CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
SATURDAY, - NOV. 12, 1887.
OUB CUUHCHKS.
St. Michael's (P. E.) Church, Mint St.
Services al 10 a. in. and 8 j». m. Sunday
school at 4 ]». m. Rov. I\ I*. Alston, pas
tor.
M. E. Church, Graham Street. Ser
vices at 3 p. in. and 8 p. m. Sunday
s-li-Hil at 10 a. ni. Rev. K. M. Collktt.
pastor.
First Baptist Church, Soutli Church St.
S-tvices at 11 a. m., 3 j>. m. and 8 p. in.
Sunday-school at 1 p. m. Itev. A. A.
Powell, pastor. *
Ehcnezer Baptist Church, East Second
St. Services at 1 La. in., 3p. m. and Bp.
n. Sunday-school at 1 p. m. Rev. Z.
1 AUG 11 TON, pastor.
Presbyterian Church, corner Seventh
4.n«l College Sts. Services at 3 p. m. and
s p. in. Sunday-school at 10 a. m. Rev.
R. P Wyciie, pastor.
Clinton Chapel, (A. M. E. Z.) Mint St.
> rvieesat 11 a. in., 3p. m. and Bp. m.
Sunday -•school at Ip. m. Rev. M. Slade,
fiast or.
l.itth- Rock, (A. M. E. Z.) E St. Ser
at 11 a. in., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m.
Rev. Wm. Johnson, paste#-.
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Rockingham, N. C., is the Supreme j
I ..ivernor of the Universal Brother
hood of North Carolina.
If you would keep up with times, you I
should take this paper, read it, write
for it, and help make a good history
fur your race.
Bishop T. II Lomax left home this
week for Montgomery, Ala., where he
will hold the West Alabama Annual
Conference, which convenes next week, j
Mr. A. W. Calvin has finished Iris
six houses on Mint street, and has I
rented all of them. Such houses al
ways rent well.
Rev. A. F. Goslin has finished his
fourth year at the Wadesboro Church.
The people love him very dearly and
loth to give him up. Every body
there speaks well of him and his work.
The Church voted unanimously for the
conference to send Rev. 11. C. Collins
nf Concord to them next year. They
are a good people and should have a
good man.
Rev. F. It. Howell was in the city
last week. He is building another
house on south C. street.
Rev. C. R. Harris, of Salisbury,
spent last Sabbath in this city. In
the morning lie preached an able and
stirring sermon al Grace church.
Mr. Newland Harris homo
last week from El Paso, Texas, after a
stay of several months.
Read and see what the Racket Store i
is doing. They do an immense busi
ness down there and they have almost
anything you need.
Mr. J. J. Gormlcy was elected
alderman for Ward 4 to fill the vacan
cy caused by the death of Capt. V. 1 1■
Johnson.
Rev. W. A. Alexander of Wil
luingioii, lectured at the Presbyterian
Uiinv:: last Monday night, on Evolu
tion. It was a fine effort and much
appreciated by the intelligent audience
that greeted hi*u. ,
Mr. Henry Freeman left us last
Monday uigiit for Birmingham. Ala.
Hr will spend the winter in the South.
The Witinoua Literary Circle had
its last regular meeting at the resi
due ■ of Rev. P. P Alston la t Fri
day night. All present enjoyed the
exercises. Mrs. Dr. Williams and
Prof. Davis are acceptable addition*
to the Circle.
The music at Grac church last
Sunday morning was simply grand.
Mr Williams’ full, rich soprano
voW is a great treasure in the posstw
u"!i of any one. The responsive solo
by Mrs. William- and Miss Mira Mos
ley, with the chorus by the choir, was
enchanting.
Our city should not boast of its
letter carrier system until there is
very material improvement in its
workings. It does not only seem to
embarrass the workings of the post
office, but the people are kept out of
their mail for months. The complaint
against some of the carriers is numer
ous. Perhaps our city is growing
too fast for one postmaster, and wo
need to have two. Things are badly
mixed.
Mr. John T Smith was kicked by
a horse last Monday, and was severely
wounded, the jaw bone being dislo
cated and slightly fractured.
The South Carolina Conference of
the A. M. E. Zion Church convenes at
Yorkville, S. C., next Wednesday.
Bishop S. T. Jones, D.D., will pre
side.
The Central North Carolina Con
ference of the A. M. E. Zion Church
will convene in Concord next Wed
nesday—-Bishop J. W. Hood, D.D ,
presiding.
Rev. 0. L. Blackwell will publish
a daily Conference journal at the Con
ference as he did last year. All per
sons wanting to keep up with the
proceedings will do well to take it.
We learn it will cost only 25 cents
for the session.
Mr. Severe’s Leeture.
The lecture by Mr. Severe, the!
African, at the Presbyterian church
j on Friday night of last week, was
j very different from others heard in
! this country. His statements were
; all readily taken as true, coming
[ from a native African, educated in I
J America and recently engaged in the;
1 missionary work in his native country.
! He says they need as emigrants to
Africa, none but educated, Christian
missionaries. They want no gold
| hunting, rum soiling, lazy, ignorant,
! immoral people there from this or
| any other country. They prove
J greater stumbling-blocks to ebris
( tianity that the native heathen. They
; want money to give better pay to the
good Christian workers over there
! and they want us to see that men and
j women have trained minds and train
! edhands and live perfect upright lives
at home before they are sent there to
| civilize and christianize the heathen.
Mr. Severe is not an eloquent
speaker, hut he has a forcible way j
of putting foots and his lecture was!
interesting and instructive. He said j
nothing disparaging of the great!
wealth of his country and the good
to be done by missionaries in civiliz
ing and christianizing Africa, hut:
dwelt upon the mistakes of the board
of missions. Upon the whole we 1
agree with Mr. Severe. Wo have i
never thought well of en masse emi
gration of an illiterate and poor peo
ple. and especially to Africa. We
don’t think the majority of people
who go from this country to Africa
do themselves or the Africans any'
good. As Mr. Severe says, lot only
those go who are prepared to bring
about a higher moral, religious and
j intellectual condition of our people
here and in Africa.
The great mass of our people is
j only semi-civilized and unprepared to
| become educators either by precept or
I example. Our people need to stay
in this country and get all the benn
j tits possible from those of superior
i advantages, and go from one part of
this country to another if noed be,
but lot only the select and prepared
go to Africa. Let us remain in this
I our country and be more liberal in
contributing our means to carry on
! (be work in Africa. That is our
part of the work.
j Chester (S. C.) Dint. Conference.
uv i). j. voi mi. r.Ki'oirrai.
The Chester (S. C.) District Con
ference convened at Corner Stone,
Lancaster county, October 20th, IHB7,
Elder A. M. Moore, presiding. The
session was opened with devotional
services. Tlio Elder read the 130th
Psalm. Rev. N. A. Crockett lined
a hymn and addressed the throne of
i grace. After which the Conference
j proceeded to organize.
D. C. Baum was elected secretary ;
Hev. It J. Bryant, statistician; D.
J. Young, reporter to the Star nf Zina
and the Ch.uii.ottk Mmsskmikii : It. C.
I Crockett, Marshall of the Conference.
Committees on Credentials. Rules
and Devotion worn appointed by the
| Presiding Elder—after which the Pre
! siding Elder made practical remarks
to tho Conference in reference to the
rising progress of (ho ‘district over
which he had passed.
The committees handed in their re
| ports, which were received and
J adopted.
The roll of the Conference was
called, and a number of the preach
ers, superintendents, and delegates
answered to their names.
At this juncture, Rev. T. S. Bil
lups, pastor of Corner Stone church,
made a statement that dinner was
ready. Tho good sisters and brothers
had gathered from different quarters
with baskets filled with refreshments.
Tables wore arranged, and tho mem
bers of the Conference enjoyed one
hour of feasting.
At the lap of the bell the Confer-'
cnee convened again to business.
The Committee on Devotion read the
appointment for devotional service.
At night, llov. N. McCollough was
appointed to conduct the services, as
sociated by Rev. N. A. Bice. The
delegates from the various churches
reported tho churches in a growing
condition. Considering the scarcity
of money, and the failure of crops
last year, the majority of the churches
report well for their pastors. The
most of the churches have voted the
return of their pastors. The reports
show tho general funds very nearly
collected throughout the district—also
| the Presiding Elder’s salary. The
Sabbath schools sent in very good re
ports—-showing them to he in a grow
ing ami prosperous condition. The
churches throughout the district are
| valuid a, from §250 to §2.500 each.
! The statistical reports show a net
| value of church properly in our dis
trict, of §17,87(». Number a'(ending
Sabbath school, 1,064 ; number of
volumes in library, 872 ; number of
teaehers, 97.
The churches in many places in the
district have purchased church bells.
On the Sabbath morning, away off in
the country, the breaking out of
church bells can be heard like warn
ing messengers inviting the worship
pers of the true God to the house of
prayer.
These encouraging reports caused
tiie district meeting to he more en
couraged to push on to success—seeing
the improvement made in tho district
since 1880.
At five o’clock P. M. horses, bug
gies and wagons were standing at tho
door ready to take us to their homes
for lodgings that night. The Confer
ence adjourned for tiie evening.
At nine o’clock the next morning
we met again. Tho Elder read a
chapter, Rev. J. 1!. Bry ant lined a
hymn, and addressed the throne of
grace. Rev. N. A. Crockett offered
a resolution requiring each minister
to bring up five dollars, for the Home
Mission cause. He showed the effect
of tho Home Mission Board by point
k ing to tho church in Columbia, to
show what the Home Mission Board
had done, with other assistance, and
what it could do. He also spoke of
the negligence of some of tho minis
ters in supporting tho mission fields,
■ and the failures which had been made
in Columbia previous to the organiz
\ ing of the Home Mission Board. The
resolution was received and adopted,
after which R. B. Hemphill and Jas.
Crawford were elected delegates to the
Annual Conference—lV. 11. D. Mc-
Mullen and D. C. Baum, alternates.
The preachers all seemed to he in
good spirits, and think they will he
successful in raising salaries.
Notwithstanding the weather being
inclement, at thn e o’clock in the
afternoon, the table was spread
again ill the church- much larger
than the first. We had the pleasure
of eating and feasting on the best for
three-quarters of an hour, with the
good people of Corner Stone.
At the bell tap the Conference con
vened again for a short session. A
collection was lifted in tho Conference.
Rev. 'l'. H. Billups and his congrega
tion assisted in raising money to pay
the ox-iran-vs of tho Conference.
After spending two days of profita
ble work, we reluctantly took our
leave of the good people and pastor
of Corner Stone circuit.
Tint Conference adjourned to meol
at Pleasant View church In Cheater
county. 188 s
Racket Store.
Twelve months ago a firm opened
up a now stock in the romantic bill
city of Lynchburg, Va. Full of tho
hope of success they launched out
into the turbulent, boisterous, tem
pestuous sea of credit. Two weeks
ago they came to us to close out their
stock, failing, broke. Well/ its the
system to bring defeat. Its the sys
tem to bring ruin and drive men to
sacrifice whatever they have at the
absorbing consuming shrine of ready
Dollars. We open this magnificent
stock of §IO,OOO this week, bought at
one-half its New York cost, and We
shall sell it at one half its retail price.
It is a splendid stock bought from
Clatlm’s and Johnson’s and Jeffrey’s,
and the leading New York houses.
Over 100 Ladies’, Misses’ and Chil
dren’s Cloaks, bought in September
aud October last. They have to be
slaughtered. We shall not vary the
law of our business, but sell them en
tire at one half the marked price.
Over 200 pieces Ladies’ Muslin Un
derwear. 500 dozen Hosiery, all got
to go. One lot of Ladies all Silk
Hose, which cost at wholesale §l3 50
per dozen, and sold by tho house at
§1.50 per pair. Wo shall sell them
at 75 cents.
I’here is a splendid lino of Milinery
in tb - Stuck, Ribbons. Flowers. Fi ath-
Plumes, Hats. Bonnets, with a
very line line of Velvets anil Plushes,
ail got (o go uud.r the law of low
values.
A large line of Dress Silks of every
shade and line, cut in trim by the
power of dollars, and will be handed
out to yon as we bought them. Wo
are told that we haven’t any right to
do these things, that it demoralizes
trade and cuts prices all to pieces.
Cant help it, if we want to give our
goods away, we have tho right to do it;
and besides that buyers are entitled to j
some consideration. We believe they
arc entitled to all we can possibly give
them. Just here we want to give you
our mercantile creed. There are two
statutes in its code we are trying might
and main to live by. The first is,
“Protect yourself,” and the next is,
“Protect your customers.” We have
had opportunity to buy goods cheap
for dollars, aud having bought them
cheap, we sell them on the basis of
what we paid, adding our reasonable
profit. Take for instance, one of these
cloaks, the parties paid §14.00 for it
a month ago, and marked it §IB.OO.
We paid them one half what they paid,
or §7.00 for the cloak, and we sell it
for §9. Wo protect ourselves and
make §2. We protect tho consumer
and sell the cloak for §5 less than the
wholesale cost, It pays both ways to
sell Cheap.
Thousands of merchants who go to
N. Y. to buy their goods gain nothing
by it, for the reason they buy out of
the credit system. A system which
forces them to pay for its losses.
They don’t know where to buy nor
how. That part is a business and
takes all tho time. It can’t he learn
ed in a few weeks. We get the bene
fit of tho experience of 20 or 30 buy
ers all the time buying in hirge*juan
tities for spot cash, and we ship them
direct from (he looms, from the mills,
from (In stun houses and all over
wher v#-r tile black flag of business
death s trying to unfurl or is waving
aloft its flaming folds of doom. It is
not only reasonable to say that we can
save consumers money but merchants
as well.
(In January Ist, we move into the
Elias A Cohen building and shall fill
one large floor full of tempting values
for those who ran pay cash for their
goods. To alt merchants who will
send us their postuffice address we
will mail them, from time to time, lists
of specialties as they arrive.
E. Al. DAVIS & CO.
N. Y. Office 406 Broadway.
FOR THIS WEEK.
We will have on exhibition quite a variety of
IGA-IDIIES’ sttits,
j Both in Silk and Woolen Fabrics, arranged with trimmings, buttons, etc.,
with price marked in plain figures for the snit. They will range in
prices from §3.50 upward, so that all may be clothed.
THE CLOAK SEASON
Is upon us. See our excellent line both in LADIES and MISSES. A large
shipment arc now just placed on the counters for yonr inspection. We are
having large sales of Underwear and Hosiery. New lot of Gent’s Balbriggan
Half Hose and Heavy weight, at §1.25 a box—one half dozen in a box.
Fine stock of Gossamers for Men, Ladies, Misses and children.
T. L. SEIGLE & CO.,
No. 11 West Trade Street.
JL t
H. BARUCH’S,
Good Wool Jerseys at 63 cents each.
Splendid Jeans at 23 cents per yard.
Immense variety of Calico at 4 cents per yard.
Bleached cotton Goods at 5, 6 and 7 cents per yard.
Cotton Flannels at 8 and 10 cents per yard.
A nice worsted Dress at 78 cents each.
CLOTHING
AND
SHOES
At Most Moderate Prices.
H. BARUCH,
-REGULATOR OF LOW PRICES.
Dress Goods.
Our 48-inch all wool Henriettas in the new shades are selling
right along. Our Chandron cloths are another new
goods out this season and selling.
OUR FLANNEL TRICOTS AND FANCY PLAID
FLANNELS
ARE TIIE CHEAPEST WE EVER HAVE nAD.
Handsome black and colored Surahs at 68 cents and 1.00 per yard.
Our 97 cent black silk is the best value to be found in the city. Remember
it is just as we say. Handsome beaded Passimentries to match.
Gros Grain Silks, Armure Silks, Faille Francais Silks, Silk Rkadamcs, Ac.
You must ask to see our stock and then you can appreciate our values.
Black and colored Gros Grain Silks at 75 cents per yard. AH colors in Moire
Velvets. Big stock moi knimi hoods with trimmings to mateh.
Silk warp Henriettas
At SI.OO. $1.25, $1.38, and $1.50 per yard.
Handsome Silk Warp Melrose Cloth at $1.50 per yard.
WRAPS, WRAPS,
For everybody Handsome London made Jackets and Yisitcs in all the new
street shades, and the loveliest Children’s Garments from 4 to 8 years
old ever shown here. They are Imported Goods, and every
one different. Don’t foil to see them.
MOURNING JACKETS AND VISITES.
Hilk and Jute Upholstery Goods Boucle Jerseys, 75 cents.
Large stock of Table Linens, Napkins, Ac.
BLANKETS, BLANKETS ;
FROM 75 CENTS TO *ls PER PAIR.
DON'T FORGET
To see our new Kid Gloves in new shades—Apple, Green, Garnet, Mahogony,
Puce, Heliotrope, .to., in plain and embroidered. Swadc Kids from
75 cents up. A line of Black Kids at 48 cents per pair.
BOOTS, SHOES, IIATS, CAPS, CLOTHING, &(’,
All at prices to sell. ASTSpccial attention to orders for Goods or Samples.
Hargraves & Alexander,
:s:t WF.BT TRADE STREET.