The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-07-06
THE RAPTURES OF BLOUNT.
The Eloquent Editor Of the Wilson
Mirror Writes
ABOUT WINSTON AND Her PEOPLE.
The Finest and Most Progressive
Town We Have Yet Seen in North
Carolipa'-He Pays Glowing Trib-
utes TO Some of Our People-Cap-
tured by Winston's Fair Maids

CaroIipa'-He Pays Glowing Trib-
ntes to Some of Our PeopIe-Cap-
tured by Winston's Fair Maids
Fron the Wilson Mirror, June 29.
On last Wednesday we boarded the
train for Wilmington, and spent the
night most delightfully."- in that sweet
abode of comfort-the well furnished
and admirably kept Orton. The next
morning at 6 O'Clock we took Il train
on that excellent road-the G. f. X
Y. ", bound for Winston, the finest
and most progressive town we have
yet seen in North Carolina. The trip
would have been tedious, but for the
fact we found most delightful compa-
nv in that charming gentleman, the
Rev. Mr.. jenkins. who is in charge of
a Baptist church in Wilmington, and
we found him to be Il young minister
of fine promise and excellent parts.
We reached Winston at o'clock
and then, it was, we entered upon u
glorious season of festive enjoyment.
Prof w. A. Blair, the able President
of the Peoples Bank, took Us in
charge and introduced US to number
Of the most prominent citizens OF the
place, and overwhelmed Us with those
princely cOurtesieS and delightful at
tentionS which alone come from a
heart in thorough accord with all
that is refined and polite and eXquis
ite, for he is most Opulently robed
with all those splendid virtues and Sc
ductivc graceS which make a gentle
man most delightfully."- afTable and
most felicitiOuSly entertaining, and as
such Prof. Blair stands peerless, for
in genuine cleverncsS he cannot be
surpassed.
We met large number of other
gentleman who must have been
taught in the same school room Of re-
finement0and politeneSs, for they had
many of the seductive traits which so
gloriously adorn his department. If
all the people in n community were
like Blair and Eller ard their friends
whom we met-pure toned, lofty
minded, noble and generous and far
above little thing-then the current
Of society would flow as pleasantly
and as Sweetly ana as beautifully and
as melodiously as that murmuring
stream which leaves its cradle in the
mountains with wOrdleSS song in
its tongueleso ripples, and never lets
its music cease until it has found and
mingled with the deeper melody of
its ocean grave.
We also had the pleasure of meeting
the popular and handsome r. d.
johnson, and visiting his lovely home
and enjoying the delightful society of
his charming family. Bob is one of
the most prominent men of Winston,
and enjoys the fullest confidence and
highest esteem of that entire cOmmu-
nifty. And of course we met our good
friend DIR. Galloway, an excellent
physician and capital fellow, and
we were glad to hear that his shining
virtues had been recognized, and that
he was doing well in his new home.
1t was a high honor and great
pleasure to meet and to know that eX-
cellent journalist, the well equipped
and admirably trained and richly fur
nished Burbank, the accomplished ed
itOr of THE DAILY SENTINEL, one of
the sprightliest and newSiest and
best edited papers in the State. We
have admired him heretofore as a
journalist: we now esteem and love
him for those fine social virtues which
gliSten in his department as beauUi-
fully and as refreShingly as stars in
the coronet of night.
We also met brother GOslen, the
able editor of the Republican, and we
found him to be a dignified and cOur-
teous gentleman. He is writer Of
force, and wields a tremendous infiu-
ence in his party.
We also had the pleasure of meet
ing Carmichael, the bright, alert and
Sprightly lOcaliZer of THE SENTINEL,
and we found him well fitted for that
position.
And we saw great deal of DR.. L.
G. Broughton, formerly of this coun-
ty, but now leading minister of
| Winston. He is a preacher of power
and influence, and is doing glorious
work. Bold, aggressive and fearless,
| he strikes vice and error wherever he
sees it, even though they be concealed
| in gilded palaces of the rich and the
powerful. He has the courage of his
convictions, and his sledge hammer
blows of accusation and denuncia
| tion fall alike upon the high and the
| low, and they fall too with WitheriEg
| power and effect, and as such DR.
| Broughf0n's influence for good and
| the betterment of morals is felt by
| that entire community.
| And last but not least we caught
an ecstatic glimpse of Minstons glo
| riols maidenS, and on their witcher
| les our hungry senses fed with rapt
ure and enchantment. Yes, Winston
has indeed splendid galaxy of lowell
ness. We saw women in whose eyes
the star beams have lost their riches1
luStre; in whose faces the rose haC
scattered it's loyeliest tintings, anG
made the cheeks resemble lusciou:
strawberries, half buried in bowl o
purest cream; in whose voices thu
woodland minstrelsy had merged
their sweetest notes to make for man ;
melody akin to the symphonies O.
elysium: and in whose presence NOR
tails stand in spellbound enchantment
and feel the raptures of a Paradise
regained. Yes; even glimpse a
their conquering charms soothed ant
lulled US into a sweet and blissful for
getfulness of all coroding cares ant
troubles, for on the waves of blesset
rapture, and waited by gales OF glori
Gus enchantment we floated far.awa.
to sweeter and brighter and happie
Elysium-to that pure grotto of bills
where the senses catch the higher ant
purer rythm of that nobler and sub
| Inner melody Of sweet cOnfnnt q