Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-12-04
FORTUNES BEYOND SEAS.
GOLD AND SILVER BY THE TON
AND CAR LOAD.
The Funny Partners, Hope and Ava
rico Dancing Highland Filings an(:
For he Sentinel.

,Io.zer tie South SsaGzE-s.
BY EDw ,ED PAys2N HALL.
Fo,. he .Seattnel.
No noDular excitement of any kind
had ruf.icd the peaceful bosoms Of the
masses of tie Sco5ci-Irish farming
community along the Pot Neck bor-
der OF the South Yadkin since the ld-
vent of Stoneman raiders and the
close &C the war. But in the mean
time the post-offices of the century had
been delueeI by q stream of circulars
aud pamphlets from the North, con-
ceallng aud conveying, like the Tro-
giar horse, tricks and traps for the
unwary," intended to conquer by
stratagcm out of the old land what
little life Stoneman had left in il.
Among these the one that Wore the
most cunningly plausible garb of re
spectapiIlty, that s:ec1 itself with
superci!iousIy aristocratic air above
the pile Of mailbag rogue-rubbish,
anI that was most likely to impose
upon the creIulity and arouse the dis
hea.tened avarici,us tendencies of The
recen4ly war-impoverished classes,
was pamphlet Of no ordinary dim4n-
sions, whose wide page-area and nu-
rerousIy quired thickness almost en-
tis.eI 1t to the digniied appellation OF
a look. Yes, it looked very much
like dictionary in It's shirt sleeves,
and was entitled :-"An Alphabetical
G9idc to the North Carolina Heirs OF
the Large Unclaimed Estates in Eng
land, Scotland and ireland" /" a copy
q IL ~, DfT I1IIlnlp
Of !redell, very intelligent but mis-
cicxous members of the medical pro-
fesssior. This waggish gentleman
ior;hwi:h determined that he would,
by means Of the encyclopaedia dis
pcnser of the gifts Of the tickle goddess,
raise devil Of an excitement and
have oceans of fun at the expense OF
his rustic relatives. uperabundant
nation OF whom had always resided III
Pot Neck, had always had beatiiic
visions OF property long i'll pickle for
them in "ould Ireland" and had now.
equally with the Doctor, a visible and
tangible right to be interested in the
Guide :" for, 10 and behold in one ol
It's columns, high Up and prominently
printed near the head of the CD cate
Sof-r. was this most delicious anC
startling statement: DIBBLE
Patrick under the political pressure
left, Gran away or took French leave
of) the province of Lcinster an5
county Of Kilkenny, Ireland, in o.
about the year 1851; and ha. not beer
definitely heard fIom by any one il
the United Kingdom since. Hi
rrandfather's and uncles' estates, al
the other heirs il Ireland being de
ceased, have passed into the hands o
government, which now holds th'
enormous amount in tlust for his, tn
said Patrick Dibble's heirs, whereyc
and whenever appearing, and dul,
and legally proven to be such. Th
magnihcently unprecedented a@gre
gated, re-doubled and quadrupled b,
compound interest up to the presen
time, Is no less than the astoundin
sum Of 5000, 900! In Federal none
this is about equal to st,500,000
The whole amount is now due an
awaiting the claim Of his, the sal
Patrick Dibbie's American heir:
supposed to be now residents Of ROwa
county. State of North Caroline
United States Of America, w!.ishe
lie omigrated at the abovc-mentione
date Thus was the hook bal
cd for the funny rustic fish, Wit
a good long fat dangling worm, b
some consciencoleSs angler IL bac
attic Of some six-story building 0
Broadway, New Y ork No Laocoo
to warn 'em away, but dcvilish do
frT. IN, ~ b.,it INV q y,
by how they bit.
No sooner had the inventive brai
Of Demetries Dibble, N. D., grasPe
. plan, than he pursued, 4 natured an
executed the same. HIS funny i,!a
IN no time developed into symatrie.
shape, he thus began to make a cat
paw for its theatrical action out OF h
hilarious and hare-un-scarc-um nepi
ey, young Bob Dibble:
.Hey, Bob, are you going down
eeethe folks in Pot Neck this week
Yes, sir! I'm bound to go and
have good time
Look here, Bob | want you
have a little better time than You e
pect. Here's glorious chance for
I Want You 10 str 'em uo viii; a lol
poie down there. They've snoozt
and Rep Van Winkled ever sin
s5teneman, you understand. l wa
yon 10 ae1Es 'en..'
"afy dear uncle, uafold your plan
Yyhethenth they be series of cart
euakes to toppic the wall Of Solo
ind Gonarrah, or a Pandora's b
fdH of ehil!s and favers to set all z
Neck a-shaking and a-burning, L
the b'hoy to see your orders deliver'
and your quinine and calany taken
well, Bob, just read this (sho
ing him the account Of the Dibh
fortune in the book "and tell +
what You think you can do with it. .
Bob had barely finished the perus
of the wonderful document, when
seized his hat and started fr T
Neck like one possessed with for
demons of nliscief, without anoth
syllable of conference or even a '.go
bye" to his uncle. He had scented
big fox and was off on trail.
Meeting his cousin, Piggin Dibb
about 3 p. M, in a belt of timber
the western. outskirts of Pot Nee