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CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. SATURDAY. - APRIL 21. 1888. f CHURCHES. St. Michael's (P. E.) Church, Mint St. jj Services at 10 a. m. ami s: . in. Suntlay- 1 school at 4 p.m. Rev. P. P. Alstox, pastor. | M. E. Church, Graham Sheet. Services at 1 3p. m. ami Bp. in. Sunday school at 10 a. ; in. Her. E. M. Collett, pastor. First Baptist Church, South Church St. \ Services at 11 a. ni., 3p. m. and Bp. nu Sun- • day-school at 1 p. m. Rev. A. A. Powell, pastor. Ebenezer Baptist Church, East Second St. Services at 11 a. m., 3 p. iu. and 8 p. m. Sun day-school at 1 p.‘ ni. Rev. Z. Hanghton. pastor. Presbyterian Church, comer Seventli and College Sts. Services at 3p. in. and Bp. m. Sunday-school at 10 a. ni. Rev. R. P. Wyche. pastor. Clinton Chapel, (A. M. E. Z.) Mint St. Ser vices at 11 a. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school at Ip. m. Rev M. Slade, pastor. Little Rock, (A. M. E. Z. ) ESt. Services at 11 a. m., 3p. m. and Bp. m. Rev. J. W. Thomas, pastor. Grace Church, (A. M. E. Z.) South B. be tween 3d and 4th. Services at 11 A. M. and 8 o’clock P. M. Sunday-school at 3P. M. Rev. U. H. Stitt, Pastor. If your paper lias a blue ->-A_ cross mark, it will be stopped till you pay up. We cannot continue to send it to you without some money. Please pay up and let us continue it to you. LOCAL. ECSr” I f this paragraph in your paper has a blue mark, your paper will be stopped. Please pay up so we can continue the paper to you. Ilartl times is at our house as well as yours. If we coutinue to send to so many who do not pay we will soon send to no one. So pay what you owe us. esr- notice. We have waited patiently with many of our subscribers, and now that the cold weather is over, and we are still hard pressed for money, we will ex pect all to pay up now without farther i delay. We will stop sending the paper to a number of our city sub scribers this week, and wait for them to pay up. We cannot help it. Pay for your paper or we will stop it. The Ocueral Conference at Xewbern is now ten days off. This is nice spring weather and j pretty moonlight nights. The Yadkin Presbytery was held at Salisbury this week. J Commencement at Livingstone Col lege is now only three weeks and three days. Mr. (ireen II Henderson returned home from Washington City last Wednesday. Mr. Wiley B. Hunter of Raleigh , has resigned from ihc editorship of the Outlook. Wc arc glad to say to onr readers ‘ that we will have furnished ns a letter from Raleigh every week. The HojAitt Adroratr is a small t semi-monthly started at Xewbern, X. C. Rev. A. J. Marshatl, editor. The Hanoi Are is a new paper started at Rockingham, Ricmond county. Mrs. Dr. Williams returned home last Saturday from a visit to her par ents and friends in Raleigh. Mr. E 11. Dibble and wife of Camden, S. C., spent several days in our city and left for their home last Monday. Miss Anna Sloan of Salisbury spent last week in our city, the guest of Miss Lydia Robinson. She was re turning home from South Carolina. Col. Geo. T. Wassom iUagain in the journalistic harness. The Golds boro Voice is a new paper under his control. Hon. Roscoe Conkling, one of the ablest of American’s statesmen, died last Wednesday morning ten minutes before 2 o’clock. < You have not done yonr duty till you have paid for this paper and sent us at least one other cash subscriber Let us hear from you. The question now puzzling some of our people is this: When forfeit money is put up for a prisoner, be fails to appear at the time but i» de rived by the bondsman two or three days there after, received by the authorities and locked up—should the forfeit money be refunded ? Small pox is increasing in New York and Philadelphia The Y. M. C. A. is in State con vention here this week in their new building. That was a severe hail and rain storm that fell on this city Thursday afternoon. The democrats are now claiming 80,000 majority in Lonisana, in the election held there last Tuesday. The republican county convention will be held in the court house next Saturday—2Bth. The Oriole Literary had a pleasant meeting on last Tuesday night at Mrs. E. AY. Butler’s. The next meeting will be May Ist at Miss Lydia Robinson’s. When our leading colored men fail to support our race institutions and race enterprises, they fail to that ex tent to show their ability to lead the race. Charlotte is to have a public build ing. Congress is expected to pass the bill soon appropriating §85,000 for the building and it will go up on the Mint lot. Mrs. Coleman, of Morgan ton, and Mrs. .J. C. Daucy of Salisbury, mother and sister of J. W. Brown, spent last Sunday and Monday in our city. Rhode Island gave us a republican victory and elected a colored man to the legislature. Colored men attend ed both republican and democratic conventions, and ran on the tickets of each party. The industrial department of Biddle University is well supplied with car penter’s tools, type, anda fine Gordon jobber. The young men are learning to handle the tools, and their drawing is very good. We were shown at Biddle, a round table invented and made by one of the students. It is a drop leaf-table; both sides may he let down. It has six sliding legs which may stand separately or in three pairs. Mrs. Charlotte Evans and Miss Ida Evans of Wilmington and Mr. Walter P. Evans of Laurinliurg spent last Sunday and Monday in our city at the Goode hotel. Mrs. Evans and daughter have been in Memphis, Tenn., since Xovember. A Xeat Barbershop. Henderson & Rudisill have just added much to the appearance of their barbershop by repapering and whitewashing it. It now presents a neat appearance. They have also just received a new lot of razors and clippers and are prepared to give satisfaction to all customers. Their patrons and the public generally are invited to call and sec them at the old stand, 228 East Trade St., near railroad. County Contention. Xext Saturday is the time for our county convention to select delegates to State and District Conventions, whieh will elect delegates to the Xational Convention to be held iu Chicago the 19tta of June. Besides electing four delegates and alternates at large, the State Convention will nominate a ticket for State officers and Judges of the Supreme Court. Care should he taken to select good men, who have a knowledge of the Republicans in the State qualified to fill these several places—for we want to nominate none except such as would do credit to the party and the State. The Presbyterian Printing Ofliee. While in Wilmington wc called at the Africo Prrtbgterutn office, and were shown around by editor Sanders. The paper is well known in the South, so wc will speak here of the office. Mr Sanders has his office on his lot at his residence: and it is well fitted up with printing material including a job press and one of the finest Camp bell newspaper presges in the State. Besides his own paper, he prints another colored paper. He lias shown in this effort that colored men l in Xorth Carolina can own and man age enterprises as well as other folks. We were especially pleased with this press. It is a Campbell Country press Xo. 2 and docs good work and is very fast. The llutclier Bird. ! Os all the birds of Florida there is ono J that will afford an idler lots of amuse ment if ho will spend an occasional hour watching closely. It is the shrike or butcherbird. A few days ago I was in nn orange grove a few rods from the house, where an old negro, with the assistance of a mule, was plowing and a butcher bird was flying from tree to tree, following up the newly plowed furrow, looking for insects. Every few minutes he would go to pick up a beetle or insect, and fdr some time lie simply swallowed his victim. After a little he seemed to have enough to eat, and just then a little flock of larks were seen running along in the newly turned furrow, at times almost touching the old negro’s heels. Now and then they would come across an insect too large for them to easily manage, and then would begin a little scuffle. Then the butcher bird would swoop down in t£e center of the little flock, snatch up the insect and fly off with it before the larks knew what had happened. The butcher bird had oaten all he wanted, and so, with the beetle in his l>eak, lie flew to the nearest orange tree, and, selecting a long, sharp thorn, he impaled the insect upon it. I watched this bird put at least ten in sects on different thorns. During an hour, besides numerous largo insects, the butcher bird captured two snakes, the largest of which was two feet long and very lively. These snakes, although they squirmed and twisted, were taken with difficulty to an orange tree and, after a good bit of hard tugging, they were left with a thorn through their bodies. When the butcher bird is not looking for food or for victims to stick on thorns, he is generally looking for other birds for the purpose of fighting them, and so lie keeps busy from daylight till dark.—The Nat uralist. Few Cook Stoves in Manitoba. In the northern section of Manitoba, which is remote from any railroad, one rarely sees a cook stove; the box stove and open fireplace reign supreme. Fancy cooking is therefore out of the question, but to compensate for that wc get a bountiful supply of venison and small game and our unrivaled ‘ ‘Manitoba white fish,’’ which can be cooked by simple methods. For bread, when wc can obtain yeast, we cook it in a bake kettle (a shallow kettle with close fitting lid), which we place in the hot sand of the fireplace and cover with coals and allow it to remain for one hour, when the bread turns out beautifully browned, perfectly cooked, and as light as a feather. But in winter the cold is so intenso that it is a hard matter to prevent the sponge from get ting chilled or frozen when rising over night. Some abandon yeast bread for bannocks or gilettes, the “half breed” bread, mado of flour, salt and warm water, with generally a little grease added, and this makes a good, wholesome, palatable bread, espe cially good for traveling with, as it is easy to thaw at the camp fire and very satisfying. The method of making it is as follows: Use warm water, in which dissolve grease, say a piece the size of a walnut to ono pound of flour; knead thoroughly, adding flour until the sponge is fairly dry, but not too dry; then roll out into cakes about half an inch thick and bake; if in an oven, not too quick a one; for an open fire we put the cake in a frying pan and turn until stiff, and then prop it up before the fire and turn Yegularly until cooked. For baking on top of a box stove, the cake must be rolled thinner and requires constant at tention to prevent burning, and forcibly reminds one of the story of “King Alfred and the Cakes.” One of the difficulties wo encounter in winter cooking is that everything gets frozen as solid as a rock and is very dif ficult to prepare, and takes much longer to cook in consequence.—Manitoba Cor. Detroit Free Press. Secret of Crystallized Figs. One of the cleverest mercantile dodges that has been played in this town in many a day is the new crystallized fig racket. Cheap, marvelously cheap, crys tallized figs have recently invaded the fruit stores, the groceries, the street stands. The usual price for crystallized ! fruit is from 70c. to 80c. a pound. This new variety of figs sells at 20c. When you try them they are not very delicate in flavor, but still they are not 1 bad, and answer the purpose with people wanting something sweet very well, and | they are having an immense sale because 1 the conjunction of the words “crystal lized figs” with “20c.” was so remark - ! able .it gave them a big “ad.” The | cleverness comes in in the fact that they are not crystallized figs at all. A firm of confectioners got the idea I f rom a girl in tlieir employ, it is said, of ; running a cheap sort of fig jam or paste into molds roughly resembling a fig, coating them with sugar and calling them crystallized figs. The jam or paste is a good enough cheap confection, but they might have spent years and fortunes trying to get it on the market without achieving the success they have mado now without the expenditure of a penny iu advA tising.—New York Graphic. lleK«'inblanc«H In Hunchbacks. I have practiced medicine and surgery for forty years, and I do not recall a disease or case of any particular kind that lias not come under my observation. 1 1 ul one tiling that I have made a sort of study in the way of close observation is the sinking resemblance to each other of what is commonly called the hunchback. It docs not take a close observer to seo that they all look alike in the face, more so even than if they were full brothers. There is cometiiing strange about this re semblance, yet it is all due to that phys ical condition. About 9!) out of 100 aro so near alike that if the 100 were stand ing in a row, with their heads poked through slits in a sheet, you could not pick out your brother if you had ono wlio was a hunchback. Few people would notice this remarkable fact, hut if they do they will find how singularly true it is.—Physician in Globe-Democrat. Counting our chickens liefore they are batched would not bo so had did we first ••candle” the eggs. The damage from the phylloxera in France so far is estimated at $2,000,- 000,000. Republican State Foment ion. The undersigned Executive Commit teemen call a State Convention of the Republican party of North Carolina, to be held in Raleigh on Wednesday, the 23d day of May, 1888, for the purpose of electing four delegates and four alternates to the National Repub lican Convention, to bo hold at Chicago, on the 19tli day of June, 1888, and for the purpose of nomiha ting a candidate for Governor and other State officers and three candi dates for Supremo Court Judges, to select a State Committee and for the transaction of such other business as may be deemed proper in the judg ement of the convention. Each county is entitled as delegates in said convention to twice the number of Representatives in the lower House of the General Assembly. All persons without regard to past political affiliation, who are is sym pathy with the principles of the Re publican party of this State, are in vited and requested to unite with the Republicans under this call in the selection of delegates. J. C. L. Harris, V. S. Lusk, J. 11. Williamson, Geo. C. Scurlock, R. E. Young, 11. E. Davis, J. 11. Harris, A. V. Dockery, W. C. Coleman, J. J. Mott, J. R. Smith, G. W. Cannon, J. 11. Montgomery, E. A. White, T. M. Argo. Presiding Elder’s Appointments. Charlotte District. —2d Round. Rockwell, Ist Sunday in April. Clinton Chapel, 2d Sunday. Torrence Chapel, 2d Sunday. Hopewell, 3d Sunday. Biddleville, 3d Sunday. Mac Chapel, 4th Sunday. China Grove, 4th Sunday. Little Hope, sth Sunday. Jonesville, sth Sunday. Dallas, 3d Sunday in May. King’s Mountain, 4th Sunday. Oconoville, 4th Sunday. Monroe, Ist Sunday in June. Hudson, 2d Sunday. Clinton Stand, 2d Sunday. Simfield, 2d Sunday. Centre Grove, 3d Sunday. Weeping Willow, 3d Sunday. R. S. Rives, P. E. Fayetteville District. —2d Round. Norrington and Long Ridge—March 31 and April I. Chapel Hill—April 7-8. Gunter’s Chapel—April 14-15. Mitchell’s Chapel and Union —21-22. Thompson’s Chapel and New Hope— April 28-29. General Conference May 2d, at New Berne. Mt. Olive—May 19-20. Jones Mission—May 26-27. A. M. Barrett, P. E. Raleigh N. C. Wadesroro District —2nd Round. Matthew’s Chapel, Richmond Co., — March 24-25, to be held by Elder M. S. Kelt. Gatwood Station, Anson Co.—March 24-25. to be held by Elder L. H. Wyche. Silver Grove, Richmond Co., March 24-25. Wadesboro —April 1. Galliee, Anson Co.—April7-8. Rockingham—April 14-15. Zion Chapel, Kyeser Moore Co.— April 21-22. Gooden’s Chapel, S.C.—April 28-29. Snow Ilill, Richmond Co.—May 5-6, Hand Creek, Montgomery Co.—May 12-13. Ilarrisville, Stanly Co.—May 19-20. Fair View —May 26—27. W. H. Simmons. ATTENTION TEACHERS ! 11l NORIAL SCHOOL, I.iimlx rton, \, C., will begin its thirteenth session for six months on Monday, April 9, 1888. Having been educated in a New England Noumal School, and having had sixteen years experience in the school-room, the Principal is prepared to do much for those who are seeking a school where they may be aided during the summer Thorough drills given daily in all the branches re quired to be taught in the Public Schools, and written examinations on practical questions given weekly. For particulars, send for circulars to 1). P. ALLEN, Lunibcrton, N. C. VIRGINIA HOUSE, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Accommodations furnished travelers at reasonable rates. Comfortablo beds and rooms. House located iu the central aud business part of the cltv. Table furnished with the best of the market. Meals at all hours. .1. M. GOODE, - Proprietor. CHARLOTTE, N. V. REPUBLICAN PLAN OF OR GANIZATION. Holes and liegulatloiis for the Organiza tion of the Republican Party of North Carolina an Amended and Adopted nt the State Convention held In Italeljth, North Carolina, September Z«<l, 1880. First. County organization.—The election precinct shall bo the unit of county organization. Each precinct shall have an executive committee consisting of three active Republicans. They shall be biennially chosen by the Republican voters of the precinct, and shall elect one of the number chairman. They shall convene together at such time and place as the majority of them may elect. They shall biennially elect a county execu tive committee , to consist of no t less than five members, who shall elect a chair man from their number. Vacancies in preeinet committees shall be filled by the voters of the precinct, and in county committees by a convention of the precinct committees duly called; Provided that in case a vacancy occurs within thirty days prior to an election, such vacancy may be filled by the vote of the remaining mem bers. 2d. Congressional, judicial and senatorial district committees, com posed of no less than one member from each county, nor less than seven members, biennially elected by the several district conventions, each of whom shall elect a chairman from their number; Provided, that a sen atorial committee shall only he elected in districts embracing more than one county. Vacancies occur ring within thirty days of an election, may be filled by the vote of the com mittee. 3d. As amended by the Republi can State convention :—There shall be a State executive committee com posed of one member from each con gressional district in the State, to be designated by the district delegations at State convention assembled, five members at large, to be elected by the State convention and the chair man of the convention at which the election is held, and said committee are required to call a State convention of the Republican party at least sixty days prior to every election for mem bers of the General Assembly, and oftener if necessary in the interest of the party. Members of the State executive committee shall be biennial ly elected at the State convention, shall choose one of their number chairman, and shall elect a seceretray, who is not a member, who shall re side at Raleigh. 4th. The chairman of the respective county, district and State executive committees shall call their conventions to order and act as temporary chair man, until a permanent organization is effected, with power only to appoint, and receive the report of a committee on credentials. sth. No executive committee shall have power to elect or appoint dele gates to any convention, whether county, district, State or National. 6th. No member of an executive committee or delegate or alternates duly chosen shall have power to dele gate his trust or authority to another. 7th. As amended by the Republi can State convention: Each county in convention assembled may adopt such plans as it may deem best tor the election of delegates from its different townships or precincts to the county conventions. Bth. Representatives in congress ional, judicial, senatorial and State conventions shall consist of two dele gates and two alternates only for every member of the lower house of General Assembly, and shall be ap portioned in the several counties ac cordingly. 9th. Delegates and alternates to the connty conventions, shall he elected only by a vote of the Repub licans of each preeinet in precinct meetings assembled, unless changed as authorized by section VII, and delegates and alternates to the dis trict, and State and National conven tions shall be elected by a convention of delegates duly elected and sent by the people for that purpose after the notice and publication of not less than fifteen days of the time, place and purpose of such convention, and not otherwise. 10th. The certificate of the chairman and secretary of the meetting, setting forth the regularity of the primary meeting or convention, and the election of the delegates and alter nates thereat, shall be accepted when uncontested, as a good and sufficient credential for such delegates and alternates. 11th. This plan of organization and procedure shall continue in force until changed or abrogated by a sub sequent Republican State convention. Adopted in State convention, Sep tember 22, 1886. BRANCH HOUSE, ISO Market S met, next io Academy of Music, CHARLESTON, 8. C. First Season will be opened July 1, ’B7. First-Class Board and Accommodations at Ttosouable rates. P. M. THORNE. Proprietor. QAROLINA CENTRAL R. R. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 1, 1888. WESTBOUND TRAINS. No. 1. No. 3. Nos. 5 <fc 7 BTATIONS. Daily ex. Daily ex. Tri- Sunday. Sunday, weekly. lvWilm’gton 6:40 p.m. 7:00 a.m. 5:45 p.m. No. 7. ivLaurinb’rg 11:33 a.m. 5:00 a.m. lv Hamlet, 2:03 7.00 ar Charlotte 7:00 3.00 p.m. lv Charlotte 8:45 a.m. lvLincolnt’n 11:09 lv Shelby, 12:54 p,m. ar Kutherf’n 3:00 EABTBOUND TRAINS. No. 2. No. 4. Nos. 6& 8 1 STATIONS. Daily ex. Daily ex. Tri- Sunday. Sunday, weekly. lv Rutherf’n 8.40 a.m. lv Shelby 10.52 lvLincolnt’n 12.45 ar Charlotte 3.00 lvCharlotte 8.00p.m. 7.00 a.m. lv Hamlet 1.25 a.m. 2.30’p.m. 4.00 No. 6. IvLaurinb’rg 2.27 5.45a.m. arWilm’gton 8.25 4.25 p.m. Trains Nos. 1. and 2 make close connection at Hamlet to aud from Raleigh. Through sleeping cars between Wilming ton and Charlotte and Charlotte and Raleigh. Take train No. 1 for Statesville and stations on the W. N. C. R. R. and points west. Also for Spartanburg, Greenville, Athens, Atlanta and all points Sonthwest. Local Freight Nos. 5 and 6 tri-weekly between Laurinburg and Wilmington. No. 5 leaves Wilmington Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. No. 6 leaves Laurinburg on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Local Freight Nos. 7 and 8 tri-weekly Laurinburg and Charlotte. No. 7 leaves Laurinburg on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. No. 8 leaves Cha-lotte on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. L. C. JONES, Superintendent. F. W. CLARK, General Passenger Agt. CAPE FEAR AND YADKIN VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY. Taking effect 5.00 a.m., Monday, Dec. 19,1887. Trains Moving North. Passenger Freight and and Mail. Passenger, Lv Bennettsville 8:15 a m 1:30 pn. Ar Maxton, 9:25 3:35 Lv Maxton, 9:35 4:10 Ar Fayetteville, 11:25 8:10 Lv Fayetteville, 11:40 10:00 a m Ar Sanford 1:55 p m 2:25 p m Lv Sanford. 2:15 3:10 Ar Greensboro, 5:40 7:45 Lv Greensboro, 9:50 a m Ar Ararat 3:00 p m Passenger and Mail No. I—dinner at Sanford. Pass, and Mail, No. 11—dinner at German ton Trains Moving South. Lv Ararat 4:00 p m Ar Greensboro, 9:00 Lv Greensboro, 10:05 a m 7:30 a m Ar Sanford, 1:30 p m 1:52 p m Lv Sanford, 1:50 3:00 p m Ar Fayetteville, 4:15 6:30 Lv Fayetteville. 4:30 5:30 a m Ar Maxton, 6:27 9:00 Lv Maxton, 6:40 9:45 A r Bennettsville 8:00 12:00 m Passenger and Mail No. 2—dinner at Sanford FACTORY BRANCH-FREIGHT AND ACCOMMODATION. Trains Moving North. Leave Mill boro, 8:00 a.m. 4:00 pm Arrive Greensboro, 9:30 5:40 Trains Moving South. Leave Greensboro, 1:30 p. m. Leave Factory June. 2:15 5:05 p m Arrive Millboro, 3:00 Passenger and Mail Trains run daily except Sunday. Freight and Accommodation Train runs from Fayetteville to Bennettsville and return on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; from Fayetteville to Greensboro on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and from Greens boro to Fayetteville on Mondays, Wednes days and Fridays. Trains on Factory Branch run daily except Sundays. CITY LOTS FOR SALE. . T OFFER FOR SALE ONE LARGE I City Lot, in ward 2, on D and Boundaxy streets, fronting John Smith, James Strong and Creecy MtHjane—adjoining Howell and J. G. Shannonhouse. This lot is large enough for four beautiful buildings. I will sell cheap for cash. Address F. R. HOWELL, HENDERSON’S BARBER SHOP ! THE OLDEST AND BEST. Experienced and polite workmen always ready to wait on customers. Here you will get a neat HAIR CUT and clean SHAVE. JOHN S. HENDERSON. East Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C. SAVE MONEY AND DISAGREEABLE CONTROVERSIES ! with agents who persuade you to send oft your little pictures to New York to have them enlarged and framed. You can have all this sort of work done at home much better and just as cheap, notwithstanding the salsa asser tions these agents make to you, by calling at H. BAUMGARTEN’S Photograph: Gallery, Charlotte, N. C. Dr! J. T. Williams Offers his professional services to the genera public. Office hours from 9 to 10 a. ni. 2 to 3 p. m. Office No. 24 West 4th street. Night calls from residence No. 506 South E. street, Charlotte, N. C. H B KENNEDY, DIALCR IK Confectioneries, Fancy and Staple Groceries. - Chickens, Eggs, Butter, Vegeta blcH, and all kinds of Country Produce. Everything kept in a well regulated Grocery Store. Fine Fruits s speci alty. No. 303 South Graham street, Charlotte, N. C.