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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-28
LOOK AT FINANCES.


CYRUS W. Field, keen-eyed, alert,
and vigorous, in his sixty-fifth year,
suggests locomotive in trousers. The
whole man suggests power; there is
power in the New England nose, power
in the square jaw and firm lips, power
in the whole bearing Of the man. was
struck with this anew in recent con-
versation with him about the silver
question. The gray eyes are usually
urbane in their glance, but they can
also peer half-closed with penetrating
scrutiny into those Of an interlocutor !;
they are as searching as the coal-black
eyes Of him whom so many fear--Jay
Gould. Mr.. Fields's offices are in the
seventh story of the Washington build
ing, corner OF Battery place and State
street. 1t is an eyrie worthy of this
eagle of finance. Mr.. Gould's Offices
look out on the crumbling tomb
stones of Trinity church yard, and all
day long there is the sound of the
great clock in the lofty steeple, sound
ing the knell of passing hours, far above
the roar of Broadway, varied occa.
sionally by the rather solemn chimes
sending down the notes Of " Old Hun
dred" or Dundee" or some other
familiar hymn tune. Mr.. Fields down.
town habitation, on the other hand, has
q widely different prospect. Far to the
south stretches the wide and glistening
bay, with the cleaning Narrows con-
meeting its nearer and farther waters as
by a silver thread; there is Staten
Island, whose blue heights look like a
haven of rest to summer toilers i'm
prisoned in the great city; there is
Bedloe's Island with its Bartholdi
statue, aud Ellis Island with its forti-
fications and useless ordnance, and
Governors Island, nearer at hand,
where the superb Hancock died
there Just below is the Battery, the
fashionable resort Of another age,
with its "reminiscences of Talleyrand,
Louis Philippe, and jerome Napoleon ;
Of Major Andre, Clinton, and Lord
CORVALLIS of Louis Kossuth, wash
ington Irving, and hundred Others
whose names once filled the ears Of
men, but whom a busting age has near
ly or quito forgotten. There is the time
worn Castle Garden where Jenny Lind,
in her glorious youth, nearly forty
years ago, stirred fever in the blood
Of age with her matchless voice. There
are the old dormer-windowed houses OF
the Bowling Green, once the aoodes Oh
the commercial princes but now given
over to foreign consulates and steam
ship offices, fronting on the little park
where more than n century ago the New
York patriots seized the leaden statue. Of
George III. to melt 1t down for bullets
to shoot his soldiers with. The imam
ciers's handsome building stands on .
site once occupied by the mansion Of
Nathaniel Prime, ruler Of Wall street
fifty years ago, whsn millionairss were
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-28

The dust thrown up by the Senate
Broadway Railroad Investigation Com
mittee has been so great this past week
that it has almost entirely hidden three
cases illustrative Of the peculiar dis
tribution Of spoils in local politics.
The first is the case Of Mr.. Bomanjss
Byramjee Colah, Parsee merchant,
who came here in 1870. l remember
him well. He was Of dignifed presence
and man Of great intelligence. lie
visited newspaper Offices and pub
lie institutions, and attracted ave-
rage attention. Suddenly he be-
came insane. Over 100000 was
found In his trunk q the HofE-
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-28

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

Gated ministry The reason Zion
lags so far behind now is because her
leaders have pandered to the ignorance
of our people and stood in the way of
education. The Presbyterians and the
Episcopalians have an educated minis
try and the result will be they are going
to have the educated people to hear them
preach. BY this means the churches are
going to cut into Zion. We dislike to
speak of these things, but they are facts,
and if VIC do not acknowledge them we
must lose. Nearly every village or coun-
ty has an educated Presbyterian minister
with an educated wife-if our leaders
are not educated, too, how can We COM
pete with them1
Our men ought not to say anything
that can be understood to be against I'd
ucation. Educate, educate, should be
our watchword. Men should not love to
play upon the tender cords of ignorance
and prejudice, but come down to the
right and help us TO educate and elevate
our people.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02
An Alligator Eats a Tramp.

Last week man, presumably tramp,
knocked at L. P. Thursby's door about
0 o'clock at night, after the family had
retired. Mr.. Thursby struck match
and responded to the call The man
ST tilted he had walked fifteen miles that
afternoon to take the night boat bound
north and got left and wanted to stay
over night. Thursby handed him key
and pointed TO his barn, stating that
that was the best he could do for linn
Not until after Mr.. Thursby had retired
some time did he think of the ten foot
alligator his boy had in the barn for the
entertainment of strangers next winter,
and worried considerably about the man.
As soon as he dressed he hurried out to
the barn next morning to see about the
man. He found the door locked, with
the key turned on the inside He forced
a side window open, found the alligator
in its usual corner, but the man was
missing. The evidence gathered seemed
to point to the destruction of the man
during the night, as the animal ate
nothing whatever during the next few
days Nothing can be heard of the man,
and it is believed that he came to an IN
timely end that night. - Orange CStJ
fEL0.l Times.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02
lie immunity Of Physicians.

It is prevalent propular impression
that some special providence surrounds
the physician with protective agencies,
and that, although daily exposed to dis.
ease in its mos. malignant forms, he es-
canes when othe-s are attacked. DR..
Ogle, of England, finds that while law.
yers die at the rate of 90, the clergy at
the rate of 16, the doctors mortality lie
25 per 1000. In million adults other
than physicians 16 died of scarlet fever,
IA of diphtheria, and 23s of typhoid
fever; while of an equal number of ply
sicians. SO succumbed to scarlet fever. SO
to diphtheria, and 81 to typhoid fever.
Smallpox, on the other hand, claims
more victims among the laity than in the
medical profession; due, doubtless, to the
Fact that physicians have sufficient con
fidence in the protective influence Of
vaccination to keep themselves insuscep.
tibleto the attacks Of smallpox.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02
MORAL GUIDES.

We would not If we were worthy, as
sumo the position of eonservator of the
morals of the present generation. The
duty rests upon other heads whose hearts
are purer and have a deeper sense of the
responsibility resting upon the guardian
If youth. That duty is upon the parent
and the legal prcceptor and when it is
neglected in youth, the child will suffer
from the neglect sooner or later. The
time is now upon us when we must pre-
sent respectable and more refined society
to the public. The young ladies and
young men of less than twentv-one sum
mers, and who have had advantages of
our high schools and colleges should not
offer any excuse If they fail to present
themselves to the public now with taste,
refinement and all that goes to make up
civilized people.
Parents who have not neglected the
early training of their children in morals
as well as the book, have done well.
They arc the proper moral guides of their
children. The preacher and the teacher
have their part also, and it is great.
Then there are other men holding res
ponsible positions in society, church and
state, who WELD great influence and
do much toward shaping the life of young
people for good or evil.
The church itself is great factor in
shaping the course of the young. The
acts of individual members or the body
of church membership is often taken
as license by the young to do certain
things. If that is an evil thing, that
member or that church has done a great
wrong. If swearing is wrong no church
or individual is justified in encouraging
it. If dancing is wrong, no church or
parent should encourage it in the young.
Evils of all kinds should be denounced,
and we hope never to hear again of such
evils as we have learned of being toll
Grated and even brought about in the
name of the church here of late. 1t can
add no good to our daughters to bring
them into frequent contact with improper
persons on a ball room floor, even if the
ball is given by church. God holds
the parent, the minister and the teacher
responsible for the child; because OF the
influence they have over the child.
The church weakens its influence and
greatly Injuries the race when it takes in
men to expound the gospel and they dis
grace the calling by immoral and I'M
proper conduct. 1t ISL our business to
direct parents nor the church, but we
hope to soon see the day when men will
be taken into the pulpit who are intel
lectually, morally and spiritually pre-
pared before they asc given license. We
hope to soon see the day when parents
will be more careful of where their
daughters are, who they are with, and
what they are doing. We hope to soon
see the day when young ladies and gen.
tlemcn will appreciate more the reading
of good books, papers music and the
amusements of the home Preside. Then
We will have purer ministry, better
church, happier families, more and pref
tier homes, fewer mismatches, fewer d.
vorces and better citizens generally.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02
Tho Vanderbilt Tomb.

ri. vanderbilt Mausoleum, in the .
Moravian Cemetery, back Of New DOrp'
staten Island, is not only the most I'M
sos;no tomb in the country, but one Q.
tho most massive and solid structures Q,
10 lind in the world. The highest anu
most beautifully located ground IN inc
cemetery is that upon which the mausO ;,
leum stands. A pretty little hill covered
with a thick growth of oak, beech maple
oum. elm and chestnut trees thirty or
FORTY feet high, was chosen as the sue
.nd Ground was broken here for the
structure on December 16, 1894. From
that time until the present the work mas
been carried on so steadily that the TOMB
itself may now be said to be almost com
plete. ,h.
The front is forty.two feet in height
from the grade line to the apex OF inc
coping, and fifty-nine feet VIDE, WIN
deep, heavily buttressed retaining wals
that spring out in curve twenty 1ees Oh
each side, and rise by steps, with short
orr amental column at the beginning OF
each level until at their junction with
the front wall they have attained an alti-
tude of twenty-threc feet. The interior
of the mausoleum is space forty eight
feet deep by twenty eight feet wide,
with semicircular chapel twenty feet
in diameter at the back. There are
twenty two acres of lend in the Vandtr-
bilt burying ground surrounding the
mausoleum, which will be converted into
a park. The cost o. the mausoleum it.
self is S25O,OO1 At present the body OF
VIII. Vanderbilt is in the receiving
vault near the main entrance of the Mo-
ravian Cemetery. Two Pinkerton detec'
tivcs watch the tomb constantly during
the day, and six more, in couples, stand
guard over it all night. These on watch
can at any time sound an electric gong
that will summon their comrades, who
sleep in little house that has been
erected for their accommodation at dis
lance of four or five rods from the vault.
There are II 900 applications for posi-
lions On file with the Secretary of the In
terror.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02
Personal.

Miss Ella Jones returned home from
Columbia last week after spending sew
eral weeks with friends.
Miss Hattie Babridge, of Columbia, is
in our city visiting Miss Ella Jones'
Mr.. NJ. W. Aston is visiting our city,
the guest of Mr.. L. p. Perry.
Rev. jaw. Colbert has returned to
Zion Wesley. He stopped in the city last
week
Mr.. John Clifton, of Columbia, S. c.,
spent few days in our city this and last
week
Miss Hattie Sumner, of Salisbury, is
spending some time with her cousin,
Miss Minnie Sumner.
Mr.. G. W. King has been very active
for the MESSENGER. He says he wants
to see it circulated among our people
because it is good paper, and be has
therefore gone 10 work to increase iti
circulation.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02

English sparrows get severe berat-
ing in a recent number of the London
Academy, which says: at is hard for a
lover of birds to approach the sparrow
question: Sparrows are found to do
more harm than snakes or tigers. Ma
ture's thieves and vagabonds they are.
This is the verdict of every one who in
vestigates the matter They drive away
birds who do more good and little or no
harm. For every noxious insect they de-
stroy, they consume more corn than one
likes to calculate A Cheshire farmer,
indeed, estimates the loss to England due
to depredations of sparrows at e770, 094
a year; and this loss is on the increase
The careful and long continued expert
ments of Colonel Russell, in Essex, show
that sparrows do unmitigated mischief,
and the experience of our colonies and
of the Americans confirm the facts be-
yond cavil. There is really nothing to
be said for the sparrow. He carries de-
struction with him wherever he goes,
and leaves devastation to mark his in
crease. From every point of view he
must be looked upon as the enemy of
man. Either he must give way to us or
we to him; and just now his power is
such that he seems in fair way to be-
come here, as he already has become in
Australia, factor in politics. The Col
orado beetle can never commit such raw
ages as the sparrow is certain to do
wherever he is allowed to go on un-
cheeked -
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02
OUR AIM.

BY reference to our declaration of
principles" it will be seen that we say
Eve will not allow personal abuse in
these columns, and that we reserve TIE
right to criticise the short comings of all
public officials-commending the worthy
and recommending for election such men
as in our opinions are best suited to serve
the people" We shall not forget this
and as we are not the champion of either
party, we have our rights as a citizen to
express our views in whatever wav VIC
deem best. Other men have choice and
express them. We claim the same right.
But seeing that matters arc so badly
mixed up and so corruptly managed, and
so many of our good people following in
the lead of bad men, and so much per-
sonal abuse, lying, selling, &C., INDUCED
IN, we think it best for us to keep out of
the matter as far as reasonable. Upon
reflection we have concluded that good
will undoubtedly result from this cam
paign. It is only necessary to give some
men time and rope and they will hang
themselves more effectively than could
be SO well done otherwise.
Now, let us be sober in all we 90
about. Let us cease to abuse each other
and If VIC cannot agree upon the same
men, why let us be gentlemen and allow
others to differ from us as well as we diff
Ter from them. Have we noticed how
quietly and nicely the whites are getting
along and how much fuss we have with
each other? And then how little of the
profit is to come to us and how much
goes to the white menu We only ask for
one poor little constable place. and with
out more harmony we will never get that
Let our aims be higher. Let us pay no
attention to blatherskite windmill fools.
because they take issue against morality
and education. When man has never
possessed any part of either, we must not
be surprise to hear him denounce both.
IL is true, many mother and father have
spent their last dollar to educate their
son or train up their daughter in the ways
OF virtue, but there is always some thing
IN the shape of man ready to denounce
these young men as educated fools, i,
and net only try to ''kick them out of
the party" but rob the fair maidens of
that which can never again be given.
After warning decent people of such
characters we think it best to give them
wide berth. Evil communications cor
rupt good manners; therefore we warn
good people to be careful with whom
they associate. A man who will tell
you lie on another. will tell another
lie on you
Our aim is to take less partisan stand
than we purposed doing. but if we see
wherein We can do our people good we
VIII not hesitate to strike with all the
energy that is in US. Let us be gentle
manly toward each other, and when we
know one has weakness for Icing. &c.
let US be charitable toward him.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02
EDUCATE THE MINISTRY.

Several perssns have spoken to us of
the remarks made by Bishop Jones in tho
course OF his sermon last Sunday morn.
ing concerning the ministry and col
Icges. He said: "When the Lord calls
some persons they thank him for the call.
ETC., but say am not quite ready vet,
Lord; | must go to college and fix up
little. And when they g to college and
when they return they tind the call gone
and nothing but college" He said:
when God calls you, don't consult the
college. have known several instances
Of persons doing 50 and they were all
shorn Of the good.
These words are not well understood,
for one could not see why a Bishop
would speak disparagingIy Of education.
The great trouble with us now is the i'm
position of 50 many ignorant preachers
and leaders. 1t is diseouragIng and dis
gushing to see men 90 in the pulpit to
teach when they have not themselves
learned. But OH when a big elder,
Bishop or the like encourages this stuff,
we may expect to be cursed by new crops
Of unlearned ministers every year to go
in our pulpits before intelligent people
and make clowns and monkeys Of them
selves The ministry must be educated
and bishop or anybody else is wrong
when he says otherwise. What are we
raising money to send to Zion Wesley
for, if not to give TO the world an edu-
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02
photouraphlna Celebrities.

"The business of photographing cele'
brities. y said Mr.. Lockwood, the travel
iue agent of FAX, to me the other day,
.,has grown enormously within the last
ten wears. 1t has become so great as to
almost overshadow private trade. In fact'
some photographers let it DO SO, when
is to my mind great mistake, for II II
is properly employed it can be used 70
build up the custom of private people.
Our house and another gallery in New
York employ agents-runners, you mignt
call them-whose duty it is to be upon
the streets and in theatres on the outlook
for pretty face or some distinguished
person whose portrait will sell readily.
eve have one man who does nothing
but watch the hotels for politicians,
poets, lecturers, or foreign celebrities.
/ have known him to bring statesman
from Washington for a sitting, paying
mis- passage both ways. Again I've seen
him go out to sea fifty miles to meet an
incoming steamship which was bearing
to our shores some foreign actress or
novelist of note. 1t is only by such en-
terprisc that the immense sale of nota-
bles' photographs has been worked up.
OF course we gladly furnish such people
as we solicit for sittings with quantity
of portraits gratis, after which they buy
at spec profcssional-rate. 1t pays
us to devote such attention to theatrical
portraits, for the wide circulation they
have brings us in not little private
trade. Our best markets are New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Sar
Francisco ~ Chicago Meas.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02
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and index finger pointing on to the grand 9
possibilities which the near future MUS
out TO our advancing fortunes:
In behalf of the Executive Committee,
CHAs. N. HUNTER,
GEO. r. WATSON,
J. II. WILLIAMSON,
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-02

St. Augustine, Fa., is building
So, 900, 900 hotel.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-25
Tnko Enough Sleep.

Sleep sufficiently, Eight hours
are not too much for any person,
Pale, thin, nervous people should
have ten hours, II possible. Let
lhom tako il regularly, conscientious,
ly, and always in we'll ventilated
room, and presently they will DO as
tonished 10 500 how their checks be-
gin TO fill out and grow rosy; how
their eyes sparkle; how fresh AMI
elastic and altogether like new croa-
lures they feel; and how the noun
tains OF languor and depression, dis
content and trouble, which had
weighed them down before, seem
somehow to have rolled away out OF
sight. and almost out OF remem-
brance.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-25

To keep up tho general health o.
the body is tho first and best mcdi
cine for nearly all diseases. Nature
will then work cure in her OWL
way.
Beware of colored stockings. Ami
line or Diamond Dyes will poison the
wearer If next to the skin and espoc-
tally if porspiration takes place or
thore is an abrasion in the skin;
Arsenic often enters in to the oOmpo-
sition Of reds in stockings, carpets,
bright Aanne!s etc. Your own home,
made dyes where you know the ingre,
dionts aro tho safsst.
Oliver Wendell Ziolmos says. ut
10 sin to DO sick" We echo the
sentiment and especially So if said
sickness comes through careless
ignorance or careless iipprudence.
Mover ont Whist you do not need
simply TO save it. Better feed it to
fowls or pigs or throw it away. A
surplus of food overtaxes the stomach
and The system can mako no use OF 1t
so it is worse than wasted
Children need fate, 80 they should
eat nuts, milk and cream. Pure
sugar is to a certain extent g substi
tuto for fat. Children all like swoats
ard this is one proof OF their useful
ness to them.
Understanding is as harmful to
health, strength, and brain power as
over feeding. Good food makes good
blood and good blood makes good
bones, flesh and brains.
If you doubt the purity of drinking
water, boil it. But if tho impurity
consists OF chemicals this will only
mako it worse. Boiling kills animal
and vegetable organisms in the water
Good, fresh, eggs, not too much
cooked are hoalthful food and very
nourishing.
Weak ten and coffee arc pure and
free from chemicals and if not drank
too hot are better than cold winter to
drink at meals especially in cold
weather and for elderly people. All
cold drinks and foods must abstract
heat enough from the system to warm
Them before they can DO used byit.
ELM!NA.