Charlotte Messenger. ■Charlote, N. C., October 23, 1886. nn - « ~• OUR CHURCHES. I St. Michael's (P. E.) church, Mint St. Ser ■ iTA A ' M ” ?> nd Bun ‘ ,a s' School ■** 4 p - M - Rev, P. P. Alston, Pastor I- si , S rch » R ?; U ' Orahvn St; Services, ■Hn '1 u ' Snil *P. M. Sunday School at ■ » A. M Rev. S. M. Haines, p., I ohn-eh.South ,«. T ■ aktes at 11 A, M., 31>. k. and ap. M. Sunday ■ hcbbol a. 1 I-. M. Rev. A. A. Powell, Pastor ! Ehenezer Baptist church, East 2nd St Ser. | vices at II A. M„ 3P. M„ and 8 P. M. Sun- B ■day School at 1 r M. Pv.v. Z. Tl.at.'ohtotc ■ 1 aster. f < I ’ ! •; pylciian churh, corner 7th and CoUpw I Her rices at 3 P. M„ and 8 P M I .School at Ml A. M. Rev. R- p. Wyciib I <, T-S hoo, R ot i , ‘- M - Rev - m I «'.,■«« at n A . mS **£«■ ■ -Sa'htvi! ■' l ll> \\ un< * 1• M. bun- I Wnte! Rev. Wm Johnson; Tl’«* Win non h Literary Circle was entertained Vast night at Mr. Joe Smith * fey Miss Victoria Richard sojj, t Bishop J. J. Moore, the senior of Zion’s Bishops, preached at Clinton ! Chapel last night. Miss Addie McKmght is expected to leave us to-night to join her class at Zion Wesley College. A distinct earthquake shock was Jett in ’his city yesterday morning sxdu-acn 4 and 5 o’clock. Senator Vance spoke to a very large crowd on Independence Square Thursday night. VVe had a pleasant call from Rev. J- A. Wright, of Monroe, yesterday reining. The Oriole Literary Society will meet next Tuesday night at Bishop Lomax s. The election of officers I will be had, and all members are re quested to attend, j We have ’jCea shown a letter just trom Mr. Lewis Jones, who formerly worked for Mr. j. H . VanNcss. He is now *n Quitta, West Coast of Africa,. He is taking pictures over tlier'j, and we are glad to hear is Se tting on nicely. Rev. Mr. McMannaway of the white Baptist church will occupy the pulpit at the First Baptist church to-morrow afternoon. Rev. Powell . s* may benefit you. Lu__v.'. u dev He your very little space to fight ing the democratic party instead of lying on us, while you are supported by democratic and bar-room money, uet somebody to correct your gram mar, o a month, ! aud which put him in the mail; service that fitted him for the post- 1 office here? 1 say Mr. Smith, is not he the seif same serpent , warmed in * your bosom and brought to what he 1 is by your kindness that now turns 1 and bites you? 11 0 We should all join you and say, - “where will he be next.” Base in i gratitude is the worst of sins. He e intimates (though he dare not say e so) that you are hired by democrats, s Ihe good people of this city will - believe nothing of the kind and , would burn his little sheet s should it find its way to their doors, f We like the Messenger because it - gives us news and tells the trutii. ‘ We b’ke a man of principle and hope ,02 \v:i! net italic.: such a thing as - the independent or its socalled edi f tors. I Pardon me for taking so much of . your space upon so small a matter, • but as it is doomed to die so soon I wanted to speak before the bar room money was all gone. Very Truly, ; A Witness. ; Charlotte, Oct. 19th. Pblitical Gas and Windbags. 1 Charlotte is seriously afflicted at ; the present time by an overflow of political gasbags, who are busy saving the country. These poor fellows have an idea that all the county needs is their help to lift the . gloom of agony and dispair, which ! they imagine hangs over the land. ! They feel their importance so much, ; that they think when they laugh all ■ must laugh, or when they take snuff, :! everybody must sneeze. These 1 : I political parishes claim that they are ! j the Republican party, and propose 1 to lead the honest men. of the party : by the nose into any dirty political trade they can make, they have joined a wing of the Democratic party, and are mad at every Repub lican who refuses to sell his political birth-right for a consideration. The Republican party of Meek- ’ lenburg has been in the hands ofj ! these political shysters for these \ many years, and what have they ac complished? Nothing. With dis sension rampant they have driven | off a large and useful element of the 1 Republican party, who while they i remain good Republicans, will not 1 train with a gang whose sole capital | is abuse and moon shine, and, who ] now to crown the last act in their | besmirched career, are trying to carry the Republicans into the Dem- | ocratic ranks. A committee of disappointed dern- | ocrats met some time ago with a lew j equally disappointed Republicans, they made us a Democratic ticket which we forced down, the throats j of Republican Convention, gentle- | men the ticket was evidently greased, j What evidence have the Republican j party, that if these men are elected | that they will work for the good of j the Republican party ? None what- j ever. They have no interest in the party, only to get the votes of those who have been deluded by them. It is only the selfish desires of a disap- ! pointed ambition to accomplish a ! helish purpose, at the expense of the [ people. Their minds have become | muddled with the insane idea that the j people want them, and with no pledges to the people they expect to be supported. The Republican party is evidently hard-up when it goes into the Democratic party for its candidates, and the grand old party of principle and honor, is be ing set upon by a set of political jackals, who would tear away the livery of Heaven to serve the Devil in. Am; URN. Street Politics Mister president is he a Jimercrat or a publican? Datsalll wanterno. It was a pretty sharp trick by the Democratic party, organize a branch party, to catch the colored vote so | that, They are all Democrats any | how. The colored voter is no longer afraid of the Democratic party, why? j because the bosses of the Republican j party has forced the Independent | ticket down their throats so much j that they have lost all fear. The hit dog yelps, and when you hear a fellow yell at the “Mesen i ger” you know we have hit hard. Poor little “Independent” it needs ! gruel. It was “still” born, and is too [ j weak to have the colic, and its nerses j are too young to manage its swad- j dling clothes, bye bye baby. There are a hundred colored fami lies in Mecklenburg county prepar | iug to leave soon, for Africa. They I j have probably been scared out of the ! county by hearing some of Dave I ■ Gray’s and Green Henderson’s! I speeches for the Independent Demo- j | cratic party. That affliction is enough to run ’em crazy, much less j run ’em to Africa. Gas, wind and money is running this campaign. Boncotnbe and per- ' sonal abuse is the capital, while the white bosses draw the strings, the , colored political Silhotcs dance to the tune of “Good Bye Lizer Jane.” j Hon. ff. B. Metcalf, of Pawtucket, ! R. 1., in arc'ent address concerning tils enforcement and results of prohib tion in Bhode Island says: “To ine the progress In every direction scorns truly wonder ful, and I am full of gratitude. *’ ' , | Let Him Down. l ,! A few weeks ago this paper en ’’i dorsed and put at the head of its • columns the names of R. C. Mc- Gi.inis and C. T. Thomas for con ; I stables for Charlotte township. We ' 1 endorsed them because wc then be ■ lieved therfi both to be good men, 1 j and because they were endorsed by ■ ; the Knights of Labor in this city. -! By the request of many lriends, 5 presented with certain facts, we are compelled to drop from our columns the name of R. C. McGinnis and retain C. T. Thomas. We hope all 1 of our frlendsi every colored voter, 1 and especially eVery Kniglit of La* bor, will vote for Mr. C. T. Thomas, and select any other man they choose and put on the ticket with him. Praise Meeting. ■ A protracted meeting has been going on at the Presbyterian church, which closed last Tuesday night. On Wednesday night a praise meeting was held. It is what Methodists call general class meeting, and the Bap tists, we think, call them covenant meetings. The meeting lasted an hour or more, and the brothers and j sisters spoke freely of their spiritual works and prospects. It has been I said there is hot much life in the | Presbyterians; but this meeting at ; the Seventh Street Presbyterian ! Church exhibited about as much life !as the ordinary Methodist class I meeting. We learn they have these meetings only once a year, while Methodists have theirs once a month or oftener. Blacking Shoes vs. Selling News- Papers. Editor Messenger: I write to ask why the Board of Aldermen of the city of Charlotte j should levy a tax of three dollars on ! the shoe blacks of the city and allow ! the news boys go free of tax? The ! shoe blacks are all colored, while the ! news boys are all white. What is i sauce for the goose is sauce for the j gander; and where, oh, where, were j our colored aldermen at the time? Respectfully, John W. Wilson. Get. 20, 1886. Will Mr. Brown Tell Where his paper is published? What is the difference between the j daily Observer office and the 06- ! server job office? 1 Whether or not they are both | owned and controlled by Chas. R. Jones, and come under the same roof? Give the name of the Democrat ' who writes for the Messenger, and j his evidence that the Messenger is i hired? ! ‘‘Who does the Messenger sup- | port lor Congress, or who will he | vote for?”— The Independent. Well, since neither of the candi dates is a republican, and neither | puts himself on the republican plat- j form, and we are not hired by either | of them, we are not particular to j worry our brain about them. But, since Mr. Mayo is a poor man, a laborer, and an initiated Knight of Labor, put out for the office by that Order, we would rather vote for j Mayo as a compliment to the Knights of Labor. W. C. Smith has at no time, in j any way, identified himself with this ! independent faction of democrats. \ He did not vote in convention for j any one on the ticket, but did offer j Eli Hinson and a colored man. We j support Hinson. We have not changed, neither do we expect to j change between this and 1888. Eh! I Rev. A. F. Graham left last Tues- I day for Davidson College to officiate I in the marriage ceremony of Miss j Mary McFadden, of Davidson Col ; lege, to Rev. A. E. Torrence, of j Manning, S. C., on Wednesday j evening. The Messenger is under obliga i tions to Mr. John Nichols, Secretary | and Treasurer, for a complimentary | ! ticket to the State Fair to be held in I j Raleigh next week. The Talker. The talker is just as positive a force ia | civilized life as he waS ia the old " v;"t \ life. Tho earliest fragments of history we have tell us of the talkers whose words ral ied men around them to go oa | on the wa path, f.ater ou wo find the ' , Athenians obtaining a!! their culture | < from their talkers, and at the present' ■ time we sec that, where tho book or news- ( i paper claims only a few moments of a j 1 man’s time each day. the talker is on d ck 1 all the time, day and night, putting in his work w.tho.it any letting up. It ia useless to -hut our eyes to thfc facts. If the Man Who Talks wants the earth I am in favor of letting *-im have it, in or- i der to avoid a controversy. If we come | to words about it he will get it anyhow. ; —Atlanta Cont'itvtian. Bomc oak timber, which in 1824 had served for 604 year* for roof beams in an Kngli-h church, is still doing duty as ■ feat in a farmer's kitchen. RELIGIOUS READING. Hidden Sstoetneee. We need no special grace to see The sweetness tbit aronnd lisa In homes where happy children be. In birds and brooks and summer sides; Even where sorrow loids her wings In dumb pei sistence by our beartb, Still we can feel what bless* d things . Hake beautiful tbe earth, And thrill responsive to the sense Os every lovely influence Bnt ah I how faintly we are stirred By things divine, whose voioee seem As ineffectually heard . As voices in a dream! We praise Theo with our lip*, and yet The while we cry, “How sweet Thou art f It is as though a seal were set Upon our eyes and heart. 7 ne sweetness that we might possess We 6se not, and we feel still loss. Lord, unto whom our du 1 desires Are known, and every hindering sin, Kindle anew the fervent fires That ought to glow our souls within; The s irrdwful days are here again When Thon were in tbe lonesome wild, In prayer, in fasting, and in pain For us unreconci ed. Gives us now, O Christ, to soo How wholly sweet Thy love can be. Mary Bradley. The Ureut Uulde Book. The tourist in a foreign country flndi a guide book well nigh indispensable. It must be written in a language he cat understand, and the directions given in it must be plain and specific. If be tides this it contains maps of the partic ular routes, with descriptions of various places and friendly cautions as to the im positions that may be practiced upon an snwary traveller, it will be still more Valuable. Tbe Bible is the great guide-book. Id it the highway of holiness is so plainly * narked out that assurance is given us lhat “the wayfaring man, though a fool, shall not err therein.” Many “worldly wise men” claim abundant competency 10 be the leaders of others, and insist on tur taking their morality or their philos ophy as a substitute for Bible-teaching. But God’s book alone dispels our igno lance about man’s duty and destiny, aud jives us the clew by which to make our ray through labyrinthine maze 3 of error » the land of perfect light. As the pilgrim to Zion is pursuing his pay thither he feels the need of guid race in things temporal as well as things* iternal, and the sacred pages abound in »:overbs and in precepts and in incidents ind examples which are just suited t< sis needs in all secular affairs. Ruler; ind subjects, buyers and sellers, parents ind children, teachers and taught, art til amply as well as particularly la itructed. There is not a foot of the Pay where one need go amiss. Tbs Christian religion is not a mere Sunday 'eligioD, and so the Christian’s Bible is lot a mere Sunday book, but a look adapted to every day >f the week. Make it the man of four counsel, then, in the everyday Ivents of life. Start on no jouney, uu lertake no business, enter on no rela tionship, begin no day, end no day in tny manner contrary to the revealed will If God. But the greatest mountains to be ilimbed and tbe deepest and darkest ralleys to be threaded as we pass through he world are tbe moral crises wo have lo meet, the terrible temptations, the lonflicts with the devil and his seed and pith our own souls. Here tho great tuide book, if we will only ! five heed to it, will assist us to the I full. There is no unforeseen crncr- I jency for which it has not provided aid, [lO poison for which it has not an aati- I lote, no darkness or shadow of deuth on which it cannot cast lights. Ilencc tbe j pisdom and necessity of obeying the ! Ipostolic injunction, “Let the word of ! Chiist dwell in you richly in all wisdom." Read your Biole regularly and prayer ! lully and thoughtfully through, and you | pill be astonished at tbe amount and variety of practical religious knowledge sou will have acquired. When you iave read it through once read it through igain and again*, aud so continue to do through your lifetime. At the same hme read those select Scriptures which | sou have found most helpful to you over i tnd over again with ever-growing faith. With every new look into your well- I worn guide-book your path will be more | brightly illumined and your steps firmer the higher you mount up the hill of ! God. I hear many mourning their lack of : opportunities for education. Be it re ! membered, any and every one that can ' read the Bible has within his reach the means for tbe best education, yes, the very best. The Bible read in the man ner above recommended will furnish and polish the mind as no other book caD, ns ill other books indeed will fail to do; and while it enlarges and improves the intellect, it will at the same time en large and improve the heart. A Christian physician of my acquain tance, on account of the demands of his profession, finds his opportunities for attending public worship much less frequent than he could desire; but he carries his New Testament in his pocket just as regularly as be carries his case of medicines, and whenever oppor tunity offers he does not fail to consult its pages. Thus he holds on his way as one ol Z on’s pilgrims and grows strong ir and stronger. Very different from the views of this pious physician are those of a certain young man who said to me not long since, referring to his Bible, “I never have time to read it.” Ho could find plenty ol time for foolish talking and jesting, but oone for talking with God. Do you treat your Bible and your Go-1 thus!— Dr. Comalin in Mailaaumir. If I, a saved, risen man, do the worka of flesh, if I obey sin, I shall not escape the effects of my evd doings; but my se curity is, that God has piomiscd that sin ■hall not have dominion over me, and lit will make good his word, if not by glad consent on my part, then by sorrowful constraint. He will chasten me aud bring me back. When I put myself under the dominto 1 of chastisement. This ia God’s method when bis children depart from him—He “will visit their iniquity with a rod, aud their siu with scourges.” God has said tin shall not have dom.nion ovei me. He will rescue me, tear me awaj from it, though it be by the rending 01 the heart's fibres. The separation mnsl be accomplished. Happy for us' whes we voluntarily, nay gladly, acquiesce is it. The American Exhibition, to be held ’ in London next year, will .be of great importance to tbi* nation commercially, opening, as it will, the eyes of English men to many resource* of this country, and leading to an increased sale of our productions. The time of the exposition is e-pecinllv favorable, as next year marks the half-centnry fostital of Queen Victoria's reizn. An inter sting calculation has been made by the New York Timer, showing i how the steady and rapid payment of the f public debt incurred in the Civil War, combined with the reduction of the in. terest rate and the increase of the popu lationof the country, has affected the debt burden borne by our people pet capita. Ia ISO 3 the debt amounted tc $76,27 per capita Last year it amounted to only $21,14. In 1865 the per capita portion of tho annual interest charge was sl.2:i. Last year it was but eighty three cents. The ratio of tbe principal is now but two-thirds what it then was: that of the annual interest is but a little | more than one-filth. : | The world’s blind are computed t* 1 i number about 1,000,000, or about one I sightless person to every 1,400 inhabi | 1 tants. In Austria, one person in every . , 1,785 is blind; in Sweden, one in every 1 j 1,418; in France, one in every 1,191; in 1 j Prussia, ono in every 1,111; iu England, one in every 1,037. The proportion ia 1 ] greatest in Egypt, where, in Cairo, there 1 ; is one blind person to every twenty in ! habitants; while in New Zealand it fall* ’| to one in every 3,550 inhabitants. Ger ! many has the greatest number of Insti ! tutes for the blind, thirty-live; England has sixteen; Franco, thirteen; Austria ■ Hungary, ten; Italy nine; Belgium, six; Australia, two, while America, Asia and Africa together are said to passes* only aix. __________ lYhat is known as the Great Southern I Cross Pearl is one of the curious things ! exhi! ited at the Colinderies, or Colonial Exhibition in London. This object is one of the most remarkable freaks of naturo as it is also one of the most beau tiful and valuable. The jewel consists of nine pearls naturally joined together in the form of a cross, and was found at Roeburn. Western Australia, in 1884, by a man belonging to the schooner Ethel. The owner, “Sliiner Kelly.” and Clark, , the man who found the pearl, were filled : with amazement, and, think'ng it was some heaven-wrought mira-le and with j a certain amo.mt of superstitious dread, i buritd it for same time. It is valued at i £10,060, and is now thr property of a syndicate of gentlemen of position in Western Australia, at whose solicitation Mr. Streeter was induced to b.ingitto England. It has changed hands many times and each time it has done so the seller has made 100 per cent, profit on the prico paid. It naturally attracts great attention at the Exposition. * Some person with lot* of timeto spare has figured that most of the events of President Cleveland's life turn upon the I figures seven, or a multiple of soven. in which resp.ct his career is a parallel with that of Ri.-nzi, “the last of the Roman Tribunes.” who claimed that his luck turned always upon the same num ber. Grover Clevelan 1 was seven times seven years of age when married; his bride. Frances Folsom, three times seven years of age, making a difference in their ages of four times seven years; the bride's age and the differences in their ages added makes seven times seven— the President's age. The bride's birth occurred seven years aftor the President attained to his majority. Their ages added make ten times seven, three score and ten, the number of years allotted to the age of man. Multiply the number of their added a::c * by seven, it makes ; twenty times seven, the number of times the Saviour commanded to forgive an erring brother if he repents. The Presi dent's official title. President of the United States of America, contains five times seven letter*. The bride's offh ia! relation, the White House mistress, con tains three times seven letters. It ia said that a person “so d spo-cd” can be killed by the shock of good new* as surely ashy evil tiding*. Avery cu- * rioua < a*c occurred recently of a journey man in the employment of a large firm in Loudon Leing unexpectedly made manager and thereunon comm.t’ing sui cide. The disturbing cause arms to have been the fear of re ponsibilitv, and • sen-o of incomp tency to ful ill tha du ties of a new and important office. A catastrophe of evtn a more painful kind took phue in another great house in the same city rome years ago. One of the clerks, nfte mat y years’ faithful service, was offered a partnership, which he de clined upon the ground of not poa-eadng the minimum aum requ site for invest meet in th • concern. “That shall be no obstacle,’' raid .he principal, “tor I will advance it ta you myself;'aud so tho matter was arranged. Hut on the very first d*y of he new partner taking pos session ol his desk, he Few hit brains out at it, leaving a few written words behind him to say why. lie had beeq embezzling money fiom the titm for years, though in such small turns that th, whole amount was trifling, aud there wat nn chance of the defalcation being dis covered. Ilcmorte and the sense of ben efits undeserved had been, however, too 1 much for his tender conscience.