Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-06-02
North, East and West.

day.
The Richmond Grays were met with a
hearty welcome by the New York Mill
tafy.
There is good prospect of Charleston
having fine line Of steamers to the
North.
Col. Wilson Morris, auditor of Penn
sylvania, died at his residence in Phila-
delphia Monday.
Bald-headed Indians are becoming nu-
merous since the adoption Of hats and
caps by the race.
st. Louis, No., will vote on June 30th
on the question of prohibition under the
local option law.
A fire at Hiseville. KY, destroyed the
postoffice and half dozen other build
ings. Loss, $40, 900.
William Sherwood, of Baltimore, Md,
has been sent need to prison for one
year for stealing Bible.
It was estimated that from Is, 900 to
30, 600 gathered to witness the sham
battle at Nashville, Friday.
Peak & Graves, dealers in dfv goods,
Lynchburg, Va, have assigned. Liabil-
tiles between $25, 900 and $50, 900.
Henry George has been expelled from
the Twenty third Assembly District As
sociation of the United Labor party.
Memorial services were held over the
tomb of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock in
Montgomery cemetery, Pa, Sunday.
George Washington Ewing, member
of the Confederate Congress, died at his
home near Adairsville, KY, Monday
morning.
The annual commencement sermon be-
fore the graduating class of Greensboro,
N. c., Female College was preached on
Sunday morning by Rev. W. S. Greasy.
Benoit Builledeau was waylaid and
killed on Thursday while passing through
a thick wood, three miles south of
Welsh, La.
Cardinal Gibbons has been notified of
the appointment of DR.. John S. Foley,
of St. Martins church, Baltimore, to be
Bishop of Detroit.
The Richmond and Danville and the
Seaboard and Roanoke Railroads are
both pushing their systems, and great
competition exists.
Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott was elected
permanent pastor of Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, and the first regular successor
to Henry Ward Beecher, on Saturday.
Ten thousand people attended the
commencement exercises of the Clafiin
University, colored, at Orangeburg, 8.
c., Wednesday.
Gen. r. L. Gibson succeeds himself as
Louisianas senior United States Senator.
There is still deadlock in the caucus
for junior Senator.
The five new Methodist Bishops are
Drs. ]. Fl. Vincent, Jas. N. Fitzgerald,
/. W. Joyce, D. A. Goodsell and DR..
Newman, who was Grants pastor.
At Columbus, Ca, the directors of the
Chattahoochee Valley Exposition Com
pany held a meeting and decided to
open the exposition there on October 8,
and close it on October 20.
The Governor of South Carolina has
commuted to imprisonment for life the
F, death sentence of James Stowe, colored,
who was sentenced to hang at the April
term of court in York county.
The General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian church is in session at Balti-
more. The case of DR.. Woodrow at
tracts great attention. The Northern
| Assembly of the same church is In ses-
sion at Philadelphia.
The Boston journal says that "a
family consisting of two men, one
woman and two children have taken uE
their abode in a mammoth hollow syca-
more tree on the banks of the Kanawha
River, in West Virginia"
A terrible tragedy occurred in Jack.
son county, near sylvia, N. @. Logan
Bumgardner and his son Will were shot
and killed by Allen Dills, all three mer
of prominence and respectability. The
tragedy was the elimination of an old
feud.
The first full year when the Brooklyn
bridge was open to traffic there were
1921, ,s97 passengers carried on thu
bridge cars. Last year in eleven months
the number carried was 26, 568, ,593. Th'
increase in the use made of the bridge il
enormous.
Four dccoy letters were placed in thu
pouch of city letter carrier Charles At
tender, at Atlanta. Three of the letter
we're afterwards found broken open anC
eight dollars stolen. Attender was a
once arrt sted, and is now awaiting thu
action of the court.
Major w. A. Dunnington, in charg'
of the United States Fish Commission
car No. 2, deposited three-quarters of |
million Of young shad in the Savannah
River He then left for Macon, Albany
Thomasville and Quitman, and he will
leave half million young shad in eacl
place.
All the employees Of the Milwaukee
road at Mitchell, Dakota, were notified
that they have been assessed one-third o
their pay for the first six days of tn
month to help the company pay tn
damages sustained through the 90
strike. Much indignation is felt.
The largest iron casting ever attempted
in America was recently made at Beth
lehem, Pa. II was the base for the stee