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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
The Electric Millennium.

Professor Ayrton says that in America
there are G00J electro motors driving
machinery, while Great Britain has
scarcely hundred. He believes that
the time will come when coal will be
burned at the pits mouth for the supply
of mechanical energy TO distant towns;
and that before long the cost of carrying
power along wire by means of the
electric current will be less than to carry
coal the same distance on railway.
Americans now have twenty-five electric
street lines. while England has but four
He believes it possible to SO regulate the
current that cars on electric railways
cannot get upon a section already occu-
pied BY other cars without losing the
current, and 30 coming to stop. All
danger of collisions would thus be
avoided As it is now, when a train
stops at station, the steam that drives
it is largely wasted. When the electric
train stops, its energy will simply fly
along the track for the use of distant
trains which are moving.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
A SOUTH CAROLINA SENSATION.
Township Subscriptions to Railroads is Un
constitutional.

A decision rendered by the State Su-
preme Court of S. G. has created great
sensation all over the State, and particu-
lsrly in financial circles. 1t has been the
custom in South Carolina for townships
as well as counties and cities, to sub
scribe large sums to the capital stock of
projected railroads in order to induce
them to run through their territory.
These bonds have been freely sold at
par, and as they generally paid good in
terest, were considered in the State and
the north sound securities. Several re-
luctant citizens last year instituted suit
in A5beville county to save themselves
from paying taxes to defray the interest
on some of these bonds, and circuit
Judge in January decided them unconsti-
tutional.
Contrary to general expectation the
Supreme Court has now affirmed the de-
cision of the court below, and announces
the broad principle that the incorpora-
tion of townships for the purpose of en-
abling them to issue such bonds, is un-
constitutional because of the absence of
corporate purpose in township so in
corporated. The decision makes worth
less million dollars of township bonds,
considerable proportion of which are
held at the north, and will cripple and,
perhaps, stop absolutely the progress OF
half dozen new railroads which have
been working their way through the
State with the aid of township subscrip-
tions.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
Southern Enterprises.

Special reports Of the activity OF the
;nduatrial interests OF the South show
this week has been a very busy one.
Among the new enterprisesis a s., ,oOO,,
600 company, composed Of New England
capitalists organized at Forth Payne,
Ala. to develop mineral laud, build fur
naces rolling mills, etc. Knoxville. q
s. coo. 600 slate quarrying company and
$500 900 improvement company TO
build street railroads, etc. Ocala, Fla ,
a 1900. 600 general Improvement compa,
nv baltimore, $500. 900 agricultural
implement company. III Paso. $3.50,
OO6 irrigation company. A $500, 900 com
pany win build manufacturing town
% pear Asbeyille, N. G. Cotton mills are
projected at Gaffney City aud Winsbofo'
s q. and Cedartown, Ca, and at Ma
con, Ca, a 800, 900 spindle mill will b'
built at once.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08

Says the New York Graphic: Oilers
is young man who is really too good
to live. lis name is Jerry Fields, and
he is Treasurer of Waubausee County,
Kan. His father had held the same
Office for eight years, and when some
months since he declined to occupy the
place any longer Jerry was elected to
succeed him. The old gentleman was
plain, homcspuu farmer, without much
knowledge of accounts. and when Jerry
went over the books he found shortage
Of several thousand dollars. or at least a
discrepancy that his father could not
readily account for. Did Jerry go over
the books again and try to straighten
the accountsg Not at all. He sailed
forth to the nearest Justice Of the Peace
and had his father arrested for en-
bezzliDg the funds of the county. and at
last accounts the old man was in jail.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
THE FARMERS VICTORIOUS.
Shrinking in Sales of Jute Bagging
Kills the Trust.

A special from st. Louis says the jute
bagging trusts is reported to be going to
pieces The sales of bagging by the
combination have been far below the u.s.
ual fall average. In addition to shrink
age in sales, another obstacle now con-
fronts the bagging trust, which causes
no small uneasiness In its ranks. There
are in all twanty-four bagging factories
in the United States, and of these six
teen are shut down, having been leased
by the combine" and closed. The first
day of January these leases expire and the
sixteen factories are ready to start up
again unless once more leased by the
trust and allowed to reman idle. So fan
there has been no arrangement made to
wards leasing the bagging combine
and it is probable thas several factories
will start up after the opening of the new
year, which is calculated to interfere
considerably with the plans of the com
bine and naturally cause serious decline
in the price of bagging.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
Apropo. Of the basebaII fever which

Apropos Of the baseball fever which
RACES in this country for about six months
every year, the New York Telegram says
that ''the National Game" bids fair to
take up its quarters all over the world.
Our Metropolitan contemporary observes
facetiously: "This summer the game
penetrated to Germany ana Consul Fol-
som introduced it at Birmingham, Eng
land. Another encouraging symptom is
the circumstance that all the principal
cities Of Australia are evincing great in
tsrest in the prospective games between
the Chicagos and the All-Americans this
winter; aud that young Barnes is about
to establish league in England, with
clubs in Ireland and Scotland. When
Russia comes under the influence, Asia
covcts the international championship
and Abyssinia joins the league we shall
cease to hear Of wars and rumors Of wars.
MacauIay's New zeaIander, on his way
TO sketch the ruins Of the Tower OF Lon
don, may, perhaps, run over to Alghanis'
tan in his balloon TO witness the final
contest for the international pennant be-
tween the Herats and the Stanley Pool'.'
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08

Fifty years ago the United States was
the home of large number of peculiar
wild animals. Unless a National pre-
serve comes to the rescue very soon,
another decade will see them nearly all
extinct. The grizzlies are disappearing
from the Rockies. A live buffalo is now
worth from $500 to $1,000, which three
years ago cost scarcely one-ffth that
amount, and they are found almost mo-
where but in the corner of Texas and in
the Yellowstone Park. The caribou has
been hunted almost out of existence.
The mountain sheep, the moose, the
beaver, the antelope, are all disappearing.
If we are to know anything in the
future about our American wild animals,
we must arrange right speedily ZOO.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
GENERAL NEWS.

At Durant, Miss, fifteen business
houses were burned. Loss 10000; in
surance $4,000
The Alabama Legislature have elected
John I Morgan to represent that State
In the Senate. He received all the votes
cast in each body.
Rev. Henry Smythe, d. D. LII. D., of
Philadeldhia, has given $40, 900 to the
Grant Memorial University, of Athens,
Tenn, to aid in educating ten young
men for the Southern ministry.
The fishing schooner Percy has ar
rived at Gloucester, Mass. from Georges
Bank, having on board Capt Durrah and
crew, of the brig Mary Fink, abandoned
at sea.
At Auburn, New York, jury has
found verdict of guilty on all six
counts against Gardner, chief of the OPT
um smugglers on the Canada border.
Gardner was customs officer at Lock
port.
Raphael Dalano arrived in New York
from Jacksonville, with his family,
and was taken sick soon after his arri-
val. Shortly after noon black vomit
began. The doctors say the case is one
of yellow fever.
All of the coal miners along the Mo-
nongahela river, in Pennsylvania, closed
down indefinitely. The operators claim
that they have been losing money on ac-
count of over supply, and are unable to
keep their men at work. Over 5000
miners are thrown out of employment.
Miss Belle Wilson and Michael Henry
Herbert, who is at present, Lord Sack
vile Vests temporary successor in
charge of the British legation at Wash
ington, were married az st Bartholomew
church. About a thousand invitations
had been issued and there was brilliant
gathering of friends.
B Thompson, foreman of the brick
work on the new court house at Birming.
ham, Ala, fell from the tower to the
ground, distance of fifty feet. His spi.
nal column was broken in two places,
and his left leg was shattered. He died
two hours later. Thompson was abouf
thirty eight years old and had man,
friends in that city. He was unmarried
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
Mrs. Gen. sherman Dead.

Mrs Ellen Ewing Sherman, wife ofGen.
w. II. Sherman, died at 10 o'clock We'd
nesday morning at her residence, No. %
West Seventy fifth street, New York.
Mrs Sherman was sixty-four years oi
age, and was borne at Lancaster, Ohio.
She was married to General Sherman
thirty-eight years ago. and they were
acquainted from the time that they were
children.
Mrs Shermans father was Senator
Thomas Ewing, who represented his
state in the senate for number OF years,
and was also cabinet officer.
Mrs. Sherman's remains were taken
to st. Louis. No., for intermcrt. St.
Louis is the old home OF the Sherman
family, several members of which are
buried there.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
AgrIcu,ture,s Effect Upon climates


The effect of the cultivation Of the sol
upon the climate has been practically sx-
hibited in the far Southwest, where tht
hot winds which prevail burn up the
vegetation and prevent the growth Of
crops. This obstacle to agricultural
progress has been gradually pushed back
to the borders of Colorado from Central
Kansas by the breaking Of the ground
and the growth of crops. 1t is fatal
warfare to the pioneers, who are swept
away in the strife with the hct winds
lust as charging line disappears before
the fire of an intrenched enemy, but the
supporting line succeeds in dislOdging
the enemy and holds the fort. So the
second line plsnts itself firmly upon the
ground from which the pioneers hava
been driven, and thus the line advances.
The cause Of the difficulty and the means
of its removal are simple. The hard
beaten surface is heated by the suns
rays to very high degree, the winds
absorb this heat, and, blowing over the
ad AGENT cultivated land, take all the
moisture from it and destroy the grow
ing crops. BY this absorption OF moisture
the winds are cooled. and, passing on
with their load OF vapof - they cool,
they precipitate il in showers. As the
line Of cultivation advances, the process
goes on, changing the climate and
permitting the growth Of crops on 9
,adually advancing line.--New feri
Vines.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
The Presidents Thanksgiving.

President and Mrs Cleveland attended
the Assembly church, at Fifth and |
streets, Washington. where several Of
the Presbyterian churches held union
services. The sermop was preached by
Rev DIR Pitzer. After the services the
p.esident reviewed the district national
guard from stand in front of the White
House, and then went to oakview- He
ate his thanksgiving dinner with Mrs
Cleveland, Mrs Folsom and Mr. Hoyt, q
relative of Mrs Cleveland. The day was
generally observed in the city.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08

The Chinese Exclusion law is not
without its humorous effects, although
to the victims they are anything btt
funny. The wife of rich Chinese mer-
chant in San Francisco was on the ocean
when the bill was passed, and on the
voyage gave birth to child. The Gus
tom officers at San Francisco refused to
permit the infant to be landed. This
seems too hard, comments the Chicago
Herald. but there is no remedy.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
The Great Hudson bay Company.

Most people of the present generation
think the Hudson Bay Company, which
once so potentially and magniticently
ruled half this continent, is thing of
the past. But it is not. The company
still lives, and although not nearly SO
powerful nor so wealthy as in the early
days of its history, it nevertheless gath
ers in its millions annually and distrib-
utes them among its lucky stockhold-
ers. John B. Hale of Winnipeg, one of
its most trusted agents, was at the Bar
tholdi the other day and told the Obser-
yer something about the present con-
dition of the company. The hcadquar-
tiers of its business is at Winnipeg, and
from that point are forwarded all the
supplies needed for the more than six
hundred trading posts north of Manitoba
and extending into the Arctic Circle and
West to the Pacific. There are only four
months of navigation during the year
in Hudson's Bay, and all tie
goods for the entire season must be
shipped in these months. The Indians
do their hunting in the days when navi-
CATION is closed, and during the pleasant
season gather at the trading posts to
barter the furs they have obtained for
the goods and supplies sent up by the
company. Just before the closing Of
navigation all of the furs are shipped
down to Winnipeg, whence they 60 to
the company's storehouses in different
sections of the world. The trade is car
ried on with the Indians just as it was
more than 150 years ago by the men who
first started the great company, and com.
paratively as much money is made. Mos
Of the stock of the company is owned IL
England. and for nearly fifty years it ha
never paid less than twenty-five per cent.
dividends. York Graphic.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
Vest Pocket Incubation.

The following is from Grass Lake
Mich daily Last Monday morning,
while . small knot Of men were talking
together at the Central Depot in Jack ?
son, Mich, the peep of a chicken was
distinctly heard. Thereupon one OF the
number opened his vest, and in an inner
pocket was revealed a chicken Just
hatched out aud sill partly IN its shell.
He reported that he had carried an egg
for twenty one days on a SlU wager
that it wou d hatch from the natural
warmth of his bods-n
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
Parsley and Turkey.

No one in Turkey. says a writer, has
ever yet succeeded in producing pota-
toes at price moderate enough TO com
pete with those imported from Marseilles
and Trieste. To eat a beefsteak in on
stantinople one must get the beef from
Russia. the butter from Italy, the pota-
toes from France quite an international
beefsteak, is it nott Turkey only-ah
we beg pardon. Turkey does supply
something; she supplies parsley.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
Biggest FIagstones Ever Quarried.

Everybody who has been able to see
the mansions built by the late William
II. Vanderbilt for himself aRd his two
daughters, with their families, knows
that the structures occupy the whole
fifth avenue front between Fifty-6rst
and Fifty-secOnd streets. New York City,
and most visitors have noticed the
enormous stones which form the side
walk. These blocks of granite reach
from curb to area rail, and are proper
tionately wide. The city home Of Mrs.
Willie Vanderbilt is on the corner just
across Fifty-seeond street, and it is more
ornamental with its carved granite, than
the larger piles of brown stone. But the
200 feet of sidewalk bordering the
two sides of the premises was COM
posed of flags not remarkably big, al
though rather better than the Fifth
avenue average. The whimsical young
matron did not choose that her
sister-in Jaw neighbors should be better
off than she, even in what they tread on
in transit betwixt portal and carriage.
Therefore, she has ordered her sidewalk
torn away and replaced by the biggest
flagstones ever quarried. They will be
about twenty feet square each and foot
and half thick. The difficulty of get
ting out such tremendous blocks, and the
cost of transportation, will make the
price rather more than $1,000 apiece by
the time they are laid. To realize the
extravaganza one has only to think that
the money paid for every one of these
stones would build pretty house in the
country or buy a considerable farm.
Nevertheless, as not less than ninety-six
per cent. of this outlay is forlabor, isn't
itbetter for many poor people that this
very rich person should want that kind
of a sidewalk 2- Times Democrat.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
SUBSCRIPTIONS:


The New York Witnsss says: "oyster.
men on Long Island Sound are loudly
demanding protection against that for
sign pauper laborer, the star-fish, which
has entered into competition with them
90 vigorously that they are in danger of
having to abandon their industry. Tho
radiated sea-pirate can eat oysters faster,
q appears, than the human animal can
gather them. Let the star-fshes be pro-
hibited by all means"
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
Charlotte Messenger
Is PUBLISHED
Every Saturday.
CHARLOTTE, N. c.
In the Interests Of the Colored People
of the Country.

Able and well-known writers will contrib
ute to its columns from different parts Of the
country, and It will contain the:latest Gen
THE MESSENGER Is first-cIass newspaper
and VIII not allow personal abuse in its col
independent-dealing fairly by all It re-
serves the right to criticise the shortcomings
OF all public fElcials-commending the
worthy, and recommending for election such
men as in its opinion are best suited to serve
the interests Of the people.
II Is intended to supply the long felt need
OF newspaper to advocate the rights and
defend the interests of the REORGANIZATION,
especially in the Piedmont section Of the
Car0linas.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
ALL OVER THE SOUTH
NEWS FROM EACH STATE
NORTH CAROLINA.

NOhTH CAROLINA.
Grandfather Mountain is covered with
snow.
An apple tree in Yadkin county. 80
years old, bore so bushels of apples this
year.
A vein of bituminous coal has been
found in Orange, and syndicate has
been formed to develop it.
W. H. Styron, of Wilmington, dealer
in tobacco and cigars, assigned to E. ].
Barker. for the benefit of his creditors.
The assets and liabilities are put down
for some $4,000.
JEFF. Smith, living near Forest City.
had his barn and its contents, together
with one mule, burnt Thursday night.
The fire was incendiary. The loss is
five hundred dollars. There is no clue
to the party.
The Steamer Eacoochee, from Savan-
nah to New York, before reported
ashore at Point Lookout lies easy. Over
1900 boxes of oranges have been thrown
overheard. The wrecking steamer has
arrived, and lighters are coming to take
the cargo. The steamer is not damaged.
Two assignments for the benefit of
creditors are reported; one that of ] B
Makepeace, of Sanford, manufacturer of
sash, doors and blinds; the other that of
E W Ward, Of Lincolnton. The assets
and liabilities are not known Ward
was the Republican candidate for Con-
gress in the Eighth district.
SOUTH CAROLINA
CHARLESTON, s. C.-The gala fortnight
festival of 1888 closed with grand lawn
tennis tournament, attended by an i'm
mense crowd, the ladies predominating.
The visitors departed by the thou
sands. From eight to ten thousand
strangers, it is estimated, attended the
celebration.
James Wood, colored, was hanged in
Aiken Jail yard Friday, for the murder
of Robert Ollie in July last. Ollie left
his home in January and coming back in
July found Wood living with his wife.
While talking to his wife, Wood shot
him dead. The murderer was sentenced
to be hanged November I'd, but was res
plbO0 ubbAl AlldJ. hC was EdDkCQ III
the presence of a hundred people. He
wept aloud on the scaffold and had to be
supporter. His neck was broken by the
fall.
The steamer, Gulf Stream, from New
York reached her dock at Charleston in
damaged condition, three days overdue
A terrific storm was experienced off Jer-
sey coast, the wind blowing at the rate
of seventy-fve miles per hour. The
doors of the engine room were stove, the
fires extinguished, the stearing gear car
ried away, and the pumps prevented from
working. The vessel was only saved
from destruction by the free use of oil
poured from pipes on her side into the
sea. There was four feet of water at one
time in her hold. The only means Of
baillng it out was by buckets. which the
sailors continuously used for forty hours
during the height Of the gale. The en-
gines were stopped for twenty hours, and
the sails of the steamer were used to keep
her before the wind. The cargo, con.
sisting of general merchandise, has been
very much damaged. No passengers
were on board .he Gulf Stream, she being
used for freight.
cVOunIA
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08

The famous strasburg clock. one Of
the most noted curiositie, Of The slras-
burg Cathedral. was constructed by
Isaac Habrecht in 1870.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08

John Busson, a railroad watchman who
watched the South tunnel, which is
about five miles beyond Gallatin, on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, was
found dead and mangled on the track at
the south end Of the tunnel. He had
beea paid and as his money and watch
was gone. il is believed by the railroad
authorities that he was killed during the
niqbt and his body placed on the track.
The remains had been run over by train
and were terribly mangled.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08

Gov Lee has issued proclamation Of
fering 81, 900 reward for the apprehen-
sion OF party or parties engaged IN the
release Of Wayman Sutton, convicted Of
murder, form the Wytheville Jail.
Mrs Amelie Rives Chanler has re-
turned to Castle Hill. Va. She has been
followed to her home by Messrs. Walsh
and Stoddard, of Lippincott's Magazine,
who are anxious to obtain another novel
from her pen. This is not strange.
eThe Quick or the Dcad9' is still selling
at tremendous rate, and the presses
have never quit work on it since they
begsn to flood the country with this odd
story.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08

The Presbyterian Synod of Georgia
met at Athens last week.
President Inman, of tn Piedmont
Air Line, is at the Columbus Exposition.
Thursday was Carolina day at Augusta
Exposition.
DJ Cronin, city policeman; Patrick
McMurray an Ocean Steamship Compa-
ny policeman; John Grimmen, a laborer
from New York Mike Tilghman, and a
negro. all lost their lives in riot in Sa-
vannah on Thanksgiving day. 1t all
grew out of Patrolman McMurray's ar
rest of a drunken negro near Orange
aud st Gaul streets. The negro resisted
arrest and swore he would not go. The
streets were full Of drunken negroes who
we're ripe for trouble. They made a
rush at the officer, who used his pistol
freely, wounding many negroes. Nc
Murray was finally overpowered and
beaten insensible. Crimen and Cronin
who endeavored to rescue him, were
treated in like manner, but scores of po-
licemen arriving on the spot quelled the
riot an d made many arrests.