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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-04-21
DEAD LETTERS.
If Your Name is on the List, Call on
the Postmaster.

the Postmaster.
The following is list of dead let
tiers remaining in the post office at
Winston, N. c., April 10th. 1898:
Miss Tena Adams, Miss Lucy E
Beck. Jno Q Bickarck, Edwin E Bit
ton, Avery Charles, Mine Caukele, Miss
Pattie L Davis, Frank Dalton, Keto
D Finner, Mrs Mary Gravely, Miss L
M HarVil, Miss Starkey L Hail, Miss
Lille Hauser, William Hedrick, A bert
KNIT, Charlie Lane, Simon Levin, Miss
Carriaan Linville, w Martin. Miss
Susie MIlroney, Micha Tob Co, Albert
Morrow, Harriett Price, A FL Rat,
teree ,, Willie Tapley, Miss Susie
Shores, Miss Thenia Smith. Willard A
Walker, Please Williams, Miss Adah
Wildoner.
When calling for the above letters
please say they were advertised
p. H. LYBRoOK. z. NJ.
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Mai. Gen. Fitzhngh Lee.

Washington Dispatch, 10Th: Con-
sui General Fitzhugh Lee left for
Richmond this evening to spend Sun
day with his family. Before leaving
this city he had a long conference
with Secretary of War Alger, and it
was arranged that General Lee should
be commissioned a major general in
inc United States Army, and be
placed in command of a division of
the army for the invasion of Cuba.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-04-21
Another Sunday Shooting.

There was another shooting scrape
at camp on the Mocksville- Moores-
vile road, near Cleveland, Sunday.
day. One negro, it is said, was shot
in the head by another negro. The
bullet entered near the temple and
lodged within the skull, infiicting a
serious, if not fatal, wound. The
claim is that the shooting was acct
dental
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The rumor has been again revived
and again denied that the Tobacco
Trust has captured big st. Louis
manufacturing concern. Can't the
Trust be induced to declare an arm
istice until we get through with
Spain? One big evil at the time is
sufficient.
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IT is intimated that Russell will
strike a big snag when he attempts
to eject Caldwell from the Railroad
Commission. Both are foppers, how
ever, and there may be some mind
changing that will adjust matters
without fracas.
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TIE heartless butcher, Weyler, at
the head OF the Spanish army, would
be an added incentive to American
sailors and soldiers to strike hard
and telling blows against a nation
that would so honor cruel tyrant,
with a record of unsurpassed brutal
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Thrilling.
Chicago Nes

Chicago News.
He-That must be very interest
ing book you are reading.
She-Oh, it's aWfully exciting The
heroine changes her gown six times
IN the first chapter
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NOTICE

A Blue Mark here is to call attention
the date to which your subscription is paid.
Remittances are desired from those IN ar
rearS.
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IT appears very probable that war
will soon produce an increase of the
tax upon manufactured tobacco.
We notice that the Ways and Means
Committee of Congress has already
been at work devising plans for
raising d war revenue, and it is said
that a majority of the Committee
has agreed upon a plan that will
raise more than one hundred million
dollars additional revenue annually,
which is thus distributed: An addi-
tional tax on beer of 81 per barrel,
estimated to yield $50, 100000, a
bank stamp tax on the lines of the
law OF 1866, estimated to yield
$3O,O00,0OO; duty of 3 cents per
pound on coffee and 10 cents per
pound on tea, and a like amount of
internal tax on stocks of coffee and
tea on hand In the United States,
estimated to yield $4,000, 900;
additional tax on tobacco, expected
to yield SIS, 100000. The commit
tee also agreed to authorize the
issuing of $5O,OOO,OOO bonds. These
bonds are to be offered for sale at all
postoffices in the United States in
amounts of $50 each, making great
popular loan to be absorbed by the
people,
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CALDWELL broke into the Railroad
Commission Office, but he finds the
door wide open to him to get out
The same man VINO encouraged him
to break in now invites him to step
out and intimates that if he doesn't
come out he will be put out. Cald-
we'll acts as if he will wait to be
forced out. We guess he will have to
20, as much as he may dislike to be
ruthlessly thrown from this cushioned
seat at a bountifully supplied pie
counter. Russell is boss and the
Supreme Court says his actions in
the removal of Railroad Commission
ers are not renewable by the Courts
and hence he has carte blanche to
GUST the fellows that refuse to dance
when he pulls the string.
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ised 'to kill. uppre or destroy all
rebels'' who might arise in that island.
as well as TO assist in repelling invs-
sion should the necessity arise. In this
way a horde of savages. part negro,
part Carib. assumed a feudal position
which they still hold. and which is per
haps unique in all English-speaking
America.
This treaty. however. did not end all
the troubles of the English government
with the Maroons. What Is known in
the history Of Jamaica as the Maroon
war broke out in 1895. A Maroon was
caught hunting a domesticated pig
which belonged to one of the white set
tiers war tried, and was punished with
a whipping in the Jail Of T~relawney.
Whipping was the usual punishment for
such offenses in Jamaica In those DAYS
and would have been administered to
any other offender. black or white. But
the taller was so inconsiderate OF Ma
room pride and prejudice as to have the
punishment inflicted by a negro warder
and in the presence Of negro prisoners.
Some Of the Maroons with whom the
government afterward entered into ne
gotiations explained that II was not the
legal penalty they objected to, but the
degradation of a Maroon in the sight of
common negroes. In the course OF tins
Maroon war a number of whites. both
soldiers and civilians. as well as many
women and children. were killed, and
many buildings were destroyed by rre
Three regiments Of British cavalry, tbs
! 18th, 18th and 10th Light Dragons. and
one Of British infantry took part iH tins
fighting at various times. but the re
yolted MarOons sheltered themselves II
inaccessible woods and valleys and held
one portion Of the island in a condition
Of terror by their incuTsions for IN
greater part of the year. II was thei
that some one remembered an old act o
the assembly of snte-Cudjoe days which
had ordered a pack Of Ounds 10 be KEEP
al every garrison on the island. IN
hounds TO be provided by the church
wardens Of the respective parishes TO
the hunting of MarOons. This law hat
fallen out of Observance. of course, bu
the hint was enough, and Lord Bal
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was finally brought about by h bond
of a woman's heart. on taking presi-
Dental power again, Genera Diaz
named his old enemy the chief minister
in his cabinet as secretary of state,
their relations continued increasingly
cordial up to the death Of Senior Romero
Rubio two years ago.
President ii has said to me that
when he closes his present nth term
in Office. in 1900. he will positively re-
tire to private life. para descan-
sarme." as he expressed 1t. and that he
and Madame Diaz will then give Them
selves the Compromised pleasure OF
foreign travel. The Mexican govern
ment early In the present year present.
ed the president with a palatial rail-
road train. built at the Pullman works
to special order for President ana
Madame Diaz.
The cars consist of a diner and parlor
sleeper, and cost close TO 800. 600, max
ing up probably as fine a special train
as was eve built.
The national constitution forbids that
the chief executive should leave the
country during his incumbency of Of
flee, but after this term of official ma
tional Imprisonment is ended the presi-
dent and his wife will travel in state
about the United States by their train.
before sailing for an extended tour OF
other lands. Already preparations are
in making for the reception and enter
tainment of these prospective guests.
who's lives mean so much for the
Mexican nation. and IL is likely that
large attentions will be paid them by
our people: to General Diaz because
he is great. and to Madame Diaz be-
cause she is good.
EDWARD PAGE CASTOR.
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The republic of Mexico has a great
many annual celebrations of an official
and religious character, but non are
quite so unique as the Saints Day" of
the mistress of the Mexican nation. Nc
proclamation for the observance of
July Is is made. nor is Ii mentioned
on the church calendar as a special oc-
casion; but from one end Of the cour
try to the other there is each year
spontaneous outburst Of affectionai
attentions for the beautiful wife of the
Mexican president, the Sonora Dona
Carmen Romero Rubio de Diaz. This
ear marks her thirty-sixth birthday,
and the fourteenth anniversary of her
marriage to General Porfirio Diaz. who
is now serving his fifth q~uadrennial
term as president, and is rightly termed
the savior of Mexico.
Madame Diaz is a gracious lady of
many good works. n the people, by
common consent. accept the 10th of
July to show the esteem in which their
patroness Is held by all classes. III
Mexico, as in all Catholic countries, II
Is the saint Day" rather han tho
birthday of a person which is observed.
Nearly everybody is named after some
one OF the multitude of saints on the
Roman calendar. each one of which has
a special day dedicated to it's honor.
Every day in the year has thus it's own
Significance, n November 1 is called
All Saints Day." to give assurance
that none nave been overlooked.
July 16 is dedicated to la Santa Car
men, and so is observed by all persons
named Carmen, of whom there are a
large number, but the most illustrious
in Mexico is the leading lady of
vie in paying homage to Madame Diaz
on tina day. Cards of "felicidades,"
letters and kilograms by the hundred
pour INTO her hands at the historic
Castle of Chapultepec, where is the
summer residence of the presidents
family; a multitude of people call to
pay their respects, and numerous and
costly presents are tokens of the gen
eral esteem. Public receptions are not
held at the Mexican white house" as
they are in the United States, so this
and the corresponding day dedicated TO
General Diaz, are the only times I'm the
year when the general public is admit
ted to the presidential establishment.
The charitable works of Madame Di-
az cover an humble of industrial and
other institutions, and large delega-
lions from these call on hat day to
present their respects, and to leave
some products of their own skill, re
ceiving in turn a silver peseta or other
token, with a kindly word from their
smiling benefactress. Sometimes a
company of indian flower vendors
erect a floral arch above the door as
their offering for the day, to add the
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Sander Electric Co., 253 Washington St., 7

ers that night went on a tour of muir
der and rapine from one TO another OF
the plantation houses i'm the ~neighbor-
ing country Al one of these houses
there was not a single man to defend
the lives Of the white woman and her
children who had been left there, but
the housemaid happened to be a Ma
room woman. The rioters. shouting
and threatening. and smesred with
blood. had reached the versnda of the
house. when the front door was hung
wide open. discovering a tall black
woman. who held an oil lamp. This
was the housemaid. All she said was.
Get away from here. I'm a Maroon
And. half drunk and fran
ties as they were, the rioters actually
turned and ran.
The greater part of the governments
task In this insurrection of 1868 was 10
catch the hundreds OF rebels who had
scattered "a soon as the first detach-
ment of troops reached Morant bay.
To do this and produce a salutary enec
Governor Eyre sent Colonel Fyfe. a re
tired British army officer to call out the
Maroons in pursuance of the Articles
OF Pacincation" of l73s. They came
with alacrity and did for the rebels
what the Spanish b~loodhounds had
lone their " brethren in 1876 Paul
Boyle. the actual leader In the rioting,
was their captive. 4 When the alarm
and general excitement caused by the
Morant bay riots and massacres had
subsidized. Colonel Fyfe and his Ma
rooms received the honor OF a triumphal
entry into Kingston and a banquet. IL
was n great occasion for sightseeing.
az not one in a hundred OF the inhabi-
tants had ever seen a specimen of this
race that had cut so large and so bloody
a figuEe in the history of jamaica. The
procession locke like nothing so much
as Birnam Wood on it's way to Dun
shane Hill. through streets lined with
soldiers and half-scared negroes. Each
Maroon was a mass of tropical foliage,
under which. on close examination. one
could detect a gun. a suit of rough blue
serge. and a very black n ssvage
countenance. One or two of the head
men proudly displayed silver medals OF
william Nv. and the Georges. Ii would
have been very hard to detect in the
IN of the men any trace Of Carib
blood. They were, ON the whole. OF
rather a liner type than the everyday
Jamaica negro. and certainly carried
themselves with the air of men who
had never submitted TO slavery. but
those who examined them closely pro
ounce them of distinctly African
physiognomy.
This was the last appearance of heI
majesty's Maroons in the history oi
Jamaica. IL Is not likely that they viii
ever again be called upon Ito kill. sup.
press or destroy As civilization
reaches the higher ridges of the Blu,
mountains. the Maroons will gradual,
become. "a they already have become
10 some extent, just like the other ne
gro squatters Of the sland. and th'
Articles Of Publication will cease {,
be anything more than a curiosity o
diplomacy.-New York sun.
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majesty's feudatories for him. but they
did not. They were probably well paid
for their services and. besides. found
the occupation congenisl. There was
very little actual pulling down OF the
tw~o-legged game. The mere report that
Spanish b~ioodhounds were after them
suficed to scare the Maroon insurgents
into submission. The Maroons Of the
eastern settlements had taken nc part
in the revolt. Those OF Trelawney. to
the number of 500. were packed off TO
Nova Scotia. where their descendants
are to-day with the other colored In
habltants of that colony.
This deportation OF the Maroon rebels
left a large majority OF the race. free
from the stain of disloyalty. still at the
disposal Of the government to kill,
suppress or destroy all rebels" although
they seem 10 have had no share in the
suppression Of their brethren in Trelaw-
ney. Forty years after the Spanish
hounds had grought the Maroon rebels
to terms Maroons were called upon 10
discharge their feudal service in the
slave rebellion. which shortly preceded
the act Of emancipation OF William ".
They had methods Of warfare OF their
own. Ambuscades were their forte. The
insurgent slave who had taken refuge
In the bush might at any moment be
surprised by the sudden discharge Of a
musket from what ne had taken TO be
a mere mass Of fallen underground. Ma
room s%entinels would drop silently from
the branches Of forest trees upon stray
fugitives who might b. passing below
The insuTgent negroes were afraid to
face their white masters in the open.
and still more afraid 10 enter the bush.
where the Maroons. concealed by fes-
toons Of creepers and large-leaved fol-
iage. might be watching for them at
every turn.
The memory of that slave rising and
it's results was st!ll effectively fresh In
the minds OF the country negro Of ia
maica 30 years later. when. in 1855. the
mulatto Gordon fomented an ahortivs
rising al Morant bay. Having sur
prised and massacre a number OF
whites and loyal mulattoss in the town
itself, q band of half intoxicated riot
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being his second marriage. There are
three Diaz children now grown, but all
are by the first wife.
There is a dash of romance about the
marriage of his distinguished couple.
Years ago General DiaZ n Don Man
uel Rubio were rivals for supremacy IN
national affairs. n at earnest enmity.
After the death of his wife. General
Diaz was attracted by the charms Of
Carmen. one OF the beautiful daughters
of mis- opponent. IA pressed his suit OF
love with but Indifferent success. until
one day he rendered effective service in
ouelIing a fire in the Rubio household.
The mead Of the rescued home relented
somewhat at this and a reconciliatlon
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MEXICO TO HONOR NINE. D|Az
Her Saints Day, Which Occurs This Week, to Be ceIe-
brated Throughout the Republic.

any deinite steps for relief. If there is
a strike among the girls in the match
or cigar factories, or those
employed. the operatives frequently ap
peal to Madame Diaz to settle the dis
pute. which she generally accomplishes
by bringing the contending factions to-
gether. She supports an industrial
school largely from her private purse,
and there are sewing machines and
other materials free for poor women 10
use in their family sewing. One or more
public benefits are annually given for
the institutions of which Madame Dial
is the head.
A great Zeal of her charity. n that
of General DiaZ, is so quietly dispensed
that II would never reach the public ear
did not the recipients take such delight
in telling of their benefactions Many
times the coach of Madame Diaz stops
before the doors of the very poor. n
she seems willing to go anywhere mat
good may be done. / have met the Sc
nora Diaz as a friend under many cir
cumstances, and her spirit is always the
same. in its remarkable quality OF KIND
ly sympathy n interest.
President Diaz and his wife greatly
desire that more humanitarian motives
shall rule among their people. Madame
Diaz took steps some time ago for a
humane society for the prevention OF
cruelty to animals, and a more definite
movement to this end has been recently
taken by the president looking to the
prohibition of the brutal bullights,
which have so long had such a hold
upon the amusement loving public. He
has stopped bullfghting before this on
several occasions in the federal district,
but the clamor of the people has al
ways been so great that for public policy
the fights have finally been allowed to
continue.
1t now seems likely that the time is
not far distant when this example of
Spanish b~arbarity will be a thing of the
past. as the Mexicans are slowly taking
up with horse racing. bicycling and
other American sports. Prizefghting
was promptly debarred by the president,
after a single mild. but duly CORY ex-
! hibtion of northern pugilism had
shocked the Mexican sensibilities
Madame Diaz speaks Spanish. French
and English with fiuency, and shares
with her progressive husband a lively
interest in the land of the Americanos.
They have often expressed to me their
desire to again visit the United States,
as their first stay in 1884. when on their
wedding tour, was entirely too brief.
General Diaz and his beautiful wife
were then the recipients of distinguished
attentions by our people, and while the
Americans admired General Diaz for his
truly wonderful accomplishments as
the largest figure in modern Mexican
history. they gave his young wife their
love. Her girlish grace and simple man.
ners well hatcher her Castlian beauty
and won all hearts. President Diaz is
6s years of age, and his wife is 36, this
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testimony of the poor to the seemingly
universal love. The place held by Ma
dame DiaZ in the esteem of her people
is one re%freshingly genuine. She is the
wife of the president. but is the friend
Of the needy and distressed everywhere;
and while her official position brings
her social prestige. her sympathy gives
her such devotion as would apparently
make any sacrifices in her behalf an
easy matter for her people.
Carmelita. or Little Carmen, as
they love TO call her. is the endearing
diminutive in the Spanish tongue which
! have heard the rich and poor alike
bestow upon this lady: and from the
palm-thatched hut of the poor to the
grand casas of the rich, there are Xix
borne daily prayers for the choicest
henedictions of heaven TO rest upon this
cody omar
IL is in times of stress that her aetivi-
ties are most largely in evidence. II
there has been a sudden calamity. the
public eye naturally turns towards
Madame Diaz for suggestions as TO help.
and many tenders Of cooperation VIII
often be made her before she has taken
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DR.. SANDEN'S ELECTRIC BELT

wonderful capital of his country sitting
ON her seven hills and from her throne
OF beauty ruling the world. He felt the
pulses of his future greatness throbbing
i'm his coursing veins and from his ser
ried legions' front. far to the north, he
saw the path that stretched from the
tent door of the plain commander OF
the Roman soldiery to the golden steps
of the imperial structure that crowned
the Capitoline HILL Then he ave the
order to march, and the hosts swept
shouting forward until their course was
stopped by the rolling floods OF a
mighty stream rushing resistlessly TO
the sea. Here Caesar halted, but for
an instant only. In that instant the
glorious visions of more glorious Rome
filled his ambitious being. and Caesar
crossed the Rubicon. Crossed the Rub
Icon" he repeated TO intensity his Pc
Rod. and then asked With all the ora
tors fervor. And why did Caesar cross
the Rubicon?" 1 ask you. why did caes-
ar cross the Rubicon?"
Il know" piped up a small boy before
the speaker could get to his next sen
tence. He crossed IL cause he want
ed to git on the other side" and there
spread over the boys face SUCH an IN
nocent look OF pleased triumph in hav-
ing helped the orator out that II was
really heartless TO reprove him. But
Il crippled the speech badly.
Straw hats show which way the win