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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
The Judges Puzzled.

A curious complication has arisen in
regard TO the official yeturrs from one
district Of Prince Georges county, Mary
land. After the votes were counted one
Of the Judges, through ignorance, put
the tally sheets into the ballot box and
locked them up. The law forbids box
10 be reopened unless there is a contest,
and how legally TO secure the official
returns the judges Of the district are puz-
zIed to know. Judge Stone has been
appealed to, but it is feared he may de-
cline. He has no Jurisdiction and can
not order the ballot box to be reopened.
In that event there is only one course TO
be pursued. Fortunately the new boxes
are transparent. The judges will prob
ably meet aad while one OF them shakes
the box up, the other will watch until
the tally sheets fall on top with the fig
ure side up. They will then carefully
read the returns, make a correct copy
and send IL to the secretary Of State.
While the official returns from the fifth
district are incomplete, owing to the
above cause, the figures. as far as known,
give q complete democratic plurality OF
seven votes.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
DI.honest. But Clerer.

Frederick, the Great, King OF Prussia;
one day sent basketful oil beautiui
cherries 10 the Queen. The messenger
A page. wa, unable TO resist the temPts'
ton 10 taste them, and ended by eating
them all. -. u.
some days aficrward, when the KING
discovered the boys theft, he called ine
pace 10 take note TO the guard mouse
Ana wait for a reply. The boy, suspect
inc there was trouble in store ior nun;
sent the note by banker who happened
10 be crossing the courtyard when n, tne
officer opened the note he READ as ioi, .
lows: aGive The bearer twenty-n',e, !,
In spite Of the bankers protests ne was
seized and logged. Then he was com
reIIed 10 sign q receipt for twenty-five
Iashes. When the King heard oi Ine
affair. he laughed most heartily. Dus y va. y
compelled, ne ertheIess, TO apologize = 70
the poor banker, from whom ne ire,
onenrIy m received considerable loans q
money,
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
THANKSGIVING.

For the hay and the corn and the wheat that
is reaped,
For the labor well done, and the barns that
are heaped,
For the sun and the dew and the sweet
honeycomb,
For the rose and the song and the harvest
brought home
Thanksgiving thanksgivingl
For the trade and the skill and the wealth in
our land,
For the cunning and strength of the working
mans hand, ws
For the good that our artists and poets have
taught,
For the friendship that hope and affection
have brought
Thanksgiving thanksgivingl
For the homes that with purest affection are
blest.
For the season of plenty and welI-deserved
rest,
For our country extended from sea unto sea,
The land that is known as the LAND of the
Free
THANKSGIVING thanksgivingl
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
The Amount Made Good.

The responsibility fer the 81, 400 in
standard silver dollars recently shipped
from United States mini at New Orleans
to the United States Treasurer at Wash
ington, delivered in the form of bird
shot, has been practically established by
the payment of the amount in question
to Treasurer Hyatt by the agent of the
express company. While thus tacitly ad-
mitting its responsibility for the money,
the express company has, so far as
known, been uPable to discover how aud
by whom the boxes containing the silver
were tampercd with while in transit.
The matter is still under investigation,
and may yet be unraveled. Officers of
the company are somewhat indignant
over what they regard as the premature
publication of the discovery of theft, on
the theory that if the persons concerned
in the matter had not been informed of
the discovery of their operations they
might have easily been detected trying
to repeat the act of exchanging shot for
the silver contents of bags in which
money is transmitted.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
They Ate Their Crow.

A novel wager on the result of the
Presidential election made at South
Chicago, ILL.,, has been settled. A num-
Der of guests of hotel were about equal
ly divided on the political question.
In conversation one day the subject of a
meal of crow was discussed, and the re-
suit was that wager was made that if
Harrison was elected the Democratic
boarders should cat mess of crow, and
that in case of Cleveland's success the Re
publicans were to dine on the succulent
black bird. One dozen crows and a
dozen jscksnipes were purchased, and at
dinner, the Republicans and the Demo-
Gratis faced each other across the table.
At the appointed time the walters
brought in the crows, which had been
roased and in all respects nicely pre-
pared. Amid continued roar of laugh
ter on the part of the Republicans and
their friends who had gathered TO see
the fun, the victims ate with a good
grace their meal. In the meantime the
other side Of the table feast9d on jack
snipe.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24

Her motherin the happier days had
been skillful with brush and pencil, and
had taught the little that she knew to
Hope. 1t had served to brighten many
Q weary hour for both mother and
daughter, and after the mothers death
Hope had gone on in her own way paint
ing all the old scenes she could remem-
Der, often denying herself many COM
forts that she might buy the few touches
of color.
Youth easily takes courage, and the
picture brought new life to Hope. The
next morning, with the picture tied up
in paper, she set out for a certain picture
dealer. whose windows had often at
tractcd her attention.
She tried to still her wildly beating
heart as she entered the store and in
quired if they bought paintings.
''Have you one for salea" asked the
clerk, looking curiously at the shabby,
slender figure.
eyes" returned Hope. beginning to
unite her parcel.
"Mr. rarwood attends to that bust
ness" said the clerk, and before Hope
could reply she was ushered into MIR.
Darwood's Office. A tall, fine looking
man arose at her entrance and politely
inquired what he could do for her. With
trembling fingers Hope took off the
paper aud handed him the picture for in
spection. After what seemed to her an
age. during which time she had vainly
tried to read his decision in his face, no
turned and glanced at her with look
of interest. The pale, delicate face.
with its look of trouble, told more plainly
than words the need that had brought
her there. Moreover the quick glance
had shown him that the brown-cyed girl
was gentlewoman.
"The picture is well DONE" ho-said,
all the while thinking what lovely eyes
she had and wondering who she could
be. "We are giving five dollars apiece
for such painting. and will take this
at the same price If agreeable to you,"
he continued.
"Agrceable to herl' To Hope it was q
fortune, and after being told that any
thing she could do in the same line
would be paid for. she went home to
look and look at this money, which had
been earned so pleasantly and that would
open to her q new way to earn an honest
living.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24

bitter anguish at the loss which left her
utterly friendless. From the day the
earth hid her mcther's tender face from
view, Hope knew she stood alone in the
world.
Slowly and painfully the terrible dark
days came back to her as she sat in the
deepening gloom.
The father had liked the social glass,
and then followed an unconquering
thirst that had literally drank up bust
ness, home and manhood.
Again Hope could see the sad pleading
eyes of her mother and the growing
poorer and poorer until the deepest
poverty was coupled with the kecner
anguish of disgrace.
Then followed the secret hurrying
away of the husband and father, who in
snhour of terrible temptation had thrown
sway his honor and principle.
Branded with the crime of forgery the
poor wreck of humanity fed to distant
State, and nothing was heard of him for
two long agonizing years. At last came
the tidings that he had been killed in a
drunken brawl in San Francisco. The
hook was too much for the feeble wife,
and Hope saw her mother laid away in
h er last sleep, young woman yet, but
with hair as white as the purest snow.
The poor, fred body had found rest,
but for Hope there was no such escape.
She was young and strong, and must
live on In continual struggle for life
that was filed only with bitter memories.
As it grew darker she arose from the
window and, lighting her lamp, she
began counting the money in her purse.
1t was little sum, and it brought more
vividly before the lonely girl her forlorn
situation.
ooh! what will become of me when
this is gomez" she asked herself, as she
walked nervously up and down the
room.
Suddenly she stopped before little
stand. as though some plan had come
into her busy brain.
''If l could only sell It'll" she said
aloud as she took up small, unframed
painting. 1t was a bit of lowland, with
the sea shimmering in the distance. on
which could be seen the white sail of a
ship homeward bound.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
IMPORTANT ITEMS.
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY
Boiled Down for Our Readers at Home and
Abroad

General Harrison, President elect, will
visit New York shortly.
Ex-Mayor J. A. Cochran, of Staunton.
Va, died Thursday of typhoid fever.
The Eastern Field Trial club are at
High Point, N. c., with their Bird
Hunting Dogs.
Senator German is endeavoriBg to ar
range matters that President CIevelend
will In June next be made President of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.
At Waterloo, N Y, Chas johnson. a
horse thief, was hanged for the murder
Of John Walters, Jail warden, whom
he killed in an effort to escape.
During the first ten months of 1888.
200 miles of new railway were built in
South Carolina, which passes all previous
records.
President Inman, of the Richmond
Terminal has signed check for So, $780,
900, beng the last payment on stock of
the Georgia Central Railroad.
The East Tennessee road Yesterday
ticketed party of twenty-five white en-
lgrants to Upper county, Mississippi.
They were from Kings Mountain, N. q.
Benjamin Harrison will be fifty five
years, six mouths aud fourteen DAYS old
when he is inaugurated President of the
United States.
The sixty-fourth annual convention of
Chi Phi fraternity met at Richmond, Va,
Thursday with delegates present from
twenty chapters. A Banquet was held in
she evening.
1t is rumored that in Christian county,
Mo, the home of the famous Bald Knob
Der King, Dave Walker, five of the wit
nesses who testified against him in his
trial for murder have been lynched by
Ex-Bald Knobbers.
The present Legislature of Georgia is
remarkable because of the youthfulness
of its presiding officers The President
of the Senate, Mr. Fleming du Bignon,
and the Speaker of the House, Mr. A. S.
Clay, were both born in the year 1858.
Hon James Hunt was stabbed to death
at Atlanta Thursday night by II s Moore,
railway mail clerk. Mr. Hunt was a
member of the Georgia Legislature from
Catoosn, and a young man and was very
popular.
At the Knights OF Labor Convention,
at indianapolis, Master Workman Pow
derly and Secretary Litchman made long
reports attacking each othor, but after
wards the two leaders made friends and
the savage parts of the reports were
stricken out.
Thomas Branch, a well known ban
ker, died at Richmond, Va, in the seth
year of his age. He was union man
before the war, was a member OF the Sc
cession convention and spoke and voted
against the ordinance, but afterwards
signed it.
Richmond and Danville system-W A
Walden has been appointed master me-
chanic Of the Atlanta and Charlotte di-
vision, with headquarters at Atlanta,
Ga. vice Mr. A w Gibbs, tranferred. Mr.
s ] Neislel has been appointed foreman
at Charlotte, vice Mr. w A Walden,
transferred.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
Gen. HarrIson's Correspondence.

Since the day of his election General
Harrison's mail has steadily increased
until it has now reached mommoth pro-
portions. This morningi it required an
express wagon TO haul the bundles of
letters and bags of newspapers that had
arrived since Saturday. About fifteen
hundred letters and several bags of
newspapers comprised tOday's. Some
thing like eighty kilograms were also re-
ceived today, most of a congratulatOTy
character, as are also his letters. Here
tofore General Harrison has aimed to re-
ply to every letter, if only to acknowl !
edge its receipt, but with such an extra
ordinary increase. he now finds that the
task of replying to each letter will be
too great to undertake, as it would more
than occopy his entire time.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24

A Brooklyn man has originated an en-
terprise by which the community is to be
supplied with trustworthy eggs. His
plan, relates the Chicago Herald, is to in
close hens of ascertained diligence as
egg producers in caged-up nests and
leave them at the homes of customers,
the latter to pay rental of SO much per
hen. and take their chances OF getting
more or less than one egg from each
fowl. 1t is stated that the company
which has been organized for this pur-
nose will not be responsible for the
failure of any particular hen to perform
her duty, but will spare no effort to en-
ploy reliable hens that will maintain
reasonable average. 1t is great enter
prise, and the public is certain to take to
il kindly. The cackle Of hen in city
homes. with its refreshing suggestions oil
country life and rural barnyards, ana
the warm, white egg fresh from tne
nest. will be attractive novelties.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
Terms $l5O per Annun Single Copy S cents

"Jasper, where did you get this pict-
ture fromW asked Mr.. Newton that
afternoon of his head clerk.
Mr.. Newton was the proprietor of the
art store where Hope had sold her paint
ing.
Jasper Darwood hurried to his EN-.
ployers side to sec which particular
picture was meant.
SOB that one," he replied as he
caught sight of the one the old gentle
man was looking at SO earnestly. II
bought it this morning of lady. It is
very good one," he added.
The clerk thought he was examining
it as to its commercial value, but Mr..
Newton's next question showed this had
not entered his mind.
''Is that the lady's name or the titlel"
he asked abruptly.
1.-THE title, Mr. Newton; the lady's
name was Grey, and"
But Jasper Darwood never finished his
sentence. for old Mr.. Newton had
grasped the back of chair and would
have fallen but for the timely aid of his
clerk.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
The Farmers in Convention.

The twenty second annual convention
of the National Graneers Patrons OF
Husbandry commenced in Topeka, Kan,
last week. Delegates are present from
every state in the union Acting Wor-
thy Master James Draper, Of Massachu-
setts, presided.
Memorial services were held in honor
of deceased Worthy Master p d Borden,
of Mississippi, eho died in July last.
Standing committees were then annOunc'
ed
The eighth annual convention Of the
farmers congress of the United States
also met in this city. RF KOlk, Of Ala
bama, presided. The call of the roll
show ed thirty states represented.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
THE DURHAM FAILURES.
Many of the Leading Business Houses Assign
= The Want Of Ready Money the Cause.


Thursday morning of last week all
Durham was taken aback upon reading
a notice posted upon the doors of the
Bank of Durham stating that Mr.. w. T.
Blackwell, the proprietor, had made an
assignment.
Soon it was ascertained that Capt E ]
Parrish, Mr. ] w Blackwell. Messrs.
Muse and Shaw, Mr. w F Ellis and
Messrs. Robbins & Stone had also made
assignments.
The failures were not due to the lack
of assets but to the want of ready money
to meet pressing demands.
w T Blackwell assigns to V Ballard
and W S Halliburton.
Z J Parrish assigns to w W Fuller
and J NJ Whitted and conveys all his
available property.
W F Ellis, dealer in dry goods, as
signs to W S Halliburton.
Charles Robbins and W Fl Stone, com
posing the firm of Robbins s. Stone,
dealers in dry goods, assigned to Lucius
Tilley.
NV Blackwell assigned to E Watts
and J M W Hicks. He conveys all his
personal property and twenty tracts or
lots of land.
Another big failure is reported. John
L Markham, a leading wholesale mer
chant, assigned for $4,000. The fail
ure was caused mainly by Markham Civ
ing accommodation paper to tie Bank
of Durham, which assigned Thursday,
amounting to $50, 900, and wi ich due in
about 90 days A few other assignments
are anticipated, and these with the six
reported, will probably swell the lisbili
ties to 81, 500. 900.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
A Lynching in Louisiana.

A special from Donaldsonville, La,
saws that on Tuesday afternoon On a
plantation near that town, negro seiz-
ed an eleven. year-Old child of respecta-
BILE parents who at the time was playing
with her younger sisters. Flourishing a
knife. he took her into the cane field.
The screams of younger children brought
number of plantation hands to the spot
and the wretch was caught in the act OF
outraeing the child. He was taken to
Jail. but so glelt was the indignation
that about two hundred persons attacked
and overpowered the iaiIer at night and
took the prisoner and hanged him.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24

AS soon as he recovered he began to
question Darwood. Did he know the
artists address2 and question after ques-
tion followed, but the clerk could.tell
him almost nothing.
asking every man and boy in the place il
he knew any one named Hope Grey. II
would have seemed ludicrous to Oar
wood but for the stress of his en-.
ployer.
He met with no succes3 until he came
to one of the little boys who busted the
counters.
Yes, he knew Miss Grey. She lived
next door TO him, and when his mother
was sick Miss Grey came in and;
but Mr.. Newton didn't listen to any
more. Having checked the boy and
found out the name of the street and
number of the house, he haiIed cab ana
was soon on his way to the place.
1t never occurred to hun that this
might not be the Hope Grey he sought.
Some instinct told him his long search
was ended.
Hope sat alone in her little room, when
she was startled by loud knock, and
a moment after the door opened and the
long separated father and daughter were
face to face.
1t took some time to tell the story of
John Grcy's wanderings. i
He had not been killed in the drunken
braw!, but it had been in this same place
that he had first awakened to sense Of
his terrible position.
To return home was dangerous, for
the shadow of the law hung over him;
but after amassing fortune the longing
for his family became so strong that one
morning he set off for the East, ready to
face the danger Of imprisonment if he
could but see his loved ones again.
There was no need to have changed
his name. No one would have recog-
nized in the fine-looking gray-haired
man the forlorn creature who had crept
away so miserably ten years before.
But the coming home had been almost
useless except for the one result which
had lifted forever from him the stain of
crime. Every dollar had been paid back
and he stood once more a free man, but
of the wife and child he had left In
poverty and shame he could find no
trace.
The belief that both were dead had
finally been yielded to, when Providence
had placed in his way the object of his
search.
The wife lay in her narrow bed. and
that darkness could never be taken ous
of his life. but the child was left to him,
aud he thanked the Father Of the father
less who had protected her all these
years.
The next day was Thanksgiving Day,
and no three people were happier than
the three who ate their turkey in John
Newton's home.
Jasper Darwood was there, too. for the
old gentleman maintains that but for his
buying the picture Hope would never
have been found, but Jasper Darwood
knows that Hopes brown eyes had .
great deal to do with the purchase.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
A pintn IlaIlot. Box SHINING.

The Sacramento Cali Bee says: Cap
tain Sam, leader Of the Pluto Indians,
who have been cleaning hops along the
American river of late. Gays that he was
once a candidate for Chief Of the Piutes
Ills opponent was Captain Jim, and the
piutes agreed upon a date for the cleo
lion. TIE balloting WAS to be by means
of small pebbles. TO be deposited IN
box. Sans ballots being white pebbles
and lims black. The night before the
election some Of Jim'sadherents dropped
! bucketfuI of black pebbles into the
box, and, Of course. when the pebbles
were counted Jim was elected.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24

North Carolina can lay claim to the
Presidents earliest namesake, asserts the
New York CgmnsereiaL 4d0ertiser. North
ampton, in that State, has a Grover
Cleveland, now sturdy lad of twelve,
and whose father, upon going to Buff
falo, N. Y, for medical treatment short
" before his birth. heard speech from
Mr.. Cleveland, then almost to fortune
and to fame unknown, and was SO i'm
pressed with it that he gave the speak
er's name to his next boy, prophesying
At the time that he would be President
namesake.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
THANKSGIVING DAY.


Beneath the homestead's sloping eaveA
We gather round the board,
And for the golden harvest sent
Give thanks unto the Lord,
But from the bursting barns and bins
Oh. spare thought pray,
For those who kept in wintry woods
The first Thanksgiving Dayl
The face of heaven was veiled and dark.
And all the world beneath,
Of withered wood and void, lay hid
Within snowy sheath.
They shivered in the bitter blast,
For thinly clad were they;
The pilgrim fathers long ago,
Who kept Thanksgiving Day.
With all his train of feathered DANES
Behind him in a row,
They saw lordly bird with plumes
Like polished metal go.
The aim was sure, the bullet true.
In throes of death he lay;
And feast;ng on his dainty flesh,
They kept Thanksgiving Day.
The graves wherein their fathers slept
The fields and fells Of home,
Were leagues beyond the forest dark,
Across the wintry foam.
Though want and fear abided there.
And peril barred the way;
Yet, lonely in a lonely land,
They kept Thanksgiving Day.
In all the pleasant fields about,
Upon the frosted vines,
Sweet CInderella's fairy co1ch,
The yellow pumpkin, shines;
And still with all his train Of DANES.
The turkey struts away;
As In the winter-whitened woods,
That first Thanksgiving Day.
Our fathers graves are on the hill,
The children at the knee,
The storehOuse full of goOdly things,
How grateful they should bel
They thanked the Lord for perils passed,
And for the right to pray;
Then let us doubly thank Him now,
For this Thanksgiving Day.
Minnie Irring.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24

An article in the North China Herald
upon Chinese benevolence shows that it
is very generally practised. Whenever
great floods or famines occur great soup
kitchens are established. There are So
cieties to provide cotfins for those who
cannot buy them, for gathering human
bones which have become exposed and
giving them suitable burial, for distrib-
uting plasters and drugs, and for pre-
senting "yirtue books"
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-24
A Thought For ThanksgIrIng.

Hero is a thought for Thanksgiving
Day from Emerson: LET the passion
for America cast out the passion foI
Europe. Here let there be what the
earth waits for-cxaltcd manhood. What
this country longs for is personalities,
grand persons, to countcract its ma
tcrialitics. For it is the rule of the uni
verse that corn shall serve man and moi
man corn, ,"-Philadslpaia Pres,