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The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08

gB- Here is how the best newspaper
in Virginia, the Norfolk Public Ledger,
speaks of race matters in North Carolina
and of the best Governor our State has
ever had: "The fair which opened in
Raleigh, n. g., yesterday, for the purpose
of displaying the products of the colored
people of North Carolina, was an effective
answer, so far as North Carolina is con-
csrned, to the "fasting and prayer" move
ment recently started by the negro
preachers of Chicago and Indianapolis to
"relieve their long suffering race in the
South from oppression and wrong" The
opening address was made by the Gov
ernor of the State, who alluded 70 the
kindly feeling which exists in the South
between the two races, and his remarks
were endorsed by the colored Secretary of
the Fair Association. North Carolina, az
one of the Southern States with large
negro population, presents fair specl acle
OF what is being done ia most, if not all of
them, to improve the condition of the
aegrO race. The aim there, as elsewhere
throughout the South, is to adopt such
helpful methods as will best accomplish
the ends sought to be attained, one
evidence of which is the fact that sixteen
thousand colored teachers are at present
employed in teaching eOlored schools in
the Southern States" -a
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
Attempting to Discourage Negro Emil
grafton.

@4oVAOA'
The Baptist Educational and Mission
ary Convention of North Carolina assem-
bled at Garysburg (Oct. 1927, 1ss9)
adopted resolution that committee be
appointed to write a letter, expressive o
the opinion of the convention on the
question of negro emigration from North
Carolina, and other vital questions.
The following letter was presented and
ordered 10 be sent throughout the State
especially to the various newspapers:
To the Colored People, Farmers and
Landlords of North Carolina:
1t is the sense OF the convention that
emigration in mass is impossible; and that
the present method Of emigration-that
is, by agents and sub-agents, who are
doubtless prompted to agitate this move
ment solely tor the fee that is in it's
impracticable, untimelY, and injurious to
our people.
We therefore most earnestly and sin.
cerely urge, that, for the good of the race,
we be no longer led off as chattel slaves,
to build up Tor the waste places of other
States and 10 further the interests and
fortunes of other people at a dear expense
to ourselves.
We do not condemn emigration in a
general sense; We believe in it. We CON-
mend it, when we can go as free people
upon orr own accord, especially when We
find place where our condition can be
bettered.
We advise our people not to let them
selves be wrought upon by exciting and
riotous meetings and speeches. Further
experience has taught US the necessity of
abstaiuing from all useless expenditures of
money We therefore exhort our race To
practice trugslity and economy in al
things; to educate themselves and accu-
mulate property.
Our hopes Tor future elevation and pro-
gress depend upon God; and God has
endowed Us with Certain Inherent powers
and talents, in consequence of which We
are responsible for our own developments;
SO that, ultimately, wherever We are and
whatever We become, depends upon our
own personal energy and effort. We
furthermore advise our people to be Zeal
GUS and cousecrated in their devotion and
service to God; to cultivate peace. and
harmony between the races; and to de-
velop habits of patience, industry and
economy.
Further, this convention, iu view of the
successive shortness of drops and the low
prices of cotton, calls upon the landlords
Of the State to reduce their rents SO as to
allow renters to make better and more
respectable living, and thus restore conf
derce to the tenants and harmony between
them and the landlords. Unless this is
done we cannot hope to retain the laborers
in the State.
Lastly, that the farmers of the State, in
order to poutrib4te to the above results,
be requested to pay as promptly as pos.
sible to hirelings, the amount of wages
promised.
A. W. Pegues, Ph D, Raleigh; Rev q
johnson, Raleigh; Rev r Shepard, Raj
eigh; Rev L H Hackney, Chapel Hill;
Rev w FL Shaw, Lit,letou, Committee.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08

"a The action OF the white people of
Richmond to solve the negro problem by
employ ing aoy other than colored servants
is being widely commented upon, and has
attracted the attention OF the officers Of
ST. Stephens Guild, of No. so Fourteenth
street, New York, and sister Beatrice has
written to Mayor Ellyson, as we learn
from the Dispatch, saying: "We will fur
nlsh all the servants your people want.
We will investigate their references, see
that they are responsible and honest, and
see that the families securing this help
are satisfied with them; also, that they
throw no reflection on us alter they are
employed. This city is full of poor women
who would be glad 10 have employ ment,
and 1t Is charity to send them TO the
South, where they will see better side of
life Than they see here. l will attend to
yuur demands, aud not charge you a cent
OF money. You pay the servants expenses
to your place, then deduct so much q
month from her wages until she pays you
what II cost for transportation. LIS. me
hear from you at once, with references, 80
as to secure the girls respectable homes.
This must be the first consideration" The
public will await the result of Richmond's
experience with no little interest.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
The Tangled Raft or an Editor Afoat,

Yes, our ride from Goldsboro to Wilson last
Thursday night was an exquisite feast OF dellcl-
GUS delight, for one of the purest, sweetest,
loveliest and most bewitching madens we ever
met, was by our side, and flung over our feelings
that enhancing witchery which made our sense
drunk with the delirium of rapture and delight.
Yes drunk with estacy for as we feasted with en-
raptured vision on those transporting smiles
which played upon her beautiful cheeks, and as
we would now and then catch the gllmmer OF
her radiant eyes we felt as if we were on the
glittering raft made of tangled sunbeams, and
were being waited to that sweet isle Of enchant-
ment, around which the purest ripples break and
die in echoes full of rapture. Yes this young
maiden did make us dream for time of Para
disc Regained, for she was bright as star beams
and sweet as flowers and beautiful as an angels
dream of Heaven. and moments were made to
ripple by as sweety and as musically and as
beautifully and as radiantly as a streamlet Of
crystal waters flowing through banks of bloom
ing flowers and kissed alone by trembling sun
beams as they came down in dazzling showers
Wilson Mirr0r.
This poem of Brother Blount's is thus
upjustly jailed behind the prison-bars OF
prose. We protest. Give it the freedom
it deserves. Give it air, thus
Our ride from Goldsboro on last Thursday
night,
Was an exquisite feast of delicious delight;
For one of the lovelest maidens we ever have
met,
Made US as drunk with delrium as we well could
get:
Yes, drunk with ecstacY-ripe for the feast,
OF smiles as rapturous as dawn in the East;
And as we would catch the glimmer of eyes,
We felt ourselves drifting toward Gained Para
disc
On glittering raft of tangled sunbeams
To the ripping enchantment of an island of
dreams.
Yes-this maiden young did make us dream
She was sweet as the flower and bright as the
star,
In beauty like angels dreamings of bliss.
The moments flowed by with sunbeams a'kiss,
With music of waters by flowerb bed bank -
The only word here that will rhyme is-G drank
Or TANK, or crank, or tank, or q prank.
And betwixt me and you,
Nary one here will do.
But betwixt you and me,
Then, Prank let it be-
Simply-a prank of pleasantree
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
a Four Year Old Prisoner.

HAIRY H. Miller, aged four years and
eight months, was prisoner in the Essex
county Jail yesterday morning. He was
sent there in company with George
Tracey, aged eleven, and Samuel McGee
aged nine, by Justice of the Peace O'Reil
iy, OF Sou'h Oranges N. J. Many fires
have occurred in South Orange within the
last few months and the circumstances
left no doubt that they were the work OF
incendiaries. The latest was a: George
Versoy's plambing shop, a dilapidated
old structure, which was burned Wednes
day afternoon. Thursday a meeting oil
local business men was held and the situa
sion discussed.
The boy named hal been seen lurking
in the neighborhood aud oil and kindiing
waste had been found alter their departure.
Complains were m tde against the three
children, Tracey, McGee and Miller and
Constable Smith arrested them. They
were taken TO Whelau's saloon. to which
place he .ea.ned Justice O'R-illy re-
paired and set up court. He PROMPTLY
committed The i"tautile desperadoes IA
the county all.
'But ou are not going TO SEMI Them to
Jail 20 nigh, ?" came from the astonished
spectators.
the aj-stY OF The law had to be vindi
Gated AID the Justice sternly replied tha,
be could not do anything else. He
changed his mind after bearing a few
vehement protests and paroled the
prisoners in the custody of their parents
until yesterday, when he gave orders to
hurry them off to Jail. Lawyer NJ. T.
Barrett applied to Judge Kirkpatrick ia
the Common Pleas Court Yesterday toI
the release OF Miller, the four-year-and
eight.month-old boy. The Judge ordered
that Miller be given into the custody OF
his mother.
rhe comPiainants are collecting evi
dence to proye that all the fres wers
started b} the prisoners and other boys Of
the village.-Neao York World.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
The SHOW Flower.
Something Very Similar Much Nearer tha

something very Similar Much Nearer than
Siberia.
Accounts have been received of a SO.
called snow flower, said to have been dis
covered by Count Anthoskoff in the most
northern portion of Siberia, where the
ground is continually covered with irost.
The wonderful object shoots forth from
the frozen soil on the first day OF each
succeeding year.. It lives for but a single
day, then resolves to its original elements
The leaves are three in number, and each
about three inches in diameter. They are
developed only on that side toward the
uorth, and each seems to be covered with
microscopic crystals of snow.
We fad the above floating around
through our exchanges, and it attracted
our eye, as perhaps referring to something
he had seen much nearer than siberia.
We discovered our mistake; aud for the
benefit OF the curious, We will speak of
something to be found without going to
Siberia, without searching Tor it on any
one day of the year, and something that
is no. fabulous. Il ia what We named the
Ice Rose. Hardly one 10 thousand has
ever seen it, tor it does not grow in tow US
or cities or open fields. It is the prod duct
of the woods. Il forms or grows in those
cold nights and mornings where the clay
ground is found lifted or covered with
those beautiful spicul@ of ice which line
the road sides. The same mystery of
crysGalization which forms these spical@
acts in the formation of the ice rose but
the exudation of vapor as it pass.s into
the frozen state, instead of connecting itself
with the ground, attaches itself to the
stem of dead Feed and crystalizes in a
form OF woud, Itul beauty OF shape and
coloring, forming around the stem, but
not adherlng to 1t, a spiral, sometimes a
circle or ring of opalescent ice, from two
to three inches in diameter; the outer
surface rounded and smooth, the inner
side encircled with delicate eff oreSceuce
of minure crystals. Attached to it's woody
stem and lifted clear from the ground, it
has marvellous resemblance to beautiful
flower, a curious illusion in the cold
weather in which it is found. We
have cut many OF them with stem at
tached, and carried them uninjured for
miles, carefully protected 10 handker-
chief or sheet of paper. When the
temperature rises they tall from the stem
and soon perish.
To find them, the woods must be visited
very early in the day, and the weather
must be cold, and also, the ground must
be moist. But the ice rose is no myth
like the ow.fower.-AsheviHe Citizen.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
THANKSGIVING Day.

Thursday, November 2sth, the Day Ap-
WASHINGTON, November 2.-The fol-
lowing proclamation, setting apart Thurs
day, November %, as a day of national
noon
"By the President of the United States,
"A PROCLAMATION.
GA highly favored people, mindful of
their dependence on the bounty of a Di-
vine Providence, should seek fitting occa.
sion to testify gratitude and ascribe praise
to Him who is the author of their many
blessings. 1t behooves US, then, to look
back with thankful hearts over the past
year and bless God for His infinite mercy
in vouchsaing to our land enduring peace,
to our people freedom from pestilence and
famine, to our husbandmen abundant har-
vests, and to them that labor recompense
Of their toll.
SNOW, therefore, l, Beujam Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
do earnestly recommend that Thursday,
the twenty-eighth day of this present
month of November, be set apart as day
Of national thanksgiving and prayer, and
that the people of our country, ceasing
from the care and labors of their working
day, shall assemble in their respective g
places of worship and give thanks to God,
who has prospered US on our way and
made our paths paths of peace; beseeching
him to bless the day to our present and
future good, making it truly one of thanks
giving for each reunited home circle as for
the nation at large.
SIN witness whereof, / have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
"Done at the city of Washington, this
first day of November, in the year OF our
Lord 1889, and of the independence of the
United States the Hath.
"BENJ HARRISON.
SPY the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of the State"
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
THE WILSON DRUG cos
Retail Store.
MIHALOVITCH'S
Hungarian Blackberry Juice--NOpH
coholic.
The Great Stomach Remedv

AS remedy against Diarrhsa and Dyseutsr|
the juice of the Blackberry has been known anil
valued since time immemorial, andth tbers|
fore. needless for US to debate that subject auv
further than to say, that this particuM Hunl
garian Blackberry Juice, of which the bhCkbeu|
is grown in country which is famous fOrw
ducing the best fruits on the globe, will bear d
its excellence against all others.
LUxURY.--The fine aroma, pleasant taste u
rich body of the juice makes it a desirable srdd
for table USE 1t can be mixed in all proportiu
with all kinds of drinks, such as Lemonsd
Sherbets, Wines, Liquors, etc.. and will imp
to them delicious aroma, a fine acid taste
luscious body, which no other juice can I
For sale at
THE WILSON DRUG co.'s
MAY IL, 'S9 Retail Sta
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
Cash or No Paper.

Our subscribers can prepare for the
adoption OF the cash system by US. We
have III ade many liberal offers to you and
now we must have cash from the first OF
the year, or we can't send you the paper.
Hickory Press.
The press of the whole State ought to
adopt the cash system. There are sc many
under the credit system who don't pay
and that will never make any effort to pay
as long as they are INDUCED, that the en-
tire prof S OF the publishers in North
Carolina are lost to them in this way. AS
a consequence there are not exceeding five
papers In the State, If 50 many, that are
realizing from the paper alone more than
bare existence. There are people who
subscribe for paper and hang on as long
as the editor will send without pay, and
when be will no longer, they get in huff
and go off denouncing the editor and his
paper, aud subscribe for another with the
usual promises, but with never a cent of
cash. They must 60 the rounds of all the
newspapers office, until they 60 back or
stop reading. Then, if they do not send
off for paper, they go back to the first
and start at the beginning, paying a small
installment. allowing the paper to run long
after the time after paid tor is out unless
the editor happens to think to stop it, aud
promising every time they see the editor
TO call aud settle old scores aud renew
which they never do. Finally, the editor
is compelled again to strike him Off Aud
so the old trick is pursued again. In the
meantime. if a new paper is started in the
town or vicinity, these frauds rush in
body TO it With q short subscription, many
false prom:s. g of support and good oheer,
and with as much apparent pleasure and
interest as are manifested by crowd of
mountain boosters going to witness pub
lie hanging. Men who thus run from one
newspaper Office to another, getting their
reading matter from year to year bS
ttattery, false pretense, and lying, are not
the sort OF patrons we are looking for.
This kind of patronage has already robbed
US Of very many dollars of our hard earn
ings and We do not intend to be robbed
again. A..
A person who gets peck of meal, a
yard of cloth, a pound of sugar, or a
or newspaper on the strength of false
promise, or by saying that he will have
money due him at certain time with
which to pay, or that he will haul wood, or
bring corn, or wheat, or anything else to
pay with, aud never dses it, has laid him
self liable to prosecution for having OBJ
tanned articles under false pretense, and il
he is not Indicted and punished for the
traod, II is because of the toleration aud
forbearance of the party whom be has de-
eeiVed and swindled.- Salisbury Truth
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
Total Visible Supply of Cotton

NEW YORK. Nov. 2.-The total Il
BILE supply Of cotton for the world
2,O7o,69l bales, OF which 1887 ,o9l ;.
American, against ,697, 7s6 and ,47s,sS
respectively last year; receipts iron
terror towns, $3.50; receipts from Dla
tations. S29.los. Crop in sight 2. .l4s M
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
Comparative Cotton StateneD,
The following is the comparative =.
statement for the week ending Nov "
Total Receipts at all American
since Sept. 1st, 1889.

The following are the total net rec.,
OF cotton at all United States sean.
since September 1st, 1889: Calves
37l ,4s4 bales, New Orleans 543,3Ss NJ
bile 9s,076, Savannah 395, ,Os0, CharlsrJ
Wilmington 54,426, Norfolk lS
$40. Baltimore 3,O27, New York 4sIs
Boston 4,zsO, Newport News s,os7. Pm!
delphia 5,4s4, West Point 1lO, ,3ss, Br,i
wick 40,329. Total 1921, ,265 bales
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08

az The world is indebted to the
Louisville Journal for The following
plausible story: "In Woodford county,
KY, Mr.. John D. Burns raised large
drove of turkeys this year. aud by placing e
bell upon the old mother that led them,
he accustomed them to follow the sound.
When the time came to work his tobacco
fields he removed the bell, placing it on
bis own waist, and while working his crop
with the Doe, the hungry turkeys followed
the familiar tinkle of the bell, picking the
stalks clean of the worms as they followed
him up one row and down the other. The
turkeys have done the work OF Eve men
and saved the crop.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08

APFE4E OF A MODEST MAN.-This
weeks Rulo Times is edited by one Nor
ton Potter, who has as yet had no expert
ence 10 the business, and who would be
pleased # ye editors of other papers would
cast no reflections on our inability to cope
with yourn's, as life 10 short at best
RuLo Times
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08

WILL BE STATES HEREAFrER.-Presi-
dent Harrison issued . proclamation ad-
mitting North and South Dakota into the
Union as States TO date from November
2. Secretary of State Blaine, notified the
two governors of the Presidents action. '
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
CORN AND PEAS WANTED.

We will F. the highest market price. in cad
for Coru and Peas
STAR MILLS CO.
We are prepared for Ginning Cotton ana u
guarantee as good work as can be done "
where We charge the one-thirtieth part
give our customers ALL their seed.
Our Ginnery is located within 100 yards Of
Cotton Platform. thus placing our patrons ii
on the market. No trouble to sell your seed :
highest price near by.
Our capacity is 25 Bales. and by running d
and night we can turn out so Bales each "a bOun
We guarantee the safety of all Cotton left !
our care. A share of your patronage is solicta
STAR MILLS co,
w. n. CRowELL, Manager
Sept 20, 1889.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
RaadY-Mixed Paints

In small Cans. You can give your old buppv
wagon fresh coat, and be surprised how esr|
can be applied. and what an improvement in A
appearance. You or your wife can repaint !
chairs, tables, bedstead or anything else needA
it, and be more than paid for the cost and IAN
W. 81. WEARN & col
w Pepotash and Huckleberry Cordial H
bowel troubles A full line of Patent Medicil
of all kinds. Call and see us.
w. 81. WEARN & col
June l. 'S9
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
|. wEARN. L. y. W.,
NEW DRUG FIRM.
w. H. Wearn b CO.

(Successors to L. r. Wrfston d Col
We are prepared to wait oD our lite ir,oDS Sp13
the public generally at the old DFss ksal
Qrwin's corner,> where we propose cSsn5jj ~ ~
full stock of Drugs. Medicines, oD
Patent Medicines, &c. &c. n
We are determined to do our sna[e 10
Drug business in the city. and it VIII % pc Of u
interest to call and see rs when In ne0O
thing in the Drug line. .pN a CO.
Charlotte, May 4. 'Ss.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
Horse and Cattle Powoer.

If your horse or COW is reduced ir ha.I
not eat well, hair rough, try our Powders zss
ranted to improve their condition or moDev Y
funded.
w. II. WEARN & ro
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08
OFFICE OF THE
W 81 0 L E S A L E HOU Z
OF
S. WittkOwsky.
1889. SPRING AND SUMMER, 1889.

40 per Cent. Increase
In my sales over the corresponding IL months
of last year is what l have the satisfaction of
publishing to the world, as result of my efforts
in the strictly Wholesale" business, and yet it
ought not to be surprise, as there is no House,
be 1t North or South, East or West, that can
claim advantages which do not possess
Nor do 1 intend to rest on my Iaurels, but feel
that my desire for still greater achievements has
bending every nerve, and with my adopted
P. P. p.
Push, Patience and Perseverance,
In the near future expect to see my business
reach such large proportions as to "Astonish the
Natives"
For the past three months have been almost
constantly among the Southern Western and
Eastern Manufacturing Centres, placing orders
for
Boots. Shoes, Hats
AND ALL WOOL FILLED JEANS AND
CASSIMERES,
Amounting to piincely sums and colossal pro-
portions.
That it takes nerve and money to do these
things so far ahead of the Season, goes without
saying, and I claim to possess both of these
qualities.
Seven ~ experienced Statesmen will, al an
early day, in my interest, canvass the Trade In
both the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee, with
Shoes, Hats and the Southern production of
Wool Goods, mostly of my own designs and
selections and it will be to the interest of buyers
to await their coming.
s. wITTKoWsKY.
Charlotte, N. e..
Feb. Is, 1889
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08

STUDENTS have been entered In the
Washington Catholic University.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-08

June l. 80.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-09-07
WANAMAKER's.
PHILADELPHIA. Saturday, Sep. 1850.
Store Open all day.

To-day closes the first
week of the September Lin .
tied Sale. 1t has been a
SUCCESS.
Like q good book or
musical composition, each
wise business scheme has a
motive. The motive of this
sale is to make coed bust
ness better. We are asked
if business is dulll Why,
b'eas you, no. August sales
were phenomenally large.
We've told you that bsfore.
To continue the outflow
of goods, Bargains have
been sought and brought,
sometimes from our own
STOCKS, sometimes fr, m 9TH
ers, but b ought they have
been. And trade has kept
its course with a rush anG
tocks have been cleared
out thoroughly.
A few days more will
bring forward other things.
Follow US daily.
Remember the Blankets
Never such a Blanket story
as that we told you thif
week.
Remember the Linens
/ They are now at the coun
ters.
Remember the Parlol
Suites and the Bedroom
Suites. Money In them ye'
for YOn but not for US.
j Remember the Chenill,
Heavy Curtains at half ant
less.
Remember the ORES
Goods all over the store,
Re0,em6ey that the Linn
lied Sale will soon be over
The pleasures of memor,
will belong to such as re
member this Limited Sal
NOW.