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Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12
Fighting Women.
Notes and Queries.

Notes and Queries.
Female soldiers have been more
numerous in foreign armies than
in tho English service. / may
mention q few. In the French
army, for instance, there were
(among others) Louise Houssaye
de Barnes, who served from 1892
to 1895, and was at Quiberon
Angelique Burlon (nse Duchemin,
for she was married), sous-Lisu:
tenant of Infantry, decoree with
the Legion Of Honor, who was
bora 1922, and died, I believe, in
the Invalides @bout 1850; Therese
Figueur, who served As> dfagoon
for fourteen years, from 1898 to
1912, and had tonr horses killed
under her; she died in 1861, at
the age of eighty. seven, in the
Hospice des Fetits Manages at
Paris; Nirginie Chesnieres, who
served during the Peninsular war
as sergeant in the Twentyseventh
regiment, and died in 1873. Lou
lisa Scanagatti was a Lieutenant of
infantry in the Austrian or Sar-
dinlan army during the Napoleon
wars. Msr;etta Giuliani and
Herminia Manelli fought under
Garibald in 1866; Hel minia was
at the battle OF Custozza. Augusta
Kruger fought in the war of liberia
ton against the French as . sub
altern in the Ninth Prussian regi i.
mant, and was decoree with the
Iron Cross and the Russian order
of St. George; she (after leaving
the army married . brother officer
in 1916, and in 1859 her grandson
received a commission in his grand.
mothers regiment. Bertha Weiss
is said to have fought at Spicheren
in 1870, but l am not sure that her
case is genuine. The most recent
instances that I know Of are the
following three; A young Russian
officer Cher name is not given)
whom tho Isnaes' correspondent,
on September 20, 1877, reported
to have fallen at Kacelyevo, after
displaying the most brilliant gal
lantry in rallying her men against
the Turks; Sylvia Marriott, a pri-
vate in the Eleventh battalion of
Bersaglieri, who served from 1866
to 1878, and who fought at Gus
tozza; and Dolores Rodriguez, cor
poral lat the age Of eightesn) in
the First Regiment of Peruvian
Sappers. She, it appears, fought
in the present South American
wars, and /! still in service.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12
Useful Rules.

To Find the Capitalized Value
of Ground Rcnt.-Rule-To the
amount of the yearly rent in dol
lars annex two ciphers and divide
by the rate per cent. the result will
be the capitalized value.
To Calculate Interest at any
rate per cent for any length Of
time. Rule
1st-Reduce the time to days.
2nd-Multiply the principal by
the Number of days.
3rd-Multiply this product by
the ratio of interest.
4th-Divido the product thus
obained by sc, or 6x6 and the quo
tient will be the interest.
Note.-If cents appear in the
principal, point off five figures from
the right of the quotient if only
dollars, point off but three fig
ures. !.
Short Six per cent. Method
Ruls-Reduce the time to days.
multiply the principal by the num-
Der of days, and divide the product
by 6.
Note-Point off as in the above
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12
Bismarck.

His name was Bismarck, NIT
only vone eye, on account Of an
old plack cat, vot pelongs to a SER
FAINT Irish girl NIT red-haired hair.
Also he has only dree legs, on &C
count of meclotif engines mitout
any bull-ketcher. BE vas a dog,
Bismarck vas. He vas paldt'
headed all ofar himself, in gonse.
quense of red-hot water, on ac-
coundt Of fightin' NIT a cat. On
vone- endt of himself vas skituatsd
his head-und his tail vas py de
oder endt. He only carries about
vone-half of his tail NIT him,
on accoundt of a circular saw.
mill. lie looks a great teal more
older as he is already, but he ain'l
qnite as oldt as dat until next
Christmas.
De way dot you can know him
is, if you calls him "Shack," he
Won't say notings, but he makes
answers to de same of s'Bis-
marck," by saying "Pow vsw
vowi und, in de meantime, vAg
ging half of his tail-dot odel
hats vas cut off, so he can't, o.
course, shake 1t. Also, if you
trow stones on top of him, he vii
run like de tuefel, and hoIler "Ky
vi! ky yi!' Dots de way yor
can told my dog.
He looks like a cross between s
bullfoundtlandt und cat NIT nine
tails-but he amt. He got no
efen vone whole tail, und he aim
cross not bit.
Anoder vay you could told if i
vas my Bismarck 10 dot he va'
almost dwin. He would be hal
of a bair of dwins dot time, only
dere vas dres of them-a bair o
dwins und a half. I pelieve de,
calls dot a triplet.
Also he got scars on de top o
his side, where he scratched him
self NIT Thomas cat-but do
Thomas cat nefer recovered him
self. >
You can. also tell Bismarck 0,
accoundt Of his wonderful! in
shtinct. He can out insttinct an,
dog you nefer saw in my lite. Fo
inshtance, if you pat him on to]
of hisehaad NIT mi hand, he know
right away dot you like him, but i
you pat him on the'head NIT pave
ment shtones or de shtick of I
broom, EeSvill shnspect right oi
-dot.you care not ferry much abou
him. 81
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12
The Gar in Dread.

TIE ruler of all the Russians
leads anything but a pleasant life
as the following would indicate
LONDON, April 2s.-A letter
from St. Petersburg gives gloomy
account Of the new Cars life at
the Castle of Gatschina. thirty
mites from the capital. Before
the Court removed thither several
hundred artisans of the Prcobraiin-
sky regiment were sent to make
the necessary alterations. Atmid-
night they assembled in the church
at Gatschina and were sworn se-
cretiy to silence, death or Siberia
being the penalty OF the inIrac-
tion OF their oath. Ten rubles
were the price OF each mans si-
lence. The alterations W ere mado
in fortv-eight hours.
Yodki seon loosened the tongues
of the workmen, and the follow
ing is description of the precau-
tions against assassination made in
the palace of the Gar: A sub
terranean passage leads from the
Cars room to the stables, where
a number of horses are kept sad
died and bridled day and night.
Sentinels are posted at intervals OF
twenty yards all around the build
ing.
1 WELL GUARDED ROOM.
The imperial bedroom has two
windows, protected at night by
massive iron shutters, which can
only be reached FROM the outside
by passing through three spacious
antechambers, in which are posted
eighty Cossacks, armed to the
teeth. They are allowed to speak
and to move about in the two outer
rooms, but in the hal adjoining
the Cars bedroom perfect silence
is maintained all night. The gen
eral on duty for the day sits in an
easy chair, his Cossacks sitting on
the divan. which runs around the
whole room.
Alarm SIGNALS.
At the generals right hand is the
knob of an electric apparatus which
rings a bell in every guard house
within the palace grounds. When
the Emperor is about to retire to
rest, before shutting the door, he
removes the outer handle, 80 that
no entrance can be effected until
he himself personally opens the
door from the inside. Unlike his
father he cannot endure the pres
ence Of Az armed soldier in his
bedcl,arE Der.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12

The other day wc copied from
the E:rami,,er an item that Col.
Wharton G. Green had an appli-
cation for eight thousand gallons
of wine made at his celebrated
Tokay Vineyard, and now we
understand that the Monticello
Wine Company of Charlottesville,
Va, has received an order for ten
thousand. gallons, nine thousand
gallons of claret and one thousand
gallons made from the Ives grape.
It looks indeed as if our Southern
wines were finding a market. rThe
truth is, France no longer exports
wine in the quantities che formerly
did, and the wine drinkers are
looking elsewhere for good arti-
Gle. This. Col. Green and our
other North Carolina wine makers
can furnish
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12

sAn Elmira lady who sent an
order in response to an advertise
ment offering twenty-five. useful
household articles for athree cent.
stamp, received twenty-five pins >
And what more II eful article to a
lady than a pin I?
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12

Back parlor anatomy: In Osll-
kosh lived a fair maiden who had
read with some alarm Of the death
Of an Indian woman from tight
lacing, the immediate cause being
an affection Of the erigastrium
When her lover called that even
ing, and the light had been turned
down as usual, she said to him
frankly:
"Now, I want you to be careful
Eugene; you're worse than cor
set."
Eugene faltered out: ooh
Mary, why this GOODNESS %
at isn't coldness at ALL" she re
piled; "but you hug SO tight vol
knock my epigastrium all out o
kilter.'
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12

The weight of an ordinary Rail
way locomotive, without tender,
for passenger trains is from $4,000
to 10000 pounds; for freight trains
from 10000 10 $4,000 pounds.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12

it is with youth as with plant
from the first fruits they bear we
learn what may be expected i'll the
future.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12

There are, it appears, in the
United States no less than fifteen
distinct Methodist denominations,
of which the Methodist Episcopal
and Methodist Episcopal South
Churches are by far the largest.
OF the fifteen churches, eight are
Episcopal ard seven Presbyterian
and Independent. The total Of
communicates is 1921, 600, which
is estimated to represent Metho-
dist population Of 14,0S6,400, or
more than twice the Roman Cath
olic population.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-12

Turpentine will remove Ink
from W bite woodwork.
New-York tribune., 1881-09-12
DR1NfTIC NOTES.

Mr.. Mckee Rankin Will appcar m Uavor,,,,
Theatre, on September 10, in Mr. Willss alteration
of Douglas JeTold's Black Eyed Susan and ais,
he will produce Mr. joaquin Miller's new drama
entitled 40" Miss Jennie Lee ended her engage.
ment here last night. aud Mr. O. ID Bvro9 viii -
eHPy thlS stage during the present weca-aiIcaIilg
IN Across the Continent"
new piece by Mr.. Fred Williams and new
piece by Mr. Edgar Fawcett are in pr,ps-a.iou II
Days Theatre. 1t is anticipated. however that
Quits VIII have a considerable run. Mr. George
Napdenhoii, lr, is announced to appear as a meInbr
of Mr.. DalN'S stock company. on The DIST inst. al
me rt OF tie series oi special matinees then to be
started.
new theatre was opened az Moberly. Mo- on
September ). 1t is called The Moberly Opera House
Ii cost abont $4,000. and will contain about .0O0
persons Mt Fred Narde gave the opening per-
formance, appearing in the character of HanlA
The N Louis Dispatch states that Afr Warle's con.
scientious study revealed new phases to te st5eut
OF Shakespeare Miss Frances Fields a ladv M
81 LouS. made her debut on this occasion and rrr-
resented OSrTc. Al the close of the per ormaace NJ
arde ana hlS company participated IL a banqneI
at the Merchants Hotel.
The Comey- Barton Company will appcar N n,
Fifth Avenne Theatre. on September 10. in ths
comic opera o. " Madame Favart"-as previously
announced. Miss Catherine Lewis, Mr John How.
son. Miss Marie Jansen, J. c. Armand and other IA
vorte performers Will then effect their reappearance
bra, will be heard for the first time in this CITY II
ls understood that Madame Favart" will be Of
tered with much splendor Of scenes and dresses
Mr. Charles Harris Is To manage the stage and Mr.
Alfred Celler Is 10 lead the band
"Scdgemoor" is the title of a new play written bg
Mr.. W. G. Wills and his brother Mr.. f. c. Wills
and lately produced in London, by Miss Marriott al
Sadlers Wells Theatre. Ii relates to the reriod d
James H. of England, introduces the unfor,unats
Duke of Monmouth. and deals with incidents sup-
posed to have succeeded the victory OF james si
SedGcmoor. The heroine Of this piece is a wife who
shelters Monmouth, after his defeat, and 50 con-
promises her husbands safety. Her intercesson.
however, saves his life but her subsequent oondud
when she finds that he has been bewtched by the
Kings mistress. Catherine Sedlcy-again pats hm
m peril From the comments OF the English
press upon this drama, the reader is led e
lnier that n is an ambitious and. in some respect
an nncommonly strong effort. hut that berinnins
as an ms oIlca piece. II presently drops 10 the lower
lever oi domestic play, and thus disappoiuts ex-
pectauon Dy the lnludicious endcayOr 10 blend
petty intrigue with great historic actions and
chaihcttrS' There Is thus, apparently, a sacrifice d
unity and the observers interest is diverted from
momentOuS themes, and frttered away on tribes
New-York tribune., 1881-09-12
THE Old And Young MEUBFP

The astonishing Castgaton administered Inv Mr.
GladStonc to Mr.. Ashmcad Bartlett i'm the Uousc ot
Commons on the 23d ol August would poin us ~
countlymen oi Mr.. Bartlett, if that gentleman had
not cast us OIL and legally converted himself into
bold Rilion. III Mr.. Gladstone be right we did not
lose mnch oi n mcm' of Congress when Mr.
Bartlett entered the Imperial Parliament. He
evidently has the honor and prosperity of his
adopted country much more at heart than if he had
been merely native OF it, and comprehends # true
foreign policy much better than MIR Gladstone
who Is a mere tyro in such matters He undertook
to show that the policy pursued by her Maiestv's
present Government with regard to the fore,u
and Imperial relations of Grent Britain has tonied
to the dishonor and dIslntcgraton of the Ennir,
ana has Isolated England in Europe AustrIo and
germany have been aliepatcd, while Kepublicon
france and free Italy have been set nj ennitv and
lurkey ana Greece brought to the very verge of
war " men Mr. BARTLETT made these statements
ho was iVher 'hah else laughed at, and he wound
up speedily with n denunciation in the true Beoc
on'"oiu Nelh' OF THAT narrow, parochial and
stunted policy which was characteristic of tba
p''ni'le ehah school" This, which would have
oeeh somewhat impressive in the mouth of DisraeU.
d'd not command any profound admiration when il
came from Mr. Ashmead Bartlett and the whole
in beginning his reply that he did not know
whether he ought or ought to allow the speech
OF the honorable member :" to be buried i'm the
solemn silence which appeared In ali quarters TO
nave been prepared Tor its due intermentr
MT. Gladstone in dealing with the question said
SHARPLY ana shortly: Everything the honorable
member asserts or admits l shall deny Eyerythng
he denies shall assert y and at this the Honse of
commons laughed again. Mr.. Glads tone thought
New-York tribune., 1881-09-12
GENERAL NOTES.

Last week an officer of the Philadelphia
police force recovered from the former proprietor o. e
North American Hotel in that city package deposited
WIN hlm year ago as security for a board bill of
80 ny one Huntsen, now a convict in the MARYLAND
Ptmtenilary. It's contents were found be about
$4,000 ln Government bonds, a diamond worth
aboat ioO ana books OF the firm of which HuniSon was
a member.
A prominent merchant of Abbeville County,
D e. IN talking with newspaper correspondent ~
Gently, gave gloomy view OF the condition OF the crops
IN mat REGION but paid hearty tribute the honesty
ana industry OF the negro farmers. MY experience,
he said, Sin trading with the farmer has been
very satisfactory. negro Will pay long az he has
anything TO pay with, and great many others went 10
TINS The negro farmer has proved be- in my exper-
enee rather better debtor than the white ope
ntlng upon The same basis. The negroes the best
laoorers we have, and about a have that make to
cotton crop"
III drunkenness is not suppressed in the
Afghan army, il viii not he because much mild
ness in dealing with the offenders short agOs
New-York tribune., 1881-09-12
NEwYoRK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY SEPTEMBER H. 1881.

talnty as to the prOmptness of surrender. With
in the past three weeks we have seen that it
was not IN the power of the Secretary or of
anybody else to determine how large an
amount of bonds thus called would be for
warded within a given time. Hence, the
Secretary cannot know how much money it is
possible to disburse within any given time by
the process of calling bonds. If he purchases,
on the contrary, he can know precisely how
much money he can take from an accumuat.
ing reserve on a fixed day. 1t is not desirable
that an unnecessary accumulation of money in
the Treasury should be continued long enough
to disorder the money market and interfere
with the operations of industry and commerce.
But this can be prevented, when surplus is
coming in rapidly, only by some mode of
using that surplus which enables the Secre-
tary to know in advance how much he can
disburse within given time
The objection is raised that the three and
half per cent bonds cannot be called in by Mr..
Wlndom because they are in terms made pay
able at the pleasure of the Government"
and Mr.. Window is not the Government. But
tbs objection seems rather childish. Appro-
priateiy, it comes from those who denounced
Mr. WINDOWS extension of bonds as an act
of usurpation, and solemuly predicted that
nobody would accept these unauthor-
lzed promises by an individual" Such
captious and trivial criticism entirely misses
the great question of practical importance,
namely, whether it is for the public interest
to retire three and a half per cent bonds pay
able at the pleasure OF the Government, as
long as tiXed-ddtc four or four and a bali per
cent bonds can he bought at reasonable rates.
If it is clear that the three and half
per cents are the most advantageous form OF
debt for the Government that has ever been
DEVISED ii ought not to he the pleasure of the
Government to eXtinguiSh them, as long rs it
can eXtinguish less advantageous forms of
debt fair terms.
New-York tribune., 1881-09-12

was about So, 9S7, 900 Of foreign gold in that
Office on Friday for which payment had notbeen
made, while the Custom House returns show
that about $2,0OO,O0O had reached this city
on Saturday in excess of the amount returned
on Friday as received at the Assay Office.
Hence the immediate supply of gold is large,
and the Treasury announces that it still has
outstanding $21,00O,OO0 called five per cents,
and $3,00O,0O0 called six per cents and that
there will probably be as much as $9,OOO,OO0
of these bonds presented and paid during the
remaining days of this month. Business was
small last week at the Stock Exchange, but
large elsewhere, and the exchanges not aris-
ing from stock transactions averaged nearly
$1O1, 100000 for each working day.
New-York tribune., 1881-09-12
Aem1Uork Dailp Gribnme,
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER -, 1881.
The NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-The French troops occupied the city of
Susa on Saturday. - Turkish troops are about
to proceed to Tripoli. 60 The Park / he
atre in Camdentown, London burned on
Saturday night. = Colonel Latorre. the
ex-President of Uruguay, has reentered tha counry
md has occupied Tacuarembo. - All is quiet at
Cairo; the Khedive and the Powers in favor of
Cherif Pacha assuming the Premiership.
DoNrEs IIC.--The President passed quiet day yes
terday his pulse 10 degrees higher than on the
previous day, being 10; he par ook of sufficient
quantity of food and seemed to enjoy it. - The
Secretary of the Interior decided to furnish the
Governor of Arizona at with arms to he dis
tributed among the inhabitants. == gang of
Migrants boarded freight train the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad near Middetown Pa; twenty-one of
their number were arrested. - Heavy rain storms
prevailed in Virginia. 60 The strike of the long
shoremen in New-Orleans continues.
CITY AND SUBURBAN-The pleasure resorts were
not deserted yesterday. 80 Sermons in reference
to the President were preached by MIR. Collyer and
other clergymen. - A service in memory of the
late DIR. Chaplin held. 60 Details of King
Kalakaua's journey obtained from the Ha-
waiian Attorney General.
The WEATHER.-lRIDUNE local observations Tndi-
cate cloudy partly cloudy weather with rain IN
the early part of the day, and lower temperature
Thermometer yesterday: Highest TO lowest, $50 !;
average, G934O
New-York tribune., 1881-09-12

that this succinct formulary would dispose of the
whole OF the young gentleman's oraton. "But it
will leave him and me-" said Mr.. Gladstone play
fully. though rather acdulously, " in position Of
mortal combat. The honorable gentleman has a
great deal of human feeling. At various periods of
his speech he referred to the deep pain-I don't
know if he used the word anguish-to the deep and
excrucating pain he knew he was inflicting upon
me, for which, / assure him. am truly thankful"
Here there was renewed laughter, and more still
when he added that he would endeavor to bear up
well as he could, until the honorable gentleman
should give him his quetus by another Grafton as
pnngent and convincing as that he had delivered
that night Here the brutal House laughed again.
Mr. Bartlett had said that the purchase of shares in
the Suez Canal had given England the command of
that channel of communication with India. say"
retorted Mr.. Gladstone, that it has given us hree
yotes-I think that Is the numbeT-in a Board
twenty-five. 1t has given us no other command
whatever" Mr.. Bartlett had said that Cyprus gave
England another command over the route TO India.
No doubt" responded Mr. Gladstone the hon
orable gentleman has in his mind plans for making
up the deficiency in the revenue of Cyprus, and has
also few millions to construct a harb0r aud
arsenal out of the sea-" And then SIR. Gladstone
went on with a good deal of what may be called
chatting, which could hardly have been pleasant TO
the mud of Mr.. Ashmead Bartlett. The honorable
gentlemans speech to be ascribed TO the in
crcasing and at length intolerable pains of reten-
ton. 1t was necessity not choice, which led hum to
make his speech. He was full of ideas and notions
of a most poisonous character and was unable to
retain them in their receptacle without destruction
to the mind itself"
There was something immensely good in the wav
IN which Mr.. Gladstone concluded his speech. All
along he had seemed to he playing with the young
gentleman sometimes indeed, little roughiy and
lie patted him on the head as he ended. lie tod
him that he was yet young; and that he had
plenty of time to gain instruction and to unlearn
and to cast of errors II he really wanted to make
impression upon the world. he must first learn to
RESTRAIN his universal and sweeping propositions
within the bounds of fact and actual experience
lie must submit hImself,' said MIR. Gladstone. to be
taught by the lessons of the world and the lessons of
the day. and to learn and know that moderation.
serve, and consideration tor those with whom you
have TO deal, and tine endeavor to bring your propo
stIon into exact Oniormity with the circumstances
of the case tor him and for every body else the
very first conditions to any substantial and durable
success SO Spake the old man. and the young one
was heard of no more in that debate; but he has
written long letter to The Times which Mr.. Glad
stone has not yet answered.