THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. VOL. V. NO. 4. WASHINGTON, D. C. IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE. What Our Lawmakers are doing at the National Capita. l . Tuesday— The House spent most of the day discussing Senate amendments to the army appropriation bill, and pend ing discussion on motion to non concur in $0,000,000 appropriation for heavy guns and an army gun factory, at 5 p. m. adjourned. In the Senate, Mr. Frye, from a select committee on the Pacific railroads, re* ported the Union Pacific refunding bill. The Senate then took up the sundrv civil appropriation bill, and worked in dustriously upon it until adjournment, but did not finish it. In the House Wednesday Messrs. Hums, of Mi.ssori; Hooker, of Miss.; Hutterworth and Tom Reid, of Maine; Wheeler, of Alabama; Tracy, of New York, spoke on the Senate amendment to the army bill and the Senate ainehd incuts were finally non-concurred in. Mr. Sayers offered a resolution that all such appropriations should be placed on the foitifieatiou bill, Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, raised a point of order against the resolution, and pending a decision the House at 5 p. m. adjourned. Senate —Bills were passed as follows: House bill for improving the mouth of Brazos River, Texas; House bill for a public building at Jackson, Mich., ap propriating $75,000; House bill to authorize the Kentucky Rock Gas com pany to lay conduit pipes across the Ohio and Salt River; Senate bill ap propriating $125,000 for a public build ing at Wilkesbarre, Penn.; Senate bill I appropriating SAO,OOO for a monumental I column to commemorate the battle of Princeton, N. J. The Senate then resumed the consid eration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. 'The pending question being the amendment offered by Mr. Call appro priating SIO,OOO for the recovery of property of the late Confederate States belonging to the government. Mr. Edmunds opposed it as a useless waste of money. Finally, after further discussion Mr. Call's amendment was laid on the table. All the amendments were concurred in and the bill was passed. Thursday— ln the House, on motion p( Mr. Dibble, of South Carolina, the Senate joint resolution was passed au thorizing the Secretary of War to in vestigate and report the amount due to the State of South Carolina for the rent of the Citadel it* Charleston. Most of the time was spent in discuss ing tin* attitude of the jiemccratic and Republican parties. The House then went into a commits tee of the whole on the general defi ciency hill. Some progress was made, when Mr Dockery, of Missouri, brought on a short tariff debate and the House at 5 after noon adjourned. The fisheries treaty was taken up early in the Senate, and was discussed nearly up to tin* time of adjournment, at the close of the morning business. Senator Riddle berger took the floor in opposition to the treaty. ( riticizing the,* policy of the Democ rats, he said the Democratic party in the Senate proposed to give away the last v< stage of the l ights of the States to protect their own interests against Great Britain and Canada. Mr Morgan took the floor and said, if this treaty does not suit us. let us write one that does suit us, and advise the President to submit it to Great Britain. When Mr Morgan concluded, Mr Teller took the floor, and the treaty then went over. The Senate hill passed providing for an additional Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, and after a brief secret session the Senate at 5:50 adjourned. Friday Most of the time of the House* was spent in discussing the item providing foi the payment of the French spoliation claims Mr of Massachusetts, and Mr Dingh y of Maine, favored the appropri ation, adjourned. Mr Ciiliom, in the Senate, offered a resolution instructing the committee of the inter state commerce commission to investigate the question of interference by Canadian railways with American commerce. Mr Mitchell, of Oregon, said that the subsidized line of British steamers were bringing Chinese to British America, at the rate of 4,000 a month, and these immigrants were pouring down in stream- to the United States. Senator Gorman, supporting the reso lution, declared that it was time that the United States Seoafors joined hands ir lespectivc of party, in wrenching the trade of the United States from aliens. After further discussion the resolution was agreed to without division. The consideration of the fishery treaty was then resumed, and Mr Teller took tin floor in opjKwdtion to it. At the conclusion of Mr Teller’s speech Mr Value obtained the floor, and the Senate at 5:20 adjourned till Monday. Saturday—Neither house of Congress utr in session to-day, and the Capitol was almost deserted. . WASHINGTON NOTES. The President lut* vetoed the House bill for the re lief of P. A. Beat her bury. Mrs Cleveland and Mrs Folsom ar rived in Washington at 4 o’clock this Friday afternoon and were driven to the President's country home at Oakview. I Senator Platt, of Connecticut, said j that there was no doubt whatever that the Senate would consider a tariff bill this session. Senators Vance and Ransom are in the Senate after an absence of several days in North Carolina. Senator Vance went first to Morehead City, where Mrs. Vance has been spending a part of the summer, and later joined Senator Ran som at Pitteboro, where they both took part in the Confederate soldiers’ reunion. North, East and West. Grasshoppers are causing terrible rava ges near Ottawa, Canada. The paper mills owned by George Friends at Lockland, Ohio, has been totally destroyed by fire. Loss $40,000. The organization of the Southern railway and steamship association has ex pired by limitation, and the Southern Freight pool no longer exists. Bartley Campbell, the dramatist, who has for some time been confined in an asylum for the insane, is dead. The suicide of Maggie Jones, an in mate of a house of ill fame, Sunday night, was the eighth suicide in Birm ingham, Ala., w ithin four weeks. The military have been called upon to quell a small disturbance with some un ruly Indians on the San Carlos reser vation. A young man named Matthew Byrnes jumped from the Brooklyn bridge into the East river. He was picked up by a passing vessel in a dying condition. Charles alias “Blinky” Morgan, the principal figure in the Ravcna rescue and murder of Detective Hulligan, of Cleve land, was executed at Ohio penetentiary at Columbus. At Pittsburg, shortly after 9:30 o'clock Saturday morning. May Patton, of Johns -1 town, Pennsylvania, shot and killed Charles DeKnight, a well-known young man of Lawrenceville, and then blew h»*r brains out. The tragedy took place iu the Metropolitan hotel, corner of Grunt street and Seventh avenue. The American Cotton Oil Trust com pany had its annual meeting iu New Vork and report showed net earnings of $2,020,444, which is about 25 per cent in excess of last year’s business. The extreme hot weather prevailing in Arkansas the past week has proven fatal to out door laborers. Wednesday not less than four persons at Little Rock were so overcome by the heat that they all died before morning Four thousand laborers, employed on city streets, of Duluth, Minn, iu clean ing away the debris of a heavy storm, struck for an increase in pay from $1.50 to $2 per day, and received their de mands. Reports from Bibb county. Ala, state that the moonshiners are still in the coal mine drift, strongly guarded by citizens. George Snyder was the only one killed on Monday night. There was another frightful wreck on the Cincinnati Southern railroad in Kentucky. This time it was an un avoidable accident, but resulted in much damage to the company and the death of four men. It is reported on good authority that Isaac H. Vincent, ex-State treasurer, of Alabama, who is now serving a sentence of fifteen years for embezzlement of $223,000 of the State's money, w ill soon make a full confession. Aftc r conferring on details for three weeks, the officials of the telegraphic cable companies signed agreements by w hich the disastrous war of rates between them is ended. On September Ist the rates will be advanced to 25 cents per word. Saturday night three masked men ap peared at the house of Conrad Doup, aged 80 years, a fanner, six miles north of Dayton, Ohio, and after heating the old man into insensibility, secured $•!,- 000 in cash. The robbers have not Ven captured. Frank Mount, convicted of an at tempted outrageous assault upon Annie Rudolph, aged seventeen, and Maggie Connors, aged ten, at New Brunswick. N. J., was sentenced to the State |ieui tentiary for ten and fifteen years, the terms to run consecutively. Advices from San Carlos, Arizona, says: At the sub-agency, Wednesday night, some shooting was engaged in. It is feared that serious trouble will termin ate. Ten Apache* are still missing. Miles has every company of the troops in the territory in the best possible con dition for active campaign. All are moving to the most available points to meet quickly any emergency which may arise. Turin oil for Trees. Apropos of the vibrant property ol wood, have you never heard the grind ing in the dead, dry trunk of the pine the gnawing of the minute teeth of the liorer*? It is like a busy carpenter shop in full blast. I remember, in a recent walk in Lion way woods, that such a tree audibly announced its presence fully twenty feet iu ad vance of me. Bawd us t poured out from hundreds of apertures, and on laying my ear against the trunk and closing my eyes I seemed to lie in the midst of a metronolitan bedlam—a whole city block behind in its contract and rushed for its finish, w ith hammer? and planes and chisels in wild echoing confusion. I could hear the saw* and auger . gouges, derricks and pulleys, al most the hurried footfall indeed,every thing but the profanity of the workmen. And yet a single one of these disclosed in h»- hiding place was scarcely target tbf.»i a biad.— i/«/T*r\. It seems queer that the man who takaa Ufa naver has it aftar he takes it. CHARLOTTE, N. |C., SATURDAY, AUG. IJ, 1888. RAILROAD NEWS. Some General Information, New En terprises, etc. LEESBURG, LISBON AND PALATE A. A company has been organized under this name in Florida to build a road from Leesburg, Lisbon, and Grahamville to Paint ka. TIIK K. T., V. ANDO. The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia has awarded the contract for building 300 flat and coal cars to the Southern Car Works, of Knoxville, Tenn. MOBILE, HATTIESBURG AND JACKSON. The two companies of this name in Alabama and Mississippi have consoli dated as the Mobile, Jackson and Kan sas City, and it is stated that construc tion will be energetically pushed. THE RICHMOND AND DANVILLE. The Richmond aud Danville is report ed to have contracted with the South Ballimore Car Works to build 500 cars. The Wagner car door has been adopted for the order. THE PROFITS. Earnings of Southern roads in May 1888, Gross earnings, $4,022,400; net earnings, $1,308,032. From Jan uary Ist to Jifhe Ist, 1888.—Gross earn ings, $21,083,403; net earnings, $7,305,- 040. MAYSVILLK AND BIG SANDY. This road was opened for traffic re cently from Ashland to Maysville, Ky„ a distance of 82 miles, and track laying is being rapidly completed to Newpoit, opposite Cincinnati. The road Connects at Ashland with the Chesapeake and Ohio, and at Maysville with the Ken tucky Central. ALBEMARLE AND PANTKGO. Grading is now progressing on this road from Juniper Lauding south to wards Pantego, N. C., 20 miles distant, to which point location Is finishes!. At Mackey's Ferry, the northern terminus, freight is transferred by car floats to the Norfolk Southern at Kdeuton. The road gives a short route between A'»be marle and Pamlico sounds. WIIAT IT TAKES TO FEED A LOCOMOTIVE, It will perhaps interest some readers to know how much fuel a locomotive burns. This of course depends upon the quality of fuel, work done, speed and character of the road. On freight trains an average consumption may la* taken at about 1 to 1 1-2 pounds of coal consumed per oar per mile. With passenger trains, the cars of which are heavier and the speed higher, the coal consumption is greater. A freight train of 30 ears, at a speed of 30 miles |R*r hour, w ould there fore burn from 000 to 1,350 pounds of coal per how. NORFOLK AND WESTERN. The following changes and appoint ments to the divisions recently estab lished have be**n made: K. L. De Barry, superintendent of Eastern division from Norfolk to Crewe, headquarters at Crewe, Va., to succeed N. M. Osborne, made general agent; J. C. Cassell, su perintendent of Lynchburg division, from Crewe to Roanoke, headquarters Roan oke, Va.; J. A. Hardy, superintendent of Radford division from Roanoke to Blue field, headquarters Roanoke, Va.; J. G. Osborne, superintendent of Western di vision, from I tad ford to Bristol, inelud ing Cripple Creek extension, headquart era at Bad fold; W. L. Keen, division engineer at Norfolk; N. L. Snowden, supervisor of Eastern division, with headquarters at Petersburg; W. 11. Stan ley, supervisor Lynchburg division, with headquarters at Radford; B. F. Stanley, supervisor of the Cripple Creek exten sion, with headquarters at Hadford. Forest Fires Raging. Terrible forest fires are raging over the country about Ottawa, Ontario, St. Jo seph, a village of about five hundred in habitants, six miles from theie. is nearly surrounded by the flames and is believed to la* doomed. Owing to the dryness of the season it is impossible to cheek the fire. The telegraph announces that for au area of five miles around Chaugien' Junction, on the Canadian Pacific rail way, the tire has Iti'l control, destroying houses and even* other combustible thing in its course. The town of Aylema is also threatened with destruction. The loss already sustained will aggregate, it is believed, at least $50,000,000. Manx families have been compelled to flee for safety. lliiman Bntrhery. A horrible * tragedy was unearthed shortly la-fore Monday midnight l»v officers of the Dttplains street Station, Chicago, tin the* second floor of No. 150 South Sangamon street, lay the bodies of Henry Hush, a retired saloon keeper, and his wife. Both were past middle age. and were looked upon by their neighlKtrs as a particularly happy couple. They were last seen Hdurtlay evening sitting on the front stoop, and to all appearances as pleasantly disposed towards each ollur as could I*’ imagined. Hush had fairly slaughtered his wife with a but* her knife and afterwards hanged himself. Pleasant but Plain. He—“l mot your cousin yesterday, Mis* Smith?*’ she—“Oh, did you I We are said to look very mucVi alike. Did you not And her tery pleasant;** He— “Vue, *ho is pleasant but the j isn't vary pretty.'*—JfjecA. GENERAL SHERI BAN BKAB. He Passes Quietly away at Nonquitt, Mass. Philip 11. Sheridan, General of tin* Army of the United Stales died Sunday night at Nonquilt, Mass, lie began to grow worst* in the afternoon and gradu ally sank. lie was surrounded by bis family and physicians. General Sheridan's illness, which terminated fatally, began al*out the mid dle of May. but although hovering be tween life and death several times since, he fought as heroically for his life ns In had for his country. His disease, was valvular trouble of the heart and is said to have originated by e\|*osure during military service. Upon his return from Chicago, early in May, he complained of hading unwell and spent but an hour or so iu his office at Washington each day. He rapidly grew worse ami dur. ing the fort* part of June he was dePriousand his life was despaired of, bur he rallied and although suffering some relapses be step by step tegained a litt'c hedih. It wa< thought that a change of air would In-nclit him at d he was taken to Nonquitt, Maw., when* l.c enjoyed the si a brve/.is of the New England toad. But his strength failed him and he was compelled to succumb Hundreds of telegrams ami letters of condolence were received by the sonow ing family. A special car transferred the remains to Washington, D. whore on Satur day the 11 th of August he was buried in the Arlington National cemetery. The funeral services were h Id in St. Mat thews church at that city and from there the cortege passed in *o'cmn pomp to the hero's last resting place. A Ruined City in Texas. The surveys at present living made for the Kansas City, FI Faso and Mexican Railroad, at a point north latitude 33 degree* and west longitude loti degrees, have passed along the lava flow which by the local population is called the Mo!Dais. It consists of a sea of molten black glass, agitated at the moment of cooling in ragged waves of fantastic shapes. These lava waves or ridges are from ten to twelve feel high with comb ing crests. This lava flow is about forty miles long from northeast to southwest and from one to ten miles wide. For miles on all sides the country is the most deao'atc that can Ik* imagined. It has been literally burned up. It consists of fine white ashes to any depth which, so far, has Ih*cu dug down. To the north of the lava flow*, and lying in a country equally desolate and arid, tho surveyors have come upon the ruins of Gran tOlivers, known already to the early Spanish explorers, but which have been visited by white men less often even than the mysterious ruins of Falenque in Cen tral America. Only a fe w people at Socorro and While Oaks have been at Gran Gun era, Itccausn it is at present forty miles from water. The surveyors found the ruins to Ins of gigantic stone buildings made in the most substantial manner and of grand proportions. One of them was four acres in extent. All indications around the ruins point to the existence here at one rime of dense popu lation. No legend of any kind exists as to how this great c ity was destroyed or when it was abandoned. One of the en gineers attached to the surveying expe dition advances the theory that Gran Guivera was in existence and abundant ly supplied with water at tho time the terrific volcanic eruption too place. /i njwintering and Mining Journal* A Wealth ot Verbenas In Fern. Once I went to Cape Town to remain few da\H (inil. inflicting a fatal wound. Witt lell exhausted from j the* loss of blood, and late advices say | In- will not Ik* taken alive. The affair has c re ated great excitement. A Sulphur Spring Incubator. Theie are a number of warm sulphur springs in KUinoic, Cat., and acitizon of i that town is using them for incubating , purpoci lie putsatmpid full of eggs ' in a spring whose temperature! is 102 de- i gree-, and in three weeks the chicks ; c ome out. As the temperature of the i spring eloes not vary, the eggs require no attention. This beats the patent in- : cubator ail hoDovr. —Ntio York Tribune. • "laigow, Scotland, has a system ot automatic telephone call boxes. There *io seveutj six of the doxm scattered I about tho city, and every subscriber has ! a ker to them Terms. $1,50 per Aim Single Copy 5 cents. THE Charlotte Messenger IS PUBLISHED Every Saturday, AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In the Interests of the Colored People of the Country. Able and well-known writers will contrfb ute to its columns from different parts of tho country, and it will contain the*latest Gen oral News of the Thk Messenger is a first-class newspaixu anc] will not allow personal abuse in its col umns. It is not sectarian or partisan, but independent— dealing fairly by all. Jt 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 it re leest suited to serve the interests of the people. Q It is intended to supply the long felt need of a newspaper to advocate the rights mat defend the interests of tho Negro-American, especially in the Lied moot section of the Carolina*. SUBSCRIPTIONS: (Always in Advance.) 1 year - • - $ 1 50 8 months - - - 100 6 months - - 75 3 months - - - V) 2 months - - - 35 Single Copy - -5 Address, W. C. SMITH Charlotte NC Hovy to Keep Down Flesh. Plumpness i 3 essential to perfec beauty. Fat is the opposite of it. Science informs us that to keep down flesh sassafras tea, without milk, may bo taken; likewise cream of tartar, making a drink by pouring a pint of boiling water on a teaspoonful of the tartar, letting it cool and flavoring with lemon and a little sugar. A draught of this half an hour before meals is a notable purifier of the blood, aud an occasional dose of epsom salts, seltzer aperient or, congress water may be taken, but always with the advice of a physician. Ono c-tfWWtit physician recommends the chew ing of a grain or two of roasted coffee to, check abnormal craving for food. Jel lies of Iceland moss without milk arej excellent to satisfy the appetite without, making flesh; so are water cresses : ancl tender radishes, and all these are amongf the best purifiers of the blood and pre- 1 ventives of consumption. Scrofufouaj and delicate girls should be brought un on these simple but potent relishes,A to-, gethcr with carrots and parsnips, \ which last arc the best food for quick ands [ healthy plumpness. The richness of the milk of Alderney cows is due to long feeding on parsnips in the Channel Islaml, and the finest and fairest children in some parts of Scotland use it as a daily food. A carrot poultice is admir able for softening the face, acting as a purifier by absorption and mechanically as a moist application. Thin, dyspeptic girls, or those with poor appetite, should be-given twelve drops of acid phosphate in a small glass of water three times a day, half an hour before meals, till they feel hungry ; then feed them on crusty brown bread and muffins, with a daily change of the sweet, succulent roots, besides fruit and meats. It is surprising how they will tone up. The dose of phosphate is not to exceed twelve drops, as a very little is better born than largo doses, which are apt to produce rush of blood to the head.— Detroit Free Prets . Facts About Butter. A New York dealer who knows whereof lie speaks said to a Mail a nil b'.x jine* reporter: “I he annual product of butter iu the United States is net le-g than 1,000,000,00(1 pounds per annum. It is generally admitted that fine-half of the butter produced isarti dally colored. If this be so, and if natural high colored butter is valued at five cents more per pound than the um-olored article, it fol lows that the public pay no less than $25,000,0(H) pc-i annum for an artificial color, believing it in most cases to be a natural color and an indication of supe rior quality, for which they receive no equivalent. It. is also true that if one pound of color, which consists of an natto color, dissolved in cotton seed oil, is required for HHIO pounds of butter, there must he not less than half a million pounds of spurious butter added to the product of the country in the tliapc ol cottou seed oil.” South Uarolina. Representative Koran. Democrat, says that he calculates the next house will be Republican by about ten to fifteen ma jority. Miss Fannie Wyatt, an inmate of Bish op Duncan's family, at Spartanburg, died Friday. She was a native of Vir ginia and was almut 77 years old. (’amp Aoderion. at Greenville, was finally abandoned Tuesday by the Sumter Guards, of f’harhfton, who bad lingered in their tents, when they left for Tryon, N. CL, till all others had gone. All the c andidates for Greenville county offices started out Tuesday morning on a | tour over the country, to attend to the ! series of meetings appointed by the ex ! ceutive committee There are forty- I three c-tndidates in the county. . A Wider Experience. Dumley (who has given Featherly a j cigar front his private box) —“I've ' smoked worse cigars than these, Feath erly.” Featherly—“Ye es, Dumley, I s’pose you have; but you must remember that you are an older mao than I am.”— li/t