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Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-23
The Power of Loves
San Antonio Herald September 2eth.

On a bed in the pest house
young man was lying stricken with
the exanthematic plague that has
fingered SO longin this city There
was no suffering in concert to
make his pangs endurable; he alone
of all the city lay in the hateful
house with the yellow flag, the
hateful symbol CT taboo, tiuttering
out its message Of warning, crying
TO the winds "Unclean!" taking up
but llelon's physician walked the
earth 10 longer. Nevertheless an
attribute of Christ remains en-
earth; there was one that dared the
monster in his den and wrestled
with him for the prize. Day and
night she stood at her pest by the
loathsome couch, nursing her lover
from whom the would had turned
shuGdering away, still seeing the
beautiful through the veil of hor-
ror, uncheered by voice, music, or
flower, alone with her lover and
the monster that claimed him;
counting time by the creeping
shadows, administering the medi-
cine with tender hand, disputing
with death for its life; the bosom of
virgin opposed to an arm of hell.
The crisis passed and the sick man
lett the couch; the two went their
way, the Mexican with the girl who
held him back from deaths jaws;
no trumpet sounded nor drum beat,
but as brave heart beats in lh
breast of that girl as nerved Murat
or Ney or the heroes of the Alamo,
and her noble act deserves the
worlds applause. But she will
never get it because she is a poor
Mexican girl; besides she does not
want it.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-23
Greedy Washington Lawyers.

WASHINGTON, OcT.-Col. Robert
Douglas, son of the late Stephen
A. Douglas, recently had some ex-
perience which illustrates tho ex-
traordiuary methods practieed by
class of Washington lawyers and
claim agent. The sons. of Senator
Douglas lately obtained Judgment
against the Government for largo
amount OF money for cotton taken
during the recent war from the
Louisiana plantation of their IA
ther. John M. Coutts was the at
torney in the case, and, upon OH
tanning the Treasury draft for the
money, refused TO surrender it un-
less he was paid a fee which Col.
douglas regarded as exorbitant.
Enoch Iottep, son in-law of Sena-
tor Howe, of Wisconsin, was en-
ployed by Col, Douglas to briug
suit against Coutts for the recovery
of the draft, but, pending the suit
a compromise was made by which
Coutts gave the draft to its lawful
owner Totten had rendered some
service in the initial proceedings
against the Government for the
recovery of the value of the cap
tured cotton, and Tor his services
IN both cases demanded $4,000.
Douglas objected to the amount as
excessive, and offered to pay Tot
ten that be had been led to expect
$4,000 by Col. Keogh, of North
Carolina, and the matter was held
in allegiance until Keogh, who was
expected here in n few days, should
arrive. On Friday last Totten in
vited Douglas to dine at bis house
and, during the dinner, asked his
guest where he had deposited the
draft. After depositing the draft
in a certain bank on Thursday last
Col. Douglas was irduced to with
draw and deposit it in another
bank. In reply to Totten's ques-
ton, suspecting some sinister de-
sign. Douglas gave his host the
name of tho bank in which he had
first made the deposit, bnt from
which it had been subsequently
withdraw. Yes erday morning
Douglas was served with q sum
mons to answer in civil action,
brought against him by Totten for
the recovery OF $4,000 and an at
tachment WAS served upon the
bank which the money had been
withdraw. Col. Douglas has now
engaged a third lawyer to defend
him against this second attack,
and hopes to get away from Wash
ington without being forced to en-
ploy the entire bar of the District
20 save him from the rapacity of
its members. He is justly indig-
nant at being TINS treated by Tot~
ten while be was sustaining the re-
lation of client and guest to him.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-23
Two Senator'S

Under this heading the New
York Journal Of Commerce very
happily draws a parallel between
the partisan speech of Senator
Conkling, in Brooklyn, on Wednes
day evening last and the speech
the next day delivered by Senator
Gordon, in Savannah, upon the oc-
casion of the Jasper centennial.
As the Journal says: "The North
ern Senator, in his speech, was
nothing if not sectional and the
representative of a party. The
Southern Senator lepudiated Sec
:lonalism with great vehemence
word to identify himself with any
political organization" "Mr.
Conkling, says the Journal, sank
far beneath the level to which a
man of his pretensions should have
risen in discussing campaign is
Sues The Georgia Senator, on
the other hand, took and easily
kept the high table land of patrios.
ic thought which so many Ameri-
can statesmen-Senator Conkling
chief among them-long ago de-
serted" Our New York contem-
porary adds:
Senator Gordon call the FEEDER
al constitution 'the omnippoteDt
arbiter from which there is no ap-
peal. He prays for broad patriot
ism, broad as the republic ITSELF
He says: God speed the day when
the maxim, This is my country, all
my country-every section, every
State, every acre of soil over which
the flag of the republic floats
shall be embraced in every Ameri-
can freemen.' It is said that the
part OF his address containing
these passionate words of Devotion
to the Union 'elioited the most ,o-
cife:ous and prolonged applause.
How is this? Senator Conkling, in
a speech totally devoid of patriot
ic enthusiasm, told his hearers in
effect that the Union was as hats
ed at the South, that State rights
are as rampant there as ever in the
days before secession, tiat the ex~
rebels having failed to destroy the
republic by war are now seeking to
capture and control it with a view
of upsetting all that the war had
settled, as we had fondly supposed.
He declares that the ional
finances, prosperity, economy, safe
ty, right and justice are all imper~
lied by these bold, unscrupulous
Soutberners. And, for answer to
all this sound and fury, the men Of
Georgia, $4,000 or 10000 strong,
stood out in the burning sun on
Thursday aud frantically applaud
ed every ailusion of their distin-
guished Senator to the flag and the
perpetuity of the Uniob."
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-23
The Ideal and the Real Editor

The majority of people imagine
that it is the simplest thing in the
world to edit.a newspaper. A man
may have grave doubts about his
talent tor public speaking; may
freely admit that he cannot turn a
tune, or recognize one when turned
by anybody else may confess that
he is no poet, not much of a schol-
ar and nothing of an artist but
there is no creature SO poor-spirit-
ed as to avow his incapacity to edit
a newspaper. On the contrary,
this is work to which every man
seems to have manifest call. No
matter what his actual business in
lite may be-preacher, lawyer,
physician, butcher, baker or candle.
stick maker-he has secret fancy
that if he only had chance he
could make a newspaper a little bit
spicier and liyelier than anything
in the shape of a public Journal
that has ever come his way.
But few know anything of the
editors real work. The weekly is
sue is to him a kind of perpetual
grindstone. The freshness, the ex-
quisite charm Of seeing his rame in
print has long since vanished. He
writes sometimes painfully aud un-
der pressure, often harassed by a
thousand petty yexations, and not
unfrequently with aching head and
weary hand. His work is, of all
work, most wearing, the most akin
to tred-mill drndSery, and the most
exhausting both to body and brain.
The call for copy is ineXorable and
cannot be refused. He must write.
He must also endure the most CEN
temptible and continual criticisms
must bear patiently "to be es-
teemcd dull when he cannot be
witty, and to be app.auded for wit
when he knows he has been dnll."
Every body who buys his paper
feels that he has purchased right
to dictate tie manner in which ii
shall be conducted, to criticise
sharply everything that appears in
it, and to "eleyate its tone" with
his own carping lucubrations, fairly
written out aud enclosed in note
for Immediate publication, signed
ga Subscriber" can Old Patron,"
or can Earnest Wcllwisher." .
Baltimore Sun.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-23
WINSTON N. c, THURSDAY, OCTOBER a. 1870

order to the Prison Inspector that |
was to be forthwith transported to
the Prusion frontier. At Eydt-
kuhnen [ was handed over to the
Prussian police, who at once set
me at liberty. l travelled straight
to farls, and thence to Geneva,
where | slowly recovered nv
health, and now write this nv
miserable story"
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-23
A TERRIBLE STORY.

Another terrible narrative of the
atrocities perpetrated by the Rus
sian police authorities under cover
of the estate of siege" has just
reached us from Geneva, where a
journal is published in the Russian
language, called the O6scAtscheje
Djelo, and edited by Michael Ora
gomanow, an ex-professor of the
Kiew University, This paper, al
though inscribed in the Russian
Index Expur"a+orius, finds its way
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-23

Senator Beck thinks Gen. Han
cock is the favorite presidential
candidate of the South. Mr.. Bay
ard, he believes, would poll more
votes than Mr.. Tilden, but it
would be hard to nominate him.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-23
A New Enterprise - IhillStOneS
from Moore.

J. E. Taylor, president of the
Taylor Manufacturing Company
of Westminster, Nd, was in the
city yesterday. We learn that he
has bought the milestone quarry i'll
Moore county, about 5 miles from
from Can thage, which contains ;s
stone that was discovered some IS
years ago, aud has been worked by
several parties in n primitive way,
some ten different quarll IS having
been operated tor years. Tho stone
has gained;quite II local notoliety as
Moore county grit. 1t is q blue
cement t-colored rock filed with
white flint, and it is claimed for it
that it griuds corn in manner su-
pelior to the French barr, or ESQ
phus. The grit being so much
sharper than hat III the ordinary
miIIstoue makes fine granulation
instead of IA pasty or tlouiy meai-
It is also claimed that it giinds
with much less power than any
other.
Mr. Taylor purchased the entire
r'in some 5 miles long, together
with $50 acres OF land, and has
formed a company called the
Moore County Milestone Company
which will put In all the improved
machinery necessary to put the
stones on the market in quantities.
The deposit is said by all acquain-
ted with it to be neXhaustible.--
Charlotte CAseryef.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-23

DeBoa0's Revaeao, so we'll know n
before the war, has been revived at
New Orleans, with William Nj.
Burwcll as editor.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-23

During September 1852 i'm
migrats arrived at New York,
against 8,955 in September OF last
year.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-23

A certain Old gentleman, very
rich and still moro stingy, is in The
habit Of wearing his clothes to the
last thread. One Of his friends,
meeting him, exclaimed "They
told Inc that you had a new haf,
and I'll bo hanged if yon haven't %
ooh, yes" said the miser, looking.
as if he were a trifie ashamed. Of him
self ; "you see, my wife kept telling
me that the old one was good deal
worn out. Well, yesterday was
my wife's birthday, and [ got my
self new hat for her birthday
present"
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-15
THE PROPOSED NEBRASKA ROAD.

NiObrara Pioneer, eth.
E. P. Hanlon, travelling agent for the Tn.
ion Pacific railroad company, and Lew Lay
of Stanton county, we're in town yesterday
to see how our people felt about the Oma.
ha, Niobrara and Black Hills railroad.
They were in Creighton precinct and say
that the people there seem quite we'll pleas
ed with the prospect In view. Under the
new law it takes ten per cent. Of the valu-
alton of the county to be determined by a
two-!hirds vote. An actual survey must be
made aud a plat filed in the county clerks
Office at least two weeks before the propo-
sitlon is voted upon, which keep out the
peculiar tricks that railroads have shown in
the past. These gentlemen are represent
ing the road as agents, and if the signs are
favorable to make it g successful sttemp:
they will give Knox county an invitation
to vote them bonds. which it is estimated will
amount 10 about $45.0 900 under the presen:
assessment. Judge Thurston the attorney
for the Union Pacific, will be in Pierce
county next Wednesday TO submit a propo.
sition. and it is expected be will proceed to
this county Immediately after its approval
by the commissioners there. In the mean
time it would be wise for people of this
county to talk collectively over the matter
snd ascertain whether or not a railroad will
be an advantage to the county with q tax
of ten per cent. of our assessment or not.
Correspondence on this subject is invited.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-15
ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS.

Are you a %dcsponden, sufferer from Sick
Headache. Habitusl Cos~tiveness, Pslpita-
ton of the beart? Have you Dizziness of
the Head? Is your Nervous System de-
pressed? Does your Blood circulate badly?
Have you q Cough? Low Spirits? Coming
up of the food after eating? SC, &c. All Of
these and much more are the direct results
of Dyspepsia Liver Complaint and Indiges-
ton. Green's August Flower is now &C.
knowledged by all Druggists to be a positive
cure. 2,40O, 900 bottles were given away in
the U. S. through Druggists to the people
as q trial. TIVE doses will satisfy any per.
son Of its wonderful quality in curing all
forms of indigestion. Sample bottles 10
cts. Regular size IS cents. Sold positively
by all first.class Druggists In the United
States.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-15
1hs Daily frfss aud 1akotaiau
YANkToN DAKOTA
Thursday Evening, May is, 1879
LATEST BY MAIL.

Hong Kong, May l3.-Gen. Grant and
party sailed for Japan. All we'll.
New York, May l3-Chas. H. Pullman,
for many years city editor Of the New York
Times, died this afternoon.
Boston, May l3-The weather is very hot
in New England. The thermometer in many
places indicating 100 degrees in the shade in
New Hampshire.
Columbia, s. G., May 13-The confeder-
ate monument erected by the ladies nonu-
mental association in Capitol square was
unveiled to-day with the most imposing
ceremonies, in the presence of 10000 people.
San Francisco, May ia confidence
operator, arrested here for writing bogus
reports Of the death of friends to parties in
the east, gives the name of e. T. Redmond,
acknowledges his guilt, but has reaped no
%pecuniary benefit from his enterprise. He
had sent out some three hundred letters
since April l..
Chicago, May 12-Reports from various
points in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin
are received showing that refreshing show
ers have fallen lately and have removed the
fears of injury to the crops from drouth.
The sky tonight looks threatening and the
| pIOOaDIl1ty AuOAV all lCA1OVCo d1l CousC
for alarm.
St. Louis, May 13.-As a result of the
woman's suffrage convention held here last
week quite a number of ladies interested In
procuring the ballot for women and placing
them on an exact equality with men in re-
gard to the right of citizenship met here
tonight TO organize a national suffrage asso'
citation.
Providence, R. l., May ia meeting
was held at the state-house tonight to con
slider the exodus of southern negroes and de
wise means for their relief. Amos PER-,
presided. Addresses were made by Presi
dent Robinson of Brown university, Capt
]. NJ. Alderman, secretary of state, Rev
Messrs. Everls, Vanhorne and others. !
resolution was adopted expressing sympath
with the colored people Of the south fyin
from their homes on account of persecution
and promising aid to alleviate their suffe
10Qa.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-15
CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors
and indiscretiors Of youth, nervous weak
ness, early decay, loss of manhood, Sc, ! will
send 3 recipe tina, will cure you, FREE
OF CHARGE. This great remedy was
discovered by = missionary III South Ameri.
ca. Send q sclf-addrcssed envelope to the
REV. JosErH 4. lsMAS, .Stat'cn d, N~r
York GUY.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-15
SWEET porAT0E PLANTS.

During the planting season I shall keep
for sale the best variety ofsSveet potatoe
plants at 40cts. per hundred, or $3.50 per
thousand.
Cash orders by mail promptly attended
to. WALTER IL. CARR.
Third street. Yankton.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-15
LIST OF LETTERS.

Remaining in the p%ostofice Of Yankton
Yankton county, D. T., May IA, 1879.
If not called for in 30 days. will be sent
to the Dead Letter Office.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-15

Chew jackson. hes, ssec, Navy Tobacco
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-07
Yariableness of the Human Pulse.

Many erroneous impressions prevail
about the pulse as indicative of health
or disease; q common notion being that
its beatjngs are much more regular and
uniform than they really are. Frequent
cy varies with age. In the newborn
infant the beatings are from 1870 to 140
to the minute; in the second year, from
100 to lis; from the seventh to the
fourteenth year, from eighty to ninety;
from the fourteenth to the twenty-first
year, from sventy.fve to eighty five;
from the twenty first to the sixtieth
year, from seventy to ~seventy-fve. At
tor that period the pulse is generally
thought to decline, but medical author
tiles differ radically on this point, hay
ing expressed the most contradictory
opinions. Young persons are often found
whose pulses are below sixty, aud there
have been many instances of pulses
habitually reaching 100, or not exceed
ing forty, without apparent disease.
Sex, especially in adults, influences the
pulse, which in women is from ten to
fourteen beats to the minute more rapid
than in men Of the same age. Muscu-
lar exertion, even position, materially
affects the pulse. It's average frequency
in healthy men Of twenty,seven is, when
standing, eighty.one; when sitting,
seventy-one; when lying, sixty-six per
minute; in women Of the same age in
the same positions, ninety-one, eighty
four and seventy-nine. In sleep the
pulse is in general considerably slower
than during wakefulness. In certain
diseases--acute dropsy of the brain, for
example--there may be 100, wen 200,
beats; in other kinds of diseases, such
as apoplexy and some organic afec.
tions of the heart, there may be nc more
than twenty to thirty to the minute.
Thus, one of the commonest d~iagnostic
signs is liable to deceive the most ex-
perienced practitioners.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-07
Rnre Ernternnl Meeting.

A very remarkable fraternal meeting
took place recently at Drytown, Califor-
MIA, where for the first time in their
lives eight brothers met together. These
we're the Giannini brothers, natives Of
Switzerland, n after another having
left their native home, each finally set.
thing in California. Upon their meeting
at Drytown a banquet took place, after
which music, dancing, patriotic songs
and brief speeches from the heart fol-
lowed. The time having arrived to
separate, the brothers embraced each
other and exchanged fraternal kisses.
The Oldest was ffty.eight years Of age
and the youngest twenty-six years. At
the moment OF parting, each for his own
home, perhaps never TO meet again in this
life, the brothers wept like children and
there was not q dry eye among those
who Witnessed the touching scene,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-07
An Agricultural Curiosity.

William Il. Birch owns a ranch near
Redwood City, California. AS Mr..
Birch was passing through his oat field
two weeks ago he was surprised 10 see,
towering above the dark green Of the
crop, a stalkof what at first glance az
peared TO be corn. He plucked the
stalk up by the roots and presented it TO
the State agricultural society. The
main stalk, which stood several feet
high, was round and reedy, precisely
like that OF corn. at intervals il sent
ont the peculiar long, narrow blades Of
the corn plant, the only difference be-
ing that the leaves Of this plant had no
stamen or backbone like corn blades.
At the juncture of the stalk with the
leaves, where the fruit appears, instead
Of an ear of corn there was a large bunch
OF perfectly formed oats. Again, instead
OF q tassel the corn stalk was topped of
with a large cluster Of oats. Altogether
il was the most singular freak Of nature
found in grain for many years. The
agricultural society regret that the plant
was pulled before the ripening of the
cats, as then the latter might have been
sown with the possibility Of reproduc.
ing the wonder. The society are in,
clined to think that some use could have
been made of the grating, especially
as the grain appeared to be more for
ward and of better quality than that
growing Immediately around.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-07
Profits of our Foreign Trade.

The United States, of all the nations,
is the only one, with q few triaing ex-
ceptions, which does a profitable foreign
business; that is, which sells more goods
than she buys, and if she does not grow
richer therefor the blood is flowing out
in some other quarters-commercially
she is growing richer. Our domestic
exports for the fiscal year 1878 amounted
to 1914, 600, 600 more than our imports
(re-exports deducted) for the same year,
All the other countries of the world
combined cannot show a balance Of trade
in their favor to equal hall this sum.