CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
SATURDAY, - OCT. 15, 1887.
OUR CHURCHES.
St. Michael’s (P. E.) Church, Mint St.
Servic es nl 10 a. in. and 8 n. m.- Sunday
school at 4p. ra. Rev. P. I*. Alston, pas
tor.
M. K. Church, Graham Street. Ser
vices at 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday
school at 10a. m. Rev. E. M. Collett, i
pastor.
First Baptist Church, South Church St.
Services at 11 a. in., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m.
Sunday-school at 1 p. in. Rev. A. A.
Powell, pastor.
Kbenezer Baptist Church, East Second
't. Services at 11 a. in., 3p. in. and 8 i>.
i. Sunday-school at 1 p. m. Rev. Z.
lALdUTON, pastor.
Pieshvterian Church, corner Seventh
~nd College Sts. Services at 3 p. m. and
sp. ni. Sunday-school at 10 a. in. Rev.
U. P Wycue, pastor.
Clinton Chapel, (A. M. E. Z.) Mint St.
Services at 11 a. in., 3 p. in. and 8 p. m.
Sunday-school at Ip. m. Rev. M. Slade,
pastor.
Lilt! • Rock, (A. M. E. Z.) E St. Ser
vices at 11 a. in.,-3 p. m. and Bp. in.
Rov. Wm. Johnson, pastor.
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Rov. P. J. Holmes, P. O. box 73,
Rockingham, N.C., is tiie Supreme
llovernor of the Universal Brother
hood of North Carolina.
New Aoexts.— Miss S. F. Young,
Cameron ; J. E. Smith, Fayetteville;
IS. R. Hill, Wilmington; R. E.
Crier, Matthews; I. I. Walker, Salis
bury ; G. 11. Henderson, Washing
ton, D. C. f
iT-rf'Mr. Ed. Hauled is authorized
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our city list. Subscribers will please
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If you would keep up witli times, you
should take this paper, read it, write
for it, and help make a good history
for your race.
Bishop Hood was in the city last
Sunday en-route to Moore’s Sanctuary,
where he preached an eloquent sermon.
Livingstone College reports, through
the Star of Zion, 110 students this
week. Why not run the roll up to
250 ?
A great many young ladies passed
through the city this week for Scotia
Seminary. Three hundred are expect
ed this year.
The colored fair opens next Monday
week. If you are not prepared, get
ready. Mr. Sherman and Mr. Ma
lione will be there and thousands of
others.
Prof. Sinclair, a graduate of Har
vard University and Andover College,
is likely to become a member of
Livingstone College faculty.— Star of
/ion.
The minutes of the District S. S.
convention, held at Monroe, arc now
ready for sale and may be had by
applying to Rev. R. H. Stitt, Char
lotte.
We were mistaken as to Prof. Skin
ner ‘.f Livingstone College, being a
graduate of Yale. We are informed
that lie is from a high school in
Connecticut.
The Yorkvilie S. C. District Con
ference will convene at Rock Hill on
the 20th inst. We would like much
to he there and if we are not this pa
per will I c repreanted.
The pillars for the frame of draco
church arc now ready and waiting.
IVork will begin ou it in earnest in a
few days, when it will he pushed to a
Mpi'l completion.
The delegates elected to the annual
Conference from the District Confer
ence are: Mr. A. S. Hubbard of
' "r. J. T Williams of Char
lotte, and Mr. S. H Hunter of Dal
las.
Absence from the city causes the
scarcity of locals this week.
Rev. B. 11. Stitt will lcavo for
Livingstone college Monday morning.
The case against J. I. Green for
burglary was called yesterday morning.
The whole of the forenoon was spent
in securing a jury.
The principal part of this week in
the eriinual court is occupied with
cases against white men. The char- j
ges embrace nearly the entire list.
Among the visitors in the city this
week were Messrs. J. E. Hatnlin of
Raleigh, A. S. Hubbard of Monroe,
S. 11. Hunter of Dallas, Miss Emma
Davis of Monroe, Revs. J. S. Cald
well, J. B. Colbert, H. L. Simmons.
Robeson county’s sheriff is reported
to be behind and the commissioners
have appointed a tax collector.
Something is wrong* with several
other counties. Cumberland is in
ticklish state.
We see from exchanges that Sir.
T. T. Fortune will no longer publish
the New York Freeman. Mr.
Fortune was the best colored editor
in the country and he will be badly
missed from our raks. We sincerely
trust that ho will return to his work
after ho has rested up.
We have spent thegreater part of this
week out of the city, looking after the
interest of the Messenger. We are
glad to say the paper is rapidly grow
ing in favor with the people. AVe
secured 25 new subscribers in one day.
Bonds or no bonds, that’s the ques
tion. Whether the city will pay a
debt of §30,000 by a direct tax from
our pockets and stop the street work,
the graded schools, put out the electric
lights, &c or issue bonds to run thirty
yegrs at 5 per cent. Which will you
have ?
AVe were glad to meet Mr. AV 11.
Houser last Sunday. He spent sev
eral days at home with his family,
and reports his work progressing
finely. He is building a large cotton
factory near Ellenboro, and has calls
to build two others. Mr. H. is one
of our most successful brick contract
ors, and has a family of brick masons—
four sons—all good workmen.
An election is to be held in this city
on the 7th of November to get the
sense of the people as to whether or
not they will issue bonds to the
amount 0f§50,000. As in all elec
tions the understrikers are at work to
make a dollar and they care not whether
their neighbors are hurt or not so they
get the dollar. Men should under
stand the question and think and vote
for themselves.
The criminal court is in session this
week, with Judge Meares presiding.
There are three capital eases to be
tried, two for murder aud one for
burglary. J. I. Green will be tried
for burglary of Mr. Yates’ house. Sam
Deberry for the murder of Jules Rob
inson. Baxter Grier and McKee Jor
dan were tried for the murder of Rob
ert Grier. This is the most interesting
session of this court for some time.
A Good Alan.
Our attention was one day this
week called to a commendable act of a
good hearted white gentleman in
South Carolina. His name is Mr. G.
AV. Goodwin of Brightsvillc, S. C. Mr.
Goodwin gave to a congregation of
colored people under Rev. S. J.
Adams, four acres of land, afterwards
loaned them §127 eight months with
out interest, to build, and when the
note was paid be made them a present
of §SO. The church is now called
Goodwins chapel. Such acts of kind
ness from friends are appreciated by
the heads of the church and leaders of
our race and we arc always ready to
acknowledge and express our gratitude
for such acts as the above, and this
good man has the prayers of our peo
ple.
Rest and change are good for peo
ple, tho physicians aver,” said the
wife us she rose at night to rifle her
husband's pockets. “I had a rest,
and now I’m going through these
pockets for a little change.”—Boston
Courier.
“Do look at that beautiful woman
standing on the shore!” exclaimed
Mrs. I’opinjay, who was spending a
fortnight at one of the popular resorts
on the Jersey coast. “She fairly has
a halo around her head, like a pictured
saint.” “Nonsence, my dear !” ex
claimed Mr Popinjay. “That’a mos
quitoes.”—Burlington Free Press.
Wadesboro District Conference. \
The AVadesboro District Conference
and Sunday School Convention were
held in Rockingham this week. It
was tho pleasure of the writer to sec
one of tho largest Sunday school con
ventions yet witnessed by him. There
were about fifty delegates present,'
who reported a membership of 2,099
Sunday school scholars in the district.
Tho Sunday school convention will be
[ held separate from the District Con- j
feredcc after this, and the time and
place of meeting of the Sunday-school
convention was fixed—AA’adesboro,
N. C., the second AA’ednesday in
August, 1888
Tiie convention met on Tuesday,
and adjourned AVedncsday evening.
Among the delegates wc noticed a
large number of females, and do con
gratulate the district upon the fine ap
pearance and intellectual bearing of
tho ladies generally, who gave their
presence each session.
Air. Thomas Mask was President of
tiie Sunday school convention, and
displayed much ability and fairness in
his rulings.
Presiding Elder Simmons presided
over the District Conference. The
annual sermon was preached by Rev. I
R. S. Rives of tho Charlotte District.
It was a fine, scholarly sermon, and
was highly spoken of by all who heard
it. Roth conventions were largely
attended by delegates and visitors,
and ail were well provided for by the
good and hospitable people, l’ev. I
P. J. Holmes and Mr. Mask deserve
the praise for the successful manage
ment and care fur the people.
A successful concert and festival
was given on Wednesday night, at
which Mr. J. C. Dancy delivered one
of his best speeches. Mr. D. fs
growing in favor as an orator, and
speaks with more eloquence and effect
. than a few years past. In his efforts,
he endeavors to set forth the possibili
ties of the Negro, and his efforts in
themselves are among the best evi
dences. About §SO were realized at
the entertainment.
Many beautiful solos, duets, quar
tettes and choruses were rendered
with splendid effect. Here again the
writer was forcibly struck by the
beauty, grace, and songs of the young
ladies, among whom we might men
tion : Miss Julia AA r all, of Laurin
burg, who sang two solos that won
the applause of all ; Misses N. S.
and A. G. Freeman, N. R. Ellerbe,
Jennett Holmes, Ida Mask, C. 11. and
S. AI. Leak, who took part in the
songs aud choruses.
Rev. D. J. Sanders was here at the
time, looking after the interests of the
A. A. Presbyterian. The Messenger
was very liberally patronized. May
the good people of this district ever
remain in peace and harmony.
Guilty or Not Guilty.
In the criminal court this week,
Grier and Jordan, two white men,
were tried for murdering Robert Grier. j
j colored, a few weeks ago. The iudict
| ment against them was manslaughter ; I
j the verdict of the jury, not guilty, j
! The prosecution was ably conducted |
by Mr. G. E. Wilson, the solicitor,!
and the defense was conducted by
| Jones & Tillett.
The evidence in the case is—Grier
| and Jordan were deputized by a J.
|P. to arrest lloht Grier, which they !
. did and took him to the jail door]
\ where lie escaped from them. They
returned to the neighborhood of his
j father and being' armed with guns,
j secreted themselves to wait for him.
; He approached near them in the dark;
j they hailed him and fired and lie fell
dead. The jury gave a verdict of
not guilty and the prisoners were
, discharged.
This was a very aggravated ease;
one in which a man charged with a
crime, is, without judge or jury out- !
lawed and shot down on the highway
and the slayers go free. The victim !
was surprised by the slayers in the
dark, and the-evidence shows that no
i rearrest was attempted anil he never
knew who shot him; but the jury said
the shooting was justifiable, so wc
must submit to the decision of
tho court. Colored men, you
must learn to love aud obey the law
and always keep on the side of law.
VA’e must suffer persecution a few ,
years longer, for we believe that our :
God is purging us and fitting us to once
more become the greatest rake on the
face of the earth. Trust in find and
do the right.
Town Talk.
Everybody is well pleased with ]
Mrs. J. T. Williams. She is also J
pleased with Charlotte.
The town girls arc awful glad the
Biddle boys have returned; if they
never marry, they make good com
pany.
The girl that goes so constantly
with a married student is informed
tiiat she is the subject of many re
marks. Does she know ho is married ?
The actors in the Grace Church
concert were from nearly all the
colored churches in the city. It onght
to be repeated.
Rev. C. C. Pettoy preached a
Clinton Chapel last Sunday night.
AVonder if he is afraid to go to Grace
church ? If lie is treated as Mr.
Young was lie had better not go
there.
It is thought that neither Rives nor
Tyler mid be sent to preside over
this district next year, because each
has made it hard for the other.
The Clinton Chapel concert failed
oti account of treachery and bull
dozing by the superintendent. In
killing Young’s coueert he killed his
own.
Two young men of this city refused
to assist bury a young lady of one of
the host families because their bosses
objeeted and the lady had joined an
other church. Alay tho good Lord
deliver them when they conic to die.
The gayest belles of the city arc
those that have been ringing and
charming longest—lo, 12, or 15 years
has no effect upon some young ladies. I
For style, beaux and talking, they
can’t he beat.
A certain gentleman was about to !
ask a young lady for her company j
home, but when he learned she had |
to go about two miles he changed the j
subject. That fellow ought to be)
spotted. Girls, he wears a derby.
Clinton Chapel will stand near the I
head in membership in church and!
Sunday School in its reports at the i
Conference, but Grace will head the j
list in work done during the Conference
year. No church in the Conference
will have as brilliant report to make
as Grace Church.
The editor of the Messenger onght
to get married and get out of the way.
He would have a better paper, more !
readers and would be happier Then (
the realities of an unknown life would !
no longer be an uncertainty with him j
and
The reception to Dr. Williams and
bride at Mrs. Bratton’s was one of the
biggest things in town lately. The
one by the AA’innona at Air. Rattley’s
was no less pleasant. Nanct.
T<* Business Men.
A\ r c call the attention of the busi
ness uien of this city to the value of
the Messenger as an advertising me
dium. There are about 5,000 colored
people in this city, and nearly all of
them are to some extent influenced by
! this paper. Will it not pay you to
ask for a share of their patronage
through their own organ ? The colored
people spend not less than §3,000
| a week here for clothing, groceries,
1 Ac., aud their trade is principally
eesh. Tho Messenger advises and
urges its readers to patronize the
stores that advertise with us. Several
of our best houses have found it ex
i pedient to keep their advertisement
| in our columns.
The Alessexger reaches a large
class of people who spend mueh money
tiiat cannot be reached by any other
paper in the city. Is not this worth
your consideration ? Our rates are j
very low, and it will certainly pay
you to advertise in the Messenger.
AA r e have a good circulation in the i
! city and county, as well as all the
neighboring towns.
Our policy and politics are not di- j
reeled to snit the business men, but:
our readers. If our politics were
anything than what they are we would
have no readers. Business men want
to reach the public, they care not by
what source. Advertise in the Mes
senger. ts
“What are the people of Germany
called ?” asked the new teacher.
“AA’lien t” asked the smart bad boy.
“Any time.” said the teacher, “all
the time.” “Depend*,” replied the
s. b. b. “They're called Germans
before the election and Dutch after it,
in this country.” Anil as that boy’s
father is a member of the Legislature,
his words has much greater weight
with the pupils tjjan the teacher's.—
New York Star.
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children's solid colored black hose at 10 cents; men’s heavy cotton hose
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