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Tbo wentbcr keeps goods.
. St. Valentine’s day is near.
It is time to Begin gardening.
Head our new advortisemenus and
fuck’s letter.
If you owe us anything please
l*ay up. If your paper is discontin
cd it is because wo are forced to it.
Are you a subscriber? then read.
If you aro not don’t borrow this pa
per again, but go and subscribe for
yourself.
It is very dull around town just
now. No entertainments, marriages
nor anything to cxcito one’s carios
ity or keep him awake a-nigbts.
Ilev. It. H. Nichols will preach
at the M. E. Church all day to-mor
!row. Rev. Leek of the A SI E
church is expected to be present.
On Thursday night while work
ing at the cotton in the old building
that was burned the morning be
fore, Mr. Ilenry Robeson and James
Owen were caught under a portion
tofthc falling walls. Owens was
pretty badly hurt. Both were
doing well at last accounts.
We add to our advertising col
umns this week a first class shoe
house. When you want shoes go
to the now house of the old firm of
A. E. Rankin where you will find
the handsome and polite Mack
'Smith among the clerks to show
you the best and cheapest shoes in
the city. Try them.
Wo have been grieved that about
the first of last week Wm. A. Guth
rie, Esq., was stricken sudenly with
paralysis of the brain, while attend
ing legal business for Mr. W. T.
Blackwell, in Durham. Wo learn
he was taken to the asylum on Wed
nesday. Mr. Guthrie was a resi
dent of Fayetteville and one of the
ablest young lawyers in the State.
He was a candidate for Superior
Court Judge at the last election.
A Colored Bycicle Rider.
Last Thursday wo saw for the
first time, a colored man grcefully
■riding a Bycicle down Trade street.
On halting him wo learned his name
is Ilenry Whitfield and lives in Mon
roe. What is remarkable about it,
bo made it himself. At some dis
tance his bycicle looks like one of
the genuine patent concerns and he
rides more gracefully and apparent
ly with more ease than the average
white rider. lie is to be congratu
lated upon his energy in making
and ijding it.
The Fire.
On Thursday morning about 3
o’clock the old Rock Island factory
Was discovered on firo. Tho flames
were bursting out the windows of
the fourth floor and no efforts were
mado to save the building, but all
attention turned to those adjoining.
Tho walls of the building fell as fast
as tho joists and other timbers
were burued. The building was
used only as a storo room and be
longed to Burwell and Springs.
There were some 500 balps of cotton,
n lot of fertilisers and some machine
ry stored in it which were consum
ed. A number of bales of cotton
were dragged out of the fire after it
over. The cause of the fire is not
known. It was partly insured. The
fireman did good service in saving
the adjoining buildings, and later
in the morning dozens of men and
boys, all colored, joined in saving
the cotton.
Where to Trade.
It is not tho desire nor the inten
tion of this paper to do any person
or firm the slightest injury. It is
our hope to sco all enterprising
business men prosper. Wo would
not have it understood that wo
meant in our last issue to have all
of our readers to change their trad
ing places, simply because a man
does not advertise with us. It may
be that you run monthly accounts
with a man. You are under obli
gations to him, but then you might
consider whether our advertisers
are not better places for you to
trade.
We had moro direct reference to
tho floating cash trade among our
people. Wo advise them to go
where they can get the best treat
ment and make tho best trades.
Nearly all the colored people belong
to this class, and those places, the
houses that advertise in the Mes
senger. The advertising with us
is an evidence that they recognize
us worthy of kind treatment and'
encouragement in all honest and
laudable occupations.
We again beg every colored man
in our city and in the county to
trade with the men whv.se names
you find in the Messenger. We
can mention several grocery houses
in this city that have been built up
by the colored people, and they are
kept up by them to-day. If you are
good pay, and your merchant does
not advertise w ith us, take your
hook to one who does. If you don’t
mean to pay, please don’t try to
“ beat ’’ our men, but give them
your money and you shall have the
worth of it and proper treatment
too. AVo intend to keep this mat
ter before yon.
PfeMOhals.
Rev I) R Stokes and wife, of
Statesville, were in the city last Sat
urday. Sbo went to Columbia.
Rev. Air Nichols, of tho A II E
church has returned to tho city.
Messrs J. E. Johnston and AV. 11.
Emmons, of Concord were in our
city Thursday.
Rev. II M Murphy, of Laurinburg
with several other ministers passed
through the city last Tuesday to the
conference of the M E church which
veiled in Winston this weok.
11. 11. AV. Leek preached at the
M. E. church Thusday night.
For the Mgssesoek.
Some Mem
FOR THE LADtES.
Says one poet, “ the proper study
of mankind is man,” and as tbo la
dies find it quite an interesting
study, they will agree that there
are as many kinds as Yennor has
weather. The first is tho too ut
terly utter young man, or as he is
vulgarly called a masher. He it is
who stands on the street corners
smoking tho stump of a cent and a
half cigar, dressed in the latest fash
ion of second-hand clothes, and has
a bowing acquaintance With the' en
tire town. He can be seen escorting
the girls around about dinnor time,
and should the fair One fail in reliev
ing his wants, he will hang around
the restaurant or bar-room for a job
or free lunch. His market value is
one millionth of a cent, multiplied
by nothing and divided by one hun
dred.
Our next is tho sentimental young
man who parts his hair ip the mid
dle and cultivates about fifteen
hairs on his upper lip, which he
calls his mustache. He sings love
songs, and believes in moonlight
strolls and kisses at the gate, and
loves at first sight. Handle him
carefully. The vapid young man
scrapes acquaintance in the cars,
and beats or forces some unwilling
fellow to introduce him around bo
bo can go in and win. He effects
the latest slang and the most utterly
utter attiro, and with his push and
vim, generally succeeds in obtain
ing a quiet walk-Ovor, cuts out his
friend, and goes on his tray rejoic
ing over his own irresistability and
tho easily gullod young men and
girls of that town. The wise youth
is generally found in those towns
which boasts of some institution of
leurning, and be has just enough to
make him mad. To show his supe
rior wisdom, ho always ends his
correspondence with some foreign
phrase, and tries to extinguish all
tho other gents by the brilliancy of
his conversation.
Tho inquisitive youth can always
bo known by his noso pointing
heavenward, He always wants to
know if you have a lover, and who
your correspondents are, and
woe bo tido the unlucky letter that
falls into his hands; and he some
times peers into tho kitchen to see
what is there for dinner, on wash
days. Tho boasting young man
has lots of money and property at
home, and is always looking for re
mittances, which never come. His
father dwells in a palace, and tho
object of h'is affections has only to
say tho word to be transported to
scenes of splendor which rivals that
of the Arabian Knights.
Tho gentleman who is selfish,
takes his girl to the festival, but
manages to leave all of his small
change at home but just enough to
get in, and for future pleasure she
must look elsewhere. He is de
voured with jealousy when ho sees
his girl with another gentleman,
even though ho is with another
girl, and as his wife you would suf
fer all that a selfish, prying husband
can inflict. To give money for nec
essary expenses is like pulling n
tooth, and when you touqji his
pocket you touch his soul, pierce
him with ashes. These arc only a
few strans drifting upon tho sur
face, ladies, and when another mar
riage boom strikes your town, don’t
look at these, but take the old, tried 1
and true ones, even though like our-1
selves, he may be box anklod, cross- 1
eyed, hump shouldered and pigeon
toed. Puck.
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SOME WOMEN.
Some women are industrious, cco-j
nomica!, pretty, good and intelli-!
gent. But tho woman who possess-,
es those five qualities may be said
to be hard to find. Almost every
woinnn is in possession of one or
more of them. All of these arc nec
essary except one, and that is too
often looked upon as the most es
sential. Some one said, “ Pretty is
as pretty does,” and taking that!
view of it, every woman may be I
pretty. Beauty is a delusion, I
though wo dd not mean to say a
pretty Woman fijay not possess all th« j
better qualities necessary to make a '
perfect woman.
AVo present to our readers this
week an article from Peck address
ed to the young ladies, and the sub
ject of that article is “some men.”
It is this article that wo wish to
call the special attention of our
young men to. AVe hope every one
of them will read it and give it a
proper application.
AA r e do not mean to say that Puck
has his. mind upon any particular
individual, but we ask is there not
too much tendency to foppery, etc.,
among young colored men' gener
ally ? Is there not too little inter,
est taken in intellectual and moral
improvement ?
AVe have had within the last
month two lengthy and well-writ
ten articles by our own young la
dies, regardless of the timidity of
their sex. Now aro our young
men ready to admit that our girls
are their intellectual superiors ?
Gentlemen, we must know you by
your works. It is not necessary for
you to write an editorial, to teach a
school, or preach a sermon, but it
is necessary lor you to do something.
“By your works will mon know
you; yea in the last day God will
judge you by your works.”
AVo aro aware tbo material is
among our young men. It needs
only to bo workod up. Our girls
are fast making their mark. T.iet
ur young men come to the front
'nd keep ahead of tho girls. Let us
i rove that we are not tho class spo
ken of by Puck. Let us not wear
' econd-hand clothes, smoko cheap
cigars, nor indulge in any of the
frivolities named by Puck. AVe
hope Puck will give us another
chapter next week. If they are not
here they are somewhere around.
Rev. E. C. Becker.
It is astonishing that there are
men in this civilized country, men of
Intelligence, who cannot discover
difference between prosperity and
degradation. To this class be
longs Rev E C Becker, President of
3enedict Institute, at Columbia, S C
To corroborate this assertion, we
quote a few expressions from an ad
dress delivered by him, a few weeks
ogo, to the Baptist State Conven
-ion, (white) of South Carolina.
“Tho ignorance and degradation
of the colored people appal me. In
• imes of slavery you preached
imong them, and your wives and
daughters went nmong them. Since
the war they have drawn out from
you and gone from bad to worse,
md to-day their condition, as to re
ligion is imeasurably worse than it
was in slavery times. Tho preach
ng of the negroes, that I have heard
docs not rise to tho dignity of non
nence. I havo not read anything
moro horrible in heathenism than
exist among tho colored naptists of
vhis State.”
“Tho North knows nothing of it.”
“There is no more sense in tho
I' ’reaching of most negro preachers
'-ban in the gabble of a goose.”
‘••The Northern people have no
magnitude of this black negro pro
blem.”
“It is as distasteful to me as it
••an bo to you to thrust myself up
on this people, but I am doing it,
i and wish you to help mo—for Christ
j sake will you do it ? Tho friends
of the American Baptist Home Mis
sion Society do not deem it best to
educate these colored men at the
North. It is believed, by many,
| that it will rascali:c them.”
Tho first thought that suggested
’tself to me after reading this por
tion of Mr. Becker's most extraordina
ry address was, that ho had undoubt
edly got into the wrong place, and
fnstacd of Benedict Institute, he had
’•eon President of the Insane Asy_
um. Ilis assertions aro unfounded,
malicious, and to a very great ex
tent untrue. Ho seems to have no
conception of disadvantages hard,
i hips, and sufferings, which the poor
' lavo endured. No task was too
. mrd for him to perform, no punish
nent too severe for him to bear.
Ihc master of the poor slave was
>y no means his friend ; ho was re
garded by bim only as a beast of
■ uirdon. “You preached to them,
ami your wives and daughters went
among them.” They did preach to
them, their sermons were powerful
and effective and caused much
mourning and physical suffering on
the part of the slave. This appro
priate text w’as selected and every
man preached it with deep earnest
ness: “Negroes obey your masters.”
It was considered disgraceful*for a"
white lady to go among the slaves,
and instead of giving them biblical
instructions if a Bible was found in
-be house of a slave he was tied to
the whiping post’ and lashed brutal
ly. If the slaveholders had have
been so kind to tho slave, and strug
gled so hard to educate him morally,
why were they not allowed to have
churches of their own, instead of be
ing packed in one corner of the
gallery of the white churches. The
slaveholder did everything possible
to keep the Negro down. During
• lavery in South Corolina there was
not a colored man to be found that
could road or write, but to-day there
are hundreds. I should like to know
if this is not an indication of pros
perity. And in many other ways
the colored people have made great
progress. The remainder of Rev.
Becker’s address falls beneath our
notice; wo shall, therefore, treat it
with silent contempt.
C S B
Raleigh, Dee. Mth. IBRS.
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