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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-02
Bank Of Com meroe.

MyNunis. TKSr., March D 1855.
The annual election fof director OF this Bank
win be held At the banking house on TUESDAY
April 10. proL
Ia oMnERo, cashIeL
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
National CapitoI Pages.

For years it has been the privilege OF
the pages in the Capitol at Washington
to make quite a lot of pocket money each
session in collecting autographs. The
pages of the Senate, for instance, will
collect the signatures of all the Senators
in an album, turn the book over to some
youngster in the House. who gets the
Congressmens names, then TO one of the
pages in the Supreme Court for the auto
graphs of the Justices, and finally to the
riding pages of the Senate who are con-
stantly going between the Capitol, the
White House, and the several depart
ments and bureaus of the Government.
The latter get the names of the Presi-
dent, the Cabinet and the other promi.
nent officials. For such collection the
boy who starts the book has received
whatever he could get out Of his Gus.
toner, trusting to his own sharpness and
the latter's generosity. When he gets
his money-and SO is the usual price
he settles with the other pages who have
assisted him, on such terms as they were
willing to make. The ordinary terms of
settlement have been So to the contrac-
tor, So to the House page, SO to the boy
who gets the President and Cabinet, and
81 to the youth in the Supreme Court.
But an equal division of profits is now
demanded by the boys. / took an album
which had been sent me by friend in
the West TO one of the Senate pages the
other day, and asked him to get the au-
tographs of the statesmen for me as he
had done before. had formerly paid
him $40 for such JOB but he informed
me that the boys had organized union
and had advanced the price to $l5 He
said that the "kids" in the House kicked
because the Senate boys were making
more money than they, and had struck:
so it became necessary to organize and
have stated card of rates.
sDon't you see, " he said, "people who
want autographs somehow always come
to the Senate first. We have got IS for
getting the names of seventy.six Sena-
tors, and have given the kids in the
Senate 50 for getting 325 names. When
they happened to catch on to a job they
got the SIS of course, and gave us two
for the Senator's autographs, but for
every one book they get we get dozen,
and they kicked about it. So we had to
agree to pay them as much as we, got our
selves. They won't touch a book less
than So. There was kid i'll the House
who cut under them, and got some names
not long ago for So, but when the other
boys found it out they got hold of the
book and tore out the leaves. "--Nec
York Tribune.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
THREE MEN LYNCHED
The Murder of a Homeless Peddler.
Four Men Arrested Therefor-One Con
fessed and the other Three are
Lynched,

News has reached Raleigh N. c., of a
terrible lynching at the town of Ply
mouth, the county seat Of Washington
county. The mob, composed mainly
of mounted men, marched to the Jail
and took thetefrom Patterson Spruill,
John Blount, and Matthew Blount, all
colored. The doomed men were taken
to piece of woods a mile from town,
and were tied to trees. The lynchers
then opened fire upon them with all
sorts Of weapons, fir ON Winchester rifles
to shotguns, and did not cease firing till
all the men were dead and riddled with
bullets and shot. This lynching is the
result of very brutal murder which
was committed in the afternoon of the
23rd of last December. While man
named Ed. Dawman, an itinerant jewel
er, was passing through the country near
the town of Creswell, four negroes, three
of whom were those lynched, met him
and presently knocked him in the head,
robbed him and threw the body in shall
low pit, where teamster discovered it,
seeing the knees sticking above the
ground. Christmas day all four men
were arrested. One confessed the crime.
All were taken to Jail at Plymouth. Vio-
lence was feared. as public feeling ran
very high, and special precautions were
taken. The people in the section where
the murderer was committed, which is
some miles from Plymouth, where
particularly stirred up, and it is ,proba-
BILE that they were the lynching party.
Everything was conducted quietly and
with system. The men would have been
tried for their lives at the spring term of
court. The evidence against them was
regarded as conclusive. 1t is the first
lynching in the state in many months.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
SUBSCRIPTIONS:
tAt,cGys IN Adu0nce.)
Address,
A Wonder Bird.

/ had not been many minutes on the
key before l discovered large snow
white bird nesting on the ground under
a spray of Rhacichallis. Its wings were
barred with jet black; its bill was
bright yellow, and tapered to spear
like point, which forbade too close
familiarity. This proved to be the
yellow-billed tropic bird (Phpton favi-
rostris), and we afterward caught several
IN our hand, taking them from the nest.
When held up by the wings they strike
Justify with their bills and utter pecu-
Iiarly shrill cry. The tropic bird lays a
single egg on the ground beneath rocks
or bushes. 1t is about the size and make
of the hens, and is finely sprinkled
with reddish brown, so a; to appear of
an almost uniform tint One Of these
birds, which my companion shot and
slightly wounded, flew a short distance
and then alighted on the water As we
sailed toward it, first one and then an
other bird came and hovered over it as
if urging it to take fight, which it pres
emily did, and with its attendants soon
passed out of sight. These birds resem-
bic the gulls in many points, but are
distinguished from other sea fowl by
two long streamers in the tail, which
wave behind them as they fy.-Ptpu!ar
Science M0nthlv.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
KILLING THE WRONG MAN.
A Burglar Trap which Did not Kill Bur
glnrs-A Distressing Accident Near Sa
vannah.

Guyton Ga, is thirty miles from Sa-
vannah, on the Central Railroad. A. J.
Futrell keeps general store there and
supplies the villagers and the surround
ing country with merchandise. For some
time past Mr.. Futrell has been troubled
with thieves. Not long ago burglars
broke into his store and carried off
quantity of goods. To protect his store
he sit spring gun inside the door at a
slight elevation from the floor and so ar
ranged it that it would be discharged by
any one attempting to enter the back
door of the store. Mr.. Levi Edwards, a
farmer who resides a short distance from
Guyton, early this morning went to Mr..
Futrell's house and asked him TO go to
his store as he (Edwards) wanted TO get
some goods. The two men started for
the store and when they got there Futrell
went in the front way, telling Edwards
to go around the back way and he would
open that door. Edwards is supposed to
have run against the gun and the whole
load was empted into his body, killing
him instantly, and tearing his body to
pieces. There is law prohibiting the
setting of spring guns, and Futrell
will probably be indicted for murder.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
An Insane Man Gets Up n Hanging Of His
Own.

Perry Benson, living near the Air Line
depot, Greenville, S. c., tired to commit
suicide by hanging himself. Perry's wife
was away from home at the time, and on
coming in found him with a rope around
his neck, and il tied to a rafter in the
top of the house. She at once concluded
what he was trying to do and gave the
alarm. As soon as help arrived Benson
was cut down. He was helpless, and
would have died from strangulat1on in a
few moments. More officers were called
and Benson taken to the station house.
Drs. Rowley and PEBBLES were called in,
and on examination concluded that it
would not be necessary to send him to
the asylum. Benson says tree fell on
his head some years ago, and his head
has given him trouble ever since, and
added that he had no reason for trying
to kill himself, but was sure he was
''coniured," that some one had buried a
"charm" in his back yard, and he could
find it if they would let him out for
awhile. Benson will have another ex-
animation, and will be sent to the State
lunatic asylum if his condition is bad
enough to warrant it.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
Making Old Hickory Nuts Fresh.

A New Yorker prizes highest among
the stores for the winter the stock OF
hickory nuts that are sent to him from
the trees he climbed as boy. For more
years than he cares to admit it has been
his unshakable conviction that no other
nuts in the world can approach them in
richness and favor. But in the warm,
dry closet of his fat, they do not keep
until holiday time. Indeed, they were
a source of deep disappointment to him
some time earlier in the season. He had
produced some before visitor, to whom
he had Dragged in advance of their
quality, only TO be chagrined by finding
them hard, dry aud tasteless. His dis
tress was so evident that the visitor sug-
gested an experiment. Some whole nuts
were soaked for half an hour in not
water, and cracked as soon as they were
dry enough to crack well. The result
was surprise and delight to the host.
The kernels were found swelled fat and
smooth until they again filled the shells,
and the flavor and freshness had come
back to them so fully that he was able to
say again "There never were any other
nuts like those on the big trees back of
the old farm house at home. ."--NeO York
Sun
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
The Armies of Europe.

"The bloated ornaments Of the great
military powers of Europe" display their
proportions in very striking manner in
Colonel Vogt's work on "The European
Armies of the Present." The modified
strength of France is set down at 2.051,
ASS troops, exclusive of the territorial
army, which is equally large; that of
Russia at / ,922, 4O5; Germany, / 49S, $50;
and Austro- Hungary. l.O35, 9j5. The
military strength of Ilaly has now at
tanned proportions that would have been
deemed incredible ten years ago. Includ-
ing militia, it is said to amount to 2, 3S7,
332 men. If, however, similar inclu
sion be made in the case Of Russia, the
military strength Of that power will
probably be found TO exceed even that Of
the French republic. Compared with
these figures the numerical proportions
of the British army ought almost TO sat
isfy the members Of the Peace Society.
Including our militia and volunteers, as
well as the Indian army, we can just
muster 7si, ,677 troops. And these have
to serve for the defence Of territory dis
tributed overa very much wider area than
that ruled by any Of the other powers. -
London Court Journal.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
Hereditary Tradesmen in Japan.

The boys seen in nearly all the places
IF skilled labor suggest what is the fact,
that apprentices begin to learn their
rades usually much earlier than in our
country, so that when ma a:ority is attained
he mastery of the crafts is thorough.
Another striking feature of the japanese
Iystem is that Of heredity. Skill runs in
iamily lines. Not few of the famous
artisans of the present decade are decend-
lnts in the ninth. tenth, and even
twentieth generation, Of the founder of
he establishment. once employed a
carpenter in Fulkui, who was proud Of
ais ancestory Of wood-workers through
Ewenty-seven generations; and the temple
-ecords show such boasting TO be true,
.hough often adoption interrupts the
lctual blood line. At papcr-maker's
establishment in Awotabi, in Echizen, l
lined with the proprietor, whose fathers
irst established the industry a millen-
iium ago, the national history showing
Ilso that the Coreans, before the ninth
century Of our era, visitec the place, -
.eriJAer's Magazine.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
A VITAL ISSUE IN COTTON.
The Brokers on the New York Exchange
Stnnd Up for the New Clnssihca-
tiOn system.

The members of the Cotton Exchange
had occasion yesterday to save the new
system of classification that went into
effect on September last year.
The board of managers last week de-
cided to submit to vote an amendment
to the bylaws that would enable sellers
to make deliveries on warehouse receipts
at any time during the month when sit
is found impossible to have the cotton
classed and an inspectors certificate of
grade completed in time for such de-
livery" The rule to be amended re-
quired that from the 1st to the Goth of
each month the cotton must be delivered
with full certificates, but from the Goth
to the end of the month it may be deliv-
cred on warehouse receipts.
President Miller was in the chair at
Yesterdays meeting, which was held at
the trading pit. William V. King was
the spokesman of the opposition to the
amendment He said it was an effort on
the part of the board of managers and
the bears to kill the new classification,
and that, if adopted, it would leave the
field clear for an undesirable manipula-
ton of the market. He therefore offered
a resolution referring the amendment
back TO the board of managers. A sub
stitute proposing that the amendment go
into effect January 1, 1889. was voted
down, and then Mr.. Kings resolution
was adopted by an overwhelming vote.
Among the prominent brokers favor
ing the amendment we're Solomon
Ranger, of Fatman & Co.; Charles W..
Ide, Theo. H. Price, of Hubbard, Price
& Co., and G. Rich. They contended
that the amendment would facilitate
trading without giving undue advantage
to anybody.
President Miller said after the meeting
that the board of managers had no
special interest in the amendment. A
petition for it had been received good
while ago, but motion to submit it to
the Exchange was lost. Subsequently
the change was again proposed, and once
more voted down in the board. Finally,
to end the matter, the amendment was
adopted by the board in order to get an
expression from an open meeting of mem
bers. That expression had been OBJ
tanned, and Mr. Miller said the subject
was disposed of.-Neao York Herald,
January %.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04

Physicians are just now having crush
of patients who have, or think they
have, throat troubles and are afraid Of
cancer. The trouble of Germanys Crown
Prince has started up a regular cancer
scare, and the physicians are profiting
thereby. Some years ago, just after the
death of Charley Backus, Ricardo, and
Flood, all from kidney troubles, there
was a similar scare among theatrical
people about kidney diseases. They
went to the doctors in flocks, many Of
them possessed Of the idea that they,
too, had kidney troubles. A singular
fact in the experience of one physician
was that of the scores of actors who WIS.,
tied him none of those who were sure
they were afflicted had any trouble.
Three actors there were, however, who
submitted to the customary examination
in a spirit of fun. Every one of them
had the trouble they hadn't expected to
find, and two Of them have since died Of
Bright's disease. The physician in
question doesn't know what has become
of the third. -Neu York Times.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
THE WEST VIRGINIA VENDETTA.
A Whole Community Placed at the Mercy
Of n Gang of DesperadOes.

The vendetta between the McCoys, of
Pike county, KY, and Hatfelds, of Lo-
gan county, w. Va, has grown to such
great proportions that it has been found
necessary for the officials of Logan
county to call upon Governor Wilson, Of
West Virginia, for aid to suppress the
parties engaged in this local warfare, in
order to protect the good people of the
county, and to stop the feud. Two mes
sengers from Logan county called to see
Governor Wilson and ask for aid to repel
the invasion of the Kentucky desperadoes
into that county. They gave the Gov
ernor detailed statement of the situa-
ton of affairs in that county, and repre-
sented that there are no hopes of the
civil officers of Logan county being able
to control these fierce men, and therefore
desire aid from the State.
The Pike county gang is reported to
he increasing, and the lives of several of
the citizens of Logan are threatened.
Governor Wilson has the matter under
advisement. While he still hopes that
order may be restored without resorting
to extraordinary means, he is determined
TO employ prompt and adequate measures
to maintain the honor of the State. Sew
eral military companies have proffered
their services to aid in suppressing the
troubles. 1t is feared that the affair will
not be settled for great while.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
Dog with SpcctacIcs.

Here, from the Record, of Nelson
County, Ky, is dog story that ought
to pass muster; IAN aged hound, be-
longing TO Charles Roby, had for several
months been almost totally blind. He
40 longer needed the huntsman's bugle,
but roamed about the yard in a detected
manner. A few days since some children,
while playing with him, placed on his
nose pair of spectacles which contained
a powerful lens. He at once began 20
romp around as he did in the days of his
puppyhood They were securely fastened
before his eyes and on the following day,
when the other dogs were called for the
chase, he joined, and was in the lead
when his glasses were pulled off by the
briers. lie Immediately carried them to
his master and cyinced clearly that he
wanted them replaced. When they are
removed he whines and growls, but
when replaced he shows his JOY by the
wagring of his tail"
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
All Burned Down.

Every business house in the little town
of Walnut Cove, Stokes county, N. c.,
was burned to the ground a few nights
ago. The fire broke out about 10 o'clock
in the store of John C. Bailey, and was
due to a defective fue. It burned
Bailey's store, and also the stores of
Wilder & Adams, w. A. Lash and W.
N. Blackburn, the latter of which was
unoccupied. Bailey, Wilder, Adams and
Lash had large stocks of goods which
were nearly all destroyed. The loss is
said to be $50, with not over Sc, 900
insurance.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
Heavy Snow Storm in the North.

Reports from various points in Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont state that
the heaviest snow storm for years pre-
vailed for twelve hours Snow to the
depth of 15 to IS inches covers the
ground within radius of 25 miles, and
travel is greatly impedcd, many trains
are entirely blocked, and highways are
practically impossible. A dispatch from
Bellows Falls, Vt, says: There is
solid blockade of snow in all directions
today. About three feet of snow covers
the ground, the result of the last two
storms. 1t is still showing, and high
wind is piling it up in all directions. No
trains have arrived or departed on any of
the roads.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
A BATTLE ATA CHURCH DOOR.
Three Roughs in Knoxville Attack a
Newspaper Reporter and Get the
Worst Of the Fight-One of
Them Fatally Wounded.

A shooting affray occurred at Knox
vile, Tenn, in front of St. Johns Epis-
copal church, which resulted in the
wounding of three men, one of them
fatally. As James F. Rule, city editor
of the Knoxville Journal, was entering
church, accompanied by his wife, he was
accosted by three men who wanted to
speak with him. He walked with them
to the opposite side of the street, where
all four stood talking several minutes.
The three men were John West, William
West, and friend Of theirs named Good
man. They attacked Rule on account of
communication which appeared in the
journal rejecting upon DIR. T. A. West,
city physician, and father of John and
William West. Rule refused to give the
name of the author of the communica
ton, or to make any satisfactory answer
to questions. Hot words ensued, when
John West struck Rule and attempted to
bear him to the ground. Rule drew
revolver and shot John West through the
body. William West Immediately fired
on Rule, the ball passing through Rules
wrist. John West then cut Rule in the
back seven times. William West placed
his revolver to Rules forehead and fired,
but Rule knocked the pistol up, receiv-
ing only scalp wound. Rule then fired
two more shots, one of them taking effect
in the shoulder of Goodman, who seemed
to be attempting to separate the com
batants. A number of men rushed out
from church and stopped the bloody
fight William West ran away unin-
iured. Rule was able to get up and
walk to church, but John West was car
ried home in dying condition. Rules
injuries are not dangerous, and Good
man is not seriously injured. Rules wife,
who had entered the church, knew moth
ing of the difficulty till all was over, and
the organ having drowned the noise of
the pistol shots
The entire community sides with Rule
in the matter William West has been
arrested. Goodman made no attempt to
escape.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
North, East and West.

Fire at Newark, Ohio, caused loss of
$50, O,OO0
The Buffalo Rubber Company, of Buff
faio, N. Y, George ID. Barr, proprietor.
has failed.
At Susquehanna. Pa, fire destroyed
two hotels, five residences and a business
block. Loss $4,000
At Allentown, Pa, the thread mill of
the Barbour Thread Company, contain
ing 4, 800 bales of Irish fax, was damag-
ed by fire to the amount of $50, 1900 on
the mill and machinery, and $sj, 900 on
the fax.
The Milwaukee, Wis, brewers have no
tilted their 5000 employees that on Jan
uary 26 every member of Brewers Union
No. 0 in their employ will be discharged
unless consenting to leave that organiza-
ton.
At York, Pa. large building occu-
pied by the York Daily Publishing Com
pany as printing office, d. ii. Welsh,
clothiers, and r. F. Pollock, jcwellcr,
was burned. Loss, $50,000.
At Pittsburg, Pa, defective fiuc in
the four story building Of c. G. Hussey,
az Fifth avenue, occupied by Urling &
Sons, merchant tailors, and Hceren
Bros, manufacturing jewellers, resulted
in fire which burned fiercely for eight
hours and occasioned loss of $500, 900.
New York city has again been visited
by disastrous fire, which occurred in
the Org Goods section on Broadway, and
caused loss of 50, 900, 900.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
They We're Married.

II seems to make very little difference
where you are when the marriage cere.
mony is performed. A young runaway
couple in Kansas were driving to tho
church, but the horses took freight and
the sleigh stuck in snowbank They
were tied right there and then.
The next thing will be marriage or
a toboggan slide, with minister, bride
and groom travelling at the rate Of s
mile a minute. There is nothing like
novelty in this world, and if an attack
Of rheumatism is thrown in, why, tho
interest Of the occasion is vastly in
creased. -Neg York Herald.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-04
Death at the Dance.

A dance was given in York county, S.
c., and was largely attended by both
sexes. As the festivities progressed
moonshinc whiskey circulated freely
among the revelers, and about midnight
a free fight ensued. Finally the lights
were blown out, pistols drawn, and about
dozen shots fired. When the smoke
cleared away Jim Beam, of Shelby, n.
G., was found lying dead upon the floor,
with bullet through his heart. Several
other persons were slightly wounded.
George Gunthay and John Philips are in
Jail in Columbia, charged with the mur-
der Of Beam.