CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
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THE OPEN FIELD.
The whole land and watery world
is a field for the black man the same
as any other man. He has a right to
every known honorable vocation and
those yet undiscovered. Why com
plain when the field is so broad, the
harvest so great and the laborers so
few? Leaders in deeds —not those
who suggest and talk about things
after they are done, but men and
women with original thought, in
vention ideas and prosecuting vim
about them.
If this section of country is being
crowded, the great west and south
west is open and even Africa may be
sought, after our own country is
filled. But there is much to be done
here in the Carolines yet. The fields
of the west are inviting, but the labor
is neglected here at home. Our boys
and our girls are neglected and we
even negleet ourselves.
Much unnecessary talk has been
done by some white papers about a
colored man supposed to be doing
business for a white firm of North
Carolina. Putting aside the prejudice
and envy and narrowness of these
white men who condemn a man for
employing help to suit himself, it is
another evidence of the colored man s
fitness to do business and the impor
tance of his going into business for
himself and patronizing our ownSnter
priscs. It is true it takes money to
start a business, but some of our men
have money and others have friends
who are not tainted with that wicked
, prejudice that has shown itself in so
many.
Charlotte wants a colored under
taker. A skilled cabinet-maker and
undertaker can make a handsome
living in this coming metropolis. We
have no undertaker here and would
gladly welcome one. We want a
colored photographer here; there is
money in it. We want a colored
drug store here and hope to see one in
a year or so. We want, and must
have a colored printing office. We.
want a colored lawyer here to write
up wills, mortgages, deeds and look
after titles and take a hand in the
legal business here generally.
The field is open. This race and
generation is the most fortunate in
the world, regardless of all the dis
advantages. The rate at which we
are becoming owners of land and
skillful farmers, successful teachers
and preachers, is gratifying, but wc
need a return to the trades and an
. entering into other vocations. What ■
wc need here in this city is needed in :
every other city in the South.
All animals arc alike in some particu
lars and the brute nature shows itself
in man now and again k let him be j
ever so careful. We should not go i
in swarms or all try to go the same ,
way. Wc fear too many of our young
men go to preaching and teaching.
• Woman is peculiarly fitted for teach-:
' ing and she ought not to be crowded
out by able bodied young men who j
are so much needed in other parts of j
the field.
Let our young men take to those I
trades and callings in which they find
the fewest colored men. If the doors ;
are not open, force them open, si our
children may find no trouble in enter
ing them. The field is open and there |
is a rich harvest for every homat,
earnest worker who will exhibit a
manly courage and patience in enter
ing these new avenues. Twenty-five
years ago wc bad no Negro preachers
in this southland;* to day wo have
thousands of intelligent and well paid
preachers doing the work of God.
Twenty-five years ago we had no
teachers; but why have we preachers
and teachers to-day? Because they
prepared themselves and entered into
the work. Ten years from to-day we
will have hundreds of colored doctors
in the South and it will pay bettor
than preaching or teaching. Fill up the
other callings and the Negro will not
be known, simply as a servant and
laborer, but soon he will be skilled in
all the arts and sciences known to
man. The field is open, young men,
go in and make for yourselves what
your Creator intended for you to have.
Our Newspapers.
Ldmbertox, N. 0., Aug. 13, ’B7.
Editor Messenger: —Judging from
the developments of passing events
the casual observer is struck when he
realizes our present status. The mul
tiplication of newspapers and periodi
cals of our own production and ge
nius, shows our steady and sure ad
vancement in the betterment of our
intellectual condition and standing.
Newspapers are the media through
which a people are to speak their sen
timents or herald their grievances to
the public gaze. As the white jour
nals never do, or at least very sel
dom, speak of a meritorious or praise
worthy act of a colored person, it is
doubly more urgent that colored edi
tors and journalists should guard with
vigilant concern the worthy and de
serving of our people at all times and
places. Professional men and women
are springing into life every day, and
on every hand. New subjects of
thought are being discussed every day
and hour, which necessitate a higher
standard of thought and a more
diffessed degree of intellectual train
ing and culture. A progressive peo
ple must necessarily be a thoughtful
people, and a thoughtful people must
be a reading people —a reading peo
ple must have something to read, and
in their reading their minds must be
lead to and instructed on the most im
portant topics of the day. This is the
field of the journalist. There is much
for the colored people to do yet in
order to impress their importance on
the public mind. Wc should do every
thing to induce our people to embark
into railroad enterprises, banking in
stitutions, factories, and all such in
dustries among ourselves and under
our own control. Those will give
us race prominence, such as will cause
foolish white men of idiotic brain to
cease their foolish bickering about
colored drummers, Georgia school
bills and other silly hobbies indulged
by weak-minded men. But 1 tres
pass your grounds.
Prof. Allen is visiting bis sick
brother at Leesburgh, Ya.
Miss Laura A. Lee’s school closed
on the 12th inst.
Crops are fine and good seasons
continue.
Fever is raging in this section..
Several deaths recently.
The Normal (Whitin) school will
open on the 22d inst., to continue in
session three months.
Your friend, Bacihslob.
Happiness.
Mr. /Cilitor :—Please allow me to
say to the many readers of your valu
able paper that of all conditions in
life, there is none more desirable than
happiness. There is nothing more
simple in its nature, easy in practice,
and more sweet in its consequences.
In order to be considered great in the
eyes of the world, certain qualities
and circumstances arc essential. For
instance, the lawyer in order to plead
the cause of his client in such away
as to excite the sympathy of the
Judge, and the tender mercies of the
jury, he must possess eloquence and
ingenuity of thought. The warrior
needs courage to face the enemy, the
merchant tact to improve his trade.
But happiness has little to do with the
chances of trade, or the sublimity of
science, or the confushm of war. It
springs tip by careful cultivation in
the pure and honest heart, and blooms
like the flowers of spring, through all
the changing vicissitudes of life.— j
| The rich, who possess thousands of
ready resource*, and never imagine j
what it is to bo deprived of such
things, are unlikely ignorant of the
happiness with which the religious
child turns to nature, and revels in the
contemplation of nature and nature’s
God. The child of God can truly
drink of the cup of sorrow to its
dregs, yet. in the hour of grief and
pain can lean upon his God. Truly,
this is a happy condition, and when
death shall summon him to that land
where happiness reigns supremely, wc
do not see him shrink in terror. Ah 1
no ; but soothed and sustained by an
unfaltering trust, he approaches his
grave like one who wraps the mantle
of his couch about bim and lies down
to pleasant dreams. From this, we
infer that happiness, in order to be
complete in this life, must be shrouded
with a hope of that life to come.
Truly yours,
Uosa B. Williams.
Lockvillc, Aug. 15th.
Love anil Jealousy at a Camp Meeting.
Columbia, S. C., August 19 —A
special from Wilmington says that a
cold-blooded murder, prompted by
jealousy, occurred at a colored camp
meeting near that town Sunday night.
While many were attentively listening
to the preaching, others were prome
nading through the pine grove sur
rounding the grounds. Among these
were Fannie McDonald and her beau,
Moses Garrett. They left the camp
ground about eleven o’clock, and had
gone but a short distance when an
other colored man, named Anthony
McCormick, a former paramour 1 of the
woman, rushed by them and said,
"Good evening, ladies and gentle
men,” at the same time firing a shot
from a pistol at Garrett, the ball lodg
ing in his right side, from the effect
of which he died in the hospital Thurs
day morning. The assassin fled, and
at last accounts had not been appre
hended.
News from the Capital.
Raleigh, August 19.—North Caro
lina has no statues of her distinguished
men m Statuary Hall at Washington.
For months there has been an argu
ment as to who shall be thus immor
talized. Colonel William L. Saun
ders, Secretary of State, one of the
most erudite men in the State, thinks
John Harvey and Edward Moseley
the men Vhose memory ought thus to
be honored. Harvey, says Colonel
Saunders, was the central figure in
North Carolina in the troublous times
which culminated in the war of the
revolution. Some agreement ought
to be speedily reached and the statues
placed where they ought long ago to
have been.
At Kinston a negro named George
Pearson, charged with an attempted
outrage in Onslow country, created a
great deal of excitement night before
last. He was discovered in Kinston,
and the sheriff attempted to arrestbim.
Pearson drew a revolver and tried to
shoot the sheriff, who, after a desperate
struggle, got possession of the pistol,
but not until, by accident, Pearson
had been shot in the head.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights
of Pythias is to hold a special convo
cation at Goldsboro next month. .
Postofiicc Changes for the Year.
Washington, August 19.—The
forthcoming annual report of the ap
pointment division of the First Assis
tant Postmaster-General’s office, will
contain the following statement of
changes in postoffiees of all grades
during the last fiscal year, ended June
30th: Number of offices established,
3,043; number of offices discontinued,
1,590; appointments on resignations
and commissions expired, 0,803; ap
pointments on removals and suspen
sions, 2,584; appointments on changes
of sites, 482; appointments on deaths
of postmasters 579. The total num
ber of appointments of postmasters of
all grades during the year was 13,079.
The total number of appointments for
the year 1885 and ’BO was 22,744
and 9,457, respectively, making a to
tal number of appointments respec
tively, making a total for three years
of 45,373 The total number of
postoffiees of all grades in operation
on July Ist, 1887, was 55,157.
Ilaekmeii Heirs to Ten Millions.
Boston, August 19—Richard Bean,
of this city, a hcrdic driver, and his
brother John, also a hack man, and a
sister, who is the wife of a member
of the Springfield lire department,
have been notified that they arc joint
heirs to a fortune of $10,000,000 left
by Thomas Bean, who recently died
at Bonham, Texas. The family be
longed at Frederickton, N. 8., and
the heirs arc children of Thos. Bean’s
brother.
Hickory Press; Mr. R W. Johnson
seized a crop of cotton from Hardin
Kendrick on Friday last to satisfy a
mortgage past due. This is the first
seizure of the kind in the county.
Four fatal accidents to Alpine tour
ists are reported from Zurich, making
sixteen deaths in the Alps within a
week.
COMANCHE PETE'S CONVEBSIOM.
A Religions Exliorler Now, lint He
Used to Shoot, at the Drop of a Hat.
A letter from I,as Vegas to Kansas
City Times says: ‘-Something of a
sensation has been caused lately in
New Mexico cowboy society by the
sudden and complete eon version of
Comanche Pete, one of the erstwhile
wildest, wickedest, enssedest ones of
them all. He was known as a ‘holy
terror,’ would shoot ‘at the drop of a
hat,’ and had the capacity of a distil
lery for ardent spirits./ He is a changed
man now, and spends his time labor
ing among the cowboys, endeavoring
to turn them from their evil ways.
He quit drinking, but takes "no bluff”
from the rougher element, which
sometimes endeavors to drown his
voice while he is exhorting, lie tells
them that if they want some pistol play
he ‘is willin’; and, fellers, you know
I generally kills my meat.’ He is
another Sam Jones in embryo, has all
of the Western dialect, and uses as
illustrations such things as his hearers
are familiar with. His talk recently
iu Billie & Joe’s saloon may not have
been strictly orthodox, but it was im
pressive and effective also;
“Fellers; you are mavericks now;
there’s no brand on you yet. Your
mothers and sisters, and mabbe
fathers, belonged to God’s outfit, but
you strayed away before the spring
round-up commenced at home. You
became a maverick, and every outfit
has men out after you to catch and
mark you. God’s outfit has hundreds
of men hunting you, an’ so has old
man Devil. God’s major domos are
kind, good men, who will take you to
a green range,.with plenty of pure,
cool water, and you’d hotter git his
brand on you right off. You’re dead
safe with that outfit, but you mustn’t
monkey along nibbling at all the green
grass yoo happen to see along the
trail of life. Old man Devil will rope
and brand you if you do, and then
when the final round-up comes and
they cut out all brands but your own
you will find yourself browsing around
on the short burnt ranges of evil. You
remember, fellows, that dandy green
trail that led down to the Pine
vetas, and how Bill Archer fed his
herd along there, thinking green grass
and shade trees and good water was
all along. You know how they got
down into the canyon, and struck only
sand and alkali, and how, before they
could get out, a sand-storm struck
them and killed most of the outfit.
Well, that’s the way exactly the trail
is that leads to the ra.iges of Lucifer’s
outfit. A good many of yon are on
that trail now, and you’d hotter turn
off on a side trail. The devil’s brand
ing pens are built, the branding irons
are hot, and you can’t save yourselves
nor turn back if you ever get your
heads in the chutes that lead to the
branding pen. You’ll In’ alkalied
and sand-stormed and stampeded
through the canyons and mountains
and pits of hell, and the heel-fly and
screw-worms and black-legs will tor
ment you as long as time lasts. You’ll
be quarantined forever against enter
ing the pastures of heaven, and will
be held just outside sometimes so you
can just look over and see what you
lost by being too broncho to allow
white herders to repo and brand you.’
“His talk affects his hearers because
it is evidently sincere, and because of
its quaintness and strictly ‘rangish’
character. He may do much good.
Who knows just what instrument God
may choose to invite estrays hack to
the fold? He certainly has a wide
range to work over, and ho will find
numberless ‘Maveracks’ therein.”
A Contradictory Statute.
Sahatoga, N. Y., August 19.—At
yesterday’s session of the American
Bar Association here, Mr. Seumies, of
New Orleans, made the following re
marks about one of North Carolina’s
peculiar laws: The most curious
statute passed in North Carolina is one
exacting a fee of $l5O from gypsies
pretending to tell fortunes, and then,
with extraordinary mug fmid, declar
ing that the payment of the fee shall
not exempt gypsies from indictment
for practicing their art. .
r fZCinaCordial
CUKES
DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION,
WEAKNESS, CHILLS AND FEVERS
MALARIA, LIVER COMPLAINT,
KIDNEY TROUBLES,
NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM.
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weak and Ailing I ing the NERVr.3,
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gesting the food.
i
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posed of carefully It hoiv to treat dis- 1
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bie M edic inea, B mailed, together
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Safe and Flea .ant Hcliotypc process,
Remedy. on receipt of xoc. •
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O ASH —
DISAGREEABLE CONTROVERSIES !
with naonts who jxirsniide you to semi off
your little pictures to New York to have them
enlarged and framed. You can have all this
sort of work done at home much better and (
just as cheap, notwithstanding the false asser
tions these agents make to you, tiy calling at >
H. BAIJIHOABTEN’S
Photograph : Gallery, |
Charlotte, N* C.
HELLO! j
WHO’S THERE?
YES?
Come up Wade, and seethe improvements
ELECTRIC LIGHTS,;
TELEPHONE,
* ELEVATOR,
And various other attractions. Just think
of it, 425x70 feet of (hairing to he filled with
Crockery, China,
Glass, Silverware,
Tinware, etc.
Each department is to ho seperatc, anil
under the management of polite and at
tentive clerks.
GRAND OPENING OF
JANUARY 25, 1887.
Each visitor will receive a Souvenir.
11. B. HARSFIELI).
CHINA PALACE.
Dr. J. T. Williams
Offers his professional services to the gen
eral public.
CALLS ANSWERED DAY and NIGHT.
Office —Fourth street, between Tryon
and Church, rear of Express Oflice, Char
iot te, X. C.
Hardware Dealers,
CHARLOTTE, X. C.
The largest stock of
Hardware,
CUTLERY, GUNS, WOODEN - WARE,
ROPES,
Agricultural
Implements,
BLACKSMITHS’ AND I {EATERS' AND
OTHER TOOLS,
n tlie State. A tall is solicited.
Brown, Wkddingtox A Co.
BOARDING HOUSE.
CONCORD, N. C.
The traveling public will l*e accommo
dated with comfortable rooms anil board. !
House sit uated on Depot street, in front of j
the Seminary, near depot, and convenient j
to all visitors. Terms reasonable.
J. E. JOHNSTON. ;
VIRGINIA HOUSE,
CHARLOTTE. X. C.
Accommodations furnished travelers at j
reasonable rates. Comfortable beds anil j
rooms. House located in the central and j
business part of the city. Table furnished !
with the liest of the market. Meals at all j
hours.
•J. M. dOODi;. - Proprietor, i
CUM!LOTTE. X. C.
rain. itii. " 1
Don’t Fail to Examine.
Our Hi.apk and Colored TAMISK
is the nicest goods made for simmer ‘
wear. Price 75 cents per yard (
for the. color*.
BLACK SILKS, COLORED SILKS,
SUMMER SILKS, SURAH SILKS, ,
tor evening wear. New stock of 1
Ladies' Muslin
Underwear!
and at piiii* lower than evor. Full
Him us Warner’* Cornet*, Hosiery, 1
Glove*, Mil*.
IIAItOKAVK * ALEXANDER,
33 East Trade Street.
A RULIN' A CENTRAL R. U
\ CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
i Wilmington, N. 0., May 15, !Ss7.
WESTIMHTXD TRAINS.
No. 1. Ko. St
, May IC, 1887. Daily ex. Daily
Sunday. Sun. by."
j Leave Raleigh (R& A >. 7 »*► j*' \j
Wilmington, 7 25 A.M. H mo
Maxton, 11 3U
Hamlet, - 12 50 P.M. 233 A.M.
Wades bum, 2 15
•' harlot te, 4 32 t> .Vteirrtve
Lincoln ton, <i 17
Shelby, 7 4*>
j Arrive Ruthi rfordton. B 10
KASTBOUND TRAINS.
No. 2. No. J.
May Hi, 1888. Daily ex. Daily **x.
Sunday. Sunday.
Leave Rutherford ton, 715 A.M.
Shelby, 8 IS
Liucolnton. 10 07
• harlotte, 12 02 P.M. 8 45 |\\|
Wades boro. 2 30
Hamlet, 3 3S 1 55 A.M
Maxton, 5 20
Arrive Wilmington, 905 800
Raleigh, (R&A) g 35
Trains Nos. 1. and 2 make close connection
at Marton to and from Fayetteville, Greens
boro and other points on < F. *Y. V. R v .
At Wades boro with trains to and trot-,
Cheraw, Florence and Charleston.
At Lincotnton to and from Hickory Lenoir
and points on C. & L. Narrow Gangeßy.
Trains Nos. 3. and 4 make close i Mmortbin
at Hamlet with trains to and from lia!t-i:>h
Through sleeping ears between Wilinm™-
ton and Charlotte and < liarlotte and Raleigh
Take train No. I for Statesville and stations
on the W. N. C. R. R. and points w»>t
Take train No. 2 for Cheraw. Florence
Charleston Savannah and Florata, a!-.,
Fayetteville and < *. F. * Y. V. stations.
Train No. 2 connects at iViiminngton with
W. * W. No. 14 and W. C. a A. No 27
Take train No. 3 for Spartan bn rr. Gr.vn
ville, Athens. Atlanta and all points s.;:th
west; also for Asheville via charlotte arid
Spartanburg.
No. 3 connects at Wilmington with \V *
W. R. R. No. 23. Train No. 4 conic* ,-
Wilmington with W. a W. No. 7>. b* ;
Freight Nos. 5 and G tri-weeklv Utwor
Wilmington and f-aurmburg.
Local Freight Nos. 2 and 8 tri-wceklv
between Laiiriuburg and Charlotte.
Local Freight Nos. i) and In tri-week?v
between Charlotte and Rutherf>rdt.>n.
Nos., 5 d. 7. 8. O and 10 will n>*f take
passengers.
L. C. JONES, Superintendent.
F. W. CLARK, General Passenger Agt.
CAPE FEAR AND
YADKIN VALLEY
AM 1L WA Y OOMPA XY.
Taking effect 3.15 a.m., Monday May3o. is»7,
Ticaixs Motixg Noisni.
Passenger Freight and
and Mail. Passenger,
Lv Rciuietisvilie, IQclO a m 5:15 a m
Ar Maxton, ll:2»> ZzlS
Lv Maxton, 11:30 710
Ar Fayetteville. I:3opm
Lv Fayetteville, 2:**> c m
Ar Sanford, 4:05 i iopr»
Lv Sanford. 4:15 *tJ5
Ar Greensboro, 7:25 s ; oo
Lv < i'reensfx>n>. lo : 15 It t ,t
Ar Walnut Cove. I*) p m
Passenger and Mail—dinner at Fayetteville.
Trains Moyixo Sorm.
Lv Walnut Cove, 2:10 p m
A r G reensboro, s:o* 1
Lv Greensboro, a m 7:‘**:ki»
Ar Sanford, 12:55 pm 1:17 i. n.
Lv Sanford, 1:15 |
Ar Fayetteville, S:3> I,l*l
Lv Fayetteville.
A r Maxton, 5:15 3- j,-,
Lv Maxton, 5:25 j i;,
Ar I’ennettsville d : ls
Passenger an*l Mai!—ditmer at Kantonl.
FACTORY BRANCH—FREIGHT AND
At t OMMODATIoN.
Teyi.w Moyin*; Xokvh.
L\ M ill boro. *:4»’»a.ni j A
Truns Movixo Somi.
LvGreeif 1*0m,5 .\Oj, m | \ r MHlb.ro. 7:35|»:u
I ivight and A«‘i < train :«>t
Bennettsvilly :md Fayrsb-vitw* ..n M.-u.L,-
Wednesdays and Fridays. ; t nd b,-r. FaYvtu
villeaitd iSenm-tt.*. db- -|. lt -d u y>. t> .
days and Satunkiv s
Freight amt A»V».rm *.».bftou train rims U t.
Fayetteville and Hr* < ;.dw>n» Titus*toys.Thrtr--
days and Saturday-, .-.ltd between Gre,’n-t*.m
and Fayetteville Mondays, We*tiu-s*Liv- uni
Fridays.
Passenger and mail train runs *iaily exm>(
Sundays.
I he north bound passenger ami mail train
makes close connection at Maxton with Car
olina Central to Chari. 4te and Wilmington.
Trains on Factory Branch run dailvexcerl
Sunday. W. E. KYLE,
J. W, FRY. GciiT ,w * rr **"*
HENDERSON’S
BARBER SHOP !
THE OLDEST .VXD BUST.
Experienced and workmen alirar
ready to wait on custom?n Here will
S'/V jVf'' J 7 ITAlfi CUT and ‘ LSAX
•tOIIX a IIEXDERSOX.
East Trade Street, Charlotte. N. C.
WATCHES!
Clocks. - Spectacles.
Eye-Glassses,
and alt kind- of
Fine Jewelry
can he bought cheap at the Jewelry Stotv of
HALES ck BOYNE.
West Trade Street, Charlotte. X V
'Prompt atfeutiiHt t«i.i » 0 .d,rs by
mail ami guaruetcssl
you to the editor of this f-aper.
Photographs,
in all the btnt sr vies arid £n:>h.
v-PHOTOGRAHLS ENLARGED
to any size from small phdnr. *. No ne«d
to **nd them North.
Just as good work dme right hen* at
home arui as cheap us in New York.
WORK GI T AIL\XTKKI>!
Call and w
H. BAUMGARTEN.
CHARLOTTE. N. C.
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