Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02
Local News.

Republican candidate for Sheriff.
4. z. Samond.
Overcoats and wraps ere In demand as
we'll as fires.
Rowladd and Jones will speak here
next Tuesday night.
Biddle University will open next
Wednesday. A good many of the stu
dents are in already.
Mr. q. Haughton, Jr.. opened school
IN EbeHezer Baptist church last Monday
morping with an enrolment of so pupils.
The circus is coming next week. Have
the preachers all notified their membersi
II not, let them do so, as many want to
go.
1t is said, by some that the 6remen's
excursion to Salisbury cleared about 5000.
If SO. they gu ht to have full treasury
now.
Zion Wesley College, Salisbury, opens
next Tuesday and the outlook is flatter-
ing. All students should try to get IN as
early as possible
Marriage notices and death notices
will be published free of charge when
limited to five lines. Extended notices
must be paid for.
Miss Sallio Hall has about 100 scholars
enrolled in her room. She had an aver
age attendance of "a last week and 1O4
present Monday. The teacher that has
that number of little chaps around her
has no time for idlIng.
1t was Grier's quartette that furnished
the music at Zion church on Thursday
and Friday nights not Gray's as was
published last week. The quartette is
compostd of Messrs. Richard Grier. GUY
Wright, Richard North and Thomas
Wade.
Festivals don't make much money now
adays. The Odd Fellows in a grand
rally failed to realize more than SIS or
$50, while the fremen in their last effort
cleared $1.1s.
Who are the candidates for constables
in this township? Since the Knights of
Labor have expressed a preference for
two gentlemen we say support them.
They arc r., C. McGinnis and Cato
Thomas.
A mass meeting was held in Ward 4
last night and the mongrel Democratic
ticket was denounced and Republican
voters Of that ward signed call for a
mass Republican convention to give the
Republicans ticket
Senator Blair, Hon. J. NJ Langston,
Mr.. T. Thomas Fortune and many other
distinguished gentlemen are expected to
speak at the colored fair. This GER
tainly will be the grandest fair we have
had yet
All colored teachers III the State and
friends of education are invited to meet
in Raleigh on Thursday of fair week to
take some steps to have established
training school for teachers and high
school for our youth.
The concert IN Zion church last Thurs
day and Friday nights was decided sue
cess. The essays and recitations were
excellent, and the music was simply
grand. Grier's quartette was on the stage
several times and surpassed expectations.
There were also some good solos by
Young ladies' Refreshments were served
in the school room, and good order was
observed
There seems TO have been very IN
fortunate and serious misunderstanding
at the FIRE last Thursday. A difficulty
arose between the members of the white
and colored reel companies as TO which
should connect their hose to the nearest
plug. Result, one oolored man had his
nose broken and another was summoned
before the Mayor This shows dread
ful need of discipline among the firemen.
and all things taken into consideration,
colored men may come to the conclusion
that their noses, skulls, &c, are worth
more to them than other mems property.
Il is said at one time a serious row was