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Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15
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THE NEW STATE LIBRARIAN. l..
ar. j. c. Birdsong, of Raleigh, to FIJI
the Position Recently Occupied by
the Lamented Shotwell
SHADOW

ar. j. c. Bfrdsong, of Raleigh, to FIJI
the Position Recently Occupied by
the Lamented Shotwell.
F1-om the Raleigh V1,itor.
In our rounds this morning we
dropped into the State Library and
found the new Librarian, Mr.. j. c..
Birdsong, busily engaged in arranging
the books and storing away others to
make room in the crowded apartment
until the new building, in course of
erection, is completed. During our
visit we elected the following facts in
relation to his past history:
Mr.. Birdsong was born in Sussex
county, Va, in the year 1843, and is
now in his 43d year; at the age of 18
he enlisted in Co. B. 18th Va. Infant
ry, and served through the entire war,
receiving his parole at Appomattox
ConrtHouse: he was made prisoner
at Charlottesville, and received q Sc
we're wound through the right shoul-
der at Cold Harbor. In 1866 he made
Raleigh his home, where he has fol-
lowed his profession (printer) ever
since, having been honored ON several
occasions by being elected to nearly
every office in Raleigh Typo Union,
and was sent in 1874 to represent tn at
body in the International Union which
held its session in St. Louis.
The appointment of Mr.. Birdsong
to the position of State Librarian is a
just recognition of the claims of the
mechanics and workingmen of our
city, and State, he being a representa-
tive mechanic, and was strongly en-
dorsed by that class OF our citizens.
We feel confident that the important
trust committed to his hands will be
managed with credit and honor both
to himself and State.
By direction of the Trustees the
Library will be closed for two weeks
for the purpose of arranging and cata-
loeuing the, books.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15

comes not from the verdict of the jury
nor from the sentence of the court. It
Is due only to the act itself with which
you alone are responsible. The court
has looked in vain for some mitigating
circumstances. There are some crimes
: for which the heat and passion of
youth are some excuses but this is not
one of them. There are Others which
are done unthoughtedly, in haste, and
repented of at leisure. But this is but
one of many similar acts done with
deliberaion and there is no evidence
of any repentance.
Courts are instituted for the protec-
ton of the public in an orderly and
systematic way. They do not serve
the costly purpose for which they are
created unless offenders against the
laws are deferred by the certainty and
a sufficient severity of punishment.
ldleness seems to have been the great
cause which has brought you to your
present condition and honest labor,
even though involuntary, will proba-
bly, be the best hope of reforming YOU
You can have the melancholy sat
isfaction of knowing that if you have
served no other good end you will not
have lived altogether in vain since
your conviction after the extraordi-
nary efforts made in your behalf has
demonstrated that by Wake county
juries justice is administered impair
TALLY to all alike.
The sentence of the court is that
you be imprisoned at hard labor in
the State prison for ten years.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15
BULLYBOTTLE BREAKERS
ONE OF UNCLE sJOSHUA LAWS
"REMINISCENCES.
A Temperance Demonstration by an
Anti Temperance Crowd-The Court
House I'm WfIkesboro Baptized With
Peach Brandy.
BY EDWARD PAYsox HALL.
For the Sentinel.

FOR the Sentsnef.
eyes, be gosh,' said Uncle Josh, me
and Billy Hendren and Silas Yates
done the Job for 'emI They thought
they'd got all the good peach brandy
in Wilkes county and was gwine ter
drink it too-but we diserpinted 'em
with our white-fint pocket-pieces-
we did, sir, shore!'
"How was it anyhow, Uncle Josh ?'
said I; "did you slip up on 'em and
steal their TASKS and empty 'em, or
had you secretly mixed some tartar
emetic and aquafortis in the liquor be-
fore hand ?''
Nothing of the sort, sir" replied
Uncle Josh; eve mountain sprouts
was up to trick worth dozen such
as that. When the liquor begun to
trickle down all over the Court House,
the old Judge on the bench thought
he smelt a still-house Attire, and called
the Sheriff to inquire of him if an
eruption had taken place in King AL
cohoPs Peak close by in the Brushy
Mountains, and if the lava was flow
ing that way and liable to cover up
the town"
"You speak by parables-let's have
the whole story, Uncle JOSH"
swell, sir, if you hain't heard it
before, I'll tell you; and it amt a
long story either. We dried up them
hbrandy- TASKS and diserpinted them
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15
WINSTON, N. c.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1885.

more friends to-day than at any time
during his public career. Randall has
increased the number of his enemies
by attempting to enforce economy
even unto insanity. The great trouble
with Mr.. Randall is, he mistakes the
ory for practice. He has theory of
how much money the government re-
quires, but he has never enjoyed the
practice of paying its bills. The only
way Mr.. Randall's theories can be car
ried into practice is, to reduce the sal
aries of every officer and every over
paid employee. This would be highly
practical.
REPRESENTATIVES, WARNER
is political relative of Mr.. Randall.
and perhaps a sterner economist Mr..
Warner has theories, too. It will be
remembered that he had a theory on
silver several years ago, and that. re-
Gently, at great pains, he invented an
other theory ON the same subject. Mr..
Warner is never at a loss Ire always
has theory. But one of these days
some sound practical man is going to
knock Mr.. Warner or his theories in
the head. 1t may be sad, but it is
the only salvation for the America n
Congress. Mr. Warner has theorized
long enough. Congress is tired. Grover
Cleveland's first knowledge of Mr.
Warmers theories was disgust Any
man who ever listened to Mr.. Warner
five minutes turned away i'll the same
state of feelings. de possesses the
happy faculty of making people tired
He has thssfy that government
buildings ofght to be built out o1
brick, a4Pthat an appropriation ol
ten ce1@ ought to be reduced <fve
So l06g as Warner or Holman Nh in
Cofgress, there will always be chApSs
% get a seat in the galleries. y
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15

fellers, too, quicker'n [ can tell it. It
was the first day of Wilkes Superior
Court in the Spring of 1888. The
peach crop was skase the fall before
and mitey little brandy made in the
county. About all there was had
been bought and stored away by a
feller named Jenkins that kept lit
tie grab-all country shop up on Lewis
Fork, about tes miles from town.
What does tlf Jenkins do but try to
git nominased for the Sennit with that
ar HqusF Convention to nominate a
Whi for the Sennn was to meet Mon
1ey twelve o'clock during the recess
pof Court for dinner. Jenkins gifts
about twenty-six fellers from our
neighborhood into >old Col. Waugh's S
store-house baek-room, early that
mornin', and tells 'em if they'll vote
for him he kin kerry the county.
Then he gives 'em every one brand
new flask full of his old peach brandy.
Do you know what sort o coats they
wore them days? Well they was jist
straight sacks, with fap-pockets in
the tail on each side. So every man
put his bottle in his fap-pocket; and
then they all marched up into the
Courthouse to hear the Judges
charge to the Grand-Jury. Well, me
and Bill Hendren and Silas Yates had
got wind of the whole businesi, and,
as we despised old jenkins, we con-
cluded to spill that thar liquor right
away. We went out on the old church
hill, back of the Court House, and
picked US out two nice flint rocks
apiece-jist the right size to fit our
hap-pockets. Then we went back up
into the Court House, our hands on
the rocks in our pockets and looking
very innocent. We managed to knock
up against and break every bottle in
the crowd in less than FIVE minutes !!
Ching-a-lingl Ching,a-ling Ching-a-
ling! went the bottles as we brushed
up against their owners and tapped
them; and directly there was such q
dripping of coat-tails and such scent,
they ali begun to 'tsmell a rat. But
they never found out for years arter-
wards who did it."
Mt. Fernon, N. c., Oct. 10.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15
REMARKS OF JUDGE CLARK
In Passing Sentence Upon Duncan @.
Haywood for Forgery.

Haywood Tor Forgery.
You have had fair and impartial
trial by jury of your ,countrymen
and it now only remains for the court
to pass sentence. The grandson of a
U. S. Senator and the son of most
distinguished lawyer every effort has
been made to save you from the pun
ishment due to the crime with which
you have been charged and of which
you have been found guilty. The ablest
lawyers have defended you with the
utmost zeal and with consumate s...ill.
Although the proof Of the commission
OF the crime was uncontradicted FIVE
days of the time of this court have
been taken up in passing on your
case. An affidavit for removal on ac-
count Of local prejudice was filed in
your behalf but the court believed
that out of the 10000 jurors in Wake
county twelve honest and impartial
jurors could readily be found and the
counter affidavit filed by the State was
amply justified by the fact that in ob-
tanning the jury your counsel exhaust
ed only two out of the four perempto-
ry challenges allowed you by law and
used only six challenges for cause The
jury after receiving the charge of the
court remained out less than an hour
returning verdict of guilty on all the
counts in the bill of indictment and
that you were sane at the time
Of the trial. Your guilt had here
tofore been voluntarily confessed by
you and your insanity had unquali-
fedly been testified to by no one out
side of y,ur immediate family. The
court can see no cause to disturb the
verdict.
The ignominy attaching to you
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15
How R.ilroad Helps to Build Up Town
From tie Henderson Gold Leaf.

How Railroad Helps to Build Up Town
From tie Henderson Gold Leaf.
The Richmond & Danville Rail
road will build magnificent hotel at
Warm Springs with the capacity to
accommodate one thousand guests.
This is only another evidence of the
North Carolina enterprise pushed by
that Road. It has been the engine in
front that has already scheduled
North Carolina in fine running trim
with the most progressive States in
the Union.-ReidsrilLe WeeAiy. This
is one of the ways in which Railroads
help 10 build up and develop commu-
mites. And this same corporation
was accused of all manner of wicked
designs upon the State about the time
it absorbed the Western North Caro-
lima Railroad, and many were the
predictions made by certain soreheads
that ruin and disaster was bound to
follow in the wake Of a transaction
that has proved a countless blessing
to Western North Carolina.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15
A Fish story.
From, tAs Durham Recorder.

We heard a prominent man in Raj.
eigh say a few days ago, that he
thought every shad placed in the
streams by the officers of the Fish
Hatchery and caught thereafter had
cost the State at least 5000 a piece
We agree with him, for some say the
fish i'll the East are much scarcer, be-
cause they squeezed the old shad tc
death. Abolish this department and
we will have more and better fish
The majority of the fish sent out and
placed in the private ponds were sent
out by the authorities at Washington,
d. c., instead of Raleigh.
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POLITICAL KIDS.
F}-o.n the RALEIGH VI,itor

Mr.. Randall ON Young Men iYPoli-
From MePhiladelphia Iaryss.
EASpeaker Randall has been suf-
fering ryetty severely with gout in
his arm ana hand at his country place
ut Berwon, and has required frequent
medical attendance. He has now,
however, almost completely recovered
AZ have been living here seven years, y
he said the other day in the coarse of
chat on his piazza, "and / like it
better every day. / like to go. now
and then to Long Branch or Cape
May, but can't get any quiet at eth
er of those places. Here [ am in the
the open country and three miles even
from the station, and see few yisi-
tors. / should say, however that just
after the change in the government l
had callers ri, ht along for several
weeks. Some days there would be as
many as thirty, and an enterprising
lively stable man over at Berwyn set
up line of carriages between my
place and the station. This has worn
out now, ans three visitors is large
number for my day"
"What do yor think of the wisdom
of any young mans adopting a politi-
cal career? p was asked.
81 think" he replied, s.that in this
country every man should take an ac-
tive interest in political affairs. but
should not be dependent upon politics
for living. This is a general prin-
ciple; yet the statesmen of q country
must be drawn from those who have
been trained up in its service"
s.And now, having determined to
seek for fame in the world of politics,
how can man become statesman" !"
"Chiefy by study and industry. Pub
lie men, members of Congress, for ex
ample, learn to distinguish very quick
Iy between the man who simply gen
efalizes and the one who thoroughly
understands his subject, and they are
guided in their judgment accordingly. :.
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Unreliable Authorities.

No Advertising Agency in the
United States ever had any correct
information as to the circulation of
the Charlotte Democrat or Charlotte
Home Democrat, nor any authority
from any one connected with the pa
per to make statement about the
matter. ALI such statements made by
the Agencies are false.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15
A big wagsr House.

The Piedmont Wagon Co. has pur-
chased from Talbot & Son, Richmond
a 50-horse power cNt-of engine, which
is being made to order and will be de-
livered in December. 1t has steel
boiler and will be the best engine in
Hickory.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15
l,ebb,ns the Many for the Yew.

From every part of the Union there
is the same report'-more scholars than
school houses. The money that should
be put into new school houses is wasted
in trying to make colleges out of old
ones.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15

Upr Dfer working people. Send 10 cents pos
1HLl tage and wewill M all you free, Royal
valuable sample box Of goods that will pay you
in the way Of saaking money ina few days
than YOU ever thought possible at any business.
Capital not required. You can live at home
and work in spare time only, or all the time
All of both sexes, of all ages, grandly sucsess-
full 50 cents to FIVE dollars easily earned every
evening. That all who want work may test
the business, we make this Hhparalled offer :
70 all who are not satisfied will send 81 to
pay for the trouble of writing us. Full parti-
cuiars, directions, etc., sent free. Immense pay
atselataly SURE for all who start at once Don't
delay address, SrIssoN Co., Portland. Me-
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How Politics Has q Good Effect.
From the ph,fnIe1phia Tfmgs

It is consolation to remember that
the man who doesn't get the Office us
ually turns to business with greater
energy after his head gets we'll.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-15
"Hage We - bourbon Among Vi
Frona the DauvfUe T.,nes.

In Virginia, the Bourbous must co.
- Winston Republican. They are not
going a step, Mr.. Editor. But h,w
about Il g North Carolina Bourbons ?
You seem to be very slow getting them
to go.
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Peace Institute,
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
RaLEaoH, n. O.

ENHE Fall Term commences on the nrst !" "ea-
j nesday of September, 1885, and closes .s COZ
responding time in June following s,o,,sliv nundI
taught in frst-class Seninaries for Young La
dies, unsurpassed. Building heated up oy
steam, and in every way as to equipment, &C.
equal to any in the South. A full corps oi
Fint-Class Teachers enffaJed for session com m
ineucing in Sentenaber Terms as reasonable
asanr Other Tnssifsfion Offering same adyan-
tages. Correspondence solicited For fnla-
logue containing full particulars as to terms
,se.
July aa-2n. - 3 S S Ealsigs n. c.
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Don't burn the Candle Mt Both Ends.
F,'om the Panrsuta.cney Spirit.
The young man who desires to get
UP with tho sun should not stay up
too late with the daughter.
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Where he Lives and HoM-The Negro
HotelsWor -nieN Some. Congress-
ional Conjectures-R preventative
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peciaz Correspondence of the Sentinel.

CONGRESSIONAL Cte''-SJ Ct'-SJ H10 e 7 . 1s1'
are beginning to float. Politicians re-
turning from vacation are Launching
various per ideas into the sea OF ru-
mors. Randall men who want the
Democratic party 30 recognize them,
long to see their leader once more IN
the speakers chair. Carlisle's friends
n;tvinsly regard the expectation as
forlorn hope. John g. Carlisle has
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-17
Trades for Amarioan Rous-

Ihe trades in our country, of lat @
years, have been almost mOnopoliz-
ed by foreigners. The American
boy, however, when he does take n
trade, goes straight to the top of
the ladder II seems as if our bows
would rather be fourth rate LAWYERS
or physicians, than earn their liv.
ing by working with their hands.
Only. the other day l read in news
paper of a man in a distant CITY.
whom L knew some years ago when
L resided in that part of the conn
try, who literally starved to death.
He made scarcely any money, was
too proud to tell of his want. lived
as long as he could on crackers and
water, and was found one day in
his Office, dead from lack Of nour-
ishment. He should never have
entered the legal profession, for he
mad no ability in that direction.
As a farmer or a mechanic he might
have lived a long, useful and sue
cessful life.
No boy, Of course, should enter
a trade unless he feels himself fitted
tor 1t; but, on the other hand, he
should not, it seems 10 me, let the
false pride against manual labor,
which now prevails to such "A wide
extent in our country, prevent him
from endeavoring to do better
work with his hands than ia his in
most thought he knows that he can
do with his head.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-17
Keeping Winter Apples.

An experienced fruit-dealer says
he does not want to put apples in
the cellar or fruit room, until there
is a little hoar frost inside the bar
rel. If good, sound apples, and on
ly such, are put in the barrel, and
the apples are well shaken down,
and the head pressed in so that
there is no danger of the apples
shaking in the barrel, a slight
frost will not hurt them. BY this
we mean that the barrel can be ex-
posed to quite sharp frost for
short time, without penetrating
deep enough into the barrel to
chill the fruit to an injurious ex-
tent. The great secret of keeping
apples through the winter is, to
store them in q well ventilated room
or cellar, that is kept near the
freezing point as possible, without
actually freezing the apples. Ap-
piles and potatoes should never be
kept in the same cellar, or if this is
unavoidable, the potatoes should be
kept in the warmest part of the Gel
lar, and the barrels of apples, well
headed up, near the windows,
where, on days when the air out
side is only a few degrees above
freezing, they can be treated to a
cold breeze from the open windo VS.,
while at the some time the atmos-
phere in the part of the cellar
where the potatoes are kept does
not fall below forty degrees. With
thermometer In the cellar, it is
quite possible to cool off the ap-
Piles without injuring the potatoes.
Do not unhead the barrels until the
apples are wanted. 1t is rarely a
good plan to sort oyer apples to
pick out the rotten ones. Better
let them remain undisturbed. APP
pies in ripening give off carbonic
acid, which cannot be allowed to
accumulate in the house but must
be removed by ventilation This
deleterious gas, carbonic acid, aids
in preserving the fruit, and it is one
of the advantages of an outside cell
lar that this can be allowed to re-
main.-American Agriculturist.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-17

persuasion, their boys 60 to the city,
which they find to be already full of
boys, looking for something to do.
If they manage to. struggle along,
the majority of those who support
themselves lead life of hard work
and privation, and but very small
number make a success In life.
Some of these boys-happy indeed
if they can do so, make their way
back to their ZONES. Some contin-
ue to struggle, ashamed to go back,
and still others, a number sad to
contemplate, go downward to lie
of shame. Do not understand me
to say that no boys should leave
the country for the city. The mis-
chief comes from boys making a
change for the sake of a change,
and before they find out what they
are tit for; indeed before they have
found what their country home has
to offer them. 1 have tried to show
our boys that if they find life dull,
and they would have novelty, that
each spring, the wood, the mead
ow, the stream and the fields are
as full of novelties as the most
crowded city street. Would they
see wonders, each seed that is
placed in the ground, each bud
that opens upon bush or tree, even
each egg that is placed under the
old hen, is working out a greater
wonder than any city Snowman can
present. Even the commonest
things; the pebble under foot, bit
of limestone or of cyal, has story
to tell, if you will but hear it.
While | would not check the prop
er aspirations of any boy, l would
have him first know something
about the home he is so ready to
leave, and not wait until he returns
to it, after sore disappointments,
to learn that there is ''no place like
home. ."-American Agriculturist.