CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
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BISHOP HOOD AST) THE SLAVES.
Bishop J. W. Hood is just now re
ceiving some unpleasant comments
from some colored men on account of an
article which appeared iu the New York
World last week, which credits the
Bishop with saying in his annual ad
dress before the New England confer
ence, that it -would be well for the
General Government to pay the
Southern whites §IOO apiece for the
slaves. We don’t know whether
Bishop Ilood made the assertion or in
what connection, and if made, what
he meant by it. We could not en
dorse it under any consideration.
As there were about four million
slaves it would take four hundred
million dollars to pay the South for
the slaves. As there is only about
§100,000,000 surplus in the Treasury
now, if the revenue and tariff are re
duced it would take some considerable
time and taxes to pay this amount.
TJien we arc opposed to the Negro’s
paying for himself at this time. We
think his bondage was sufficient pay
from him. If the Government will
tax the northern whites separately to
pay the South, we will not object.
But if it is for away to spend the
surplus that is being looked after,
and it cannot be given to educate the
poor of the country, why not pay the
poor Negroes of the South for the
two years service they gave their
masters after the Government de
clared them free,from 1863 to 1865. It
would bo better to give the grown
men and women at least §SO or §6O a
year. Then the first six or .seven years
earnings of many were lost in an in
stitution which it was understood the
Government guaranteed. Why not
reimburse these poor people? Or
pension the maimed and orphan chil
dren and widows of colored men who
were forced to do service on the
battle field in building breast-works,
Ac., for both Confederates and Feder
al.
We hope our chief church officials
will not intentionally go into politics
and we deprecate their being dragged
in by scheming politicians. We will
not indulge any criticism ou Bishop
Hood till we understand more about
it, but we denounce the idea of paying
the South for the slaves.
LAUNCH YOUK BOAT—PULL FOB
THE SHORE.
In the sphere of life it is the chief
design of every true man and woman
to make certain accomplishments. In
launching we mean to spread our in
tellect far and wide. Let us not sit
idly and wait for opportunities to
come to us : wo much search for them,
and iu searching we will find some
thing of benefit to us. The manu
facturer iu the wooden factory makes
no better cloth than the one in the
brick factory, but the former knows
how to sell his print and when to buy
his wool. Here is a hand that might
carve so skilfully that all the world
would wonder ; but the necessity of
launching the boat has been over
looked, and we find ourselves in the
same old place. We confine ourselves
to -too much “might have beens,”
when they are of no use at all. What
has it accomplished ? Not one thing.
Let us cultivate a spirit of willingness
to improve our talents, (f we intend
to light our “lamps” we must launch
out into the deep, and pull with all
our might. Many have only toiled
over the first ascent, and obstacles,
oh 1 so many, have impeded our pro
gress, but they only come to us to
push us that milch farther on. Young
men, young women, fathers and!
mothers, launch out into the deep !
There is work for each individual to 1
do. Perhaps some one will think it is
merely intended for our young mcit
and women to do the launching; but
not so; our fathers have yet a task to
finish ; ,our mothers also.
Other scenes, other pursuits await
us. Though faint-hearted, we must
advance. The skilled gardener may
thoroughly cultivate his crops, but if
in time of severe drouth, or after it
has stood a ljng while, the weeds
growing with more vigor than his
grain, his profit will be but little. So
it is with us who have a talent, stand
ing still all the while, making no im
provement, “waiting for something to
turn up,” the thick curtain that veils
the future from us will fall, and will
not arise until revolving circles roll
and roll around, perhaps we may never
see the change. When Franklin made
his discovery of “Electricity” it was
sneered at, and people even in his
day would ask questions sometimes to
pull the individual back. But when
the question was asked of him, “Os
what use is electricity? ” he simply
asked, “Os what use is a child—it
may become a man.” Thus he pushed
forward, knowing that the goal lay on
the other shore, and find it he must.
Let us propel our intellect, for our
mission is to mould the clay, which,
in a score of years, must be strong
vessels. Education, taste, musical
ability, gifts of speech, faculty for
organization, will all be needed and
employed, if not now don’t stop, but
pull, pull for the shore. Mary.
Fayetteville, N. C.
INKLETS FROM THE CAPITAL.
Many of our society ladies and gen
tlemen are taking advantage of the
present changeable weather, that is
now visiting the Atlantic States, in
filling out contracts of marriage,
which wore, perhaps, made under
shawls of the past chilly winter, while
others are earnestly preparing and re
pairing their spring costumes and their
large straw hats for the purpose of
spending a pleasant day amid the
shady groves of our surrounding
country.
The first pic-nic of the season will
be given by the Independent Pleasure
Club on the Bth of May. A great
time is anticipated by the young
ladies and gentlemen who arc the par
ticipants in this jovial pleasure.
Wednesday evening of the 18th
inst., Mr. Jacob J. Jones was united
in marriage to Miss Sarah Alston,
both of this city—but Mr. Jones for
several years has been teaching in
Edgecombe county. They received
many valuable gifts from their friends.
After trying a thing once, experi
ence leads many to repeat—conse
quently the community was not shock
ed to hear of the marriage of Mr.
John Flagg to Mrs. Ora Morgan, last
Tuesday evening, the 17th inst., at
their residence in Oberlin village.
The annual sermon to the fire de
partment was preached on .Sunday at
the First Baptist Church, by the Rev.
J. J. Worlds.
The primary meetings of the dif
ferent wards of the city will come off
in May.
There will be a marriage in the In
dependent circle in a very short while.
One of the fair dames has given up
a single life for a bad job, and con
sented no longer to live as twins, but
one flesh.
Only three more weeks, and the
graded schools will all close. Then
the studious little school fellow will
be transformed into a street urchin,
and the police will have a jolly time
racing at the stone-throwers, bean
shooters, Ac.
White and Cross gave bail last Sat
urday night and of course was dis
charged from custody to await
the July term of Wake Superior
Court The bond was placed at §15,-
000 each. White being a native
born citizen readily secured his bonds
man in the city of Raleigh. The
boudsman of Cross came from Gates
county, his home. Much sympathy
is expressed throughout the city for |
the defaulters. And it is now claimed
that they skipped to Canada not as
thieves but to save others, whose
names have not yet been made pub
lic.
Bishop J. W. Hood seems to be
once again upon the war path, pur
suing personal favor, which alone
can bo caught by standing in with
the predominating class of the South.
The Nad and Observer of Saturday
j the 21st, came out with an article ap.
! plauding the Bishop for having said a
few days ago in some of his travels
that the United States should pay the
South for the loss of their property.
What was the property destroyed
in the South during the late rebel
lion. It was the slate. It. seems
strange that one at this late period of
civilization should admit to the con
clusion of the unreasonable South,
to that which they themselves claim
to have been a mistake, that it was
right and proper to sell human blood
and bodies from the auction block.
If it is true, that the Bishop made
the assertion that the South should
be “paid for its property,” it is also
true that there are over 6,000,000 of
Negroes in the United States enjoying
the blessings of liberty who rightly
is the property of the South. If
slavery was not a moral right why
can any gentleman of an ecclcastical
order wish to hold the country re
sponsible or present a bill to the gov
ernment that was neither receipted by
the Christian world as being right,
nor endorsed by God himself as be
ing legal.
Mr. Gray Washington, the popular
head waiter of the Yarbrough House,
after bqing hurt badly last summer
on an excursion from this city to
Warrenton, N. C., by an unnecessary
accident, has brought suit against the
Raleigh & Gaston R. R. Co., for
§IO,OOO. The case is now in pro
gress.
The commencement exercises of
Kittrclls School took place last Tues
day, Dr. W. H. Hunter, of Norfolk,
Ya , delivered the annual address.
Miss A. J. Carraway* has arrived
in the city from Rock Hill, S. C.,
where she has had a pleasant stay
with relations and friends.
Primus.
Raleigh, March 23d.
COLUMBIA CLIPPINGS.
Colored Doctors Banquettcd—Professor
Straker in S. C.—Mr. Lowndes to the
Front with Soda Fountain—Oliver’s
Candidacy for Chicago—State Repub
lican Convention Howard School
Picnic.
A banquet in honor of Drs. C. C.
Johnson, J. R. Wilder, and W. T.
Smith, was givcu by the leading col
ored citizens (males) of Columbia on
Monday night, the 23d inst. Covers
were spread for eighty-five gentlemen.
Mr. Dover Davis, caterer, furnished a
rich repast. Rev. M. G. Johnson
presided, and Mr. Peter Flynn Oliver
acted as secretary. The doctors ac
quitted themselves creditably in
speech-making. Several toasts were
eloquently responded to. Dr. J. J.
Durham responded to “Our Colored
Doctors;” Prof. J. W. Morris to
“Our Women;” Prof. J. E. Wallace
to the “Colored Teacher;” Prof. Oli
ver to “Our Colored Professional
Mon,” and Mr. John A. Pugh to the
“Caterer.” The evening passed off
in the most pleasant way, and the
young doctors received a hearty send
off. Dr. Smith will leave for Little
Rock next week. He will very likely
practice in Arkansas or Kansas. Dr.
Wilder left for Washington to-day.
Dr. Johnson has opened his office at
Mrs. Pickens’, on Lady street, and
has opened his practice with favorable ,
prospects. Mrs. Louisia Pierce was
his first patient to be prescribed for.
Hon. I). Augustus Straker, former
ly of Columbia, now of Detroit, canie
to Columbia last Friday. He went to
Charleston on Monday to deliver a
lecture. He will be in Columbia on
to-morrow, and remain until the State
Convention. It is thought that he is
looking up the interests of a presiden
tial candidate. He addressed the
Georgia State Convention last week.
Mr. C. T. Lowndes has opened a
real first-class soda water and ice
cream saloon on Plain street. He has
a beautiful new Congress fountain,
with complete fixtures. He serves the
best soda, milk-shakes, and will serve I
limeade in its seasons. He deserves j
the patronage of the race and all re- !
spectable people. May he abundantly
succeed !
Peter Flynn Oliver is urged by hie :
friends ns a candidate for the Chicago
Convention from the 4th .South Caro
lina District. Richland county, his
own county, sends up a solid dele
gation in his favor. It is the policy
of the Democrats of this section to ex
clude colored men, who take part in
Republican polities, from teaching in 1
the public schools. But Hie time lias i
come for Negroes to place a higher
estimate upon manhood than upon
place, be the consequences what they
may. The Democratic party refuses
to do justice to the Negro, therefore,
the Negro must show his appreciation
of the Republican party, by doing all
he can to help it on to success, though
in the South that be but little. Provo
willing at least!!!
At the fesidcncc of Mr. and Mrs.
John A. Pugh were gathered quite a
number of ladies and gentlemen, at
the solicitation of the host and hostess,
to do honor to our colored doctors.
Delicate refreshments were served and
the guests heartily enjoyed themselves
up to a late hour.
Howard School will give a grand
picnic at Adams Cut on the S. S.
R. R. on Thursday, " May 3. The
whole of next week will be given as
spring vacation to the graded schools.
The State convention convenes on
Tuesday next, May 1.
Mr. Peter Flynn Oliver will de
liver a lecture on Negro Co-operation,
at Union, 8. C., on the 4th inst.
Columbia, S. Cl., April 25, 1888.
NOTES FROM FITTSBORO.
Our little town is to be favored with
a visit from Mr. G. C. Scurlock, of
Fayetteville, this week.
Miss Lucinda Sellars left this place
for Scotia Seminary last week. We
wish her success.
Our town was shocked last week by
the sudden death of Miss Cornelia
Raglan, an aged lady.
The Republican county chairman
has called a convention to be held in
this town on the Bth of May.
Things are very lively here now.
Mr. H. S. Sellars, the most successful
teacher in the county, has taken charge
of our school here We congratulate
the managers on securing such an able
teacher. We feel sure of the success
of the school under his management.
G. W. 11.
April 20th.
Growth of Republican Sentiment.
We desire that the Republican
party should succeed because it is the
best party now in existence. Its
great opponent, the Democratic party,
has thrown its broad shadow across
the pathway of every effort made iu
this couutry for half a century to
enlarge the scope of human freedom
and to secure to individuals the equal
measure of justice to which they are
entitled under the Constitution. The
Republican party may have swerred at
times from the great animating pur
pose for which it was brought into
existence ; but at the core it has been
amply demonstrated that it is the
party of principle, of progress and of
human right. The Democratic party
has been for fifty years opposed to
progress of all kinds, and has fought
the extension of human freedom inch
by inch, so that to-day it is virtually
a white man’s party, in which, iu
some sections of the country, colored
men are not recognized in the party
even when they desire to become
members of it.
Time was when Republican leaders
were of the opinion that the colored
man had nothing to do but stand back
and vote the pariy ticket and let white
men fight the issues championed by
the party. But this opinion is fast
becoming obsolete ; the colored voters
arc being regarded in the same light
that other voters are, and colored
members of the party of commanding
talents arc being treated with the
same deference and consideration ac- I
corded other men in the party of
equal prominence and ability. This
is right, and it must be true in a
greater sense, and it will be, for men
like Senator Bruce of Indiana, Mr.
Lynch of Mississippi, Mr. Langston i
of Virginia, Mr. Douglass, Mr. j
Cuney of Texas, Gov. Pinchbnck of
Louisiana, and many others, we could
mention, we are sure, will make their j
influence felt for the general benefit in
the approaching contest more than
they have done in the past, because
they are older in wisdom and because
the cxtrcmctics of the party make the
demand for their talents and influence
all the more imperative.
There have been great changes in
both the Republican and the Demo
cratic party since the war; but the j
changes in neither party have been so j
great as those which have attended
the growth and expansion of the j
Afro-American in the matter of in- ;
telligcnt discrimination and grasp of
material substance.
Let us brace up, and let us by our j
wisdom and insistence see to it that;
the great party we support gives us j
every right and consideration which |
belong to us. Make the success of;
the party our success.—AW York
A r •
With a great overland route across 81-
lanla, Mich as the new railroad the Itus
-iap government pro|KMM to build, that
.mmtry w ill lie able to dominate very j
largely Asiatic commerce.
NEW COFFIN HOUSE.
Largest Stock Coffins in the State.
We are prepared to furnish in the Undertaking Line.
Every tiling New. Open at all hours.
NEW HEARSE ESPECIALLY FOR THE
COLORED TRADE.
CLOTHING OF ALL KINDS FOR BURIAL PURPOSES.
Charlotte Undertaking Co.,
14 S. Tryon Street, opposite Central Hotel.
GRAND DISPLAY
OF
LADIES’ DRESS MATERIALS,
at 10e.. 12Jc., 15c., 20c., 28c. anti up, in 18 of the newest shades.
MOIREE SILK, | SURAH SILK,
14 Shades, at G 8 cents per yard. i 10 Shades, at G 6 cents per yard.
BUSTLES | CORSETS
at 2> cents each. These stand unsurpassed. | at 28 cents a pair. Perfect fitting.
LADIES’ MUSLIN UNDERWEAR,
CHEMISE at 25 cents and up.
DRAWERS at 25 cents and up.
CORSET COVERS at 25 cents and up.
SHIRTS, full long, 39 cents and up.
CORSET COVERS 25 cents and up
BRAND NEW STOCK
OF
Gentlemen’s Clothing
has arrived. NO SHODDY GOODS.
.A. | AT 48 cents you buy a man’s unlaundried
IX THE Dress Shirt, linen bosom, re-inforced back
HAPPY HIT SHIRT and front and Patent Seams.
H. BARUCH,
Regulator of Low Prices.
E. M. ANDREWS,
Has the largest and Most Complete Stock of
FURNITURE
In North Carolina.
COFFINS & METALLIC CASES.
Pianos and Organs
Os the Best Makes on the Installment Plan. Low Prices and Kasy Terms.
Hend for Prices.
Cliickering Pianos, Arion Pianos,
Bent Pianos, Mathushek Pianos,
Mason & Hamlin Pianos.
Mason & Hamlin Organs, Bay State
Organs, Packard Organs,
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