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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
THE CITY OF oHARLorrE
Rev. g. r. Conrad FavorabIy Inn.
pressed With His New Home.

Rev. g. f. Conrad Favorablv I'm.
pressed With His New Home.
To the Editors of The Sentinel.
Charlotte is called tho Queen Civ
OF the South" and Chariottonians
are proud of it's distinguished name.
1t is beautiful for situation and the
joy of Mecklenburg county. 1t is
now perhaps the largest city in the
State and in point of general manu-
featuring industries is without a
rival. Its principal streets are
broad and it's business houses all
concentrated which gives it quite a
city like appearance.
One is peculiarly struck with tn.
great number of grocery stores,
which runs up into the hundreds,
while there are not more than seven
or eight dry goods stores.
The town is literally surrounded by
factories which has caused the build
ing to spread out from the center of
the city. Real estate is on high
tilt Building has gone steadily on
through the entire panic. They do
not fear any reaction as they say
they have never had "boom" and
think there will be quite an enlarged
growth in the near future.
One is struck with the LOYALTY of
the people to the city and the ira
ditiOns of the fathers. Liberty is
magnified and extolled. The Goth of
May is the annual day for patriotic
display and the celebration of the
birth of liberty on the American con-
tinent and on Mecklenburg soil.
Tho hos 70 onI +ho /, =,
of the people of Charlotte is unsar-
passed.
The move and push in business re-
minds one of Che 70 or Baltimore
on a smaller scale.
Charlotte has the advantage OF
being a great railroad center and
also being surrounded by good
back country.
It's population now is somewhere
between twenty five and thirty
thousand people.
The denominations are well repre-
sented here, the Presbyterians posi-
bly, in the lead in point of financial
strength, with the Baptists and
Methodists about equal to them in
numbers
Charlotte has some fine Graded
Schools and Colleges. The Luther
ans have recently built fine Female
College of that denomination for the
South.
The Board of Aldermen have re.
Gently granted the Street Car Com.
pany the right to place double tracks
on the principal streets.
The Dilworth Park Company will
build an auditorium at the park to
seat 1900 people. It is to be fin
ished by the Goth of May when the
Liberty Monument is to be unveiled
in the court house square. This will
be big time and all the world Is in
vited to come and help the Queen
City celebrate. Can't the Twin City
come down in full force over the new
railroad via Mocksville and join the
procession.
One sees many signs of Winston
enterprise in the faYorite brands Of
tobacco which are sold here.
S. f. CONRAD.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
DISGRACEFUL.

That was q horrible affair that
recently occurred at Lake City, s c.,
where the newly appointed negro
postmaster and some of his family
were murdered by the enrsged
citizens, because the negro had been
forced upon them. However dis
tasteful the appointment might have
been to the people of that village the
punishment melted out to the post
master was not justifiable, and the
affair is to be regretted by all people
who respect the law. The way to
remedy such things as the appoint
ment of ignorant negroes over the
heads OF decent white people is at the
ballot box, and not by murder and
mob law.
The Charlotte Observer says, in
regard to this sad affair, that ga
crime like this, on the part OF its own
citizens, does the South more harm
than it is within the power of all it's
cn6uli0S W 0O IL Wdc 81 lOtll, SD
brutal deed, that no man can utter
or write rational word in justifica-
ton of it. Thus it is that q handful
of barbarian thugs can make char.
acter for community, a county, a
State, or, as in this instance, for a
whole section. In q county where
such an incident as this is possible it
may be safely assumed that legal
punishment for it is out of the ques
ton, and under the circumstances
there is nothing for the civilization
and humanity of the South to do
except to repudiate the shameful
butchery and incendiarism and de-
clare their adherence and indigna-
ton on account of them.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
EwaR1,s FOURTH HOLD Up. :
Butler is Determined and ts Conf
rent Of SuccesR

A special from Wns ihgton TO the
RnIeigh News and Ot,-. RIVER says:
Ooce more Judge Esart's nomiDa-
zion which has now been pending be
tore the Senate judiciary committee
tor the past three wrrka, went over.
This time, however. it il Z" i,e taken
up for consideration on Friday in-
stead of the following Monday In
view OF senator Buffers determined
opinion this action on the part of the
committee IL significant. but, never
theless, your correspondent has in
fOrmatiou from n reliable. source
that the President is using his -r-
sonal Influence in Judge Egart's
behalf, and that being true, it will be
something most unusual should
.Iudge Eyart's nomination be final ly
rejected, bnt, notwithstanding this,
Senator butler is confident that
Exart will never be confirmed. Sen
| atorial courtesy is mighty power full
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
IRONIOAL IFS.

Chicago News.
1t mistakes were crimes most men
would be in jeil.
If all flesh is grass then babies
must be new moan hay.
If might doesn't always make right
it seldom gets left.
l. you live to a green old age be-
ware of the bunko man.
II the farmer is not sharp as a
raiser he can never succeed.
If a man is oyerbold he seldom gets
bowled over.
If a man is happily married he is
transported for lite.
If a man has bee in his bonnet he
is reasonably sure of a lively hood.
If lover of books is a bockworm
a lover of silks must be silk worm.
IF you would know what kind of O
temper woman has take a wet dog
into her parlor.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03

SMITH GOES FREE.
Discharged for Marrying a Negro in
Winston

From the Henry Bulletin, of Mar
tinsville, Va. dated Feb 25th, We
learn that FL r Smith, charged will
o'gamy, was tried last week in d.
county court and declared not guil,,
AS stated previously in tn ~,
columns, Smith, in the latter part OF
the month of January married at
Winston, n. c., colored woman
named Nettie Hairston, daughter of
Simon HairstoD, a well known distill
er of Patrick county Ga the day
following the marriage Smith and his
dusky bride returned to Martinsville
and he WIS Immediately arrested
both on charge of bignmy and mis-
cegenation.
Smith was tried before a Justice OF
the peace for miscegenation and dis
charged for lack of evidence. but he
Was held for bigamy.
The Bulletin says that he was in
| dlcted and tried Tor that offsnne last
week. 1t was proven that Smith had
a vile In Texas and no evidence was
| produced to show that she had died
or been divorced. The case as adj
mltted by both the prosecution and
defence hinged on the definition o
the word cOhabit, yet it was neces-
sary to give twelve instructions tC
an exceedingly intelligent jury to
explain the definition of the word. we
suppose Oh the idea that if one didn'I
strike them with the proper lpga
force another would; but this make.
the ordinary mind stop and wonder
what a jury is for? What is tn,
Object in having jury? If the cas-,
is contrary to law and evidence, VIII,
go to trial? Why this useless tim,
and expense?
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
TWO POWERFUL wARsaIps
The Kentucky and Kearsarge 70 Be
Launched March %

AhO hAs7htucky anu hearS6rSe TO he
Launched March %
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-The
launching of two great warships on
the same day, the first occurrence of
the kind in this country, takes place
on March % next, when the sister
vessels Kearsarg and Kentucky
will be sent from their ways at the
yard of the Newport News Company.
The President of the firm and Secre>
tary Long have agreed on this date,
and arrangements will be made to
have present distinguished party
of Government officials and officers
connected with the Navy Depart.
ment. Miss Bradley christens the
Kentucky and Mrs Winslow, wife of
Lieut.. Winslow of the navy, the
Kearsarge.
Both ships are the most powerful
ever launched in the United States,
and are unlike in type, and especial.
ly in battery arrangements, to any
of their class in the world. They
are more powerful than the Iowa,
the finest fighter of the present naval
force, and have superposed turrets
fore and aft, mounting four thirteens
and four Fights. The broadside bait
teries will be also very strong. When
launched these ships will be nearer
completion than any war vessels of
this Government have been on first
taking water. The contract with the
navy calls for their completion on
Jan. next. Armor for their sides
is now stored at the yard and ready
for installation soon after the vessels
are launched.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
A Strong Paste

Every housekeeper believes that
she knows how to make good,
strong, reliable sticking paste, but it
Is not every user of the paste who
thinks with her Some homemade
paste is most Enthusiastically stuff
A paste that will not grow mouldy
and disagreeable, but which is also
strong, may be prepared as follows:
Add to every pint of paste I'm ide by
rubbing flour up with cold water, and
then boiling iD 80 grains of corrosive
sublimate, previously powdered; this
paste is not liable to the attacks of
insects, but is poisonous, so should
be used with reasonable caution, and
the pot containing it should not be
allowed to lie about within reach of
children and animals.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
oURIosITIEs OF MARRIAGE.


Goethe said he married to obtain
responsibility.
Wicherly, in his old age, married
his servant girl to spite his relatioh AS.
The joining of right hands in an
Gent times bad the solemnity and
the validity of an oath.
Giving a ring is supposed to indi-
cate the eternity of the union; seeing
that circle is endless.
Uuder the Roman empire marriage
was simply a contract; hence we read
of men putting away" their wives.
Among the Jews the rule was for a
maiden to marry on the fourth and
a widow on the fifth day of the week
NOT earlier.
In Roman marriage the bride
was purchased by the bridegroom
payment of three pieces of copper
money to her parents.
The custom of putting a veil upon
the maid before the betrothal was
done to conceal her bushes at the
first touch of the mans hand and at
the closing kiss.
Kissing the bride the moment the
marriage ceremony ended, though
not now prescribed by the rubic of
the Western churches, formerly was
an impera tive act on the part of the
bridegroom.
The early marriage ceremony
among the Anglo Saxons consisted
merely of hand fastening, or taking
each other by the hand, and pledging
each other love and affection in the
presence of friends and relatives.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03

which has no claim to recognition in
our country. The winters may be
long and cold, but q body knows
that the following day will be an
other winter rather than a summer.
The Artic climate enjoys a continue
ty of old fashioned zero weather,
which needs only to be thoroughly
understood to be appreciated. ow
ever we do not mean to cast any
reflections upon North Carolina
climate, for as a rule it is beautiful.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
SAM JONES TALKS.
d. c'ares he Has No Desire to be Gov
ernor of Georgia

d. c'ares He Has No Desire to be Gov
ernor of Georgia
Atlanta Journal
Rev. Sam Jones came to town this
morning and was interviewed by The
journal. He is as mysterious as he
was In his platform, He continues
to she'll the woods, and throw a few
grapeshot into the congressional
race, but he leaves his candidacy as
much of mystery as ever.
When asked what he meant by his
letter and announcement. he said:
Il am not running for governor.
L am just a candidate. l don't have
to run. l can sit on a stump and
beat some fellows running. an,
nounced myself candidate simplv
to get In on the ground floor, as the
boys used to say in boom times, to
lend dignity and urban1ty to nv
utterances, or rather, 1 came in to
give dignity and character to the
situation. Let the other fellows fun
nish the reputation and | will fur>
nish the character.
Il have no more desire to be gov.
ernor of Georgia than I have to be
bailiff in my militia district. One
job has as much enticement for me
as the other, but I do want to see
| fair play one time. l do want to see
the common people of Georgia have
| their way"
| How long are you going to sit on
the stump"
! Il AM GENTLEMAN"
! Il will stand on my announcement
uutil L see how the land lies. |
won't submit my candidacy to any
primaries or courthouse cliques O,
Democratic conventions. / ann a
Democrat, nor Republican,, nor d
Populist. l am gentlemen. Gen.
eral Evans submitted his claims to
| primaries aud conventions ia the
race he made, and he broke a leg
and has not been able. to run any
since. l am a horse In the field
loose, without any saddle or bride
on, and L am dead sure l have nc
rider on board"
| "How long do you expect to be 8
candidate ~
81 expect l will be a candidate al
long as most of the other Gro wd that's
In the field. What's the use of fel.
low being candidate when he sees
he stands no more chance for a iot
than pig in back lot would stanc
a chance for being a host on Peach,
tree street.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
THE NEGRO AT THE NORTH

A North Carolina negress was re-
Gently married to a young white
map, the son of William Wells, a
wealthy citizen of Vineland, N. j.
The marriage has created as big sen
sation among the people who have
SO long protested to love the negro.
The girl was a school mate of the
young man, and it was at school the
attachment was formed that ended
in marriage.
1t seems that social equality at the
North is limited. They may go to
school together, and sometimes stop
at the same hotel and eat at the
same table, but they must not
marry, and along this line the
Wilmington Messenger makes some
pertinent remarks, as follows:
''In the north as the Messenger has
often shown the negro fares worse
really than in the south Many liz
stances have been given from tiue to
time. The fact that the negroes
have not the same opportunities for
employment up there as in the
south Is proof enough of our conten-
tion- The negro who writes himself
L. Thomas Fortune, an editor in
New York, has fallen into bad luck in
spite OF his name. He has got into
trouble more than once because OF
his conduct. He lately, however,
went to a Brooklyn theatre and
asked for two tickets in the centre OF
the house This caused the agent to
slam down two tickets with the
statement-I have only standing
room for YOU Fortune wished to
argue the point when he was arrested
and hustled out by a policeman.
The unsold seats were to be counted
treatment was that the buyer was q
negro. Fortune is hot and now says
that Sambo fares better IN the south
than in the north. AnG SO the fight
WaxsLh.o
THERE must be some consolation
in the climate of Greenland. When
Greenland winter has fairly set in
it is safe to store all the summer
oouH away iOi ~ warm SPohs COHio
along at inconvenient seasons
re qairing the change of clothing, etc.
In fact the sudden changes of temp.
Serature incident TO our country do
not exist in Greenland A man
knows in the morning ofeYery day
whether to wear an overcoat or
linen duster-whether to put on
fiannels or gauze. There is a happy
stability about Greenland climate
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
Increased from 100 to $50.
Charlotte News.l

IHarIOtte NeWSI
& do not know whether serious
troubl.. is expected" said an officer
of q North Carolina military com
pany to News man, "but do know
that unusual preparations are being
made. Heretofore the limit of enlist
ment allowed any single company
has been one hundred men. The
limit has been suddenly increased to
one hundred and fifty men per COM
pany, and the companies have been
ordered to enroll the names OF per-
SONS formally enlisted in the COM
pany to the full limit. Whether this
means anything do not know"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
One Effect ar sancrifi cation.

Reidsville Weekly.
Elder j. M. Harris tells an interest
ing story of a conversation he had
with darkey who professed sancti-
fication, in the eastern part of the
State year or two ago. He asked
the oil 4 man what evidence he had of
the blessing He replied that before
he was sanctitied he would ak, other
peoples wood and his CO Iscience
troubled him; but now he believed
the earth was the Lords and when
he wanted stick he took it. His
Bible told hi n the cattle on a thous-
and hills were the Lords, so if he
wanted a shoat he would think moth
ing of going and getting 1T. The
landlord, who was present, told the
old fellow if he was to catch him TAX
ing one of his hogs he would shoot
him, to which the darkey replied that
he couldn't; il he was to hurt him he
would be struck down like Ananias
was. Elder Harris says the old
darkey talked as if he believed every
word he said.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03

ONE of the great central figures in
the Observation-Disclosures troubles
is General Fitz Hugh Lee, nephew
OF the great Robt. E. Lee, and him
self a distinguished general in the
Confederate army. In retaining
Gen. Lee in Office at Havana, Mr..
Mckinley has acted wisely. If our
country should go to war with Spain
the South would give to the country
another great General, and his name
will be Lee.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03

The war between Russell and Han
cock waxeth hot and hotter. 1t
promises to be a regular "Kilkenny
cat" affair, or "dog eat dog" While
it is to be regretted that men of
prominence should be engaged in
such dirty work, the war possesses
some amusing features.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
A SKETCH OF MARSHAL NEY.
Drawn by Peter 8. Ney in a Life of
Napoleon BoDaparte.

Col. Odds, of Raleigh, has received
an interesting letter from Rev. DIR.
James III. Weston, now rector of the
Episcopal church at Wilkesboro In
it DE-. Weston says: 1.-The librarian
of Davidson College has recently
found a book in the college libr ary,
entitled Life of Napoleon Bonaparte'
Il 'orget the name of the author-in
which is a portrait of Marshal Ney.
Peter S. Ney read this book in 1871,
few months before his death, and
under the portrait of Ney he wrote in
French: This is not a correct like
ness of Marshal Ney' He then, with
apencil, Grew on the same page q
sketch of Marshal Ney, with these
words underneath: 'Ney. By himself
Ii fut chauve. Gle was baldheaded)
The picture in the book represents
Ney as having a full head of hair.
while it is not true, as Marshal Ney's
memoirs state that he was bald
headed, or nearly bald. The sketch
of Marshal Ney which p. s. Ney drew
is an accurate likeness of Marshal
Ney, and also very good one of Peter
s Ney. This find l think is of
great Importance. 1t is certainly
very strong additional proof of the
truth of my theory that p s. Ney
was Marshall Ny. 1t seems to me
to clinch the argument. This sketch
of Marshal Ny, as made by 2. s.
Ney, together with some valuable
notes written by the latter. will ap-
pear in few days in the Historical
Magazine of Davidson College, and a
review of my book Tin connection
with this discovery written by one
of the professors OF the college, will
accompany the publicatio !"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03

SAM JONES says he is neither a
Democrat, a Republican nor Popu-
list, but a gentleman. If Bro. Sam
can't be Democrat and a gentle
man at the same time that is his own
fault and weakness he should be
slow to admit.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03

If there is any truth in the old
saying that "when thieves fall out
honest men get their Dues" then
there is some chance for the honest
men of our State. Two of the big
fellows have had a terrible falling
out and are calling each other bad
names. The Russell and Hancock
war is now on. Hancock is telling
things on Russell. Russell says
Hancock is a liar, and so the cam
paign opens. As the war progresses
other prominent Republicans may be
drawn into the fight. In fact the
Observation-Disclosures war is not
in it with the war among the Repub-
licans in North Carolina.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03

Tom DIXON. originally of North
Carolina, first a candidate for the
stage, then lawyer and politician
and finally a minister of the gospel,
is nothing If not sensational. He
surrenders his stage pulpit to such
people as Mrs. Lease, eugene Debbs
and the like. Dixon prefaces his
sunday morning sermons with short
and sensational political talks. The
fact is Tom is nothing more nor less
than a combination of cheap poll
tician, sbage actor, and sensational
preacher. Thomas is not carrying
cut he command of the Master who
said go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03

The festive Railroad Commission
ers are slashing things right and left.
They have passed a law reducing
rates on all roads in the State. They
have also said that editors, staff
correspondents and employees of
newspapers of the State shall here
after be prohibited from using free
passes or free mileage. By the way
if the Supreme Court of the United
States should decide that the Viii
SONS have been illegally turned out
of office, will the laws passed by the
commissioners now claiming to.be in
Office stand?
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
His Clumsy Preface.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
81 didn't mind his asking my age"
said the lady who was not too
young, shut what really reused my
wrath was his introducing the ques-
ton by saving he hoped a reference
to my age would not be distasteful
to me-
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03

THERE is a good deal of specializing
going on nowadays as to who will
be Congressman Linney's successor.
1t looks very much like it would be
some good Democrat, yet our Re
publican brethren are hugging the
idea that they have the coon, and
that prominent Wilkes man is in
the field already; still others are as
sanguine that their man lives just
south of Wachovia Brook.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
The Harrison Murder Trial.

Owing to the extended report Of fhe
evidence In the case OF Mr.. Jno w.
Harrison having been printed before
In IHE SENTINEL, our readers will
not be burdened with it again. Only
such facts as materially effect the YER
dict will be reported. TIE SENTINF L
wishes to print the news, but depr.
Gates an immoral sensation.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03

Don't let the broom get dirty 1t
will take but few minutes to clean
it in pail of soap suds, or to hold it
under the warm water faucet after
each using that has made it especial
ly soiled; and this will also keep the
splints pliable.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03

For goodness sake who could have
thought of changing the name of the
Democratic party to the Democratic
Peoples party? 1t is said such a
proposition was made at the last
meeting of the Democratic State
Committee but the suggestion fell
fat and was not even recognized.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-03
Don't allow it to become pressed
out of shape while damp.

Don't set a broom down when
through with it, even when it is per-
fectly dry; and don't stand it on its
handle when damp and allow the
moisture to settle about the wires
and rust them. Bore a hole in the
handle and keep it hung up at all
times when not in use.