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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-13

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The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
CONVENTION.

The Democratic party of the Fifth Con
gressional District OF North Carolina
through their Executive Committee, have
ordered that Convention be called to meet
at Greensboro, n. c., Wednesday, the 2lst
day of July next, to nominate candidate
to represent the said district in the next
Congress of the United States.
The basis of representation is fixed by
the plan OF organization adopted by the
State Committee, that is to say one delegate
and one alternate for every fifty Democratic
voters cast at the Gubernatorial election in
each county.
The several county executive committees
of the district will proceed forthwith to call
conventions of their respective counties and
send delegates to said convention.
The committee directs that public express
sion be given to their deep sense of regret
at the resignation of George H. Gregory, so
long their efficient chairman, and requests
the undsrsign to accept the vacancy.
By order of the Executive Committee,
r. R. KING, Chairman.
K. B. KERNER, Sec. June 23rd 'S6.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
CURRENT COMMENT.

Our opposition to Gen. Cox il not because we
have ever been refused favor asked of hln
for we have never asked him for any Office.
We oppose him because he has been elected
from this district three terms. Because he vo-
ted in favor of the Mormons. Because he has
done nothing for his Observation-Disclosures Re
corder.
The Teachers Assembly at Black Mountain
was altogether an unwieldy affair, the hotel
accommodations being short. The truth prob
ably IS that there should have been some win
moving process by which the light and frivo-
lous persons of the vast crowd who had no se-
rious or worthy purpose in view might have
gone the way of all chaff. Either apply the
pruning knife in time, or the Teachers Assem-
bly,, so well calculated to be useful, will go into
speedy and certain decay Greensboro York
man.
If North Carolina Congressman do not liber-
ally patronize the State press they are not with
out the company of other Representatives from
the South. How many Congressman from
Georgia are like Hammond in wise and gener-
GUS patronage of his State papers, Is there
another? We doub. it. We do not ask the del
egation to hold up hands, because we dislike
exceedingly to expose how much they depend
upon the press and how little some Of them
patronize it, in large-hearted way.-Augusta
Chronicle, Dem.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
A SrATEMENT.

HE SENTINEL has no desire to
misrepresent any one, much less, a
brother publisher. The figures re-
Gently quoted by us in an editorial
concerning the calculations of North
Carolina papers, were obtained from
RoaoelFs American Newspaper Direct
org, which, as we said then, is to. the
advertiser, precisely what Bradstreet
is to the merchant. It. is considered
reliable authority by all who are
enough interested in its accuracy to
take the trouble to canvass its merits.
Our esteemed friend of theStatesville
Landmark demurs at the rating which
was accorded him, namely, exceed
ing one thousand copies. To be ac-
curate the Landmark reported CIR
oulation> of 1888. As it was not EEK
ceeding fifteen hundred, " and aoos sex-
ceeding one thousand, which was the
next rating, it would quite appropri-
ately come under the latter heading.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
THE REASON WHY.

s@ # yos receive his copy Of The
Weekly Sentinel soithoat havi,sg order
ed 1t, you soiU understand that yoatr
name has been gsUe,a as as auide-aaUake
representative citizen Of your section
acho acoatla be likely to aid acorthy
newspaper IN reaching the intelligent
readers OF his county, and Of the entire
State.
We ask at your hands careful IN
spection of the paper, and aohen you
haze done so, hand this copy to yoasr
sseighbor and then see If you can't get
us up Club Of Subscribers IN your
sseighborhood.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
A GOOD FARMERS PAPER.

To all new cash annual subscribers
to The SENTINEL received previous
to Aug. 18th, we will send Country
Homes, for one year, without extra
charge.
This is four column, Is page pa
per published at Asheville, N. c., and
is devoted specially to the interest of
the farmers, industrial pursuits, and
the development of the natural re-
sources of the State and South. Print
ed on good paper, clear type, stitched
and trimmed, and the subject matter
properly arranged in departments
thus making it an attractive and val
liable paper for any family.
This offer is open only until May
%. When you send your subscript-
ion, say you want Country Homes.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
PERSONAL,

Rev. Needham r. Coob, of Hickory, is pre-
pairing history of North Carolina Baptists.
Mr.. David NJ. Vance, son of the Senator.
with his wife have sailed lor England. Mrs.
Vance is of English birth and has Inherited
property in England. They go abroad to look
after their interests.
Rev. D. A. Long, formerly of this State, but
now President of Antioch College in Ohio, is
ere OH visit with his wife and children, to
Col. d. B. Bells family. They arrived last
night reensboro Workman
The New Berne Journal says Edwin NJ.
Stanton really born in North Caroline, in
Carteret county, and that he has numerous rel
atives still living in the county named and
some more remotely connected with him living
in New Berne.
Representative Reid has been made one of
the committee which the Democratic tariff re-
form conference of a week ago authorized Gen.
Bragg to appoint to consider the advisability of
preparing an address to the country On the
subject of tariff reform.
Mr.. Geo. K. Denmark, who was recently
awarded position in the Treasury department
at Washington, by having successfully passed
the Civil Service examination, has alrerdy
been promoted. He now fills a 81 500 position
Goldsboro Messenger.
j. S. Carr gives this year to Trinity College
$l,ose; to Graded School purposes in Durham
81 eco; to the Methodist Female Seminary
some $500. to other schools some $500, making
in all he pays out besides his taxes for educa-
ton s., 900 annually.
Col. Billy Pope, the remarkable dwarf, who
was 81 years old, and who weighed only Al
pounds, and stood about feet 10 inches high,
died at his home in Nash county on Saturday
last. He could have made fortune had he
travelled in circus, but he was reserved in
manner Wilson Mirror.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
AN ABUSE POWER.

The Senate's abuse of the power to
sit in judgment in the nomination of
the Executive, is only one of the min
or sins for which it is responsible. Its
subserviency to Capitalization, mono
poly, and subsidy, its blindness to the
fundamental principles on which the
Republic rests,its proneness to extrav-
agance and corruption in wasting the
money wrung from a tax burdened
people, are indisputable evidence of its
power to prostitute itself to partisan
usurpation with regard to nomination
to office.
A power so shamelessly abused
and so vindictively exercised
is dangerous and menacing to the
people. Nothing short of radical
reconstruction of that body on prin-
ciples more in harmony with repre-
sentative democracy, will prevent the
United States Senate from becoming
odious to all who believe in the prin.
ciples which lie at the bottom of free
institutions
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
AcHAT WITH OUR READERS.

a, Halifax county Your letter ARR we'd too
late for this issue, will publish in our next The
portrait of Gov. Scales has been mailed to your
address, and we hope you will receive it
promptly.
A. 4. Abernathy, Burke county Your COM
munication was crowded out of the present is
sue, owing to its length. Its contents will
"keep" hewever, and we will publish next
week.
Mrs. N. L. Cr1tchfeld, Chatham county,
sends THE SENTINEL a club of subscribers, and
promises to send another club soon. Among
other kind expressions she says, 81 think The
SENTINEL is one of the best weeklies we have"
j. e. Hart, Stokes Co., writes, 81 think The
SENTINEL in its new dress and enlarged form ia
worth just twice as much as it formerly was.
and the new departure ought to swell your
subscription list no little" Thanking our friend
tor his good opinion, we wish to say that our
subscription list is undergoing a decided in
hation.
W. Gotten Downing, Washington county,
sends The SENTINEL very interesting histori-
cal sketch OF that county which may well be
looked forward to with rare interest by all of
subscribers 1t is the first of series of
County Historical Sketches which we propose
to publish from time to time. Our contributors
throughout the Sta tie are courteously invited to
contribute paper to these columns on the his
tcrical interest attached to their respective
counties.
MAJ j. g. Hall, President of the Piedmont
Wagon Co, of Hickory writes, .We are glad to
know that THE SENTINEL has circulation LARGO
enough to do us some good. We had an inqui-
ry from Washington, n. c., caused by seeipg
our advertisement in THE SENTINEL and your
circul ton, your work, and your good will, are
the three thi ags which prevents our discontin-
ulng our advertisement in your paper which
we are doing now Ito reduce expenses) with
some OF the other papers," This from Mai
Halls letter makes two points apparent First,
that THE SENTINEL is one of the most reliable
advertising mediums in the State and second
that our subscribers and readers can do us an
additional service by always abiding to THE
SENTINEL in writing to advertisers.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
A BUSINESS PROPOSITION.

The efforts that are made from time
to time to give our readers new at
fractions cost money and we look to
them for the "wherewithal', to defray
these extra expenses. Notwithstand-
ing this has been a very dull year,
IHE SENTINEL is to be congratulate
upon the promptness with which its
patrons have come forward and paid
their subscriptions. There are still a
few who have neglected this impor-
tant duty either from force Of circum-
stances IN some cases, and others from
force of habit. These readers are
just as warm friends of The SENrI-
MEL as the more systematic ones, and
can at almost any time cancel their
arrears. 1t is our desire that all our
subscribers stand on the same footing,
and to bring ABOUT this result, we
make the following offer:
We will peesent one of our hand
some Autograph crayons of Governor
SCALES to every subscriber who be-
tween now and the 1st of July pays
up to January LIST, 1887. We want
to begin the new year of 1887 with
clean books and we make this early
start to do it. After each account is
settled up to January LIST, it will be
no difficult matter for all of our SUBJ
scribers to make their annual payment
henceforward as they become due. By
this adherance to business method, we
will be relieved Of the unpleasant task
of reminding our readers of their ar
rears, and it viii. allow us to expend
more time and money and energy in
improving The SENTINEL, and MAX
ing it even more popular newspaper
than its present increase in circulation
would justify us in believing it to be.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
What is to be the Future of the knights
of Labor.

What is to be the Future of the knights
of Labor.
The access ions to the knights of
Labor are said to be very large since
the recent strikes, and tits to be hoped
that when they settle down to a ma
tured policy, such as Mr.. Powderly
has recommended, they will rapidly
improve in knowledge and self gov
eminent, Especially will their gain
be great if they adopt his temperance
principles, and also resolve on main
tanning Sabbath rest as far as practi-
cable. Let the Knights aim at these
two points namely, Rest on the Lords
day and total abstinence from intoxi-
cants, und then on account of their
reliability and numbers they will have
the government of the county large
ly in their own hands. just now it is
almost wholly in the hands of law
yers whose personal interests are of.
ten at varience with the interests of
the country, and who, as legislators
play into their own hands as LAWYERS
and spectators. The working class
es have been nobly independent hith-
eito. As rule, they reject with
proper pride anything in the shape of
aims, or gifts, or appearance of pa
tronizing them, and if they only had
the wisdom to abstain from intoxi-
.ants they would be the most reliable
as well as the largest class of the COM
munity.-N Y. Witness.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15

HE SENTINEL has the pleasure of
publishing this week the first Of a
series of interesting historical papers,
specially prepared for these columns
by Hon. JOHN S. LONG, the able rhet-
orician, and eloquent orator of New
Berne. They will be read with rare
interest by North Carolinians every
where, as, aside from their scholarly
preparation, they are aimed to put in
to print valuable data concerning dis
tinguishod North Carolinians whose
intelligence and valor ought to be
perpetuated ere it is too late.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
WE are clad to see the Uniyersit

We are glad to see the University
offering free instruction to its gradu-
ates ard those of the other Colleges.
Students who desire special training
in Latin OF Greek or Engineering or
Chemistry or any study will find it at
Chapel Hill. Professional teachers
are offered the advantages of special
course under Prof HENRY, while
they may at the same time pursue any
other studies. Considering the size of
the Faculty, the equipment of the
/ laboratories, the method of imparting
knowledge, the number and character
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
i" THE PRACTICAL COMMON

SENSE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS KNOW
THAT THE 1NTERNAE REVENUE CAN
NOT BE REPEALED WHILE A RE-
PUBLICAN MAJORITY SITS IN THE
SENATE TO DEFEAT so DEMO
CRATIC A MEASURE THE DEMO-
CRATIC PARTY Is PLEDGED TO THE
REPEAL OF THE REVENUE, AND
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY VIII
FULFILL IT'S PROMISES TO THE
PEOPLE JUST AS SOON AS THE WAY
is OPENED TO THE REALIZATION
OF so LONG CHERISHED A DESIRE
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
For the SENTINEL
vOX POPULI.

This is the glorious eonsumated time
When men within the fulness of their might
And in the buovant exercise of right
Uprise, bound in sympathy sublime.
Now that the raging multitude demand
The need of right which long has beeA
denied, 5&
The righteous fires which long have been di-
fed
Burst into bursing flames all DER the land.
Oh God, repeat to these indignant hearts
Thy words, Vengeance is mine: will re-
: pay"
And give them wisdom to restrain their ire !;
And still to those, vino by their selfish arts
Have robbed the many, what thou yet dost say,
"The Laborsr is worthy of his hire"
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
NOT AN ANARCHIST.
John r. Ray, the Organizer of the X. of
L. in North Carolina Exonerated.
From the SALISBURY Herald

John X. Kay, the Organizer of the X. OF
L. in North Carolina Exonerated.
From the Salisbury Herald
In the New York Times of Nav
10th, 1886, appeared letter of Jun
ius A. Strickland, written in the spirit
OF rankest anarchism. On the back
OF this letter was a note which stated
that John r. Ray was the State or
ganizer of the Knights of Labor; that
he was in sympathy with the lawless
movement and that he would use all
his efforts to bring the Knights of La
Dor over.
Last Friday we had an interview
with Mr.. Ray, who is young, rather
plain man, of earnest and candid ad-
dress. He stated as follows:
When the assembly at Durham was
established, Junius A Strickland be-
came a member Young, enthusiastic,
lndiscreet, he was taught anarchistic
Ideas by some Russian workmen at
Durham no doubt he did not even
understand the full import of these
teachings. After the publication of
the letter, the Durham Assembly at
once expelled him, and he left Dur
ham soon after for parts unknown,
not however, before he wrote the fol-
lowing letter:
DURHAM, May p, 1856.
Junius A. Strickland, of the town and
county of Durham, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says: "That have been ace,uaint-
ed with John r. Ray, organizer of the
Knights of Labor, since August, 1885; that
he has never, at any time, given me any
reason to believe that he is or ever has been
directly or indirectly connected with
the socialistic or anarchistic party or
movement, Or that he held any sympa-
thy with or for their lawless methods, and
that he has never given me any ground for
the statement contained in the New York
Times of May 10, 1856, and attributed to
me, connecting him with the anarchistic
movement in the United States.
JUNIUs A. STRICKLAND.
NORTH CAROLINA,
Durham County.
The execution of tho foregoing statement
was this day acknowledged before me be
Junius A. Strickland, the granter. Wit
ness my hand and seal, this May 81, 1886.
w. J. CHRISTIAN, C. S. C.
[Seal]
Immediately after the letter ap-
peared in the n. Y. Times, Mr.. Ray
was recalled from his field of labor
and joint session of the assemblies
investigated his connection with the
letter. The session; otter thorough
and searching investigation, acquit-
ted him almost unanimously. Mr..
Rays record, as representative to the
convention of Knights of Labor at
Hamilton, Ontario, shows that he has
no sympathy with the anarchists. The
very conservative Mr.. Powderly mas
placed Mr.. r. at the head of several
important committees, thereby show
ing that he (Powderly) placed impli-
Gle confidence in Mr.. Ray. A citi-
zen of Raleigh, printer by trade,
he stands in such high esteem in Raj
eigh that Mr.. Ray for two years filled
a chair in the Board of Aldermen in
that city. Mr.. Ray stated to us that
the note in regard to him was un-
doubtedly written by an anarchist in
Chicago, who enormously considered
Mr.. Ray in sympathy with his lawless
principles. Mr.. Ray says he is
Knight of Labor; that their princi-
pies are opposed to lawlessness in any
form.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15
Miraculous Escane

W. w. Reed druggist. of Winchester, Ind
writes 'One OF my customers, Mrs. Louisi
Pike, Bartonia. Randolph Co.. Ind, was "a Ions
sufferer with consumption and was given UP
to d t by her physicians. She heard OF Dr.
Kings New Discovery for Cons sumption and be-
gan buringit Of me. In months fine she.
walked to this city, distance of six miles, and il
now SO much improved she has quit using it.
She feels she owes her life to it.
Free Trial Bottles at V. o. Thompson's Drug
store
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Saved His Life

Mr.. ID. l. Wisoxon. of Horse Cave. Ky. says
ne was. for many years. lady afflicted with
Phthsic, also Diabetes the pains were almost
uncomfortable and would sometimes almost throw
him into cony ulaions. He tried Electric Bitters
and got relief from first bottle and after taking
SIX bottles, was entirely cured and had ga,nei
in flesh eighteen pounds. Says he posf:iveiy
believes he would have died had it not been for
the relief afforded by Electric Bitters Sold N.
fftyeents a bottle by V. %. Thompsons.
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The Landmark has doubtless plenty
of company in this provoking prox-
unity to the next highest notch, for
example, The SENTINEL was rated at
exceeding twenty five hundred
while statement was sent in showing
our actual average circulation to he
1902 copies.
The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-15

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pers published.
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