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f i s - ' t ! f rm inn VOL. 1. WINSTON, N. C, TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25, 187 NO. . . LIS ABEBL - i i i in i .. .ill,, ,. I , I, I , r,., , ll fllf II XXI K. .;. I . . - I 'i . 1 c "OLD HURRYGRAPH." A FEW MIKUTE8 IN IUE I.MFEKIOB COURT. "Your name is Patrick Maloncy, is it not ?" asked the Judge as he felt in his vest pocket for a chew of tobacco. "Jist the same, may it plase your 'onor." "Well, Mr. Maloncy, you are here for disturbing the peace of your neighbors. Have you anything to say in your, defence ?" "May it plase your 'onor there's a sight o people in this Winston that don't gee well together. Some of them is me old 'oman and mesilf. We have different views bout some things,' and bless me soul, when these views come in contact, there's shure to be a family "brile". Me old 'oman is for consolidation, and Ijii ' agin it The , other night we were talkin' dis matter over, and its the blessed truth, Jcdge, dcre 'rose a conflict of opinins, and she told me in the name of StPatrick, iftl didn't cease the rebellion she'd strike; and she did. strike, and struck mc on the ear with a flat iron. And shure its mesilf before you for the same. But Jcdge, I'm ngin consolidaton." "Well, Mr. Maloney,you are dis charged upon paying cost," remark ed the judge, crossing his leg. As they passed, out the janitor was heard to murmur, "Women nan a hard time In dis life. When they do the best that they can ; But the rrufest wrongs that they can bear' Is them that is done them by man." We sympathize with the young man who wrote to us rccently.ask ing our advice on a certain subject. He says, "I am in love with a nice 'young girl. I've nothing and she's got nothing. What must I do ?" Young man, have you got a traQe ? Are your expenses greater than your income ? Are you indolent ? . Is the young lady you ' love cheerful ? Is she neat and tidy ? Is she in- dustrious ? Does she know how to sew on a button and make'a biscuit? If ypu can answer these .questions satisfactorily, why wc would advise you to marry her if you are in earn est. But if you cannot satisfy.your mind that your answers, are true, then wc would say, If you've nothing and yonr girl has nothing. Don't lie in h.iate to wed ; For nothing and nothing makes nothing. And nothing won't eat like bread. This is a cold, heartless and de ceptive world. Things on this ball are not what they seem. All that shines or glitters is not gold not even plated. A neighbor will shake your hand, and tell you how glad he is to see you -and . all the time wishing you were a hundred miles awav. And so it is in this life. There is just this about it, however, . We" would not live always ; 1 We wouldn't if werould: . Bnt there ain't no use in talkin.; For we couldn't if we would. A very impertinent . exchange wants to know "What makes a young lady ?" Why, you bid sim pleton, a little girl will make a young lady in the course of time. There are a great many men in this world whose hearts are like an old-fashion churn :wide downward as to the, world, and narrow up ward v to things eternal. Very many persons talk of chari ty, and make ax big to do about charity, yet iiicir . charity is like a newly born babe precious little. It is nearly time for the modest little violet to raise its tiny head and ask the butter-cups if. they have grown any hya-cirith the rarn ? It is very rude to strike a young lady, yet the dear girls do love to be smacked on their lips. Isn't it so, girls? . "What sliall we read ?" inquires the Springfield Republican. Read the Winston Leader. - POETRY. t- ; WnKX THE TIDE GOES OUT. rail white Mt of oeeAB, Hi-t fuU tide aptm tlio adj tiwra ; fa the JUker! cot, without s BvHfcm, WalteUi he .thai dull ever sail mere Wslteth hei and one sad romrade, sijrhinr,, Kpcakin lowly, aji, -Without a doubt Ue VUl retl mod :mim um raua um a ring 1 Wbem tbe U1 goes out." Some One calls the tide, wbeo In its flowing It hath tottthed the limit of H bound ; Some great Voice ; and mil the t Uowa, knowing Wbit omnipotent la in that sound. Marten back. U oran, none delaying for man's profit, pleasurinr or doubt Backward to their source, not one wavestrajing. . JIDU UN IHH IS OU(. owe One tails the soul o'er life's dark ocean, When its tids breaks high upon the land, And tt listens with sneh glad emotion As the "railed alone eaa understand Listens, hastens to its source of being. Leaves the sands of Time without a doubt. m auie we saujy wait, as yes one seeing lou toe uoe is owe THE DOORSTEP The conference meeting through at last. We boy around the Testry waited. To see the girls come tripping past, like snow-birds, willing to be mated. And one, she blushed and took ray arm ! We let the old folks hare the highway, And started toward the 11 a pie farm ' Along a kind of loTers by-way. i The snow was erip-teneth our feet ; The moon! was fulL the fields were gleaming ; Bv hood and tippet sheltered sweet. Her face jvUb roath and health was beaming. The little hand outside her muff O. sculptor ! If you could bnt mould it I po lignuy touched my Jaexet-euff, I xoaeepit warm, lead to hold it. To hare her with me. there, alone. I Twas lore, and fear and triumph blended ; a 1 1 mi we reaenen we root-worn stone Where that delicious journey ended. . It t The old foils, too, were almost home, II er dimpled hand the latches fingered ; We heard the rolees nearer come. Yet on the doorstep still we lingered. She shook her ringlets from her hood And with) a "Thank yon. Med,' dissembled. But ret I knew she understood Wflh what a darling wish I trembled. A cloud passed kindly overhead. The moon was slyly peepiag through it, Yet nld its f ace, as if if said, "C'otne, now or never ! do It ! do it I. Mr lips till 'then had only known The kiss of mother and of slitter ; BuUsomehow, fall upon her own Sweet, rosy, darling mouth I kissed her ! " ; i jt i Perhaps 'twas boyish lore, yet still, O listless woman, weary lover I To feel once more that fresh, wild thrill Fd give but who can live youth over f THE FIRESIDE. 1 A War Reminiscence. It was during the winter of 1864 6j, which will .long be remember etl by the soldiers who took part' in the campaign in the Valley of Vir ginia, I as one which tried men's souls and their heels also, that the thrilling scene occurred which I am about to! describe. The o d Fourth Cavalry was on a forced march down the Valley to meet a c alumn of the enemy which was adv incing, and after a day's ride wer t into bivouac just at night fall on tr e j road side, r L We did not have the "cigars and ccgnac,'1 as the old" song says, with which "to bivouac," so after a has ty, "bite of something to eat," . and Dicketinsr and teeuine horses, we soon rolled ourselves, head and ears, in our blankets, and lay prone upon the frozen ground. To a jtired soldier sleep comes quickly, and with it almost entire .oblivion c he rarely dreams, so hard ly more than a minute elapsed after the" lying down before the entire camp wks silent as the grave. . While preparing for rest we had been notified of a coming snow storm, not only by the black. clouds which hung heavily, in the North east, but by heralds in the shape of cutting shownakes propelled by the wintry blast- It is fearfully cold ; so bitter was it, indeed, it was thought expedient to dispense with .the usual camp guard sd as to enable all to obtain whatever of comfort was possible under the circumstances. ' The njgiment at that time num bered between six . and seven hun dred men, who, soldier-like, caring only for the present, and unmmd ful of the morrow, slept soundly and, I may add, rapidly. I had klent as I had supposed on ly a few minutes when I suddenly awoke 1 1 consciousness, being made aware o ' an immense pressure upon me accompanied with intolerable heat. M In attempting to move I found myself, as it were, packed tightly in in a mould, which I fitted exactly. and I was unable to turn either to right or I left. I soon found that was covered with a very friendly blanket pt snow. With h vijrorous push, I threw mv.blankct off, and a most curious spectacle presented itself to ray as tonishing gaze. The black cloud had passed awav. and the bright morning moon shone down upon the irround covered with a white mantle of eight inches of i snow. Looking around mci as far as the eve could reach In every direction. I saw nothincr but the unbroken snow covering which ap peared to be mounds or graves in vrv conceivable position. I was sitting Jnnght in my own grave in the middle of a hujre cemetery. I Knt a human beinir could I dis- hebver aiiywhere, while everything was as sun as ucaui ticn While! I was wrapt in the contem- fat ion 'of so wonderful a scene, the uglcat headquarters, a quarter of mile off. sounded the reveille and lo, what a change! ; In an instant ine quiet scenery, was alive rail the men arose at once from their! snow graves, and what was the stillness of death but a moment Defore was now bustle and activitv. Instantlv the text bashed through my mind. "The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised." Words fail me in describing my feelings at the moment of this occurrence.! Had had anv idea nf the time T iwrntM have called some of my comrades. . I As It was I am fortunate enough to be probably" the only person who nas reany seen a prototype pt the resurrection Wm M. Pegram in Scribncr's Monthly. A VeVy natural Mistake. A young man from one of the back towns came in to buy a pres ent for his girl last week. I lis won derful gaze being fixed by the gor geous display in a dry goods win dow, he entered the store and 'bash fully stopped in front of a j pretty young lady behind the counter. "How much are those f t he in quired, pointing to a pair of hand somely wrought -nickel-plated gar ters in the window.! i "Seventy-five cents" replied the young lady, sweetly, handing out the articles in question and blush ing slightly. "I think they are kinder pretty, don't you ?' inquired the ! youner man, anxious 'for everybody else's opinion. Very, replied the young miss ; "they are the latest style." 'Lverybody wears them don t they ?" continued the young man. "Almost everybody" said the ypung lady, affecting an unconcern ed air. I i "I was going to fcet them for a girl that I know," said the 'young man, somewhat nervously. "Do you think she would like them ?" "I should think she might I don't know," returned the young lady, blushing again. Well, 1 don t hardly know my self," said the young man picking up one of the dainty articles, exam ining it closely. "1 ou don t sup pose they are too large, now, do "Why I I" stammered the young Jady, the blush growing deep er.- " "They seem sorter big like," con tinued the young man, not observ ing her confusion ; "but of course I wouldn't be certain. She's mid dlin size but not very fat, and meb- be these would be a little too loose. I should think she was just about your bigness, and if these would fit vou of course thev'd fit her. Now jusi suppose you try them on and "Sir !" exclaimed the young lady behind the counter, in an awful voice that lifted the young man's hat on the end of his hair, "you are insulting ;" and she swept away to the rear of the store, leaving the bewildered young man standing in dumb amazement, holding in his hands, what he supposed was a beautiful pair of bracelets. And when one of the men clerks came and explained his mistake, the young man trom the back town struck a direct line for his team, and in -a very brief space of time was tear- in cr towards home at a Tate that threatened to irretrivably ruin the oldfamily horse. ! He won't buy any 1 1 u : 1 urutcici2 nuw uimi ue a maiiicu. Senator Z. B. Vance and the War. From the signs which discourage me mora than aught else are the -utter demoralization of the people With a base of communication 500 miles in bherman s rear, through our own country, not a bridge has been burned, not a car thrown from the track, nor a man shot by the peo pie whose country he has desolated. They seem everywhere to submit when our armies are withdrawn. What does this show ? It shows that I have always believed, that the great popular heart is not now and never has been in this war. It was a revolution of the politicians, not the people, and was fought first by the natural enthusiasm of our young men, and has been kept go ing by the State and sectional pride, assisted by that bitterness of feeling produced by the cruelties and bru talities of the enemy. would fain be doing. How can help to win the victory ? What can I do ? How shall I guide this suf fering and much oppressed Israel that looks to me through the tang led and bloody pathway wherein our lines have fallen ? Cuty called me to resist to the utmost the dis ruption of the Union. Duty calls me now to stand by the.Union "to the last grasp with truth and loyal ty. This is mv consolation, j I nc be ginning was bad. I had no band in it. Should the end be bad, I shall, with God's help, be equally 'blame less. rrom a LxlUr scrtzun in P September JS64- i How an Ohio Lover was Persecuted. A most lauirhable trick perpetrat ed upon a young man of Freemont has come out. He was1 a tip-top fellow, high-minded and honorable, but he is not blessed with a large share of this world's goos. ! He is in love with a vcryprett girl, who in turn would go through fire for him. Her parents have done every thing they could to annoy the young man and prevent him from coming to the house, but he is persistent, and the high-spirited girl says that if he can't come to see her, she will go to see him and stay for good. As unfortunately often happens, there is a boy in the family who sympa- thizeswith his parents. his imp has succeeded at last in carying the day against the lovers. The young man called a few evenings since, when the old folks were away from home, hoping to pass a pleasant' evening. It was not long until the parlor stove commenced smoking violent ly. The stove was doctored, but it grew worse. In a few minutes the smoke unendurable, and the couple took refuge in the family room. They were not more than comfor tably seated before they were treat ed to a reputation of the smoke in the parlor." It fairly poured out of the fireplace, and soon the room was so full of smoke that, had the cou ple not retreated, they would have been converted into good cured ba con. The lovers, deternined not to be undone, went to the kitchen. Here the same fate awaited them. It seemed as if the very elements conspired against them. The fire burned brightly at first, but in a few minutes the giant black volume came puffing out of the stove and tilling the room. ihey were in de spair. Wherever they went the smoke followed them. The were literally- smoked : out. The voung lady, half in anger and half from blinding smoke had a heajty cry, and theoung man went home. It has since been learned that the rascally boy .had secured some broad boards and climbing up on .the roof, laid them over the chimneys. i Newspaper Wit Wit is not so' abundant in news- papers x. et it is not so unirequent. When the Camden Post says "A man s character is like a ience you cannot strengthen it by whitewash," it eives us a erenuine epigram. Quite as feUcitious, too, this is from the Cin cinnati Breakfast Table ; "A tack points heavenward when 'it means the most mischief ; it has many hu man imitators." A bright turn to a f ! " . 1 .1 iamuiar quotation is given oy me Biddeford Miniature thus : "I am thy father's spirit, 'as the pints flask said to the inquisitive urchin who had been investigating the cup board." Mr. Talmage having claim ed that hell has four gates, the Buf falo Express hopes they open out ward, so as to give easy egress in case of fire. 'The Hackensack Re publican gave a witty conceit when it said last', fall r "lhe leaves ot trees, like summer boarders with bills unpaid, take their departure leaving their trunks behind them. The following is evidently stolen from the English : At dinner the hbsf introduces to the faVorable no tice of the company a splendid truffled pheasant amid murmurs of aurnirai.icjii. xau ijv a ucauiya tie says. "Dr. So-and-so gave it to me killed it himself." "Aw, 4 what was he treating it for ?" says one of the guests. This, which is going the rounds without credit, bears evidence of the origin in the New York : World newspaper : "A thorn in the bush is worth a dozen in the hand.': . ' Buried Coin. 1 A New York farmer has discov ered a spot of buried coin. While he and his son were digging a pit to bury turnips, in a sandy spot near the shore, they struck a laige stone three feet below the surface. Upon removing the stone they discovered an old fashioned iron pot, of about a peck's capacity, filled with what anoeared to be lartre . coDPer coins. They at once removed the pot to the house, and after cleaning a few coins, which was black with age. found them to be Spanish silver dol Lars, some of them ; bearing date 174 V The coins I were " probably buried during the revolutionary war. j An old darkey who was asked if, in bis experience, prayer was ever answered, replied : "Well, sah, some pra'rs is ansud and some isn't pends on w'at you axes fo; jest ar ter de wah, we'eo it was mighty hard scratchin fp de dulled bred den, I bsairved dat w'en ebber I pway de Lo'd to' sen one o Marse Peyton's fat turkeys fo de ole man, dare was no notice took ob de par tition ; but we'en I pway dat he would sen de ole man fo de turkey, de matter was 'tended to befo sun up nex roornin dead sartin.' r The Leader one year for ili.50. A Father's Prayer Answered. At a meeting tin London, fbr special prayer for. the children of Christian parents," the Rev. , Mar cus Ra in ford delivered an address on the encouragements to parental 7 , m prayers. In the course of his ad dress he related the following cir cumstances as happening in Ire land : At a meeting tor united prayer, an aged gentleman was pleading very earnestly for his own son an abandoned proigaL While in ine act 01 praver a drunken brawl was heard outside, which occasion ed a temporary interruption of the service. After the audience had dispersed and the minister of the chapel was alone in the vestry, a stranger knocked at the door ; on being admitted he asked for advice and prayer, saying that, in Company with six riotous companions, he was passing the church when his atten tion was attracted by a lbud voice within, and after listening, awhile, he exclaimed with an oath. There's my :old father preaching." iPrcscnt- ly he heard the earnest prayer for himself. Even in the midst of his drunken revelry the arrow of con viction pierced his heart. He quit- ieu ms companions, ana now came to seek the minister's aid, exclaim ing; "My mother's pra'ers of long ago arc answered, as well as that prayer of my father. Under God s blessing this young man has become converted man. Christian Her ald - . J - . :- : 1 aw 1 1 rv - 1 h person w will get up a club ot tour subscribers to the Leader, sending us $6,06, will re ceiye the ifth copy free. . Senator Ransom on the Extra I :v Session. Speaking on the same subject (the extra session) General Ransom, who is a thorough Southern man, a representative man of his section, and as close to the hearts of his peo ple as any member of either House, safdf to-day, "The South must not only be night, but it must seem right.'' Then he added, with his characteristic earnestness, "And our people are right. They are patriot ic, land that man mistakes them al together who thinks they are in fa vor of petty local legislation. Those who love Washington, and who al most worship the memory of Rob. L. Lee, have been educated to fol low great leaders.. iThey admire broad statesmanship, and will not support or follow any man who stoops to do little things. Of course," he went on, "1 am opposed to the test oath law, and supervisors law. and the other unconstitutional elec tion laws. They are all wrong, and our people have sutiered ternblv from them, but it is better for us to endure a little longer than it is for us to do a bad thing ourselves, but I know the Southern people feel as I do on this subject." Ben Hill, be- ing a more raaicai, man naturally expressed himself more radically in position to an extra session oeing forced by the Democrats. Wash. Cor. Philadelphia Record. Adversity. v A happy man, surrounded by the blessings ofjpoverty, thus sums up tne uses 01 aaversuy : iou wear out your old clotches. I You are not troubled with many visitors. You are exonerated frotrK making calls. T , i , C iores ao not oore you. spongers cannot haunt your table. Itinerant bands do not play opposite your window, iou avoid the nuisance of serving oh juries. No one thinks of presenting you with a testimonial. No tradesman irritates you by ask ing : "Is there any other little arti cle to-day ?" pegging letter writ ers to let you alone. ' Impositors know it is useless to bleed you. You practice temperance. iou swallow infinitely less poison than others, x ou are saved many a acbt, many a deception, many a headache. And lastly if you have a true friend in the world you are sure in a very short space of time to learn it. ' An Ithaca girl has painted fifty black buttons, to ornament a dress' for herself,' with, a pretty design either a bit of wheat, a bee, or a dainty flower, j while around tlie cuffs a ad down the front of the dress from throat to hem run interlaced clusters of lilies of the valley, with here and there a humming-bird in color and form as natural as life. A necklace made in the same manner is also worn. The painting is all on ground work of black satin, and is delicately and deftly done at least so the Journal says. In the midst of quarrel I don't know wbat-kceps me from breaking vour head!" "Well, I know what keeps me from breaking yours. I'm a member of the j Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals !" A young man, who has recently taken a wife, says he did not find it half so hard to get married as he did J to get furniture. Sheet fllsh. "Hh ter bchcncral around Talk ed an excited merchant a the Uni ted States troops pjed throtjh Siatku last week in pursuit , of the uccmg iwnnocKs. . "WclL mv man " aid 1 low! reigning inliishor&e, "wliat i it ? "Speak quick." ! am a ruin' man.- Schencral. Dera curietl reihkins dev murder my poy Mia cob alout fi tc miles from here un shtcal a docn pair of pants he vos pcddlin. .( New ant so hcllcp mc kracious -right out of sthorcv i Sorrv for your losa, mv man. but haven't time to talk about it now. If wc catch up with those demon we'll stop their deviltries for irood and all." YCS. I know ' Sehrneral T Lnmi- eagerly .whiTpercd .-the lcrcaved ready made merchant, hanging des perately to the officer's stirrup. Dot's all right, 'but ven vou come un mit docs new pants on, for kracriout sake, Schencral, tolc de soldiers to shoot high !" 1 ex 1 ' Onward. tnTeligion progress is mill the watch wortl of the churchca. Tliough the graves of nrol!in now; confront Cliristianitv. wc Imt- licve her advancement is constant and more rapid than the causual oh- t SMlf Am s-Wk 0 rm . M as1 & t. -a'll viv. uiiugiucs. 3iic siui retains her hold in distant lands, and is tak ingup new and advanced positions in the universal distrcKsand business embarrassment of the world, she , supports her benevolent institutions and never thinks of entertaining the courts of bankruptcy ; she lowers her standard hot an inch, but claims the World as the inhrritagc' of her I-ord ; she.prca'ches the truth, and thousands'-are converted to GcmI ; lier faith is firm, her vision clear, her step unhesitatingly, her courage unbroken, her hope Vboundihg, her zeal rising, and never has the throb of her heart been more vicrorious -than In the year l.Pittsburg nrisiian Jiavocate. Uanied at Last Mrs. M. is beautiful, rich and fash ionable, but unfortunately, very ignorant. Even our little alphabet is as yet, to her, a mystery. One day while, calling upmr her friend, Mrs. B .she perceived a richly bound copy of the Holy Bi ble, and smilingly she inquired if she might take it home and read it. Wondering much, Mrs. B. assent ed. ; One week later the !ook was returned. "Were you pleased with it ?" asked Mrs. B. drily. ' . J . The sweet blue eyes of Mr. . fairly sparkled with pleasure. Oh, my dear friend, it was a charming noveL They got married at lat." Tie above is told as a fact.-Frontier cto. Christian Statesmen. " Wc devoutly thank. God for such men in the councils of the Nations. Light is breaking o'er u ! Hamp ton lives by the prayers of Gmi'i people ColqTiitt, as a layman, is g reaching the gospcJ of the Son of bd from Sabbath to Sabbath, and our own Governor has consecrated himself to the Church of God and recently stood up in this city plead, ing for the spread of the got pel of the Son of God. Let the people pray on- .Let the tide of Christiani ty roll on until it shall sweep Iown all wickedness in high places ; until all our rulers shall rule in righteous ness, and we shall be "a happv peo ple whose God is the Lord. A". C. Christian Advocate. At Georgetown, Ma-, the son of a widow married a girl whose broth er married the widow, while a child born to the first couple has an uncle and a 'grandfather and a grand mother and an aunt in the same per sons, ! . n An editor in Iowa has been fined f 19 for hugging a girl in meeting. "Cheap enough !' says another of the same fraternity ; "wc once hug- -fged a girliin meeting, and it lias cost u a uivuaauu uuiuiii. A courtly negro recently sent a reply to an invitation, in which he "regretted that circumstances re pugnant to the acquiescence would prevent his acceptance of thjc in vite." t To a club of ten wc will furnish the Leader for tt dollar a year. Go to work and get up a club. . , r sMMswHaasasflaesaaMBaBMHaBHMHM t Every time a business man inserts an advertisement in a good paper he pbces his business before hundreds of house-holds, and attracts the 'at tention of many that he could not in ariy other way. ' A curious husband once asked his wife, "My dear, wliat kind of a stone do you think they will give me when 1 am gone?" "Brimstone, John, was the affectionate reply.
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