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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
Som ethiAS Wrong Again.

A Raleigh Correspondents says: The
old rails of the street railway here
prove to be too light, and they will
all have to be replaced. They ought
never to have been used at all.
The company is very slow in it's work
and is in this respect quite a puzzle
to the public.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
Was This Tramp. The Wrecker?

A tramp by the name of Elias Sni-
der was arrested in Atlanta last week
charged with the wrecking of the
WestbOund train on the W. N. c. r.
r. on the night of the Bostian Bridge
disaster. He is held in jail in Georgia
to await advices from this state. 1t
is said there is little or no evidence
aginst him, however, he will be held in
custody until he proves his innocen
Sc
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
JNO. HYMAN DEAD.
A Conservative COlOrGd Politician Of
North Carolina.
THE HAINES ACQUITTAL DISCUSSED.
IL Was an Interesting Case, but the
Prosecution Failed to Produce Eyi-
dence--appointmen by the Presi-
dent-Other News.

WASHINGTON, d. C., Sept. 16-.Ioln
A. HymaD, cOlored ex-member of
Congress from North Carolina, died
i'm this city last night. He was the
fist negro to represent his race in the
House of Representatives. He was
born Il slave, and native of Warren
county, n. &. For the past severel
years he has held Il position in the
Agricultural Department, being en-
dorsed for it by leading Republicans
and a few leading Democrats, who
appreciated him for his conserva-
tism.
The news of the verdict i'm the case
of Thornton j. Hains was received
here by his friends and relatives with
very great satisfaction. 1t was
evident from the beginning of the
trial that the prosecution had no
case, and that the young man acted
solely in selfdeiense in killing his
best friend. His father, than whom
no man stands higher, deserves Il
great deal of credit for the shrewdness
he showed in selecting popular Vir-
ginia lawyers to conduct the ease.
This was necessary because the pros
ecutiOn, contrary to the rule in such
cases, employed, in addition to the
commonwealth attorney, Andrew A.
Lipscomb, of this city, and Senator
Voorhees,, of Indiana. The young
man has friends in your city who
will be much gratified to hear of his
triumphant acquittal.
The nomination of Flower for gov
ernor of New York was expected by
the politicians of this.
The President has several impor-
tant appointments to make during
the next few weeks, two of which are
cabinet positions? Two other i'm
portant places to be filled are on the
Interstate Commerce Commission
Some Of these will be given to "a
Southernor and Il Democrat. 1t is
understood that eX-COngressman
Clements has the inside track for the
nomination, though Senator ColgIitt
was here to-day, and urged the Presi-
dent to appoint some Georgian who
is less known than the genial and
popular ex-C
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
O'Brien In Mexico.

O'Brien the supreme treasurer ol
the Catholic Knights of America,
who skipped with Il good deal OF
Doodle from the headquarters in
Chattanooga sometime since, Is re-
ported to be in Mexico. If SO. he is
safe, as he cannot be extradited.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24

There are thirteen resident white
ministers in High Point as follows:
Revs. Jones, FAINT, Dinwiddie, Potts,
Roach, Pepper. Brooks. Nation,
Garland, Stallings, Gladstone, Rev.
DR.. Jones, and ]. B. Richard.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
Chicago To Ask For So 900 900.

AS was anticipated at the time the
Chicagoans SO confidently promised
to furnish the money for the World's S
Fair if Chicago were selected as the
site, Congress is to be appealed to
help the enterprise out of ite pecun-
iary embarrassments. The fair COM
missioners have indorsed the action
of the exposition company in decid-
ing to apply to Congress for a ''loan"
of So. 100000. The ''loan" in all
probability, will finally assume the
form of a gift, as the country is now
fully committed to the fair, Congress
may be expected not to be too exact
ing as to the character of the appro-
piation. It's amount will depend
upon the size Of the treasury surplus,
if any surplus remains when action
comes to be taken.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
4 Il sn issiOM To The Southern r posi-.
liOM.

The rates of admission the South
ern Exposition were officially an
nounced yesterday: Adults so cents
children % cents. For a week the
cost to ladies is ST 40, gentlemen -
children Is cents. For n month $3
Sc and 81 80. respectively. and fol
two months So, $40 and $3.50, re
Snectiyely
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24

The Washington Post says New
Workers are indignant because Chi
cago asks for Worlds Fair loan
and Chicagoans are considerably
put out because New York doesn't
build q Grant monument.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
Lang.ton Charges for HIS Spseche,

1t is announced that ex-Congress-
man John M. Langston, colored, of
Virginia, has been engaged to make
number of speeches in Ohio for
the Republican State ticket. A dis
patcn from Columbus to the Cleve
land Plain Dealer states that the Re-
publican State executive sought at
first to secure Mr.. Langston's servi-
ces for nothing, simply agreeing to
pay his expenses. To this Mr.. Lang
ston demurred, as most of the prom
inent white campaigners are getting
$50 a day and expenses for their ser
vices. After long conference with
the committee, Mr.. Langston has
been announced for series of
speeches, but it is understood that
his pay will be less than that al
lowed the prominent white speakers,
for the reason. according to the
Plain Dealers dispatch, che being a
colored man, II the eyes of the Re-
publican party is not worth as much
as the white speakers
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
Tin, eS and N anne ers Ina Meu Chang e

Evangelist Fife is holding series
Of meetings in Clinton, N. G. the
county seat of Sampson, this week.
The evangelist once ran bar room
in that town, and it was there that
he rolled a barrel of whiskey on the
side walk, when he heard that Cleve-
land was elected. and set it up to the
crowd present and came near max
ing Sampson county drunk.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
North Carolina Republicanism-A
New Organ.

The Raleigh correspondent of the
Wilmingt on Messenger says: The Re-
publican office holders are seeking to
get up at leasta little enthusiasm for
HarI ison in North Carolina. 1t is up
hill work, for Harrison is not in the
least "moquetic' and certainly does
not arouse the North Carolina rad
icals, whatever Blaine may do. Re
publican otIice-holders have put up
money and will start a weekly paper
here; Il typical administration or
gan," which will shout all the while
for Harrison. There is a lot of print
ing material now here in Republican
heads which John Sherman furnish
ed some years ago. 1t was shipped
here by some Pennsylvania iron men,
protectionists. Some offlce-holders
when asked to state their true feel
ings, do not hesitate to say they di-
liked Harrison. But they will all be
assessed to pay for the new organ
just the same.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
WINsTON-sXLEM N c.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER a. 1891.
SELLING THE SOUTH.
Inordinate-Greed for Power and Pelf

If Mr.. Polk has really entered into
an agreement to disrupt the solid
Democratic South, and, under the
disguise of a farmers party, turn this
section over to Radical and negro
supremacy, he will find out that he
has engaged in a losing contract and
that he will not be able to deliver the
goods. Far better men than he have
tried the same thing and signalIy fail
ed. Malone in Virginia, Chalmers
in Mississippi, Longstreet in Georgia
and various others in other States,
all with their heads turned either by
disappointed ambition OR greed to
get their arms into the Federal Treas
ury, made the effort to ride into pow
er by Republicanizing the South.
Yet they accomplished nothing but
their own disgrace, although, instead
of bearing the spotted name of trail
tor during the war, they stood high
in repute as gallant Confederate SOL
diers. Times.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
A Burke County Mine.

A valuable paint mine has been dis
covered in Burke county on the land
of Mr.. John Miller. Some of the min
eral paint was sent to Boston and it
was pronounced of the very best
quality. The mine will be developed
i'm the MISUNDERSTANDING Watchman.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24

Harvard College is 225 years old
and has graduated 1900 students.
A little more than half of them are
living.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24

Miss Maujor, whose artistic taste
and skill is so well remembered by
her many patrons, aud who has been
North buying the latest and most
approved novelties in Millinery is
with us again and will be pleased to
see all of her former customers and
new ones too. Beautiful novelties in
Fall Millinery arriving every day.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24
No Protection for o'Donovan Rosa.

O'Donovan Rossa publishes in his
New York newspaper, the United
Irishman, some correspondence he
has had with the State Department
relative to passport that he wanted
guaranteeing him freedom from ar
rest in Ireland and which was refus-
ed him. In answer to Rossa's first
letter Assistant Secretary of State
Wharton sent a passport in the usual
form 10 Rossa, inclosed letter, in
which he said: 1.-The department can
not furnisd you with a passport in
any other form, and cannot give you
a guarantee against arrest in foreign
countries on criminal charges"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24

Some time ago George S. Pepper.
a wealthy Philadelphian, died, leav-
ing legacy, which, 1t is thought, will
amount to over 100000, for the
establishment of public library.
The trustees, having decided that
the sum would be insufficient to
erect building and purchase books,
conceived the plan of putting up a
hondsome structure and asking the
existing libraries to concentrate
their books in it. The libraries now
in operation are said to have received
the proposition favorably, and if the
plan is carried out the new institu
ton will start with collection o.
800. 900 volumes.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-09-24

Miss Ava Promises SenSat iOnal Dis
closures.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16

THE EXPLOSIVE RAFT. finger; then in
sert another pick under the two at the
top and over the one in the center, and
do likewise with those at the bottom.
Then the raft is half completed. Turn
it around, place another pick across
the center and wedge two more sticks
under and over the ends of those at the
sides
Then the work is finished and the
little affair is ready to be blown up.
OF course there is great deal OF ten
sion on the picks. but this must be re-
leased with lighted match. Apply the
flame to one of the corners, and in q
few moments you will witness two sex
plosions" that will rend the raft apart
and hurl its timbers in the air. This
will prove an unfailing source of
amusement to the little ones, whose
deft fingers will probably have no diff
Guilty in making the skeleton-like raft.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16
GIGANTIC CONTRACTS.
NJariy 1000, 900 10 he Paid for 70,
New War Ships.

Iarly $4,000, 900 TO he Paid for -Four
New War Ships.
The shipyards of the Cramps in
Philadelphia have entered upon the
execution Of the largest contracts that
have ever been let to any one estab-
lishment by this Government at any
one time. Their contract covers $11,-
955, 900. and their bonds are Is per
cent. of that amount.
The contract calls for one armed
crusier of 8, 100 tons displacement and
$4,000 horsepower, to cost -. 800, 900 I;
two battle-ships, each of which will
carry 1900 tons, have 1000 horse
power, and cost So. 1901 900; one pro-
tected crusier, capable of carrying
$500 tons. of 2l,0o0 horsepower, to
cost 80, 725,000.
The two battle-ships will weigh
10000 tons. Of the total weight of
these two vessels it is safe 10 say that
Upper cent. will be made up of hulls.
machinery, and armor, amounting to
$4,000 tons OF manufactured steel.
In the cruisers the relative weight of
steel will be less. but of the $4,000
tons in tho vessels, at least 10000
tons will be manufactured steel. In
other words. there will be used during
the next three or four years in the
Cramps shipyard $4,000 tons of man
ufactured steel, the cost of which will
be in the neighborhood of $4,000, 600.
Nearly the whole of this sum of 81
100000 will be expended in the steel
plants of Pennsylvania. What this
exnenditure will mean tn the emnloves
of this great industry in Pennsylvania
can only be left to the imagination to
depict.
This great fraction of the enormous
total of these contracts will be widely
distributed. The major portion of the
vast reward for the labor thus employed
upon the new navy will, however, be
distributed in Philadelphia.
The shipyards of the Cramps, when
running at their fullest capacity on
these contracts will employ every
working day in the week from 5000 to
1000 men. The number employed
will vary between these figures accord
ing to the readiness with which ma
terial for their work is supplied. As
Stunning that only $500 men are en-
ploved on the average during every
day for the next four years. their pay
roll, calculated upon the average
wages paid at the yard of the Cramps.
will amount TO about $4,000 a week,
including piece work. This means
81, 100000 o year, or somewhere be-
tween So, $50, 900 and Sc, 500, 900 in the
next three years.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16
Honor Mother

There are few eminent men who have
not said that their success in life was
largely owing to their mothers teach
ing, and who have been proud to honor
her. The following is one of the many
illustrations of this truth:
The mother of John Quincy Adams
said in letter to him, written when
he was only twelve years old: Il
would rather see you laid in q grave
than grow up profane and graceless
boy"
Not long before the death of Mr..
Adams, gentleman said to him, Il
have found out who made you"
What do you mean?" asked Mr..
Adams.
The gentleman replied: II have
been reading the published letters OF
your mother"
"If," this gentleman relates, II had
spoken that dear name to some little
boy who had been for weeks away from
his mother, his eyes could not have
flashed more brightly than did the
eyes of that venerable old man when
pronounced the namc of his mother.
He stood up in his peculiar manner
and said:
Yes, sir; all that is good in me ]
owe to my mother p The Dayspring.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16

way then leads through a massive gate
with high arches Of red granite and
brick, and along streets but little more
than irregular footpaths There are no
end OF empty houses with neglected en-
frances. Over the door can be read
unique Inscriptions, such as IL am Don
RameZ, 1902"
The gate leading to the country is
called the "Visagra," and is a menacing,
double-towered medieval portal. Just
outside of IL is the Alameda, used now
as promenade where modern To.edo
gathers Sunday afternoons and evenings.
1t is then that the Spanish women are
seen to the best advantage. They APP
pear in good preservation and not much
affected thus far by foreign airs All
carry fans and use them with wonderful
grace and skill. Their complexion varies
from tawny or olive to white Women
of high caste, who shun exposure TO the
sun, get to be pallid, color lower cir
cles seek 10 initiate by a lavish use of
powder. The hair is usually deep black,
ard the eyes are luminous, dark and
dreamy. Frame this in the folds of the
black mantil a, as they do, and there is
charming picture.
Looking down from the Camin dc
Marchan, as the promenade is called,
there come In view tho cultivated fields
rich with harvcsts, while on the other
side are crumbling walls pierced with
Sits for arrows, and half-destroyed nun
neries, palaces and converts. In tho
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16
HOW Marhles Arc Maa..


All the boys like marbles but few
know how they are made or where
they come from.
Marbles" says the Chicago Herald,
"are made in great quantities in Sax
ony for export to India, China, and
the United States. A hard, calcareous
stone is used This is broken into
square blocks, and about one hundred
and fifty of these blocks are thrown in
to a mill. in which is a fat slab of
stone with numerous concentric fur
rows on its face. A block of oak of
the same diameter as the stone, a part
of which rests on the small stones, i,
made to revolve on the slab while wa
ter flows upon it. The whole process
requires but quarter of an hour, and
one mill can turn ont 20, 900 marbles a
week. The mills at Oberstein, on the
Maize, in Germany. manufacture mar
bles and agates especially for the
American market"
SO marbles are made by going
through the mill and getting the
rough corners rubbed off, the edges
smoothed down, and the mass ground
into a globular form. And boys are
made into men in much the same way,
by being run through life's school,
which is their "mill," till their rough
corners and edges disappear. and they
become rounded and smoothed, and fit
for use in the world. Poverty, adver-
sity, hard times and hard fare. all have
their uses in this world, to round men
and smooth them, and polish them,
and fit them for usefulness here and
for glory hereafter.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16

CHINESE cotton, which has been al
most exclusively applied to local uses
in small quantities, is beginning to at
tract attention outside CT China. 1t is
described as fine in texture, with fair
staple, and very long fiber; it is of a
bright golden color; the demand for it
is said to be so great that customers
are eager to take as much of it as can
be produced. 1t has, besides, Pc
culiar value, as it can be used as a
substitute for wool, or as an imitation
of camePs hair. 1t is an Improvement
on the brown variety known as Nankin !;
and it is valued at from twenty five to
thirty-three per cent. above ordinary
descriptions OF cotton.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16

trees, and draw water In earthen jars
for family use.
Not many OF the people who can COM
mand an income OF 10 cents day will
work. They arc always leaning or ST
ting around browsing, AMI men and boys
sleep I'm tho hot sun In the open street.
Beggars appealing for aims are every
where. The doorways OF the Cathedral
are infested with all sorts OF specimens
of diseased men asking for relief IL
seems to be regular thing ID look on
strangers as victims out OF whom money
can be wheedled. But there are spasms
of activity about the town, and all the
more noticeable by comparison with the
prevailing somnolent condition. After
the noon sicsta there is show OF bus.
mess. Mules and donkeys scramble over
the pavements, men trot up and down
the walks, the Cathedral bells begin 10
ring the vespers, merchants cry aloud
the extraordinary merits OF their wares,
and for couple of hours there Is e0nsld-
cradle movement Then relaxation
sets in, and until next day all is apathy.
The funeral OF dead child is one OF
the spectacles in To.edo always impress
ing foreigners as strange. A priest leads
the proce ssion, after him walking a boy
who carries the coffin on his head, keep
ing 1t In place by his lifted hands. Then
follows crowd of boys. girls and men
carrying lighted candles. No matter
how brightly the sun may be shining
the candles are burning as though it was
dark. In the midst of the candle bear
ers is borne bier on which is the body
OF tho dead There are no signs Of
grief, the bearers of the corpse chatting
and gossiping with the candle carriers,
and sometimes threatening to roll the
ro mains of the bier by failing to carry
IL cal efully.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16

that makes a most pleasing combination
with the guitar Often professional
players are hired TO go and p ay before a
house, and will thrum out native airs
for several hours, smoking cigarettes
assiduously all the while.
One thing that impresses strangers Is
the intimate footing servants are on with
employers. waiter at table joins in
the conversation and is admitted to o
discussion as readily "a though one of
the sltters. Servants about hotel take
maps regularly twice a day In the ialls,
aud make nothing of smoking cigarettes
while serving dinner. Hotel guests are
looked upon by natives as q nuisance and
necessary evil, only tolerated because
money can be made out of them. Sow
ing women sit with their work on the
stairs, and make no pre.enso OF stirring
to give q stranger go.ng up or coming
down more room. A feature OF Sunday
is the comb.ng by the women Of their
hair. They SIT In the doorways and
on the steps brushing and combing, or
having combed, their yard-long locks by
the hour. All the houses are rooted with
heavy curved tiles, 50 fitted as to allow
air TO circulate through their grooves.
Every window is grated with iron from
the top to the bottom story, and Ia the
doors arc pcep-holes. Balconies stud the
house-fronts, and long curtains are
draped over them like windows. Doves
abound In focks, and are seldom mo-
Tested. At one time Toledo had ITO
churches in addition TO the Cathedral,
but most Of them have fallen into dis
use, and not many priests remain. The
latter and some OF the storekeepers are
the only men who are portly, the rest
being thin. The women OF all classes
are all In good flesh, and all seem In such
fresh and vigorous health that IL hardly
seems as though they conld ever grow
old. At noon and evening the serving
women 90 to the fountains distributed at
different points In small groves Of locust
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16
Tn, . FIy" Drummer.

A commercial traveller coming from
the Michigan Central depot on a Cass
and Third avenue car, recently, gave
away the secrets of the profession Ia
conversation with q friend. Most
travelling men," he said, shave little
schemes of their own that they work
to defray incidental expenses. Ny
strong point il dealing in Canadian
coins. Ny territory is in Ohio, aud in
all Ohio cities AID towns Canadian
coins are discounted twenty cents on
the dollar. Twenty-Five cent pieces
pass for twenty cents, and half-dollars
for forty cents. / have $40 worth OF
quarters and halves in my satchel now
that bought in Toledo to-day for $16.
In Detroit use them to pay hotel and
cigar bills, aud realize their full val
ue.'--Frec Press.