THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER VOL. IV. NO. 47. THK Charlotte Messenger 18 PUBLISHED Every Saturday, % AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In the Interests of the Colored People of the Country. Able and well-known writers will eontrib ute to its columns from different farts of the country, and it will contain the; I a test Oen eral News oftbe Thk Messenger is a first-class newspaper and will not allow personal abuse in its col umns. It is not sectarian or partisan, but independent—dealing fairly by all. It re serves the right to criticise the shortcomings of all public officials—commending the worthy, and recommending for election such men as in its opinion are best suited to serve 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 tho Ncgro-American, especially in the Piedmont section of the Carolines. SUBSCRIPTIONS: (Always in Advance.) 1 year - - ' - $1 so 8 months - - -1 (10 6 months - - 75 3 months - - "0 3 months - - - 35 Single Copy - - - 5 Address, W.C. SMITH Charlotte NC As ordinary Mexican trials at law are long and expensive, the seven murderers of a wealthy cattle owner were recently given a short way to justice at Durango, Mexico, by the “icy tie fuego;”that is, they were permitted to try to escape and in their effort for freedom were all shot dead. Public parks are recommended as a preventive of anarchy. A speaker in Philadelphia traced the connection be tween a certain class of virtues and open spaces. “Jtiotous uprisings,” he said, “never fiud their source in that part of the population dwelling in the vicinity of parks, since anarchists frequent thickly crowded quarters, the alleys and densely populated courts.” The Atlanta Constitution says that “the center of population has steadily moved southward, except during the war and between 1830 and 1840. la point of fact the South is increasing more rapidly in population than the North, when foreign immigrants are left out cf the calculation. The last census shows that the Southern States are add -050,000 children to their population each year against only 798,000 in the North, with nearly twice the population. Blany of the towns of < alifornia which went out of existence coincident with the decline of gold mining have been revived, and are now luxuriating in a new and prospeieus career through the development of the agricultural re sources of the country. Marysville, Auburn, Oroville and Placcrville are illustrations. Orchards and vineyards have sprung up in their localities, and enduring prosperity is apparently in stoie for them. The journal Forest and Carden gives a papur from I’etcr Ilcndcr-on, in which he stales that early in the present cen tury there were about 100 professed florists in the United States, and their combined greenhouses covered 50,000 square feet of glass. There are now over 10,000 florists, occupying 51,0)0,000 feet of glass, or about 1000 acres of greenhouses. These structures cost about thirty million dol'ars, and the » plants in them are valued at twice that sum. In respect to patronage, asserts the New York World, the pos.tion of Post master-General, is now the most iic portent in the Cabinet. The 50,000 postmasters who are responsible for their appointment to the chief of the depart ment are supplemented by an immense number of clerks who serve at Washing ton, on the railroads and as examiners and ins|re. toiß all over the country, and •he Postmaster tieueral is to tho people rt large almost as influential a mat* as the President himself. * "i see,” remarks a writer in the Lon lor Times, “that the United States Go» rrnment have just launched a formidable vessel styled a “dynamite cruiser.” She * 721 tons ed and capable lawyer, a soldier who stood well on the field of battle, and a politician of good fighting quality. The nomination of Morton for Vice- President is, as will be generally ac cepted, made with a view to the finan cial strength needed for the campaign. GOOD ADVICE TO EBTIE. The following telegram was sent to Cbicogo, III: “To M. M. Estie, Chairman National Convention, Chicago, 111. The Cheraw Democrats advise you to endorse Cleve land and adjourn. W. C. McCreight, Mayor. 1 A Washington correspondent says:— “Senator Sherman lays his defeat di rectly at Governor Alger’s door.” General Harrison has chosen Colonel W. W. Dudley, ex-pension commission er, as his personal representative on the Hcpublican National Executive Com mittee. North, East and West. The Chicago railroad rate war con tinues. News has been received that a band of Apaches is abroad in southern Arizona, wandering and murdering whites. John Jacker, who lives a few miles west of Racine, Wis., is now in the forty first day of his fast. George W. Wilson was hanged at Albion, N. Y., at 10:15 Wednesday morning for the murder of his wife cn January 19, 1887 Three new blast furnaces are to be erected in Birmingham, Ala., for which ♦700,000, partly Charleston capital, has , been deposited in banks. At Magna Vista, Miss., a few days 1 ago. a negro covered a storekeeper with j a revolver, then auctioned off his goods to other negroes, pocketed the cash and j escaped. Mrs. President Cleveland and her j mother, Mrs. Folsom, arrived from Paris Tuesday, spent the morning in their rooms at Victor Hotel. They left for I Washington in the afternoon on the 7:54 train. Hon. John M. Glover, Member of Con-1 gress for the Eighth Missouri district. | has filed suit for $50,000 against the' Globe Democrat , of St. Louis, for libel. j William Aldridge, a tough character, j shot and killed James Cunningham, a barber, whose home is in Danville, Iml., I at the house of Cunningham's sister. The men quarreled over a woman. James Jowett, forty-four years of age, I shot anil fatally wotiuded Arthur Craven, , a young mill employee, at Wanskuck, < R. I. Jowett says that Craven attempted to assault his daughter, twenty-one years old. Officer Murty O’SuUiraa was shot in the abdomen and fatally wounded about midnight Tuesday night by a negro roustabout named Frank Parker, at St. I Louis, Mo. At the Gettysburg re union, speeches were made by Gena. Siekles, Gordon, Longstreet, Chaplain, McCabe and others.; The blue and the gray intermingled in harmonious celebration. Colton worms have apfieared in five 1 counties in the southern part of Arkansas, j and it is feared that they will do as much damage to the crop as in 1867, I w hen the crop was a total failure. The furnace fires in Cincinnati, New-1 |H>rt and Covington Rolling Mills, Ohio, were permitted to die out Saturday night, and were not starred Mond y morning. Seventy-live hundred men are thrown out of work, and the luckout promises to be protracted. A desperate battle occurred between revenue officers and moonshiner* near Black Springe, Ky\, on Thursday. In ternal Revenue Collector Frye and posse raided the moonshiners, in which Deputy Collcrtor Marshall Trammell was killed. At Milwaukee, Wis., lix hundred men were throw n out of employment by the ctosing down of the North Chieago Rol ling Mill Company's mills at llayview, because of the difference lietween the Amalgamated association and the manu facturers over the scale of wages for the ensuing year. Vicar-General Conway, proltably one of the best known of the Catholic pro lates in America, is seriously ill at his home in Chicago, and all hopes of hia recovery have Ireeu given up l>y his friauds. A s|>ecial from Memphis, Tenn., says that Thomas Moorehead, an old citizen, was stabbed six times by Tbomis Taylor, a young man, and died Saturday. The trouble wav the elopement of Moore he-tds daughter with Taylor, the old man compelling the girl to return home, tin I meeting the old man Taylor attacked him with the result slated. Terrlhle Disaster. The steamer Janie* W. Baldwin ran down a pleasure launch on the Hudson just after leaving Newburg. N. Y., and cut it in two. There were eight persons 1 on board the launch, two men and six ladles. Two of tbs latter, Mr*. Benj. 1 ’B. O'Dell, Jr., aa4 Ml** Anal* Mtiler, j w»re drowned,. CHARLOTTE, N. C„ SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1888. THE TWIN STATES. XORTU CAROLINA. A great soldiers' reunion is to lie held at Pittsboro on the Hist Thursday in August. Governor Scales, Senators Vance and Ransom and Lieutenant Gov ernor Steadman will make speeches. Concord's new bank was opened for business on Thursday, July sth. Work has been commenced on the new hotel building at that place. It is to adjoin the bank building and will be a hand some structure. Tht- fifth meeting of the North Caro lina Teachers' Assembly at Morehoad city ended Friday after a two weeks ses sion. More than 3,000 teachers were present. A party of several hundred teachers left for Now York by steamer excursion which is to occupy a week or more. William A. Potts, of Beaufort county the murderer of Paul Linckc. will l>e hanged on July 18th the Guvcrnor hav ing declined to interfere. Governor Scales also made a final disposition of the death sentence of James Byers, of Wilkes county. He declines to take any action, and lets the law take its course. Byers will, therefore, bo hanged at Wilkesboro, July 18th for murder. The Democrats of North Carolina will hold a series of ratification meetings at leading points during the mouth of July. So far ten meetings have lieen arranged for. to be addressed by all the candi dates on the State ticket, the Presi dential electors, the United States Senators, and as many Congressmen as can arrange to attend. There will lie a grand torchlight procession of C'eveland and Kowle clubs at each point, and the railroads of the State will givu reduced rates to all desiring to attend. sor-rn CAROLINA. It has just been learned that at John T. Roddy's camp on the “3 CV’ seven miles from Rock Hill, one negro was killed and three fatally injured by a trank caving in Tuesday. Information is just received of a hor rible crime committed in York county. Robert Wood, a white man of sixty years, with a family, is charged with brutally injuring and mutilating a white girl named Hill, aged only six years. A (rarty of alrout fifty while men went at night to the house of the girl's mother, and though she was quits ill, forced her to make affidavit that Wood was the per son who had injured the child. Wood has been notified to quit the county in five days, or take the consequences, lie is supposed to have gone. If he remains he will he either lynched or very roughly handled. A Million Postage Stamps. A Philadelphian hav collected, sorted, and filed away enough canceled postage -tango to reach, if placed side by side, from the Delaware Iriver to Cobb'* Creek, the extreme western boundary of the city. In this extraordinary collec tion there are 1,000,000 stamp*. These stamps, if used as waff paper, woull be sufficient to cover the walls of a medium aired city house, snd if spread over a space one yard wide would reach nearly 800 yards." The iratient collector of this million of little bits of engraved paper is Paul IVs Granges, a retired merchant, who began the task February ti, 1882. Mr. Do- Granges says of his work: The ptan adopted for the preservation and actual counting of the stamps was to remove them from sny adherent paper by soaking in water, aSfl after drying, to lie in packages of 100; these were then made into trundles of 1000, then 5,000, and ten of those into parcels of 50,000 stamps each, weighing five pounds and five ounces. Having much unoccu pied time, and the assistance of numer ous friends and acquaintance, the first 1 “brick” or paekagn of 50,000 was com -1 pletcd on « ctober ti, 1892. Others fol lowed at irregular intervals varying from nine months and twenty days to 1 to fourteen months until finally 1,000,- , 00) w»< completed on Octol er 8, 1887, in a period of five years, eight months ‘ and two days Os one cent United (dates stamps there are 118.000; of two I cent stamps 665,900; of thrce-ccnt stamps 99.000; of miscellaneous stamps 35,4th); of foreign stamps 30,800; total, ; 1,000,000. A Farmer** Magnetic Qualities A farmer living teai Wslthmtrville, j liberty Uoumy. wav struck Iry lighting j four years ago. The occurrence wII be remembered by many here, as it wa« dur ing thsUongressioeal Convention. Since j that time he hav had peculiar electrical , and magnetic qualities Whenever a storm gather* or court meet* he beco.ne* I highly charge*!. Ilit fle-h tingles and tiny spark* are emitted in myriads , Small |rarlielev of metal ding to his linsers while liies which light upon him , fall dead instantly. —SreuaiuiA Timet. Philadelphia vs Boston. A Philadelphia lady, viaiting friends in Rod