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it-' . J THE SENTINEL REFUSES TO STAND STILL ! It Does Not Permit a Week to Pass without Producing AN IMPROVEMENT OR A NEW FEATURE! -GET- OUT OF THE OLD RUT ! AND TAKE A f LIVE, PROGRESSIVE PkPEn I ! Whose Contents are not Pilcfc Porked Into Its Column frcm a Daily Without Any ' ARRANGEMENT OR EDITING. IN 1863. EDWARD A. OLDHAM. Editor and Publisher- J A NORTH CAROLINA FAMILY NEWSPAPER FOR NORTH CAROLINA PEOPLE, -IN THE STATE AND OUT. f SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. PER YEAR, $1.60. VOL,. XXX. NO. 38. WINSTON, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1886. PRICE 5 CENTS ESTABLTBH BT IN THE GOLDEN BELT. OUR REPRESENTATIVE'S VISIT TO OXFORD. Court Week With Judge Connor Pre siding Distinguished Gentlemen Present An Unpublished Anecdote about Mr. Polndexter. Special Correspondence f the Sentinel. Oxford, Sept, 15. The crowd in attendance at court this week is very small. The weather is favorable and cutting and curing tobacco is the order of the day over here. On our way we saw many farmers harvesting the gol den weed. The crop is generally col skOring up well on the hill. Nothing feives an old tobacco grower more pleasure than to cut and house the weed when it has ripenedwell. We in stanced several persons along the road ijyaving the weed high up in the air as good as to say " we shall soon reap the rewards of our labor." It makes us feel proud of our native State when our eyes behold the rich fields of yel low tobacco to be seen in every di rection as we pass through the golden belt of Vance and Granville counties. The flourishing and prosperous towns of Henderson and Oxford be speak the fertility of the sil and the enterprise of the citizens throughout the golden belt. The growth of the county in material prosperity since the late war is simply marvelous. While beholding these beautiful towns and fields, we find ourselves unconciously repeating these beautiful lines of the poet : . Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land. Hon. Jos. J. Davis and Chas. Cooke, of Xiouisburg, are here as is also Col. Thomas Fuller, of Raleigh. Few men in North Carolina stand higher , in the estimation of the people than .Capt. Joseph J. Davis. He is a clean, good man and can be trusted any where, and would make a strong race for any Dosition in the gift of the people of North Carolina. The Hon. James W. Reid and Jake Long, Esq., made speeches here to-day to a good crowd and impressed the peo- Ele favorably. Mr. Reid was very appily introduced by Alvis Allen, Esq., in a very treat and appropriate way. Thomas Venerable, Esq., who by the way is a son of the late Hon. Abe Venable, who so long and faithfully represented this district in Congress is - prosecuting for the State in place of boiicitor btrudwck. There are thirteen prisoners in jail here, four of whom, his Honor Judge Connor sent up to the penitentiary yesterday for from two to four years each. Others will follow this week to augment the force already at work on our railroads. We are proud to report that the "old Sentinel" is taking well over here as it does everywhere in North Carolina. Many have already come forward to swell the list and other are falling in every day. The Sen tinel, takes well with the people be cause it has a character unsurpassed in North Carolina journalism for the amount and character of its reading matter; because it is conservative in - its "views ; because its moral tone is good, and its pages sparkle with spicy news items from all over the country. Its columns are not exclusively de ' voted to politics but contains much real literary and scientific matter, and may be carried into every family in the land with profit and pleasure. The minds of the young, if fed upon noth ing but politics, becomes sordid aud narrow. Your humble correspondent insists that some good religious matter should go into every newspaper throughout the land that the morals as well as the minds of the readers may be improved. Such a paper we delight to introduce into every family. Some years ago when Mr. Poindexter of Yadkin county was States Attorney he had a man con victed at this place for petty larceny. The court ordered thas he be whipped at the whipping post. The Sheriff anxious to execute the sentence of the court and discharge the prisoner, im mediately proceeded to the spot and commenced the flogging. In the meantime the attorney for the prisoner who was not aware that the sentence jwas being so sumarily executed arose ana moved lor a new trial. Mr. from dexter who had been looking through the window at the flogging, arose and said that he should not obiect to a new trial if the attorney for the de fense thought it necessary to whip his , man again. As the attorney did not insist the matter ended here. . . . . Traveler. Disappointments of Journalism. From the Boominqton, III.. Eve. At an early hour this morning Squire Bixby's barn, four miles east of town, was consumed by fire. It was supposed to be the work of incen diaries. Four shoats perished in the names. Later Since writing the above we learn that there was no fire. OVER IN RANDOLPH. The Center of the Third Party Move mentTheir County Ticket Klep tomaniac. Staff Corretpondenc of the Sentinel. Randolph Co., N. C. This coun ty is about the center of the third par ty movement in this State. If in any county the Prohibitionists hope to succeed, this is the one. Upon what they base their hopes of success here, no one has yet learned. In their re cent convention they very sensibly nominated representative men and men of standing; no sore heads or petitions, though they have a full supply of such in their ranks. Moses Hammond and J. C. Fuller, both men of means and character; were nomina ted for the House, and the remainder of their candidates are farmers of ability and influence. Prof. N. C. English of lnnity College was en dorsed for Congress. ' The Democratic Convention for the county was held in Asheboro recently and the following ticket nominated. For the House t,x btate lreas.. Dr. Worth and T. J. Redding. Clerk G. S. Bradshaw. Register J. W. Craven. For Sheriff E. A. MofBtt. This is decidedly one of the strong est tickets ever placed before the voters of this county. The floating votes controls the elec tions in this county, there is no prohi bition element in it, and the Republi cans cannot hope to have any influ ence with it without office or patron age. It is easy to see which ticket will be elected though it is generally believed that the Kepublicans will en dorse the Prohibition ticket. Trinity College has opened well, some 90 odd boys on the role, with many old students yet to return. In point of attendance as compared to its influence, capabilities, and standing Trinity has always been a reproach ana aisgrace w) me x. j. onierence. A minister who does not support his conference, institutions andtenterprises violates his ordination vows, and should transfer or locate. We have a genuine keptomaniac down here. A young man of good family and in first rate circumstances, invanablv steals everv niece of leath er he can get hold of. He has a good plantation, well stocked and equipped, with $800 loaned out. a batchelor, ?ret for years he has been ctequiriny eather. During the recent camp- meeting at Old Union he appropri ated a bridle, was promptly tried and bound over to court. His excuse or plea is generally that he found the article in question. Tobacco will tail slightly below the average. It is either extra good or very poor with a preponderance of the latter. Our farmers are now cutting and curing, not so much for the rea son that it is ripe.as because the worms are eating it up. They will be satis fied this year if they can come out "even", and promise next year not to overcrop themselves. This is a dry county. In one or two townships only, is liquor sold. Many of our magistrates and other officers are Prohibitionists, yet there r j - i . ' i . - - i - - u uu uimcuuy in ooiaining liquor in any and every township in the county. Practical Local Option and Prohioi tion has proved itself here, to be a snare and a fraud, and "wusser" delu sion than Civil Service Reform. B. BROUGHT TO TjIFE. A Remarkable Occurrence in Iredell County. Hon. Burges3 S. Gaither writes the Statesville Landmark as follows: There was a young man residing in Wake county by the name of Fitzger aid. Receiving information that his mother was lying at the pointot death and wished to speak with him, he made immediate haste. His horse became exhausted when he arrived at the Ca tawba river. He applied for a fresh horse. By contract to return it in a special time he obtained one, leaving his own until his return. He found his mother still alive and conversed with her. She soon died and was bur ied and he, remembering his appoint ed time to return his horse, being be hind time, found a btate warrant against him for horse stealing, was ar rested, committed to jail in Statesville, was prosecuted with all hatred, malice and vengeance, convicted by the law and executed by hanging until pro nounced dead. His friends obtained his body trom the gibbet, carried it a short distance from btatesville, to water, applied the proper remedies, restored the body to life and returned with it to Tennessee. He there mar ried and raised an Jateresting family highly intelligent, weathy, honest and respectable. A rhllonopher Flounders In a Fog;. From the ML Camel Ifevsa. Why does the poorest band always blow the loudest and longest in a pro- I cession. REPRESENTATIVE YOTJKG MEN, WHO ARE TO SHAPE NORTH CAROLINA'S HIbTORT IN THE PRES ENT GENERATION. Scion of a Revivified South Who Will Infuse New Life Into Our Political, Industrial and Educational Structure PAPER NUMBER SIX. Jacob Alson L.o(, Ksq., Candidate for Solicitor in the Fifth Judicial District. BY JAMES A. GRAHAM. Jacob Alson Long, one of the rising young men or JNortn Carolina, ana the Democratic candidate for Solicitor in the Fifth Judicial District of this State is a native of Alamance county, and may well be styled a "self-made" man. I do not mean by that to class hint with many of the "so-called" self- made men ; who, for want ol a better manufacturer, "put up a bad job" and made wrecks of themselves ; but to class him with men, like Merrimon, Howard and others of our State, who from an humble start raised them -selves to prominence and have made and a.re making a name of which their rstenty may well be proud. What call a "self-made" man is one who has a sound mind, coupled with ener gy, nerve aud will power, ana na ; raised hi nisei 1 to such a grade as to command the respect of his fellows. buch a man is Jacob A. .Long. He JACOB ALSON LONG, ESQ. is a splendid type of the true, honest, upright, "self-made" man. Born in an humble hamlet on the banks of Haw River in Alamance then a part of Orange county he has, mostly by his own exertions, raised himself to the position he now holds in the con fidence of the people as a lawyer and a citizen. Mr. .Long claims no "pride of birth," though his ancestors were among the first settlers along the banks of Haw River ; in the now prosperous county of Alamance then an almost unknown part of Orange. Sturdy and of a strong German stock they worked, as did Jake, for every thing they got. Hut on both sides Mr. Long can claim men who stood by our people in the dark days of 1776 and can point with as much pleasure as any citizen of Orange or Alamance, to his maternal grandfather, Col. Stockard, who for 19 terms represent ed his country Orange-r-in the Leg islature of this State. Alamance was then a part of Orange. But Mr. Long claims nothing from this; nor do I claim anything for' him. I sim ply present him as a man of merit. He is a son of Jacob and Jane S. Long, who are now. as they ever have been, unpretentious residents of this section. But this family has accom plished more than any other family in our midst. From an humble start have, in this family, iu this generation sprung two ministers of the gospel and one of them a D. D. They are both teachers Rev. W. S. Long being at the head of Graham Normal Col lege and Rev D. A. Long the Pres ident of Antioch College, Ohio. Then there are two lawyers, Jacob A. and Benj. F. both prominent in their pro fession and one doctor, Geo. W., who stands high in hi3 profession. Such a family deserves credit and merits rec ognition at our hands whenever they come before us. 'Jake" Long, as we always call him, was born on the 6th day cf Apr. 1846 and is now 40 years old. His early life was spent on his father's farm, where he was a plow-boy and general hand. He then went to school, in Graham, to his brother W. S, Long, but, the school being chang ed to a girls school, "Jake" then went as a pupil to Rev. A. Wilson D. D., a preceptor well known throughout the Southern States. His tuition was paid in great part by Build Up Our Waste Places and money, raised by the work of his own hands-on the farm. In 1862 he went with fiis brother Rev.' W. S. Long to Hyco Va., where the former then hadja school. In ashort while he was, though but a lad made assistant teacher for.the lower classes, and was Captain of the company of school boys at the School. In 1863 when Wilson's Calvary made their futile attempt to burn the bridge on the R. & D. R. R. over Stanton river, news of it was brought to the school, just as it was closing. Old men joined his company and they were soon on the way to the bridge. Think of a boy captain not 17 years old going to meet a brigade of trained cavalry. Anyhow the raid ers were repulsed and the only loss on the Confederate side was Dr. Sutphin of "Jake's" company who was shot as he . was crossing the bridge. Soon thereafter, Jake, though but 17, went to Petersburg and joined Wrights Battery of Artillery. With this bat tery he fought from Petersburg to Ap pomattox ; and at the "Crater" fight in June or July, 1854 was chief of one of the guns of that battery, which be ing.; turned directly down our tines played such havoc among the Feder erals who charged into those lines. He was a gallant soldier, though but a boy. His gun fired more than onehun dred shots on that eventful morning. But let us not speak of the war. It is over. Mr. Long came home poor, like the. rest of us, and again went to work on the farm. He was not dis pirited, however, for there was the true man in him. He, soon again be t?au his studies and. when thev were completed, studied law under the late William RufEn at Hillsboro, N. C. He obtained license to practice law in 1870 and associated himself with Jas. E. Boyd, late United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Then he became a partner with Capt. E. S. Parker, uuder the style of Parker s . Long. After while, thinking Yanceyville ,in Cas well county a better place, he remov ed there and had associated with, in the practice, Graham fe Graham (Jno. W. and Jas. A.) His practice in Caswell steadilv increased and he soon became the leading member of the bar there. When his younger brother B. F. Long, now of Statesville, came to the bar, he dissolved his con nection with the Graham's and form ed a co-partnership of Long & Long; B. F., being the junior partner. His practice in Caswell still increased, but thinking Durham a more desirable place he removed there aud continued the practice of the law, with K. C Struct iek, a then rising young law yer as his partner lheir practice is now a large and lucrative one, extend ins into several counties. This much I give of his personal history. And uow let us look at him as a mad capable of filling the position for which the people have nominated him. From several years experience with him at toe bar. I can pronounce him a solid, sound lawyer. He is at tentive to his cases and studies them up closely. He has not the gift of eloquence, but his arguments to a jury are always well put, close and decisive covering every point of the case. They are in plain language and, in fact, so plain that any one can see the point at once. He uses no platitudes nor metaphors unless the occasion specially requires it. He is always i ready to catch a point and use it. He is an able advocate, an honest, true gentleman, a faithful lawyer, a pa triotic citizen and, therefore -1 think I can pronounce him, as I did in the start one of our rising young men. THE UNIVERSITY. More Students Present Now than At tended All of Last Year. Special correspondence of The Sentinel. Chapel Hill, Sept. 18. It seemed to me that your progressive paper, watchful, as it always is, over the prosperity or Winston, and zealous in the support of anything calculated to advance the material interests of the State, would like to hear now and then from the University. I have there upon made up my mind to write you occasionally from this educational center. The friends of liberal education will be glad to know that we have opened with about 175 students. More stu dets have matriculated already this session than was registered during the whole of the last scholastic year, lhe opportunities afforded to students are exceptionally good, and no young man need go out of the btate for instruc tion. The professors are accomplished in their various courses of study and are enthusiastic teachers. The following young gentlemen are in attendance on the Law bchool : Edmund Alexander, of Plymouth ; Oliver C. Bynum, of Chatham county; R. L. Cooper, of Murphy ; P. B. Cox, (son of Gen. W. R. Cox) of Raleigh ; S. P. Graves, (son of Judge Graves') of Mt. Airy : G. W. Rich, (son of Col. J. M. Rich) of Raleigh ; Thomas N. Hill, (son of Thomas M. Hill) of Halifax ; Paul Jones, of larboro ; Alex. W. McA lister, (Professor at Bingham School) of Asheboro ; Ham ilton W. McNeill, of Moore ; Thomas Ransom, (son of Senator Ransom) of Weldou ; bt. Leon bcull, of Hertford county, W. S. Thompson, of Sampson county i A. 1. Ward, of Duplin ; Stacy Van Amnnge, Jr., of W timing ton ; H. A. Whittington, of Yancey ; Julius Ward, of Eden ton, and Claude R. Johnson, of Bertie. Lex. A Leaf From Mr. TlMen's Life. Told by Ex-Governor PineknefVfkite. In 1875, when the Maryland and Virginia Boundry Commission, com posed of Ex-Governor Graham cf North Carolina ; Ex-Governor Jenk ins, of Georgia ; and Judge J. S. Black (all now dead,) was in session at Sara toga, Governor Tilden gave us a mag nificent dinner at the Lake, ana among the guests was Ex-Senator T. A. Hendricks. As we drove down to the lake I was sitting next to the late Vice President when Governor Tilden came rushing after us in his T-cart, with a pair of spanking bays, aadsome one in in our carriage, recognizing how both Tilden and Hendricks were in the minds of the people for the nomination in 1876, jokingly remark ed, "Look out Hendricks, the old man is forging for the lead." It was nip and tuck for a little while between the carriages, but in a few moments Tilden passed us by, amid the laugh ter and cheers of all, the Vice Presi dent enjoying the joke then, which became a reality at St. Louis in 1876. Tax Valuation. From the Philadelphia Record. North Carolina newspapers are urging the State authorities to increase the tax valuations of real property in that Commonwealth. They declare that the impression has gone abroad that North Carolina lands are next to worthless, and that the tax returns have contributed to strengthen this belief, thereby working an injure to the State. As a matter of fact the land is held at and brings, higher prices. Higher valuations would re sult in lower tax rates, but the net revenue of the State would in the end be the same. The North Carolinians will find that there is only one safe standard to follow in tax assessments; and that it is to appraise at the actu al value, as is required in Pennsylva nia. Karthqulces Feeling Fur Candidates Homes. From the Curwensville Jieview. The coming election will be warm. Moralizing Over a Rnined Snit. From the Cincinnati Enqhir. It seldom rains at a fire, but a fire meu'stournament is suretobringwater. Wooing the Earthquake With Tender word. From, the Mahanoy City Local. One shake will go a great way. The Historlim Stalls His Toe. Fro-n the Syracuse Staiti&sirJ . Gen. Brady is going to publish his confessions. But will he give up the money ? THE GIST OF THE NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK HOME AND ABROAD. AT The Cream of the Wire Caught by 1 'The Sentinel's" Careful Con denser. WASHINGTON The President will probably return to Washingtoc Thursday. Mr. Sedgwick, the envoy to Mexi co has returned, but declined to be in -view upon his arrival iu Washington. EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES. The New York chamber of com merce's tund for Charleston has reach ed 870,00846. All the iron rolling mills in Leban on, Penn., have shut down: employes asking higher wages. Business failures in the United" States the past week number 132, the week before the number was 178. The Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O,. O. F. is an annual session in Boston. Mass.; about 30,000 visitors are pres ent. Members of the police force of Bal timore contribute $700'for the Charles ton sufferers; total contributions in Baltimore amount to 835,000. George J. Gould, the eldest son of Jay Gould and heir to his sixty mill ions, was married to Edith Klingdon, late of Daly's English company, at his father's house in Irvington-on-the-Hudson at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th inst. An eastbound excursion and pass enger train on the Hickel Plate road colided with a westbound freight train near Silver Creek, N. Y., Sept. 15th. Nineteen people were killed aud a large number of others injured. En gineer Wm. Harris of the freight trail is blamed. It is said he had orders to meet the excursion train at Irving He failed to obey the instructions, and was running at full speed when the collision occurred. SOUTH AND WEST. Cotton of the new crop in sight amounts to 126,259 bales. A heavy rain in Charleston Sunday added to the discomforts of the situa tion. A storm in Northern Illinois Sat urday night caused great damage to property. Rev. Jesse Cook, colored, was hung in Butler, Ga., for the murder of his wife, he confessed on the gallows. A hurricane in southwestern Mich igan Thursday evening was the most destructive ever known in tne State. Fully 10,000 Knights Templar had arrived in St Louis up to noon yester day to attend the Triennial Conclave of the Order. The Mayor of Charleston issues a proclamation, invoking additional aid for the stricken city; a slight shock was felt there at 2.25 Friday morning. Work at Charleston is goiug on actively, but bricklayers and plaster ers are badly needed: the subsistence committee are feeding 7,000 persons. More than 8000 Odd Fellows left Chicago yesterday for Boston, to at tend the meeting of the Supreme Lodge which begins Monday morn ing. Jas. Douglass, Jr., a prominent young man of Florence, S. C was murdered on the streets of that place Sunday night, the murderer is un known. A reduction of rates to all south and southwestern points has been or dered on all trunk Hues; the cut will be ou the basis ol" 25 to New )rleans from New York, the rate now being $32. The meeting of Governors of the tnirteen original Stetes of the I'nion to arrange for n. fitting observance of the centennial anniversary of the pro mulgation of the Constitution, was held Tuesdayat)Philadelphia;(Tfvcrnor Lee of Virginia wn? made permanent president of the meeting. FOKKlfi.V A revolution i'iiti:tU:ic2 ',n Cui garia. Another riot is reported in Belfast, Ireland. Three officers of the Spanish army have been imprisoned for leading a band of soldiers to join the Car lists. Spanish troops in Madrid Attempt ed a revolution; it was ill-planned and amounted to but little motv than a munity; the insurgents wen driven from the city, several verr J;i!!od. M. Brationo, the Roumanian Prime minister, was shot at oy an assassin; the bullet struckaud wounded anoth er man; the populace, enraged at the attempt, wrecked the office of a news paper that had opposed thi Prime Minister.
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