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THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. VOL. IV. NO. 24. THE Charlotte Messenger IK riTBIJSHED Every Saturday, AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In the Interest! of the Colored People of the Country. Able and well-known writers will contrib * ute to its columns from different parts of the country, and it will contain Gen eral News of the day. The Messenger is a first-class newspaper and will not allow personal abuse in ite col umns. Itis not sectarian or partisan, but independent— dealing fairly by all. It ro eervee the right to criticise the shortcomings of all 'public officials — commending the worthy, and recommending for election such meu as in its opinion are beet suited to servo the interests of the people. It is intended to supply the long felt need of a newspaper to advocate the rights and defend the inter.sts of the Negro-Araerican, especially in the Piedmont section of the Carolines. SUBSCRIPTIONS: (Always in Advance.) 1 year - - fl 50 fc months - - - 100 0 months - - 75 3 months - - -50 2 months * - - 35 Single Copy - - 5 Address, W. C. SMITH Charlotte N C, HUMOR OF THE DAY. The equestrian takes a back scat. The convict is naturally in a good humor when he's breaking out. Maud asks: “How can I get white hands?” Make bread, Maud. —Burlington Free Press. Men who cover themselves with glory sometimes find that they are, after all, very thinly clad.— Boston Pod. It is rumored that the interstate peo ple are going to abolish the Rocky Mountain passes.— Detroit Free Pres:,. “I saw a pretty thing in kid gloves last evening.” observed Fitzpcrcy to his sister. “\\ hat was it?” “My best girl's hand. — Pitts/mrgh CLmnicle. “I see the dude has got into the latest edition of Webster’s dictionary.” “Has he? Well, hurry, then, and slam the cover down.”— Chicago News. “Advice,” sayß a philosopher, “should come to us like a gentle fall of snow.” Very true; but wc usualy receive it as if it were a shower bath. -Bos*on Courier. “ Does marriage change a man?” asks a writer. Depends on whom he marries. Some women w'ould make a man bald in six months.— Burlington Free Press. *• Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,” Campagne and oysters at midnight’s hour Cuts a man off in his early flower. —Merchant Traveler. Lady (who had a sick husband)— “Don’t you think, doctor, that you ought to bleed my husband?” Doctor fahsent-mindediy)—“ No, madame, not until he gets well.”— Ej>och. An exchange has an article on “China as It Is.” .lust how China is depends upon the hired girl Generally it is wicked, and often so badly broken that it has to be swept out. —Omiha Herald. In these cold winter nights true love is born Conceive a sweeter picture if you can; Fair Chios at the fireside pops the corn And Stephen pops the question, like a man. —Boston Courier. “I tell you what it is, Gus: Aramintas father can’t appreciate us. He has no soul.” “(Ml! he hasn't! eh? Well, if you'd been in my place last night you'd iiave thought he was all sole.”— Harper's Bazar. A strange child was introduced to 4- year old Adelaide with injunctions as to his entertainment. With a superb dig nity the suggestions were checked by: “My dear, I have played with children all my life.” —American Magazine. Beyond Comprehension. A certain Sunday-school worker, noted for bis pompous manner and lofty use of language, was invited to a sister city to establish a Bible class. It was mostly composed of ladies. One day two of the mem b: re met a friend who had not. joined. *“Ob, you ought to come and hear Pro fessor .heis so grand, so deep, and *o—so—religious,” cried one. “Yes, indeed.” chimed in the other member, “he talks to us in such a schol arly manner and uses such beautiful lan guage, I don't believe anybody could un derstand what he says except himself.” And with this peculiar tribute to the ! great man’s greatness, th**y went on their j way. WASHINGTON. FOU APPROPRIATIONS. The urgent deficicnccs which the House committee on appropriations will ask to have provisions made for at a very early day have been received by the com mittee. The aggregate, $30,752.74 as re ported by Secretary Fairchild. The amount required for work on public buildings in various parts of the country, $700,500; for high stations, $307,932; Territorial governments, $11,204; for miscellaneous objects, $1,918,508; the principal part of which $585,000 is for agricultural experiment stations. The war department gets $81,953 extending the signal service etc. The Inter-State Commerce Committee has an item of $15,000; the public land service, $33-, 100; expenses of collecting the revenue from the public lands, $88,409; survey ing the public lands, $100,000; Indian affairs, $56,000; pensions, $35,000; for fees of jurors of United States Courts, $150,000; fees of witnesses United States Courts, $300,000; pay of tariffs, United States Courts, $75,000 ; to pay judg ments court of claims,s2lo,oßß.* NEWS FROM THE BUZZARD. {'npmrdpiiiei! Snow Storm* iu tlie Nortli went - Trillnh Abandoned. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 2.—A1l points north of the international boundry and in Montana were reported below zero temperatures last night. It was still snowing at St. Paul at midnight, but the fury of the storm had abated. All trains into St. Paul were one to four hours late. Sioux Falls, Dakota, reports trains badly delayed. Huron, Dakota, reports the sending out of a relief train to meet the Chicago mail, and stuck at Arlington. At Brainer Minn., the snow is drifting badly. Rotary snow machines have done capital service on the Northern Pacific. Shaopee, Minn., says all north and south roads are blockaded. All Northern and Pacific freight trains east of the Mis souri river were abandoned yesterday. At Davenport, lowa, a heavy snow storm has been raging for 12 hours. Over twelve inches of snow have fallen. Freight trains have been generally abandoned and passenger trains go forth with double locomotives. At Dubuque, lowa, another blizzard has lieen raging for the past twenty-four hours. All freight trains arc abondoned and passenger trains are working along with double engines and snow plows and making very little progress. The situa ation is worse than during the recent storm. The present one extends clear across the state and is more violent be yond Fort Dodge than on this side. Sonthern trains are expected to arrive without losing much time. The inurcury is above zero. The cold wave struck Vermont last night, this morning the following tem perature is reported: At Barre 30 below zero; Calais, 22 below; East Calais, 30 below; Hardwick, 31 below; Marshfield, 24 below; Montpelier, 32 below; More town, 30 below; Plainfield, 3,0 below; West Randolph, 28 below, and Stowe 30 below. At Chicago the blizzard that Mowed yesterday afternoon drove almost every body off the; streets and almost blockaded traffic throughout the city. The street cars struggled along at long intervals early in the evening. Mails were nearly all from four to five hours behind time. The streets were deserted at ten o'clock, at that hour the intensity of the storm was almost unprecedented in this locali ty. The wind shifted into the east and was blowing at the rate of 30 miles an hour. Suburban trains were also greatly delayed and at one time were completely blocked by drifts at thirty-fifth street. Shifting the Officers. The new management of the Rich mond and Danville Railroad company has made a new deal in the officering of the road. At a meeting of the directory held in New York, one day last week, changes were made as follows: Mr. W. E. Turner, treasurer, is suc ceeded by Mr. John W. Hall, formerly assistant treasurer. Mr. Turner is one of the most accomplished accountants and one of the most faithful railroad men in the country. Mr. Hall is an old citizen of Richmond, and, like Mr. Turner, ranks high us a business man. The office of comptroller, filled by Mr. E. A. Barber, has been abolished, and Mr. C. M. Crump, the auditor will have entire control of the accounting depart ment. Mr. James T. Worthington has been made general counsel of the company in place of Judge 11. If. Marshall. The cir cular announcing Mr. Worthington's ap pointment states that his office will Ik; in Washington. Mr. W. P. Degausser, the assistant counsel, has l»ccn succeeded by Col. John N. Staples, of Washington. Secretary It. Brooke, who has been with the company about twelve years, becomes assistant treasurer. Messrs. Turner and Barber had been connected with tin; Richmond and Dan ville since 1895. Killed by a Falling Tree. A negro lad about 17 years of age. named Joe Maniguult. living on Mr. Henry Sandifer’s place, three miles from Midway, S. was accidently killed by a tree falling on him. lie and his broth er were engaged in splitting mils. When the tree was about to fall he ran to get out of the way, but a piece of limb fell on him and threw him on his face. Be fore. he could recover tin* tree fell on him and strange to say, no part of his body or limbs was broken. It is suppled that he died from some concussion on bis head. He lived ulmut half an hour after he was j struck, but was speechless. CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, JAN. 7, 1888 SOUTH CAROLINA’S ADVANCE. A Great Increase In Valaes Reported by the Officials. A review of the progress made in all branches of business in South Carolina the past year, as compared with the pro gress made in 1880, w ill show that South Carolina is making rapid onward strides, is in better condition than she has been within the past quarter of a century. In 1879 the comptroller general's report shows that the value of all taxable prop erty in the state was $120,000,000. This year the value of such property is placed at $141,000,000. The increase in real es tate, outside of cities and towns has been $6,500,000. In 1880 the valuea of farm products and manufactures, and minerals live stock, fruits and vegetables was $72, 500,000; in 1887 the values of these prod ucts is one hundred and three million dollars, an increase of thirty-one and a half millions. Farm products in 1880 were valued at forty-two millions; in 1887 at forty-seven millions. Live stock in 1880 was valued at twelve millions; in 1887 nearly twenty millions. Mineral products in 1880 one and a third millions. The mineral products are principally phosphate rock. Fruits and vegetables in 1880 one hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars; in 1887 eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Three hun dred thousand quarts of berries and near ly a millions melons, an enormous in crease; over any previous year. The* pi gress in the; construction of railroads South Carolina has been marked. In the past two years one hundred and eight miles of road has been built and put into operation, and a half a dozen lines are now being worked up. The cost of this hiis been nearly $1,000,000. Since 1880 $3,500,000 have been expended in build ing railroads. In 1880 the total railroad earnings for South Carolina w ere $4,000,- 000, in 1887 $6,500,000. There is more money ofloat now than for years on ac count of the good cotton crops. The state lias just turned over to Columbia the canal valued at $2,000,000, which the city will complete at a cost of $200,000, and when this is done thcro will be as fine a water power as there is anywhere, and accommodations for fifty factories. The condition and prospects of the state are excellent. THE STRIKERS IjUIF/l. Seemingly Awaiting Development!*-Free Idem Corbin’* Addre**. At the office of Mr. Corbin, president of the Reading Railroad Company, in New York city, it was learned that there was practically very little news to report in regard to the stiika, and that there would probably be no important developments for a few days. By that time miners will have had a full opportunity to discuss and take action on Mr. Corbin’s address. At the offices of the various coal compa nies the address of President Corbin was considered a very fair presentation of tha facts of tlie case, and it would in all probability have the effect of preventing the great body of the miners from taking action. “Wc don’t anticipate any seri our trouble.” said Mr. Macwcll. the chief assistant of Mr. Corbin, “When the men realize that they are asked only to keep a contract which they voluutarially made I have no doubt that the greater part of them will refuse to go out.” dTsiTwords. There is no joy like the joy of resolved virtue. Truth is a rock large enough for all to 6tand upon. The way to have a good credit is to keep out of debt. Faith is the pencil of the soul that pictures heavenly things. The worst of slaves are those who are constantly serving their passions. We commonly slander more through vanity than through malice. It is an irrefragable law of mind that moral efforts become definitely easier by repetition. Tenderness makes a woman grateful; a noble manhood compels all her deep in stincts of love. Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. The blessing of a house is goodness. The honor of a house is hospitality. The ornament of a house is entertainment. Companions are to be avoided that are good for nothing; those to be sought and frequented that excel in some quality or other. Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. Rut a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed h»s market cart into a chariot of the sun. These who have no ear for music must be very careful how they speak about the mysterious world of thrilling vibrations which are idle noises to them. And so the true saint can be entirely appicciated only by saintly natures. We can use every part of our nature conscience, intellect, heart and will—so as to reaffirm the old verdict that ail is vanity ami vexation of spirit; or we can give ourselves up to the diviue possi bilities within, am), living in them, find our relationship to the Infinite Life that has no limits. Tlie setting of a great hope is like the set ting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gout*. Shadows of eveniug fall arouud us, and the world seems but a dim reflection, itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy. Monkeys in Eastern countries arc said toacquirc such a fondness for opium that they will habitually smokeany that may be left in the pipe when the mister lavs it down, and when deprived of it will suffer from nervousness and depression. THE OLD_ STORY. Two Trains Try to Pass on the Same Track in Opposite Directions. Three Pemonii Inmantljr Killed and Hev eral Other* Fatally Injured. The most disastrous collision that ever occurred on the Ciftcinnatti Southern road took place seventeen miles south of Som erset. Ky. Limited express No. 2 which left Chattanooga at 9 o’clock a. m., ran into limited express No. 1, which left Cincinnati at 7:55 a. m., between tun nels 7 and 8, demolishing both .engines, throwing every car from the track on train No. 2 except the two sleepers, and killing three persons outright. Besides these, the early reports State that thirteen passengers were killed and a large number badly hurt. The point at which the accident happened was over a mile from any telegraph office and in a country hard to get at. At Winfield Conductor Schrum and Engineer Michaels, of train No. 2, re ceived orders to run to Summit, regard less of train No. 1. The word “Sum mit” was mistaken for the word “Somer set,'’ and the engineer went living to ward that station at the rate of forty miles per hour. Both trains are the fastest run in the south, and when they caine together the crash was terrible. Neither engineer could see more than two hundred yards ahead of him, so crooked was the road. It is said that the two locomotives were only about a hundred feet apart when both engineers saw that a collision was going to occur, ami they yelled to their firemen, and all four men jumped for their lives. Fortunately none of them arc hurt, save some severe bruises which they received. The engines were thoroughly welded together aud arc both a total wreck. Physicians were immediately summon ed to the scene of the accident and were carried thereto by a special train. When they arrived at the place, they were hor rified.to see the lwggnge and express car of train No. 2 on fire. The dead bodies of the baggage master and express agent and the dead passengers had lx*en gotten out l>efore the fire broke out, but the cars wero entirely consumed. Both the baggage and express car of No. 2 were a total wreck, having been broken into splinters and they very soon caught fire from the stoves. The scene which followed the acci dent lieggars description. The heaviest damage fell on train No. 2, and it was on that train that most of the |>eople were killed and injured. The more fortunate passengers did everything they could to aleviate the sufferings of those who were dying. When the physicians had examined those who had been injur ed, they very soon pronounced three per sons probably fatally hurt, but could not determine the extent cf the injuries of a number of the passengers. All the train men on both trains escaped unhurt. An Electrical Car. One of the remarkable sights in this '.ity, says a New York letter to the Cin cinnati Commercial Gazette, is the Julien electrical car rushing along in away that excite a degree of surprise approaching alarm. The car is the ordinary style familiar on the streets, painted green, with a bell that rings sharply, and a big in front. The propelling power is invisible. It consists of electricity stored in tanks fitted under seats. The car spins along at a lively rate, if permitted, and is under perfect control. It is stopped in less time than horses can be checked, and starts with a gentle facility, and gains speed as if motion was its natural condit on and the rests were en forced. The oue that I saw on Fourth avenue was gliding ahead, pursued and in part surrounded by a great swarm of boys, who seemed to be of the impression that they were witnessing a show of magic. The street car horses did not like the monster, and pranced as if they proposed going on a strike. The elec trical car i;ad a load of passengers, and moved over ordinary tracks in a master ful manner. Os course, if this sort of thing can be carried on at a cheap rate, there will not long be use for horses or cables. There is a difficulty, lam told, in the cost of the plant, and the ques tion that raises the uncertainty is as to the endurance of the costly plant. It should be noted that the care I describe are not run upon specially prepared tracks, and are not connected with wires that are streaks of lightning from dyna mos. The running machinery is. of course, peculiar, and the elect/icity is stored. Electricians say that great ad vances have been made within a few months in the storage of electricity, and if it progresses a little further the ap plication of it will be something infinite. Firteen Thousand Ducks Shot in a Day. The best record ever made in the Sus quehanua fields was about eight years • o, when on the opening day William /obfton, of Havre do Grace, an expert gunner, killed from a box 540 and burst a fine gun before he stopped. He kept two men busy all day picking up dead ducks. His second got at times too hot to hold. Ten or fifteen year# ago 15,000 were killed in a day’s shooting. In au average season there are about fifty boxes and 150 bushwackcrs. The capital in vested in the hu3inc&* is from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO. This includes boat*, decoys, boxes, guns, *fcc. From 25,000 to 35,000 ducks have been killed in a season in later years. They are sold everywhere. The liest prices are given in New York, Washington, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia. No wild fowl can equal in flavor a Susquehanna canvas-back duck.— Baltimore American. When rcipiration ceases our education i lAftiital to* sot a momeut aqouer. Telegraphic Ticks, Masked men robbed a coach of mail pouches near Gibb, La. Fire destroyed the large wholesale grocery house of Porter & Mcßea, No. 361 Front street in Memphis, Tenn. Immanuel Presbyterian church, one of the finest edifices in Milwaukee, Wis., was totally destroyed by fire. A large portion of the town of Hicks ville, Ohio, including the handle and stave mills, was burned. Loss SIOO,OOO. There is much suffering among the homeless. A powder magazine explosion at Aloy, China, November 21, destroyed ope fourth of the buildings in the town, blew fifty soldiers to atoms and killed several hundred of the inhabitants. • A collision on the Utah and Northern Railway, near the city of Dillon, Mon tana, killed one engineer and seriously injured several firemen and braktmen. All the employees of the Union Glass Works, of Somerville, Mass., 165 in number, finished up their work on Satur day morning and left, refusing to accept the manufacturer's list of rules for the coming year. The bridge across St. Mary's River has been rebuilt, and through connection is restored between Savannah and Florida over Waycross Short Line. The loss by the recent fire in the town of Houman, La., was $150,000; insur ance, $17,800. Many families did not even save their wearing apparel. The freight employees of the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company have demanded an advance of wages for over time. No trouble is anticipated. Wm. Herrig, of St. Francis, Ark., who shot his wife and her paramour and burned his house, has been lynched. Patrick O’Brien, of lowa, was picked up dead drunk iu the streets of Cincinnati, Ohio, with SB,OOO in cash, $6,000 in bonds, besides valuable jew elry, in his pockets. The engine-house of the Equitable Gas Works in New York was blown to pieces. One mail killed. Perkin, DuPee *fc Co., stock brokers of Boston, have failed. Liabilities $95,- 256. They offer 60 cents on the dollar. The cashier of the Herkimer New York National Bank has absconded with SBO,- 000 to Canada. Jone's Shoe Factory, at Stafford, Mass, was burned to the ground. Loss SBO, - 000; insurance $35,000. Near Harrisburg, Cabarrus County, N. C., a negro named White shot and killed Green Johnston, colored, with a revolver. Three men in Rutherford County, N. C. r named Alexander, all brothers, set u|K»u a white man named Cox Robbins and stabbed him fatally. Rev. Geo. S. Williams, of Nashville, Tenn:, has telegraphed the congregation of the Raleigh Baptist tabernacle his ac ceptance of its unanimous call to the pastorate, The Ncwberne, N. C., people are quite dispirited in regard to the recent decis ion of the supreme court in the matter of the election on the question of the SIOO,- 000 subscription •to the Wilmington, , Onslow and East Carolina railroad. Deputy Sheriff Whittington brought to the penitentiary at Raleigh, N. G\, from Greensboro a negro girl named Mary Hairston, who is sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for throwing stones at a train at Greonslioro. She is the first woman arrested in the state for that offence. A few’ nights past there was an affray at Shaw university, colored, in Raleigh, N. C\, between two students, P. P. Streeter and Walter Scott. Streeter’s brother took a hand. Scott seized a stick, with which Streeter had attempted to strike him, and struck Streeter on the head. Streeter died. It is claimed that his death was due to pneumonia, and not to the blow given by Scott. The executive committee of the North Carolina Teacher’s Assembly met in Raleigh last week and arranged a pro gramme for the next meeting, which will be held at Morehead City next June. The assembly now has a membership of 2,000. It was decided to lay the corner stone of the assembly hall April 2nd. That cere mony will Ik; wincased by several schools which w ill make an excursion to More head City. In High Clover. Ware livin’ on the topprst shelf, We’ve everything from gooso to grous* I hain't been licked for most a week, ’Cause we’ve got comp’ny ’t our house. When we’re alone my ma is strict, An’ makes me keep a m still’s a mouse; Blit now I make a heap of noise. ’Cause we’ve got comp’ny ’t our house. We’ve peach preserves an’ pumpkin pie, An’ jelly cake three time* a «l«y, An’ I’m havin’ such a bully time I wish’t our comp’ny come to stay. Boston Globe. What Carried Him Off. Judge—“ What excuse have yo\l to offer for this violent assault?” Prisoner—“l was carried awsy by nn uncontrollable temper.” JuUgo—“Well, i’ll see that you art) carried sws; bj tbs Bhoriff.”— JUumr, Terms. $1.50 per Aonm Single Copy 5 cents. FARMS AND FARMERS. Short Talks With the Ken Who Guide the Flow. orGenrral Interest teFnrmer.—Bal.nclnt Accounts. The year’s work is finished— how do the expense and profit accounts stand? How many farmers can answer that question? Has any account been kept? or has the farmer gone on blindly, not knowing whether he was making any money or not? We fear this has been the case with most farmers. They keep no books, and have very vagus ideas of how much money has gone out, and sometimes not a very definite one of how much has come in. Many realize, per haps, at the end of the year, that they have no money; but they do not know how much has been spent on the farm, and how much for family purposes. They may have empty pockets, and yet have made money, for family expenses may have consumed it all. Now, this is very unsatisfactory. If one is not mak ing any money farming, he ought either to change his methods or quit the busi ness. Sometimes a farmer makes money at one point in his farming operations and loses it at another. Sometimes he makes with one crop and loses with an other. Sometimes he clears money on one field aud loses it on another. But how is he to know this without keeping accounts. ? There is nothing that would open the eyes of a farmer more than keeping accounts—nothing that would lead him more surety into the right meth ods. Others may agree w ith him that he is losing money, but he is not convinced. He loves his farm; it is his own; lie has faith in his land and faith iu himself, too. Everything predisposes him against being convinced. But let him keep his own figures aud the case is entirely changed. It is self .against self, and his eyes are much more easily opened. Other people's figures lie, but his do not. Men will be lieve in their own things. Each one's watch keeps the true time. Each one’s gun shoots the best. The on ly course, therefore, is to get self against self; and this in the farmer’s case is at tained by getting him to keep accounts —to have his own figures offset each oth er. In this way he may be convinced; and convictions once secured, there will be no farther difficulty. If a farmer is perfectly satisfied that he is losing on any operation, he will quit it. The trou ble is, he is rarely convinced. He may tell others there is no money in cotton, but deep down in his heart he believes there is. He may admit to himself that he made no money on it some particular year, but the fault was not in the cotton crop. It was too wet or cold a spring, too dry or too wet a summer, too wet or too cool a fall, frost came tdo early. There is always something that shields his pet from censure. If a farmer has kept no books it is still possible for him to get at the facts. Sometimes it is. The merchants keeps books for some farmers; they buy every thing nearly on credit, and itemized ac counts of their merchants will bring the year’s transactions pretty well before them. Let them get that and study it. On the one side are the advances and purchases, on the other the credits by cotton, etc. It will be a pretty fair rep resentation of the year’s work on the farm as a w’holc. It may not bring out, how ever, the comparative results from differ ent fields. This is one of the most im portant items On many and many a farm the profits from a good field go to pay the losses on a poor one. Rich bot tom lands produce com and fodder to feed mules io cultivate poor uplands that do not pay the costs of cultivation. One field of cotton may make from a half to three-quare of a bale to the acre; anoth er from a fourth'to a third of a bale to the acre. Had he cultivated the first only, the farmer would have made some clear money, but when he cultivated the second also, he lost as much as he made on the first. On one field the guano ho applied paid him a handsome profit; on auother it did more harm than good. But as the cotton from lioth is put into a common heap, the farmer does not rea lize this. Don't you think that many a field would Ik; thrown out to rest, or sown in grain, if the owner had kept a strict account with it. ami found at the end of the year that he had siient more on it than the crop returned him? The trouble is, that in the absence of accounts the farmer does not realize this; he is re luctant to believe his land is so |»oor, he thinks better of it; he gives it the l>en fifc of the doubt; he will not bring in a verdict of guilty; a mistrial is announc ed, and the case drags its slow* length along for years. We do not wish to hurt any ore’s feelings, or decry the value of his proper»y, but we are forced to ex press our belief that about one-half the land in the older cotton states does not more thau pay the expenses of cuUiv4« turn.— Athnta Cons'Uvtson.
Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, N.C.)
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