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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09
DR. JOHN f.. EDWARDS.

Rev. Dr.JohnEllis Edwards died at
the Parsonage, Court Street Church,
Lynchburg. his charge,f Tuesday
night, in the 77th year of his age,
born near New Garden, Guilford,
August 1st, 1914.
April 7th, 1884, he was licensed a
local preacher, and in 1885 joined
the Virginia Conference, as regular
itinerant. On the division of Vir-
ginia Conference, 1887, he was as-
signed to Raleigh Circuit, and re-
naming in the North Carolina Con-
ference eight years, served respect
lively Beaufort, the Roanoke Circuit
then embracing Halifax and War
rem, New Berne, 1841-'42, where he
built the present Centenary church
1843 rrostrated from attack of ty-
phoid fever, he did no regular work,
but in 1844-'45 he served the Eden
ton Street Methodist church. Raj
eigh, and then at his own request
went back to the Virginia Confer
ence; stationed at Richmond, where
first and last he preached twenty
years four years in Danville eight
years in Petersburg; four years in
Norfolk, and nearly ten years in
Lynchburg.
DR.. Edwards was one of the most
conspicuous and familiar figures in
the ranks Of the Southern Methodist
ministry, and one of the most gen.
orally beloved. He was not a great
pulpit orator, nor even an eloquent
man, except upon stirring occasions,
but he had this rare gift of saying
good things and saying them we'll.
The beauty and fuency of his die
ton and the ease and gracefulness
of his delivery even in his last years,
were remarkable, and in the prime
of life, when he was at the height of
his usefulness, gave him reputa-
ton as wide as the bounds of the
church with which he was identified.
OF high scholastic attainments he
was a great writer and lecturer, and
has left some valuable published
| works and manuscripts.
In 1888 DIR. Edwards married Miss
| Elizabeth A. Clark, of Virginia,
| graduated from Salem Female Acad-
amy, who with their sons, Rev. Will
liam E. Edwards, D. D.; DIR. Lon
don B. Edwards, M. D., and Leroy
Edwards, Esq, survives him.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue issues special instructions to
collectors in regard to the tobacco
traffic. The practice of allowing ci-
gar manufacturers TO put upin pack
ages their scraps, cuttings, clippings,
etc, and attach thereto tobacco
stamps, and place the same on the
market as manufactured tobacco.
must be discontinued. Cigar manu-
facturers cannot dispose of their
scraps, cuttings, clippings, ETC., in
this manner. They may sell the
same to manufacturers of tobacco,
or to another cigar manufacturer,
but not being manufacturers of to-
bacco themselves, they cannot prop
erly procure tobacco stamps. Col
lectors of Internal Revenue are not
permitted to sell tobacco stamps to
q person who is a manufacturer of
cigars only. If cigar makers desire
to SO dispose of scraps, cuttings,
clippings, etc., accumulated in their
factories, they will have to qualify as
manufacturers of tobacco, and will
not be permitted to carry on the bus
iness OF manufacturer of cigars and
manufacturer of tobacco ON the
same premises.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

There are large bodies of immi-
grants to this country who are
not put on record at the Barge
office. They take passage from
European ports by the steam
ships running to Canadian ports,
and come to the United States
from there by railroad. There
are tens of thousands of immi-
grants who thus reach this
country every year. 1t is OF
great Importance that the pro-
vision of the new immigration
law should be strictly enforced
along the Canadian border, so
as to prevent the coming by that
route of immigrants who are
excluded by the law.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

rnn LATE sEcnErAHY.

William Lawrence Saunders, son of
an Episcopal clergyman was born at
Raleigh July 30, 1885; graduated
from Chapel Hill 1854; studied law
with Judge Battle; was admitted to
the bar in 1856, and settled at Sails
bury.
A member of the Rowan Rifle
Guards, in April 1861, he first saw
service at Fort Johnston, mouth of
the Cape Fear. In June 1861 he was
commissioned Lieutenant in the
Rowan Artillery ,and moved into Vir-
ginia. In 1862 he became Captain
of a Salisbury infantry company in
the 46th Regiment, in which he sue
cessively rose to the rank of Major,
Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel, and
was twice severely wounded.
He married, in 1854, Miss Florida
Call Gotten, of Tarboro, who only
lived a-Nyear. and he has remained
single, devoting his care and afYec-
tion to his own, and his wifes neph-
ews and nieces.
After the war he was Secretary of
the Senate, was one of the editors of
the Wilmington Journal, emo with
Peter NJ. Hale, in 1876, esta blished
the Raleigh Observer. He was one of
the strongest among Southern Jour-
nalists, and one of the finest intel
lects the State ever produced.
On the death of Secretary of State
Engelhard, in February 1879. Gov
ernor Jarvis appointed Colonel
Saunders to the office and by subse-
qnent elections he has been contin-
ued In that position.
He was one of the most valuable
| and efficient public servants the peo-
pie of North Carolina ever knew.
His work on the Colonial RECORDS OF
the State is the most valuable con-
tribution it was possible for any one
to make to our history, and few men
would have SO faithfully and patient
ly performed it as did the late Secre-
tary of State.
In young manhood "American
BilP' Saunders was about the finest
specimen of physical development we
ever saw; yet for the latter half OF
his life he has been the victim oi
rheumatic ailment, and for quite
twelve years has been unable to walk
or move about without the aid of an
attendant.
He was a man of strong likes and
dislikes, heartily despised everything
small, deceptive or mean, and at
tached to himself men of the strong
est friendships. He was true, firm.
brave, honorable man, land 'all in all
it will be long before we look upon
his like again.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

A close examination of the record
of the eleven alleged assassins dis
closes the fact that all but four were
registered voters, either by birth or
naturalization. The four who Con-
sui Corte claim were entitled to the
protection of the Italian Government
are Trahina, Bagnetto, Monasterio,
and Comitez. The first is found to
have been a voter in the parish of St.
Charles. Bagnetto was fugitive
murderer from Palermo, and a mem
Der of the EspOsito band of highway
men. Marchesi was q veteran OF
Garibaldi's army, but he fed from
Palermo while charged with murder
ing q woman. Trahina was also q
robber in Sicily. OF Comitez nobody
seems to know anything.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09
Ors.n,..t,en orTobacco F.rmer..

Elias Carr, president of the State
Alliance, gives notice that at the re-
quest of the members of the Allan
ces throughout the tobacco belt of
North Carolina, tho county Allan
ces at their April meetings will ap-
point one delegate from each county
to cooperate with the delegates from
the tobacco counties in Virginia
similarly appointed, in a conven
tion to be held in Henderson, April
28th. The object of the convention
will be the organization of the to-
bacco growers and the discussion OF
important matters connected with
tho tobacco interests.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

The net income per acre on the va
rious products varies in the different
sections In the South Atlantic
States the net income from the va
rious products is as follows: Aspara-
gus $93 SO, beets $91, snap beans
$42 "a, cabbage $113 81, cucumbers
$175, watermelons $32 O6, other
melons $55, peas $57 81, Irish pota-
toes SOL 60, sweet potatoes $1Of
so, spinach $40, tomatoes $94 u
While these figures are good deal
higher than for the Peninsular, Nor
folk and Baltimore districts, they are
lower than for the other truck grow
ing sections.-Census Bulletin.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

In the case of the town of Durha a m
against tho North Carolina Railroad
Company, recently decided by the
Supreme Court of this State, the
principle is laid down, that Rail
road Company is a private corpora
ton. There is more meaning in thi.
than will appear to casual reader.
If a Rrailroad Company is a private
corporation, it has the same rights
as any mercantile firm in this city,
and the railroad commissioners will
not have the Constitutional right tc
supervise its private affairs, any
more than it would have to supervise
the books or regulate the prices oi
one of our city firms.-Raleigh In
telligencer.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

The Roanoke Times says several
members of the Malta have been in
Roanoke during the last few days.
They are Dagoes, of course, and are
stopping at boarding house on
Railroad Avenue. They have been
woraing until within few days on
the donble tracking of the Norfolk
and Western. They are now on
their way to work on the Roanoke
and Southern.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09
Mortgage Sale Of Lot on Broad Street
and Warehouse on R. dD. R.R

PY VIRTUE Of 3 power contained in q
ID certain mortgage deed recorded in book
2, page 2b6, Registers Office Forsyth county,
executed by e F Young to F e Patrick, sec.
ondto mortgage from said Young to H w
Fries, which it is proposed to pay first out
ofthe proceeds. the said II w Fries asserting,
I will sell at the court house in Winston at
2 O'Clock P m, on Monday the 18th day of
April, 1881, lot on east side of Broad street
gether with q good dwelling house thereon.
By virtue further Of power contained in
q mortgage deed by and between the same
parties recorded in book 2, page 25s, will
sell at same time, place and manner an I'M
divided half interest in Z Warehouse aO16r
feet on B 4 d r b in Winston, known Id
Gilmer q Young's warehouse, &c. Terms
cash. a &C + PATRICK, Ad'mr.
By ELLER u STARBUcK. March Ii tds
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09
NOTICE! !!

DHOTOGRAPHS, large sizes, cheap fron
i February lst 70 May LIST, 1 will make
enlargements from negatives taken with
order. for photographs II the following re-
markable low price: 10x19 inches, 81
nx14, @1.25; 14x17, $3.50; 1880, "a
For specimen Of enlargements call sand ex-
me work q Houghs Gallery. ON Main
street, opposite Quincy Hotel. Remember
this offer i only to May LIST, and shat the
enlaRements are worth double the price I
- for them. Call and see for yourself
8. e. HOUGH.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09
Won'a Eat Our wheat snd Neat.

The Romano, of Rome, on the Italo-
American situation says: When
Americans are the offended parties
satisfaction is demanded because the
persons concerned are citizens of the
Union, but when the offended parties
are foreigners the Union throws the
responsibility upon the offending
State. All Europe will uphold our
demands. If we cannot obtain the
solemn rights which onegreat people
owes to another, We will at least al
low ourselves the satisfaction of send
ing back American vessels filled with
wheat for our markets and returning
to the Yankee breeders their trichi-
nous meat"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

The Wesleyan litergical service
was introduced in the Park
Street Methodist Episcopal
church, Atlanta, on Sunday. 1t
was the form adopted by the
General Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, South,
at the conference held in New
Orleans in 1866 and the entire
congregation joined in the re-
SpOnseS.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

Last year our people were all buy
ing Western corn. Now large quan-
titles of corn are being sold by our
farmers at good prices, and our sec
tion win have q large surplus of corn
for shipment later in the summer.
We hope never to see another car
load of Western corn brought to the
county, for our people can easily
grow more than enough to supply
home consumption.- Milton Adver.
tiser.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09
Crunbli.g city.

Kansas City is crumbling. On ac-
count Of the recent rains the earth
cracked along Terrace street for a
distance of several hundred feet.
and an entire block of deserted
houses hang trembling over the rail-
road yards 100 feet below.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09
THE EDITORS TABLE.

The level-headed Landmark
inclines to the idea that our tai
ented State Treasurer can con-
ceal in his eye all the chink he
will collect from the income tax
provision of the last general as
semhly.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

In the interview Minister Porter
had at Rome, Tuesday with Signor
dArco, the italian under secretary
for foreign affairs, the latter, in ro-
ply to our minister's request for de-
lay on account of the obstacle our
constitution places in the way of such
immediate action as Italy wants, used
this language: owe have nothing to
do with your constitution. If it is
found wanting you must mend it.
You know it is no constitution wor-
thy of a free, civilized country, if it
does not insure punishment for crime
and protection for the weak" This
is hardly good diplomatic language.
Its terms argue ignorance as well as
impudence. There are failures of
justice in every country. If to Gin
sure punishment for crime ard pro-
lection for the weak" is the absolute
duty of every "free, civilized coun-
try" why does not the Italian gov
ernment bring to punishment the
brigands of Sicily, who not infre-
quently seize persons travelling in
that country, hold them for ransom
and sometimes murder them?
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

The attempt of the heirs of
Benjamin Franklin to get a fund
of about 100000 in trust by
Philadelphia has failed. Franklin
left 81 900 to the city of Phila-
delphia on condition that for 100
years it should be loaned out to
young artificers at 5 per cent, in
terest. He calculated that at
the end of 100 years it would
amount to 9131, 900, when s1OO,-
900 was to be applied to the bene-
tit of the city and 931, 900 was to
be again loaned out as before, the
ultimate accumulatiOns to be
divided between the city and
State. A similar bequest was
made to Boston. The heirs
sought to have the money re-
stored to Franklin's estate, as
the fund had not accumulated as
had been expected, and because
it created a perpetuity. Judge
Penrose, however, refused their
petition. He holds that the gift
to the city is absolute, and that
the city of Philadelphia is some
thing more than a legatee; it il
q purchaser for value or has per
formed q service in managing
the fund for 100 years, for which
it is entitled to receive tn,
promised reward.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09

Offers everything in the drug
line 1T low prices. The stock
is large and varied and the
qaslity of our goods cannot be
surpassed.
We oher the finest line OF
domestic and foreign cigars ever
shown in Winston.
We make whoIesalc prices to
country merchants and others
buyiue in large quantities.
Your friends,
BROWN & BROWN
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09
ROANOKE & SOUTHERN r. R.

TIME TABLE,
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?RAc!!Al oP?!clAN
REPAIRING

and all work warranted.
The morning call., 1891-12-30
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

1t is said that MIR. Howells gets $4,000 a
year as editor of the Cosmopolitan.
General Lew Wallace has received consid-
cradle more than 100000 from the sales of
Ben Hur."
Mrs. j. C. Aver has given her handsome
residence In Lowell to be used as home
for young women.
Busts of lie BRAY General Boulanger,
lately the. hero OF Paris, now go begging in
the FRENCH pawn-shops and are sold as old
bronze to make chandeliers of.
General Schofield has ordered that all re-
eruits entering the army shall be vaccnated.
He means that men who want to be soldiers
shall first learn how to bare arms.
Sir Edward Arnold says that Japan is the
paradise for children, for in that land a child
from the mo ment of its birth until maturity
never knows what it is to be unhappy.
Senator Sherman, Senator Hoar and ex-
Senator Evarts are all cousins, and they
trace their lineage back 10 Roger Sherman,
the grim Puritan OF Revolutionary times.
Judge Vogt, who has been made one of the
Circuit Judges by President Harrison, is
only 81 years of age and the youngest man
who has ever received such an appointment
John P. Richardson of East Carroll, La,
whose death is just recorded, owned fifteen
plantations and eight stores, and conducted
cotton-growing operations on the largest
scale.
Considerable difficulty was experienced
recently by the Frenchmen who paid the
King of Dahomey his annual pension of
10000 francs because he could count only as
high as 100.
The private picture-gallery Of Fl. C. Glib
son of Philadelphia has long been one of
the sights worth seeing in the Quaker City.
AIr. Gibson made his money in whisky and
invested it in art.
Congressman McMillin is a man of strange
tastes. For seven years he has made it a
practice TO commit poem TO memory before
breakfast every morning in order to put
himself in pleasant frame of mind for the
day.
Mr.. Andrew Lang says we use too little
ceremony nowadays in speaking OF living
great men. Our forefathers said Mr.. Adj
Olson" and MIR. Pope" Quite so. We
say Addison and Pope" and posterity
may say Lang"
NJ. Henri de Maupassant, the author, Is
suffering from disease of the central nerv-
Gus system and has been ordered by his doc
tors to take complete rest. He is sanguine
that he will recover. but his friends fear
that he will become insane.
Prince Ippoiito, a nephew of Prince Bor-
CHEESE, has entered the Jesuit order in Rome
and has taken the oath of poverty and
humility. he Is young man, only just
turned Is and is a milliona ire. OF course,
his vast wealth will go to the order,
The morning call., 1891-12-30
EL0PERS FAILED.

An Angry Father just in Time to Pre-
vent a Runaway Marriage.
Five dollars if you head 'em off," ex-
citedly yelled middle-aged man, as he
hailed cab on Fourth street, near Walnut.
Cincinnati, ON recent afternoon shortly
after o'clock.
The hackman, hastily jumping from his
seat on the vehicle, opened the door and
showed the excited individual into the hack.
The game in question was hack driving
rapidly down Walnut street in the direction
of the Big Sandy Wharf.
The hack bearing the old gentleman
drove furlously down Fourth street, and
thence on toward the river down Broadway.
AT the corner of Second street and Broad
way 1t halted for moment by the old mans
hack came in sight at the corner of Syca-
more, where jam OF vehicles compelled it
to stop for moment. Tie old man again
ordered the hackman to drive westward.
and, arriving as near the other hack as the
jam would permit. opened the door, jumped
out and ran through the crowd.
Inside the other hack was a frightened
young couple, rather go0d-iOoklng girl
and a tall, awkward young fellow of per-
hapS % years of age. The angry father, for
so it proved to be, opened the door OF the
back, and. in q determined voice told the
couple to step out into the street. when a
wordy war followed After short but ami
mated conversation the old gentleman per-
emptorily ordered the girl to enter the other
carriage, which had mean While come along
side.
The girl reluctantly obeyed, and then the
old man turned to the young fellow with the
remark, ~ GU climb in, toe" and emphasized
his command with jerk which landed the
youth in the other vehicle. The party then
proceeded toward the 0. aud Nj. depot, where
the discounted couple. accompanied by the
girls father, departed for their homes in
Indiana.
The explanation of the strange scene, ac-
cording to the Cincinnati Enquirer, was
Ohio River, near Madison, determined to
elOpe to Cincinnati and be married, as the
girls father was bitterly opposed to the
match. The young man, whose name is
Charles Astrop was employed as a farm
hand on the farm of James Devor, the old
gentleman who so neatly nipped the elope-
ment in tire bud. Young Astrop and the
farmers daughter Minnie quietly slipped
away together, and, boarding al o. and NJ.
train, came to Cincinnati The old man was
early apprised Of their flight, and took the
next train for this city, where, by some
means or other, he got on the track of the
couple with the above result.
Finding that the old man was on their
track the couple determined to thwart the
old gentleman. and made arrangements to
be married there. The old man who SO
cleverly prevented the elOpement and mar
riage is a well-to-do farmer, and announces
his Intention of taking the couple home,
where close watch would in the future be
kept upon their movements
The morning call., 1891-12-30
TREASURE TROVE,
Iron Pots Filled With Coin Unearthed
by an Heir at St. Louis.

Iron Pots Filled With Coin Unearthed
by an Heir at St. Louis.
Just one week ago two men drove up Il
the Northwestern Savings Bank. on Four
teeDth and North Market streets, says til,
ST. Louis Star Sayings, and, lifting an ole
soap box out of the wagon, entered the
hank. Opening the box they revealed t.
the astonished eyes of the employees heap,
of silver dollars, half dollars and gold
pieces. When the money was counted il
was found to amount TO about $1,000. This
event brought out story which has the ali
OF n romance.
For many years there lived in this city
man named John f, Holman. He came
here before the war and bought some
ground in an unsettled portion of the CITY,
aud there built small frame house. He
married soon after, and, the couple being
very economical, managed to save enough
money to build a double two-story brick
house at 23ls North Market street; They
lived in one part of the house with their
son, John F. Holman Jr.. and the other
part they rented out. A few years later
they built another building in the rear.
Holman's wife died about twenty years ago,
and several years later his son married and
left him. Holman moved to the rear
dwelling, occupying only one room. Be
tween the two buildings was an old shed,
which they had formerly used for a smoke
house. This shed Holman wins observed to
WdtcU CLOSELY, out no one paul any atten-
ton to this. Holman was known to be
wealthy, and it was supposed that ne had
his money in bank, but he had friend,
Charles Kern, who knew different, as the
old man had often spoken to him of his dis
trust of banks.
Mr.. Holman became i'll about three weeks
ago, and his son and daughter-in-law were
sent for. They nursed him until lie died
on the 14th inst. Three days before he
died he told his son to send for Mr.. Kern,
whom he made administrator of his estate,
which was thought to amount to abOW
$4,000 of real estate. When he was alone
with his son he told him that he would no,
only receive all the property, but also some
money, which he would find by digging in
the old shed. The son did not put much
confidence in this, thinking that his
fathers mind was unbalanced from his
illness. The father died three days later,
and was inferred on the 10th. Mr.. Holman
Jr. then spoke TO Mr.. Kern of what his
father had told him, and MIR. Kern advised
him TO search for the money. Holman re-
fused to do this at first, but was finally per-
suaded, and last Thursday the two men be-
gan digging in the shed. They had dug
about to give up, when Kern spied corner
commenced to remove the rags, when sud
denly Kern uttered an exclamation and
drew forth an iron pot filed with silver half
dollars. Beneath it he found another one
containing silver dollars. A third pot was
found underneath this containing So, So SO
and 81 gold pieces. The money was mil
dewed with age, and after it had been taken
to the bank considerable trouble was had
in counting it.