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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Rain, sleet and snow. Oar streets are all mud. Oar) enters and bricklayers are t iking holiday yet. —The Observer is now run by a gas engine. —Onr aldermen have ordered all gates on streets to open from the inside. —The city has given to the poor several car-loads' of wood the last week. —ls your paper has a cross-mark look for us to-day. We need money badly. —There are now about 1,800 chil dren in our graded schools, nearly usually divided between white and colored. —There are a great, many busi ness changes taking place just now. Merchants should advertise in the Messenger. —Quarterly conference was held at Zion Church last week by Rev. A. Hill, Presiding Elder for Charlotte District. —Clinton Chapel was crowded last Sunday night by eager listeners to hear the female preacher, Mrs. C. L. Burnett of St. Louis, Mo. Her text was Rev. 12:3. —At a meeting of the S. S. Board of Clinton Chapel, the old teachers were re-elected. G. W. Johnson, Su perintendent, A. W. Calvin Secreta ry, re elected. —We learn three of our colored legislators were in the city last Sun day. We failed to see them. —We have not secured all of our material yet. Our friends will please send in the cash. Wo are setting up our own office and need all the money we can get. —See our new advertisements. When you want to do any trading look in our paper for a place to go. Houses that do not advertise are out of date, and those that will not recognize your paper are not the ones for you to trade with. —We congratulate our good friend, Mr. R. T. Weddington. Ru fus is just a little too proud, of course, arpl says it is the finest girl in the State. Good luck to it and mother. —Mr. Womack of Moore county, has opened a grocery store in the city. We don’t see how he expects to succeed without advertising. —Our Christmas news and letters are stale, hut wo hope it will be looked over. There is much room for improvement. Just help us all you can and it will come right byc and-byc. Our Thank,. The Messenger is under many obligations to Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Dix on, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Smith, Misses Robinson, Moore, Davidson, Dart and Foster, for presents and other kindnesses in ranking our Christ mas pleasant. We arc glad to say the Messenger was kindly remem bered at Scotia. I !•! I To Our Merohantr. Our merchants should remember that th# Messenger is the me medium to reach the colored people of this city and county. That their trade is of some conse quence, and the organ of the color ed people should be putronized by those who expect and live on color ed trade. We expect our merchants to advertize with us and shall call on them in a day or so. Those who show themselves our friends shall receive our patronage. Died. On tho 18th of December, after an illness of about two weeks, Mrs. Alice E Myers, wife of Mr. Edward M. Myers. The couple had boon married only two or three months On the Bth inst., after a short ill ness, Mr. Stephen Killian. He was a good, quiet Christian, and Clinton Chapel loses one of its worthy lead ers. Good Music. Three times three good pieces of music, and one over, make their ap pearance as recent publications of Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston. Three belong to a pretty set call ed the “Chiming Bells of Long- Ago,” another “ Corricolo Galop,” and third “Spring-time Waltz.” Each cost 40 cents. The next three songs: “Down by the Brook,” (35 cts.) by Hering. “Prayer from Rienzi (35 cts.) by Wagner, and “ Egyptian Lullaby” (35 cts.) from Renobia. The third three are Mrs Langtry Schottischo (40) with portrait. “Sweet Perfume March, (35 cts.) by Mack, and “ Bright as a Button Pol ka,” (35 cts.) for Violin and Piano, by Winner. Tho last piece is “Dedication” (25 cts.) by Strelezki, is short and a lit tle difficult. Readers will notice that they can at any time receive music by mail from publishers, by sending prices such as those mentioned above. - -. . K’ssing Parties. Sociables given by onr young folks nowadays may well be styled kissing parties; for it seems that kissing is more indulged in than anything else. They have stirring, turning and pawn plays and every other kind that calls for a kiss. Gold is precious because it is scarce and hard to - get; were it plentifu and easily gotten as lead, it would bo thought no more of. So with a lady’s lips. When they become a com mon kissing machine for anybody and every body, then no body cares for them. There is entirely two much kissing indulged in at our sociables. Too little intelligent amusement to improve our manners. We do not condemn dancing and games. Singing, essays and select readings may be indulged in to ad vantage, but we fail to see where promiscuous kissing can do any good. And our society is so made up at these parties that our girls are surrounded by a number of stran gers who come upon them with nothing more than their individual ity. Having been a stranger in this city ourself, and in many others, we fully appreciate treating strangers with kindness, but a mere introduction of a stranger by a stranger does not justify a young girl in taking him to her bosom be fore she knows who he is. This is one thing, it seems, that the parents of our girls have much neglected. Some of them seem hardly to care if they don’t know the name of their daughter’s company. Woman is the noblest piece of God’s work and much care should be taken to impress our girls, that they will strive to occupy their proper sphere—next to the angels. It should be an honor for a man to kiss a lady. _____ ««»T From Scotia Seminary. The dedication of tho Africo Pres byterian Church took place at 11 o’clock A. M. Dec. 16. The servi ces wero exceedingly impressive. Dr. Poor, of Philadelphia, Dr. Mattoon, of Charlotte, Rev. Mr. Billingsly, and wife, of Statesville, and Rev. Mr. McKinnon, of Concord ; also several other colored ministers wero present. Tho dedication sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Poor, from Psalm. C. 4th verse. “ Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise." It doeply impressed the hearts of all present. Owing to the severity of| the weather, our only regret was, many were deprived of the rich privilege of hearing the beautiful thoughts and forcible truths pre sented by one whom we had al ready learned to love. Dedicatory prayer in tho church was offered by Rev. L. Dorland; the benediction pronounced by Rev. Mr. McKinnon, after which we adjourned to the Seminary Chapel where the dedica tion services of the new building took place. There the history of Scotia Seminary was reviewed by Rev. L. Dorland. From it, begin ning in the one-story building 24x 22 feet, to the present. Interesting addresses were made by Rev. Mr. McKinnon, Mr. Billingsly, Mr. Potter and Drs. Mattoon and Poor. Dr. Poor told us of the sandal and ebony wood that he saw in Ceylon when he lived there. The white, or sandal wood, was made into fancy articles, fans, etc. The ebony wood was black and hard to polish. It required hard work, but when pol ished, was beautiful and servicable. So the African race can be regarded as our ebony wood. He remarked that the Yankees are sometimes called very mean, but they are not mean enough to let the Southern people do all the polishing; but are selfish enough to want the largest part in this, as they had the largest part in making them citizens. He also spoke of the true position of women. She either builds up her race or drags it down. He turned to Dr. Mattoon and said, “Dr. Mat toon thinks he is doing something great down at Charlotte, with his school, but I guess here is one—l will not say its rival —but its match in more than one sense too. Sabbath morning communion ser vices were held in the church. The discourse, by Rev. Dr. Poor, from John 10:9 was touchingly delivered to a large congregation. Dr. Mat toon and Rev. Mr. Billingsly dis pensed the elements at the commu nion service. At five o’clock Sun day evening the Seminary mis sionary Society met in the chapel. The topic for the evening was Siam. Dr. Mattoon, who was a missionary there for twenty years, made a very interesting address upon the position of that country, its laws, customs and religions. We were sorry time would not permit him to speak longer. This meeting was followed by the regular Sabbath evening service held in the chapel. Dr. Mattocn preached an able ser mon from the text: “Ye are Christs.” On Monday morning Drs. Poor and Matton were still with us; chapel was opened at the usual hour with prayer by Dr. Poor, af ter which he addressed the school. He dwelt long on “shiftlessness,” and upon the importance of our be coming careful readers, writers, spellers, etc. He mentioned several instances in which great mistakes had been made by careless spelling and writing. He spoke of a coun tryman who sent to his lawyer, liv ing in the city, for a bill of goods, one item being two bushels of colt. As colts arc not bought by the bushel, the lawyer concluded to write and see what he wanted. The wan wrote back very plain c-o l-t, still tho lawyer did not know what was wanted. He wrote to the man that lie could not understand the word. After a few days they met at the depot, when the countryman said : “You are a pretty fellow to boa school trustee, and don’t know that c o l-t spells salt. He also told us of a young man who was paying his addresses to a young lady. He wrote her a letter complimenting her on her “ angle form and starey eyes," meaning angel form and star ry eyes. Os course ho lost his suit. Thus he enforced the injunction to be careful in all things. The visit of these friends was pleasant indeed, and we were all sorry to have them leave. Wo will not soon forget the ninny important lessons taught. We wish all a safe journey home, and that health und happiness may at tend them wherever they go. When j Dr. Poor visits Scotia again, an honor that we desire, may not be ■ long deferred. We truly hope that the Seminary will still be tree from every appearance of shiftlessness- From one oi the pupils, Hattie E. Jack sox. Scotia Seminary, Concord. X. C. Distribution ®f the Coeatr fltbeef Fnad. The following is a statement of the distribution of fourteen thousand dollars, public school fund of Mecklen burg county, among the several school districts of the eounty, according to the number of children, January IsS, 1883: Toittsbip. Whites. CMusd. Charlotte 1 * t,4*4d» § M 8264 2 “ «Ui Berry hill ..5 7556 74*6 6 STAS 148.4-3 7 3896 8 93J3 8861 9 3896 Steel Creek-.. 10 8522 BWB - 64>t 72.74 12 12.14 84.** is 12206 38,tv Sharon -14 stxis 6864 15 66U2 1(2.15 16 FI 9687 UU» Providence --IS 131885 184J5 19 4UW 355* 20 182® 19135 21 76.10 5151 22 6213 9851 Clear Creek. - .23 5681 24 121X67 9396 25 3819 am 26 81X18 5554 Crab Orchard. 27 33J54 7539 28 91X15 93.96 29 51X16 9125 39 9259 9435 Mallard Creek.3l Btxtß 32 63.48 33 88,11 88,61 34 38,36 35 7L.4X 38,19 36 98,44 22U9 Dewese. .37 84-16 2t»l 38 88,11 68.15 39 60.84 5849 40 4X97 S4S9 41 140151 13836 I.emly .42 114.41 1689® 43 73.06 44 98.94 186.12 45 6XBt Long Creek.. .46 9<X3O 47 125.96 mm 48 68.74 178,96 49 71.42 59 43064 66ii« 52 68.77 Paw Creeek. .53 199.44 66.12 54 B!M3 6489 55 111.41 9654 56 89,43 57 50,31 Morning Star.Jsß 84.84 21853 39 94.72 60 83,86 61 108.13 l’ineville 62 143.47 221-18 63 80.17 64 58387 542 i 65 78.63 9857 67 76-70 68 84464 69 39067 5951 70 4629 m«7 71 70-09 75 SS 72 34212 3205 73 70,09 886. 74 4629 75 44.94 76 67.45 6877 77 6ItSS 886) 78 t 1.41 9522 79 5t296 80 6612 14342 81 150106 82 149.76 83 6612 84 4696 85 3025 86 X® returns. 57.574.tT *6.425-3 M25J87 Total »14JW0.fl0 The Heads of Ureal Ira. Journal of science. It is usually supposed that men ol great intellectual powers hate large and massive heads; but the theory which Dr Gilbert, physician t® Queen Elizabeth, was the first t® suggest, is not borne out by facts. An examina tion of busts, pictures, medallions, in taglios, etc.,of the worlds famous ce lebrities almost tends the other way. In the earlier paintings, it is true, men are distinguished by Ibeir large heads, but this is attributable to the painters, who agreed with the general opinion and wished to Hatter their sitters. A receding forehead is almost condemn ed. Xe> crtheless this feature is found in Alexander the Great, and. to a lesser degree, in Julius Csesar. The bead of Frederick the Great, as will be seen from one of the portraits in Carlyle’s woik, receded dreadfully. Other great men have bad positively small heads Lord Byron’s was remarkably small.” as were those of Lord Bacon and Cos mo di Medici. Men of genius of ancient times have only what may be called an ordinary or every-day forehead, and Herodotus. Alcibiadee. Plato. Aristotle and Epicurus, among many others, are mentioned as instance*. Some are even low browed, aa Burton, the author of ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy;* Sir Thomas Browne and Albert Durer. The The average forehead ot the Greek sculptures in the frieze f.om the Pare th-tion is, we are told, “lower, if any hing, than what isseen ia aeatera fore heads” The gods themsc-Des ate ref, resented with “ordinary, if not towel brows ” Thus it appears that the popu Ur notion on the motter is errv»e* u and that, there way he great men with out big heads—m otb-» words, a Geme va watch is capable of beeping as guwd lime as an eight-day dock. talk Two Hard. wtUhn ftnayi. | Chas. Mnith, a jointer, well known in this commtuHiy, Committed suicide last Saturday night by taking morphiue. He made .attempt on his life some months ago with laudnum but was sand by umrJj medical aid, family troubles prompted the dead, and form What we can bear, he is worthy of the deepest sympathy. For a long time he had suspected the fidelity of his wife, and he male the first attempt on his life when he found that those suspicions were only two true. After hir recovery she promised reform, and they lived together up to a few days ago, when she etoped with former jsedueer, taking her three children with her, and causing her husband the above sad ending. Mr. Smith was about forty five years of age, a German by birth, and for many years aretudent of this city. He served in the Osalederate army and is spoken of as a br»ve and dutiful soldier. Same Tam Thamh Reminiscences. Tom Thumb celebrated his 46 birth day on January 4th in Chicago. He said that a ben first exhibited by Bar uum he was only 5 years old, and so light that a strong man could bold him on the palm of his hand. A fashionable overcoat of those days was like the ul ster of Use present, and had large side packets with flaps over them. “Barnnm wore one of these,” Tom relates," and I round get in one of the pockets, and by doubling myself op snugly the flap would conceal me. It was a favorite -rick of Barnum’s to put me in his pocket and appear in the hall about the ■ime for opening our enietainment. Re would coll for me, affecting to be surprised that 1 w as not on the platform and then I would respond: ’Here I am. sir,'emerging from the pocket. Alas! how 1 have grown since then.” Death hem Paralysia-Aa Afflicted Family. The sad announcement was received here yesterday of the death, at Mag nolia, on Saturday last, of Capt. J. M. HartsweU, a prominent citizen of that place, from a stroke of paralysis which he received about three or four weeks ago. Deceased who was about 50. pears of age, was a leading saerchant Magnolia, and highly esteem ed by all who knew him, and bis death will be sincerely regretted. His funeral took place on Sunday. Capt. HartsweU leaves a wife and four children, and we regret to hear that his afflicted widow is now danger ously ill, while her mother Mrs. James Southerland, an old and greatly esteem ed lady, preceded Capt. M. over the dark river by just one day, having de parted this life on Fridav evening the 12 inst. Truly this is an afflicted family The Galdsbera Oil Mill. Messenger. The Goldsboro oil mills commenced work last Friday. The magnificent machinery in operation, driven by the large eighty horse power engine, is an interesting and truly wonderful sight. We visited the mills on Friday evening and were struck with the facility with which each piece of machinery did ita allotted part in the mighty whole. The seed are placed in a hopper on the ground floor, where they are cleared of all loose cotton and trash, and thence carried by cup elevators to hoppers on the fourth floor, where they are fed into two large gins on the third floor, whrre they are ginned closely; the lint arising from this process passes into a cotton press on the second floor, while the seed are carried into a shelling mill which separates the shells from the kernels, throws the shells out and pass es the kernels into a grinding mill from which they are carried to the oil presses on the ground floor; the oil flows from the presses into thence passes through pipes into large iron tanks to be refined for use. Ihe building is—and necessarily so—a pow erful one, well adapted to the immense machinery driven within its walls. THE MESSENGER is pruusnF.D EVERY SATURDAY AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In the interest of the Col ored People and the Republican Party. It is the Cheapest and Best paper in the State. •ilj $1.22 Per Ann, Every colored man and every Republican in the Caro lina* ought to take the Mes skxgkr. fllL’J ,M (. sum, Publisher,
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