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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
The Proposed Railroads.


There has been no measure before our
people for many years that is so impor.
tant 10 the laboriDg classes rs the pro
posed new railroads that are to voted for
ON January, 10h, 1889. They are calcu-
lated to do much toward the upbuilding
OF our city, county and State, as they
will penetrate the finest section Ct onr
State and South Carolina. Trey viii
give employment to large number OF
unemployed laborers, many Of whom
to-day are asking for work and being
unable to get because OF the lack ofim
provement in on midst.
The building Of tnesc roads will bring
an immense amount Of capital to our
State as it will Cost four times as mech
TO build the roads in orr county as the
county will subscribe, consequently, the
remainder must come from the Moth
and nearly the whole amount viii be
paid out among our laboring men. Then
where is the laboring man who can, OF
will refuse to vote for these subscripiionsl
Let every friend Of labor and If iu
provement aud progress sec to it, that
there is faU gotc in favor Of the sub
scriptions.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22

The longest speech on record is be-
Iieyed to have been made by Mr.. De
Cosmos IN the Legislature Of British Co
lumbia, when message was pending,
the passage Of which would take from a
great many settlers their lands. De Cos
mos was in hopeless minority. The job
had been held back till the eve of the
close OF the session. Unless legislation
was taken before noon of a given day
the act of confiscation would fail. The
day before the expiration of the limita-
ton De Cosmos got the floor about lO
4. II. and began speech against the
bill. Its friends cared little, for they
supposed that by or o'clock be would
be through and the bill could be put on
its passage. One O'clock came and DC
Cosmos was speaking still-he had moi
more than entered upon his subject.
Two o'clock-he was saying Tin the sec
ond place" Three o'clock-hc pro-
duced fearful bundle of evidence and
insisted on reading il. The majority
began to have suspicion of the truth
he was going to speak till next noon and
kill the bill. For a while they made
merry over it, but as it came on dusk
they began to get alarmed. They tried
interruptions, but soon abandoned them,
because each one afforded him a chance
to discuss and gain time. They tried to
shout him down. but that gave him a
breathing space, and finally they settled
down to watch tho combat between
strength of will and weakness of body.
They gave him no mercy, no adjourn
ment for dinner, no chance to do more
than wet his lips with water, no wander
ing from his subject, no sitting down.
Twilight darkened, the gas was lit,
members slipped out to dinner in relays
and returned to sleep in squads, but De
Cosmos went on. The Speaker, to whom
he was addressing himself, was alter
nately doing and trying to look wide
awake. Bay dawned, and the majority
slipped out in squads to wash and break
fast, and the speaker still held on. 1t
cannot be said that it was very logical,
eloquent or sustained speech. There
were digFessions in it, repetitions also.
But still the speaker kept en-, and at last
noon came to a ba led majority, livid
with rage and impotence. And a single
man, who was triumphant, though his
voice had sunk to husky whisper, his
ewes were almost shut and blearcd and
bloodshot his legs tottered under him,
his baked lips were cracked and smeared
with blood. De Cosmos had spoken
twenty six hours and saved the lands
San francisco Chronicle.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
An Iuueuious Wire Dirk.

As Tailor Birdsong was making tour
aronnd the iron cage at the Macon, Ca,
jail, he cspied string hanging down
on the outside from the top. He pulled
the string and found that it was attached
to dirk, made of a portion. of wire
bailing of bucket. This dagger is a
curiosity, and shows the ingenuity of the
prisoners. 1t is about ten inches long.
and rounded and tempered to a sharp
point, and the handle is made by being
wrapped with strand taken from one of
the hammocks. This handle is plated
and woven, and is not only ingenious
but pretty piece Of work. Such dag
ger is dangerous weapon, and in the
hands of strong man is as dangerous
as a pistol.
The prisoners denied knowing any
thing about it, but it is supposed to
have been the work of James Harmon.
sent up from Worth county on the charge
of stealing sheep, and who was taken to
his county few days ago for his trial.
Several daggers of a similar kind have
been made by the prisoners, and Harmon
admitted plating the handles. 1t was
evidently made for the purpose of using
it on the jaiIer, should the opportunity
present itself. but the jailer is too watch
full Six or seven daggers Of this kind
have been made for that purpose, and
each time the jailer illustrates the scheme
by finding the weapon.
The county persists in furnishing the
Jail with tin buckets having wire balls.
and the prisoners find breaking them up
an easy undertaking. There 10 an in
durated wood fibre bucket made that has
no wire bail or hoops and which fur
nishes the prisoner with nothing that
can be made into weapon. Macon
Chronicle.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
CONSUMPTION CURED.

An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and perma-
nent cure for Consumption, Bronchitis,
Asthma and all throat and Lung Affection,
also a positive and radical cure for Nervous
Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after
having tested It's wonderful curative powers
IN thousands Of cases. has felt il bis duty TO
make Il known to his suffering fellows. Ac-
tuaiod by this motive and desire to relieve
huHnan Suffering. ! viii send free Of charge,
10 all who desire It this recipe, IN German.
French or English, with full direction for
fselnringand usiae Sent BY mail by adj
q assinR with stamp, nnninR this paper w.
A. Norfs lig Power Block. Rochester
n. y.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22

The mistake has always been in allow
ing bear to come to close quarters. and!
yet some bold hunters will not accept a.
fight on any other terms, preferring a.
hand to hand encounter while armed
with nothing but knife. This fool
hardy notion of fighting bear on equal
terms is well exempli6ed in the case of
old Dick Wilson. or "Grizzly Wilson"
as he was Familiarity called, who short
time ago was found just over the divide
from here, dead as door nail and most
horribly mutilated.
Poor old Dick was found face down.
ward on the banks Of beautiful,
sparkling mountain rivulet, his head
being crushed almost to Jelly, the nose
and one side of his face entirely gone
and the left hand and wrist chewed inl
such a manner that the men who ex
amined it said they could not find bone
in it even a quarter of an inch long.l
The body was almost nude, the clothes
having been torn off. There were tracks
OF large bear all around the body, and
the signs went to show that the brute
even trampled and crushed with his
ponderous paws and weight after lifd
was probably extinct. 1t seems that old
Dick had always boosted that he could
knife a bear better than any other
greaser in the country could demolisH
one with repeating shooting iron; but
on this trip he was very badly mistaken
and lost his life in the trial.
Soon after entering the fight land the
bear must have been monsters from the
size of his huge footprints) the old man
was compelled to take to tree in order
to get away from the animal, but as the
tree proved to be of rather small
dimension the big brute, by standing on
his hind legs, found no difficulty in
catching the man by the heel of his boot
with his fore feet and pulling him
down.
Then a hard struggle for life took
place. No doubt the hunder drove his
long, keen knife into the pears hide
time and again, but as the latter must
nave been heavily equipped with fat, the
blade never touched a vital point.
While Bruin was chewing Dicks left
hand the hunter was plunging the knife
into him and slashing with his right.
The forest for nearly a hundred
yards all around was torn up
by the, roots, broken down, chewed
and generally demolished, as if
the animal in its rage after killing its
enemy wanted to destroy everything that
came in its way. Dicks knife never was
found. Probably good search for it
would discover the blade still in the
bears hide and up to the hilt. Some of
these animals have wonderful tenacity
to life. This is perhaps one of the cases.
Within my own experience l know of
one big silver-tip specimen, far away in
Montana, that a nimrodic friend and my
self pumped at least thirty-two bullets
into before he CONSENTED to give up the
ghost. This is something like two
pounds of lead, more or less, and he did
not drop for good either until the last of
the thirty-two pills had reached him.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.

Presents are made on Christmas as a
token of love and friendship. The
store windows are adorned with many
beautiful things ornamental and use
full. Many hearts will be caused to
swell with JOY by the receipt ola ''pres
ent from friend, on Christmas II orn-
ing and during the holidays. The ques-
tons are going the rounds: What are
you going to give yonr wife, your hus-
band, your lover, mother, father, friend
and some will say your editor?
But who remembers the poor old wild
ow or the poor old man weighed down
by the labors Of many winters and
whose lovers and friends have forgotten
them9 Who will remember the poor
orphan, the street urchln, dependent
upon the cold charity Of cod and
thoughtless world. These have lost
their best friends. Are they TO he ne
elected, forgotten and allowed to suffer
while We rejoice and make merry around
our warm fires and heavy laden tables.
while they shiyer from the biting blast.
and hunger for a common meal?
Let US remember our neighbors and
give them al the comfort possible; foi
the Christ whose birth we celebrate. was
poor and lowly and rested in mangcr,
and did alike for the redemption Of
the rich and the poor. Let each forget
his own happiness and rejoice in our
efforts TO make others happy. When
you give to Gods Toor, 'It is moro
blessed to give than to receive" ''IEt
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22

The Commissioner of Patents, Mr..
Benton S. Hall, has had prepared list
of women inventors or women to whom
patents have been granted. The list
has been printed and makes folio
pamphlet of forty-four pages. 1t gives
not only the names of the patentees, but
also the title of the patent and date Of
issue. The first patent issued was to
Mary Kres, Mary 6, 1909, for straw
weaving with silk or thread.
Six years later Mary Brush obtained
patent for a corset, and then four years
elapsed before another inventive woman
appeared. This was Sophia Usher, whose
patent was for carbonated liquid cream
of tartar. Then, again, in 1922. julia
Phantom secured patent for footstool.
During the four following years apatent
was issued each year to woman, and
from that time down to the present the
number of women patentees gradually
increased. In recent years feminine in.
ventiveness has shown marked progress.
For instance, from the LIST of January,
1883, 10 the 10th of June last, no les:
than sixty-six patents were issued to
women, while during the year 1887 17s
patents were so issued This latter Is
the largest ever issued. While the names
of the articles patented show that they
were generally in tho line of feminine
wearing apparel and household labor
saving devices. yet many were of
character that shows the multiplied in
terests of women. As an instance, one
woman patented submarine telescope
and lamp. Others were granted as fol.
lows; Improvement in reaping and
moving machines, improved war vessel.
furnace for smelling ores, apparatus fol
punching corrugated r.etals, method Of
construction for screw propellers, low
water indicator, material for packing
journals and bearings, conveyers OF
smoke and cinders for locomotives,
burglar alarms for windows, etc.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

MRs. WrNsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP. for chill
dren ieetIing, is the prescription of one ofthe
best female nurses and physicians in the
United States, and has been used for forty
years with never-failing success by millions Of
mothers for their children. During the process
Of teething its value isincalculable. Itrelieves
the child from pain, cures dysentery and diar-
rhna, gripping in the bowels, and wind-colic-
BY giving health to the child it rests the
mother. Price 25c. bottle.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22

Fancy ornaments Of jet are used in
perfusion upon the winter millinery.
Heavy tiusel cord is effectively used to
edge the brims Of felt hats and bonnets.
Gainsborough and Directoire hats Of
dark velvet are receiving large share
Of popular favor.
The newest cloths are ocsagonal in
shape, and hang about the table in all
manner Of POINTS that delight the eye in
search Of new effects.
Novel skeleton bonnets, somewhat
after the fashion Of tho open-worb
beaded bonnets. made OF fine feathers
mounted upon wire frame.
Tho new ostrich pIumcs show com.
binations Of very dark co.ors. black with
dark green, navy blue or dark browu
icing the extreme Of fashion.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
DANCY FALSE AS BEFORE.
PERsONAL.


Mr.. Dancy is pardoped in his feeble eff
fort He rebuttcd no criticisms OF ou.s.
He writhes and qroans wonderfully ur-
der our article Of last week. We are
working for female seminary, and if
anybody gets in the way they must take
the Consequences. If our illusions to him
are so very harmless he should not fret so
much about it. We are our own Judge
and do not hesitate to attack corruption
in church or state and if we fail to DO
good, it is not our fault but our misfoIt
une. Mr. Dancy is pleased TO style the
female seminary our ''pet scheme, and
says lit has suffered fearful demolition
He seems to think he has killed it and
boasts of it. We never claimed to have
done anything great for Zion, and do
not hesitate to admit we have never done
anything great anywhere. That is the
trouble with Mr. John G Dancy; his head
is bursting from the effects Of his opinion
of his own greatness. Win somebody
tell us what Dancy has ever done2 Ever
since we have known Of him he has been
beneficiaryo of somebody or society.
Why then should he assume the role
of dictator.
Weare careful as to the use we make
of any mans name and mean all we have
said concerning Mr. Darcy. He has re-
fused to discuss questions with us con
corning the church, but has insisted on
using personalities. If he can't stand
what we say let him shut up We leave it
to gentlemen to judge'whether OF not we
are gentleman, and not Mr. Dancy. 1t
may be that he is incapable of knowing
when he is insulted. This article is per-
sonal and for Mr. Dancy's eye.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
Found a Pirates Rurled Hasrd.

According to report from Fall River,
Mass, man named Eddy has found
buried in his farm, in An old iron kettle,
1860 Spanish doubloons, which we're
deposited there by one Of his ANCESTOR,
who is said to have ploughed the spanish
Main with Captain Kidd, as he sailed,
as he sailed. Mr. Eddy Is still digging
his farm, in which he expects to unearib
at least 500, 600 more, which may have
been taken by Kidd from the three
ships Of Spain against Witch he "woni
amain." We hops thai ir. Eddy will
be successful in biz search, and thus
prove-whnt has long been doubted
that Kidd or any Of bis mea eyer buried
any treasure 1t oil.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
A Palaca or Salt.

The people of Salt Lake City, Utah,
are contemplating the erection of great
"Salt Place" 1t would be a structure
that would lay in the shade all the ice
and corn palaces ever constructed. The
main part of the structure could be of
the finest specimens of rock salt to be
found in the quarries chiseled. carved
and artistically arranged while the in
terror fittings should be of crystalized
work from the lake on grand scale.
Such palace should be permanent if
properly protected from the winter rains;
it could be made of the most unique and
striking style of architecture; it could
be made one of the wonders of the world.
When lighted by electricity the structure
would have all the sparkle and diamond
glitter of the great ice palaces, and with
the difference in the Salt Palaces favor
that heat would not melt or dim its
glories in the least. -Necada Eaterprise.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
CURIOUS FACTS.

About 1917 a wheel-lock came into
use, and about 1892 this was superseded
by the fiint-lock.
Henry ", of England, is said to have
died of a painful afIliction premature
ly." This is courtly term of getting
rid Of King.
The word diocese was at first applied,
at that time as q civil division in Rome,
ascribed to Constantine, A. d., 326; but
strabo gives IN earlier date to such
Roman divisions.
J. P. Lindley. of Bridgeport, Con-,
has the reputation of Icing the Oldest
travelling man in length of time spent
''on the road" lie is seventy-siz years
old, and started out years ago with
notion wagon selling to dealers.
When the Revolution came on, the
American iron men had grown skilful
enough to make cannon aud shells fol
the Contnentals, also big shallow pans
in which to evaporate sea water and sup
ply salt when the foreign article was cut
, off.
John A. snider, of Siverlyville, Penn,
has silver watch that has Teen in use
for more than 10 years and still keeps
excellent time. Mr.. Sniders grand
father took il from the body of a Htssian
soldier slain at the battle OF Trenton in
the Revolutionary War.
A mushroom between two and three
inches long was gathered in La Grange,
Ca, recently. Its shape is that of tho
foot and leg of duck. Turned over
and viewed from beneath, the foot is
very similar to that of human being,
for it is broad, with the toes distinctly
defined.
1t is said to be curious sight to watch
the little Indian children when they first
come to the House Of the Good Shep-
herd, in Denver, COL, to be educated BY
the Government. When they first reach
the institution they go up stairs on Their
hands and knees, not understanding the
use of the stairs, and sleep at night UNI
der the led, from which they first pull
the clothes
Society, in Atlanta, Ga, was recently
convulsed by an apparition of promi-
nent young man wearing singular arti-
Gle of neckwear. The article is known
as a Napoleon fichu, and was made of
imported Egyptian lace of the finest
quality. 1t is one of those ties such as
were worn years ago when gentlemen
were asrayed in knickerbockers, and
when their cuffs were of lace to match
their ties.
School life in China means something
different for the boys and girls from
what it does here. The girls do not
have to go at all, and tine boys begin
when they are six or seven years old.
There are no vacations of nine weeks, OF
half holidays, or Fourth of Julys. At
dawn in thu morning school begins, and
when it gets too dark TO read school
closes. Mothers are not bothered with
vnruly children, and much of the child'i
training is thus done by the teacher.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
LADIES, COLUMN.
A Fairy BnI OF Fare.

Ladies who, since it became fashion
able to give favors at dinners. sometimes
ind themselves embarrassed by the con-
iuct of guests who mistake articles Of
able furnishings for the gifts of hospi-
:ality, will like the new ''fairy" bill of
are, which, if not too heavy to carry
sway, answers the other requisite of
,afety when thieves are about, by being
100 hot. This bill of fare is of slightly
ground and roughened glass, and is
irmly fixed In little sand, which also
supports fairy lamp, with two pretty
flower holders, one on each side. The
upper part of the glass is decorated with
apainted design, below which the bill Of
fare is written in lead pencil SO that it
can be washed off with sponge. The
dullest guest is not likely to suppose
himself invited to carry away the lamp,
and so the bill of fare is safe. 1t might
be an improvement, one would think, tc
place the fairy lamp behind instead of in
front of the glass, which would thus
serve as screen to keep off the slight
heat coming from the lamp, and would
be more easily read, while at the same
time the lamp would be more of an orna-
ment to the table. Picdyune.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22

The European Powers have come to
an agreement to exterminate the African
slave-trade.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
A han WIN OWE Exea.

John c. Dooley, one Of the best known
Of the aquednct inspectors, is, strange
to say, almost blind during daylight; Al
night, however, his eyesight is so good
that he has been appointed night in.
apector on the masonry work, and, it l.
said, can pick out weak spot quicker
than any one engaged in the same work.
It Is said that he has followed under.
ground work 80 long that the pupils Of
his eyes arc now more like those Of the
owl than thoss Of men. --Msb York aun
The panc,pIe Of percussion va, nat
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22

Since 1863 the State Government Of
Maine has disbursed TO the soldiers and
their families needing aid the sum of
So, 307, 500
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-22
Modern EIizabethan weddings.


Word comes from the wise ones that al
swell wedding this winter there is to
be revival of lots Ct quaint Elizabethan
performances, and that the revival will
be due to Amelie Rives, who went
through them all religiously at her own
wedding. So her followers will, when
the outer guests are gone and the
charmed inner circle remains, take tn,
flowers from the brides hair, twist them
in wreath, and, while she is blinded
with many folds of the bridal dress, she
will put it at random on the head of q
bridesmaid-while with linked hands
they circle about her-and the one SC
distinguished will he the next bride.
Then the ushefs and best men huddle uE
at one end of the room, and the bride
at the other filings her bouquet among
them; whoever catches it is the foreor
dained next victim of Cupid. When the
bride slips away to change gowns, e
maid can spy her, and following pull of
her left slipper, she is sure to be herself
welded within the twelvc-month; also
the maid of honor gives the bride pail
of blue gartcrs with jeweled clasps, and
secs to it that in the firing she wears:
Something old and something new,
Something borrowed and something blue'
to make certain of luck and happiness,
while the waiting maid must be at pains
to fling away and lose every pin that
was used about the wedding toilet in
order that the bride may have no small
worries and be always sweet tempered. :
Commercial Adgertiser.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-29
The Buck Chased the Hunter.

John A Beard. of Anthony Greek. Green
brier county, ". Va, while walking along
she edge Of wood cams across his dog es-
gagged iu battle WITH big bacs. The oser
vas getting t2e batter of tbs dog when Beard
ran NJ and gave the deer a savage kick IN
the side TIE blow b-oagbt the veaGea1ce
O. ths deer down upon Beard, who "a
second ~as knocked down ard would hare
been go-ed 70 death bat for toe taic1sA de-.
While the deer was deteodiog itsels from ths
dog Beard gos On high fsnce and szs tire,
while tae buck tired fer halt "a boar -
reach hina- xr. Beard wa about vOrn CIT
when a nsizhbcg arrived with s1s ard
saos tbs dc-r. Z. was o<ss Of sss osdsst ard
largest b0exs .en this season having -s~sn
pronss o. IL ho-s.s ard eI.hing rs pozz-dz.
Grxssd-Ssx Tcrk World