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The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
HIGH POINT HAPPENINGS.

From the High Point EnterFrise.]
The Asheboro train now makes
two trips about every other day. We
hope soon to see a daily schedule of
two trips
...Our community was panied Fri
day evening to learn that Mrs. J. r.
Pickett who has been lingering so
long with typhoid fever had passed
away.
There has been about $4,000
pounds of pork killed here within the
past two weeks. This meat was rails
ed at an average cost of cents per
pound.
We regret very much to know
that Capt. W. E. Johns happened to
a painful accident last week at Ches-
ter, S. c. He was walking from the
hotel to the depot on a platform at
night and stepped through an open
ing four feet deep badly bruising his
leg and ankle.
aged II years while out hunting last
Monday was instantly killed, the gun
which was carrying behind him as a
support in crossing a log having
been discharged, the load taking
away the back of his head.
Mr.. Sam'l Jordan was in our of
flee one day this week, and he said he
would bet his horse Frank that High
Point could beat any town OF its
size in the State for children and fat
hogs. There being 35S children un
der free school census law and hogs
weighing over 500 pounds.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
THE NEWSlIN DAVE COUNTY,
From tie MocksUiHe Times

From tie lMocksviHe Times.
The new Methodist pastor for
Mount Airy Station is Rev. ]. E. Gay
Rev. P. NJ. Hoyle is the Presiding
Elder.
The Exchange Bank will begin to
pay depositors in a short time This
we get from the receivers who ought
to know.
Mr.. T. J. Riggs, of Dobson, died
Tuesday morning at 2 O'Clock and
was buried at Dobson Wednesday
with Masonic honors.
Travel is increasing on the C. F. &
Y. V. R. R. Every train is pretty
well loaded. This shows the growth
of the country.
Rev R. NJ Taylor and family left
last Saturday for Missouri. They
carry with them the confidence and
esteem of host of friends in North
Carolina.
Mr.. r. T. Joyce, Of the firm o1
Worth & Joyce, hardware dealers O
this place, killed two fine porkers one
day last week. The largest weighed
526 pounds, the other 3S2-tota
9OS pounds. That is pretty goot
for pigs only 16 months old.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
Attention, Teachers.

Attention, Teachers.
The following letter from our coun-
ty superintendent explains itself:
Mr.. Editor: The attention of the
various school committees of the
county, as we'll as that of the teach
ers they have employed, is asked to
the following: Exchange rates in
getting Harvey's Grammars for Reed
4 Kellogg's, and Harrington's Spell
er for Webster's Elementary, will con-
tinue only to the end of this year,
after that the regular prices will have
to be paid.
Teachers ought, therefore, to bring
in the old and now discontinued text
books above named, and exchange
them as soon as possible for those
now recommended.
Mr.. C. g. Lanier, bookseller at
Winston, is prepared to exchange,
allowing very reasonable rate for
the old books. School COMMITTEES
should urge the teachers to act
promptly in this matter, as the time
remaining is but short.
Notice is also hereby given to all
concerned, that if any one desires to
be examined in order to enter the
N. C. College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts, he may notify the
Co. Supt. of his wish, and will be duly
examined at the ourt-House on the
9th inst. Very respectfully,
A. 1. BUTNER,
Co SuDt.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12

Col. j. ". ALsPAUGH.
Sir will you kindly appear in the
Forum and give answer to a few
questions, which we most respectful
ly submit, and which we think. can
not be regarded from any point of
view rs impertinent The ''sllver
question is one of vast Importance
to the people, and therefore public
question, demanding public inquiry
Notwithstanding our effort to keep
posted upon all great public ques-
tions, we have been unfortunately
left in the dark as to the National
! Silver Convention which met in st.
Louis on the Goth of Nov. and to
which you We're delegated by the
Governor of North Carolina.
Having failed to get the desired in
formation from the sources usually
keeping it in stock, it occurred to us
as at least not an improper thing,
to call upon one who is abundantly
able to speak as one having author
ity. Presuming that you accepted
the appointment and attended the
Convention, we most respectfully ask
in behalf Of many of the people.
1st. Who called the National Silver
| Convention?
End. Under what authority did the
| Governor of North Carolina act in
appointing a delegate?
| 3rd. Was the delegate appointed
to represent the people of North Car
olina?
4th. If not delegated to represent
the people of North Carolina, whose
representative was he?
| 9TH. If delegated to represent the
people of North Carolina, how did
the delegate ascertain the will of the
people that he might represent them
faithfully?
9th. What position did the dele
gate from North Carolina take in the
Convention?
These questions are submitted not
only in good faith but in lively hope
that you will gladly avail yourself OF
this excellent opportunity to enlight-
en- the people not only as to your
work as a delegate, but the work OF
the Convention.
| The people need the information.
and we think you cannot wisely risk
your standing as a good and faith
full citizen, by withholding it.
1t may be true, as the editor of the
Banker s Magazine says that "Favor
and benevolence are not the attri
butes of good banking" but it is un
questionably true that they are the
attributes of a good citizen.
The most noteworthy feature O
the Bankers Association, recently
held in Kansas City, was a paper
upon ''Silver Legislation" read by
! Mr.. ST. John, a New York banker
1t is now in order for a National
Banker of Winston to speak. Start
up the Dynamo-let there be Light
We1ara most hopefully and with higl
regard yours, &c.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
OUR NEARBY NEIGHBoRs.
News Notes from Winston's Friends in
the Surrounding Counties.
THE NEWS IN LEAKsvILr.
TFrop, he Leaksrilie Gaztus ]

Frop, he Leaksriue Ga=tHs
Spider Scales died in prison at
Wentworth and hence the hangman
has been cheated out of a job.
I'VE learn that the Board of Edu-
cation apportioned S5 cent, per cap
ita to the public schools on Monday.
...Leaksville boasts of her large
hogs, one of which weighed net 475H
pounds. At the Cotton Mills an
other weighed 41Opounds The 800
and odd weights are too numerous
to mention.
Another disgraceful affair occur.
red at Odell & Rakes' barroom Tues
day night, in which Geo. D. Dyer
was very severely hurt. From what
we can learn, while Dyer was talking
to another man, VIM NJ. Craddock
approached him from behind and
struck him with a heavy stone, the
blow cutting a long cash clear to
the skull on the right side of Dyer's
head. Dyer fell senseless and bled
copiously. Medical attention was
soon procured, and the wounded
man made as comfortable as posi-
BILE.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12

Memorial Scrvic-s In Honor of J~ff-r-
son Davis.
Yesterday at l 2 O'Clock, when the
funeral procession of Hon. Jefferson
Davis started to his last resting
place in New Orleans, La, and min
ute guns were there being fired in his
honor, the people of Winston-Salem
met in the Opera House to pay a last
tribute to his memory.
Above the stage hung two large
U. S. flags, extending partly around
the walls of the building, draped
with heavy crosses of black Grape.
On the stage were the local minis
ters. Rev. H. A. Brown, of the Bap-
tist Church, began the services by
praying that we may never see an
other war. He was followed by Rev.
E. P. Davis, of the Presbyterian
church, who paid eloquent tribute to
the memory of our late chieftaln as Il
great soldier, a great man and a
great christian. Then Rev. Thos.
Pegram arose and spoke of our hero,
who had always merited the homage
paid him by the people of the South.
Rev. w. E. Swain, of the M. p church,
followed and said that in the time
which tried mems souls Jefferson
Davis proved as refined gold. Then
addresses were made by Rev. Nj. C..
Fields, of Pleasant Garden, Rev Ira
Erwin, Hon. C. B. Watson and Hon.
w. B. Glenn, all paying reverent
praise of the character of our great
dead.
As did the Winston-Salem people,
so did the people all over the South.
They gathered ia mass meetings to
honor the memory of the grandest
man this age will know.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
SIX LOCAL BRIEFS.

Mr.. Abe Venable, special agent
for the Washington Life insurance
company, is in the city He was for
merly editor of the News of Oxford.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. l.. Williamson re-
turned from their northern tour last
Thursday night, and are at present
at the Jonesl House, where they are
receiving the congratulations of
many friends.
The Danbury Reporter says that
after the marriage of Miss Sallie
Gunter to Mr.. j. B. Whitton, aged
respectively 35 and 60, the boys
serenaded them with cow-bells and
horns till late in the night.
Mr. Quincy, of Reidsville who has
leased the Merchants Hotel property
here, was in town last week and left
orders for the thorough renovation
of that building The work is now in
progress and the hotel will be ready
| for guests some time next month.
The Jurors who were drawn last
| week to try the Boyer-Teague con-
tested election case are equally divid-
ed on politics, twelve being Dem
ocrats and twelve Republicans. If
we leave out the negroes, there are
! about two Democrats to every Re
publican in the county, hence luck
has favored the Republicans in the
complexion of the jurors.
Twas out in the cleaning, way
out in Wyoming, maiden sat com
bing her golden hair; when, heated
with roaming all painting and foam
ing, there came up and squeezed her
a big grizzly bear Itsdid not alright
her the bear did not bite her, she lay
back and murmured, s'Still tighter
dear!" This broke up old bruin; he
left off his wooing, sneaked back to
the mountains and hid a whole year
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
MRS. BELVA LOCKWOOD.
A Tribute to the Memory OF H Late
Lecture IN Winston

Lecture II Winston
Mrs. Belva LockW ood, woman pol
itician, candidate for President, law
yer and lecturer. appeared on the
platform in Browns Opera House
last Friday night to discuss the
question, ''Is marriage Il failure?'
And she didn't discuss ii at all
She made fiat failure as a politi-
clan, now she is making Il failure as
Il lecturer and if she doesn't hold up
on her very broad jokes and i'm
modest allusions she will make a fail
ure when she attempts to cajole st.
Peter into allowing her to enter the
golden gates.
Well, she came out on the platform
attired in IL brown silk dress with
fullness of lace at the wrists and
throat, swung her gold-rimmed eye
! glasses on to her nose, gave her big
| hustle a Strengthening out and bow
ed. Then she cleared her throat.
And then,-then my countrymen
For two hours and fifteen minutes
| the lady afflicted one OF the most
| cultured audiences ever gathered in
| Winston with a dose of history that
| fairly took ones breath awdyl She
| told US of marriage customs in Pat
| tagonia, then she skipped with an
agility that was surprising in one
who had lost the freshness of early
| yOuth) clear over to South Africa
| and told us how the fiat nosed ne
| groes of the Congo managed to tie
| the marital knot Then she sailed
into Chinese and japanese and In
dians customs, clearing her throat
at every jump, until she had exhaust
ed all that the encyclopedias print
on marriage customs.
When she got through the only
two things her hearers were thank
for were that they still lived and,
second, that she was never elected
President.
! Fellow-sufferers, just suppose that
woman had been elected president
and we had been obliged to read her
message!
Shades of Cleveland defend us. She
knows more encyclopaedia than Gro
yer ever dreamed of and her tongue
is as long as the Mississippi river.
When she comes this way again.
| if she ever does, there will be Il dead
| silence in the Opera House in which
you may hear the stars twinkle, for
the folks will be too tired to leave
home.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
The Ely Stock Company.

There has never appeared, within
our recollection, in Winston, il theat-
rical company which has given such
general and repeated satisfaction as
the Ely Stock Company. After play
ing to crowded houses here for six
consecutive nights and one matinee,
they returned, after an absence OF
only one week, last Monday and
again appeared for three successive
nights at Browns Opera House to
large audiences. The popular scale
of prices taken into considerable it
is as good a show as we want to see
for the money. They leave to-day
for Raleigh and then proceed further
south
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
New Masonic Officers.

Monday night the Masonic lodge
of Winston held its annual election of
officers with the following result: W.
A. Blair, Worshipful Master T. l..
Farrow, Senior Warden; d. Rich, Jun
ior Warden; NJ. d. Bailey, Treas; HI.
w. Foltz, Sec'y. The newly-elected
officers will be installed on the even
ing of Dec 27, by s. Ii. Smith, Grand
Master of \. c.
w. A. Blair, W. NJ, has made the
following appointments: Sen. Dea-
con, w. III. Sumerell; Jun. Deacon.
J. j. Blair; Stewards, A. III. Eller and
r. L. Crawford; Chaplain, Rev. III. A.
Brown.
This lodge was 36 years last Sun
day and has done long and honorable
service in relief of the distressed. Mr..
2. A. Wilson, one of our venerable
citizens, was its first W. Nj.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
Our Supplement.

In this issue, in addition to the life
of Hon. Jefferson Davis which is illus
trated on our first page, The SENTI-
MEL presents Harrison's message and
the financial exhibit of Forsyth coun-
ty for the past year on Il supplement.
This week we furnish six of our
State contemporaries with several
thousand supplements containing
the life of the beloved Davis and the
message of President Harrison. Our
presses have been kept humming and
our force has been kept busy night
and day to supply the demand.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
The Alliance in Surry.

The Alliance in Surry.
There are 5 sub-alliances In Surry
county: Mt. Airy, White Plains, Stew
arts Creek, Dobson and Olive Branch.
Mr.. S. A. Hauser organized the
county alliance Dec 9Th with the fol-
lowing officers; President, A. L. Bum
ker; Vice Pres't.. C. C. Cellum; Sec'y.,
J. c. Cooper; Treas. L. B. Jones;
Chaplain, Francis Miller; Lect., B. A.
Freeman; Assoc. Lect., j. A. Park;
Door-Keeper, John Nichols; Assoc.
Door-Keeper, w. J. York; Business
Ag't., j. L. Smith; County organizer,
j. Adams.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
A Golden Wedding.

1t is not very often that man
and wife live to celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of their marriage day
their golden wedding-and when they
do it is a matter of general interest.
Last week in High Poiut Mr.. JON
athan E. Cox and wife celebrated
their golden wedding. There were
six children present, Including SONS
and daughters-in-law,) ten grand
children and one great-grandchild
also several friends and relatives.
Psalm No. 1O3 was read and gen
eral praise and thanksgiving offered,
and one of the grandchildren, a 16-
year old boy, read a long original
poem of considerable merit COM
memorating the event.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
THE CIGARETTE TRUST.
A >cheme to Get the Farmers Tobacco
Too Cheap


Too Cheap
Several weeks ago The SENTINEL.
published the following news item:
1t is said that the four largest manu-
facturers of cigarettes have formed a
combination, and each will buy to-
baccO on Il separate market. It is
said Duke Sons, of Durham. will buy
there, Allen & Ginter ut Henderson,
Kimball Bros. at Oxford, and Kin
ney Bros. at Danville These firms.
it is further said, will have no buyers
save ip the market regularly chosen
by agreement as above stated.
This combination or crust has
already gotten down to 'sbusiness.
The Winston market has fallen to
the lot OF w. Duke Sons & Co. and
their buyer appeared on our market
this week.
The grade of tobacco wanted is
bright cutters and the Crust has
notified our leaf dealers that they
need not buy any moe cutters with
the expectation of selling to any of
the firms in the combination.
AS bright enters are not much
used for anything except cigarettes,
and as the firms composing the COM
binatiOn buy nearly all of that grade
of tobacco sold on the southern mar
kfts, their action means that their
agent is to have very little competi-
ton and is to get cutters almost at
his own price. That is the size of it
exactly, for if our leaf dealers bid
against him and buy, they cannot
sell except to the trust and at prices
named by the trust.
This is a bad state of affairs and
unless the combination can be brok-
en- it will cost our farmers and our
leaf-deaers many dollars annually.
The farmers OF Granville county,
having already felt the squeeze" oil
the trust, have set about fighting it
At the last meeting of the Sassafras
Fork Alliance the following resolu-
tions were adopted:
1st, 1890, we pledge ourselves not
chant who sells cigaretts made by &
manufacturer belonging to a comb
nation or trust, except in Il case o
urgent necessity. We earnestly SO
licit every Alliance in the United
States to unite with us in this effor
to defeat the cigarette monopoly.
Resolved, 2. That we recommend
the establishment of an Allianc,
| cigarette factory in Granville count,
at an early date, and we pledge our
selves to give it all the assistance il
| our power.
We should be glad to see the farm
ers of Forsyth, Stokes, Yadkin ant
other counties make some combined
move that would save their cutters
from the hands of the trust.
Why not call a meeting of the Ali
ances in all the neighboring counties
to be held in Winston at an early da,
and take some steps to ward off th
blow which is about to be struck a
the farmers pocket book?
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
The Moravian Chapel Dedicated.

On last Sunday the new Moravian
Chapel Calvary ChapeD which is To-
Gated on the reservation in West
Winston, was formally dedicated.
Dr. Edward Rondthaler conducted
the interesting exercises, assisted by
Professors Wurreschke and Clewell,
of Salem, and Pastors Davis, of the
Presbyterian church, Erwin, of Burk-
head NJ. E. church, and Baldwin, OF
the Baptist circuit. Next Sunday
morning the dedication sermon will
be delivered by DR.. Rondthaler.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
SUNDAYS SERVICES.
The Interesting Religious Exercises of
the Last Sabbath.

The pastors of the different churches
occupied their regular pulpits Sunday
morning, with one exception-Rev.
e. w Byrd, of Salisbury, occupied
lie pulpit of Centenary NJ. E. Church
i'll the absence of Rev. VIC Norman,
and preached a very interesting SER
mon about the Stony Heart. No ser
vices ut this church Sunday night.
At the Second street Baptist church
Sunday morning, the beloved pastor,
Rev. H. A. Brown, preached an an
| niversary sermon. Mr. Brown came
to Winston just twelve years ago
| and, declining all calls (many of
which were to charges which paid
| much better than the one here) he
has stood by his congregation in
| Winston through thick and thin,
with whom he is so popular The
sermon was an able and affecting
| one and was delivered to a crowded
house At night Rev. Mr.. Thompson,
of Louisville, KY, preached.
| We did not hear the sermon OF
| Rev. T.. p. Davis, pastor of the Pres
| hy.erian church. in the morning, but
the one delivered by him. at night
was model. He took his text from
John ,: IA, 15-"And as Moses lift
ed up the serpent in the wilderness,
so must the son of man be lifted up,
that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish but have eternal
life and proceeded to dissect and
analyze his subject in remarkably
cleac and forcible manner.
Mr.. Davis prefaced his remarks by
| Lii 1n Mt %1D%
age from John is direct quotation
from the Old Testament plumbers,
21:9) that book was endorsed by
Jesus Christ, else He would not have
| quoted from it.
''NOne but the Infinite or divinely
inspired can foretell events with any
degree of certainty. Here Christ
foretells with unerring certainty the
very manner of his death. Therefore
Christ was divine.
''All that the people of Israel, who
had been bitten by the fiery serpcnte
had to do was to look upon the braz.
en- serpent. which Moses had lifted up
on Il pole, as commanded by God.
''Those who did SO lived; those
who did not died.
'And SO tits with us to-day. Those
of us who look to Christ and the
cross for salvation shall have eternal
life. The man who doesn't do this
will surely die
'sThis serpent on the pole was not
a fiery serpent, but a representation
of one. There was no poison about
the serpent on the pole. So with
Jesus. He was on earth in the image
of man. He was like us with one ex
ception-the poison of sin was not
within Him as it is in us.
''He died to save sinners, and there
is no one SO stepped in sin that HI
cannot rescue him and make of him
a man so good, a christian so strong
in the faith that when death comes
it will be Il sweet and welcome exper
fence to him.
"Look to Christ! Don't look al
yourself; don't look into your owl
sinful heart, where you will find sc
little, but look to Christ. Lay YOU
sins at His feet and he will assuredly
save you, or shall lose faith In tn,
Scripture.
1t was an excellent sermon, hear
tiiy enjoyed by all who heard it.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
Found Dead.

The High Point Enterprise says: ::
Mr.. Solomon Idol, son of Mr.. Joe
Idol, from near the Bunker Hill
neighborhood in Forsyth county,
was found dead in his wagon near
Leach's Store, Randolph county last
Saturday night. 1t is supposed that
he smothered to death. His remains
were brought here on the Asheboro
train Monday morning and taken to
his home
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
A sudden Death.

A Sudden Death.
Yesterday Mr.. Sandy Snider, who
lives at Friendship, was in Winston
apparently in good health. After
spending several hours here he start
ed home but was taken very ill by
the time he reached Pope's store in
Centreville. He was taken home but
died q few minutes after reaching
there. He was about 65 years old.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12

Schoultr's Racket.
The way Mr.. D. D. Schouler Is en-
larging his business is a wonder. He
has his Racket, his Cheap John and
his millinery stores, and now he is
opening up a mammoth stock OF
Xmas goods next door to his Racket,
in the store recently occupied by the
Post-office.
Read his announcement in another
column and when you do your Xmas
shopping go to see him.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
Brewer and Ewart Included.

We see from the Washington Star
the congressman whose names were
forged by the defaulting and alb
sconding deputy Sergeant-at-Arms
of the U. S. House of Representatives,
Silcott. The notes were taken up at
the bank by Silcott, however, before
his flight forgery being an extradi-
table offense) and SO our radical
Brers will not lose anything.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12

Mr.. Brodie Duke, of Duke Sons &
Co., is in Winston and was interview
ed by aSENrINEL reporter this morn
ing. While he cannot speak with au-
thority, of course, he says thatsthe
report that the mammoth smoking
tobacco factory of the w. T. Black
we'll Co. has been sold to an English
syndicate is true.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
Cannot Come Just Now.

Owing to the trial of some law
cases in which he is engaged as coun-
sci, Mr.. George III. German, of Wash
ington, finds itimpossible to come to
Winston just now. His lecture for
the benefit of the Y, NJ. G. A. is, there
fore, postponed. He expects to be
able to deliver it some time in jan
uary.
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
Wild Western Wit.

A short while since Prof. Clewell
found it necessary to dismiss young
lady from the Academy and telegraph
ed to her father in far western state,
"Your daughter is at your disposal. !"
In few minutes the answer came,
"Keep her on ice till come
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12
THE PEOPLES FORUM.

Under this heading The Sentinel
invites the people to discuss public
questions Ofpresent interest. Here
shall the press the peoples rights
main tain, unaWed by influence and
unbribed BY gain
The western sentinel., 1889-12-12

sell more Stonebraker's Prepara-
tions than any ever sold, they are
say. O.S. McFADDEN, Harved Grace,
Md.