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SCHOULER'S
Millinery EsraUislmt
With the opening of the New
Yeai.the Millinery Department has
been moved to the Racket Store and
hereafter all goods in this line will
In addition we
have a beautiful display ot Japanese
ware, stamped goods, rucbing, lunch
baskets, initial letters, silk scaifs
furs, and 1,000 pieces of ribbons.
Brown's
PALACE DRUG-
X3tT
The Hanes Building
Offers everything in the drug
line at low prices. The stock
is large and varied and the
aualitv of our soods cannot be
surpassed.
We offer the finest line ot
domestic and foreign cigars ever
shown in Winston.
We make wholesale prices to
countrv merchants and others
buying in large quantities.
Your friends,
BROWN & BROWN
Saboroso
Cigars.
O
We have been handling Sabo
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We find that they rnn more in
form, and srive better satisfac
tion to our customers than any
other cigar we have ever sold.
When you buy these once, you
can come again feeling confident
that you will get a cignrjust as
good as the last.
Our trade on them is canstant
ly increasing.
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vinced.
ASHC RAFT & OWENS,
Yiholesals and Retail
UCGISTS.
ATTACKED - BY A LIONESS.
MinnieJerrici, a Circus Girl, Seri
ously Injurefl
WEILE RIDIM IN THE LOTS CAGE.
On
Fifth Street at 11 on Saturday
Morning: One of the Showmen
Saves the Woman's Life Miss Mer
rick Knocked Down and Badly
Bruised Up; Also Bitten hy Lioness.
Minnie Merrick, of Miles Orton's
Circus, while riding in the lion cage
lastSaturday was attacked by a lion
ess and painfully if not seriously in
jured. The show people had started out on
their parade. They were coming over
on Fifth street, and it was between
Vine and Sycamore that the lioness
rushed upon the woman.
Miss Merrick had nothing but a
small riding whip with which to pro
tect herself. She was therefore at the
mercy of the vicious animal which
knocked her out of her chair with his
paw. He made two strokes on her
head, one of which inflicted a gash,
about a quarter of an inch deep across
the back ot lier necK. ine lioness
also grabbed at her right jaw with his
mouth. Miss Merrick being very
fleshy, however, only the skin was cut.
Tin- affair caused a great deal of ex
citement and in a few minutes a large
crowd was gathered at the scene.
A Sentinel reporter naa a taiiv
with the manager of the show, lie
said that the lioness was made mad
by boys and men poking sticks through
tliecage. lieiSOl Llieopiuioii mai nan
not one of the male keepers been near
by the animal would have torn the
woman to nieces in a lew minutes.
This man ran up to the cage and hol
lowed at the lioness which turned
away from her prey and ran back into
her corner.
Miss Merrick was immediately tak
en out of the cage and carried into a
tenant house owned by J. n. .fierce
on lilth street, next 10 tile stoic
of A. Huband. Dr. Lott was
summoned at once to dress tue
wounds. Upon examination he found
several small wounds on her head.
He sewed up the large gash, lie re-'
ports the injuries quite serious out
thinks tliat they will not prove latai
unless blood poisoning sets in.
Miss Merrick was removed to ner
room in tue railroad car wnere sue
was resting quietly this afternoon.
She has been traveling with Mr. Or
ton for the past four years, and has
been riding in the cage witn tne lion
ess nearly all that time. This is the
first time an attack nas ever Deen
made upon her. Some of the show
people suggested before starting out
this morning that she take a pitch
fork or something or tne Kinu ior
protection. She thought nothing of
the suggestion as she had been in the
cage so many times with nothing but
her small whip.
The lioness is nine years or age ano
one of the show men says that she has
alwavs been very docile. However
she has made several attacks before
on the keepers while they were teas
ing her at the winter quarters.
JUDGE FURCHES.
He Passes Through Winston and Talks
to a Sentinel Reporter.
Judge D. M. Furches, of Statesville,
the man whom the Republicans put
up at Raleigh last week for Governor,
passed through Winston Thurday en
route for Wilkesboro to attend the
Superior Court which is in session
there.
A Sentinel reporter was introduc
ed to the Judge at the train as it
stopped here ten minutes at ll:30that
morning, in reply to a question J uoge
Furches said:
I am going up to Wilkesboro to
look after some important business in
the courts. 1 shall return Home in a
day or two and arrange my business
so as to devote my entire time to tne
Republican party until the election."
now was tne convention," was
asked.
It was more largely attended than
any Republican convention held this
ye
1
wl
year, it passed on harmoniously, witn
the exception or ioee Harris' speecn
opposition to a state ticket. jno-
body, however, paid any attention to
what he said."
How do you regard the present
political outlook in North Carolina ?"
asked the reporter.
1 think the Republicans have the
best showing of 'electing their ticket
they have had for years. Of course I can
not tell wnat the ruture may bring
forth. The Democrats, it is true,
have the advantage of the Republi
cans in some respects. J.ney have a
great many more newspapers and
speakers in the State."
Tne judge looifeu nappy ana smiiea
as though it would "do him good and
help him too" to be Governor of North
Carolina. From the tone of his con
versation, however, the reporter does
not believe Judge Furches would be
willing to stake many dollars on his'
election.
. . THE ZINZENDORF. ,
A New Manager Takes Charge of the
Hotel. ,
L. W. Scoville assumed management
of the Hotel Zinzendorf last Satur
day. Mr. Scoville was formerly of
Lynchburg, Va., his native place. He
has been connected with the Kimball
House (old and new) of Atlanta, Du
, val and Everett at Jacksonville and
other Florida houses.
Mr. Scoville is a gentleman of pleas
ant ways and large experience. The
only change for the present will be
the substitution oi maie. ior iemaie
i waiters, and this is done with much
I reluctance. ; ;
Only Four Brandy Distilleries.
A denutv revenue officer makes a
report to the effect that there are only
. i i n s . :
lour Dranay aistuienes in operation
in his territory in. this section. Usu
ally in former years there have been
i about thirty distilleries at this season
of the year. The general scarcity of
fruit Is the cause of the small number
i this- year.
SALEM AND VICINITY.
Reminiscenses of the Town From
1828 to the Present Time.
The following is a portion of the
fourth paper which appeared in the
Salem Press today on the "Reniinis
censes of Salem and Vicinity," from
the pen of Augustus Fogle:
The next house is likewise noted.
Here Mr. Christian Blum resided. In
1827 he founded the Weekly Gleaner, a
newspaper that developed into the
People's Press, and is the only paper
published in the place. The widely
popular Hums' Almanac, also begun
by him, and like the paper, carried on
later by his sons, L. V. and E. T.
Plum, has been published regularly
for 04 years, and both paper and Al
manac are so 2rmly grounded in the
affections of the people of the place,
that thev could scarcely do without
them. In 1892 Messrs. Crist &
Keehln, employees of the establish
ment, purchased the whole business
and while removing it to the Bclo
House, still carry it on in the good
old way.
Mr. Samuel Shultz, a shoemaker,
lived next door. Then came the
Charles Bagge house built originally
by Mr. C. Vogler. Charles was the
son of Traugott Bagge, and removed
from Salem because he refused to con
suit the lot in his marriage. He
erected a dwelling and storehouse in
Charlestown, as the place south of
Salem was named after him. When
he later came back to town, the name
was change dto Waughtown. To the
Academy girls he was familiarly
known as "Daddy Bagge." Being
wealthy and kind-hearted, he took
upon himself the duty of conducting
visitors to the school and about the
town, notifying the Principal when
patrons arrived at the hotel, escort
ing girls to and from the hotel when
visited by parents and friends. His
daughter, Miss Lucinda Bagge, had
all her fathers love for the -school,
and after her teaching days were over,
in spite of her crippled hands, she as
sisted wherever she could. Mr. Ru
dolph Crist occupied the house after
Mr. Bagge. and later, Francis Meller,
a confectioner and baker.
The John Vogler premises stand
next. He was a good man, active in
Sunday-school work, and in home
missions. The Mt. Bethel mission in
Virginia was founded by him and Mr.
V . is . Zevely. M r. V ogler was a jew
eller, and had a prosperous business.
One of his daughters married Mr.
Francis Fries, and the other Rev. E.
Senseman, who went as minister to
WTest Salem, 111. There his wife died
in 1856, and in 1858 her remains were
brought by A. Fogle, by private con
veyance and interred - in the Salem
graveyard.
Mr. voglers son, E. A. V ogler, was
also a prominent man in church work.
He owned a store and later a shoe
factory. He also ouiltthe large brick
store house, occupied this summer by
Lassiter's Racket Store. The house
just south of this large brick store,
was originally the church store, of
which we spoke earlier. A grocery is
now kept there by D. R. Brendle.
A two-story frame building was
erected north of this one by the
Church, and used as a temperance hall,
for the museum, etc., and later Dr.
Zevely kept the postofflce and a drug
store on the first floor. The town
commissioners met up stairs for many
years. The house is now used for ten
ants, mostly widows.
The Widow's House is another
Church institution, and was original
ly built ior a Brother s House, in 1760,
3 years after the founding of Salem.
It was also used for the Boys School
till they had a regular establishment.
An addition was built to the house in
1786. The dormitory of this Brother's
House was in the south end of the
third floor, and one of them, walking
in his sleeij, fell out of a third story
window, and strange to say, he was
not injured, in digging a cellar-for
their house the caving in of the soil
killed one of the workmen, Kremser:
from his death a local ghost story
arose, that of tne "little red man," as
he was called from the cap and red
blouse which he wore. Like all ghost
ly legends they vanish before electric
lights and street railways.
The chapel of the Brothers occupied
the second floor of the south end; this
was later used as, Concert Hall, the
only one which the place had for a
long while. Here, too, the Salem
Museum originated under the active
hands of Rev. F. R. Holland, J. W.
Friebele and others. They stuffed
birds, collected and exchanged curios
ities with missionaries, &c, and thus
collected a fair amount of treasures.
The Museum, like Noah's weary dove,
wandering up and down, till it at
length found rest in its present loca
tion. For a time it was in the old
parsonage, then in the house below
the Home, then in the house above
the racket store, and lastly in the
Music Hall and Museum combined.
The Brothers owned a number of
useful industries: a dairy, which
stood in the meadow just back of the
garden, was theirs; so, too, a slaugh
ter house, which is still in existance,
the old rock house where the Peter
son brothers have their cabinet shop,
on Shallowford street, while their
Brewery was the the old yellow house
beyond Mr. Edward Peterson's new
residence. Besides this they had &
farm which lay farther west. The
Brother's house with its peculiar reg
ulations ceased its separate existence;
the brethren married as fast as they
could, and the house was used for such
a variety of purposes that it became a
veritable allerhand's haus. Retired
misisters dwelt there; an infant
school was kept within its walls; the
-7th room of Academy girls lived there
In 1838 for a time. Gradually the
widows of ministers and laymen pre
dominated. About 1848 the last in
mates from the Widows' nouse at the
corner of Main and Bank Streets,
were moved down, and of late years it
has become the Widow's House.
- Matthew Rights lived at the south
west corner of Old Snallowford street,
in a house until recently occupied by
his grandson George. Mr. Rights had
two sons, Zacharias and Constantine,
the latter a. talented scholarly man,
for some time teacher of the Boys'
School. Old Mr. Rights kept a candy
and toy shop, which was carried on by
his widow after his death. Their
daughter Is Mrs. Dr. Keehln, of
Church street.
Then- followed the houses before
named as belonging to the Brothers,
viz: the Dairy.-. Slaughter-house and
Brewery; the latter was occupied for a
time by old .air. liurKneaa, wno car
ried on a chocolate and a candle man
ufactory: the latter was a profitable
business in those days. We won
der with what surprise the old fa
thers would look on our gas and elec
tric lights, accustomed as they were
to the feeble light of the tallow dip,
but then they have been basking
meanwhile in the uncreated glory of
the New Jerusalem, and electric
lights might not possibly be such a
surprise to them as they would have
been when they walked amid earth
born mists and vapors.
Mr. Burkhardt and Mr. Peterson
had, in their younger days, gone as
missionaries to the Cherokee Indians
in the upper part of Georgia. After
the old Brewery came a stretch of
cornfield, until you reached the Lev
ering house on the hill, where later
Mr. Levin Brietz lived, and his son
Albert after him at the present time.
On the north side of Old Shallow
ford street, stood a number of shops.
Mr. Emanuel Shober had a law office;
a German, Hulthine by name, had a
shoe shop till he moved back of the
church and put up a cigar factory
which later became the Bagge house.
On the corner where Spaugh's grocery
store now is, stood the fourth house
erected in Salem, and later occupied
by various persons as Emanuel Sho
ber, William Leinback, &c. Mr.
Douthit's establishment was used by
a number or shop-keepers; Phillip
Laughenour had a taylor shop, James
Fisher a candy shop, etc.
Mr. and Mrs. Brrsing, a very old
couple from Bethabara, lived in the
next house. Then Wm. Boner had a
store, which later was carried on by
Thomas Boner and L. N. Clinard.
They were followed by J. L. Fulker-
son, and he by T. B. Douthit. The
postofflce was likewise kept here for a
time till removed to the Hunter
block.
The Schroeters lived next; their
only daughter was Mrs. Thos. Pfohl.
When Mr. Schroeter died, Benjamin
Warner, from Pennsylvania, moved
there and made cigars. His two sons,
Rev. Samuel and Prof. Massah War
ner are well known. The house now
occupied by the Misses Butner was
first known as theLevering bourse,
then as Mr. Kreuser's, and lastily, J.
L Fulkerson's.
Henry Leinbach, a shoemaker, the
father of the present Leinbacks, lived
in the house now owned by his young
est sou, Henry.
Tne house on tne site or that or Dr.
A. Butner was used oas oa Widow's
House till 1816; then it was torn down.
The new houses was used as a branch
of the Bank of Cape Fear, I. G. Lash,
cashier, till alter the late war, when
our whole banking system was placed
on a different footing and the Wacho
via Hank removed to Winston.
The next house, on the site of Fries'
store, was the third house built in
Salem. The lower floor was occupied
by the minister's family, while the
second floor was the prayer hall of the
congregation until the Congregation
House was ready for use. Mr. Mein
ung resided there for some time. He
had charge of the Land Office, was a
surveyor and Justice or the Peace.
His sons were William, an eminent
scholar but peculiar, as men of genius
usually are, then Henry, Edwin and
Alexander, with two daughters, Mrs.
A. Shaflner and Lisetta, a teacher of
the Academy, who died in 1855 Mr.
Fries later purchased the house, and
it has been used as a store ever since.
The old Fries house, the second built
in Salem, and still in existence, stood
next door. Mr. Fries had a grocery
store- for years; he also owned a num
ber of slaves, who mostly lived on a
large farm, around where the Davis
School and Zinzendorf Hotel now
stand. - On this farm lay the celebrat
ed "dachstein" (roofstone), where the
first brethren under Frederick Wil
liam de Marshall were sheltered in
1765, when they selected the site of
Salem, and until they could build a
house. This huge granite boulder
cropped up out of the ground, and on
the east side was at least liu or iz ieet
high, while on the west side the over
hanging rock formed a sort of cave, a
secure shelter, where they lodged and
kept their belongings. This stone
was as important as a relic or the past
as the famous Plymouth Rock was to
the early New England settlers, but
it was blasted into fragments by or
der of E. Belo to build the daw which
now furnishes the power for the Win
ston Water Works. This rock lay in
what is now West Winston, near the
residence of M r. Vernon Long. The
spot ought to be marked by some
memorial stone or tablet.
TO BE CONTINUED.
TO STUDY THE BIBLE.
The Work of D. L. Moody, the Evan
gelist.
Mr. Moody's Bible Institue in Chi
cago is making great preparations for
the coming winter and next year, with
especial reference to the heed there
will be for aggressive Christian work
among the vast crowds who will visit
the Fair. Two new stories upon the
main building are about completed.
These will afford accommodations for
one hundred additional men. jvir.
Moody, himself, expects to spend a
large proportion of the year '93 in Chi
cago, and is trying to secure leading
men from the old country and America
to nreach the Gospel in English and
other languages, and also to give in
structions in the institute, in addition
to the regular corps of teachers.
Those who enter the school in Oc
tober, or as soon after that as possi
ble, will have the best opportunities
in the work. In accepting applicants,
preference will, of course be given to
those expecting to stay throughout
the year. None are admitted but
such as are preparing for some form
Of Christian work.
It seems likely that more room will
have to be provided for the Women's
Department in order to accept an tne
promising applicants.
Special attention will be paid to the
work of the Musical Department of
the Institute. It is proposed to gath
er and train a large male choir, to
sing at the services to be held during
the World's Fair, and extra privileges
will be granted to pupils having ex
ceptionally good voices, who will re
main during that period.: The mus
ical terms begin the first Tuesdays of
October, January, April and July.
All inquiries regarding any of the
Departments should be addressed to
Bible Institute, 80 Institute Place,
Chicago 111. - .'
A movement is on foot to start a
daily paper at nickory, N. C
FOR" A NATIONAL PARK.
Tic Devastation of Timber Lands De
: mantis Forest Preserres.
WOODMAN, SPARE THOSE TREES.
North Carolina Has Splendid Forests,
But they are Being Ruthlessly Des
troyedUnless Steps are Soon Tak
en to Preserve Them, They Will be
Only a Recollection of the Past.
From the New York Observer
The wholesale devastation of the
timber lands of the country empha
sizes the importance of establishing
and maintaining permanent forest
preserves, and of a more economical
disposal of that part of the public
forest domain which it may not- be
necessary to reserve. Only recently
the Mt. Shasta tract of timber land,
containing 28,000. acres, of twenty
square miles, was sold to a lumber
company, and its beautiful trees.
some of them three hundred feet high
and ten reet through the base, will,
of course, find their way to the saw
mills. The Mt. Shasta region has
been called the keystone of California
scenery, and its great forests can nev
er be reproduced, but neither the
government nor the timber specula'
lators have any sentiment about trees
and the lands have, presumably gone
for a mere song. But it is not alone
in the West that the spoil-
ation or the lorests is in progress;
the forest tracks on the Big Smoky
and contiguous ranges, in Western
JSorth Carolina and Eastern Tennes
see, containing trees as beautiful
and valuable as those in California,
and of more varied kinds, are rapidly
disappearing under the woodman's
axe. The changing altitudes of this
central region and its temperate cli
mate are favorable to the growth of
splendid trees, and the greatest and
most perfect oaks, ashes, hickories
and hemlocks to be found the country
over are to be seen on the slopes and
in the valleys of the mountain
ranges. But the destruction goes on
there as elsewhere: the more imme
diately marketable varieties of tim
ber have already been cut down in
many localities, and the forest which
a decade ago was practically unbrok
en, is now dotted with saw mills and
tanneries, and given over to the lum
bermen.
A like process is being applied to
the remoter valleys of the Smoky
range, and unless early measures are
taken for the permanent reservation
of designated areas, the total destruc
tion of this interesting and extensive
forest tract is plainly inevitable. In
the Adirondack region the spoliation
of the woods has been going on com
paratively unchecked for years,
though, happily, the bill passed by
theJNew York Legislature this year
providing tfcnt the state may consoli
date its present holdings either by
sale or purchase, promises to result in
an extensive and permanent forest
preserve. The State now owns about
900,000 acres in the Adirondacks, near
ly one-hair or which consists or iso
lated tracts on the edge of the forest,
but it is believed that these can be
sold or exchanged for others near to
the main body of state lands, and a
great preserve thus be created. The
importance of such preserves to the
country at large can hardly be overes
timated, the proper irrigation of the
soil depending largely upon the reten
tion byjorests at the head waters of
rivers and streams of the rainfall and
the melting snow. Such retention
secures an equable flow of water, and
precludes inundations and droughts,
and so has a direct inflence on agricul
ture, the navigability of rivers, and,
consequently, on the growth or popu
lation and the prosperity or the na
tion. Moreover, according to a recent
bulletin of the Land Commissioner,
the annual value of the wood material
of all sorts consumed in the United
States is placed at $1,000, 000, OOOthus ex
ceeding ten times the valueof the gold
and silver output, three times the
annual product of all mineral and coal
mines put together, and three times
the value of the wheat crop.
Such a source of national wealth is
well worth conserving, and with the
lawless spoliation now going on in
many quarters, gives force to the re
commendation of the commissioner
for the immediate reservation of all
public forest lands with a view to the
permanent reservation or certain
areas and the subsequent sale of the
remainder under better conditions
The action of the Fifty-first Congress
in authorizing the President to re
serve by proclamation public forest
lands in any State or territory has
done much to remedy existing evils
and to extend the forest preserve, but
the better plan is for the present to
withdraw everything for permanent
reservation or reappraisement. The
present Congress will do something to
improve its record ror wise legislation
if. when it assembles next winter, it
makes the preservation of the public
forest domain one of its earnest cares,
and takes measures for securing by
purchase blocks of the great forest of
the Southern Alleghenies and the
Redwood forest of the Pacific coast
for a national reservation.
FROM WADES BOKO To WINSTON.
The New Railroad to be Built hy the
Atlantic Coast Line.
The Weldon correspondent of the
Richmond Times writes as follows
about a new railroad line in which
Winston.-Salem people are-interested:
The road which the Atlantic Coast
Line will build from Wadesboro to
Winston, it is learned will run
through Stanley, Rowan and David
son into Forsyth. The 4istance to be
traversed will be nearly one hundred
miles, and it will cross nearly the en
tire State, Anson county in which is
'Wadesboro," being on the Southermost
tier of counties, and Forsyth, where
Winston is situated, being but one
countv removed rrom tne Virginia
line. The road will run through a
magnificent country which has been
pierced by but one other road, the
North Carolina and will be with the
Cheraw and Wadesboro Raleigh at
Wadesboro, the connection road, at
Lexington with the North Carolina,
and at Winston with the jn. w. JN. C,
and the Roanoke & Southern.
PUGILISM POPULAR.
WasbiDgtonians Take More Interest
in Prize Fights than Politics.
Special Correspondence of The Sentinel.
Washington, D. C, Sept. 9. If
Benjamin Franklin ever dreamed of
the scene on Pennsylvania avenue
last Wednesday evening, when a yell
ing, howling mob of 15,000 people
crowded that historic thoroughfare
to read the story of John L. Sulli
van's waning star, as told on can
vass, he doubtless would have left a
last request that old Stilson Hutch-
formerly proprietor of the Post,
be restrained from presenting his
statue to the City of Washington.
The statue stands upon one of those
triangles which relieve the Avenue of
the monotony of continuous lines of
walls, and directly in front of the
Post building. No newspaper could
desire a more favorable place for dis
playing election returns or war news.
and as the white canvass behind the
marble figure of Franklin recorded
Corbett's triumphs, the mob surged
and yelled, totally oblivious of the
fact that the great philosopher ever
1
ved. "John L." and "Gentleman
Jim" are, in this progressive dav.
much greater men rrom a Washing
ton point or view,
PUGILISM STILL POPULAR.
The man who believes that pugil
ism nas nan its day in America
should have seen that crowd. Wash
ingtonians naturally take great
interest in politics, but no such
crowd as that which waited- and
watched for the news of the great
fight ever read election returns from
a bulletin board in this city,
With the cholera in the lower bay
at New York, the pugilistic carnival
at New Orleans, and the coming of
the Grand Army so near at hand
Washington has found but little time
this week to'devote to politics. There
has been but little here to indicate
that a campaign is actually in prog
ress. The preparations for the enter
tainment of the old "vets" -are being
rushed on a big scale, and Washington
expects a good part of the country to
dump itself into the District to wit
ness the most imposing ?peace pageant
of modern times. The memorable
review of '65 will be repeated, but
alas, without the great leaders who
led them into battle. The comman
der or an Indiana brigade, who was
one or the victorious throng, will re
view the pageant, as President of the
United btate,
The city is already beginning to put
on ner gala attire.
THE BLUE COAT'S UTOPIA
The pension office, the blue coat's
Utopia, is to be dressed with double
diligence and practically surrendered
during the week to the men in whose
interests it is conducted. There are
about 4,000 old soldiers in the govern
ment employ in the different depart
ments, about boo or them in the pen
sion office. So it is easily seen that
there will be a ten day's reunion and
not much work
The beautiful plat known as the
White lot is already covered with
tents and the school houses will be
filled with cots. In all 50,000 veter
ans have already been provided sleep
ing quarters free of cost,
THE ADVANCE GUARD
The advance guard is arriving in
the person of the long haired medicine
men, the glib tongued street lakir,
the esteemed pick-pocket and the all
round thug. Washington has an eye
on the dollars in the patriotic love of
the old soldier and he may expect to
shell out for the privilege of seeing
the sights of the capital of theation
which he is alleged to have saved.
All this show and noise is after all,
largely a matter of practical business,
and when it comes down to the fine
point of dollars and cents Washing
ton will win the race for getting the
most for the least value and by the
least effort. That's the way she
thrives. Chas. I. Stewart.
HON. JESSE J. YATES DEAD.
He was a Prominent Politician from
the First North Carolina District
Special Correspondence ol The Sentinel.
Washington, D. C, Sept. 7. Hon
Jesse J. Yates, ex-member of Con
gress from the First North Carolina
district and father of Chas. M. Yates,
recently of Winston, died in this city
Monday afternoon at the residence ot
his son, Dr. William lates. ine ru-
neral services were conducted this af
ternoon from Mt. Vernon Place M. E
church South by Rev. Dr. J. T.
Wightman. The obsequies were at
tended by a" large number of the
North Carolina colony at the Capital
Among the pall bearers was Judge
Samuel Phillips, rormeriy or jvorth
Carolina, and Solicitor of the Treas
ury Department under Grant, and for
a long time a political adversary of
Mr. lates.
Mr. Yates was a member of the
State Legisture of 1861 and a leader of
the anti-Secessionists in that body
He was elected to Congress in '4, '70
and '78 from the First district, the
last time having to contest his seat
with James J. Martin who was un
seated February 1, 1881. Major Yates
practiced law in Washington for
some time after his voluntary retire
ment from Congress and returned to
his old home in Murfreesboro in 1890,
remaining their till the failure of his
health last December. He is remem
bered as one of the most efficient rep
resentatives North Carolina has had
in Congress since the war.
Chas. I. Stewart.
Prohibition Politics In the State.
Editor J. It. Miller is-organizing
Northampton county, which holds its
nominating convention Sept. bth.
Guilford county has placed a full
ticket in the field headed by ex-Gov
ernor Walker for the Senate and J. R.
Miller for the House.
Dr. J. M. Templeton, Prohibition
nominee for GoTernor of North Caroj
lina. will soon begin to cstump tne
Western part or tne tate witn lion.
W.G.Candler.
I candidate of the Prohibition party.
will speak at Asnevine, September
20: Winston. September 21; Greens
boro, September 22; Durham, Septem-
1 ber Z3, ana itaieign, iseptemoer zi.
THE HISTORY OF TOBACCO.
When Did. the Practice of Chewing
and Smoking First Begin?
From the Greenville Tobacco Journal.
It is somewhat doubtful whether
the use of tobacco as a narcotic was
known in the old country before the
discovery of America. Meyen in his
Geography of Plants expresses the
opinion that the smoking of tobacco
is of great antiquity amongst the
Chinese, because on every old sculp
ture he has "observed the very same
tobacco pipes which are now in use."
Meyen's authority, however, is greater
as a botanist than as an Archaeolo
gist, and cannot be received as deci
sive of the antiquity of the sculptures
of which he speaks. It is not im
probable that the smoking of tobacco
nas Deen long practiced in China, but
it is not certain. If it was so the
custom did not extend amongst the
neighboring nations, which, however.
has been the case also as to the use of
some other narcotics; whereas, on the
introduction or the use of tobacco
from America it rapidly extended
throughout Europe and soon became
extremely prevalent amongst Oriental
nations.
In the present state of our knowl
edge no ethnological argument can be
iound upon the prevalence of smoking
amongst the Mongolians and the
American Indians. Smoking of tobac
co was found by Columbus to be prac
ticed in the West Indies, where the
natives made it into cylindrical rolls,
wrapped in maize-leaf. It has been
prevalent from unknown antiquity
amongst the American Indians as far
north as Canada. With them it even
nas a religious character and is con
nected with their worship and with
all their important transactions
Thus the calumet, or pipe of peace, is
indispensable to the ratification of a
treaty, and smoking together has even
greater significance of friendship than
eating together has amongst other
nations.
In the belief of the ancient worship
pers, the Great Spirit smelled a sweet
savor as the smoke of the sacred plant
ascended to the Heavens, and the
homely implement of modern luxury
was in their hands a sacred censer
from which the hallowed vapor rose
with as fitting propitiatory odors as
that which perfumes the awful pre
cincts of the cathedral altar, amid the
mysteries of the church s high and
holy days Wilson's Prehistoric Man,
1.
The seeds of the tobacco plant were
first brought to Europe by Gonzalo
Hernandez de Ouicdo, who introduced
it into Spain, where it was first culti
vated as an ornamental plant, till
Nicolo Menardes extolled it as pos
sessed or medicinal virtues, it was
introduced into Italy in 1560.
CUBAN TOBACCO.
Fxperiments With it in in One of the
Carolina.
From the Manufacturers Record
If reports be t rue there will soon be
evn stronger reasons i r Cuban cigar
manufacturers to move to this coun
try than the high taxes imposed upon
them by the Spanish government. It
is said that on the W ucox .Sc O Neill
plantation at Estill, S. C, sixty
miles from Savannah, Mr. W. P. Wil
cox has succeeded in raising some re
markably fine Havana tobacco from
Uvelto Abajo seeds, winch is one of
the best varieties grown in Cuba.
Fifteen acres were planted, but
through insufficient knowledge of the
proper methods of cultivation and
trouble with insects the crop was
small. Even with these drawbacks.
however, the results have netted
nearly $100 per acre. With the ex
perience gained by this trial Mr. Wil
cox thinks he can more than double
his returns next year, and will give
about seventy-five acres to it. The
leaf has been examined by experts,
who pronounce it equal to any tobac
co grown in Cuba.
It may take some years to acquire a
full knowledge of the methods most
satisfactory for growing such a crop,
and the variety may change under
the new conditions of soil and
climate, but the experiment is well
worth trying, and even though later
crops should not be of as high a grade
as this nrst one, they will more than
pay the expense of cultivation. A
careful study of what is needed,
coupled with the judicious use of
suitable fertilizers, should at least
aid in preventing any material
change in quality or value of leaf.
STATE NEWS.
Miss Mattie Carden was married to
R. H. Crumpler at Durham Wednes
day. It was a run-away match.
Wm. Turner, of Georgia, has been
placed in jail at Wilkeslxro stealing
Mr. Lafayette Forester's horse.
Rev. Dr. Daniel, of the First Pres
byterian church, or Memphis, has ac
cepted a call to the First Presbyterian
church, of Raleigh.
D. J. Kuyne, or uiin township re
cently brought to the Statesville Land'
mark a cornstalk with twin ears of
corn, both growing trom the same
joint.
Pembroke Jones, Esq., is to leave
Wilmington. For this winter he is to
reside in New York. As vice-psesi-dent
of the newly-constructed rice
mill he is to receive a handsome
salary.
T. T. Youngblood, of Steel Creek
township, Mecklenburg county, found
two fine horses dead in ins stable re
cently. He thinks they were poison
ed. He has not been at peace with
his neighbors of late and has some
law suits. He is having the stomachs
of the animals aualyzed for poison.
It is undoubtedly a fact that the
Third party business is playing havoc
with the Alliance. The Charlotte
News learns that between 75 and 100
sub-Alliances in the State have gone
into a state of "innocuous desuetude,"
rather than be forced into the Third
party ranks.
The board of directors of the Atlan
tic & North Carolina Railroad, in spe
cial session in Goldsboro, declared a
two per cent dividend on the capital
stock of the road, to be paid October
1st. This is the first dividend the
road has ever been able to declare,
and it carries $24,000 into the State
treasury. W. S. Chadwick is presi
dent or tne roaa
THE SCANDIA ARRIVES.
sue
Reprts Thirty-Two Deaths on
Boara During Her Passage.
THE TOTAL OF CHOLERA CASES 133.
Deaths at Sea, G3; at Port, SO, and the
Sick in Port 50 Two Deaths and
Eleven New Cases on Board the
Scandia, Says a Later Report New
Cases Taken to Swinburn Island.
Quarantine, Staten Island, Sept
10. The Hamburg-American steam
er Scandia arrived at Quarantine at 5
o'clock yesterday afternoon and at 1
o'clock this morning Dr. Byron re
ported thirty-two deaths in a total of
1,086 souls on board and that the was
going from Swinburn Island to bring
off seven additional cases.
the grand total.
This makes a grand total for five
ships under surveillance as follows:
Deaths at sea 63
Deaths in port 20
Sick in port 50
Total.
.133
MORE cases still.
Later. Dr. Byron renorted two
deaths and eleven new cases on board
the Scandia, making a total of 34
deaths and 18 cases. The new cases
have been removed to Swinburne
Island.
TYRO SHOPS COMING
To Hear Mr. Stevenson Sneak on the
lOth of this Month.
Correspondence of The Sentinel.
Tyro Snors, N. C, Sept. 8. A
large crowd from Davidson will visit
Winston on the 19th to meet the next
Vice-President of the United States.
V llliam Nance, of Davidson court.
and Miss Bettie Burton, of Davie
county, were united in marriage at
Piney church last Sunday, J. M. Ben
nett officiating.
Thomas Garrett, a young man. died
on Hie 6th inst. at the residence of W.
A. McBride from fever.
We had a very pleasant visit today
from Master Joe and Miss Lizzie
Thompson.
A great many of our people are at
tending court this week at Lexington,
while others are busily engaged cut
ting and curing tobacco.
A REPUBLICAN WITHDRAWS
From the O. O. P. Before His Term of
Office had Even Expired.
Windsor, N. C, Sept. 8. W. L.
Lynn, a prominent Republican and
clerk of the Superior court of this
county, published a card announcing
that he had withdrawn from the Re
publican party. Mr. Lynn has been a
republican all his lile. and has been
elected Superior court clerk twice by
the Republican party, and his term of
office will not expire until the 1st of
December, 1894. J 1 is withdrawal will
be a serious blow to the Republican
party ot this county, as they will have
no one in the party that has taken
an active part in campaign work ex
cept negroes, who are not capable of
the management ol the campaign.
THE COTTON CROP.
The Average is Lower Than in Any
September Since 18H3,
Washington, Sept. 10. The cot
ton report of the Department of Ag
riculture indicates a lower average of
the crop than in any September since
1SH:i. The average is 76.8, against 82.7
last year. The State average for
North Carolina is 76.
DR. EXUM ANGRY.
It Seems That the Republicans Made
an 'Agreement.
Siielhy, Sept. 10. Dr. Exuni is re
ported to have said that the Republi
cans had violated their agreement in
putting out a State iticket, and that
he would not stay in the Held and
help the Republicans.
An Old Democrat.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
Mr. Mitchell Pearce, an old Demo
crat of ninety-live years, walked to
Cedartown the other clay to register,
in order that he might be able to vote
the Democrat i ticket at the coming
elections. Mr. Pearce is an interest
ing character, and bears his years
well, lie was lioi n in ISorth Carolina
in Ii97, but Ins father brought hi in to
Washington, On., when he was a child,
and he has lived in this State ever
since, serving in the war of 112 and
the two Indian wars, lie cast his
first ballot for President Monroe.
A Murder in Ashevillc.
Edward Brown and John Nowel
quarreled late Wednesday night
about a woman, while they were on a
street near the Banner warehouse.
Brown hit Nowel with a rock. Nowel
picked up a rock and returned the
blow. Browns head was smashed
and he died the next day. Nowel
has been arrested.
Eaves is Confident.
Raleigh, N. C, Sept. 10. Chair
man Eaves says that he is well satis
fled at the action of the convention.
As chairman of the State Republican
committee he has a duty to perform,
and the general impression is that it
was performed well and intelligently
He said : "The ticket will be elected
beyond doubt, at least, we think so.'
Dr. Holmes onjWhittier.
Beverly, Mass., Sept. 9. On learn"
ing of Mr. Whittier s death Dr.
Holmes said: "Mr. Whittier was one
of the sweetest natures he was one
of the sweetest singers we ever shall
have. His death was to be expected
in the course of nature, but neverthe
less it leaves me stunned."