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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
IN DEEP DISTRESS

An old Confederate. soldier is in
deep distress-has been condemned
to death by Mexican court-and an
effort is being made to save his life.
The particulars are given in a
circular letter recently issued by
General John B. Gordon and a sup
Elementary statement made by Dr.
R. B. Lignoski, of Houston, Texas,
who has manifested much interest in
the matter and proposes to go to
Mexico and make intercession for the
release OF the condemned man.
The name of the unfoI tunate ex
Confederate is Mac Stewart, and the
charge upon which he is sentenced to
be shot to death is murder, he hav-
ing killed a Mexican policeman on
May 31st, 1895. There appear to
be extenuatiug circumstances con
nected with the killing of the police
man.
Gen. Gordon says from what he
has heard of the case there are grave
doubts that Stewart received a fair
trial in the Mexican courts, and that
an able Mexican lawyer is of the
opinion that his trial was not a fair
one.
Dr. Lignoski states that Stewart
shot the policemen purely in self
defense and shot only after the
policeman bad shot him, and, firth
er, that Judge Luna, who defended
Stewart at the trial, and who is now
President of the Supreme Court OF
Chihuahua, shows very conclusively
by evidence that the act was com
mitted entirely in self defense. Ex-
Gov. Hogg has consented to accom-
pany DIR. Lignoski to Mexico and
has offered to assist in pleading for
Stewards release.
Money is needed to carry out the
effort to save the life of this unfor-
tunate man and an appeal for funds
is made to ex-Confederate soldiers
aid Others. This appeal should not
fall upon deaf ears. Remittances
should be made to DIR. r B. Lignoski
or Capt. c. G.. Beavens, Houston,
Texas, before September 10th.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
MAI GUTHRIE'S PLAIN TALK.
Why He Did Not Attend the Populiss
Executive Committee Meeting,

why He Did Not Attend the Populist
Executive Committee Meeting.
Durham Special to News and Observer.
A News and Observer reporter
being in Durham, called at the office
of Guthrie & Guthrie, and finding the
major at his desk the following in
terview occurred:
Reporter: "Major Guthrie, [ see
you are not attending the meeting OF
the State Populist executive commit
tee now being held in Raleigh"
Major Guthrie: mo, l am not a
mem Der of the committee myself, and
[ thought under existing circum-
stances | had better stay at home.
You remember perhaps that the
State Populist committee in the last
campaign got SO fused and mixed
up with the Republican State COM
mittee that it was hard to tell which
one the bag belonged to, and found
myself pulling one way and they
were pulling another way before the
election came on. l thought l would
just wait awhile now and let them
find out where they are at The
fact is, | am now permanently en-
ployed by Guthrie & Guthrie, at
torneys, and attending to their bust
ness exclusively, and | rather like my
employment, too, for they keep their
promises with me and don't tell me
any lies either, nor pretend to believe
one thing and do another"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
MoNoMETALLIsT LOGIC.

The Washington Post believes
thoroughly in the gold standard,
but it does not believe in some of the
clap trap arguments that are now
being SO freely used by some of the
advocates of that standard, in their
great hurrah over the decline in
silver bullion; and, under the caption
of ga Revival of Poppycock," the
Post gives the shouters of "43 cent
dollars" something to cogitate upon
in the following editorial:
'We are having, just now, another
taste of the monometallist style OF
logic. We have 1t in various publi-
cations setting forth the fact and the
details of the great fall iE the price of
silver bullion. According TO all this,
silver il on the down grade and will
soon cease to rank among the
precious metals, and so we are told,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
EASTERN CAROLINA.
Negroes and IIliterate whites Have
the Offices.

A gentleman who returned a Few
days ago from trio TO the EasteIn
part of the State, tells a sal story re-
garding the coalition OF affairs in
that part Of the Old North Safe He
says:
II feel sorry for the people ~ that
section. The other day J was in the
largest store in good sized town
when "A young lady came in and SAID
to the proprietor ~ the store that she
had $50 90 in county script in her
hand, wanting to know If she could
buy some thirgs at the store The
man told her that he would sell her
anything he had on As long time as
she desired, but that he could not
take the script, for not dollar was
i a the treasury and ne did u IL know
when there would be. The lady SAID
She was 4 teacher and just been paid.
She did not know what 90 do, for she
had to live and look after her mother
and she had 70 other means nf sup
port. | find in many Of these Eastern
counties just such state ~ affairs.
Things are in control Of ne worst
element Of the politicians ~ the Re-
publican faith-uegroeS and illiterate
whites-who have brought things to
Il pretty pass"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
NEW ERA IN SLEEVES.
A Very Decided Change in Shape is
Taking Place.

New York cor. Richmond Dispatch.
There is no question but that the
balloon and even the leg of mutton
sleeves will fade away. Flat sleeves
are unquestionablv coming into
fashion. A modiste just from Paris
told me a day or two ago that the
latest creations of the best Dress
makers over there show scarcely any
fitness at all IN the shoulders of the
dresses. Therefore, it is not too
much TO say that another season will
see US practically back to the old
style of tight sleeves.
just at present the most popular
sleeve is that which has a little
globular putting at the top, and is
plain from there to the wrist. This
putting may be provided by the
sleeve itself, or by an additional
piece forming a short extra sleeve
Another way is to have it plain, ex-
cept for few pleats set in Oh the
shoulder, which style may have an
epaulette or not, as one plpases
Still another style is cut and pleated
so as to give the fl ct of a double
puff across the top of the arm, some
times very little iulness being used,
and sometimes a good deal, the
sleeve itself being loose above the
elbow
All the sleeves mentioned may be
in single piece, though those with a
circular pulling are generally cut in
two. Sleeves running in tucks across
or gathered leDgthwise in tiny puffs
and mounted on tight fitting Innings
are very fashionable just now, as
they suit thin fabrics particularly
we'll, but there is a decided tendency
to prefer palmer forms in the very
latest productions.
Dressmakers continue to cut sleeves
fully long, but the points coming
down oyer the hands are not seen so
fre quently as of late. Lace TT fl IS,
however, concealing a portion of the
hand, are seen on most of the smart
toilets. A very small minority oil
garden party costumes worn on
different occasions late,y have elbows
rather wide and finished with deep
| lace RULES, but this sort of sleeve is
generally reserved for house dresses
and tea gowns. | might add, too,
that many low evening dresses have
quite long sleeves.
Jacket and coat sleeves will, OF
course, be diminished in width as
| dress sleeves grow smaller, but to
| accommodate the inside sleeve Ger
tain amount of breadth at the top is
necessary. Therefore, the new coats
and Jackets which we will begin to
think OF presently will continue to be
mounted in pleats, though shallow
and reduced in number. Hanging
sleeves, reaching to the elbow, will be
| adapted to some of the more fanciful
Jackets
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
IMPROVEMENT.

From natural causes, and not
from political reasons, we believe
there will be improvement in business
this Fall and Winter. How far
reaching will be this improvement
and how long the time of it's dura.
ton we will not undertake to say.
We do not know that it is necessary
to discuss these questions at this
time, but we would impress upon the
citizens of Winston-Salem the i'm
portance of being prepared for the
increased business when it comes.
Don't be caught mapping. On the
contrary, be ready TO give as much
impetus as possible to any approach
of prosperity, whether 1t comes as
gentle ripple upon rivers bosom,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
THE SAME OLD FOX.
A Criticism of Buffers Speech at
VI adesbOro.
Charlotte Observer.

Charlotte Observer.
Senator Buffers Wadesboro speech,
Thursday, was entirely character
| istic. He needs rest but he cannot
| rest, while he sees the dangers that
threaten the people, until he warns
them of them. Ii it were not for him
| they would soon be ruined and never
know it. Others have been faithless
but he has been faithful always. He
has never deceived anybody, not
even Guthrie or Pritchard. In fact,
he is the only genuine. Ii he said
| any thing about free silver, the
Observers reporter of his speech
failed to catch it, Tor it does not ap-
pear in the report. Last year every
thing was free silver Now it is
monopolies and trusts The rail-
the State. Yet, two of the three
by MIR. Buffers Legislatures-why
haven't they done their duty? The
trusts-oh, yesl The one that
touches the people OF North Carolina
most closely is the tobacco trust
Where was Mr.. Butler and what WAS
be saying about it when Mr.. c. B.
Watson was fighting it in the Legis
lature few years ago and some OF
the balance of US were holding up his
hands? The trusts They dictated
the tariff bill which has just passed
Congress. That the sugar trust and
all the balance of them, and all the
great monopolist manufacturers got
in that bill everything they wanted,
is matter of common knowledge
and public scandal, and yet Mr.
Butler, sitting in the Senate, did not
even record his vote against it
The trusts,'' he says, cannot live
without denunciation by their agents,
liAe Mckinley and Cleveland.
What, then shall be thought of
United States Senator who denounces
them but refuses to vote against
them when they are preparing to fix
their own tariff law upon the country
for years to come? Talk at home is
cheap, but votes in a close Senate
count.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19

objection to the "city by the DAN"
but this place would in our opinion
offer more attractions and advan
tages for such an exposition as our
Danville friend suggests than any
tobacco market in the United States.
Danville claims the distinction of SELL
ing more pounds of loose leaf tobacco
than any market in the world. This
we will grant, and at the same time
congratulate our sister tobacco
market on it's Importance and enter
prise. Winston however claims and
can prove the assertion that she sells
more tobacco direct from the hands
of the farmers than any other loose
market in the world. Besides the
Importance of our tobacco market
we have here the most extensive plug
tobacco interest in the South. there
fore Winston claims to be the most
important tobacco city in the United
States, and therefore the proper
place for the exposition.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
To Drive Pennsylvania Coal Out

New Orleans Daily States.
The fact that the Southern Rail-
road Company has esta blished a
barge line from Greenvile, Miss ;,
with view of hauling Alabama coal
to that point from Birmingham and
floating it down the river is a matter
of considerable interest to the large
sugar planters along the lower river
1t Is the intention of the Southern
Railroad Company to bring Ala
bama coal in competition with the
product of the Pittsburg mines and
supplying it to the planners at such
a lo| rata as to drive all Ptnnsyl-
vania coal out of the field. The
Southern Railroad, with this end in
view, has built docks ard screens at
Greenville and leased for a pariod of
five years barge feet capable OF
conveying 900 tons OF coal on a
trip. 1t is estimated that the barge
fleet under tow of steamers will cover
the distance etween Greenville and
this city in sixty hours.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
FOR TIE WINSTON pIsrR1cr.
Epworth League and Sunday School
Conference


Conference.
At the Methodist Conference for the
winston district, To be held at Ker-
nersVille, opening on August Goth, one
Gay FRIDAY 27th) will be devoted to
the Epworth League and Sunday
schools OF the district. The follow
ing program has been arranged for
that day:
MoRNIN7 SESSION.
9:l0-Roll Call of Delegates.
9:2o-Reports from Sunday Schools
S:oo-Address: The Difficulties in the wav
OF Sunday School Work and how 10
,o.o- overcome Them" Rev. G. F. Sheriff.
l0:05-Open Discussion.
lo'lo-AddfeSs: Some Works of n Live
sunday School," Rev. w. H. Nc
io:3o-0pon Discussion
11q:60-besson Taught, by T. L. Rawler.
IL l5-Sermon, Rev. J. A, Green.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
3:WCOpening Exercises. Rev. C. f. Sheriff.
9'ol-6eports from Leagues
5:Zo-This Young Peoples Movement
What Does it Mean? Rev. d. H. Co
3:4O-Open Discussion.
J 3:55-How to Organize and Conduct
League. r. B. Crawford
4:05-Report from Toronto Convention
Rev. J. A. b. Fry
4:25-Miscellaneous Business.
EVENING SESSION.
8:00-Mass Meeting.
Song Service led by Rev. F. II. Wood Al
dresses by Rev. q w. Callahan and Others
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
THEY wHIsTLED DIXIE.
When the Bride Wore Pink and The
Groom Nose>Glasses.

Salisbury World.
For many long days George Pruett,
Jr.. has smiled upon Miss Sallie
Sided, of Frog Pond. Georges
smiles were having an obvious ef,
feet on the lady of his choice when
he imbibed of fermented corn Juice
too freely one July afternoon and
visited his lady love. After imprint
ing several spurious articles of the
W. Murdoch Wiley hyerogliphics on
her fair features the blue coats
yanked George in. The Mayor gave
him 80 days on the chain gang apd
Miss Sallie wept. But Mayor Linn's
heart was not to be touched by fem,
mime distress, SO George is breaking
stone on the county road today. In
the meanwhile George Pruett, ST.,
came along and sued for Miss Sides
hand. The third wife of George, Sr
had only been deceased about four
weeks and Miss Sall1e hesitated. The
veteran OF many courtship fought
a good fight. He kept at it unceas>
ingly.
And as the result he led a blush>
/ ing bride of unknown summers to
the Office of Esquire j. M. Koran to
day. The bride was attireG in pink
checked calico delicateIy trimmed
with sky blue ribbon. The groom
wore nose>glasses and parted his
hair la mode Coone Brownee.
As the couple entered the front
door of the court house Prof. R. 6
Kizer mslodiously warbled Dixie
from the rear entrances; Sheriff
Monroe whistled "God Save tt G
Queen" in the recesses of Clerk of
the Court Watson's vault; Register
"oodson adjusted his glasses and
surveyed the imposing spectacle.
In brief ceremony Esquire Horah
tied the knot in the presence of A.
Hobson Price and J. Lewis Lendle>
man, After brief reception they
did the perambulating act to the
brides residence at 301 Fish Ave
nue., Frog Pond, where they lived
happily ever since.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19

with a.gravity too beautiful to be
described in words, that silver has
seen its best days and that the adj
vocates of free coinage may as we'll
sit reminds US of the lively cam
paign of 1896 1t recalls all the
ignorance and stupidity of that
never-to be-forgotten episode. We
hear once more the strident bray OF
Bynum aud Cochran and the frantic
imprecations of the New York Sun.
Silver is even more worthless than it
was ten months ago, they tell us.
Then ''the dollar was worth but so
cents" now it is worth only 43
cents" And all the wiseacres and
the parrots and the owls are prating,
echoing, and looking wise, until one
begins to question the wisdom OF a
Providence that let's such things con-
tinue. ''Silver is depreciating every
day !" screams one miracle of human
intelligence. "The silver dollar is
losing it's purchasing powerl" yells
another. The whole collection of
the monometallist chorus proceeds
to bay the moon until the welkin
fairly rings.
zone hesitates to interject into this
inane hullabaloo even so much as a
suggestion of common sense and
reason. 1t seems IL wicked waste of
time to ask these reI-faced yelpers
why silver has deprecated in the
market, and whether, if gold were
subjected to the same process, it,
would not lose it's commercial value
in like ratio. Intrinsicaily, the prop
osition is simple enough. The mInts
of the civilized nations are closed to
silver; the same minis are open to
gold. In this way the only thing
that makes money of any metal is
bestowed upon gold and withheld
from silver. In this way gold ac-
quires a fictitious and artificial
worth and silver is reduced to the
standard of it's essential usefulness.
In the same way, were che process
reversed-were the miuts closed to
gold and opened wide to silver
would gold depreciate and silver
become more valua BILE. Yet the
monometallist orators and editors,
the photographers aud the headline
enthusiasts go ahead upon their in
sensate and vociferous way as
though reason had vanished from
the earth and the people had nothing
left save slobber, gush, and poppy
cock.
cit seems to US the most logical
result imaginable that silver, berefit
Of it's money attribute, should de
preciate in the market. Like gold, it
has but limited adaptability to the
piled to any practical purpose. 1t is
not susceptible of conversion into
implements of husbandry, into
machinery, into tools, etc. 1t is fit
only for ornament or for coinage
into money. Robbed by legislation
of it's latter quality, its range of use.
fulness is sadly narrowed. We do
not ask the moDometallist shriekers
what would become of gold under
like circumstances 1t would be
cruel. They do not know"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
THE PENSION ROBBERY.
A Protest Agains, Pensioning Desert
ers, Bummers, Etc.
Richmond Dispatch.

Richmond Dispatch.
During the past five years the in
ternal revenue taxes amounted in
the aggregate to $3.50, 915,276, and
the customs duties, the governments
only other source of income, TO
$61S, 14O,194 During the same
period the appropriations for pen
sions amounted TO 1868 335, 092.
In other words, the pensions practi
cally absorbed the receipts from one
or the other of our sources OF revenue
Again, to put the matter in another
form. the people of this country have
been tax.d during the past five years
81 ,202 100000, nearly half of which
has been paid out in pensions.
Twenty five years ago James A
Garfield, who could not be suspected
of being inimical to pensIoning
worthy Federal veterans, declared on
the floor of the House of Representa-
tiyes that the pension list WAS then
''swollen beyond all account" and a
little later, as chairman of the APP
preparations Committee, expressed
the opinion that it might reasonably
he expected that the expenditures for
pensions would thereafter steadily
decrease, unless pension legislation
should be unwarrantabiy extrava-
CANT. At the time Mr. Garfield made
these deliverences the pension roll
footed up about $50 100000; now
it amounts to over Sal 100000
Despite the sectional character of
the pension system, in the sense that
this section gets back none Of the
money it contributes to pensions,
the South has never objected to the
pensioning of honorably discharged
Federal veterans or the widows of
Federal soldiers Of honorable record,
who were killed or died during the
war, or have died since the war. But
she does protest against the pension
ing of deserters, and bum ners, and
camp-followers, and their aunts and
their uncles, and their descendants
to the end of time. She does protest
against the highway robbery SO
largely represented in the pension
roll OF today, and is glad to see that
the matter is being brought forcibly
and clearly to the attention of the
oax payers of the North and West.
She is glad to know that her protest
is being echoed in the North and
West. and to observe that there are
signs of the iniquity's being made an
issue by the tax payers of certain
sections.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19

LEXINGTON, Ky, Aug. IG-There
is general belief in central Ken,
lucky that wheat will go to dollar
before September Ist Purchasing
agents for the Green Com tniss,on Go.
and +. d. " hite q Co of st I.ouis
and Forbes d Go of New York. who
have been here buying for export.
nave made such poor progress thew
VIII leave tomorrow. Usually about
5000 cars are shipped from mere to
the seaboard to fill orders from Eng
hsh mlllers, who prefer blue grass
wheat. This year there will be 80, :
600 ears, but instead of 2 500 cars
having been shipped by Aug. Is, as
usual, not over l coo have left.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
M shell Facts About Alaska.

Purchased in 1867 from Russia for
81. 200,0OO purchase negotiated by
William.H S ward
Estimated present population,
40 900
G bid first discovered in 1879
Area in square miles. 531 400
Estimated produ It of gold to date,
$30,000,00O
Principal products besides gold,
furs, fish and lumber.
Principal occupation of the people,
hunting and fishing.
Governor of the Territory, James
d. Brady; residence at Sitka.
Principal cities, Sitka (the capitaD,
Juneau, WraDgel, Circle City.
Population Census of 1900,
80 329, of whom but 4,416 were
whites, S,400 Esquimaux and
13,735 Indians.
Principal mountains, Mount Logan,
altitude 19, 500 feet; Mount st. Elias,
Is, 100; Mount Wrangle, 1880.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
Original obseryatio 8.
Orange (va.) Observer.

Orange (Na.) Observer.
The sparkle of repentant tears
reaches heaven.
The cyclone makes the people feel
dreadfully blew.
The key to a lovers heart is often
found in a lock of hair.
The world is a stage that carries
too many deadhead passengers.
The man who s'nose it ALP very
often gets his knows mashed.
The silent watches of the night are
probably the ones which their own
ers forgot to wind.
The world is all feeting show, a
circus quite complete, and he who
has the latest purse will have the
finest seat.
Oh, summer, we do love you so,
for your faults are very few; the
greatest-and it is no crime-there
are SO many flies on you.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19

PREACHERS may preach, law makers
may put wise laws upon the statute
books, conventions may pass resolu-
tions, conservative men may talk
about letting the law take it's course,
but just so long as certain crimes
are committed, Judge lynch will
dispose of the perpetrators of the
hlackest crime that can be commit
ted and dispose of them quickly too.
The only way to stop lynch law is
to stop these miserable brutes from
committing such horrible crimes
that cause lynching. 1t is always
better to let the law take it's course,
but there is no use talking about it
when a pure innocent girl is out
ragged by a brute. Whenever such
crime is committed the brute is "a
UOnero
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-19
or as a roaring billow from old

oceans surging waters.
The Fall time is not far off. As in
dividuals and as a community, We
must be up and doing. A prosperity
wave is a respector of persons in that
it opens the horn of plenty to those
who are disposed to help themselves.
We can't afford to LET a humping
time come along and fail TO take ad-
vantage of it. The power to do is
great in our towns. Anything with
in reason may be accomplished, by
earnest, united action. The successes
of the past should serve as an in
spiration to renewed efforts for the
future. With the passing away of
the heated term, let US hope there
will be manifested such energy and
public-spirit as may be needed to
push forward the interests of the
twin-city and TO such degree as will
keep pace with the looked-for pros
perity wave, no Eever great that may