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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
HAILED SALT IN GUILFORD.
Was it Carried to the Clouds From
the Ocean?

The Summerfield correspondent of
the Greensboro Potriot, wrote in his
letter published in that paper May
3Oth, that it hailed salt in that neigh
borhood during. that week. The
Patriot man thought that was lit
tie strange and interviewed the cor
respondent with the result that the
statement was correct in every parti-
cular as the following, which is
vouched for by truthful people, shows:
ga little girl living near Summarized
ran out of the house during the storm
and picked up handful of hailstones.
Childlike she put some of them in her
mouth. Remarking that hail was too
salty to be good to eat she attracted
the attention of other members Of the
family. Her mother tasted the hail
and pronounced it salt. Another
child went out on the other side OF
the house and brought in some of the
hail, which was found to be Of the
same character. Several of the crys-
tai were laid away and kept several
days before evaporating." The only
explanation of the phenomena is that
the hail, which is formed by the con-
gealation Of vapor, must have been
carried inland in the clouds from the
ocean. One thing is certain, it hailed
| salt at Summerfield on that day.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
QUARTERLY CENTENNIAL.
North Carolina Local Ministers Con
ference


ference.
Rev. Levi BransOn, secretary of the
North Carolina Local Ministers Con-
ference tells the Durham Sun that the
quarterly centennial and camp-meet-
ing of this Conference will be held at
Rutherford College July 10 %, and it
viii be a great occasion.
The North Carolina Local Minis
ters' Conference was organized at Dur
ham twenty-five years ago, with Bran
tly York, d. D, as president, and
Levi Branson as secretary. For six
teen years the Conference changed
yearly from Kiuston in the east to
Asheville in the west. Many of the
local preachers and lay workers at
tended from time to time and became
interested, so that much good has
been done by way of inspiring local
and unpaid missionary work.
In 1886 the Conference again met at
Rutherford College, built Taberna-
Gle, and elected that as the place for
permanent meeting. In 1890 the Col
lege was burned, and the Conference
held in 1892 at Raleigh, and in 1893 at
Trinity Park, Durham.
1t was then decided to hold the
twenty-tifth session the QuarterCen-
tennial-back at the old Tabernacle.
This was the first, and hence the old
est, Local Preachers Conference by
name, SO far as known, anywhere in
the world.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
Lucky and UDlucky.

Lee surrendered on Friday.
Moscow was burned on Friday.
Washington was born on Friday.
Shakespeare was born on Friday.
America was discovered on Friday.
Richmond was evacuated on Friday.
The Bastile was destroyed on Friday.
Queen Victoria was married on Fri
day.
Fort Sumpter was bombarded on
Friday.
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on
Friday.
julius Caesar was assassinated on
Friday.
The Mayfiower pilgrims landed on
Friday
The battle of Waterloo was fought
on Friday.
Joan Of Arc was burned at the stake
on Friday.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
Mr.. GriZZaru's Marriage

From the Roanoke Times.
The First Presbyterian church was
the scene of pretty wedding Thurs
day morning at IL o'clock when Miss
Annie d. frey. of this city, and A..
p. Grizzard, of Winston, N. c., were
made man and wife. Rev. w c..
Campbell performed the ceremony in
the presence of a large number of
friends and relatives of the inter
ested parties. The attendants were
J. A. Mcmillan, of Winston, with Miss
Emma Fircy, and James Ayent with
Miss Nellie Reed Messrs. w. r..
Terrell, John Trout, A. l.. Powell and
John L. Brugh were the ushcrs. Mr.
and Mrs. GriZZard left on the noon
train to visit the groom's parents, who
live near Norfolk.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
A HARD QUESTION.
BY Colorcd Preacher Who Wanted
Some Instruction.

From the Charlotte Observer.
The Augusta Chronicle gives high
and deserved praise to the address Of
Senator Jarvis before the immigra-
tiOn congress which was in session at
Augusta last week. 1t was an excel
lent address, full of wise suggestions,
but there was one the wisdom of
which we have reason to question.
He asked if the white ministers of tue
South were doing their full duty by
the colored ministers and suggested
that they should instruct them and
help them along. In North Carolina,
some years ago, a white minister
started out on this line, Offering to
assist a colored brother of the same
faith and order in his searchings Of
the criptures-telling him he would
be glad to answer any questions for
him or to enlighten him upon any
passages that might be to him OBJ
scure. The colored minister went
away thankful and the first question
he came back with was as to why
there were SO many peafOwls in
Solomon's time. The white brother
passed, and threw up'his job as mentor.
This incident is what causes US to
question the wisdom of this particu-
lar suggestion of Senator Jarvis.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
CHICAGO TO HAVE A SUNDAY
No Stores or Shops to be Kept Open
After 10 O'Clock A. NJ.

CHICAGO, June 14.-The City Coun-
Gil has voted to stop merchandising on
Sunday. Only the signature of Mayor
Hopkins and the enforcement of the
measure by the Police Department
are necessary to. secure for the Sunday
Rest Association and for the bodies
of organized labor in Chicago the es-
Sential points for which they have
been contending. In substance, the
ordinance provides that:
mo person, firm, company or cor
poration, either principal, agent, Off
Ger, employee, clerk, servant, or
workman, shall keep open for bust
ness within the city of Chicago any
store or place for the purpose of sell
ing or exposing for sale or selling any
clothes, dry-goods, hats, caps, furnish
ing goods, jewelry, boots, shoes, hard
ware, furniture, meats, or groceries,
or any one or more Of said articles, on
the first day of the week, commonly
called Sunday; also that no barber
shop shall be allowed to remain open
and do business after 10 o'clock Sun
day morning."
The ordinance allows the sale of
meats and groceries up to 10 o'clock
on Sunday mornings during the
months of June, July, August and
September
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
Composition on Pants.

The following composition on pants,
is by one of our printers who is almost
painless, says the Durham Sum-
'Pants are made for men, and not
men for pants. Pants are like molas-
ses, they are thinner in hot weather
and thicker in cold. The man in the
moon changes his pants during the
eclipse. Don't go to pantry for pants,
you might be mistaken. Men are Of
ten mistaken in pants. Such mistakes
are breeches of promise. There has
pants is singular or plural. Seems to
us that when men wear pants they
are plural, and when they don't it is
singular. Men go on tear in pants,
and it is all right, but when the pants
go on a tear it is all wrong"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
Hon. E. b Jones at wake Forest.

The correspondent OF the Charlotte
Observer at Wake Forest refers in the
following complimentary manner to
the effort of an esteemed WinstOnian:
Erastus B. Jones, Of Winston, de-
lfvered the alumni oration Tuesday
night on the following subject: "The
Boy of the Old Field School Has
Shaped Our Destiny in the Past and
Will Shape Our Destiny in the
Future" Very opportune indeed was
his subject at this time when the
State is so agitated over the educa-
tional question. His audience yielded
hearty response to his sentiments.
Mr.. Jones graduated in the class of
III and has made for himself an en-
yiable reputation as lawyer and
statesman, and man of sterling
worth and character. He believes
thoroughly in Wake Forest and re-
alizes the great responsibilities and
possibilities that are in store for her.
1t is TO such men that Wake Forest
points with pride.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
WINSTON TOBACCO MARKET.
The Tobacco Journ ais Review for the
Week Ending June 10th.

With the farmers busy in the wheat
field harvesting, the leaf sales this
week have been very much smaller
than while back. The breaks have
been of the halliday variety, the
auctioneers crying the last bid about
noon each day.
There is an upward tendency Ia
prices and good general demand.
Wrappers continue in limited supply,
and the highest price for the week
was so cents. Common stock brought
from 2 to 4 cents, and medium grades
from At to 9. Brights are high.
The weather has been warmer and
beneficial to the growing crop. 1t has
been slow in getting off" and no man
may say how it will all turn out. 1t
is not uncommon with tobacco for a
bad beginning to make good ending
and wise versa.
Our manufacturers are doing good
business, their shipments for the week
ending and including yesterday
amounting to 211 ,043 pounds. The
month promises to turn out much
better than June, 1S93 For the first
half Of the present month the stamp
sales amounted to $31, ,162.4 Al, while
during the entire month Of June last
year the sales were S43. 3.S41.75 If it
keeps up at this rate the increase will
be somewhere near so per cent.
The stamp sales at the internal
revenue Office here since our last re-
port were as follows:
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
FEDERAL COURT INCIDENT.
How u One-Legged Soldier Was Keep
Ont of Jail.

How u One-Legged Soldier Was Kept
Out of Jail.
In the Federal court at Charlotte
this week it was proven in the case Of
the United States against Eli Honey
cutt for retailing whiskey, that he
was selling peanuts at 25 cents dozen
and Throwing in" pint of 'tangle
leg" The Observer says that the de-
fendant acknowledged that he did
this to evade the law. The judge OBJ
serving that the defendant had only
one leg, inquired if he lost his leg fight
ing for his country. He was answered
in the Affirmative. The judge being
overcome with patriotism, at once an
nounced from the bench that no one
legged soldier could be punished in his
court. District Attorney Glenn, not
wishing to be outstripped in patriot
ism by his honor, Immediately re-
leased the crippled man whom he had
just succeeded in getting sentenced tt
Jail, on the grounds that all one legged
men should stand on an equal footing
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
A Distressing Case.
From the Charlotte News.l

IOIIf 0IIO VIItfI IO0Vc -NtWS.J
About ten days ago Mr.. John
O'Neil, the Massachusetts mining ex-
pert who went to Kings Mountain for
the purpose of examining mineral
deposit which he supposed contained
platinum, was working with pick and
shovel, when a large green fly flew in
to his ear. Mr.. O'Neal thought he
got it out, but it seems that he did
not. A day or so ago he became al
most demented with something in his
head. A physician found the trouble
to be in his ear, and poured it full of
sweet oil. Almost Immediately
worms began to work out of the ear.
Since then at least twenty of the
worms have been taken out, and Mr..
O'Neal is getting well. The fly de-
posted it's eggs in his ear aud they
Matched out.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
THE PRESS CONVENTION.
CLOSE OF THE TWENTY~SECOND
ANNUAL SESSION.
Next Meetine to be Held in Green's
boro-Officers EIected-An Elegant
Banquet Thursday Night.


MoRGANToN, June 16.-The ban
quet given the Press Association In
Davis Hall Thursday night was one OF
the most elegant ever given in North
Carolina The hall was beautifully
dressed, the menu attractive, the
music good and the entertainment in
all particulars of the best character.
Judge John Gray Bynum was toast
master and played his part admirably.
The association was called to order
iD 1ce time this morning by PTesi
dent Burbank, and for the resolution
of the endorsement, submitted yester-
day, of the work Of the w. q. L: u,
Mr.. J. A. Thomas reported substi-
tute thanking Miss Stevens and Mrs.
Tomlinson for their remarks and
pledging the support of the associa-
tion in the cause of temperance.
The committee on the presidents
address made its reports, mentioning
different subjects which it suggested,
and these were variously discussed by
Messrs. Manning, Dowd, Ashe, Hale,
Whichard, Webster, Clark and others.
Mr.. J. G. Upton read valuable pa
per on roads, arbor day and agricult-
ural statistics.
Mr. W. F. Marshall offered resolu-
tions thanking the citizens OF Nor
canton for their royal entertainment,
etc. These were unanimously adopt
ed.
The election of officers was then
gone into with the following result:
President-W. G. Erwin.
First Vice President-C. L.SteyenS.
Second Vice President-W. +. Mar
shall.
Third Vice President w. G. Dowd
Secretary and Treasurer b.
Sheriff..
Orator-John r. Webster.
EOet-Audtew Joyner.
Historan-E. d Hale.
Executive Committee w. G. Erwin,
president; j. Is. Sheriff., secretary;
S. A. Ashe, J. A. Thomas, II. A. Lon
don, E. e. IIilliard, Thad Il. Man
ming.
Delegates to the National Editorial
Convention-W S. Herbert, J. t.
Britt, II. A. Latham, Rev. w. L
Grissom. Alternates-J. B. Sheriff.,
II. t. Herrick, j. G. Upton, r. A.
Deal.
Messrs. A. Roscower, Thad r. Man
ming and @. w. Hunt were appointed
a committee to examine the treasu-
rer's books, which, having done, they
reported correct and showing bal
ance of Sl90 in the treasury.
Committee on Legislation-S. A.
Ashe, J. p. Caldwell, III. A. London,
j. D. .Kernodle, Marion Butler.
Greensboro was selected as the next
place of meeting, and the naming OF
the time left to the executive COM
mittee.
In view of the coming exposition in
Atlanta, Mr.. II. E. Harman, of the
Winston Tobacco Journal was re-
quested to prepare statistics of the to-
bacco production of the State.
A resolution Of thanks to the Otfi-
GERS was adopted, the new president
was installed, and then the associa-
| tion adjourned.
Some of the editors took the west
| bound train for Black Mountain, where
| they met the east-bound train and re-
| turned, and others took carriages for
the new Waldensan settlement, eight
miles east of Morganton.
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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
NEWS NOTES.

The President has recovered from his re-
cent indisposition.
The Rhode Island legislature has elected
George Peabody Wetmore to the United
States Senate.
Indiana, West Virginia and Ohio miners
express dissatisfaction with the terms of the
strike settlement.
One hundred deaths day occur from the
plague in Hong Kong. The natives are
fleeing from the city.
All the miners of the Coal Creek and
Briceville districts of Tennessee return TO
work at the old rates.
The Kansas Populists renominatcd Gov
ernor Llewelling. The platform contains
woman suffrage plank.
The Kansas Prohibitionists nominate a
State ticket. Mrs. a. Allison is the nominee
for Superintendent of Public instruction.
The officials of the Samese legation in
Paris declare that the trouble between
France and Siam, recently reported from
Bangkok, is greatly exaggerated.
Representative w. c. p. Breckinridge, of
kentucky. emphatically denied that his
friends had induced him to Withdraw from
the race .for Congress and fexpressed his
usual confidence in an outcome favorable to
himself.
1t is thought in London that Abdul Aziz,
the new Sultan of Morocco, will be obliged
to defend his throne with the sword. Muley
| Ismail, brother of the dead Sultan,. has a
| strong following at Fez France has sent
| four warshirs to Tangier.
Secretary Gresham,..s.in letter to the
United States minister to Austria, intimates
that the United States does not intend to be
trifed with further by European govern
ments which arrest naturalized American
citizens travelling with a passport of thi
country.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
NO SEX In HEAVEN.
Rev. DIR. Starr Makes the Somewhat
Startling Announcement.

Rev. DIR. Starr Makes the Somewhat
Startling Announcement.
PETERSBURG, Va, June 1.-THE
young ladies of the Southern Female
College assembled at Washington
Street Methodist church Sunday
morning to hear the baccalaureate SER
mon by Rev. DR.. Starr.
The text was taken from Matthew
Xv:28: 80 woman, great Is thy
faith"
In the course of his able and inter
esting discourse, DR.. Starr took oc-
casiOn to say with emphasis that sex
would be obliterated in heaven. That
woman was created for man, and
must occupy subordinate position
on earth, but that in heaven there
would be neither woman nor man, but
that all would be as the angels OF God
and, consequently, woman would be
in all respects the equal of man and
of equal rank,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
No Demand for Blockade Property.
From the Davic Times, June lith.

FROM The DaVlc Times, June lIth.
Deputy E. f. Hunt on last Satur-
day sold at public auction the Pleas
Odkes property, which he seized dur
ing court week for the violation Of the
United States internal revenue laws.
w. A. Bailey bought the two horses
bidding one off at five and tie other
at three dollars. He also bid the har-
ness off at $3.50. The wagon brought
one dollar and was bid off by EphraIm
Lassiter A keg and a small quantity
of brandy was bid off by Jas. Poplin
for thirty-fve cents. MoonShine
property seems to sell rather low.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
Eel in a We'll.

The eight year old boy of Will
Peeler, while playing around the well
at the residence of Chas. Bailey, in
Davie county, accidently fell in. The
Times says that the bucket was low
cred to the child by the ladies who
were alone at the house and by it he
was being drawn out, when about
half way up the boy fell out Of the
bucket back into the well. The buck
ct was again lowered to him by the
ladies' and this time they succeeded in
getting him out. Strange to say the
child was not seriously hurt.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
Almost n GycIOne.

A severe hail storm passed over the
neighborhood of Fork Church, Davie
county, last Tuesday. n gentleman
from that section says that number
OF trees were blown down, besides 9TH
er damage done. One tree fell on a
Mr.. Patts and he is reported to be in
a critical condition. Another man
was injured, but his name was not
learned. The storm was so severe
that wagons and other vehicles were
blown over. Growing crops were dam
ngCd seriously.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
The X, of p. Picnic.

In speaking of the knights of
Pythias picnic at Mt. Airy, on the
be two special trains arriving here
that day, one from Winston-Salem,
with the Grand Lodge, accompanied
by the Knights of those two cities and
one thousand citizens. Another train
will come from Greensboro and bring
another thousand people from High
Point, Liberty. Randleman, Ramseur,
Asheboro, Reidsville and Burlington.
The Mt. Airy lodge has appointed w.
f. Carter, Esq, to make the address
of welcome, and Geo. w. Sparger,
ESQ. will act as Master of Ceremonies.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
Died With a pipe In His Mouth.

NEW YORK, June IA strange
suicide occurred here. Thomas Hun
ter quarrelled with his mistress while
drunk, and was arrested. Late last
night he hanged himself with strap
in his cell at the Tombs, and put be-
tween his lips lighted pipe. When
the keeper went to his cell he was
found hanging by the strap with his
pipe still between his clinched teeth,
fixed in the GOODNESS of death.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
Condition of the Farmers.

Mr.. It. a. Wiles of the Orinoco
warehouse, who has been out among
the farmers for more than three
weeks, says that he found n fair crop
of tobacco planted, much of it doing
well. He says there is more effort be
ing made to raise something to live
on than for several years past. Some
of the farmers have cut their wheat
and are preparing to plant the land in
corn tc make late roasting ears and
fodder for winter. Mr.. Wiles says
that old tobacco is quite scarce in the
country.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
A Revenue Raid

Deputy Marshal d. L. Eaton, of
Stokes county, met force of revenue
officers at Walnut Cove one evening
last week. The crowd left the latter
place at p. m. and Travelled 18 miles
to John Young's distillery, in the
northeastern section of the county,
which they reached about II 80 o'clock,
p. m. They found one good still, with
a capacity Of about IS gallons,8 8 stands
OF beer, stands OF mash. 2 bushels of
meal, 3 bushels of malt corn and 10
gallons of ''singlings," all of which
they DESTROYED.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
Monument to women of the South.

RICHMOND, Va, June 14.-The
Richmond Howitzers have started
movement for the erection of a monu-
ment to the women of the South. The
battery has not had more enthusi-
astic meeting in years. The members
present promptly subscribed $3.50 to
the monument fund. 1t was decided
to have joint meeting in the Cham
ber of Commerce next Tuesday night
at the battery and the Veteran How
itZer Association to appoint commit
tees and map out plans for laying the
matter before the public.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
YadIIin and NViIIseak

The magistrates of Yadkin county
made tax levy Of G6S cents on 800
valuation, and 81 on the poll. Mr.. L.
A. Speas was elected County Commits
sioner in place Of Or. Hunt and
Messrs. Sparks and Jones reelected.
Rev. Y. NJ. Swain was reelected
county perintCndCn.
The Wilkes magistrates levied for
State taxes AZ cents on the hun
drcd and for county taxes sos, making
total OF % cents. The poll is $2.76.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
BOILED IN WHISKY.
A Man Makes His Boy Drink and he
Falls Into a Vat,

A special from Murphy, N. c., to
the Atlanta Constitution says: News
of horrible accident that occurred
at Kaith's stillhouse, near Culberson,
has just reached here. Frank Carter
carried his six-year-old son with him
to the still house. Carter got drunk
and made his son drunk. In the still
house was a vat containing 160 gal
Ions of boiling still slops, and the lit
tie fellow, in wandering about, fell in
to this, which reached to his chin.
He was Immediately taken out and
three physicians summoned. In
twenty-four hours after the accident,
death claimed the little fellow. The
father has left.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
In the Hands of a Committee.

The Durham Sun says that the
Board of Trustees of Trinity College
deferred for the present the election
of President to succeed DR.. Crowell.
A committee of six was appointed to
take charge of the matter and present
a suitable candidate for the place be-
tween this time and September, or
the convening of the Board before
that month.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
How to Send Kisses.

The editor Of the Boston Courier
gives this bit of ADVICE to his readers
of the fair sex: A neat way to send
kisses through the mail is tO-use a
pencil when writing, and every time
the end of it becomes wet, making, of
course, blacker mark, that consti-
tutes kiss. We used to do this, and
nearly every other word was black as
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-21
We Don't Believe 1t.

From the Wilmington Star.
Thomas Edison says two hours sleep
in twenty-four Is enough for man
and can proudly point to James II.
Hightower, of Warsaw, Illinois, a
loom repairer, who says that in IS
years he mas never slept at all. He
goes to bed like other folks, an shuts
his eyes, but never loses consciousness.
He does not, however, accompany this
statement with any af1idavits as to his
yeracitV