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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06
PERSONAL

Miss Bette Young, of Lexington, re-
turned home last week.
Miss Annie Haynes, Of Salisbury, re-
turned home last night after a stay of
several weeks in our city.
Mr. c. B. Boyer, Of Concord, was in
the city last Monday and the legislative
bee seemed to be buzzing in his ear.
Rev. Hampton, of Monroe, is in the
city and will give panoramic exhibitions
at some of our churches next week.
Miss Addie MeAuley is spending few
days with relatives at home. She has
been teaching in Wadesboro.
We had pleasant call from Mr.. l. l..
Waleer this week. He reports Zion
Wesley College moving on finely.
We are informed that Mr.. ]. w
Brown, of this city, las been appointed
one of the marshals at the colored fair
next week.
Miss Mary Foster has returned to the
city after spending several weeks with
relatives in Salisbury. She will begin
at once to give lessons in music, paint
ing and fancy work.
Mr.. A. W. Calvin is suffering severely
with an abscess on the cheek from a
tooth. He has been confined to his
room for several days.
Messrs. John Holloway and VALENTINE
Howe were on the legislative ticket
elected in New Hanover this week as
was Mr.. J. E. Sampson reelected Reg.
lister of Deeds. These are all colored
men.
Mr.. r. T. Wellington has moved in
to the house just finished by Mr.. ]. NJ.
Hsgler, adjoining Mr.. Robt. Hayes and
J. NJ. Hagler.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06
Slaves In Western Australia

The method of procuring these slaves
is simple, but effective. The settler who
desires the labor of native man, woman
or child, draws up paper, in which the
native is made to say that he offers him
self for employment for certain period.
The master signs this document, and the
native makes his cross in presence of a
policeman, and the thing is done. From
that time the native is as really a slave as
though his master owned him body and
soul. He is generally ignorant of the
contents of the paper which he has
"signed," but it places him absolutely in
the power of his master to do with him
as he pleases during the term of the ''as-
signment, F" and at its close he is fright
ened into signing again. Most of the
natives thus assigned are kidnapped and
brought in from the interior, and when
once they have made the cross, whose
significance they do not appreciate, they
are held by the magistrates as subject to
the Masters and Servants act of Great
Britain, and punished under its pro-
visions if they run away, although that
law was never intended to apply to bar
barous people.
Mr.. Gribble relates many instances Of
the cruelites practiced on the Australian
slaves, of the manner in which they are
loaded with chains for trivial offenses,
and of the indignities which are heaped
upon the women and girls. Most of the
slaves are used in working the pearl
fisheries, and the punishment for steal
ing pearls is in many cases instant death,
the master acting as Judge, counsel and
jury. In one day sixty of the unfor-
tunates-men, women and children
were thus summarily executed, and often
the natives are shot for running away.
Men make a regular business of kid.
mapping the natives for assignment. -
NesO York Times.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06
THE ELECTION.

Last Tuesday was election day
through the whole country. That which
interests us most outside of our own
State is the election of Crngressmen.
The present indications are that the
democratic majoriety in the next house
well be reduced to about ten.
The most noteworthy changes took place
in North Carolina and Virginia. Israel
Abbott straightout black republican is
elected in the 2nd district over 0'Hara,
and Simmons. John Nichols an old
time straightout republican is elected
from the 4th or Raleigh District. J. w.
Brewer, an old time straightout republi-
can is elected in the fifth or Greensboro
District. So in the next Congress we
will have three true blue republicans,
ono of which is as black as any man
who ever graced the seat of Congress-
man.
With the disaffection Of the democrat
ranks shown in this last election, we arc
now fully codvinced that our course was
the proper one. Had Dockery Russell,
Hayes Proctes or any good republican
been nominated in this district he
would have been elected beyond doubt
aad we would not now be ashamed for
stultifying ourselves in voting for Chas.
R Jones. We might have not only
scorned a signal victory in this District,
but it may turn out that the change in
our district might have given Congress
to the republicans, Doctor Mott and his
pets around Charlotte are responsible.
Where the republicans stood on principle
they won with honest republicans. In
the list District they tried democrat
and failed. In this and the 9th. District
they tried democrats and failed. In
the 9th District where the vote is largely
white, they tried wholesouled republi-
can and they won, as they did in the 4th
and would have done in the 9th, had we
not been led by men like Mott Gordcn,
Norment and such damagogues as Char.
r. Jones from the front ranks of the
democrat.
In Virginia, Malone was defeated
for nomination, and he took back
seat. The republicans gain five Con-
gressmen and as they had one before
they now have SIX, the democrats three
and Knights of Labor one. They laid
aside re-adjesterism, liberalism, indie
pendentism &C, and put forward men of
fixed principles, men known to be true
republicans, and they won.
Morrison the horizontal tariff reform
er of Illinois G Carlisle of Kentucky,
the present seaker of the House, Is said
to be beaten by republican.
A telegram from Raleigh at 10 o'clock
this morning says it is believed the Re-
publicans have majority in the LegisIa-
ture and have elected the Judicial ticket
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06

At least one hundred and twenty thou.
sand rice birds are sold in New York in
season.
Among the treasures of Orange county,
New York, exhibited at its recent fair,
was parrot which is known to be at
least eighty-six years old.
In an effort to sustain the reputation
of the West Columbus (Neb.) hen laid
an egg the other day which measured 81
by n inches in circumference.
A big bird with head and face like an
ape, with bullying eyes surrounded by a
fringe of gray hair, and with ears like q
mans, save that they are covered with
fine gray hair, was captured in Fort
Wayne the other day, and crowds visit it
daily. ..--.-
H. L. Clark, of Higganum, Conn,
brags because one of his ducks has laid
100 eggs this season, which is four times
the yield of the average duck. What is
more, from one of these 100 eggs was
hatchod four-legged duckling that still
lives and walks, using all of its legs as if
that was the proper thing for young
ducks.
Mr.. Green, of Woodbury., N. j., says
that a carrier pigeon with nine others
was liberated from Millville recently, and
that it became lost from the others and
kept flying until it died of starvation. II
is the custom of these birds never to give
up their search for the point they are
flying for. They will refuse to eat in
strange places, and will keep on the wing
until exhausted.
An immense hawk entered poultry
yard at Washington, Ca, and seized a
very large Shanghai chicken, but could
not take it from the ground. The cook
and the yard boy ran out and with sticks
tried to make the hawk loose the chicken,
but he would not at first give up his prey
so easily. When the servant would
touch him he would hiss like goose and
hold to the chicken tighter than ever.
He soon found that it was impossible to
take 1T with him and flew off, leaving il
badly wounded.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06

A recent number of the Irish Times
contained the following advertisement:
''How to change the color of an alco-
holic red nose. Recipe, which is effec-
tual in nine cases out of ten, may be had
by sending postal der for los. to X
1888, this Office" The Secretary of the
Dublin Total Abstinence Society hap
pened to see this advertisement, and the
next day he inserted another advertise
ment quoting it and adding: "How to
change the color of an alcoholic red
nose-Don't waste los. call over to the
coffee palace, 6 Townsend street, and in
90 cases out of 100, sign the pledge ard
keep it, your nose will assume its ma
tural shape and color"
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06
Eaots About Pearls.

While most gems, except the diamond,
90 out of style, the latter and the pearl
are always in vogue. One of the best
dressed gentlemen in New York always
appeared in the afternoon with a pearl
pin in his neckgear. It was valued at
$1,000, was perfectly spherical and like
drop of dew. Black p earls, obtained
in the Gulf Of Mexico, are fashionable in
mourning, and the red pearls, obtained
from the great conch strombus gigas, are
equally esteemed with diamonds. They
are not strictly pearls, being rich pink
concretions, that after a while lose their
color or fade. Pink pearls, with rosy
hue, are found in the Belebes, also in
Japan, while those from the Gambler
Islands are noted for their bronze tint.
They are taken from the curious hammer
oyster (malleus) so often seen in collec-
lions.
In the Marianne archipelago green
pearls are found, and greatly esteemed
by some collectors. They are quite rare.
The pure white pearls are found in their
greatest excellence in the Cults of Persia
and Manaar. Other tints are not un-
common in pearls. Thus about one hum
dred years ago two pearls were found
near Ceylon which were almost of ruby
red and of great value. They are now
the property of the Rajah of the sulu
Islands.
Pearls, unlike other gems, are liable to
loose their beauty; thus age will utterly
destroy pearl. Tombs that have been
opened after several hundred years,
where pearls have been known to have
been placed, have been found without
them, the gems being represented by
few grains of dust. This is said to be
the result of kind of decay or malaise.
It is, however, possible to prevent this
by keeping them from greasy or soapy
water, and occasionally placing them in
magnesia.
Even at the present day there is much
misconception regarding pearls. Some
writers affirm them to be the products of
disease, and a variety of theories are Of
fered to explain them. Pearls are, how
ever, mere concretions in the tissues of
the animal. Generally there is first some
irritating substance, as perhaps grain
of sand; this Is covered by deposit of
nacre, SO that its sharp edges are rounded
off. It continues to grow by this con-
tinued addition, until in some cases the
shells cannot close, and the mollusk be.
comes victim to its attempts at self
preservation. The pearls in the tissues
are generally the most perfect, but when
they escape and rest upon the shells they
become attached and irregular in shape.
Attached pearls are also found in an
other way; the oyster is attacked by nu
merous boring parasites, and to prevent
the encroachments of these the nacre is
heaped up over the spot, so that pearl
more or less perfect is soon formed. The
pearl fisheries of the United States are
not confined to our southern borders, as
the rivers of Kentucky, Ohio and New
Jersey have produced many exceedingly
valuable pearls, that have sold for large
sums in the European markets.
Francisco Call.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06
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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06

Our fall stock is in. Our stock of Dress
nooSs and Trimmings were never so
cheap and pretty as at this season. Big
c e.st If Ladies Wraps, including all the
new novelties. Ladies and Gents Under
wear.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06
Iha Maidan,a chnina

The maiden's eyes no longer beam
AL the mere mention of Ice cream.
When chilly grows the autumn NIGHT.
Inc ice cream loses its delight.
6ut oyster stews served smoking hot
Ine pretty Cir despises not.
BOSTON Courier.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06
Bird Stories.

At least one hundred and twenty thou.
sand rice birds are sold in New York in
q season.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06

Miss Bette Young, of Lexington, re-
turned home last week.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06
Effective Vaccination.

As protection by ordinary vaccination
is not secured until after the lapse of
thirteen or fourteen days-that is, a
period at least equal to that required for
smallpox to develop-it has been consid-
cred of no use after symptoms OF the dis
ease have been already infected. But by
a modified method, Russian medical
student, NJ. Gubert, claims to make such
late vaccination effective. In expert
ments on dogs he has rapidly saturated
hesystem with protective virus by sew
eral successive daily inoculations with
calf lymph, by which means he has sue
ceeded in bringing the vaccination
process to completion within four or five
days. This result has enabled him to
arrest the development of smallpox in
twenty-seven persons in whom he was
quite sure the disease was incubating,
while in twelve others the disease was
modified to simple varioloid.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-06

Science can do wonders, and it is now
Easy to produce crocodile tears" or any
other sort required. The essential oil Of
onions can now be extracted. A single
drop Of this oil upon the handkerchief
produces flow of tears; two drops cause
persistent sobbiug, and three grief Of
;he most suiIocatng and gasping kind.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-09-16
TURKEY PREPARING FOR WAR,

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Sept. cit is
rumored that 10 accordance with advice
given by two friendly powers Turkey is
making military preparations on the
Asiatic frontier. 1t is also said that
orders have been given to supply the
army at Erzeroum and along the border
with additional guns, stores and muui.
tions. This activity is due to move
ments on the part of Russia, which is
supposed to be making efforts to guage
the military and navy siren tn of Turkey
A suspicious foreign ATTEST has been seen
making sketches Of forts outside of Con
stautinople and it is thought he was an
agent OF Russia. 1t is learned that
large contracts have been made on
Russian account for coal for Odessa, aud
that contract has been made to supply
10000 tons Of metal plates of twelve
riches thickness, and with steel facing,
for the Russian aresnals on the Black
sea
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-09-16
DAVID DAVIS ON NEWSPAPER

every year," said the late Hon.
David Davis in letter to an eastern
literary paper, "every local paper gives
from 500 to $1,000 in free lines for
the benefit Of the vicinity in which it is
located. No other agency will or can
do this. The editor, in proportion to his
means, does more for his town than any
other ten mel, he ought to be supported,
not because you happen to like him or
admire his writing, but because local
paper is the best investment q commun-
ity can make. 1t may not be brilliant
or filed with great thoughts, but finan-
cially, it is more of a benefit to a COM
munity than preacher or teacher. I'm
derstand me now, l do not mean morally
or intellectually, but fnancia ly, and yet
on the moral question you will find the
majority of the local papers on the right
side Of the question. To-day the editors
Of the local papers do the most work for
the least money of any men on earth.
Subscribe for'and advertise in your local
paper, not as charity, but as an invest
ment,
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-09-16
Committed by Unknown Parties.
About q year ago ID. M. Frazi

About year ago d. NJ. Frazier, a
merchant at Orc Elmo, Idaho, was MUIR
dered. An examination into the matter
led to the arrest of FIVE Chinese, who
we're thought to be the guilty parties.
They we've sent to Murray City for
Imprisonment and trial, and while on the
way were taken from their escort by a
party of diguised men and hanged.
The Chinese at Ore Elmo claimed that
bad men, taking advantage of the excite
ment concerning the murder of Frazier,
seized and hung their five countrymen,
one of whom was a wealthy merchant,
and coniiscated their property. Cover
nor Stevenson of Idaho and the United
States district attorney have investigated
the matter, and made report. They
found that Chinese merchants of Ore
Elmo plotted the death of Frazier, who
was doing a fine business, in order to
obtain his trade, and that the scheme
was concocted in the store of Lee Kee
Nam L. Co. The lynchiug of the five
Cinnamon was done by party Of dis.
suised men supposed to be composed
largely of Indian friends of Frazier, and
that no other unlawful act was committed
and that the Chinese was not robbed or
further molested. This will probably be
accepted as the correct history of the
tragedy, as neither Frazier nor the
Chipamen who were lynched can make
any statemeht to controvc.t it.-OreQon-
ian.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-09-16
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Home Rule.

Rev. Stopford Brooke, an eminent
English clergyman, who has succeeded
to the place in American hearts that was
held by the lamented Rev. +. w. Rob
ertson, IN his pamphlet on the "Moral
Aspect Of Home Rule" says:
W. are asked to define this home-rule
sentiments if all Englishmen did not
know what it isl 1t is the sentiment
which every Englishman feels at home
or abroad with regard to his native
country-an emotion which is certain to
take form in action; which is so steady
that it outlasts all other emotions which
belong to earth, SO passionate that it is
felt in the loneliest Desert and in the bit
teress suffering; 50 unconquerable that
death is preferable to any dishonor done
to it--a sentiment built up in him out Of
the past Of his country into an inward
temple Of the soul, wherein all the glor.
ious historis deeds and sufferings of
England are painted, around whose walls
stands the statues Of all who have made
her name glorious in art and literature,
in wsr and peace, in law and knowledge,
IN righteounes and love Of God and man.
Wheresoever he goes he bears within him
this sacred temple, and in foreign lands
Asis always at home therein. There is
but enc thing which would defle this
shrine and cast its living stones to the
ground. 1t would be if this country
should be no longer free to express her
own will, unforbidden by any allen
power; no longer free to rule herself;
to manage and develop her own life: to
be an individual people.
That is what Irishmen feel about
ireland.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-09-16
REDUCTION WORKS.

S. Tia Oregonidn has the following to
pay y regard to the Quartz reduction
wofha geing up in East Portland ayes
tcrday Charles Rivears, the contractor,
finished the work of clearing and levelng
part Of block 81 in Stephens addition,
East Portland, preparatory to the cree
ton Of the buildings of the Portland re-
duction works. The location is between
the track of the Oregon &California rail-
road and the north bank of Stephens
slough, nearly half mile southeast Of
the new lime works. Eight and Ninth
streets, if extended across the railroad
track would run through the grounds
The slough makes natural dumping
ground, which is practically unlimited.
A switch will be put in, and along
this switch a covered ore shed, 252 long
and twenty feet wide, will be built. The
floor will be as high above the ground
as the floor of freight car. Adjoining
the ore shed, and one foot lower, there
will bea samplin floor twenty feet square,
In these structures the ore will be re-
ceived, weighed and sampled. There
will be test mill 24xS0, which will con-
tain rock crusher, rolls, and a ''Ken-
dali" mill, which docs the work of a
stamp mill, but more expeditiously. The
capacity of the test mill will be twenty
sample lots Of, say from. 500 to 5000
pounds. In all probability more rolls,
concentration and pans will be added soon
sNer the works start up. The smclter
will be what is known as the Pacific smell
ter Of latest pattern, with capacity OF
forty tons per day. There viii also be a
rooster or dissulphurizing furnace, 12x10
feet. Besides these there will be thor
uughly equipped assay office.
From present indications the buildings
will be up in three weeks, ard the works
will be ready for the reduction of ore by
the last week in October. The estimated
cost Of the plat is sll,0 900 to $4,000.
About twenty-five men will be employed
Some Of the heaviest capitalists in Port
land have taken stock in the enterprise
Already the works have been promised
enough ore from the Occur d. Alcne dis.
trics alone to keep them running for one
year, With Baker and Union counties
and Southern Oregon to hear from, t.
say nothing of the Colville district, i. is
not hard to believe that the company
will find it necessary to double the capacity
ofthe works before spring.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-09-16
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New light for Cars.

There is curiosity at present running
over the Northern Pacific road in the
shape OF railroad car lighted by gas, or
what is called the Frost light. 1t be-
longs to the Northern Pacific road, and
was sent to Philadelphia, where the
pipes, the lamps and the tanks, or car
burretter, were manufactured and at
tached to the car. The car was then
returned to st. Paul for the Northern
Pacific people to examine and try. The
gas, OF vapor Of oil, as it is called, is gen
Grated from oil in the car buretter, located
underneath the car. The capacity Of
the carburetter now in use is from forty
to fifty hours service for live burners
giving each fifty cardle power, very
high tower for car light. The cars
through this process are lighted very
brilliantly, so that a person can read .
newspaper iu any part Of the car. The
car is numbered 800, and will be ex
perimented with to give the railroad
men ample opportunity to test this way
OF illuminating cars. These lights are il
general use on some of tho railroads il
the east and are regarded as invaluable
-Re0iSter,
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-09-16
Potiatch County,

Mr.. Newton Estes has just returned
from trip north of Snake river, and
inlorms us that he unexpectedly found
a lar.e country unsettled. 1t is about
fifteen by twenty five miles and very rich
and productive soil. The grain that is
grown there is better then ours here.
They also raise excellent sorghum, which
grows about seven feet tall. Mr. Estes
also thinks that it will be a good fruit
country from the thrifty growth of the
young orchards. East OF that place is
another almost level uueccupied country
about five or six by seven miles. Any
one wishing to find II good home in a
new country, can have first choice there
On the west side the country is settled
up partially. Mr.. Estes is an old settler
and knows what he is talking about VIII IN
he speaks Of that section.-W. hide
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