CHARLOTTE MESSENGER^
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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
For President:
BENJAMIN IIAIIIIISON,
Os Indiana.
For Vice-President:
LEVI P. MORTON,
•Os New York.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR :
OLIVER 11. DOCKERYi'
of Richmond county.
for lieutenant— governor :
JETER C. PRITCHARD,
of Madison county.
for secretary of state :
GEORGE AY. STANTON,
of AVilson county.
FOR AUDITOR OF STATE :
CHARLES F. McICESSON,
of Burke county.
FOR STATE TREASURER :
GEORGE A. BINGHAM,
of Bowan county.
FOB SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION :
JAMES B. MASON,
of Orange county.
for attorney-general :
THOMAS. P. DEVEItEUX,
of Wake county.
For Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court —to fill the vacancy
caused hy the death of Thomas S.
Ashe:
* DANIEL L. RUSSELL,
of New Hanover county.
For Associate Justices of the Su
preme Court under amendment to the
Constitution :
DAVID M. FURCHES,
of Iredell county.
RALPH P. BUXTON,
of Cumberland county.
For Presidential Electors for the
State-at-Largc:
JAMES E. BOYD,
of Guilford county.
AUGUSTUS M. MOORE,
of Pitt county.
FOR THE 51st CONGRESS —3d DISTRICT:
AV. S. O’B. ROBINSON,
of AVayne county.
For THE 51st CONGRESS —StII DISTRICT :
JOHN M. BROAVER,
of Surry county.
FOR THE 51st CONGRESS —2l> DISTRICT.
HENRY P. CHEATHAM,
of Vance county.
FOR ELECTOR —2d DISTRICT :
JOSEPH J. MARTIN,
of Edgecombe county.
FOR ELECTOR —4tII DISTRICT :
AVILLIAM A. ALBRIGHT,
of Durham county.
SIXTH DISTRICT :
RICHARD M. NORMENT,
of Robeson county .
third district :
OSCAR J. SPEARS,
of Harnett county
EIGHTH DISTRICT :
JULIUS B. FORTUNE,
of Cleveland county.
The democratic campaign committee
will send a half million dollars to In
diana by the time the campaign be
gins. They don’t mean to buy votes
or do anything wrong (?). hut it will
take a good deal to pay the expenses
of the campaign. The State com
mit tec will raise some boodle, but as
the party is very doubtful of carrying
that State, the National committee
will send them a half million or more.
Democrats are honest (t), they don’t
•buy votes.
NEGRO AND PROTECTION.
For years past the Negro has been
the great bugbear in politics. The
cry has been protection to the Negro.
To-day the cry is protection, but it is
not protection for the Negro alone,
but it is protection to American indus
tries ; protection to American labor;
protection to America. The white
manufacturer and the white laborer
is calling for protection.
It is now left to fanatics alone
to raise the Negro cry in this
campaign. The bloody shirt has
been laid aside in the North and
business men and politicians arc giv
ing attention to the real issue—the
tariff. The demagogue in the South
will raise the "nigger” cry, but white
men arc learning to think and vote for
their best interests. They know the
country is safe so far as Negro rule
is concerned. They know the whites
arc in the majority, have the intelli
gence and property and will rhlc this
country.
The manufacturer is not yet ready
for Mr. Clevelands free trade policy
to open the products of India upon
us and cripple every infant manu
factory in America. The laborers arc
not ready yet for the English policy
to reduce his wages to a shilling a
day, neither is the mechanic ready to
work for twenty-five cents per day.
They know that Mr. Clevelands
undemocratic policy as dictated to
Congress means low prices, low wages
arid subjugation and starvation to the
mechanic and laborer.
AVe want protection Protection
means higher prices for farm products,
higher wages, more money and better
times generally. The Negro is no part
of this fight and sensible men will
show the demagogues that old dodge
has played. The Negro is asking for
nothing so far as the government is
concerned. There is not a colored
man on our ticket and we don’t want
any. AVe want our State laws better
ed, first of all we want this odious
county government abolished. AVe
want the laws administered by good
white men. There is now no Negro
party in this State. No party con
trolled by Negroes. Good men, able
men and white men control the re
publican party and will take charge
of the State government in 1889.
The democratic county nominating
convention will meet on the 7th of
August. There is said to be about a
dozen candidates for tax collector and
sheriff.
Col. Dockery has truly inflicted
some severe wounds in tho democratic
party hy his first speech. Nearly
every democratic paper is already on
the defensive. Nearly every issue of
the Chronicle lias something to say of
Alexander’s candidacy. Dockery has
them on tho hip.
FAYETTEVILLE NOTES,
It has been delightful cool and
pleasant; the showers of a few days
ago cooled the atmosphere very much.
Our market is supplied with every
thing pertaining to the fruit kind,
such as water-melons, peaches, apples
and musk-melons.
This seems the year for extensive
improvements in the old town of
Fay. On Hay street Mr. F. AA’
Thornton has completed a half dozen
new stores that will attract the atten
tion of any one. On Gillespie, the
popular street of the town, several
new stores have been reared. Farther
down on the same street is the base
hall park, while down in the old town
(Campbellton) many improvements
have been added since wo visited last.
Several new Churches, new dwellings
and factories, and soon the railroad
will be completed aeross the bridge.
In some things we ean boast of the
"Good time Coming.”
Mr H. C. Tyrou of AVashiugton
D. C. spent several days in our town
last week.
Misses Lizzie B. and Millie McNeill
spent a very pleasant fourth in
AVilmington, N. C. and other water
ing places. They returned home
i last Friday on tho steamer Capo Fear.
Mr. D. C. 8. Bryant who has been
lin New York for some tiino was
| suddenly called home to attend the
i bedside of his sick mother who u
j lying quite ill.
| Mr. and Mrs. Arie Bryant spent
several days in town visiting friends
and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Browu have
gone to Carolina Beach.
Dr. Hood has been quite feeble for
the past week or more but is much
improved and ablo to attend to his
work again.
Miss G. C. Hood after spending
several months in Salisbury is at
home again with friends.
Tho ladies of the A. M. E. Zion
Sunday School gave an ice-cream
entertainment on last Tuesday the
10th, to supplement the amount of
childrens Day Fund. Owing to tho
inclement weather many who were
expected could not be present, but
the entertainment was repeated on
Thursday night and a grand time was
enjoyed by all except the workers.
Music by the Band enlivened the
occasion. AVe realized a good sum,
but will not report at present. All
honor, and praise is due our worthy
Shepherd Rev. J. M. Hill and to
the Supt. Mr. Ed. Evans for their
earnest labors in making the enter
tainment such a success.
Mr. A. AV. Smith has opened a
grocery store next to Hogan’s Ilall.
AVe have several business colored men
of our town now. Quite a number
of first-class restaurants barber-shops
black-smiths, and if anything in the
repairing of shoes is needed it eari
be done as shoe-shops are numerous.
Messrs Robert Broadfoot and Harvey
Bowman have opened a first-class
Cabinet and Upholstering business,
near the Baptist Church. May success
crown their every effort.
AVe chronicle the death of little
Arthur Simmons son of Rev. 11.
11. Simmons who died at AVadesboro
last AVednesday, his remains wore
brought to this town Thursday morn
ing. The funeral took place from
Evans Chapel at 11 o’clock a. m.
conducted by the pastor Rev. Hill
and assisted hy Revs. T. B. -McCain,
M S. Kell and Dr. Hood. The
eulogistic remarks were solemn though
quite impressive. AVe have known
Arthur from his youth and always
found him to he an amiable child.
He was beloved by all who knew him.
Though his remains were deposited
in the family grave yard beside his
once devoted mother, we trust he
is walking the gold paved streets of
the New Jerusalem, side by side with
his mother and other friends.
Miss Julia Leary sister of Hon.
J. S. Leary, is quite sick. Her many
friends hope for her recovery.
Mrs. J. B. Tyson and mother-in
law Mrs. Ann. Tyson of Carthage,
N. C. spent a few weeks in town the
guest of Mrs. Edwin Perry.
Another grand excursion will be
run by the members and friends of
the A. M. E. Zion Church from
Fayetteville to Tarboro on the Ist
of August. A grand time is expected
Let everybody who can, go.
Mary.
July 18th.
Cumberland Crass Roads, N. C.
Editor Mcttenyer —The main object
of this article is to call the attention
of your many readers, in Cumberland
county especially, to the insulting
language in the daily Journal, pub
lished in Fayetteville, of the 4th inst.
It has been the custom ever since
emancipation of the colored people
to flock to town on each 4th of July,
and spend all the hard earnings of a
■Spring. The great hulk of this money
goes to buy cheap notions, and 1 am
sorry to say a large per cent, for
liquor.
It is the business of such papers as
the Journal to induce our people to
go to town to be fleeced.
After a small number of the race
saw fit to go to town on the 4th this
year, and os usual leave all their
money, this insignificant little sheet
has this to say about the colored pco
plo :
"The Fourth of July has no signifi
cance to the negro other than being a
day set apart for dissipation and hilari
ty. Ilis pleasures and happiness cul
minate on this day. Throughout the
year the Fourth is a beacon light
ahead of him, and he labors ever with
an end to having some "extra money”
to spend foolishly "ncx fofe ’o July.”
I sincerely trust that our people
will note the language used in that
paper, and will hereafter, instead of
laboring to have "some «*tr» money”
to throw away “foolishly nox fofe ’o
July,” they will save it and purchase
something that will give them char
acter and influence, and enable them
to live decently and independent.
It ill-bccomes this ink-slinger of
the Journal to insult a people that his
ancestors have oppressed and arc re
sponsible for their ignorance and con
dition.
AVe deny that the Fourth means no
more to the race than a day set apart
"for dissipation” and hilarity, and
that its pleasures and happiness cul
minates on that day.
Tho colored man has always known
the meaning of the Fourth of July,
but notwithstanding the very race to
which the editor.of the Journal be
longs kept him in bondage, he knew
by right he ought to celebrate the
day in some way. And if it was a
fact that tho colored peoplq use the
day as tho Journal says, tho responsi
bility rests upon the race of the edi
tor. Instead of according to the
colored people practically the full en
joyment of citizenship, tho Journal
docs everything in its power to pre
vent it. This juvenile of the quill
should remember that he owps some
thing to the valor and patriotism of
colored men for the blessed boon he
now enjoys. He fails to remember
that the first man who gave his life
for Independence was a colored man,
and that in every war since tho battle
of Bunker Hill, black men have done
their full duty on the field of battle
for the perpetuity of this country.
AVe hope that hereafter the colored
people will boycott this day until they
can bo respected for keeping a day
that ought to make every true and
loyal American heart swell with glad
ness.
If the merchants around town don’t
put a cheek on such squibs as tho
Journal, it would be well for our
people to keep away from a town
whore they are insulted, as they were
by the little daily around Fayetteville.
I would say to our people let us
stay away from town on the “glorious
fourth,” and let us show our appreci
ation for the first day of January the
day that means more than all the
fourth of Julys.
Pardon mo for noticing tho little
Fayetteville Daily, and hereafter we
confine ourself more to what the
politicians are doing and give the
news. At present everybody is
waiting on- the town folks and as
people in the country are looking
after tho "crops.”
AVhen the time comes I hope the
town gentlemen will fix up a genuine
team, for we are mighty tired of taking
up every fellow that says he can root
the democrats and then gets “left.”
Yours,
Sam.
New Schedule on the Carolina Central.
The Carolina Central Railroad,
with its accustomed enterprise, has
arranged tho schedule by which a
day train as well as a night train will
be run both ways over that road, each
making connections at Hamlet for
Raleigh going and coming.
The day train going AVcst will
leave AVilmington every morning at
7:30 and will arrive at the places
named as follows : Lumberton 10:00
a. in.; Maxton 11:21 a. m.; Laurin
burg 11:52; Hamlet, arrive 12:30
p in.; leave at 12:50 p. m.; Rock
ingham, 1;04 p. m.; AVadesboro 1:40
p. m.; Monroe 3.02 p. in.; Charlotte
3:57 p. m.; Lincolnton 5:51 p. m.;
Cleveland Springs 7 p. m.; Shelby
7:03 p. m.; Ilutherfordton 8:15 p. m.;
Going cast the day train will leave
Ilutherfordton at 7:20 a. m.; and will
arrive at the places named as follows :
Shelby 8:39 a. m.; Cleveland Springs
8:40 a. m.. Lincolnton 9:45 a. m.;
Charlotte 11:25 a. ui.; Monroe 12:38
p. m.; AVadesboro 4:40 p. in.; Rock
ingham 2:40 p. m.; Hamlet 2:53 a
m.; Lauriuburg 3:38 p. m ; Maxton
4:13 p. m.; Lumberton 5:14 p. in.;
arrive at AVilmington 7:50 p. in.
The night train going west will
leave AVilmington at 0:10 every even
ing, and arrive at the placcH named
as follows: Lumberton 10:04 p. m.;
Maxon 11:15 p. m.; Lauriuburg 11:30
p. m. Hamlet 12:30 a. in.; Rocking
ham 2:52 a. m.; AVadesboro 3:50 a.
in.; Monroe 5:33 a. m.; arrive at
Charlotte 0:55 a. in.
Going cast the night train will leave
Charlotte at 8 p. in.; and arrive at
the places named as follows : Monroe
9:23 p. m.; AVadesboro 10:50 p. m.;
Rockingham 11:58 p. in.; Hamlet
2:05 a. m.; Lauriuburg 3 a. m.;
Maxton 3:20 a. in.; Lumberton 4:35
u. tp. Arrive at Wilmington 8:20
a. in.
NEW COFFIN HOUSE.
Largest Stock Coffins inthe State
We are prepared to furnish everything in the I ndcrtakiug Lim
Everything New. Open at all hours.
NEW TT EARSE ESPECIALLY FOR THI
COLORED TRADE.
CLOWNG OF ALL KINDS FOII BURIAL PURPOSES
Charlotte Undertaking Co.
14 S. Tryon Street, opposite Central Hotel.
GRAND DISPLAT
OF
LADIES’ DRESS MATERIALS,
at 10c.. 121 c.. 15c., 20c., 28r. anil up. in IS of the newest shades.
MOIREE SILK, | SURAH SILK,
14 Shades, at 68 cents per yard. I 19 Shades, at (if. cents per yard.
BUSTLES J CORSETS
at 25 cents each. These stand unsurpassed. | at 28 cents a pair. Perfect titling.
LADIES’ MUSLIN UNDERWEAR,
CHEMISE at 25 cents and up.
DRAAVERS at 25 cents and up.
CORSET COVERS at 25 cents and up.
SIIIRTS, full long, 39 coats and up.
CORSET COVERS 25 cents and up
BRAND NEW STOCK
Gentlemen’s Clothing
has arrived. NO SIIODDY GOODS.
.A. DRIVE J AT 48 cents you buy a man’s unlanmlried
IN THE Dress Shirt, linen bosom, re-informl l«ack
HAPPY HIT SHIRT ami front and Patent Seams.
H. BARUCH,
Regulator of Low Prices.
E. M. ANDREWS,
Has the largest and Most Complete Stock of
FTJRNITURE
In North Carolina.
COFFINS & METALLIC CASES.
Pianos and Qrgans
Os the Best Makes on the Installment Plan. Low Prices and Easy Terms.
Send for Prices.
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Mason & Hamlin Pianos.
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