Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-07

SENTTNEIIA.
Greensboro, n. c. Jan'y. 1st Is

DOfO GlnolG S0lIoge WAS III an en-
barrassed financial condition that VIII
liam II. Vanderbilt gave it $4,000.
THE COAL mines near Egyyt,N. c.,
are to be reopened next summer. One
Of these mines has a shaft $50 feet in
depth. 1t was this coal that was used
on blockade runners at Wilmington
during the war.
Mr.. Fl. a. Latham has purchased
half interest in the Gazette OF Wash
ingten. Mr.. Latham is . talented
young man and THE SENTIEL wishes
him great success in his chosen calling
DR.. Deems says he never knew Mr..
Vanderbilt to refuse aid to the deserv-
ing and mentions his gift Of $4,000
to the University Of North Carolina,
to form a fund to help poor young men
through the collegiate course.
Mr.. DANIEL E. GooDLE, the dis
tinguished North Carolinian resident
at Washington, says that one Of the
earlier superintendent Of Mt. Vernon,
the home Of Washington, told him that
the more ancient portion of the house
was built of North Carolina pine
On THE plantation of Philip Sow
ers, in lincoln county, there is a cave
with six rooms, in one of which there
is we'll of water The cave is sup
posed to have been fitted up by the
celebrated Daniel Boone, who once
owned the place, as q refuge from his
Indian enemies.
THE Bell, published at Estelline,
Dakota says that G. FL. DeJarnette,
of Carrabus county, who went west to
perfect his ''self-sustaining motor ma
chine, has departed from Estelline on
his return to North Carolina. His
motor is still in an imperfect state and
he proposes to make another effort at
its completion after he arrives home
Mr.. TILDEN, of New York, ne
pnew of Hon. Samuel J. TiIden, q few
days ago bought $4,000 acre tract Of
land in Swain and Cherokee counties,
for the purpose Of settling a colony Of
Northern farmers and mechanics The
sale was effected by Maj. j. w. Will
son, who had control of the lands. The
price paid was one dollar per acre.
WHEN THE father of Gen. Joseph
r. Hawley, of Connecticut, left North
! Carolina many years ago, he owed Mr..
James Patterson, who lives near Lum-
berton, n. c., a balance Of SO for the
tuition Of young Joe, who is now United
States Senator from Connecticut. At
that time Mr.. Patterson had pros
porous boys school and the matter OF
SO was insignificant to him but war
and the hard times following left him
in Strengthened circumstances. In
looking oyer his musty accounts a few
days ago he found this little D." balance
due for schooling Of son Joe, S10.' He
wrote to Gen. Hawley, enclosing the
bill and at once received a check for
the amount.
THE LEAKsvILLE Echo tells the
following good one on DR.. Blacknall,
so widely and so favorably known as
the urbane proprietor Of the Tucker
House, in Raleigh, and who for polite
ness and affability is without a peer
He is now deputy collector under Col
Marlborough and sometime since the
doctor, in his peregrinations in an OBJ
scure part Of the country, in the dis
charge of the duties OF his office, acct
dentally stumbled ON an illicit distil-
lery in full blast. The Doctors i'm
pulse was to pull his hat over his eyes
and pass on, but duty getting the bet
ter of his affability, he put on bold
front, and addressing. the distiller, said :
"Look here, Colonel, this is all right,
all very well, but Mr.. Cleveland has
sent me out here to tell you that you
are entirely too near the path"
"GRANvILLE," in her entertaining
correspondence TO the Fayetteville o.
scruer, speaks of often seeing the beau
tiful rose, the Isabella Sprunt, for sale
in Washington. She says: 1t was
invented q can't think OF q better
word) by the Rev James Sprunt, for
years the pastor of the Presbyterian
Church in Kenansville, n. c., and
named for his daughter Rev. Mr..
Sprunt was the brother Of the late Al
exander Sprunt, Esq, Vice Consul of
the port Of Wilmington, who doubtless
has many friends among your readers
[ mention the matter because | heard
Northern woman ask for the Isabella
Sprunt at florists stand in the mar
ket and [ turned to see large num-
Der of the exquisitely-tinted roses be-
side me-"
A CURIOUS cave is reported as
being in the Far Range Mountains in
| western North Carolina. In the
Summer months current of air comes
from it so strongly that a person can
not walk against it, while in the win
ter the suction is just as great. The
cool air from the mountains in sum-
mer is felt for miles in direct line
from the cave. At times a most un-
odor is emitted upon the current
from the dead carcasses of animals
sucked in and killed by the violence
The loss of stock in that section in
winter is accounted for in this way ::
they range too near the mouth of the
cave and the current carries them in.
At times, when the change from in
halation begins, the air is filled with
hair of various animals, not infre-
quently bones and whole carcasses are
found miles from the place. The air
has been known to change materily in
temperature during exhalation, from
quite cool to unpleasantly hot, with
ering vegetation within reach, and ac-
companied by terrible roaring
gurgling sound, like pot boiling. It
is unaccounted for by scientific men
who nave examined # tbourb no ax