The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-23
IN THE GOLDEN BELT.
OUR REPRESENTATIVE VISIT
TO OXFORD.

OUR REPRESENTATIVES, VISIT
TO OXFORD.
Court Week With Judge Connor Pre-
siding ng--Distinguished Gentlemen
Present-An Unpublished Anecdote
about Mr.. Poindexter.
Special Correspondence Of the Sentinel
OXFORD, Sept, 15.-The crowd in
attendance at court this week is very
small. The weather is favorable and
cutting and curing tobacco is the order
of the day over here. On our way we
saw many farmers harvesting the gol-
den weed. The crop is generally col
oring up we'll on the hill. Nothing
gives an old tobacco grower more
pleasure than to cut and house the
weed when it has ripened.well. We in
stanced several persons along the road
waving the weed high up in the air
as good as to say " we shall soon reap
the rewards of our labor" 1t makes
us feel proud Of our native State when
our eyes behold the rich fields of yell
low tobacco to be seen in every di-
rection as we pass through the golden
belt of Vance and Granville counties.
The fourishing and prosperous
towns of Henderson and Oxford be-
speak the fertility of the soil and the
enterprise of the citizens throughout
the golden belt. The growth Of the
county in material prosperity since the
late war is simply marvellous. While
behold!ng these beautiful towns and
fields. we find ourselves unconciously
repeating these beautiful lines of the
poet:
Breathes there man with soul SO dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land.
Hon. Jos. J. Davis and Chas Cooke,
Of Louisburg, are here as is also Col.
Thomas Fuller, of Raleigh. Few men
in North Carolina stand higher in the
estimation of the people than Capt.
Joseph ]. Davis. He is a clean, good
man and can be trusted any where,
and would make strong race for any
position in the gift of the people Of
North Carolina.
The Hon. James w. Reid and Jake
Long, ESQ.,, made speeches here to-day
to good crowd and impressed the peo-
pie favorably. Mr.. Reid was very
happily introduced by Alvis Allen,
Esq, in very neat and appropriate
way.
Thomas Venerable, Esq, who by
the way is son of the late Hon. Abe
Venable, who so long and faithfully
represented this district in Congress is
prosecuting for the State in place of
Solicitor Strudwick.
There are thirteen prisoners in Jail
here, four Of whom, his Honor Judge
Connor sent up to the penitentiary
yesterday for from two to four years
each. Others will follow this week to
augment the force already at work on
our railroads.
We are proud to report that the
cold SENTINEL" is taking well over
here as it does everywhere in North
Carolina. Many have already come
forward to swell the list and others
are falling in every day. THE SEN
TINEL takes we'll with the people be-
cause it has a character unsurpassed
in North Carolina journalism for the
amount and character of its reading
matter; because it is conservative in
its views because its moral tone is
good, and its pages sparkle with spicy
news items from all over the country.
Its columns are not exclusively de-
voted to politics but contains much
real literary and scientific matter, and
may be carried into every family in
the land with profit and pleasure. The
minds of the young, if fed upon moth
ing but politics, becomes sordid aud
narrow Your humble correspondent
insists that some good religious matter
should go into every newspaper
throughout the land that the morals
as well as the minds of the readers
may be improved. Such paper we
delight to introduce into every family
Some years ago when Mr..
Poindexter of Yadkin county was
States Attorney he had man con-
victed at this place for petty larceny.
The court ordered thas he be whipped
at the whipping post. The Sheriff
anxious to execute the sentence of the
court and discharge the prisoner, i'm
mediately proceeded to the spot and
commenced the fogging. In the
meantime the attorney for the prisoner
who was not aware that the sentence
was being so sumarily executed arose
and moved for new trial. Mr.. Poin-
dexter who had been looking through
the window at the fogging, arose and
said that he should not object to a
new trial if the attorney for the de-
Tense thought it necessary to whip his
man again. As the attorney did not
insist the matter ended here.
TRAVELLER.
Disappointmentso of Journalism
From the Bloomington, Ill.,. Eye.
At an early hour this morning
SQUIRE Bixby's barn, four miles east