North Carolina Newspapers

THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. VOL. V. NO. 14. THE Charlotte Messenger IS PUBLISHED Every Saturday, AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In the Interests of the Colored People of the Country. different psi-tsof'the contain th<ilat * Bt ° e " ..'*i HB ii^ I£S ? E! fi GER “ a newspaper aiul will not allow personal abuse in itscol uinns. It w 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 the Negro-American. especially in the Piedmont section of the Karolinas. SUBSCRIPTIONS: (Always in Advance.) lytwr - . . fl 60 s months - - • 100 0 months - . 75 3 months - - 2 months * - - 35 Single Copy - 5 Address, W. C. SMITH Charlotte N C It takes 1,1100,000 barrels of flour yearly to supply bread for the people of Phila delphia. Besides paying nearly $8,000,- 000 a year for this flour they also pay over $10,000,000 annually for having it made into bread by the bakers. In other words, says the Record of that city, the atad of life is more than doubled in value because women at home cannot make light, wholescme loaves. The newa that the Mikado of Japan I as become addicted to alcohol, while the Emperor of China is devoting most of his time to opium smoking, is not sat isfactory. Kalakaua is still playing poker with disastrous results to hia Na tional Treasury. Kcally, observes the Gra/ihic, these remote potentates seem to need the services of an all-round re former. _________ An article in the North China Herald upon Chinese benevolence shows that it is very generally practised. Whenever great floods or famine! occur great soup kitchens are established. There are so cieties to provide coffins for those who canoot buy them, for gathering human bones which have become exposed and giving (hem suitable burial, for distrib uting plasters and drugs, and for pre senting “virtue books.” North Carolina can lay claim to the President’s earliest namesake, asserts the New York C' mmereuil Adtertiter. North ampton, in that State, has a Grover Cleveland, now a sturdy lad of twelve, and whose father, upon going to Buf falo, N. Y., for medical treatment short ly before his birth, heard a speech from Mr. Cleveland, then almost to fortune and to fame unknown, and was so im pressed with it that he gave the speak er's name to his next hoy, prophesying at the time that he would he a President a namesake. A Brooklyn man has originated an en terprise by which the community is to he supplied with trustworthy egg!. Ilia plan, relates the Chicago Herald, is to in close hens of ascertained diligence as egg producers in caged-up nests and leave them at the homes of customers, the latter to pay a rental of so much per hen, anil take their chances of getting more or less than one egg from each fowl. It is stated that the company which has been organized for this pur |>ose will not he responsible for the failure of any particular hen to perform her duty, hut will spare no effort to em ploy reliable hens that will maintain a reasonable average. It is a great enter prise, and the public is certain to take to it kindly. The cackle of a hen in city homes, with its refreshing suggestions of rountry life and rural barnyards, and the warm, white egg fresh from the nest, will be attractive novelties. Dishonest, lint Clerer. Frederick, the Great, King of Prussia, one dav sent a basketful of beautiful cherries to the tjueen. ? a pnze. wa< unable to resist the tempta tion to ta»te them, and ended by eating ,h, /o.ncda s afterward, when tbe King discovered the hoy's theft, he callsdlhe page to take a note to the guard-house and wait for a reply. The hoy, ing there was trouble in store for him. .ent the note by a hsnker who happened to be croesing the courtyard When the officer opened the not. he read s, fob |„w. : “(live the bearer twentydlie lashes, and take a receipt for the same. In spile of the banker's protests he was seized and flogged. Then uelled to siga a receipt for twenty-five lashes, when the King beerd o» fli* affair he laughed most heartily, but was the tioor hsnker, from who* h* Ire ipienily received considerable loans of money. _ IMPORTANT ITEMS THE LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY Boiled Down for Oar Benders at Home and Abroad General Harrison, President elect, will visit New York shortly. Ex-Mayor .1. A. Cochran, of Staunton, ! \ a, died Thursday of typhoid fever. The Eastern Field Trial club are at! High Point, N. C., with their Bird Hunting Hogs. Senator Gorman is endeavoring to ar-1 range matter, that President Clevelend : will in June next be made President of i the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, j At Waterloo, N Y, Ohas Johnson, a j horse thief, was hanged for the murder' of John Walters, a jail warden, whom he killed in an effort to escape. During the first ten months of 1888. 1 200 miles of new railway were built in j South Carolina, which passes all previous ' records. President Inman, of the Richmond j Terminal has signed a check for $3,050,- 000, being the last payment on stock of j the Georgia Central Railroad. The East Tennessee road yesterday! ticketed a party of twenty-five white em- j igrants to Tipper county, Mississippi. ; They were from King’s Mountain. N. C. j Benjamin Harrison will be fifty five ’ years, six months and fourteen days old j when he is inaugurated President of the 1 United States. The sixty-fourth annual convention of! Chi Phi fraternity met at Richmond, Va, j Thursday with delegates present from ■ twenty chapters, A Banquet was held in •he syenisg. It is rumored that in Christian county, Mo, the home of the famous Bald Knob her King, Dave Walker, five of the wit nesses who testified against him in his trial for murder have been lynched by Ex-Bald Knobbers. The present Legislature of Georgia is remarkable because of the youthfulness of its presiding officers. The President of the Senate, Mr Fleming du Bignon, and the Speaker of the House, Mr A. S. Clay, were both born in the year 1853. | Hon James Hunt was stabbed to death at Atlanta Thursday night by H S Moore, j a railway mail clerk. Mr Hunt waa a j member of the Georgia Legislature from Catoosa, and a young man and was very popular. At the Knights of Labor Convention, at Indianapolis, Master Workman Pmv derly and Secretary Litchman made long reports attacking each other, hut after wards the two leaders made friends and the savage parts of thu reports were Stricken out. Thomas Branch, a well known ban ker, died at Richmond, Ya, m the BGth year of his age. Hu was u union man be f ore the war. was a member of the sc cession convention and spoke und voted against the ordinance, hut afterwards signed it. Richmond and Danville system —W A ] Walden has been appointed master me-1 chanic of the Atlanta and Charlotto di-1 vision, with headquarter* at Atlanta. Ga. vice Mr A W Gibbs, tranferred. Mr | S J Neistei has been appointed foreman at Charlotte, vice Mr W A Walden, transferred. They Ate Their Crow. A novel wager on the reeult of the Presidential election made at South Chicago, 111., haabeeu settled. A num ber of gueats of a hotel were about equal ly divided on the political question. In coversation one day the subject of a meal of crow was discussed, and the re sult was that a wager was made that if Harrison was elected the Dimocratic hoarder! should <at a mess of crow, and that in case of Cleveland’s success the Re publicans were to dine on the succulent black bird. One dozen crows and a dozen jacksnipes were purchased, and at dinner, the Republicans and the Demo crats faced each other across the table. At the appointed time the waiters brought in the crows, which had been roased and in all respects nicely pre pared. Amid a continued roar of laugh ter on the part of the Republicans and their friends who had gathered to see the fun, the victims ate with a good grace their meal. In the meantime the: other side of the table leastad on jack- ' snipe. The Jnilges Puzzled. A curious complication has arisen in i regard to the official returrs from one district of Princf George’s county, Mary land. After tnc votes were counted one of the judges, through ignorance, put the tally sheets into the ballot box and locked them up. The law forbids a box to be reopened unless there is a contest, and how legally to secure the official returns the judges of the district are puz zled to know. Judge Stone has bien appealed to, bat it is feared he may de cline. He has no jurisdiction end can not order the ballot box to be reopened. In that event there is only one course to lie pursued. Fortunately the new I sixes are transparent. The judges will prob ably meet end while one of them shakes the box up, the other will watch until the tally sheets fall on top with the fig ure side up. They will then carefully lead the returns, make a correct ropy and lend it to the secretary of State While the official return* from the fifth district ere incomplete, owing to the almve cause, the figures, as far as known, give e complete democratic plurality of seven vote*. The convict less* system prevail* in Mb Southern Bt*t«. CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, NOY. 24, 1888 THE DURHAM FAILURES. Many of the Leading Bonnets Hornet Aarign The Want of Ready Money the Cause- Thursday morning of last week all Durham was taken aback upon reading a notice postod upon the doors of the Bank of Durham stating that Mr. W. T. Blackwell, the proprietor, had made an assignment. Soon it was ascertained that Capt E J Parrish, Mr J W Blackwell. Messrs. Muse and Shaw, Mr W F Ellis and Messrs. Robbins & Stone had also made assignments. The failures were not due to the lack of assets but to the want of ready money to meet pressing demands. W T Blackwell assigns to V Ballard and W S Halliburton. E J Parri-h assigns to W W Fuller and .1 M Whitted and conveya all his available property. W F Ellis, dealer in dry goods, as signs to W S Halliburton. Charles Robbins and W HStone, com posing the tirin of Robbins & Stone, dealers in dry goods, assigned to Lucius Tilley. J W Blackwell assigned to S E Watts and .1 M W Hicks. He conveys all his personal property and twenty tracts or lots of land. Another big failure is reported. .John L Markham, a leading wholesale mer chant, assigned for $90,000. The fail ure was caused mainly hy Markham giv ing accommodation paper to the Bank of Durham, which assigned Thursday, amounting to $30,000, and wLichdue in about 90 davs A few other assignments are anticipated, and these with the six reported, will probabl? sweH the liabili ties to $1,500,000. The Amount Made Good. The responsibility for the $1,400 in standard silver dollars recently shipped from United States mint at New Orleans to the United States Treasurer at Wash ington, delivered in the form of bird shot, has been practically established by the payment of the amount in question to Treasurer Hyatt bv the agent of the express company. While thus tacitly ad mitting its responsibility for the money, the express company h*»s, to far as known, l>een unable to discover how and by whom the bozes containing the silver were tampered with while in transit. Th? matter is still under investigation, and may yet be unraveled. Officers of the company are somewhat indignant over what they regard as the premature publication of the discovery of theft, on the theory that if the persons concerned in the matter had not been informed of the discovery of their operations they might have easily been detected trying to repeat the act of exchanging shot for the silver contents of bags in which money is transmitted. Gen. Harrison’s Correspondence. Since the day of his election General Harrison’s mail has steadily increased until it has now reached momme-th pro portions. This morning it required an express wagon to haul the bundles of letters and bags of newspapers that had arrived since Saturday. About fifteen hundred letters and several bags of | newspapers comprised today’s. Some thing like eighty telegrams were also re ceived today, most of a congratulatory character, as are also his letters. Here tofore General Harrison has aimed to re ply to every letter, if only to acknowl - edge its receipt, but with such an extra ordinary increase, he now finds that the task of replying to each letter will be too great to’undertake, as it would more than occopy bis entire time. The Farmers in Convention. The twenty second annual convention of the National Grangers Patrons of Husiiandry commenced in Topeka, Kan, last week.' Delegates are present from every rotate in the union. Acting Wor thy Master James Draj>or, of Mai-iachu setts, presided. Memorial servic es were held in honor of deceased Worthy Master P D Dorden. of Mbsissippi, who died in July last. Standing c<*inmittees were then announc ed. The eighth annual convention of the fanners’ congress of the United States i also met in this city. R F Kolk, of Ala i bams, presided. The call of the roll j showed thirty states repmentel. A Lynching: in Louisiana. A special from Donaldsonville. La. ! g*ys that on Tuesday afternoon cn a plantation near that town, a negro seiz ed an eleven year-old child of respecta ble parents who at the time was playing with her younger sisters. Flourishing a knife, be took her into the cane field. The sc reams of younger children brought a number of plantation hands to the spot and the wretch was caught in the act of outraging the child. He was taken to jail, but so gie it was the indigdation thtt about two hundred persons attacked and ovcr|»owered the jailer at night and took the prisoner and hanged him. A Piute Hal lot-Box Stuffing. The Sacramento (Cal.) Bee says: Cap tain Ham, leader of the Piute Indians, who have been gleaning hops along the American river of late, fays thu he was once a candidate for Chief of the Fiute*. |(is opponent was Captain Jim, and the ' Piute* agreed upon a date for the elec tion. The balloting wav to be by meant of small pebbles, to be deposited in a box, Hem’s ballots being white pebbles and Jim • black. The night before the election some of Jim’s adherents dropped a buckotful of black pebbles into the box, and, of course, wiieo tbs pebbles were count*} Jim was elected. THANKSGIVING DAY. Beneath tho homestead's sloping eavea We gather round the board. And for the golden harvest sent Give thanks unto the Lord, But from the bursting barns and bins Oh. spare a thought I pray, For those who kept In wintry woods The first Thanksgiving Day l The face of heaven was veiled and dark. And all the world beneath. Os withered wood and wold, lay hid Within a snowy sheath. They shivered in the bitter blast, For thinly clad were they; The pilgrim fathers long ago, Who kept Thanksgiving Day. With all his train of feathered dames Behind him in a row. They saw a lordly bird with plumes Like polished metal go. The aim was sure, the bullet true In throes of death be lay; And feasting on his dainty flesh, They kept Thanksgiving Day. The graves wherein their fathers slept, The felds and fells of home. Were leagues beyond the forest dark, Across the wintry foam. Though want and fear abided there. And peril barred the way; Yet, lone'y in a lonely land, They kept Thanksgiving Day. In all the pleasant fields about. Upon the frosted vines, Sweet Cinderella's fairy coach, The yellow pumpkin, shines; And still with all his train of dames. The turkey struts away; As in the winter-whitened woods, That first Thanksgiving Day. Our fathers' graves are on the hill. The children at the knee. The storehouse full of goodly things, How grateful they should be! They thanked the Lord for perils passed. And for the right to pray; Then let us doubly thank Him now, Few this Thanksgiving Day. —Minnie Irving, THANKSGIVING. For the hay and the corn and the wheat that is reaped. For the labor well done, and the barns that are heaped. For the sun and the dew and the sweet honeycomb, For the rose and the song and the harvest brought home— Thanksgiving! thanksgiving! For the trade and the skill and the wealth in our land, For the cunning and strength of the working man's hand, v •, For the good that our artists and poets have taught, For the friendship that hope and affection have brought— Thanksgiving! thanksgiving! For the homes that with purest affection are blest. For the season of plenty and well-deserved rest. For our country extended from sea unto sea. The land that is known as the “Land of the Free*’— Tlanksgiving! thanksgiving! HOPE'S THANKSGIVING. ET CLARA DAVIS. 0- * ° ~ " jfHKIIE is nothing Meft in my lile to be thankful for," Hope Grey felt, as she climbed I up the stairs that led to her mite of I a room on the top \ floor of the tene ment she called homo. All day, with a , choking sob in L her throat, she sat in a damp, cheer , less room trim , ming hats until her fingers and eyes ached, and then, at night, to be discharged because a tiny drop of blood from her pricked fingers ftll on n bit of velvet! To the friendless orphan girl it was a bitter misfortune and her whole nature rebelled against the injus tice. Poor Hope! The past ten years had been to her a continual struggle for exist ence. In this time she had seen her mother laid in the grave and herself left alone in the woi Id, with only her own labor betweeu starvation and life. She was a slender, graceful girl, whose resolute, cheerful spirit shone through her clear, brown eyes; but to-night the brown eyes were dim with unshed tears, and as she sat by the window and gazed out into the drizzling twilight she gave herself up lo the memory of the past. Far back in that past she Was a child again, surrounded by all that loving parents could provide, and as sbe dream ed of these days the team rolled down the pale cheeks and the sensitive mouth quivered with emotion. A few yearn had brought great changes. The precious loviog mother ha I si >wiy died of want and sorrow, and the helpless child could only weep in bitter anguish at the loss which left her utterly friendless. From the day the earth hid her mother’s tendei face from view, Hope knew ehe stood alone in the world. Slowly and painfully the terrible dark days came back to her as she Bat in the deepening gloom. The father had liked the social glass, and then fo'lowed an unconquering thirst that had literally drank up busi ness, home and manhood. Again Hope could see the sad pleading eyes of her mother and the growing poorer and poorer until the deepest poverty was coupled with the keener anguish of disgrace. Then followed the secret hurrying away of the husband and father, who in an hour of terrible temptation had thrown away his honor aod principle. Branded with the crime of forgery the poor wreck of humanity fled to a distant State, and nothing was heard of him for two long agonizing years. At last came the tidings that he had been killed in a drunken brawl in Sun Francisco. The hock was too mucli for the feeble wife, and Hope taw her mother laid away in her last sleep, a young woman yet, but with hair as white as the purest snow. The poor, t red body had found rest, but for Hope there was no such escape. She was young and strong, and must Tire on in a continual struggle for a life that was filled only with bitter memories. As it grew darker she arose from the window and, lighting her lamp, she began counting the money in her purse. It was a little sum, and it brought more vividly before the lonely girl her forlorn •ituation. “Oh! what will become of me when this is gone?” she asked herself, as she walked nervously up and down the room. Suddenly she stopped before a little stand, as though Bonic plan had come into her busy brain. “If I could only sell it I” she said aloud as she took up a small, unframed painting. It was a bit of lowland, with the sea shimmering in the distance, on which could be seen the white sail of a ship homeward bound. Her motherin the happier days had been skillful with brush and pencil, and had taught the little that she knew to Hope. It had served to brighten many e weary hour for both mother and daughter, and after the mother's death Hope had gone on in her own way paint ing all the old scenes she could remem ber, often denying herself many com forts that she might buy the few touches of color. Youth easily takes courage, and the picture brought new life to Hope. The nnxt morning, with the picture tied up in paper, she set out for a certain picture dealer, whose windows had often at tracted her attention. She tried to still her wildly beating heart as she entered the store and in quired if they bought paintings. “Have you one for sale?” asked the clerk, looking curiously at the shabby, slender figure. “Yes,” returned Hope, beginning to untie her parcel. “Mr. I'arwood attends to that busi ness,” said the clerk, nnd before Hope could reply she was ushered into Mr. Darwood's office. A tail, lino looking man arose at her entrance and politely I inquired what he could do for her. With trembling fingers Hope took off the paper and handed him Ihe picture for in spection. After what seemed to her an age, during wtiich time she had vainly tried to read his decision in his face, ho turned and glanced at her with a look of interest. The pale, delicate face, with its look of trouble, tol<J more plainly than words thu need that had brought her there. Moreover the quick glance had shown him that the brown-eyed girl was a gentlewoman. “The picture is well done,” nil the while thinking what lovely eye* she hid and wondering who she could be. “Wo are giving five dollars apiece for such painting, and I will take this at the same price if agreeable to you,” he continued. “Agreeable to her!" To Hopo it was a fortune, tnd after being told that jny thing she could do in the etme line would bo paid for, she went h one to look end look at this money, which had been earned so pleasantly and that would open to fier • new way to earn an honest living. Terms. $1.50 per Aim Single Copy 5 ceats. “Jasper, where did you get this pict ture from?” asked Mr. Newton that afternoon of his head clerk. Mr. Newton was the proprietor of the art store where Hope had sold her paint ing. Jasper Darwood hurried to his em ployer’s side to seo which particular picture was meant. “Ob that one,” he replied as he caught sight of the one the old gentle man was looking at so earnestly. “I bought it this morning of a lady. It is a very good ooe,” he added. The clerk thought he was examining it as to its commercial value, hut Mr. Newton’s next question showed this had not entered his mind. “Is that tlio lady’s name or the title!” he asked abruptly. “The title, Mr. Newton; the lady's name was Grey, and ” But Jasper Darwood never finished his sentence, for old Mr. Newton had crasped the buck of a chair and would have fallen but for the timoly aid of his clerk. As soon as he recovered he began tq question Darwood. Did he know the artist’s address? and question after ques tion followed, but the clerk could-tell him almost nothing. asking every man and boy in the place if he knew any one named Hope Grey. It would have seemed ludicrous to Dar wood but for the d stress of his em ployer. He met with no success until he came to one of the little boys who dusted the counters. Yes, he knew a Miss Grey. She lived next door to him, and when his mother was sick Miss Grey came in and ■ ; but Mr. Newton didn't listen to any more. Having checked the boy and found out the name of the street and number of the house, he hailed a cab end was soon on his way to the place. j It never occurred to him that this might not betlio Hopo Grey he sought.' Some instinct told him his long search was ended. Hope sat alone in her little room, when she was startled by a loud knock, and a moment after the door opened and the long separated father and daughter were face to face. It took some time to tell the story of. John Grey’s wanderings. i He had not been killed in the drunken brawl, but it had been in this same place that he had first awakened to a sense of his terrible position. To return home was dangerous, for the shadow of the law hung over him; but after amassing a fortune the longing for his family became so strong that one morning he setoff for the East, ready to face the danger of" imprisonment if he could but see his loved ones again. There was no need to have changed his name. No one would have recog nized in the fine-looking gray-haired man the forlorn creature who had crept away so miserably ton years before. But the coming home had been almost useless except for the one result which had lifted forevor from him the stain of crime, livery dollar had been paid back and he stood onco more a free man, but of the wife and child he had left In poverty and shame he could find no trace. The belief that both were dead had finally been yielded to, wbeu Providence had placed in his way the object of hie search. The wife lav in her narrow bed. and that darkness could never be taken out of his life, but the child was left to him, and he thanked the Father of the father less who had protected her all these years. The next day was Thanksgiving Day, and no three people w ere happier than the three who ate their turkey in John Newton's home. Jasper Darwood was there, too. for the old gentleman maintains that but for hie buying the picture Hope would never Care been found, but Jasper Darwood knows the' Hope's brown eyet had a great deal to do with the purchase. A Thought For Thanksgiving. Here is a thought for Thanksgiving Day from Kmcrsou: ‘ Let the paasioi for America cast out the passion foi Europe. Here let there he whet th« earth waits for—exaltc-d manhood. Whet this country long! for is personalities, grand perrons, to counteract its ma terialities. For it is the rule of the uni verse that corn shall servo man and not * man corn, "—Philadelphia Pre*.