The Western Sentinel from Winston-Salem, North Carolina • Page 1

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49 WINSTON, N. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1886. PRICE 5 CENTS THE SENT! EL REFUSES TO STAND STILL! It Does Not Permit a Week to Pass without Producing A.N IMPROVEMENT OR A NEW FEATURE! WtMn ALL OVER THE STATE. I Other negroes then jumped on the one IN THE GOLDEN BELT. STORIES OF THE WAR INTERESTING ANECDOTES OF BOTH THE BLUE AND GKEY.

C. D. Vernon is second to none in the state as a first class hotel. Mr. Vernon will entertain the ladies of the Southern Woman's Press Association at the approaching convention to be neld on the 15th ot the present month.

Traveler. our fellows was they had such big feet they couldn't fall down when they were shot. After an action the officers went round calling the roll. When a man didn't answer they knew he had been promoted to a happier land than ours so they just dug a grave right behind him, and flopped him over and filled him in." And solemnly handing their badges over to the champion incidenter the members put out the camp fire and went home. San Francisco Wasp.

In the late war a soldier on picket reserve went to a farm house, as he said, to borrow a frying-pan, but for what purpose none could imagine, as there was nothing to fry. However, lie went to the house and knocked at the door, which was opened by a lady, who asked what he wished. Madam, jtS NEWS OF THE WEEK IN NORTH CAROLINA, Carefully Colled From Our Co temporaries and Compressed into Small Particles. WAKE. The revenue received by the State for drummer's tax for the year ending Nov.

1 was $80,000. The legislature of this State meets on the first Wednesday after the first Monday in January. On Tuesday of last A eek a fire in Raleigh destroyed the cotton platform and part of the shed of the cotton compress. Tha total loss was 48,000 ustained by the Raleigh Cotton Ex change and the R. G.

Railroad Company. BUNCOMBE. A broom factory has been lately established at Asheville and the proprietor says that farmers can make Irom SdO to 80 per acre raising broom corn. There is considerable talk as to the construction of the Carolina Central R. through from Rutherfordton to to Asheville, and it is said that Col.

Robinson has ordered his surveyors to maVa mi a 1.1. rT' 1 tance is only about 40 miles. CHATHAM. Twenty-six inches of snow in Asheville, N. and still falling; several houses crushed by the weight of snow; fifteen inches at Lynchburg, Va.

Prof. J. A. W. Thompsen, ol Oak Dale Academy, will move his flourishing; school to Siler.

on the C. F. Y. V. R.

on account of securine railroad facilities, better houses, Ac. We regret to announce the death of Oliver Clark, of Hadley township. He was well and favorably known all over the county, as a man of integrity and honor. His generous hand and kind heart will be greatly missed in his community. He has been a justice of the peace for years.

Chatham Home. BURKE. The citizens of Morganton are moving for the establishment of a bank in their town. Mr. George McClure, of Morgan-ton, has killed 150 squirrels in the past two weeks.

He always goes hunting by himself and never takes a dog. Hickory Press. HERE AND THERE. Charlotte is to have the roads leading into town macadamized. A lodge of Knights ol Labor has been organized at Fayetteville.

The Willow Brook cotton mills at High Point are to be rebuilt at once. Ground has been broken for the erection of the new Methodist church at Wilmington. The Edenton people are actively engaged in work looking towards the establishment ol a winter resort. The new female college at Hender son will be completed by January 17. liev.

J. M. Rhodes will be the principal. Mr. Duncan Cameron, the oldest son of Paul Cameron, Esq died at his residence in Orange county on the 27th of November.

Messrs. Stamps Hatcher, tobacco manufacturers of Milton, have made an assignment. Their liabilities are $15,000 assetts 81G.000. The U. S.

Supreme court hau-sus-taiued the validity of bonds issued by the county of Washington for the purpose of building a court house. The Craven county board of canvassers are being investigated by a U. S. Commission for alleged violation of law in counting the election returns. A newspaper is to make its appearance from Wadesboro about the 2nd of December The Southern Argus, with J.

Ragan as editor and proprietor. A gentleman who lives on Deep river told us the other day that he saw a perfect watermelon growing on a muskmelon vine. High Point Enterprise The sheriff of Edgecombe county occupied three andja half columns ot the Tarboro Southernor of last week with an advertisement of sale of lands for taxes. I I wno aid tne tilling and cut him nearly to death. A horrible, accident occurred in Oneal's township last Saturday.

A I .1... T-A J' mau immeu ram icy uean was reeu-ing a cotton gin when his arm was caught by the saws and torn to pieces and probably destroyed. Smifhfield Herald. The Durham Recorder praises Col. T.

Blackwell for his action in selling brick in Durham since the fire. It says that he sold iast year 2,500,000 brick and that in the time of'the people's necessity did not raie the price. The Washington Gazette savs, a Republican, R. F. Daltou, ot Greensboro, says: "Brower, the Republican who defeated Reid, was nominated by a whiskey blockader and that Brower himself has been convicted of blockading, and is now under charge of arson." If the directors ef the Richmond Danville Railroad system would take the pains to sit around hotel offices on their line and especially on the North Carolina division, they might be able to hear omething in regard to themselves from the traveling public in regard to accommodation.

Durham Recorder. Mr. Leno, of Coleraine, who seems not to be very happy in his marriage relations, a few days ago prayed that the Lord would strike him deaf and dumb, so that he might never speak to a woman or hear her tongue again In a few hours his prayer was answered, since which time he has not been able to speak or hear, and has to make his wants known in writing. Mur-freesboro Index. IN SMALL COMPASS.

Gist of the Week's News From Home and The French Ministry has resigned. President Cleveland has a severe attack of rheumatism. Col. J. R.

Lewelled, editor of the Danville Reyister is dead. Charles Carter, a notorious land swindler, has been arrest id in Birmingham, Ala. Reports are coming in of marine disasters on the lakes and North Atlantic coast. A French steamer with 1,200 troops on board is reported to have foundered in the Mediterranean. Three negroes charged with murder were taken from jail in Brenham, Texas and hanged by a mob.

A peasion check for $3,000, altered from one for six dollars, has turned up at the St. Louis sub-treasury. The United Labor organizations propose to hold a National Convention in Cincinnati, February 22d, 1887. A. II.

Elwood, a mail agent arrested at Detroit for robbing the mails, confessed his peculating amount to $2,000. In a shooting affray between James Turner and Frank Carter at Stephenson, botli men were fatally wounded. At Harrison, a polici-iuan was shot and fttnlly wounded by a stranger whom he had arrested the man escaped. In the case of the National Soldiers' Home against Gen. B.

F. Butler, the jurv found a verdict for 810,537 against the General. Knights ol Labor in the West are opposed to paying the usscssinont of twenty-five cents on ali members ordered by Mr. Powderly. The President has ieiue.l a proclamation announcing that raiiiicitiou have been exchanged of the new extradition treaty with Japan.

The decrease in the public debt for November a litt'e over one million dollars; nearly Si were paid out for pensions. Four seamen and two Useruge pas-tlio steamer sensrers were killed on Westernland from Antwerp, in a terrific hurricane, Novemler Bishop Lyman consecrated the church of the Holy Trinity in Paris the 25th inst. It was built by the American of tL French Capital. Theodore S. Mise, the deiaalter of Chicago, ruined his family all that they possessed was was taken to satisfy the claims ef bis emplovers, whom he robbedof 12,000.

A gaDg of fifty Chinese section hands on the Texas Pacific Railroad recently were horribly tortured by about the same number cf masked men, who robbed them of all their COURT WEEK IX COUNTY, GRANVILLE A Visit to the Oxford Orphan Asylum Fine Tobacco Breaks anil Good PriceB Mother of 23 Children. Special Cbrrespondenc of the Sentinel. Oxford. N. C.

Dec. 1. Not with-1 standing tl.e inclemency the weath-er the attendance at coart here this week was good. The criminal docket is a light one, which speaks well for ho large and populous a county as this. There are no very important cases to trv at this term.

We like the Caleuder System arranged by the lawyers at this bar. Suitors and witnesses under this arrangement are not compelled to stay around the Courthouse all the week at the expense ot the county and to their own annoyance. The warehouses, here are now enjoying very fine tobacco breaks. Tuesday they had it to the tune of fifteen thousand dollars or more, about 200 wagons were here which give a lively appearance to things. The market has been well supplied for several weeks and it gives us pleasure to state that prices have been satifactory upon the whole.

All the better grades are selling well and by far the bulk of the weed Bold in this market good. We understand that prices averaged about fifteen cents, much of it bringing from twenty-five to sixty-five cents per lb. This should serve as a broad hint to the tobacco farmer around Winston. While we are aware that the soil in that section is not altogether so good for growing the fine bright as it is in this favored region of our state, yet we think great improvement might be made in that direction by prudence in the section of the land and in the cultivation and handling of the weed. In fact something must be done or else our piedmont growers will be torced to quit growing tobacco as all past experience has taught them that they can not afford to raise it for an average of 4 or 5 cents per lb.

Re-' liable dealers inform us that there is now and will probably always be a good demand for the fine grades. It is now pretty certain that a Rail Road will be built from this place to Clarkaville and also from Clarka- ville Tia Blue Wing to Durham. Both of which would penetrate eood sections of country. The people nere are beginning to feel the importance of eood railroad facilities. The dis- tanoe from Clarksville to Durham via Blue Wing is about 65 miles and would be another splendid outlet for Durham.

Blue Wingis beginning tobe noted for its valuable copper ore and other minerals and is one of the com ing plaoes of the State. Isabella Boon wife of Willis Boon who lives three miles from here is the mother of twenty-three children 18 of whom are now living, one is now about 63 years old and is as spry as a cat. Ihe above is a tact which can easily be authenicated. 'We had a very pleasant visit of one or two hours at the orphans asylum. Dr.

Dixon Was not in but we were taken in charge by brother L. Thomas of the Orphans' Friend who extended many courtesies. About 200 parentless boys and girls are now here, whose wants comtorts and eood behavior are well and faithfully looked after by these good Christian people who are in charge. We will not attempt to give a description of the numerous and well arranged buildings together with the large and well conducted farm and industrial building where these little boys are taught to farm and also to learn useful trades as well as to acquire a fair amount of book education. The little girls are taught to cook, to cut and make garments of every description, to keep their respective apartments in neat and orderly con dition and in fact are taught all the requsitis to make them good and useful women.

This is indeed a noble and deserving institution and one that appeals to the hearts of all christian people every where. Messrs. Davis Gregory of Oxford are among the leading dealers of that section in heavy groceries and provisions and. are haying a large whole sale trade in those goods They are both clever p.nd reliable gentlemen and richly deserve the immense patronage they are receiving from the public. The Horner School at this place is The boys all look well and conduct themselves admirably on The McAdoo House Greensboro, N.

C. under the present manager Mr, A Soldier's Dodge to Get Off Duty The Frying Pan" -A Bee Line for Camp. During the war about twenty Confederate prisoners were at Fort Mc-Ilenry, stored away in a fodder loft under guard. One morning Captain Ned Bridges was playing an innocent game of cards when the sick call w.s sounded the signal for ailiug soldiers to report at the surgeon's office 10 be examined. Lieutenant," said Capt.

Bridges, turning to a young soldier, answer sick call for me and let us finish this game. Go down there and persouate me, and tell the doctor you want HON. THOMAS T. IARVIS V. S.

MIVI TO NORTH CAROLINA, another box of his liver pills." The obliging marched out and proceeded with the other soldiers, under the escort of the guards, the surgeons omce. When the name of Captain Bridges was called the Lieutenant's face appeared at the ittle office window. Doctor," he began, them pills you gave me helped me up consider ably, but 1 waut another box. tninK another box will fix me up all right." Didn the pills cure you asked the doctor, abruptly, looking over his spectacles at the bogus Bridges. JNo, but another box will nx me, i think." "Well, well," said the doctor, half to himself, "I'll have to change, the treatment on you.

Thereupon he picked up a graduat ing glass, and from various bottles mixed the most internal mess that mortal ever saw. The Lieutenant shuddered. When the villanious compound; was made up the doctor stirred it vigor ously and viciously, and, holding it out, said: Drink that." The Lieutenant took hold of the glass. Cold chills ran up and down his spine. Doctor," he stammered, I I er heap ruther take the pills." Drink it stormed the doctor, and ..1 A.

in the excitement tne meaicine em down the Lieutenant's throat. When the Lieutenant returned to the fodder loft he was very glum. When the game of cards grew monotonous Captain Bridges turned and asked Lieutenant, git them pills "Naw!" i "Well" said the Captain, you needn't be so snappish about it. What did the doctor say He said he was going to cnange the treatment on you, and ifyou don't git well it ain my fault, lor 1 ve taken the nastiest dose for you that ever I saw!" I suppose you weie in the war, comrade said a prominent speaker as he sat down again at a post banquet after telling a few dozen of select wa- incidents with great ap-nlatise. Ob, yes," remarked his neighbor, who had industriously been potting away the shrimp salad and champagne during the speech making.

I was a member of the Michigan Big What regiment was that Why, the Forty-fourth Michigan regiment, you know. The men were selected exclusively on 'account of their big I wear No. 26's Do. eh Yes. You see the peculiarity of 4 i AT THE NATIONAL Getting Ready for the Shirt session of the 49th Congress.

Special Correspondence of the Sentinel. Washington, D. C. Dec. 13.

There is nothing in the way of news afloat in Washington just now. The Government machinery is clicking away with unusual speed, the President in the clutches of rheuruatismis looking over his completed message and everywhere there is a flutter of preparation for the Congressional session which will open on Monday next at precisely twelve o'clock. The largest days work ever accomplished in the Pension Bureau was done on last Wednesday, when forty of the lady clerks were employed until midnight and then sent home in herdic3 at Government expense, An unusual amount of Pension business was finished up during the month of November, the number of certificates granted being 7,384. The public debt statement for November shows a de crease in the debt of only a little over $1,000,000, but this small reduction is principally due to the fact that nearly 814,000,000 were paid out dur ing the month for pensions alone. secretary annual report which is ready and will be before the public by the time this reaches you, treats of questions in which the coun try has a vital interest His Indian policy as well as that with regard to public lands and railroads is well known, but the treatment of the red man forms the chief feature of the report.

He recommends again great clemency and liberality to the wards of the nation, and his views and those of the bureau having immediate charge, coincide as to the desirability of the savages abandoning tribal rela tions, and settling down to industry. The report is written in that forcible and charming style which has charac terized each official document penned by the Secretary of the Interior. When Secretary Whitney annual report came from the the Public Printer on Wednesday, some distributions of it were made, but strict in junctions were given that it should not be published until Saturday morning. The document, which has only been seen in confidence, is instructive and renews many recommendations made in his first report. The Secretary points with pride to the present condition of Department affairs asks for five more millions for the new navy, and thinks there should be no delay of the legislation necessary for a reorganization of the Navy Department, The return of cpeaker Carlisle and CoL Morrison has reviyed discussion as to the probability of Tariff legislation this winter.

As usual much interest is felt in learning the Administrations' views of the Tariff question. It is ascertained the President will treat the question as one demanding fearless consideration, and that he will be specific and emphatic in advocacy ot tariff reduction. He will also speak boldly and approvingly of the civil service law and the results of its enforcement under his administration. Speaker Carlisle has been beset by callers since bis arrival and he alludes to the piospect of a renewal of the Tariff fight with freedom and hopeful ness. "Jol.

Morrison retuses to outline his projrram for the session. lie is not dejected over his defeat, however, and expects his friends to mention it when they meet him. Much of the sensational matter which is distributed throughout the country from Washington relative to the President's country-seat purchase, the avenue extensions in particular, and real estate syndicates in general, is politically inspired. It is fabricated for a purpose. It is not concocted out oi any real regard lor the interests oi the District or in any spirit of zeal tor the public welfare: but with the di rect.

oold-blooded intent to bring the Administration into contempt and dis repute before the country. So far as the late investigation of the Police Department is concered, and unsatisfactory as its results may be in not fully disclosing the causes and course of events which led to the resignation of Major Walker, there is not the faintest scintilla ot evidence to implicate the President with any phase of the Whatever press ure may have been exerted in this matter, there is no trace of executive influence' in it. The seasons first ripple of social ex chanee was seen on the streets of the city last Wednesday-- beginning of the tidal-wave of society wbicn lol lows the opening of Congress. The ladies of the Cabinet all greeted their Concluded on 4t A column.) TER TO BRAZIL, NOW ON A VISIT HIS NATIVE STATE. could you lend me a frying-pan? belong to the picket down here, Yes, sir," and forthwith came the pan.

He took it, looked at it, turned it over and over again as if not certain it was clean. Well, sir," said the lady, can I do anything more for you Could could you lend me a piece of meat to fry in it, ma'm and he laughed in spite of himself. He got it. A confederate guard was once on duty over in South Carolina. An officer was discussing war matters and remarked You know your duty there, do you sentinel Yes, sir.

Well, now suppose they should open on you with shells and musketry, what would you do Form a line, sir." What, one man form a line Yes, sir form a bee-line for camp' sir." An Editor With a Note-Book. The McDuffie, Ga. Journal says "There are some men in this world who think they have done something smart when they have succeeded in "snaking" an editor out of small sums for subscription. We keep a "dead-beat" book for the names of these small sharks. There are others who get mr.d if asked to pay the small amounts they owe we keep a list of these also and promptly enter their names ou our "jackass book." There are some interesting statistics at this The, Council of Thomas J.

Cluver-ius has received a letter from Gov. Lee; rendering a final decision and refusing pardon or Commutation of sentence. It is the general opinion that a respite of 60 days will be granted. He was to have been hung on the 10th inst. (Concluded from 2nd old friends and the new comers, and while there was not a lone line of waiting carriages, as there will be when the season is further advanced, there was a sufficient recognition of the day.

Official etiquette and social convenience together long ago decided that the reception days of families of the higher grade of omcials in Washington should be as follows: Monday, the wives of Judges of the Supreme Court; Tuesday, the wives ef Representatives in Congress Wednesday, the wives of the Cabinet officers; Thursday, the wives of Senators Friday, the wives of Army and Navy officers, and Saturday, the lady of the White House. The ladies may begin observe these "days at home" as early as they please, but it is customary for all to do so after Congress assembles. Tarheel." Abstracts from all the counties show that the value of the real and personal property in the State amounts to $220,000,000 an increase of over last year. Gov. Jarvis has arrived in N.

and Mr. Julian S. Csrr told the N. C. Conference that he thought the ex-Gov.

and minister could be secured as Agent for Trinity College. I' A couple or negrots got into a fuss at Farmville, Pitt county, last Friday and one of them was shot and killed..