CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
Published ovory Saturday at Charlotte, N. O.
By W. O. Smith.
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DANCY FALSE AS BEFORE.
PERSONAL.
Mr. Dancy is pardoned in bis feeble ef
fort. He rebutted no criticisims 01 ou.s.
He writhes and groans wonderfully un
der our article of lost week. We are
working for a female Mininnry, and if
anybody gets in the way they must take
the conserjueuces. If our allusions to him
are so very harmless he should not fret so
much about it. We are ou r own judge
and do not hesitate to attack corruption
in church or state and if we fail to do
good, it is not our fault but our misfort
une.-Mr Dancy is pleated to style the
female seminary our 4 -pet scheme'*, and
says “it has suffered fearful demolition*''
He seems to think lie has killed it and
boasts of it. We never claimed (o have
done anything great for Zion, and do
not hesitate to admit we have never done
anything great anywhere. That is the
trouble witli Mr John C Dancy; his head
is bursting from the effects of his opinion
of his own greatness. Will somebody
tell 11s what Dancy has ever done? E /er
since we have known of him he has been
a beneficiary of somebody or society.
Why then should ho assume the role
of dictator. ♦
We are careful as to the use wc make
of any man's name and mean all wchave
said concerning Mr Dancy. He has re
fused to discuss questions with us con
cerning the. church, but has insisted on
using personalities. If lie can’t stand
what we say let him shut up. We leave it
to gentlemen to judge'whether or not we
area gentleman, and not.Mr Dancy. It
may be that lie is incapable of knowing
when he is insulted. This article is per
sonal and for Mr Dancy's eye.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
Presents ate made on Christmas as a
token of love and friendship. The
store windows are adorned with many
bountiful things—ornamental and use
ful. Many hearts will lx caused to
swell with joy by the receipt of a 4 ‘pres
ent from a friend,’’ on ( bristinas n orn
ing and during the holidays. The ques
tions are going the rounds: What art
you going to give your wife, your bus
band, your lover, mother, father, friend
and some will say your editor?
But who remembers the poor old wid
ow or the poor old mm weighed down
by the labors of many winters and
whose lovers and friends have forgotten
then*? Who will remember the poor
orphan, the street urchin, dependent
upon the cold c harity of a cod and
thoughtless world. These have lost
their best friends. Are they to I e ne
glected, forgotten and allowed to suffer
while wc* rejoice and make merry around
our warm fires and heavy laden tables,
while they shiver from the biting blast
and hunger for a common meal?
Let us remember our neighbors and
give them all the* comfort possible; for
the Christ whose birth we celebrate, was
poor and lowly and rested in r. monger,
and died alike for the redemption of
the rich and the poor. Let each ferget
his own happiness and rejoice in our
eflorts to make others happy. When
you give to God’s | oor, “it is more
blessed to give than to receive.*’ “He
that giveth to the poor lendeth to the
Lord.”
The Proposed Railroads.
There has been no measure before our
people for many years that is so impor
tant to the laboring classes’ as the pro
posed new railroads that ar<* to voted for
on January, lOh, 18K9. They are ca'cu
lated to do much toward the? upbuilding
of our city, county and State, ns the,'
will penetrate the finest section of our
State and South Carolina. They wil!
give employment to a large number o«
unemployed laborers, many of whom
to day are asking for work and being
unable to get because of the lack ofim
provement in 011 midst.
The building <*f tnasc mads will bring
an immense- amount of capita! to 011 «
State as it will cost four trims as much
to build the roads in our county ss tin
county will subscribe, consequently, tb<
remainder inio-t come from the North
and nearly the whole amount will be
paid out among our laboring men. Then
where is the laboring man who c an, or
will refuse to vote for these* subscrfpl ions r
Let every friend of labor awl of iui
provement and progress s?c to it, that
there is a full tutc in favor of the sub
scriptions.
Fcund a Firate’s Buried Hsard,
According to a report from Fall Liver,
Mass., s man named Eddy ]>a. founj
buried in bis farm, in an old iron kettle,
1850 Spanish doubloons, which Here
deposited there by one of his ancestor’',
who Is said to hare ploughed the Spanish
Main with Captain Kidd, as he sailed,
at he sailed. Mr. Kddy is still dicin'/
his farm, in which ho expects to uncart h
V least 1100,000 more, which may have
been taken by Kidd from the “three
ships of Spain" against which he “wen*
amain.” We hope tha 1 . Mr. Eddy will
be successful in his search, and thus
prove—wbnt has lm>:< been doubted -
that Kidd or any of bis uicu ever buried
aay treasure at ail
The Longest Speech on Record.
The longest speech on record is be
lieved to have been made by Mr. Be
Cosmos in the Legislature of British Co
lumbia, when n message was pending,
the passage of which would take from a
great many settle: s their lands. To Cos
mos was in a hopeless minority. The job
had been held back till the eve of the
close of the session. Unless legislation
was taken before noon of a given day
the act of confiscation would fail. The
day before the expiration of the limita
tion IDe Cosmos got the iloor about 1C
a. si. and began a speech against the
bill. Its f.-iends cared little, for thev
supposed that by I or 2 o’clock he would
be through and the bill could be put on
its passage. One o’clock came and Be
Cosmos was speaking still—ho had not
more than entered upon his subject.
Two o’clock—lie was saying “in the sec
ond place.” Three o’clock—he pro
duced a fearful bundle of evidence and
insisted on reading it. The majority
began to have a suspicion of the truth
lie was going to speak till next noon and
kill the bill. For a while they made
merry over it, but as it came on dusk
they began to get alarmed. They tried
interruptions, but soon abandoned them,
because each one afforded him a chance
to discuss and.gain time. They tried to
shout him down, but that gave him a
breathing space, and finally they settled
down to watch tho combat between
strength of will and weakness of body.
They gave him no mercy, no adjourn
ment for dinner, no chance to do more
than wet his lips with water, no wander
ing from his subject, no sitting down.
Twilight darkened, the gas was lit,
members slipped out to dinner in relays
and returned to sleep in squads, but De
•Cosmos went on. The Speaker, to whom
lie was addressing himself, was alter
nately dozing and trying to look wide
awake. lay dawned, and the majority
slipped out in squads to wash and break
fast, and tlie speaker still held on. It
cannot be said that it was a very logical,
eloquent or sustained speech. There
were digressions in it, repetitions also.
But still the speaker lccptcn, and at last
noon come to a ba led majority, livid
with rage and impotence. And a single
man, who was triumphant, though his
voice had sunk to a husky whisper, his
eyes were almost shut and bleared and
bloodshot, lii-s legs tottered under him,
his baked lips were cracked and smeared
with blood. Be Cosmos had spoken
twenty six hours and saved the lands.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
Electrical Pleasure Boats.
“Electricity as a power to drive small
boats* Why, of course we will soon
have it, and it will be a great deal more
convenient and plensant than those hot
steam launches and nasty little petro
leum boats.”
The speaker was a prominent New
Ycrk electrician, and he talked of the
advantages of electricity over steam and
was very sure that soon yachtsmen who
could not afford large steam yachts
would find electricity much the better
power to use to propel their boats. He
added: The machinery takes up less
room, and then the heat of the furnace
is not felt, because there it no furnace,
and the smoke and grease are also done
away v.-itli. Tiiey arc building them in
England. " I have received particulars of
one that has just been launched. It is
sixtv-five and one-half feet in length,
ten feet in beam, and is designed to
carry eighty passengers at six miles an
hour. The electric machinery and stor
age cells are placed below the deck, fore
and aft, leaving a clear run the whole
length of the boat for passengers. In the
middle is a handsomely fitted cabin,
with lavatories, dining-room, etc. The
electrical energy is converted into mo
tive power by two motors of seven and
one-half horse power, each driving in
turn threc-bladed propellers. Beats will
soon be made to store electricity and
•un just as Jhe street cars do now."—
if ail and Express.
At a recent sate ot snort-norn cattle
at Cresco. lowa, forty-eight head brought
♦soß'i, wh ch was an average of sl4i for
the cows, and for the bulls sold, $99.50.
Sixty thousand barrels of sour kroul
are made in heading, t’enn . every year.
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
Mas. Winsi/iw’h Soothing Syrup, for chil
dren teething, is the prescription of oneofthe
beet female nurses and physicians in the
I' nited States, and has been used for forty
years with never-failing success by millions of
mothers for their children. During the proeees
of leething its value is incalculable. Itrelicves
the child from pain, cures dysentery and iliar
rho.-a, griping in the fiowcls, and wind-colic.
By giving health to the child it rests the
mother. Pride 20c. a bottle.
CONSUMPTION CUBED.
An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of a simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and perma
nent cure for Consumption, Bronchitis,
Asthma and all throat and I-uug Affection,
also a luisitive and radical cure for Nervous
Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after
having tested its wonderful curative powers
in thousands of eases, has felt it Ills duty to
make it known to bis suffering fellows. Ac
tuated by this motive and a desire lo relieie
human suffering. I will send free of charge,
to all w!n> desire it, this recipe, in (icrniar.
French or English, with full direction for
prcisirlngand using. Pent liy mail liy ad*
d -easing with stamp, naming this pajs-r \V.
A. Nofts, HO Power s Block, Rochester,
M Y.
Grizzly Wilson’s Last Beit.
The mistake has always been in allow-i
ing a bear to come to close quarters, andl
yet some bold hunters will not accept
fight on any other terms, preferring a|
hand-to-hand encounter while armedj
with nothing but a knife. This fool-,
hardy notion of fighting a bear on equalj
terms is well exemplified In the case of[
old Dick Wilson, or “Grizzly Wilson.”. 1
as he was familiarly called, who a short!
time ago was found just over the divide,
from here, dead as a door nail and most
horribly mutilated.
Poor old Dick was found face down-1
ward on the banks of a beautiful,j
sparkling mountain rivulet, his head
being crushed almost to a jelty, the nose
and one side of his face entirely gone,
and the left hand and wrist chewed in'
such a manner that the men who ex
amined it said they could not find a bone!
in it even a quarter of an inch long.;
The body was almost nude, the clothes'
having been torn off. There were tracks
of a large bear all around the body, and,
the signs went to show that the brute
even trampled and crushed with ha
ponderous paws and weight after lifet
was probably extinct. It seems that old
Dick had always boasted that he could
knife a bear better than any other
greaser in the country could demolish’
one with a repeating shooting iron; but
on this trip he was very badly mistaken'
and lost His life in the trial.
Soon after entering the fight (and the
bear must have been a monsters from the
size of hie huge footprints) the old man
was compelled to take to a tree in order
to get away from the animal, but as the
tree proved to be of rather small
dimension the big brute, by standing on
his hind legs, found no difficulty in
catching the man by the heel of his boot
with his fore feet and pulling him
down.
Then a hard struggle for life took
place. No doubt the hunder drove his
long, keen knife into the near’s hide
time and again, but as the latter must
nave been heavily equipped with fat,the
blade never touched a vital point.
While Bruin was chewing Dick’s left
hand the hunter was plunging the knife
into him and slashing with his right.
The forest for nearly a hundred
yards all around was torn up
by the roots, broken down, chewed
and generally demolished, as if
the animal in its rage after killing its
enemy wanted to destroy everything that
came in its way. Dick’s knife never was
found. Probably a good search for it
would discover the blade still in the
bear’s hide and up to the hilt. Some of
these animals have a wonderful tenacity
to life. This is perhaps one of the cases.
Within my own experience I know of
one b : g silver-tip specimen, far away in
Montana, that a nimrodic friend and my
self pumped at least thirty-two bullets
into before he const nted to give up the
ghost. This is something like two
pounds of lead, more or less, and he did
not drop for good either until the last of
the thirty-two pills had reached him.
An Ingenious Wire Dirk.
As Jailor Birdsong was making a tour
around the iron cage at the Macon, Gs.,
jail, he espied a string hanging down
on the outside from the top. He pulled
the string and found that it was attached
to a dirk, made of a portion of a wire
bailing of a bucket. This dagger is a
curiosity, and shows the ingenuity of the
prisoners. It is about ten inches long,
and rounded and tempered to a sharp
point, and the handle is made by being
wrapped with a strand taken from one of
the hammocks. This handle is plaited
and woven, and is not only ingenious
but a pretty piece of work. Such a dag
ger is a dangerous weapon, and in the
hands of a strong man is as dangerous
as a pistol. *
The prisoner* denied knowing any
thing about it, but it is supposed to
have been the work of James Harmea,
sent up from Worth county on the charge
of stealing sheep, and who was taken to
his county a few days ago for his trial.
Several daggers of a similar kind have
been made by the prisoners, and Harmon
admitted plaiting the handles. It was
evidently made for the purpose of using
it on the jailer, should the opportunity
present itself, but the jailer is too watch
ful. Six or seven daggers of this kind
have been made for that purpose, and
each time the jailer frustrates the scheme
by finding the weapon.
Tho county |>craists in furnishing the
jail with tin buckets haring wire bails,
and the prisonere find breaking them up
an easy undertaking. There is an in
durated wood fibre bucket made that hat
no wire bail or hoops and which fur
nishes the prisoner with nothing that
can be made into a weapon. —Macon
Chronic’*.
A Man With Owl’s Eyes.
John C. Dooley, one of the best known
of the aqueduct inspectors, is, strange
to say, almost blind during daylight; at
night, however, his eyesight is to good
that he hat been appointed a night in
spector on the masoofy work, and, it is
said, can pick out a weak spot quicket
than any one engaged in the same work.
It is said that bn has followed under
ground work so long that the pupils ol
bis eyes are now more like those of the
owl than thoee of men.— Fit York Hun.
The principle ot percussion was pat
ented by the Her. Mr. Forsythe In 1807.
; LADIES’ COLUMN.
A Fairy Bill or Fare.
Ladies who, since it became fashion
tble to give favors at dinners, sometimes
Ind themselves embarrassed by the con
luct of guests who mistake articles of
:able furnishings for the gifts of hospi
ality, will like the new “fairy” bill of
’are, which, if not too heavy to carry
iway, answers the other requsite of
tafety when thieves are about, by being
;oo hot. This bill of fare is of slightly
ground and roughened glnes, and is
irmly fixed in a little sand, which also
mpports a fairy lamp with two pretty
flower holders, one on each side. The
upper part of the gloss is decorated with
x painted design, below which the bill of
tare is written in lead pencil so that it
can be washed off with n sponge. The
dullest guest is not likely to suppose
himself invited to carry away the lamp,
and so the bill of fare is safe. It might
be an improvement, one would think, tc
place tho fairy lamp behind instead of in
front of tho gins*, which would thus
serve as a screen to keep off tho slight
heat coming from the lamp, and would
be more easily read, while at the same
time the lamp would be more of an orna
ment to the table.— Picayune.
Modern Elizabethan Weddings.
Word comes from the wise ones that at
a swell wedding this winter there is te
be a revival of lots ts quaint Elizabethan
performances, and that the revival will
be due to Amelie Hives, who went
through them all religiously at her own
wedding. So her followers will, when
the outer guests are gone and tht
charmed inner circle remains, take tht
flowers from the bride’s hair, twist them
in a wreath, and, while she is blinded
witli many folds of the bridal dress, she
will put it at random on the head of a
bridesmaid—while with linked hands
they circle about her—and the one st
distinguished will be the next bride.
Then the ushers and best men huddle xip
at one end of the room, and the bridt
at the other flings her bouquet among
them; whoever catches it is the foreor
dained next victim of Cupid. When tli<
bride slips away to change gowns, if a
maid can spy her, and following pull ofi
her left slipper, she is sure to be herscll
wedded within the twelve-month; also
tht maid of honor gives the bride a pail
of bine garters with jeweled clasps, and
sees to it that in the tiring she wears:
"Something old and something new,
Something borrowed and something blue,'
to make certain of luck nnd happiness,
while tlie waiting maid must beat pains
to fling away and lose every pin that
was ti-ed about the wedding toilet in
order that the bride may have no small
worries and be always sweet tempered. -
Commercial Advertiser.
Women Patentee”.
The Commissioner of Patents, Mr.
Benton 8. Hall, has had prepared a list
of women inventors or women to whom
patents have ueen granted. The list
has been printed and makes a folio
pamphlet of forty-four pages. It gives
not only the names of the patentees, but
also the title of tho patent and date ol
issue. The first patent issued was to
Mary Kres, Mary 6, 1809, for straw
weaving with silk or thread.
Six years later Mary Brush obtained a
patent for a corset, and then four years
elapsed before another inventive woman
appeared. This was Sophia Usher, whoso
patent was for carbonated liquid cream
of tartar. Then, again, in 1822. Julia
Planton secured a patent for a footstool.
During the four following years a patent
was issued each year to a woman, and
from that time down to the present tho
number of women patentees gradually
increased. In recent years feminine in
ventiveness has shown marked progress.
For instance, from the Ist of January,
1888, to the 16th of June last, no lest
than sixty-six patents were issued tc
women, while during the year 1887 17f
patents were so issued. This latter u
the largest ever issued. While the namci
of the articles patented show that they
were generally in the lino of feminine
wearing apparel and household labor
saving devices, yet many were of a
character that shows the multiplied in
terests of women. As nn instance, one
woman patented a submarine telescope
and lump. Others were granted as fol
lows: Improvement in reaping and
mowing machines, improved war vessel,
furnace for smelting ores, apparatus foi
punching corrugated metals, method of
construction for screw propellers, low
water indicator, material for packing
journals and beariugs,. conveyers ol
smoke and cinders for locomotives,
burglar alarms for windows, etc.
Fashion Notes.
Fancy ornaments of jet are used in
perfusion upon tho winter millinery.
Heavy tinsel cord is effectively used to
edge tho brims of felt hats .ind bonnets.
Gainsborough and Dheciuire hats ol
dark velvet are receiving a large share
of popular favor.
The newest cloths are octagonal in
shape, and bang about tho table in rail
manner of points that delight the eye in
search of new effects.
Kovel skeleton bonnets, somewhat
after the fashion of tho open-work
beaded bonnets, a e made of fine feathers
mounted upon a wire frame.
Ihe new ostrich plumes show com
binations of very dark colors, black with
dark green, navy bloc or dark brown
being the extrema of sash en.
Hot Milk as a Stimulant.
“What folly it is to drink liquor for
stimulation.”
This was the observation of a leading
New York physician.
“Milk heated to much above 100 de
grees Fahrenheit loses for a time a de
gree of its sweetness and density. No
one who, fatigued by over exertion of
body or mind, has ever experienced tho
reviving influence of a tumbler of this
beverage, heated as hot as it can be
sipped, will willingly forego a resort to
it because of its being rendered some
what less nec- "*"t*le to *1" pa'ote The
prompter .. vbi b I tn c.nffixl in
fluence is ’ ’• in-V J * • ' mg.
Some port •>! ’ > etna to be digested
and appropio* ed in,opt. immediately,
and many who now fancy they need al
coholic stimulants when exhausted by
fatigue will find in this simple draught
an equivalent that will be abundantly
satisfying and far more enduring in its
effects.
“There is many an ignorant, over
worked woman who fancies she could
not keep up without her beer; she mis
takes its momentary exhilaration for
strength, and applies the whip instead
of nourisqment to her poor, exhausted
frame. Any honest, intelligent physician
will tell her that there is more real
strength nnd nourishment in a slice of
bread than in aquartof beer; but if she
loves ’timulants it would be a very use
less piece of information. It is claimed
that some of the lady clerks in our own
city, and those, too, who arc employed
in respectable business bouses, are in tho
habit of ordering ale or beer in the res
taurants. They probably claim that
they are ‘tired,’ and no one who sees
their faithful devotion to customers all
day will doubt their assertions. But
they should not mistake beer for a
blessing or stimulus for strength. A
careful examination of statistics will
prove that men and women who do not
drink can endure more hardships and
more work and live longer than those
less temperate.”— Mail and Express.
A False? or Salt.
The people of Salt Lake City, Utah,
are contemplating the erection of a great
“Salt Place ” It would be a structure
that would lay in the shade all the ice
and corn palaces ever constructed. The
main part of the structure could I>o of
the finest specimens of rock salt to be
found in the quarries, chiseled, carved
and artistically arranged. while the in
terior fittings should be of crystalized
work from the lake on a grand scale.
Such a palace should be permanent if
properly protected from the winter rains;
it could be made of the most unique and
striking style of architecture; it could
be made one of the wonders of tho world.
When lighted by electricity tlie structure
would hare all the sparkle and diamond
glitter of the great ice palaces, and with
tho difference in the Salt Palace's favor
that heat would not melt or dim its
glories in the least.— Nevada Enterprise.
The European Powers have come to
an agreement to exterminate the African
slave-trade.
Dress Goods,
Millinery,
Cloaks and
Jerseys,
Clothing,
Carpets.
at—
H. BAKU OS, Leader of Low Prices.
E. M. ANDREWS,
Has the largest ami Moat Complete Stock of
FURITITTJIIE
In North Carolina.
COFFINS & METALLIC CASES.
Pianos and Qkgans
Os the Best Makes on the Installment Plan. Low Prices ami Easy Terms.
Send for Price*.
Chickering Pianos, Arion Pianos,
Bent Pianos, Mathushek Pianos,
Mason & Hamlin Pianos.
MASON A HAMLIN ORGANS, BAY STATE
' ORGANS, PACKARD ORGANS,
E, M. ANDREWS, : : : Trade Street, Charlotte, N. G.
CURIOUS FACTS.
About 1517 a wheel-lock came into
use, and about 1692 this was superseded
by the flint-lock.
Henry V., of England, is said to have
died of s “painful affliction premature
ly.” This is a courtly term of getting
rid of a King.
The word diocese was at first applied,
at that time as a civil division in Home,
ascribed to Constantine, A. D., 220; but
Htrabo gives un earlier date to such
Homan divisions.
J. P. Lindloy, of Bridgeport, Con.,
has the reputation of 1e ng the oldest
traveling men in length of time spent
“on the road.” lie is seventy-six year*
old, and started out years ago with a
notion wa -on selling to dealers.
When the Devolution came on, the
American iron inen had grown skilful
enough to make tunuon uud shells foi
the Continentals, also big shallow pans
in which to evaporato sea water and sup
ply salt when the foreign article was cut
off.
John A. Snider.of Siverlyville, Penn.,
has a silver watch that has I een in use
for more than 110 years and still keeps
excellent time. Mr. Snider's grand
father took it from the body of a Hessian
soldier slain at tho battle of Trenton in
the Revolutionary War.
A mushroom between two and three
inches long was gathered in La Grange,
Ga., recently. Its shape is that of tha
foot and leg of a duck. Turned over
and viewed from beneath, the foot is
very similar to that of a human being,
for it is broad, with the toes distinctly
defined.
It is said to be a curious sight to watch
the little Indian children when they first
come to the House of the Good Shep
herd, in Denver, Col., to be educated by
the Government. When they first reach
the institution they go up stairs on theii
hands and knees, not understanding the
use of the stairs, and sleep at night un
der the ted, from which they first pull
the clothes.
Society, in Atlanta, Ga., was recently
convulsed by an apparition of a promi
nent young man wearing a singular arti
cle of neckwear. Tlie nrticie is known
as a Napoleon fichu, nnd was made of
imported Kgyptiau luce of the finest
quality. It is one of those ties such as
were worn years ago when gentlemen
were arrayed in knickerbockers, and
when their cuffs were of lace to match
their tics.
School life in China means something
different for the boys and girl* from
what it does here. The girls do not
have to go at all, and the hoys begin
when they are six or seven years old.
There are no vacations of nine weeks, oi
half holidays, or Fourth of Julys. At
dawn in the morning school begins, and
when it gets too dark to read school
close*. Mothers are not bothered with
unruly children, and much of the child's
training is thus done by the teacher.
Since 1861 the State Government of
Maine has disbursed to the soldiers and
their families needing aid the sum of
*2,307,500
In (his line of Goods you can
always find
Lowest Prices
Consistent
with Reliable Merchandise.