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THE NICARAGUA INCIDENT.

THE NICARAGUA INCIDENT.
The arrogant injustice of the Nicara
guam incident and our own shameful
cowardice in the matter becomes more
apparent the more the matter is consid
cred. Toadying papers like the New
York Times and Erening Post try to
blind the people by prating about the
miserable Governments Of the Spanish
American States, and that we have no
| call to interfere when some civilized
power gives them well-deserved spank
ing. 1t will be remembered that these
papers sang very different key when
we were trying to teach Chile lesson
that our sailors could not be murdered
with impunity. Then they were in a
frenzy about our great Government
Qualifying" weak, little country. The
plain facts are that there is strip of
country known as "the Musketo Coast"
which constitutes Nicaragua's territory
On the Gulf of Mexico, and through
which the whole people and trade in the
interior must pass in order to reach
the Gulf and the United States. 1t is
as properly Nicraguan territory and as
necessary to the sovereignty Of the little
Republic as Louisiana and New York
are to us. The Musketo Coast is inhab-
tied by a tribe originally Indian, but
which has become greatly mixed with
negro blood. England has long had
her covetous eyes upon this strip, which
is very important for the control of the
1sthmus of Panama, and 80 years ago
she tried to seize it in order to control
the travel to the California gold fields.
She set up "King of the Musketo
Indians" who was mere fgurehead for
herself Old each " Taylor was Presi-
dent then, and he sat down very heavily
on the scheme. The probable construc-
ton of the Nicaragua Canal caused her
to renew her Vaccinations. Her Consul
was clearly and undeniably stirring up
the Musketo Indians to revolt, to give
Great Britain a REASON for interfering.
The Nicaraguan Government very prop
erly expelled Consul Hatch from the
country. Thereupon England, robber-
like, put a pistol to Nicaragua's head
and said: "You must pay me SIS, 1000"
There was no statement as to the amount
Mr.. Hatch was said to have been In
jured; there was no adjudication; there
were none of the forms nations and
individuals usually 60 through when
trying to collect damages. 1t was as
straightforward piece of plundering as
was ever done by train-robber. Eng
fish ships seized Corinto, the chief port
of Nicaraugua on the Pacific, with the
determination of holding it
until the money was paid.
We stood by and saw it done, and
European papers went into ecstasies over
the summary manner in which the bug
bear of the Monroe Doctrine had been
of by England's bold action.
This has tendency to make the
American people very hot under the
Ill
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sent Amediately to the Armeres and REPAIRED
| The Captain Of Companies are ALSO to Make
| q Return Of Baynots and Carthage Boxses
| the Ammonision Wasted in the THAR
! Respective Co., & in paying of THAR men the
Two Months pay lattly drawn are to Retain
| in THAR Hands Nine Shillings for each Bay
| not &c Twelve Shillings for each Carthage
Box lost, & Six pence for each Carthage
Wasted.
Think of that, you fellows who used
your bayonets for tent-pins, toasting-
irons, and candlesticks, and your cart
ridges.to shoot pigs and geese, etc. The
pay of private soldier in the Revolu-
ton was Sd month, or Is -shillings, so
that it cost him half months pay
to lose his bayonet, and three-fourths of
months pay for a cartridge-box.
Every cartridge he could not account
for cost him nearly a days pay.
His first record of court-martial
does not read unfamiliarly, except as to
the spelling:
Matthew Bryent, of Capt. Allings Com
pany, Charged Absenting Himself from the
Foteague party half day Sc Getting Drunk
pleads guilty. The Cort Tharfore Orders
him to Ride the Wooden Horse Twenty
Minits with Six firelocks Lasht to his Feet.
"Seems to us" that we heard during
the last war of some man who shirked
his fatigue duty and got drunk. 1t
may be, too, that they made him ride a
wooden horse, with muskets tied to his
feet. Of course, such thing never
happened in our regiment. 1t was in
somebody else's.
The next entry has a different and
more savage sound:
The Cort Proceeded to the trial of Magnes
Noice Coniin'd for Muteness 81 Bad and Dis
respectful Language against his officers And
wisht one half of them in He'll. Said Noice
pleads guilty &c Bags the Mercy of the Cort
The Cort Finds the prisonir Punashabel
agreeable to the 5th Artickel & Is section of
the Artickels of War. The Cort Consider
ing the nature of his Offence DO Order him
to Receive Fifty Strips on his Naked Back.
just how he could have been guilty
of muteness" and bad language at the
same time is hard to understand. But
he got bis "Fify Strips, well laid on"
all the same.
Richard Soften, for sleeping away
from his quarters and "telling a lye"
about, it to his Captain, Jared even worse,
for he received 50 stripes ON his bare
back. Oliver Washburn, possibly some
relation of the ancestor of the numerous
and distinguished family of that name,
had 60 lashes for being drunk. Mark
Cargedd got 80 lashes for not answering
roll-call Another man, who sold leg
of mutton to man and then stole it
from him, got % lashes.
The lash was a terribly frequent in
strument of discipline, and seems to
have been in use almost daily. Men |
were tied up and whipped for all sorts
Of small ofenses, such as having their
hats &" uncockt."
The Able Robin thought that the use
Of tea in the army enabled the Revolu-
sionary soldiers to endure the frequent
and excessive military foggings.
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shouters for the reconciliation of the
metal.
Let every man who believes in "the
freest use of silver as money" show his
faith by his works by insisting that all
payments to him shall be made in sill.
yer.
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or Magazine Sent Together at Reduced
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To get ready for the great fight for soldiers
righie is TO get up big clubs for the veterans
champion, TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
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,rore Tbon Anv Other Paper.

I think THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has done
more than any other paper in the United States
to bring about glorious victory Tor veterans
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in the hospital an average of six times
That is, if it is adhered to that there
were only 100000 men in the rebel
army. This is SO preposterous as to be
funny. There are hundreds of thou
sands of rebel soldiers alive to-day who
escaped all touch of bullets. If 100000
men had endured all the casualties re-
ported by their surgical officers, and the
still greater number that we have reason
to believe were not reported, every rebel
alive to-day would be fit for museum
freak on account of the tattooing of his
body by bullet, shell, saber, and bayo-
net.
The explanation is simple. The
rebels had over 100000 men in their
ranks, from first to last, as we have re-
peatedly demonstrated from incontestible
figures.
The Ne1cs continues:
The great army of Northern Virginia, sur
rendered by Gen. Robert L. Lee on April 8,
1865, could not muster 10000 fit for active
warfare. OF this body of 600,00 men,
So, 773 were killed outright and 194,026
wounded on the battlefield. One-third of
la mt IN, f,aJn % oil 10
the Confederate Surgeons for the treatment
of battle wounds, and in addition TO such
gigantic services, the greater portion, if not
the entire body of 100000 men, were under
the care of the medical department for the
treatment of disease.
The statement is misleading. Prob
abby Gen. Lee, in the last hours of Ap-
pomattox, did not have over 10000
men " fit for active warfare" But this
was after the probably $4,000 men he
had in March in the defenses Of Peters
burg and Richmond had been merci-
lessly pounded for two weeks, and chased
day and night for about 100 miles. An
army undergoing such an experience as
that melts away very rapidly. Let us
take the report Of its losses in killed,
wounded and captured in the lost momen-
tous 10 days:
March si-Beyd ton and White Oak Road...... 5000
pril Five s.................. ..... 1,325
pril 2Fall OF Petersburg 1900
April C-Saiors Creek 1000
Tota....... 10 345
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There were also heavy losses at Farm
vile and High Bridge, and in fact in
every day of the pursuit.
The records of the War Department
show that Lee surrendered at Appomat-
tox April g:
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s~r"tO WASHINGTON rOsr seoOnOss NATTER
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-07-25

The Banner of Light is, as every
one knows. one of the most success
full UNCONVENTIONAL publications is
sued In this country.
In its Nth volume it is at once
conservative and bright, discussing
not only modern Spiritualism, but
frequently lending its influence
fearlessly in matters of public inns
portance outside its principal field.
Mr.. John w. Day, who is the edi~
tor and one of the proprietors, writes
in The Banner of Light as follows
to the proprietors of Paine's celery
compound:
81 owe you a debt of gratitude in
placing on the market such nerve,
easing and soothing remedy as
Palne's celery compound. 1t was
brought to my notice by friend
who lad himself been greatly res
lieved by its use, as | have also been.
II have frequently taken occasion
to commend Paine's celery cons
pound to others, and | do not know
an instance wherein, if faithfully
tried, it has not worked benefit.
Yours truly, John W. Day.n
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-07-25
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
How Mr.. George Mayo Lost His Life
at Saw Mill.

How Mr.. George Mayo Lost His Life
at Saw Mill.
Mr.. Geo. Kidder Mayo, who was ac-
cidentally hurt in saw mill at Til
lery, N. c., last Friday morning, died
that evening at 8 O'Clock from his in
juries. Mr.. Mayo was superintendent
of the North Carolina Lumber Co. IS
mill at Tillery, and while in the per-
Torrance of his duties there was
struck in the stomach by planeing
bit, which through some arrangement
of the works was hurled from it's
place while making two thousand
revolutions per minute. The bit-a
sharp piece of steel about two by four
inches in siZes-made terrible wound,
and was deeply imbedded in Mr..
Mayo's stomach. Physicians were
summoned and everything possible
Was done for the relief of the unfort-
innate young man, but the wound was
mortal one and he died few hours
afterwards and before the arrival of
his father, Mr.. w. e. Mayo, who
reached Tillery Friday night at II
o'clock.
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Commandments.

The July number of the Wachovia
Moravian gives list of coming
events" for that denomination as fol-
lows:
JULY.
Saturday, 27th.-Supper in Christ
Chapel Grove.
Sunday, 28th.-Commencement of
protracted meetings, Oak Grove.
AUGUST.
Friday, 2d.-Supper in Centerville
Grove.
Sunday, 4th.-Commencement OF
protracted meetings, FrIedland and
Mt. Bethel.
Thursday, 8th.-Christian Endeavor
Anniversary, Oak Grove, s p. M.
Saturday, 10TH Commencement OF
protracted meetings, New Philadel-
phia.
Sunday, 18th. -Same at Providence.
Sunday, 25th.-Same at Eden.
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rltn sfIsmu ELL cAsE.
A Ta'k with MIR Il II. Watson. Conn
sci for the Defense.

The Greensboro Record interviewed
Mr.. c. r. Watson Saturday on the
Shemwell trial. Mr.. Watson repre-
scented the defendant and here is what
he is quoted as saying:
"The newspapers did their best, but
it was impossible for them to report
all the evidence and in leaving out
some of it it often occurred that that
part omitted was Of the best possible
kind for the defense.
'Nr. Watson cited one instance
Said he: The principal witness for
The State was q man named Burgess.
He said he was the first man to reach
the parties at the time of the shoot
ing AMI saw the whole business. /
bad been told that he was a great
blower, if not Il liar, and on croSs-eX-
amining bin | showed him UP until
no man could believe him. He said
Shemwell was walking fast as he APP
preached the PayneS. | asked him if
he WAS not Il fast walker himself. He
said yes that he could move lively,
and on one occasion had left Char
lotte in the morning and walked to
Lexington by the afternoon, dis
taucc Of 50 miles, though at another
time lie had walked 300 miles in three
days
Il had heard Of a story Burgess had
told about bad spell Of coughing his
wife had once and | asked him to re-
peat it. lie did so in all seriousness.
Said she commenced coughing one
one day and nothing seemed to do her
any good. In fact the cough grew
worse and she coughed very hard, so
hard that in one Of her paroXysms one
of her eyes fell out, but that he at
once picked it up and placed it back
in her head and she had been using IL
right along ever since. | asked him
if she noticed any difference in the
sight, when he said not much, except
that she was little near-sighted in
that particular eye.
'tN0w," continued Mr.. Watson, son
the evidence of such man as that the
State asked the jury to convict our
client. OF course no jury could be-
lieye such a man and they acquitted
him. Mind You, this man Burgess
sat there in that witness chair and
sworc positively to these stories and
in all carnestness. !"
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DISCUSSING SHEMWFLL TRIAL.
One of Winston's Young Men in love
With a Kernersvilie Girl.
DISCUSSIl
Correspondence Of the Sentinel

Correspondence of the Sentinal.l
KERNERsvILLE, July 23.-KernerS-
vile and Immediate section is very
dry indeed. Ii appears that all around
us for some distance good rains have
prevailed. Hope your weather
prophet win say rain at Kernersville
tomorrow.
We have n bright, newsy and intel
ligent newspaper in. our town now,
the Silver Advocate. ANY paper or
person with the sentiment that this
name imparts is welcome indeed in
this locality. Truly there is not a
Democrat in this town who is not in
favor Of the free ana unlimited coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to l..
The ones who oppose are Republicans.
ShemWeil continues to be on trial
daily in this city by store-house ora
tors.
Farmers are well up with their work
in this locality and the hum of the
threshing machine is heard in the
land. Mother earth seems to have re-
| warded the farmer for his labor ON
| the wheat crop this year in our sec
tiOn.
1t is thought here that certain
young man from Winston, who regu
larly visits this town, is in love with
some of our ladies, as he changes his
"paraphernalia" three times day.
kVILLE.
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TWO NEW MILLS.
Letters OF Incorporation Filed Satnr
day Last.

Two new manufacturing concerns
took out letters of Incorporation be-
fore the Clerk Of Guilford Superior
Court, Saturday.
Revolution Cotton Mill Company is
the name of one, the incorporators
being Rev. f. ]. Murdoch, G. Gone and
j. w. Scott. The directors are Rev.
f. j. Murdoch, c. Cone, J. W. Scott,
L. Banks Holt, and B. Frank Mebane.
Proximity Manufacturing Company
is the name of the other, the incor-
porators of which are Rev. f. j. Muir
dock, G. Cone and J. A. Odell. Direc-
tors-Rev. f. J. Murdoch, G. Cone. j.
A. Odell, B. n. Duke and B. Frank
Mebane.
The capital stock of each company
is 5000, 900, al Of which, the Record
learns, has been paid in.
1t is said these mills will be built
on property recently purchased from
the Steel and Iron Company east of
the Southern Railway tracks, Green's
bOrO.
Two more companies have been
formed and win likely be incorporated
this week.
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Two AGED PEOPLE DEAD.
Mrs. Phillip Hopkins and Mrs. Eliza
beth Turner Pass Away.

Mrs. Eliza Hopkins, wife of Mr..
Phillip Hopkins, after brief illness,
died at her home, on Depot street,
about II o'clock Saturday night. She
was rs years old. Besides husband
the deceased leaves a sister, Miss
Susie Hartman, and two daughters,
Mrs. a. a. Barton and Miss Roxie
Hopkins. The funeral service was
held at the residence at O'Clock p IN.
Monday, conducted by Rev. d. A
Brown. The remains were laid to
rest in the Salem cemetery.
Mrs. Elizabeth Turner died at
o'clock Sunday evening at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. M. E. York, on
Bellows Creek street, Salem, at the
age of IS years. The deceased was
born in Orange county and had been
in falling health for some weeks. Two
children survive her-Mrs. York and
w. M. Turner, the latter residing at
Pine Grove, n. G. Mrs. Turner was a
member of Grace NJ. E. church. The
remains were sent to ClemmonsYille
today for interment. The funeral
was held at Ciemmonsville Monday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. w. M.
Curtis,
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Mr.. Days portrait is given above.
lie is member of the Masonic, Odd
Fellows, Grand Army and other
fraternal organizations, and is high
ly esteemed by his brethren and
others in the walks of life.
His gratitude for the good that
this greatest of remedies has done
him is in no sense remarkable.
Thousands who have been made well
by Paine's celery compound have
sent their unsolicited testimonials to
the proprietors of the remedy or di-
rect to medical journals OF newspa-
pers telling for the benefit of others
the results that have followed the
use of the remedy that is food for
the nerves and brain, that enriches
! the blood, that makes the weak
strong, and is the one never-failing
specific, prescribed by physicians
and recommended by all who have
ever faithfully used it, for insom-
MIA, nervous debility, neuralgia,
rheumatism, indigestion and the
many ills that come from deranged.
worn out nerves and impure blood.
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A Small strike in Greensboro.

Six carpenters at work on the build
ings at the Normal struck Monday
morning for an increase of wages from
S1.25 to S1.5O per day. 1t appears that
no notice was given of the strike until
yesterday morning, when they sent
for DR.. McIver and said unless they
got $1.50 a day they world quit,
which they were allowed to do. DR..
McIver tells the Record that had they
told him of the matter on Saturday
and asked for an increase in a bust
ness-like way, instead of trying to
force him, he might have acceded to
their request, but when they tried to
force him he didn't force worth a
cent
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Norfolk & western Reorganization

WAS stated this afternoon that the
plan for the reorganization of the
Norfolk & Western railroad will not
be submitted to the security-holders
until fall An official of the company
said that there was a great deal OF
Important matter yet to be settled
and that the English and Dutch Sc
curity- holders would have to be con-
suited before any further progress
could be made. 1t was explained that
another reason for postponing action
at this time was that the earnings Of
the road arc not regarded as sufficient
to form a satisfactory basis.
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CROP CONDITIONS FAVORABLE
What the July Bulletin, Which is Be-
ing Printed Here, Will Say.

ing Printed Here, Will Say.
The July number of the Bulletin of
the Agricultural Department which is
now being printed in Winston, will
say that the crop conditions are, for
the most part, favorable. While rains
have been abundant in most sections,
and some local storms are reported, no
disastrous frcshets have occurred.
Dry weather prevails in only few
sections.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
weather has been more unfavorable
for cotton than for ary other cIOp, the
returns show decided improvement,
the average having advanced from 80
in June to IS now. Reports to the
United States Agricultural Depart
ment to July lst made the condition
S6t. The crop this year will no
doubt be short, bus with dry weather
to kill the lice, which have seriously
damaged some fields, AID to force out
the blooms which are ten days or more
late, there is yet time for great i'm
provement and a fair crop.
Corn is still advancing and is 50,
nearly up to its mark (9I a year ago.
Wheat is Sc, against only GIL last year,
while oats are 81, which is 10 per cent.
higher than in 1894. Rice is 81, just
the same as last year.
The average of tobacco is sc, against
734 last year. Besides the general
State average it has been taken also
by districts; the western district en-
bodying the mountain and piedmont
counties, the middle the tobacco
counties from Surry to Warren, and
the eastern those counties in the east
in which tobacco is grown. In the
middle and western districts the
average is 81, while in the east it is
$50. In the latter cutting has already
begun