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The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-06-24
It's time to stop fooling, and be Free
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THE CIVIL SERVICE Law

THE CIVIL SERVICE Law
has been pronounced un-Democratic
This is the line of argument, makes
the Civil Service Law unconstitution-
al. But it is an unfair advantage.
Why shouldn't the Civil Service Law
be un-Republican? But the number
of Republicans enjoying its protection,
makes the Civil Service Law quite
Republican. There is no sense in
either augment; it is the sophistry of
American politics. The Civil Service
Law is just as constitutional, to-day,
as when it was passed. Senator Vance
honestly believes it is humbug. Rep
resentative Cox believes it is a good
law. Let everybody have an opinion.
But everybody will deny that what
is Republican is un-Democratic, and
what is Democratic is constitutional.
Anything for argument.
THE DEMOCRATIC oFFIcE-sEEKER
suffers misfortune, of course circum-
stances are unfavorable. But it would
be un- democratic, un-R Republican and
unconstitutional too. if Congress
should take one step for the special
benefit of the Democratic o&ce-seeker.
It is very unfortunate. But the Dem
office-seeker wouldn't have Congress
do anything like that. OF course, the
Democratic Offices ecker makes divers
threats it shows just what the Dem
ocratic Office seeker was and is; it rids
the Democratic party of a scalawag,
humbug, and traitor. An Office is
good thing--we should like to have
one, too, six or seven months at dose
but no man is a reliable Democrat
until he has passed through the fire of
disappointments and stood out in the
cold world of starvation. A man, then
may honestly brag of being Demo
crat. True Democracy is heart-deep.
A BALD HEAD
is a common feature of the House. 1t
may not be a characteristic of bald
heads but the Congressional bald head
frequently buries his face in his hands
or in the bosom of his desk. As nat
ural result, you are left to wonder to
whom the shining surface belongs,
there are so many. But there is one
you can distinguish no matter how
deep it may be buried. 1t is marked
for life with cash every one notices
it is deep furrow. And so when Col.
Cowles buries his face, you can distin-
guish that bald head in minute; the
wound he received near Petersburg
twenty years ago looms up.
SHADOW.
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eventually to express not that cotton
was more King than the forces that
threatened its domain, or that it was
more king than wheat, or more king
than commerce, of which it was but
paradox, that those attributes of pure
statecraft which formerly was held of
supreme account in the States that
produced the cotton, we're dethroned
by their representative of industry.
(Applause.)
So, indeed, cotton is king is
to say, commerce is king And the
king is commerce is, from it he
derives might, power and dominion.
But commerce means peace; and, as
the consul is the agent Of commerce,
he has become the messenger of peace,
as once his diplomatic brother was the
herald of war. So it comes about that
as the nations more and more demand
peace, the consular branch of the for
eign service is exalted, as the univer-
sal attention now drawn to it demon
strates.
For these reasons, Mr.. Chairman, it
has seemed to me that Manchester has
simply given another proof of that
instructive provision which has given
her commercial leadership in her atti-
tude toward the consuls and that the
august personages in whose behalf I
speak tonight have chiefest cause here
tor graciously receiving the tribute
which annually at this board is rend-
cred them. In the name therefore of
the heads of all foreign nations, beg
to thank you sir, for what you have
said tonight, and the authorities and
people of this great community for
what they have done and for what
they continue to do for that which
chiefly concerns those for whom 1
speak and in their behalf [ venture
to express the hope that, as England
has taken the lead in the shipping of
the world, since mariners compass
gave her America and the maritime
route to India, the ships of all nations
may yet render fortune at the docks of
this representative city. (Applause.)
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COLONIAL RELIC ION.
THE BAPTIST CAUSE IN BERTHE
COUNTY IN 1776.

The Shooting Of Rev. John Tanner by
Man Named Dawson Whose Wife
had Been Baptized by the Former.
[For the snSTrsEL]
During the progress of a series of
meetings at Windsor, Bertie county,
under the auspices of the Baptist,
muth interest was manifested, and
during the meeting Mrs. Dawson
made profession Of religion, and de-
sired baptism by immersion in order
to connect herself with the church at
Cashie, under the pastoral care of
Rev. jeremiah Dargan. From the
History of the Kehukee Baptists- A
sociation," the following account of
her baptism and the shooting Of Elder
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DAN MANNING,
The Secretary of the Treasury Sends
In His Resignation.

In His Resignation.
The sending in to the President of
Hon. Dan'l. Manning's resignation of
the Secretaryship of the Treasury,
again rivits the attention of the public
to this gentleman who has SO recently
passed through a very serious period
of illness.
During the time in which he has
filled a cabinet position, Secretary
Manning has proved an exceptionally
capable and useful officer, although
previously unused to the duties en-
trusted to him.
Daniel Manning is in the prime of
life, about forty-eight years of age.
He was born of parents in very
humble condition of lite. Atan early
age he entered the printing Office Of
the Albany Argus, and in due time
rose from the drudgery of sweeping
floors and running erranos to be a
compositor in the office of that infu
entail journal. At that time William
Cassidy was its editor, man ofgreat
ability, who made the paper. AL
ways on the lookout for young men of
y,
his Journal, Cassidy took particular
notice of Manning, who was a hero
and terror to some of the leading
roughs in Albany. Moreover he was
bright as well as courageous and ener-
getic, and when he was about twenty,
Cassidy gave him position as report
er on the static the Argus. AS such
hi. first assignments were In the
chamber of the New York Assembly.
Manning soon became known to the
political leaders in the House, and it
was not long before he evinced ability
in manipulating the vote of his
county He rose in business step by
step, and is now President of the ar
gas Company, Albany. Manning
possesses considerable wealth, dresses
handsomely, and lives in good style.
He married the second time shortly
before his appointment to cabinet
position. BY his first wife he has one
son and one daughter. He has never
held an elective office
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Tanner, for performing the ceremony,
is taken:
"a certain woman by the name of
Dawson, in the town of Windsor, N.
c., had reason to hope her soul was
converted, saw baptism to be duty
for believer to comply with, and
expressed great desire to join the
church at Cashie, under the care of
Elder Dargan. Her husband, who
was violently opposed to it, and a
great persecutian, had threatened,
that if any man baptised his wife he
would shoot him accordingly bap-
tism was deferred for some considera-
BILE time. At length Elder Tanner
was present at Elder Dargan's meet
ing, and Mrs. Dawson applied to the
church for baptism, expressing her
desire to comply with her duty. She
related her experience and was receiv-
ed and as Elder Dargan was an in
firm man, he generally when other
ministers were present, would apply
to them to administer the ordinance
in his stead. He therefore requested
Elder Tanner to perform the duty of
baptism at this time. Whether Elder
Tanner was apprised of Dawson s
threatening or not, or whether he
thought it was his duty to obey Sod
rather than man, we are not able to
say, but SO it was he .baptised sister
Dawson. And in June following
(1777) Elder Tanner was expected to
preach at Sunday Run meeting house,
and Dawson, hearing of the appoint-
ment, came up from Windsor. to Nor
fleets Ferry, on Roanoke river, and
lay in wait near the banks of the riv
er, and when Elder Tanner, in COM
pany with Dargan, assembled the bank
from the ferry landing, Dawson, be-
ing few yards from him, shot him
with large horseman's pistol, and
seventeen shot went into his thigh, one
of which was large buckshot, that
went through his thigh and lodged BE-
tween his breeches and thigh on the
other side: Elder Burkitt was pres
ent when the doctor { who was imme-
diately sent for) took part of the shot
out of his thigh.
In this wounded condition Elder
Tanner was carried to the house of
Mr.. Elisha Williams, in Scotland
Neck, where he lay Some weeks, and
his life was dispaired of; but through
the goodness Of God he recoved again.
Dawson seemed somewhat affrighten-
ed, fearing he would die, and sent a
doctor up to attend him. After Elder
Tanner recovered, he never attempted
to seek for any recompense, or to have
legal steps taken against Dawson, for
the injury done him, but submitted to
it patiently as :. persecution for Christ's
sake.
Nov, nearly one hundred years af-
ter the foregoing occurrence, the Bap-
tist of Windsor, Cashie and Scotland
Neck under the guidance Of such men
Ms Hufham, Dowell, Barber and 9TH
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The Old Town of Wiilfanlsboro.
From, the Wilminqto,, Star.

Bishop Ravenscroft lived in the
rectory at Williamsboro, in old Gran
vile now Vance, adjoining the church
and preached in it often In the ves-
try room now stands the arm chair in
which that eloquent diocesan wrote
his sermons. Chief Justice Hender-
son was a member of the vestry aud
Badger, CASTOR, Mangum, Graham,
Reade, Pearson and numbers of our
greatest men worshiped there while at
tending Judge Hendcrson's famous
law school in Williamsboro. The
church is III bad repair Charlotte
Observer. That building was first
erected about l755 by Howell Lewis,
of Granville, the contractor, as a Pres
byterian church, at another point in
Granville, but without our notes we
cannot say defnately. It was after
ward taken down aud erected at VIII
liamsboro, one of the three post town.
in North Carolina in the War of the
Rebellion in 1775-83,
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ers are gathering the people, preaching
the gospel, that Tanner nearly laid
down his life to uphold baptising the
people who believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ as their personal Sayiorer with
out any fear Of shotgun policy or
wayside assassins, until, instead of q
handful of believers the Baptist are
numbered by the thousand.
&c. B.
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NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS.

Visit Washington City and Meet the
President.
Special Correspondence Of the Sentinel.
.WAsHINGroN, june 22.--Nearly all
of the visiting members Of the North
Carolina Press Association, who arriv-
ed Sunday, return tomorrow, We'd
nesday. As one man, the Association
expresses unbeunded delight with the
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excursion, the reception, and the Cap
ital. Its thanks to the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company are quite
heartfelt Circumstances were most
favorable. To say nothing Of sitting
Congress and all the interest it lends
to visit, the grand public grounds
and drives we're at their best, the two
frst-class theatres open, the weather
suitable to sightseeing, and everything
favorable to full enjoyment of the
trip.
Everybody was delighted. Big,
cordial smiles wreathed the faces of
the District press and Washington
correspondents. Citizens grasped the
hands of the sons of North Carolina,
and welcomed the pen and the press
of the Old North State, heartily Ev-
erybo1y sought the tarheels comfort
and pleasure. But imagine how every
man of the North Carolina Congress
ional delegation felt! It would have
turned sour milk sweet to see Reid,
Cowles, Bennett, Green and others
taking the boys By the hand right
royalty. Senator Ransom didn't seem
to know whether he was at the Capital
or at home. And the big, generous
face of Zeb Vance made every tarheel
feel as though he had just eaten din
ner or drank "a pint OF North Carolina
corn whiskey.
The great curiosity felt was, of
course, to see the bridegroom. Presi-
dent Cleveland threw open the doors,
and welcomed the boys like prince.
Senator Vance, and, in fact, all
North Carolinians, spared nc. pains to
make the hSys happy. Every man
enjoyed every hour of the visit
On the other hand, every man or
woman whom the tarheels met, de-
clares that the boys of the North Car
! olina press are big, open-hearted jour
nalists, true gentlemen, scholarly and
sociable companions. Its wonder
how they were permitted to return.
But everybody hopes it will not be
long before the press OF the Old North
State repeats its visit. SHADOW.
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Enoa TIE Wilson Adrn,lce

Purgatory is the name of the post
office of one Of our subscribers.
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pers in the Southern country.
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brought In by a Western Breeze.
From the st. Joseph Gazette.

From tie SC. Joseph Gazette.
One of the greatest boons that the
Irish cause needs is to- have Blaine
smitten with the lockjaw.
A Cofin Snapped shadow the Wall.
From tie Harrisburg Star
As the Fourth of July approaches,
the unloaded toy pistol clears its throat
for action.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-05
Cause and Effect.

A few months ago there were bright
prospects of general improvement in
business throughout the country, and it
was predicted that with the opening of
spring the long-hoped-for revival of
trade would begin. Indeed, there was
considerable improvement in February.
Then organized labor began to strike
in some instances for good cause, but
often without any cause whatever.
From the making of just demands it
has gone to the making of unjust ones.
The result has been that capital, always
timid, avoids enterprise; trade is in an
unsatisfactory condition; the mercantile
spirit is depressed, and labor suffers
even more severely than capital. In
some respects labor has shown itself
not less but more tyrannical than capt.
tai, for it has decided that all who do
not unite with it, as parts of great Or
ganization, shall be deprived of their
natural right to earn a subsistence
through individual and voluntary action,
and that they shall sacrifice personal
freedom and independence by joining a
union of labor as condition to work
and earn wages. The striking working
men have checked the flow of public
sympathy by unwise deeds and at
tempts to establish illegal restrictions
of personal liberty. They have clear
right to form unions, and to organize
their power to secure fair treatment
from organized capital; but while they
have perfect right to refuse to work
themselves, provided they do not bur-
den the community for their support,
they have no right to keep others from
working, nor have they the right to
use the boycott as weapon to coerce
employers of labor into compliance
with their demands. While labor has
rights that should be respected, they
are not superior to the rights of capital
or those of the public. The present
drift of public sentiment is decidedly
against a continuance of the labor
troubles, and those who are responsible
for them must soon see, if they do not
already, that they are pursuing a course
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THE american Doiryman says: "That
is a small, little trick of party calling
himself Consumer and who is un-
doubleday an oleo man, that puts note
in the New York San to the effect that
a member of the Mercantile Exchange
said that if no bogus butter were made
the price of ordinary good butter, which
now retals at thirty-fve to forty cents,
would soon go up to seventy-fve cents or
dollar pound, and thus be out of the
reach of mechanics and men who work.
The fact is that bogus butter has little
or no effect upon the prices of the
higher grades of butter. The men who
pay now from thirty-eight to forty cents
for butter cannot be fooled with lard.
They know the smell and taste of good
butter, and while they may be deceived
in the market while buying pound or
two, when they come to spread it on
warm bread and vegetables the fraud
is soon exposed
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in wages to the strikers or the great
loss borne by the employers.
THE Concord Monitor says of the
inability of the President to satisfy the
requirements of those who elected him
"That such a President should dis
appoint his party was inevitable. That
the present dissatisfaction will continue
and increase scarcely admits of doubt.
The experience will serve a good pur-
pose, if it shall convince each and every
party of the folly of nominating politi-
cal nonentities on account of their sun
posed availability"
THE house committee on invalid PEN
sions has been able to guess at how
much money it will need for carrying
out its proposition to give 80 day 10
each Union soldier put in a confederate
prison at any time during the civil war.
There are, it is conjectured, about
900 such ex-prisoners now living,
some of whom were held in confine-
ment many months. The committee
thinks that, at 50 day for the whole
term, it would take about S4,000,000
lOr lne Sratulty.
IT is curious comment upon these
reported assertions of the mugwump
press that everything in Washington is
progressing upward, and that the Presi-
dent is honestly and theoretically at
tempting to purify the public service.
when the senate is obliged to clas-
sify the executive appointments into
grades-even down to the class which
is labelled as Z" the very bad" and so
rank, in fact, in their general charac-
ter, that the senate could not, if it
would, confirm them. lionel Citizen.
THE Providence Journal says that
the opposition to the reelection of
Senator Edmunds appears to be more
in Maine than in Vermont. The only
declaration made by any Maine republi-
can paper on the subject was to the
effect that the election of a United
States senator in Vermont was matter
which belonged exclusively to the peo-
pie of that state, and that nobody else
had any right to NEEDLE or interfere. -
Boston Journal.
SENATOR HARRISON says: "The
celebration of the Inauguration of the
confederate government comes early
in the second year of democratic adj
ministration. They are getting their
courage. If the solid South should
elect another president, perhaps the
day at Montgomery would be made
national holiday. Why not? If the
movement was in the right direction of
constitutional liberty and the war that
followed holy war on the part of the
South, why not? If that is true, all of
the North ought to make an apology
and amends. Jeff. Davis is not so singu-
lar in his views as we have thought.
He is a popular ideal. His reasonable
utterances are cheered. The flag droops
in honor of Jacob Thompson. The
man who declared the national authority
to be bloody usurpation is asked to
represent this nation abroad. Grant
and Lee are getting mixed in the minds
of many men,
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THE memorial submitted by the New
York Methodist Episcopal Church,
praying for the protection of the Chi
nese in the United States, has been Or
dered by the senate, after much discus
sion, to be printed as document and
not in the Record. The interstate COM
merce bill is still under heavy debate
in the senate. Some progress has been
made with the appropriation and river
and harbor bills. The bill to erect pri-
vate dwelling for the President in con-
nection with the White House has passed
the senate. The bill relating to imita-
ton butter will be considered in the
house on May 18th.
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IT is generally expected that the offer
made by the citizens committee of st.
Louis to the general executive board of
the Knights of Labor to secure the re-
instatement of the strikers upon the
railways will be accepted The railway
managers will probably be willing to
give employment to all the strikers who
have not committed acts of lawlessness
as fast as places can be provided for
them. Within the past week the labor
agitation has assumed another phase.
Thousands of workingmen in Chicago,
New York, Boston, Washington and
elsewhere are striking to compel their
employers to adopt the eight-hour rule.
Their demand is usually for ten-hour
pay for an eight-hour day. Some es-
adjustments have compromised with
their hands on the basis of nine-hour
day, but few will concede the same per
diem wages for eight hours work. In
some places employers are organizing
to resist the eight-hour demand, and
some of them are closing their estab-
lishments. Probably the movement
will not be successful in many cases.
There are good many occupations
which will not permit the adoption of
the eight-hour system, and the condi-
ton of the labor market will not gener-
ally sustain decrease in the hours of
work without decrease in wages cor
responding to decreased production.
The international Cigar-makers' Union
of New York has declared war upon
the Knights of Labor, and the trades
unions in Pittsburg are threatening the
same action, on the ground that the
Knights are infringing upon the terri
tory of the other organizations and in
terfering with their proceedings.
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A TRADE journal says commercial
operations the past week have gener-
ally reflected the actual wants of dis
tributers and consumers, and the move
ment in most branches has been mod
crate in volume. Business conditions
are not favorable for the inception of
new enterprises or for any extensive
dealings in advance of assured require
ments, and merchants and manufac-
turers are disposed to pursue a safe
policy of conservatism until calculations
for future operations can be made with
some measure of security against new
and unsettling complications in the ad-
justment of the labor troubles. Crop
prospects are uniformly encouraging,
and the general situation is favorable
for a gradually improving condition of
trade were it not for the prevalent I'M
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-05
The Progress of Contraction.

In an able editorial on the business
situation, the New York SIN sketches
the progress of the contraction of all
forms of industry and business which
has been going on throughout the civ
ilized world for the past ten years; and
from the fact that the great strikes of
workingmen occur at time when the
wages of labor are generally satisfactory
and the cost of living is moderate, it
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-05
Vermont Methodist Conference.

The annual session of the Vermont Metho-
dist Conference began in Chelsea on
Wednesday of last week. The annual con-
ference sermon was preached by Rev. w.
III. Wright from First Corinthians ii: 10
The sessions proper began ON Thursday,
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certainty as to the effect of the labor
agitation; but for the present this con-
sideration outweighs all others as dis
turbing factor in the world of business.