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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
THE YEAR 1894
Will be Memorable as Breaker of
Records.


Will be Memorable as Breaker of
Records.
Baltimore Sum-
This year will be memorable in the
annals of athletics, sports. and
physical achievements generally for
the raising of the old standards of
performance. When the tIotting
season began Nancy Hanks record
OF 2:04 had stood unbeaten for a
long time. Alix has brought it
down to, 2:O3A. On the packing
track Robert j. has lowered the
record to 2:01A, beating Mascot's
previously fastest mile by * seconds
Directun has made a new record for
two year olds by pacing a mile in
2:07%. Fantasy has made new
| trottiDg record for four year Odds by
, covering mile 10 2:07H. The won
derful performance of Flying Jib at
! ChillicOthe, Ohio, September 20,
when, hitched to running mate, he
paced mile in 1:59A, is the crown
ing track feat of the season. This
teat is made still more astonishing
by the fact that the last half mile
was paced in 5S1 seconds. The best
previous pacing record maze by a
horse hitched to running mate was
that of WestmOnt, who, in 1884, at
Chicago, covered mile in 2:O1%.
Robert ]. still holds the pacing
record, but Flying Jib's work has
made it probable that in the near
future mile in two minutes OR less
will be paced by a horse running
without mate. Nearly all the old
mile turf records have been broken
this season, and We must not forget
in this brief review that Ducat, at
Sheepshead Bay, on August % last,
ran a mile in 1:39, carry 113 pounds
the best one mile time ever made
on a circular track.
Passing from fast horses to swift
men on wheels, we find nearly all the
previous bicycle records have been
surpassed in 1894, and probably the
next month will break them still
more. j. S. Johnson has made a
half mile spin against time in 81
seconds. One mile has been flown
over by J. 2. Bliss in a fraction over
1852. With standing starts n. But.
Ter has cycled two miles in 4:O4 4-5;
while j. ). Johnson has spun three
miles in 6:26 3d.. four miles in
S:3S 40, and five miles in 1O:4S 5.
E. c. Bald has made mile in compe-
tition in 200 4-5. E. j. Titus has
covered 20 miles and ,4SS yards in
one hour, spinning against time.
| And the best previous twelve hour
| competitive race time has been
beaten by Walters, in London, who
made the astonishing run of 259
miles in that time, or 21A miles an
hour.
Many other new athletic worlds
records have been made within the
| past month. The best worlds rum
ming time for 800 yards has been
| lowered to 81 3 3 seconds. The
larthest throw OF Sc pound weight
has been increased to 35 feet 10
| inches.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
LETTER FROM MIR. BURBANK.
He Writes About State Taxes, Party
Ties, Education, Etc.


When [ reached California the end
of July the prospects for the Republi
can party in this State were excellent,
but within the last month they have
been diminishing daily. Their State
ticket was named almost wholly by
one man Tor bossl in the interest of
the ring and the Southern Pacific
Railroad monopoly.
STATE TAXES.
California is a tax-ridden State. It's
expenses per capita are over twice
what they are in North Carolina
which enjoys the blessing of good,
honest and economical State govern
ment. That is very good reason why
her people should be glad to continue
the Democratic party in power. The
tax burden is a serious one here where
larger population.
PARTY TIES.
Men are breaking away from party
ties very considerably in this State
and in the principal cities the non-par-
tisan movement has a large following.
In this county which has a white
population of 80, 900 some Republicans
will certainly ruin 800 or 1000 votes
behind their ticket. so Objectionable
are the candidates or their methods.
In this county there are six county
tickets: Democratic, Republican.
Peoples Party. Non-Partisan, Chris
tian EndeaVor, and the A. ?. A.
BUSINESS.
Business is improving and the Re
publicans are about giving up their
calamity cry that business was bad
because of the Democratic tariff.
Such Cry was meant to scare the ig-
norant. In two years such lying ar
gument will react on them terribly.
| had talk the other day with the
Secretary OF big insurance company.
Cuisines is good" said he emphati-
cally. 81 know it because we have
twelve hundred agents on the Pacific
Coast and judge by their letters and
their remittances.
CLIMATE.
California climate about the bay of
San Francisco is peculiar. In August
many of US had to wear overcoats
every day for two weeks and some had
double suits of underwear. The colo
is penetrating near the ocean and a
Temperature of 20 degrees is felt as
much as temperature of 40 degrees
in the South. There was no rain in
July, August or September. The ear
Hest rains fell towards the latter part
of October. Sunshine and rain alter
nately will prevail for the next four
months.
EDUCATION.
The great Stanford University,
| though a rival of the State University,
has been a help and stimulus. In
each of these institutions are /, 200
students. The advertisement of the
Stanford has advertised the State col
| lege also and the result is great
gain TO education. I am therefore OF
| the opinion that any detriment to the
| University of North Carolina would
| be a detriment TO the denominations
| colleges through its working an injury
| to the cause of education. l sincerely
| hope that such cause may never
| lack friends in the Old North State.
w. T. BURBANK,
Oakland, Cal.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly Republican. but Now and Then
Democrat.

DAVIDSON The Republicans elect
all their county candidates by "a ma
jority ranging from 1S5 to 100. Wal
Ser, Republican candidate for the
House, defeated Reinhart, Democrat,
by 707 majority. Wall and Westmore-
land, Republican candidates for the
Senate in this district, have a MAORI
ty in this county Of $50. Ii is Thought
here that Raper. Democratic. is de-
feated by Holton, Repu blican, for So
licitor.
RowAN.-The official vote Of Rowan
has not yet been secured but it is as
certained that the county will give a
Democratic majority of from 1000 to
1.l50. The election of Pink and
Crump to the State Senate it is
thought is assured. The defeat Of
Hon. Join S. Henderson is received
with deep regret.
AsHE.-Ashe county is Republican
by small majority. Ross, the Demo-
cratic Representative. is probably
elected.
ALLEGHANY.-In Allegheny county
p. @. Higgins, Democrat, is elected to
the House byn122 majority. Bowers
majority is only 40; Barber's 10. The
! county Democratic ticket is elected
with the exception Of Choat, for
sheriff. who is defeated by JONES, in
dependent, by % majority. DR.. G. L..
Reeves, Democratic candidate for the
Senate in Ashe, Allegheny and Wa
| tauga, is probably elected. His ma
jority in Allegheny is 119.
YADKIN-Is Republican by be-
tween 300 and 500 majority
PERsoN.-Of:cial: Gentry, Repub
lican-Populist for the Legislature, has
majority of 80. Settles majority is
J 80. Bradsher, Democrat, for Clerk,
| l,015 majority. The balance of the
Republican county ticket from 300 to
| go. The RAIDS, Pops. and negroes vo-
ted solid. The vote of the county fell
off 400, mostly because Democrats
| failed to vote.
| GUILFORD.-All that Guilford Dem
| ocrats saved from the wreck was her
| Register of Deeds. The rest of the
| ticket was defeated by from 100 to
| 200 majority. Settle made gain of
| 500 in this county over two years ago
j The Populists' vote, which was given
solidly for the Republicans, did the
work.
GRANvILLE.-Crews, Democrat, is
elected Register Of Deeds by oyer l0C
majority, and will require an officia
| count to decide the rest of the county
ticket. The Legislative ticket is ex
ceedingly close, with the chances fav.
oring the election of a Democrat
This is a big Democratic gain, as the
county went from 300 to 600 against
the Democrats two years ago.
| 1REpELL.-The Republicans have
carried the county by about 100. The
entire county aud legislative ticke1
| defeated, and the Senatorial ticket
in the 9th district is defeated by owe
one thousand 7
WARREN.-The county is largely
Republican.
GREENE.-The Democratic Judges
and Legislature gives 200 majority. Ir
the county 300 majority.
CURRITUCK.-The Democratic ma
jorlty will exceed 400 in Currituci
county.
| ORANeE.-Settle $50 majority il
Orange county. Republican for TIL
first time in 50 years.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
PUSH IT ALONG.

A stranger visiting the city re
marked that the proposed cotton
mill would do more to push Winston
forward than almost anything else.
"lou need diversified Industries" he
said, land more confidence in your
selves and.syour city. It is the best
city in North Carolina and cotton
mill will make things hum. If well
managed it viii pay and pay well.
Get everybody to take ftock. Let
clerks and day laborers come in. It
will be good thing for them, for the
mill and for the city. You see it
will be a kind of Savings Bank for
them, win yield good return for:
their investment, viii encourage
them to put by something for q rainy
day, and will help all around. If the
mill is built real estate will increase
IN value, new buildings spring up and
new life be infused into everything
around. Hurry up the mill. Let
every shoulder be put 10 the v heel.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
ACompIiment to the South.

"We are pleased &c know" says the
New York Sun, of the steady in
crease in the number OF cotton mills
and other manufacturing establish
ments in the States of the South
There have been especially good re-
ports all this year from the two Caro-
linas and from Georgia. The local
papers OF these States boast of the
new spirit of enterprise<that has been
manifested in many places, and of the
large investments in manufacturing
industries which Northern capital
lists have made in the South. The
growth ofactivity in the South is adj
yantageous to the whole country
May the South prosper,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
PRICE OF A WIFE.
Savages Place Varying Value Upon
Their Chosen Helpmates


In the earlier times of purchase a
woman was bartered for useful goods
or for services rendered to her father.
in the latter way Jacob purchased
Rachel and her sister Leah. This
was Beena marriage, where a man.
as in Genesis, leaves his father and
his mother and cleaves unto his wife
and woman's. The price of a bride
in British Columbia and Vancouver
island varies from twenty to forty
pounds sterling's worth of articles.
In Oregon an Indian gives for wife
horses, blankets or buffalo robes; in
California, shell money or horses; in
Africa. cattle. A poor Damara will
sell a daughter for one COW; richer
Katfir expects from three to thirty
With the Banyai, if nothing be given,
her family claim her children. In
Uganda, where no marriage recently
existed, she may be obtained for half
a dozen needles, or a coat, or pair
of shoes. An ordinary price is box
of percussion caps. In other parts,
a goat or couple of buckskins will
buy girl. Passing to Asia, we find
her price is sometimes five to fifty
rubles, or at others. a cart load of
wood or hay. A princess may be
purchased for three thousand rubles.
In Tartary, q woman can be obtained
for a few pounds of butter, or where
rich man gives twenty small oxen
poor man may succeed with a
pig. In Fiji, her equivalent is a
whales tooth or a musket. These,
and similar prices elsewhere, are
eloquent testimony to the little value
81 savage sets Oh his wife.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
REV. S. ROTHROCK, ID. ID.
a Faithful Christian Pastors Fruitful
Record.


The Rev. Samuel Rothrock, D. D.,
whose death was noted a few days
ago, was a man of God, full of good
works. He lived a life of spotless
purity. He had a heart OVERLOOKING
with love, and he was loved by all.
He was al untiring worker for souls
aud religious defender Of the pure
doctrines of the Bible, as he under
man anything and when he made a
debt he met it promptly. If he made
promise he fulfilled it to the letter.
He kept strict account of his in
comes, expenditures and benefactiOnS.
He had set his house in order and was
patiently awaiting the Masters SUE
mons. He had engaged man to
make his coffin, another to haul his
body To the grave and another to
preach his funeral and bury him. He
diSliked human praise and wished to
have it said at his funeral: "There
lies sinner saved by the grace of
God" He was full of good works. He
had baptized 1.605 infants and III
adults; confirmed 1929 souls;s married
470 couples; buried 922 persons, and
besides great many temperance lee
lures, Sunday school talks and public
addresses; he preached over 1000 reg
ular sermons. well done, thou good
and faithful servant, thou hast been
faithful over few things, | will
make thee ruler over many; enter
thou toto the joy of the Lord."-
Matt. 25:2l.
w. A. LUTZ
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
A Preacher Dies of JOY.

Excessive joy was the actual cause
ofthe death of the Rev. Edward F.
Roberts of Rochester, New York. He
died in Washington last Friday from
the bursting of a blood vessel, due to
excitement over the news of the sue
cess of an invention upon which he
had been laboring for q long time in
and for which, within a few
days, he was to receive $4,000
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT.

SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT.
The wonderful material develop
ment of the South is attracting wide.
spread attention, and, as a result,
the future promises even grander
achievements in the line of progress
than have been accomplished in the
past.
Commenting on this development,
Mr.. r. III. Edmonds, of the Manu-
facturers' Record, says:
cit is not a question whether
Alabama can compete with Penn
sylvania in iron, but whether Penn
sylvania can compete with Ala
bama. Nobody now doubts that the
South can compete with New Eng
land In the manufacture of cotton
goods, but many do doubt whether
New England can compete with the
South. The lumber business has
become a leading one in the South,
and it is rather to the South than to
the northwest that the country will
look in the future for it's lumber
supply
Mr.. D. A. Tompkins, leading
manufacturer of Charlotte, writes:
The South may be said to have
accomplished the following things:
/. It has shaken off the idea OF
dependence on the negro as the
laborer, and the latter is falling into
the relation of helper to the white
laborer.
2. 1t has accumulated capital
enough to undertake very extensive
manufacturing without, in many
cases, the need to borrow capital
from the north.
3. 1t has demonstrated that the
Southern man makes as successful a
manufactu1 and as skilled a
mechanic as the northern man or the
Englishman, and that the climate is
rather advantageous than otherwise
to successful and profitable work.
1. In iron, cotton and lumber
manufacture it is not a question
whether the South can hold it's own
against other sections, but whether
other sections can compete with the
South.
Upon this, the Atlanta Constitu'
ton says: CHOW, add the fruit and
vegetable productions of the South
made available by increased trans
portation facilities, and imagine
what the future will bel"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
NEWS NOTES.

Violent earthquake shocks were felt
in the City OF Mexico Friday night.
John Jacob Astor will build an eigh
| teen story hotel in New York.
! Preliminary arrangements for the
Atlanta Exposition are being actively
| pushed.
| About two hundred tons Of paper
was used il making the ballots fol
| New York.
| Fifty-seven native born Cinnamon
have registered in San Francisco and
| intend to vote.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage has re.
| turned to Brooklyn after tour
around the world.
John Water, publisher of the Lon.
don Times, died on Saturday, aged
| seventy-six years.
Residents Of San Francisco have de-
cided to erect monument TO the
memory Of Gen. u. 5. Grant.
Mrs. Conway was run over and in
stantly killed Monday by "a train on a
dummy line at Pensacola, Fla.
The Populists in the Georgia Legis-
lature have introduced a bin prOyid-
ing for State tax on incomes.
Frederick Dillman accidentally
stabbed and killed his brother Robert
in the arInory OF the fourteenth Reg
iment, in Brooklyn.
In Roanoke county, Va, Booker
Amos was shot and killed by Elisha
Murray. The shooting grew out Of Il
difficulty about dog.
Geo. B. Stevenson has sued Mrs.
Harriet Louise Potter, a brooklyn
widow, for $500 for alleged breach
of promise of marriage.
At Charleston, W. Va, the jury in
the case. of Bud Clendcnnin, On trial
for killing DR.. j. W. Davis, returned
a verdict of murder in the first degree.
There are between 800 and 400 wom-
en- pharmacists in the United States,
and be it is said to their credit they
are rarely charged with making mis-
takes.
China is said to be anxious to make
treaty OF peace with Japan. The
japanese troops are thought to be
within days march of the Toiien-
Wan forts, near Port Adams.
Mrs. Annie Thompson, of Chicago,
who Was on her way to Europe With
the hold Of the Cunard steamer Lucl !
mia, at New York, and sustained a
fractureHof the skull.
George Kirk shot Mrs. Florence
Schultz and then put a bullet ia his
own brain at Chicago Saturday. lie
was instantly killed, but Mrs. Schultz
has chance for recovery. Jealousy
was the cause of the shooting.
Three raspberry canes in the gar
dens of the London horticultural So.
ciety were grown fromseeds found in
the stomach of a man whose skeleton
was dug up from one of the old burial
mounds Of North Britain.
The stockholders of the Frederick
City Knitting Mill Say that instead.
of their business being damaged by
the new tariff bill it is improved, and
they are enabled to supply consumers
at lower prices than under Mckinley
tariff.
The women held an electiopat San
Bernardino, Cal, for county and State
officers. In some cases it took the
voters forty minutes to prepare their
ballots, and several disturbances oc-
Cured because the voters wanted to
fish their tickets out of the ballot-box
L
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
TURNING SOUTHWARK.

The signs of the times indicate that
an era of increased progress in man
ufactures in the South is dawning
and that general attention is being
attracted to this section as a desira-
BILE place for homes. At the same
time, the productiveness of our soil
and the favorable conditions which
prevail for cultivating it are factors
in inviting energetic agriculturalists
in less favored portions of this coun-
try to locate among US and assist in
building up this grand and delightful
section of the Union.
This condition of affairs affords an
opportunity to the Piedmont section
of North Carolina that should be
earnestly taken advantage of. Let
US encourage, in every possible way,
the Northern and Western manufac-
turer and the Northern and Western
farmer to come among US and cast
his lot with US. We would not Ell
courage promiscuous, indiscriminate
immigration. On the contrary, we
would oppose it most earnestly and
we think our people need to be watch
full and careful with reference to this
matter. But to the honest and
energetic people of the North and
West-people who will make good
citizens and who will help in the work
of developing the wonderful resources
of the South-we would extend cor
dial invitation to come and abide
with us.
As evidence that the tide is turning
in this direction we copy from the
Southern States Magazine the fol
lowing extracts from letter written
by an Iowa real estate and immi gra,
ton agent to an immigration agency
in the South:
"# ] am not a believer in
special providences, but there seem
to be events on all sides which tend
to drive immigration to the South.
The West is compelled to change its
methods of agriculture, placing no
dependence whatever in rainfall, and
the irrigating ditch is too limited to
accommodate the public generally.
Then, again, the terrible
drought throughout the Northwest
coming upon us just at the time that
there is so much agitation in manu-
featuring communities and strikes,
that men who have never thought OF
resorting to farming are now serious
ly considering the necessity of tilling
the soil and owning home, so as to
be independent of the common mas
ter, capital, in others hands. Then,
again, climate and cheap lands are
two most potent incentives.
'sThe logically minded men are now
amazed at their past stupidity, and
are only beginning to wonder why
they did not consider and reason.
ST always knew these facts, but did
not think; know it now, but find it
task to interest the people because
of lifetime habit aud teaching. !
am, however, glad to notice how
rapidly things are changing.
Today I met an intelligent farmer to
whom have been handing my copy
of the Southern States magazine.
He says to me: When you first
commenced giving me this magazine
l merely read, here and there, line
or short article. but recently | have
read every word, and I tell you, sir.
sSouthward the Star of Empire will
take it's way" Iwant to know when
you are going to make your trip
South; will go with you. 7"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
One Was Enough.

You love my daughter ?" said the
old man.
Glove herr" he exclaimed, pas
Hsionately, "why, could die for her !
For one soft glance from those sweet
eyes, would hurl myself from yon-
der cliff and perish, q bleeding,
bruised mass, upon the rocks 200
feet below /"
1.-The old man shook his head.
ri am something of a liar myself, ?
he said, ssand one is enough for a
small family like mine.n
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08

IT is plainly labor of love with
DR.. Hale, which he undertakes in the
November Review of Reviews-to
sum up the life and charm of the late
Oliver Wendell Holmes. AS a close
friend and ardent admirer of the
dead poet, and inspired, ais he was,
by the same intellectual atmosphere,
DIR. Hale is, perhaps, of all men, the
most worthy to give here the first
comprehensive and authoritative
account of the Autocrat's work to
appear in the magazines. There are
several portraits of DR.. Holmes and
Illustrations of the scenes which sur
rounded his life.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08
THE RESULT.

1t is an off year in politics and
Tuesday was an off day for the Dem
ocrats. The elections throughout
the country assumed the shape of a
Republican land slide.
From present Indications it ap-
pears that we have lost the lower
House of Congress and, possibly, the
Senate.
At this time the result In North
Carolina is in doubt. We fear that
we have lost the Legislature. There
is a slight hope that our Judicial
ticket has been elected. 1t is proba-
BILE that we have lost every Congress
man, save one or two.
The latest news obtainahle from
the country at large, from the State
and from the county, will be found
in our news columns At this hour
we have hope that our excellent
Sheriff, Bob Macarthur, has been re-
elected, and that honest } ohm Griffith
will continue to be County Treasurer.
1t is a terrible defeat, but, while
Democracy may be oyerpowered, it
cannot be whipped, because it is a
party of principle and principle must
eventually triumph.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-08

From the Hartwell Sun.
farmer stepped into a bank at
Dalton the other day and presented
two checks to be cashed, one from j.
III. Kenner for $25.11 in pay for a
bale of cotton; the other from Davis
& Son for $26 10, in. pay for two
small hogs, weighing less than $50
pounds each There's more money
in hogs than cotton.