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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-11-12

One Cooley Creamer, capacity gallons;
Blanchard Churn, Butter Tubs, Milk Pans and
Covers, 5 five-gallon Milk Cans good as new,
with patent locks; three gallon Milk Cans, as
milk Can with Spigot five gallon Milk Can with
Spgot, Milk Coolers.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-11-12
HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN EuRNITuRE

consisting of Chairs Tables Bedsteads, Stoves,
Pans, Buckets and Plates, good Cook Stove, No
8. with fixtures +; l Tin Safe, Double Heater Coal
5y butchers, and many other articles not men,
toned. Also Hives of Bees, Cider Vinegar by
the gallon.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-11-12

situated in Hartford county, State of Maryland,
being parts of tracts or parcels of land called
"Syren's Range" and Better Luck" and is the
same and all the land of which Elijah Heaps, late
of Hartford county, died seized, and is situated on
both, sides of public road leading from Mill
Green to Highland Station, on M. @. H. X &, and
adjons the lands of Hugh 4. Heaps, VIM. A.
Heaps, George Kelley and others, and contains
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-11-12
10 Acres of Land, More or Less.

AvkA The improvements consist of
"a DWELLING noUSE, Log Barn and
- &u Aother outbuildings. an excellent and
g AnAunfailing spring of water few yards
from door. The land is In good condition and
well fenced and divided into fields of convenient
size. About 70 acres in cultivation, the balance
we'll wooded. Also contains good Apple Orchard.
ia convenient to churches, mills, school and with
In one mile of railroad station.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13
HUMOR OF ElIE DAY.

Half the pepper sold in Boston consists
of p's.-Beacon. te~e..,
The darkest hour is when you can't
find the matches. Fs
Nations of Europe appear to have nary
Prince who is able to govern Bulgaria.
..-.... .---s.s 7i .-Kdslington Post.
Gems of .thought-W Where is the win
ter coal coming from.- Waterloo Obsery-
cer. .-a s,a
If there is one thing that quicker than
another will drive a man to drink it is
thirst. Life. ~
It is ssaid that bees can predict weather.
They can certainly make it hot whera
they are.-BOStoD Post.
There is nothing especially murderous
or feroc Gus about gllded youth, and
yet he takes life easily. -Rambter.
A farmers journal says tomatoes will
ultimately be propagated from shoots.
Planted with gun, eh!.-Sgtings.
Can a man lose anything he never
ownedi Why, certainly; people lose
railroad trains every day. Boston Pes.
Light moves 1872, 900 miles per second.
Sound moves 743 miles second, and
scandal travels around the world in no
time. Life
The West is said to be a great grain
growing country, but it cannot raise its
own bread without the assistance of the
yeast. .-Dallas Mems. t,
L. Stone Wiggins. the late earthquake
prophet, parts his hair in the middle.
For all that, his head does not appear to
be evenly balanced. = Graphic. N
Iii, stated that mosquitoes will not
sting grown persons if there is baby
in the room. They probably realize that
the baby causes them sufficient suffering.
--Ne,o Hdoen Neacs. ha
Two clergymen once hotly disputed on
some l1notty point of theology until it
was time to separate, when one of them
remarked: 'You will find my views
very well put in certain pamphlet, T"
of which he gave the titIe. To his sur
prise his antagonist replied: ''Why, |
wrote that pamphlet myself. THE
Caurchman.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13
A Reminiscence Of LincOIn's Assas
sinatiOn.

Thomas F. Pendel, who has served
twenty-three years as a guard at the
White House, has been talking to Phil
adelphia Press reporter about his life in
the Executive Mansion. speaking of
President Lincoln's assassination, Mr..
Pendel said:
"On one dark rainy day the President
and myself walked over to Secretary
Stanton's Office in the War Department.
He and Mr.. Lincoln held conference
and then we started again. On the
stairway of the department we met q
stranger, who looked at the President
and he looked at him watched them
both intently. The man passed on his
way up stairs and the President kept 60
ing down, but Nh. Lincoln kept his eyes
on him. When the stranger reached the
head of the stairs he turned and peered
over the balustrade, and when he reached
the pavement the President spoke for the
drst time. 'Pendelton, he said, 4 re-
ceived letter from New York yester-
day telling me that a man answering his
description and dressed Just like him was
on his way to Washington to kill me.
"Then came that terrible night. Mr..
Ashmer, of New York; Mr.. Colfax,
Speaker of the House, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lincoln, were chatting in the parlor be-
fore starting for the theatre. Richmond
had fallen and the house was Illuminated.
Do you know the reason the President
went to the theatre that night2 It had
been advertised that Grant would be
there, but he couldn't, and Mr.. Lincoln
went so that the people would not be dis
appointed, / saw the party off, and sent
guard to look after them. About nine
o'clock the bell rang, and when an
swered it man said: DO you know
they have triedto cut Secretary Seward g
throatr SAID: No, it emit BE-. A
few moments later he returned, breathless,
and exclaimed: Yes, it is so. The cav
airy are up and down the avenue Then
grew uneasy about the President, and
sent out messengers. A few minutes
aftcrward saw Senator Sumner coming
up the hill, followed by crowd of men
and boys. and he gasped: How about
the PresidentT He had hardly finished
talking when Commissioner Newlin ar
rived and said: The President has been
shot through the back of the head !
went to Captain Lincoln's room. He had
Just returned from the front, and ! said
Captain, something has happened to the
President / told the Military Secretary
plainly what it was lie turned white as
death and said: Don't let any one come
In the house was going down stairs
when little Tad, who had been to the
National Theatre, rushed into my arms
and sobbed oh, Tom Pen, somebody
has killed my papa to-day 1t was an
awful night. l rushed through crowds
on the streets to Peterson's tailor's store,
where the President had been taken,
passed the line of guards. and Mrs. Lin
roln met me in one of the parlors with
hair disheveled and almost wild. oh,
Pendleton. she cried, if you had been
herelt would not have happened"
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13
DREAMS.


! dream Of days now long forever fed
time when life was earnest, real and
,i-s 7truer-fs7 m fo soa9 sspa gfstat
Before the hope of happiness was dead;
Before lifes sorrows filed my heart anew
With feeting wishes never gained
Though oft they. seemed close to my eager
-,@,-. grasp; .Hauq csf -
Ambition lured to heights Ine'er attained,
To friends whose hands always failed to
~ clasp. -.s...-e.- ny. s-sll, ,aoa
I often dream of days that now are here;
OF hopes thaturge neon my toilsome way;
OF stars that shine. my wayward course to
cheer, @ - t@
Up to the realms Of longed-for famed day.
The more Issiye tbe fatther off it seems-
This goal'for which, I yainly dream and
hope ~. ~. ,.,.,ss5
The sun obscured-toshis it hides its beams
While Ikin doubt, ny raylsss pathway
gt0pS 4 en
Then 1 have edreams of life not yet begun, /,
Hidden away in years-long years-to be,
On wheels of life where golden threads are
wheptoil is done1the weary spirit free. 2
This dfeAm Is one Iif6in would realize; 'iu
To prove that life is not quite all in vain,
But if it reaches fae beyond the skies-a gi
Before Jeath comes7oh, let me dream
again. ! .aa-4onni
Clint L. Luce. in the Current
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13
wv. G. sMlrH, Charlotte, N. c

James Tucker (colored) of sandystone,
Sussex County, has the distinction Of
being the most extensive producer Of
eggs in New Jersey. His poultry yards
contain 500 hens of the white Leghorn
breed, and from these he obtains thirty
dozen eggs day. Mr.. Tucker has beer
so successful in poultry raising that his
methods are being widely adopted, and
he is quoted as authority on questions
relating to the business.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13

According TOT writer in the Nineteenth
Centvry it has been almost a cruelty to
forbid the practice of suttee, or the sui
eide OF Hindu widows, while taking no
steps to defend such unfortunate per-
sons from the miseri's TO which they are
condemned by native social laws. The
theory is, as enunciated by the ancient
Hindu lawmaker Manu-, that "a yirtuous
wife ascends to heaven, ii, after the de-
cease of her lord, she devotes herself to
pious austsrity; but aw.dow who sights
her deceased husband by marrying again
brings disgrace en- herself -here-below,
and Shall be excluded from the seat OF
her lo9d.p Hence he directs that she
ahaIl emaciate her body by living vol
unfairly on pure flowers, roots and
fruits. but let her not when her lord Is
deceased, even pronounce the name OF
another man. Let her continue TIL death
forgiying ell injuries, performing harsh
duties, avoiding every pleasure, and
cheerfully practising the Incompatible
rules Of virtue which I'VE been-foilowed
by such women as were devoted to oniy
one husband. These laSs. though laid
down nearly 1850 years ago, arc still
mercilcssly enforced, and the life Of 9
Hindu widow is, in consequences, almo t
unbearable, 10 fact, many cases are
known where death from exhaustion and
starvation follows the attempt to. OBJ
serve the prescribed routine Of life. FoT
two days of each month, for instance, she
must neither cat nor drink anything, nc
matter how feeble may be her health.
Otherwise size loses 'castc7-and forfeit'
the respect and care Of her family. We
advise American widows TO stay where
they are
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13

Governor Hauser, of Montana Terri
tory, in his annual report, says agricul-
ture there this season has been almost a
failure. by reason of the unusually light
fall of snow last winter and the drought
last summer; : that the most serious loss
to the Territory is that of the natural
grasses upon which vast herds of cattle,
horses and sheep are fed; that should
the approaching winter be severe great
loss must inevitably follow. Some stock
owners, he says, are driving their herds
into the British possessions TO winter.
He thinks Congress should provide for
allowing stockmen to Craze their ani-
mails on the Indian reservations, for
which the Indians have little or no use.
He estimates the number Of cattle in the
Territory at 100000; horses, 13O, 900,
and sheep, 1000, OO0 The permanent
population of the Territory is placed at
10000, an increase of about 10000
during the year. Mine products he es
Inmates as follows; Gold, gross value,
So, 45o, 600; silver, $4,000, 900; copper,
$4,000, coo; lead. 1,25O, 600. Total,
$22, 800, 900.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13
THE LITTLE REp,cow.
They sing of the graceful Jersey,

They sing Of the graceful Jersey, grew sda
The queen Of the modern churn,
The beautiful COW whose butter
To masses of gold will turn.
We dim not one ray Of glory
10 That over her frame is shed,
But here's to the little Devon"
q THE trim little COW In red. 90 ;Sa ...
The Beautiful, hahghty Shorthcrn, 81
n The tired and white and roam"
The eelegantwhitefaced Hereford,
Will sneer at our cow and groan,
But brave is the little Devon,
She holds up her shapely head,
And stands by her chosen colors,
The trim little COW in red. at
The little red COW is modest
No wonderful masters hand
Has written her butter record
All ever the smiling land. ~, 81 ~ -
Far up on the heights Of honor (
Her banner has never led;
She works with q modest patience.
This trim little cow in red
The little red COW is patient
She never will fret OF moan
Because of the bare, bleak pastures
When summers warm days have flown;
She knows that the rain and sunshine
Alike in our lives are she'd;
She looks for better future,
This trim little COW in red.
A Amodest and patient woman
Who cares not when glory calls
Can build an annex to heaven
Inside of four roughened walls
When many a stately lady, ,if,ajt
Who begs for the worlds renown,
Will find her home sunshine darkened,
Her happiness trampled down.
And thus does the little Devon,
Untouched by the binding glare
Of glory, work on, and ever
Seek biavely todo her share. I z i t
Then here's to the little Devon,
This wreath for her shapely head,
The leautiful, modest Devon,
The trim little cow in red. .k
Southern LiUe Stock Journal
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13
After Concealed Treasure.

One of the curious schemes that find
lodgment in this city is tnat of stock
company designed to make specially Of
huntin. up concealed treasures. Captain
Bridgewater, one OF the stockholders,
tells me it is doing good business. |
asked him how they went to work.
.'Well,n he said, ''we are guided by cir.
cumstances. We learn as much as pos
sible about the characteristics of people
who are supposed TO have concealed
treasure, and then work accordingly.
was once called by the friends of an in
sane man to look after his money He
had hidden it while supposed to be in
his right mind, and after he became in
sane he could not be induced TO talk on
the subject or give any clew. One day
| suddenly pulled out OF my pocket q
big roll of b lis, and quietly remarked.
we stumbled on your hidlen pile
the other day He gave a quick
glance to the corner Of the room and
shouted: 'You liep and then laughed
gleelully. / had that corner searched
that night and found tine money. knew
that he would not be satisfied - stay in
any place where he could not be in sigh
of his treasure Another case where We
made $2, COO, was that OF wealthy man
stricken with paralysis. He was about
to deposit 81 900 when stricken down,
and the money wa gone. He could
not recall a thing. All that was known
was that he was found sitting on the
front hall stairs bereft of mind and
speech. We hurried everywhere, and ]
made up my mind that he had been
robbed We examined his person. and
fonnd bla k aud blue mark on his hip
aud another on his forehead. A silver oi
blue painted wood was on his clothing.
Wo then started out to find where thu
silver came from and where he got hii
marks. We found IN the barn cellar 9
dump cart that gave us our clew, ano
where he hid fallen we found the
money. n---Nee York Naos.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13
Quaint Epitaphs.

A San Franciscan on the occasion Of a
recent visit to the East discovered in an
old graveyard in Greene, Trumbull
County, Ohio, the following quaint and
humorous-if such word can be used
in connection with a graveyard-epi-
taphs, which he copied. On one old.
fat, brown headstone, fallen down and
broken in two, is written:
wYNAS WAKEFIELD.
During his life he voted for and helped TO
elect the following Presidents;
George Washington,
John Adams.
Thomas jefferson,
James Mad son,
James Munroe,
Andrew jackson,
Martin Van Bure1,
James Z. Polk.
Franklin Pierce
On a small white marble shaft in the
same cemetery was read the following
ireaderful inscription:
JOHN C. EVANS.
Our father lies beneath the sod,
His spirits gone up to his God;
We never more shall hear his tread,
Nor see the acen upon hishead
The only distinguishing trait Of this
old man was that while living his head
was adorned with large and beautiful
wen, ami his children. wishing to record
and pcrpetuate his virtue, had the above
touching and appropriate lines engraved
upon his tombstone.
On plain white marble slab was read
the following:
RUTH, DAUGHTER OF I. AND NJ. SHRINE.
Strangers it is, but it IS So
Here are three sisters in a row.
We were cut down in all our prime,
The daughters Of !. and N. Shrine.
We have paid the debt you plainly see,
Yet to be paid, my friend. by thee
The above was written and caused to
be recorded upon the stone by the father
of the three sisters.
The above-named Isaac Shrine was a
man If very eccentric character in his
day in Northeastern Ohio. Before his
death he wrote the first four lines of the
following epitaph, which can be seen
upon his tombstone IN a graveyard in
Cherry Valley, Ashtabula county, o. The
last two lines were added by his brother
after his death:
Here the old man lies;
Nobody laughs and nobody cries.
Where he's gone. how he fares,
Nobody knows nobody cares.
But his brother james aud his wife Emeline,
Were his good friends all the time.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13

mans columns came up and struck the
advancing Confederate force in flank,
and after a brief fight scattered it
through the woods. The providential
arrival of the infantry certainly saved
that whole feet from capture, penned up
as it was.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13

According to a Cleveland (Ohio) let
ter James A. Garfield has been studying
law with Judge Boynton in Cleveland,
and is looked upon by friends of his
father as the son most like him in every
way. He has his fathers size, complex
ion, eyes and manner. Both sons are
now men, and have, it is said, great am
bition. Miss Mollie, the only daughter,
isnow young woman, taller than her
mother, and has about finished her stud
ies
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13

The British Museum has one OF the
largest libraries in the world, and it Is
greatly used by students and readers en-
gagged in special research, SO great is
the overcrowding in the reading.room
that it is now proposed TO provide an
additional room for general readers.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13
VOL. TEI. NO. f9
THE
Charlotte Messenger
is TUBT JSHEDt ,al.tTs49s +
Livery Saturday.
THE
CHARLOTTE, N. C. q !

In the Interests of the Colored People
of the Country. j fn.. ..e ,a
Able and wel-l.nown writers. will contrib
ute to It's COLUMNS from different parts of the
country, and it will contain the latest Gen
eral News OF The day. aiTal 80
THE MESSENGER is flrst-class- newspaper
and will not allow personal abuse in its col
umns 1t is not sectarian or partisan, but
MISUNDERSTANDING fairly by all. It re-
serves the righ ito crfticise the Shortcomings
of all public Officials-commending the
worthy. and recommending for election such
men as in its opinion are best suited to serve
the interests OF the people, .ts..,'siur,aH
1t is isintended to supply the long felt need
of newspaper to advocate TIE rights ard
defend the inter. SITS of the Negro-American,
especially in the Piedmont section OF Che
Carolinas.
fos a 'sUBscRIPTIONs:orf s'd -l Q
tAticays an Adrdnce)
year ~ -TAT 1859. sfsAIA1
months 90
9 months rs~4s- sso7.s i.vr9z ,s5h.o
months cl'i0 i7zG 70 -les't .it0mlJ
months 40
Address,
w. c. SMITH, Charlotte, NC
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13

= dream Of days now long forever fed
A time when life was earnest, real and
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-13

In France the number Of suicides is
alarmingly on the increase. In 1851
there were ten suicides to every 100, 900
inhabitants, but in 1854 there were twenty
to the same number, as the statistics
show.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-03-04

the streets in as passible condition as posi-
bic until the spring opens, when we hope tc
put them all i'll hrst-rate condition. We
have no street hands hired but the street
boss and the cartman.
I. h. CHEEK, Chairman
Cemetery committee report cemetery in
good fix except fence which needs repair
interments, whites 2 colored Total 4.
j. f. Motley, Chairman
On motion the council employed E. Faw
to assist A S Clay in the case of Mrs Blank
enship VS. city Marietta
BY Aid Owen: Resolved That no person
shall be allowed to run trucks, hand carts OF
wheel-barrows along on any side walk
around the public square or to play ball, OF
marbles on the public square or on sidewalk
or any of the public streets or within 100
yards of the public square, under penalty Of
not exceeding five dollars for each offence
Adopted
On motion the committee of the fire de
partment be authorized to make arrange
ments about suitable house for the fire de
partment with power to act Adopted.
Communication from Memorial Associa
ton read and the council agreed to work
Confederate cemetery same as city GENE
terry.
Street tax was fixed for the year 1886 al
81 so or five days work on the streets
The illegality of the ffas against Dr. G
and Mrs L r Tennent referred to finance
committee.
On motion the marshal was instructed tt
return all tax fitas he has on hand that he
cannot make the money out OF over to the
Treasurer and take his receipt for the same
The clerk was authorized to issue ffi
against Mrs. Randall for her city tax fol
1885.
Aid Owen moved council adjourn unit
third Monday night in March at Z o clock.
E. DENMEAD, Mayor
j. H. COOPER, Clerk.