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CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug., 81, 1886.
OUR CHURCHES
St, Michael's (P. E.) church, Mint St Ser
vice* at 11 A. M„ and S P. M. Sunday School
»t 4 P. M Rev. p. p, Alston. Poster.
M. E. Church, South Graham St: Services,
at 3P. M., tuul BP. M. Suminy School at
10 A. M lIKV. S. M. Haines, Pastor
First Baptist chinch. South Church St; Ser
vices at 11 A. M., S P, M, nn.l s p. M. Sunday
School a: 1 P. M. Rev. A. A. Powell, Pastor.
Elrenezer Raptist church, East Slid St. Ser
vices at 11 A. M . 3 P. M„ and S P. M. Sun
day School at 1 P. M. Rev. Z. Havghton,
Pastor.
Presbyterian cluirh, corner 7th and College
FerviiTs at 3 I*. M., and 8 P. M. Sunday
School at 10 A. M. Rev. R- P. Wtciie, Pastor.
Clinton Chapel, (A. M. E. Z.) Mint St: Ser
vices at 11 A. M.,3 P. M., and 8 P.M. Sun
day School at 1 P. M. Rev. M. Slade, Pastor
Little Rock (A. M. E. Z.). E. St:
Services at 11 A. M.. 3 P., and 8 P. M. Sun
day School at 1 P. M. R ev. Wm. Johnson
Pastor.
STATE POLITICS.
Republicans lllsorannlucd and Freed
From Party Obllaallons.
Now, that Dr. ,1. J. Mott and liis as
sociates—The Republican State Execu
tive Committee—have decided to hold no
State convention, every Republican voter
is left free to act and vote for any party
he chooses. The Democrats arc all
broken up throughout the country by
partisans dissatisfied with Cleveland and
the manner the offices have been given
out; labor candidates, prohibition candi
dates and independent candidates arc
springing up ail over the State and draw
ing heavily from the Democratic party.
Then 1 never has been a time since 1872
when a Republican organization with a
solid front had such a flattering promise
of success. But what can wc do witli no
organization, no head, no leader—noth
ing.
The Republican party has no leader
and has not had since Tom Keogh gave
it up. Selfish men have dictated its
policy to their own advantage, and to
day reorganization is put off two years,
wlieu we might this year have a new
chairman, a ntw deal and a successful
campaign that would put us in good trim
for 1888. Wc are all told to go and do
as we please, independent of all party
affiliation, ami so help us the Messenoku
means to do so, so far as the old leaders
of the North Carolina Republicans are
concerned, and wc advise the colored
Republicans to vote for pure men every
time, regardless of the manner in which
those insn are put in tho field. It mat
ters not if they are nominated by Demo
cratic conventions, prohibition conven
tions or nominated themselves, if they
good men vote for them. We advise
you to sacrifice no principal, but yon
have no party claims upon you now; the
great chiefs have said it is liest to go free,
unfettered liy party organization.
The prohibition party, in our judg
ment, have conic to stay. Wc have not
a word to say against it. Wc trust their
actions will be such that' in the absence
‘of a Republican party we can join in with
them to fight against the Deinoeiatic
party, which has not changed a single
idea or principal only as it mimic s other
party in bidding for votes.
The people want to make a straight
fight, believing they will win and at
least get into position to win in 1888.
We sec what abandoning party organiza
tion has done for South Carolina, Gcor
gia and other States with overwhelming
Republican majorities. We see what
keeping up organization has done for the
Democrats in this State and other Stutes,
What will our district committees do?
Are they instructed by the bosses or will
they act as the people want them to? A
Republican can In: elected in the Oth
Congressiosal District. All we need is a
man who can unite the Republican vote.
Not a man to draw Democratic voters,
bat a good, popular and able Republican
who can carry his own party strength.
What will you do gentlemen? If wc are
to vote for a Democrat wc shall advise
every voter to select the best of the Deni
oerats presenting themselves for election.
This county is also a good field for a Re
publican light. Where is our county
committee? You are free, gentlemen;
Dr. Mott has nothing to do witli you.
Co tn work and let its hear from you.
*R DOUGLASS' SCHEME.
It is reported that Hon. Fred. Doug
lass and Senator John Shvrman are in
terested in a scheme to take the colored
pccple from the Southern States to the
far West. Wc long respected and ad
mired both these gentlemen as true
friends to the negro, but as they are yet
infallible we may expect them to go
wrong some time. Wc nre murli young
ci than Mr. Douglass though we are no
less negro than he, have lived with and
among the Southern negro much longer
than he and knows much more about
them than he. Therefore we lake it
upon ourself to say. if this report be true,
Mr Douglass makes a damaging mis
take in this movement. Many of our
neigboring counties were almost depopu
lated of colored laborers two or three
years ago, and continually they are re
turning and writing l„ek to their
friends. They went to Mississippi,
Texas, Arkansas. Indiana. Kansas, Cali
fornia and other States and Territories.
For the negro to keep pace with other
races he must be educated up to indus
try, economy, morality and the proper
training of their children, &c. To do
this they need more intelligent men and
women of our race among us. Let Mr.
Douglass take his family and come in
the South among us and advise his
Washington city friends to do the same,
and ho will find himself in a better posi
tion to help this poor debased race. If
he can’t stand the South, then let us see
his sincerity by tho moving of his own
family and city people to the West.
We admit the chance; for any man are
better in the West than here, provided a
man has money and intelligence enough
to lookout for himself, but the negro in 1
the Bouth is in no condition to move.
Thousands of them have made good
starts, have comfortable little homes,
farms, stock, Ac. These should not be
broken up from their pleasant homes.
Let every man go where he pleases, hut
we arc opposed to packing people up
and sending them off to strange coun
tries by hundreds. Let every man take
his own family and his own money and
go ns he pleases, but when people are
transported as cattle they may expect
the treatment of cattle.
THE BALLOT AND MR. ROWLAND.
The first two issues of the Ballet were
clamorous for Mr. Rowland to inform
the public how he stood on the whiskey
question, charging at the same time that
he had been closeted with whiskey men
in this city. It said the people had a
right to know the position of the man
they were called upon to vote for. That
Mr. Rowland should tell the people
whether he was for or against prohibi
tion. We do not here question the wis
dom of that demand upon Mr. Rowland
by tlie Ballot , but we think if the Ballot
means to “tote fair,” it will give to the
public Mr. Rowland's card or answer to
the demands. The Ballot says this week,
Mr. Rowland has answered and it is
satisfied with his answer. Now if the
Ballot is satisfied, there may be many
others among the voters of the district
who arc not satfied. We all want to
know how Mr. Rowland stands on pro
hibition. Will the Ballot tell the ; e/pie,
since Mr. Rowland lias told the Ballot ?
Pergonal.
Rev. (). S. Blackwell, of Lincolnton
spent Wednesday and Thursday in the
city.
Mr. J. F. K. Simpson passed through
tlie city on his way to Lincoln county.
Mrs. A. A. Powell left the city last
Tuesday for Greensboro after spending
two or three weeks witli us.
Miss Annie Wade of Winnsboro, S. C.,
returned home hist Monday. She made
many friends while with us.
Rev. Eli Walker of Fayetteville passed
though our city this week. He isjj at
tending to business and visiting friends
as well.
Mr. Wm. Johnson of Salisbury called
on us last Wednesday. We were glad to
meet him; he is a good man and a lover
of the Messenger.
The Mormons claim that, in the face
of their constant denunciation by Gen
tiles and Gentile publications, tiiey are
steadily gaining in numbers and strength,’
imd that no power on earth can destroy
their religion or their organization. It
It is impossible, says the New York Com-
I nereial Advertiser, to depend on anything
that their leaders say—they do not pre
lend to keep faith with heretics—anct
their followers are so ignorant and cred
ulous that their opinions on any subject
Ire worthless. But there are external
reasons for believing part of the truth of
their statement. Their doctrines, po
lygamy especially, are so repulsive to
Americans in general that it is perfectly
natural for i:s to think the latter day
saints arc doomed to early extinction.
But we should remember that the mass
of them are Europeans of the lowest
grade of intelligence, and that they are
regularly recruited by shrewd, energetic
missionaries in many parts of Great
Britain, Denmark, Scandinavia and
North Germany. They describe Utah
in the brightest colors, as an earthly
paradise, and it is not strange that the
toiling poor are caught by the allure
ments held out to them. Nobody who
has not visited Salt Lake City and
studied Mormondom on its own ground
can have any clear understanding of the
foundation on which it rests, and the
means by which it is sustained. Its agJ
rieultural and industrial position cer
tainly looks prosperous; but the men
tality of the people is disheartening.
Mormon women have none of the attrac
tions of their sox. No man of a normal
pattern could be terrorized into accept
ing one of them; and he readily lielievcs,
from his acquaintance with masculinS
nature, that polygamy there must be the
rare exception. The faints have ml
growth from within, and recruiting must
come to an end. It may not be in ten,
or twenty, or evon fifty years; but theit
decay and extinction nre only a question
of time. He who builds on ignorancS
and superstition rears a structure that
cannot stand. ,
WEATHER REPORTS.
HOW OBSERVATIONS ARE MADE
AT A SIGNAL STATION.
Gathering Facte ae a Basie for “Old
Probabilities"— Watching the
Weather and Issuing
the Bulletins.
The tall tower on top of the Equitable
building, where the agents of the Signal
Service Bureau used to collect samples of
weather, has been torn away to make
room for one much taller, which is part
of the plan for remodeling the build
ing. Temporarily the signal office has
been removed to another tower, perhaps
not quite so tall, yet high enough to en
able a keen observer to note any weather
that may happen around it,on the south
east corner of that same edifice. It will
be hoisted two or three stories higher
over the front, after a while, and from
that elevation the wcatherwise young
men who perch up there expect to peep
over the edge of the world on fair days.
This signal station began to superin
tend the weather on November 6, 1870,
and has had a sharp eye continuously
upon the doings of the ‘ ‘Prince of the
Power of the Air” ever since. Sergeant
H. J. Penrod is in charge of both this
station and the Marine Agency, at the
Maritime Exchange, but occupies him
self most of the time at the latter place,
leaving Sergeant E. B. Dunn to rule the
roost on the Equitable building. The
assistants are Sergeants Francis Long
(late of the Greely expedition) and G. A.
Warren, and Messrs. G. A. Loveland, R.
E. Hinman, and L. F. Passailaigue. The
work done at the Marine Agency consists
mainly in comparing ships’ barometers
and receiving and forwarding to Wash
ington observations taken at sea by ship
masters. That which falls to the share
of the signal station men is much closer
to the popular interest, for this is one of
the principal points in the great system
by which the public daily gets authorita
tive official information as to the sort of
weather it is going to have, provided
it doesn't have some other kind.
The hours of duty are divided into
eight hours each, but as there arc four
men two are on together in the middle of
the day. Seven observations a day are
taken and recorded, and three of these
are reported to headquarters at Washing
ton. The hours for observations are at
8,7, and 11 A. M., and 3, 7, 10, and 11
p. m. Those taken at 7A. m. and 3 and
11 r. m. arc the ones telegraphed on to
Washington to be used with others from
all parts of the country in making up the
newspaper reports of weather probabili
ties. This explanation will, it is to be
hoped, bo deemed a sufficient refutation
of the story that General W. B. llazen,
Chief Signal Officer, guesses for those
reports by the feel of his corns, shrewd
observations on the habits of pigs, the
breastbones of geese, and other occult
sources of information.
Taking the observations includes tak
ing the records of the automatic self-re
gistering barometer and anemometer,
reading the thermometers and noting the
direction of the winds, the leok of the
clouds, the state of the weather, and
the rainfall, if any. Another and inde
pendent observation is made at 2 p. m.
each day by Sergeant Long on the tem
perature and depth of the North River,
[ for which he goes down to Pier 13, at
the loot of Cedar street.
Telegraphic circuits bring to this
station every morning duplicates of all
the reports made from the 100 or more
other stations to Washington. These all
come in cipher, which has to be trans
lated. A morning dispatch, for instance,
that reads: “Mocking—Finely—Gandy
Habit lll Pintail— Vice,” means
“Barometer reading 29.94; temperature
of exposed thermometer. 05® ; temnera
zure ot aew point, 45 ° ; north wind and
clear sky; velocity of the wind,six miles
per hours; three-tenths of the cloud
stratus moving from the southwest;
lowest temperature since last reading,
61®.”
From these reports bulletins are made
out and given to the public. While one
man reads aloud his translation of the
cipher dispatches, another puts upon a
semi-skeleton map of the United States
the reported figures indicating baromet
rical pressure and temperature at tho re
spective stations whence the reports
come. Then blue and red lines are drawn
on the map, enclosing irregular sections
of it, so as to mark out by the bluo lines
and figures where the temperature is high
est and where it is lowest, and by the red
lines and figures the areas in which the
barometrical pressures are highest and
lowest. Finally the map is adorned with
many little arrows, showing, by the way
they point, the various directions in
which the wind has blown at the hour of
making the report, in different parti of
the country. That completes the map,
and it is then ready for duplication and
sending abroad for expo u-c in public
places, where it enn rattle citizens who
try to understand it. The red marks
sml the arrows enable one to observe
that when a storm reDtre is established
any where—ai shown by the lowest barn
metrical pressure—tho winds n'nh in
from all directions to that common
centre to help the trouble along, just as a
man's creditors concentrate on him at his
period of greatest financial stress.
It will be seen from this description of
the work done he :e that it results simply
In tlie statement of ascertained facts con
cerning actual conditions of woather all
over the country. The proud prerogative
of prognostication is monopolized at
Washington, and a conscientious signal
officer here, or at any other station, would
as soon think of lending a dollar to a
total stranger, as of permitting himself
M> say that "it is liltely to rain,” though,
if the rain were actually falling, he would
not hesitate to affirm the fact to anybody.
—New York Sun.
Lincoln and the Reporter.
The only war Governors left alive,
aays the Washington Post, are: Curtin,
Pennsylvania; Kirkwood, Iowa; Blair,
Michigan; Ramsey, Minnesota; Sprague,
Rhode Island; Gregory Smith, Vermont;
Stanford and Low, California, and Berry,
New Hampshire. I met some fifteen
of these worthies once, all together,
under peculiar circumstances. It was
in 1863, and I was reporting events in
Washington for a New York paper. Mr.
Lincoln invited the Governors of the
Northern States to meet him. Most of
them came. That morning Governor
Buckingham said to me: “Why dont
you come up to the White House with
us? I’m sure there’ll be no objection,”
I went up and asked Mr. Lincoln.
“No,” he said cheerily, “come right
along. I haven’t thing to say that I want
kept from the public.” So I went up
with Buckingham and sat with the as
sembly in the State dining-room.
But I felt a little out of place, so, not
to be disguised, I pulled out my note
book and began to write. “Are we all
Governors?” asked Governor Morton j
rising, and looking somewhat severely
at me.
“I am not a Governor,” said I, “but a
reporter.”
“Well, I don’t know about this,” said
the Indianian, and I rose to go. “I am
responsible,” said Governor Buckingham,
“he came with me.”
To relieve them and myself from em
barrassment I was hurrying away, when
Mr. Lincolnsaid: “Wait a minute, young
man.” And then he stated that I had
applied to him in the morning as to the
advisability of being present, and he had
given his consent. “For I don’t intend
to say anything to-day that is secret in
any sense,” he added, “and I thought we
might just as well take the people into
confidence. However, it is for you gentle
men to say.”
The position had become intolerable to
me and I bolted. I never knew what
further was said about it, but Governor
Buckingham gave me a report that night.
White House Autograph Hunters.
Every day the visitor at the White
House may see a pile of letters upon the
desk of one of the private secretaries with
the abbreviation “auto.” written upon
each envelope. It means that they con
tain requests for autographs. Thousands
of these letters are received at the White
House in a year.
Those that come now contain not only
a request for the President’s autograph,
but some of them for that of his bride.
The latter requests are seldom complied
with, for, while the President has
thought it proper to yield to the demand
for accurate portraits of Mrs. Cleveland
and has consented to their sale under
certain restrictions, it has not been
thought advisable to encourage the pub
lic in a miscellaneous demand for auto
graphs. The President continues, how
ever, to give a few minutes occasionally
to gratifying the requests of the many
applicants for th’s class of favors.
Charles Lefler, the President’s usher, is
the autograph hunter’s friend. The let
ters are turned over to him, and when
he can catch the President with a mo
ment of time to spare he lays a bundle of
cards before him, and he writes “Grover
Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, Grover
Cleveland,” until his arm gets tired or
his other and more important duties
take his attention. Then Charles takes
the precious autographs and distributes
them by mail to tho applicants. Often
there are personal applications by the
owners of autograph albums, and they
arc generally directed to leave them with
Charley, who presents them at the same
time he does the cards for the President's
sign manual. —Washington Letter.
Luck and Chanoe.
Oddly enough, tho believers in luck
show by the forms which their belie!
take that in reality they have no faith it
luck noy more than men really have faitl
in superstitions which yet they allow t«
influence their conduct. A superstitioi
is an idle dread or an equally idle hope
not a real faith; and in like manner is i'
with luck. A man will tell you that a
cards, for instance, he always has sue!
and such luck; but if you say: “Let ui
have a few games to see whether yor
will have your usual leek;” you wil
usually find him unwilling to let you up
ply the test. If you try it, and the re
suit is unfavorable, he argues that sucl
peculiarities of luck never do show them
selves when submitted to test,
t! c other hand, if it so chances tha
;n that particular occasion he has th<
hind of luck which he claims to hav.
I ways,- he expects you to accept th
c Hence as decisive. Yet the rosul
means in reality only that certain events
lire chances for and against which war
probably pretty equally divided,
I I; ”ri place.
ft* tha Island of Java there are twenty
atter-nress printing l offices.
How 6u Wat First Uood.
Great was the amazement of all En
gland when, at the clone of the last ceo
fury, William Murdock drscovered the
use of combustible air or gas. Bo little
was the invention understood and be
lieved in by those who had not seen it in,
use, that even great and wise men
laughed at the idea.
“How could there be light without a
wick?” said a member of parliament
when the subject was brought before the
House. Even Sir Humphrey Davy ridi
culed the idea of lighting towns by gas,
and asked one of the proprietors if they
meant to take the dome of St. Paul's for
a gas meter. Sir Walter Scott, too, made
himself merry over the idea of illumi
nating London by smoke, though lie was
glad enough, not so long after, to make
his own house at Abbotsford light and
cheerful on winter nights by the use of
that very smoke.
D|When the House of Commons was
lighted by gas the architect imagined
that the gas ran on fire through the pipes,
and therefore ho insisted on their being
placed several inches from the wall for
fear of the building taking fire/ The
members might be observed carefully
touching the pipes with their gloved
hands, and wondering why they did not
feel warm.
The first shop lighted in London by
the new method was Mr. Askerman’s.
on the Strand, in 1810; and one lady of
rank was so delighted with the brillian y
of the gas lamp on the counter that she
asked to be allowed to take it home in
her carriage.
Riding Elep ant Back.
We quote as follows from Edwin Ar
nold's “India Revisitedlt is somewhat
odd to hear “Hatti taiyar hai—the ele
phant is ready,” announced as naturally
as though it were a cab or carriage which
stands waiting at tho door. Yet the least
experienced might safely climb to tha
mountainous back of Bhairava, one of
the guicowar’s quietest and biggest
tuskers. Caparisoned in scarlet and yel
low, with a forehead cloth of kincob,
which the mahout pushes aside when he
desires to prod the mighty beast on the
occiput with the pointed hook, Bhairava
seemed grand and ponderous enough to be
wholly above serving as a sort of colossal
omnibus. At the word “baitho,” how
ever, he meekly folded his hind legs and
stretched his front legs forward, lower
Ing his body to the earth, whereupon a
ladder of ten steps, set against his side,
enabled us to climb to the silver ho ' dah,
where a party of four can be comfortable
accommodated. Then Bhairava heaved
majestically aloft—a movement which
demands precaution on the part of the
passengers—and rolled forward on a trip
of circumambulation round the city and
its suburbs. Behind him ran a hattiwal
lah, uttering gruffly miinv a “sum” and
“chutt” to keep the monster going, and
sometimes emphasizing the ejaculations
with a tremendous blow upon the ele
phant’s tailroot from a staff four inches
thick, which v ould have broken the leg
of a horse, but seemed to be regarded by
Bhairava as the merest and most playful
hint to “move on.”
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August 26th & 27th.
Admission, 15 Cents.
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Offers his professional services to the general
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