wood, and
• whose poverty pinches worse than one
!of those patent cross-legged clothes
| pins, if the truth were only told.—
| WUrkimj Woman, Wnnhiwjtou, 1). C.
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