Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-03-18
AN EDITORS TROUBLE.
THE PERILS OF SWAN QUAR-
TER.

lne COiO snap OF Hyde COunty-FH-
teen Lawyers without Money orOys- |
ters in Prohibition Town-Mother |
SwindelI's Kindness.
Brother Creecy, editor of the Eliz-
abeth City Economist, went down to |
Swan Quarter, in Hyde county, re-
Gently and was caught there in the
''cold snap" He tells his experience
so cleverly that we reproduce it in the
SENTINEL. We tried to "clip'' out
the "best" of it, but after reading it
through, concluded it was too good to
cut, and so publish it entire:
SWAN /, Feb. 5, 1886.
That legislator in the General AS
sembly that introduced the bill form
ing new judicial circuit for the first
! district of North Carolina, allotting
to Hyde county a new term of Super
ior Court on the first Monday in Feb
ruary, let him be a'eathemo maronatha
for it is an unmitigated fraud, fraud
upon the judges and fraud upon the
lawyers and litigants. 1t is more
than a fraud, it is an outrage. Here,
we are, in a prohibition town, snow
bound, ice bound, Hyde bound; fif-
teen impecunious lawyers, without
philosophy enough to sustain the ills
Of life, without the means Of becoming
"o'er a. the ills o life victorious"
querulous, growing, grumbling, TAX
ing it hard, and all because of some
bob tail'' lawyers wanting to be
Judge. Talk about bi ennial sessions
of the Legislature. They had better
be quadrennial or the laws like the
laws of the wise old Medes and Per-
sians-unalterable. Here we are,
every one cross and with more fight
in him than a thomas cat, courts broke
the people all gone home, solicitor
Blount took out in desperation in
snow storm yesterday evening, and we
shall likely never see his face again,
Judge AlEertson is worse than Jer-
miah in his Lamentations, Major Lat
ham has torn out the left side of his
muustache, George Brown looks like
!, he don't care dam if he gets to Con-
gress or not, and John Small can't
for the life of him, remember the
name of his sweetheart. Grandy alone
stands up, and says man is no more
than hair on dogs back, and what
will, will, and that's all of it, and we
can't help it.
Swan / is little oyster town of
some fifty people, situated ON salt
: water bay, frequented by swan and
= cygnets and the like, hence its name,
=. but the thermometer is 200 below the
= freezing point, the oysters, that great
pioneer of civilization are frozen up
and can't be had for money, to say
nothing of love, its too cold to shoot,
prohibition is rampant here, and Alv-
in's store is three miles away, to which
, place we just now saw from our frozen
:, window pane, q covered wagon, laden
;, with 65 at. jugs, We have always, on
;, general principles, not always in de-
L tails, been prohibitionist, and averse
to the fire-water that exhilirates and
: inebriates but little lone dry town
y with the thermometer near zero, with
= no clubs nor amusements nor oysters
} with ice and snow all around us, is 8
;, startling, staggering argument against
local option.
6 Here we are ! fifteen of us save one
= John, sometimes called Jack, without
friends, march-hare-mad without
money enough from legitimate prac
tice to feed a bull sparrow, save Johr
g whose official pay and prequisites ii
d his pocket doubtless made him brav'
and reckless, and led him to face th,
a peltings of that pittiless storm tha
probably, we fear, will call bar meet
o ing to shed salt tears upon Jack
name and memory. Indeed we so mucl
s. fear it that we will be in time an,
N now offer our memorial tribute Her
y is Jack sometimes called John our SC
E. licitor, good, and true and nobl
e one His lite was full of promise G
happiness and fame before him but il
: an evil hour of courageous will b
r butted 'gainst the snow storm kin
in and fell before him-Requie-se
Is The pride of place, the panoply of power,
Await alike th' inevitable hour.
t. Mother Swindell, taking in the sit
le uation and seeing the lugubrious, Iact
Us rymose and funeral faces around hel
IL stated publicly that she would gran
IN an indulgence to the lawyers unit
70 next term of the court to liquidat
tn their board bills, which doubles
re brought happiness to many stricke
hearts. 1t was kind of mother Swil
as dell, but when she has been as long i
We this. mundane sphere as this deponer
re shewill find that kindness often blunt
q. 40 the edge of friendship and loses bot
IL itself and friend.
,d ID, There is great rejoicing in Swain
~. ~ and there was clapping of hands fl
az a. the space of half an hour, for Il
w steamer from Little Washington, eli
~ ~ tie in contradistinction to big d. G
'ar w. has, like a brave boy, fought her wa
,o ,"l through the ice and come to our re
-. cue. Misfortunes, It's said, new
=. 'u' come alone, and So it is true of goo
~. fortune. Simultaneously with the a
III rival of the Little Washington steal
~ er came the covered wagon, from A
~ wins, jug-laden, and then the cup
'eu their happiness was bubbling over tt
brim and Grandy's philosophy car
laurel-crowned to the front and t
heroes of our narrative vowed, as th
,nq touched glasses that man knoweth Il
@ ,vo what an hour may bring forth a
"" that