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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
IN A SHORT TWO YEARS.

The Arizona Sun: Two years ago
wool brought delivered at the railway
station, an average of fourteen cents
a pound; now it is consigned to east
ern commission houses and the price
will not average more than five cents.
Two years ago sheep herders were
paid from - to $40 per month; now
they are paid from SIS to $25.
Two years ago sheep shearers re-
ceiyed ten cents per head for shear
ing; now they are paid five cents.
Two years ago the average wages
paid WOrkingmen was $3.50 a day:
now the average wages is $1.50.
Two years ago this section was pros
porous; now times are hard and there
is little or no business.
Two years ago the free trade adj
vocateS did not have full control of
congress and the presidential chair.
Now they have, and the change has
wrought ruin and disaster in every
section of a nation which two years
ago was prosperous.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
ENGLAND'S NEW CHIEF JUSTICE.
Sir Charles Russell Receives the Dis.
tinguished Honor.

The successor of the late Lord Cole
ridge as lord chief justice of England
is Lord Russell-Ailloween, better
known as Sir Charles Russell, the
brilliant advocate who defended
Charles Stewart ParneIl before the
Parneu commission. The new lord
chief justice was born in Ireland 81
years ago. Beginning the impressive
peroration to his siX-days' speech be-
fore the Parnell commission he said:
My lords, [ have spoken not merely
as an advocate; | have spoken for the
land of my birth" Sir Charles began
his legal career as a solicitor in Dun
dalk, from which in 1880 he was sent
to parliament. But long before he
entered parliament, at the age of 26.
he went to London and was called to
the bar at LincOln's inn. From the
very beginning he displayed great
qualities as an advocate, and when
he became queens counsel after IL
years Of practice, his income was
larger than that of any other junior
OF his time. His skill in conducting
cases of a somewhat sensational nat
ure was early shown in connection
with the actions for libel brought
against Mr.. LabOuchere, the editor Of
Truth, whom he defended with al
most unvarying success. When Sir
Charles became attorney general under
Gladstone he enjoyed an annual in
come of S125,00
Sir Charles has earned a greater
reputation as an orator than almost
any other practitioner at the English
bar. His voice has a slight Irish
brogue, which renders his speech the
pleaSanter to hear, while his mastery
Of effective quotation from Shakes
peare and Of gesture, together with
a very mobile cOuntenance, only add
to his oratorical powers. A writer
in the London Law Gazette once
wrote Of Sir Charles: 'He has become
the dOyen of the bar by virtue Of Il
rare combination of most excellent
gifts. His elOquence is welded to logic,
his clevernesS is accompanied by in
dustry, his persistency is allied to-
tact, and his knowledge Of law is
joined by a wide acquaintance with
the world. His power Of work is due
to his power Of concentration a great
lawyer he cannot claim to be. His
legal learning is not Of the high order
OF Richard Webster's and r. II.
Reds. He has earned his reputation
entirely as an advocate and his claim
to distinction rests upon his proves
as cross-eXaminer." Sir Charles was
leading counsel for the queen before
the Behring sea arbitration tribunal
at Paris and there again displayed
qualities Of high order and not in
the line Of cross-examination by any
means. Sir Charles, or rather Lord
Russell-Killoween, is not only an Irish
man but a Roman Catholic, being the
first one of that religious faith to
reach the lord chief justiceship since
the English reformation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
DEMAND FOR GRASS LINEN.

Imported and domestic grass linen
has been well sold for ladies' and chill
dren's wear in the ecru and greenish
linen shades. They are trimmed with
a velvet or satin crush belt and collar
and guipure laces in cream or ecru.
The waist lining is of white lawn or
the same goods, and the sides each
have two bones and one in the front
dart keep the waist down, though not
as snug fitting as a basque. The Van
dyke and medallion lace patterns are
very effective on these dresses; the
large collar covering the shoulders be-
ing one Of the neatest trimmings. For
a slight figure a bodice of lace fitted to
the Waist-line, with the scallops reach
ing above the bottom Of the armholes,
and fastening under the left arm, has
a stylish effect.-Dry Goods Economist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19

horror, Cartesi resumed the attack
Eustace instantly put himself on the
defensive, but before we could reach
them, Cartesi had beaten down his
opponents guard, and passed his
sword through his body. l caught
Eustace as he fell, and said to Car
test, This is murder" Look to yonr
friend" he cried, and then. throwing
down his sword, disappeared without
another word
The gentleman who had acted as
Cartesl's second volunteered to get a
hacre and [ remained beside NV
Trend When the conveyance arrived
L mad him taken to my house. He
was unconscious and the doctors said
the case was hopeless. Then I came
to the theater for you
This" said Sister Clarice. lis the
story OF the great sorrow of nv life
a sorrow that time has softened soma
"hat' out It's shadow will never leave
me While L live. Since that fatal
night L have never faced an audience.
At first people wondered what had
become OF CIarice Gerard; but thew
soon torgot-it is the way of the
world. L lived in retirement with NV
only sister. We were orphans Ar
her death, five years ago. | Joined
the nurses here, and since that time
you know my history. Doctor Gerome.
you have promised to carry out nv
last request. Here is the packet
wish TO be buried with me: in the
event of my death, you must open it.
out If l come back to you. please re-
turn it with the seals unbroken."
took it and laid it in drawer in
my bureau She murmured a few
words of thanks, pressed nv hand.
and, with a smile on her lips. passed
from the room.
Never again did l see Sister Clarice
alive. Her devotion to the fever
stricken patients cost her her life.
Within a month she succumbed to an
attack OF typhus fever
On the day of her funeral. before
L went to take last look at her and
TO carry out her request, [ opened
the packet she had left with me.
She sleeps in the beautiful cems-
terry of Lere Lachaise, at rest after
the storms and trials of life; and on
her breast, where 1 placed them, lie
the contents of the packet she left
with me-a lock of brown hair tied
with blue ribbon, and the hilt of a
broken sword
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
SWIMMERS DROWN

Burlington, Ia, July 16.-M S.
Walker, a young lawyer, S. NJ Walker,
his father, and T. II. Walker, his
uncle, were drowned in the river last
night while swimming.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
LET TIE rmEE NORTH KICK
AGAINST THE CONTINUED DOM
NATION OF THE SOUTH.
NO TARIFF OF REBEL MAKING
SHOULD STAND.

Texas Wool Growers Raise IA Howl
Arizona Feeling the Evil Effects OF
Democratic Statesmanship-Ex
Confederates Get $13,OO0,0OO in
Pensions While Union Veterans
Lose $2O,0OO,00O.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19

New York Press: He (having moth
ing better to say)-Do you approve of
short courtships?
She-Yes but not too short. 1 have
only known you a week-but, after
all, what does it matter? Speak to
mother, and I guess it will be all
right
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01

realize that there is no royal road to
value and that Southern representa-
tives must rise to the heights of the
men who represented the South in
Congress previous to the war.
"There are other statesmen from
the South who have succumbed to
the fallacy that positions in the Su-
preme Court of the United States are
local questions, to be settled on de-
mand of local politicians. 1t might
be supposed that the Supreme Court
bench repres ented the whole United
States, and that every body had a
right TO demand that it be filled
wfthoutregard to politics Or locality.
It is not a football for ward poll
ticians to kick about from one eEd
of the United States to the other.
Such men as Calhoun, Benton, Reeves
and Crawford would have resigned
their high positions in the Senate
and gone home in sackcIoth and
ashes rather than abandon a priuci-
pie such as this to a man without
character or worth, and who had 10
right to speak for the great State OF
| New York"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01
HEwITT'S SPEECH.

Nospeech in a long time has caused
SO much comment among Southern
ers as that of Ex-Congressman
Hewitt before the Southern Society
ofthe City of New York. It's princi-
pal paragraphs have brought both
commendation and condemnation
upon him and we print them here
with:
"The character of Southern states
manship has decreased from the
time before the war. and her Sena-
tors and Congressman of today were
as pigmies compared with the in
tellectual giants of that time. The
statesmen of today show little signs
of having studied the great economic
cal questions affecting the interests
of the country. The silver question
was one that touched the very foun
dation of public credit. Itwas due to
the adoption of a currency not based
upon the intrinsic value OF the coin
that brought about the silver crisis.
The difference between the true and
false value of the silver dollar is
called the seigniorage. The South
wanted to coin this seigniorage.
They might as well try to coin a
vacuum. 1t was even worse than
that. 1t was trying to coin mega
tive quantity on the other side,
There is one thing the South wants
TO learn; it is that public credit can
not be maintained until all concerned
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01
IN AND AROUND ELKIN.
Interesting I0cai Happenings-Rev
enue Raiders, Etc.

InACFSSt1DS 1SCat
enue Raiders, Etc.
Correspondence of the Sentinel.l
ELKIN. Feb. 26-The public school
at Maple Springs, Wilkes county,
gave public exhibition Saturday
There was a large crowd present and
the exercises were very creditable to
both teacher and scholars.
Miss Myrtle Chatham has an
orange tree with an orange on it in
her flower pit We can grow most
anything at Eikin.
Miss Annie Gwyn has returned from
an extended visit to her sister, Mrs
j. E. Finley, at North Wilkesboro.
Some OF our young men are talking
of organizing Dramatic Club in the
future.
The Elkin Shoe Co. have got near
ly all their machinery in position and
will be ready for work in few days
Mr.. S. NJ. Gilber, the foreman, will
move his family from Glen Alpine
here this week.
Miss Iris Burrus, of Rockford,
| visited friends and relatives here this
week
DR.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Reece gave a
birthday dinner Saturday, both their
birthdays being February Oath.
Rev. e. W. Robinson came up Sat
| urday evening to hold services Sun
day but the bad weather prevented.
There was no preaching at the Meth
Odist church either.
The Literary Club will meet at Mr.
j. s. Roths next Thursday night
| Tho +nr1i. mill Hn Oh !ynonoo nos, - IL
You Like It."
A company of revenue raiders left
last week on tour through CASTOR
Mecklenburg and other counties
| One of them informed me he haC
traversed Surry county from one
end to the other and found only two
illicit stills.
The Chatham Manufacturing Co
have had elegant Office furniture
placed in their handsome new office
The office presents a brilliant scen'
at night, being lighted by electricity
Tobacco is selling well on oul
market. The farmers say they ge
more for their tobacco here than a
other places.
B. N. Murray and son, of Burling
ton, have opened up a stock o
groceries here. Mr.. Murray has alst
moved his family to Eikin.
Mr.. II. &. Chatham is off on bust
ness and pleasure trip through
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi
VIM. Edwards, an extensive ma
contractor OF Allegheny county, wa
in town Friday on business
Messrs. Finley and Goodale, tw
gentlemen of Northern New York
were here last week examining tn
timber lands in this section.
The largest snow of the seaso
made it's appearance yesterday.
fell to a depth of twelve inches an
was greatly enjoyed by the youn
people IRELAND.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01
DONNAHA.
Hard Times and the Cause Of Them
General News.

Hard Times and the Cause Of Them
General News.
Correspondence of the Sentinel
DoNNAHA, Feb. 27-I want to tell
your readers what [ think causes
hard times: We buy more than we
produce. Too much flour and bacon
is shipped here, ana we are always
buying what we ought to make at
home. People let their timber rot
and buy their plowstock, siDgletrees,
axe handles. hoe handles and fencing.
We throw away our ashes and buy
soap. We waste manure and buy
fertilizers. We let our land grow up
in weeds We build school houses
and send our boys off to be educated.
A boy buys four dollar fishing rod
and lands a five cent fish. We send a
fifteen cent boy with a tventy dollar
gun and a TOUR dollar dog to kill
birds. We raise dogs and buy NUT
ton. We suffer from an over pro-
duction of politics and dogs.
People are blowing and fixing for
tobacco. The weather is nice for
work. [ am preparing for large
crop OF corn but little tobacco.
The boys have organized a base
ball club near Spainhour's mill
meeting Saturday nights.
Mr.. A. C. Wall is erecting dwell
ing near his fathers and will move
soon. Julius Randleman burnt a
plant bed this week. s. L. and W
E. Burt have been saving wood. W
A. Burt will build a feed barn. Peo
pie want a bridge here.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01
WACHOVIA.

This name will be Tevered for all
time by the members of the Moravian
church and the many who hold with
in their hearts a friendly feeling for
it. 1t was on August 18th. 1852
that Bishop SpaDgenberg lett Beth
lehem, Penn, to select iii these then
trackless wilds home for the Mora
vians who should come to North
Carolina. He was accompanied by
the brethren Henry Antes, Timothy
Horsefield, Joseph Miller, Herman
Loesch and John Merk, all on horse
back. Arriving at Edenton on the
10th of September, they were Joined
by the surveyor general and agent
of Lord Granville. They reached
the Catawba river by the end of
October. About eight weeks were
spent in the wilderness, on the heads
of the.sNew River, the Mulberry
Fields (Vilkes) and the mountains.
Two huntsmen provided their food
in the wintry season but there was
little game and pasture was short.
Alter considerable suffering they
reached the Yadkin in the latter part
of December and a few white settlers
gave them humble shelter.
1t was on the 9th of December
that they found the tract since called
| Wachovia, a tract of nearly.a hun
dred thousand acres and on August
| 7th, 1853 the Earl of Granville con
| veyed the title to this tract to the
secretary of the Unitas Fratum. 1t
is interesting to recall that the name
Wachovia comes from Wachau (Aue
meaning meadow land and Wach,
| the principle creek in the family
estate of the Zinzendorf family in
Austria.) The country here was sup
posed to bear some resemblance, on
account of it's watercourses and
meadow lands to the valley in
| Austria where the Zinzendoris lived
Thus was made the first Moravian
settlement in the South, the name
testifying to the affection and graft
tude which the original Morayians
enjoyed from their patron and bene-
factor, Count Zinzendorf.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01
THE sOUTHERN STATES

No publication is doing morein the
way of demonstrating the capacity
of the South for immigration than
the Southern States magazine pub
lished at Baltimore. Its articles on
such topics have been prepared by
prominent Southern men, and it's
most unique feature is the publica
ton of letters stating the experience
of Northern farmers who have moved
to the South. The Southern States
says that the correspondence, the
subscriptions to the magazine and
requests for sample copies coming to
it from almost every Northern and
Western State, and notable from the
extreme Northwest, shows, on the
part of both farmers and business
men, a very widespread dissatisfac-
ton with their conditions and envi.
ronment, and a very eager interest
in the South and desire tor informa-
ton about the South.
Among the contents of the Feb
ruary number is one by Gen. Thomas
l.. Rosser entitled ssLet the Emigrant
Come South" Gen. Rosser having
lived twenty years in the West is well
qualified to make comparisons.
Other valuable articles are on the
increase of cotton production. the
growth of the cottonseed hull in
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01
Madison Topics.
of thessentinel.l

correspondence OF theaoenIinel.i
MADISON, Feb. Give are glad to
learn that MIR. E. NJ. Knight, who
has pneumonia, is getting along fair
ly well.
Snow-balling and sliding is all the
go with the boys.
Prof. Chas. Fetter has been in town
several days and expected to preach
in the Episcopal church last Sunday
but the weather was too bad.
Rev S. b. Alexander has closed a
very successful series of services at
the Presbyterian church.
Washington's birthday was "free
day.. The High Schools stringent
rules were removed and the boys
we're allowed to visit the girls and
you may be sure they improved the
opportunity.
Mr.. John 81. Price, of Mayo, N. c..
was in town today.
Mrs. Tom Lewellyn died at her
home near Bethesda last Sunday.
MADISON.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01
He SAYS MAKE BRANDY
THE ONLY WORDS UTTERED BY
A YADKIN MAN.
trait of WiEsFon's Deceased Mayor
--latest Song in Old Yadkin.

Is it ProyidentiaI Retribution?-A Por-
trait of WILSON'S Deceased Mayor
--latest Song in Old Yadkin.
Correspondence of the Sentinel.
SHORE, n. c., Feb. 27-DaYe Smith
erman who was sometime ago, attack
ed with serious stroke of paralysis,
is still in very feeble state and the
only words he can utter are '.make
brandy" He has been a distiller of
whisky and brandy nearly all his life
and his mind seems to dwell yet upon
his previous occupation. Some spirit
ualists attribute this wonderful freak
Of nature to proyidential retribu-
ton.
We desire through this medium to
return thanks to II. E. Shore, of
| Kernersyille, for handsome portrait,
of the late Hon. r. 3. Kerner 1t is
a most excellent likeness Of Winston's
{ worthy and gallant ex-mayor.
| Mr.. Sanford DOub closet his public
| school at Macedonia, near East Bend.
| last Saturday night with engaging
| and appropriate exercises. Despite
| the bleak winds and muddy highways
a fairly good crowd was out and evil
| IDENTIFY appreciated the neat and time
| ly programme. The effort of teacher
| and school was creditable and the
| music by the Shore string band lent
| its charm to the occasion.
Our thoroughly organized band of
| sportsmen took advantage Of the snow
| season and hauled in twelve squirrels
| yesterday evening.
| A we'll patronized spelling bee ter
minated Miss Loula PoindeXter's pub
lie school at Mana on Saturday OF
| course, a social followed at night and
there was no scarcity OF wit and mirth
and music.
The latest song in Old Yadkin is
"Root Hog Or Die
| aOur old colored weather prophet COM
| templates issuing an almanac in SO.
/ One of the neateSt and most at
| tractive rooms the writer has peeped
| into lately is the studio Of your ac
| complished artist. ISIS Cora Conrad
| 1t is claimed by librarians that the
three most popular books in the Eng
| lish literature is David CopperfieId,'
| 'IyanhCe" and The Scarlet Letter"
| IENDIS.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01
The Satterfield Trial.

IT. E. Satterf1eld was tried before
Esquires Pegram and Beckerdite in
Commissioners Hall, Salem, Mon
day afternoon. Mr.. ]. S. GIogan ap-
peared for the defendant. After
hearing the evidence the warrant in
the Miss Shore case was dismissed.
Satterfield was then held on d $50
bond for his appearance at court for
carrying concealed weapon last
Christmas-his bondsman, Mr.. Ell. A.
Giersh. giving him up. The prisoner,
failing to get anyone else to stand for
him, was returned to Jail.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01
COUNTY NEWS.
The Prohibition Quesiion-Local Hap.
peninss.
Correspondence of The santinel.l

penfnss.
Correspondence of The Santinel-l
BETHANIA, Feb. 27.-For a minister
of the gospel to give spiritual conso-
ISOLATION to the wine-bibber and to the
bar-keeper is not progress-it is big
step backwards. Admit that his re-
searches are learned and scriptural,
and that his deductions and con-
clISionS are sincere and revereut, the
effect is great wrong at this day and
time when dramdrnking, and toe
often its equivalent, drunkenness, are
sapping the mental and physical vi
tality of our youth, and threatening
to overthrow not only our religious
but our moral system as well. Our
Bible should be studied so as to prove
a blessing and not curse, for therein
we read, "Behold, | set before you
this day blessing and curse.'
The Bethania Reading Club has
been reorganized for the present year.
Miss Minnie Mickey, of Salem, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Z. S. Cros-
land, of this place.
Salem Female Academy to spend
| Washihgton's Birthday at her home
| in Bethania. She returned On the
23rd.
| Mrs. P. e. Butner has been very
| sick for the past two weeks.
| The farmers ia this section are ma
| king very little preparations for to-
baccO crop this year, as present prices
| are so low.
A drove of fine horses and mules
! passed through town a few days ago.
| They were reported d dull sale, and Of
fered at remarkably low prices.
Your popular and efficient agent,
| Mr.. l.. L. Thomas, was in town a few
days since, rand'was as sparkling in wit
and as quick at repartee as in days OF
yore. He talked newspaper" and
left his respects, as usual, to theta
dies. BETHANIA.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01
WaikertOwn.
nee of The Sentinel

Correspondence of The Sentinel
WALKERTowN, Feb. 22.-People are
talking about counterfeit silver, but
[ have not seen any. Another topic
is the new postmaster and the big pay
he is going to get.
This is Wash.ngton's Birthday and
also Aunt Pauline Taylor's. She is
IA, and the women have fixed up sur.
prise dinner for her and her daughter
Miss Viola Bodenhamer is visiting
Miss Lily Grubbs.
Mes~rs. Sullivan & Crews are buy
ing tobacco on the Winston market.
The roads are bad, and where Mr.
Shut worked them up last Spring
are very muddy. Last night it took q
yoke of oxen, besides pair of mules
to pull a wagon through the mud.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-01
From Stokesd ale.
Core ,eondenoe of the sentinel.l

Core fondence OF the SentInel.l
SToKEsDALE, Feb 26-Prof. March,
liotte will give an entertainment at
the close OF his school, which will be
the 10th of Nj trch.
Mrs. j, I'll. Clark returned Satur-
day after a visit to her brother-in-
law at Haw River, N. G.
Mrs. Love, of Iowa, who has beep
visiting relatives and friends here,
went to KernersviIle last week to
visit relatives.
There has been great deal of
sickness in this section this winter
There has been several deaths re-
Gently.
Mr.. Tom Galloway went to Madi-
sen last week.
Mr.. Clark went to Winston this
afternoon to be present at the trial
of the Sapp-Lamar case.
The Misses Neal, of Madison, have
been visiting their grandfather, Mr..
Angel, near this place.