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THE WINSTON LEADER, THE WWuTOH LEADER, Leader rk-Jeui Hi-'- Winston PCllIIHD BVEBT TVST BT JAMES ALGERNON ROBI HON. Subscription Tsrms-ln Advance Om eoay, ons yesr, (posage Om ropy , six mooth - - m A ero mmi ZTJirmA or is due, and 7u ars "w.ripL 'r pub.lc.Uori mt b. .ritw o M slda of the pPr only, od sccom Lolid by erf tha -riiar ss a guaraatss of good faith. NORTHWESTERN. NORTH OAROLINA-WE LABOR FOR ITS INtERESTS. volume II. WINSTON, N. C., TtJESDAt, FEBRtJArl 3, 1880, iVtJMBEH 5. HUtrivefl w fees Is b vs - sSsssUaas MaSBwsaT " sf tar. a. " WINSTOM CARDS. B. 8. J. MONTAGUE, Owe: Main street, opp. Msrebaat's Hotel, Will be plsased to praetice In Winston, Salem, and the surrounding country. JaSs-ly . OBI". H. JONES, Dentist, Having located permanently In Winston, prof-'ional srices to the public. Office over Thompson's Drug Store. J7 DR. T. M. OSBORNE. removed bU office to the law office for- XT AS merlr occupied by the late CoL Mast n, next to the Mayor's office. Call attended to at all In titn cna country. aym .iuhum Y. BAYLE, ttor ney a"1 Counselor at Lew, Wlnitoo, . a VIM nrrlctlce In Forsyth and ,i0nia. comities rth and an ba,ii lotrastaa to n wfl) receive prompt atenUotK Jan2S-ti D. P- Mat S. 1UQMI K. 0K4T. M Attorneys at Law, Winston, N. C. (Office In the Coirrt House .) Will Joining collerti eiUte , Ice In the c.urti of rorsyvnarj aa- ntiea. optvrju aiieuuou &i mo of clatWj and the stulement of aplS-tf W. B. QLKXK t GLENN, ATSON Attorneys st Law, rr Winston, V. C. nractict in the Courts r f the counties ILL comprising the Eighth Judicial Distiict, and in the Suureins and Federal courts ox in- stare. Particular attention given to the co lection of Silmii In all parts of the -tste. rT 1 X I' J X a a 1 A. At 1 4 dA WM. T. V06ELER, Practical Watchmaker and Jewela, tela BU, Ves. alerehaut's Bxa4l. WINSTON. N. C, rv't-pa -,..t.n. mi hand Clocks. Watches IV Jewe.rr. and Silver-plated ware of all kind! SPECTACLES A SPECIALTY. Bepil ring of every description dona promptly! and ail work warranted. JanJ-ly I. W. DURHAM, Practical Marble .Wor.er, AND DEALERS IN Monuments and Mrave-Stons, WINSTON, N, C "Wrtta for Price LUt. Jaa-ly Remember You Can Save Moiy BY BUYING YOUR FURNITURE, COFFINS AND CASETS GULLET! erecasaboret, N. C ttb has now In store and will keep ownd a XX good aaiortment of Furniture of atinds, iruin finest to cheapest; Wall Pooka's ssarsck ets. Book Shelves, Work Tables, Draft tb as, Chremoe. Picture Frames. A large lot of e Cof. tins and Caskets rlwajra rn hand, embradFlsk'a lieUlte Burial Case and Casket, from fto 9B6 (Inert to cheapest). Rosewood Coffins a Baskets from $8 to 130, Walnut. 91.60 to SiS, acorn k to Bnishi Cedar Caskets, $1 to PopUJofnns, iWto9. All kindSt Mounting and "Jmingn on hand at price which defy competttfc Fine, cheap Buria. Robes, all atsea, always on B. No charge for packing and delivery at the d- sep2 m WINSTON LEAK MARBLE WKS. & WILSN. DEALSRS IN Italian and American Mas MONUMENS, HEADSTONES, TOMBS, , Winston, N. C. QanU-ly DB. V. 0. IMR wioicMU add mxxaii. 01RIUIG1BM WINSTON, N. O. 1 HAS THE OLDEST AND LAB DRUG HOME IN WINSTON. He ta constantly increasing and lnag Etk. Goods are sold aa cheaj his ANY RELIABLE HOUSE CAltL. Paints, Oils and Dye-StukSpb C1ALTY. i BrECIAL ATTFNTION PIIW CBIP TION DEPARTMENT, SQUIBBS PREPARATIONS WHEN DESIRED. Ft a ED ANY MEDICINE NOT IN STOCK . SUPPLIED AT SHORTEST F 81BLE TIME. BE MEDICINES SENT TO HOUSES AA IX POSSIBLE COURTESIES EXTE2 TO PATRONS. -v. o THOMP8C WlNSTOb. janle-ly MISCELLANEOUS. at-raao wiluass. a LFRED WILLIAMS OTX, BOOKSELLERS and STATUS No. It Fayttteville St., RALEIGH Evrrythiag la oar line at Bo k a specialty. y"ENTKAL HOTEL, arsesibsie . C BEYMOUR BTBai I. TERMS, . . 4M..BO Large Sample wagon meets all fJIHE NATIONAL HOTEL, State Houae Square, STREET k SOU. OfHI Renewed ard Re-estarlished. Special A ccom modatiooa. for all ssssaa KGISTER'S SB SB warranted to cue Cuts Bums, and all A BkeF injuries. Lament rm sects, etc It positively or animate. Sold everyw ecu. Sample bottle M a"n leg from amputation. sale at SMITH'S URUG STORJE.r?' THE LEADER JOB PRIWlIfflE T8 prepared to execute in a neat maa at X the lowest rtea, Letter-head , BUMse beads Curls. Eavelopea, Inittionsj-, Caution Notices, etc. Give us a trial. nr JOS PBXMTLMG ta the LEADER OFT LINTsTT Rheumatism, rta. che. and Era. f bHssm. JSm. nerfcan k sra. Si its. I a Plane facte sha vings. A hen's prayer" Now I lay W o added to man makes woman A eoostevs had is generally) weL combed. How to make crockery ware don t use it. ''IfllE cat drowned in the brewery was r. Maltese. No fashionable hdy should be with out a muff of leopard nkin. Fifty girls are studying at Cornell University. H ILLSBOBO, Obio has a man whose name is Amen. Be it so. A TEXAS man has been born with out a brain. The jury box yawns for him. If time, is really money any man ought to be worth his wait in gold. Yonkert Statesman. If evil communications ooTrttpl good manners the oyster tlgl' be a bad fish, for hesbrou-at Up wth a rake. 01ZaQ lady to gent whom she refuses - reoogniae: We may meet, but I shan't see yoti, There will be one vacant stare. -Steubenvillr. Herald. Of all vorde dot vas sad, der verst (to a defeated candidate) is, " it couldn't vas." Carl Pretzel. Wondeb if sailor lads ever ring with their girls on the navigate. tsalem isunbeam. Rudder guess they do. j What an object of pity that man is whose extreme sense of dignity won't allow him to have any fun in this world. Cincinnati Saturday Night. The flower that was born to blush unseen went up the spout the other night by a can of kerosene. It was the cook. It is aaid that the Bureau of Engrav ing has not a tingle ten dollar bill in its reserve stock. Singular coincidence. Keither have we. Itocjcland Courier. When you see a young married man with poU of buckwheat batter on his coat sleeve, it's easy to tell who wears the breeches in that house. "How do you like my boots, aove? '' exclaimed a youthful bride. Ob, they're immense," replied the partner of her joy; and she had the first matri monial fainting away as the result. ''Who brayed there?" asked a member of the Canadian House of Commons of the persons who were trying by inter ruption to silence him. "it was an echo," retorted a voice. Professor Proctor declares that the earth is still in it youth. Now we know why the giddy thing runs around so much o'nights. Cincinnati Commer cial. Prof. Proctor says the earth Is 387 times farther from the sun, than the sun is frqm the earth. We don't see liow this can be, unless we have mis represented the professor. Rcftlznd Courier. Our buck wheat -subscriber had bet ter ' come to the scratch ,Maqgregor New. If he doesn't, give him his spankache. Whitehall Timet: lflshe is a woman, ask her a big griddle, and if she can't answer it, bttter. A washerwoman being sach a regu lar and attentive listener at church, was commended by her pastpr. 'Yes," said she, " after my hard week's work is done, I git so rested to come to church, and set and think about nothin' !r A bicycle rider was thrown from his fiery, untamed steed and fatally injured in Chicago, and the citizens want the Governor to appoint another Thanks giving Day. All the good things are coming in a heap this year. A very old lady on her death-bed, in a penitential mcod, said : " I was a great sinner more than eighty years, and didn't know it." An old darky woman, who had lived with' her a long time, ex claimed, " Lors I I knowed it all the time. ' ' Kentucky State Journal. L "There is nothing like settling down" said a retired merchant confidentially to his neighbor. " When I gave up bus iness I settled down, and found I had quite a comfortable fortune. If I had settled up I should not have had a cent." "Iam the oak; you are the vine," remarked an ardent though silly lover to his Marianne. "Let the vine, there fore, p around the oak until it reaches the topmost leaves " i "And finds nothing there," exclaimed the heartless beauty. Mme. Adelina Patti has met with a flattering reception in Berlin. ! The Emperor and Frince Charles called upon her recently in the green-room, and spoke to her in such high terms that tears are said to have appeared In her eyes. Stuart Robson unhesitatingly de clares with his unassuming snd charac teristic modesty, "Mr. Crane and my self are the two best living actons, and as far as I have heard from, only two actors. Count Joannes and John B. Gough, dissent from this view." "Is not a large head," Alonzo write, '"an evidence of large brains? Well, yes, Alonzo, it is, it is ; kind of ; in a de gree; ob, yes; we rather guess you are correct it is-nly, Alonzo, it depends a littlr, you know, whether the head is on the shoulders of a man or on an ass Bur liny tan Hawkeye. Let's chip in for a new hat for any Governor who has mind enough of his own to appoint some other day than Friday for hanging. Free Prdu. As soon as the hat is bought, send it to ex-Governor Hartranft, Philadelphia. He is the man that broke tip the stupid superstition. Remarks a writer : "A gentle hand can lead an elephant by a hair." Now, what foolishness that is. to pot into the minds of children. Why, bless you, elephants don't have hair: they jut have hides, that's ail. Perhaps a gentle hand might lead him by the tail, but mind you, we have our doubts even of that. Rockland Courier. The katydid does all her singing with her tegs. Now if the young man who sits behind you at the concert and hums the tenor softlv, were com, eliArl in An fall his singing by rubbing the soles of bis leet together, now nappy y would be. And as? Oh, he would sing about as well as he does now, and the musical world wouldn't miss him at all. The man who can devour a doaen and a half raw oysters at one sitting, is the man for eighteen ate he. ( What ho, without there ! Seize him and hurl him from the loftiest battlements of the donjon deep into the foaming port cullis that flows past the postern gate. ) It is done. The limpid ripples of the silently flowing current cloe above the eddving sally port, -ana mit Burlington Hawkey f. ia over. A Marvdfttts Story. Following is an extract from a letter written from Mata moras, Mexico, by Charles S. Williams, formerly of Peoria, 111 , to William T. Hubbard, of Quincy, 111,: -You have doubtless heard accounts of the discoveries of gold in fabulous quantities in the Sierra Mojadas. The accounts cannot be exaggerated, since the imagination cannot conceive of such a vast quantity f gold snd silver hoarded by nature in one rugged mountain-range. The tallest stories would not be fabulous in this case. I have been there, and I know whereof I affirm. You know I have been something of a traveler; that I have seen the mines of California, Australia and among the Ural mountains for, during my wan derings I corresponded with vou ; but nowhere on this planet have f seen t'ue same richness in the mines tna. aame uncounted tons of jsrold. The very mountains. lvrty ajjrJT rugged as thev are-t'-a to be built of gold. Untold millions of the yellow ores and dust are In sight ; how much there may be hidden in the heart of mountains only He who created all wealth can tell. If I had not been there, and one had attempted to tell Only one-half of the truth in regard to those golden" moun tains, though he had been my nearest kinsman, or most trusted friend, I would not have accepted his story as truth. I shall not ask you to believe me when I say that tere are, in those wild, almost" inaccessible mountains, great hills of gold, miles in length, hun dreds of feet in height, and hundreds of vards in width And yet it is a literal truth. And not far away from the golden hills there is a mountain of silver ore. richer than any ores of Lead- ville. Virginia Citv. or any other l bonanza mines yet discovered. This silver mountain throws in the shade the far-famed hill of Santa Eulalia, in Chihuahua, from which $200,000,000 in silver had been taken. I know you will think I tell incredible stories. I have not told half the truth. But why are not these mines worked developed at once? The answer is not difficult. They are in Mexico and no'hing is done in a hurry, except changing the government. In the next place, territorial jurisdiction is claimed by the three states of Coahuila, San Luis Potosi, and Chihuahua. The mines are undoubtedly clearly in the state of San Luis Potosi j but the con flicting claims must be se'ttled, as each has a military fores in the neighbor hood, and suppresses all attempts to carry on mining Operations. Tueh the t itle is in doubt. Up till within a week before my departure from San Felipe, the nearest puebl , to tbemining region, it was supposed that the Mojadas were a part of the public domain. But in- terested parties made the disflBH-ery that the identical tract upon which the ricbejt dintoyeriea have been made was long ago granted awar, in the usual Mexican style of liberality, to the ex tent of six Spanisb leagues square There was much excitement in San Lufs Potosi and Saltillo over the an nouncement that the .great mines were private property, and, the strangest Eart of all, the property of an American y birth, if living, and his heirs, if dead. Tools of Great Mea. It is not the tools that make the work man, but the trained skill and persever ance of the man himself. Indeed, it is probable that the best workman never yet had a good tool. Some one asked Opie by what wonderful process he mixed' his c dors. " I mix them with my brains, sir," was the reply. It is the same with every workman who wou'd excel. Furguson made marvelous things such as his wooden clock, that actually measured the hours, by means of a com mon penknife, a tool in everybody's hand ; but then everybody is not a Fureuson. A pan of water and two thermometers were the tools by which Dr. Black dis covered latent heat ; and a prism, a lens, and a sheet of pasteboard enabled New ton t unfold the composition of light and the origin of color. An eminent savant once called upon Dr. Wellaston, an I requested to be shown over his laboratory, in which science had been enriched with so many important discoveries, when the doctor tcok him into a little study, and pointed to an old tea tray on the table, contain ing a few watch glasses, test paper?, a small balance, and a blow pipe, said: " There is all the laboratory I have !" Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies' wings; he would often say no one knew how much he owed to those tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. Bewick first practiced drawing on the cottage walls of his native village, which he covered with his sketches in chalk; and Benjamiu West made his first brushes out of a cat's tail. Ferguson laid himself down in the fields at night in a blanket, and made a map of the heavenly bodies, by means of a thiead with -mall beads on it, stretched between his eyes and the stars. Franklin Hrst lobbed the thunder cloud of its lightning by means of a kite with two crocs sticks abd a silt handker chief. Watt made his first model of the con densing rdeam engine out of an old anatomist's syringe, need to inject the arteries previous to dissection. Gifford worked his first problem in mathematics, with a cobbler's appren tice, upon small scraps of leather which he beat smooth for the purpose, while Hit enhouse, the astronomer, first cal culated eclipses on his plow handle. Some fiend in human shape went into the electric-battery room at a San Fran cisco hotel the other day and turned the whole force of the Rumpkofl coils on the i e verse way at once. Instantly loud shrieks resounded in the corriders, and in the next ten minutes the waiters found over sixty guests hanging by their thumbs to the electric buttons in their rooms, capering round like mani acs and yelling for release. One old lady was drawn up into such a knot that two doctors haven't got her flat tened out since. A Frexch lady, who had been a widow three times, was in the habit of referring to her trinite de defunct in a perfectly nonchalant and numerical way. Some one complained of this to his friend, snd remarked that a woman who could do such a thing was certainlv an enigma. ' Not exactly an enigma," was the reply, " but rather a charade, for she constantly refers to my first, my second and mv third." These is considerable talk about the dishonest v of Dublic men. How is it about the private men 7 Are thev all ! tints Modem Argo. WHY SttTH MILK St LYPlA a. KIcaAXtM. thepole! What ek thy at the butef What prise for such a reach that goal U ivory sasjol on polar seas. Or silken seal in " open seas?" la empire sought, or pleasure, gold, Or paths for trade, with gains untold Not theanare sought through arctic main , There's good, unknown to vulgar gain. And Tn) th, as truth, haa c hampions brave A any Mara or Mammon gave. The search of truth, and truth alone, Has charms, to sordid minds unknown. To add one drop to human lore, To prove one truth unknown before. This, this is life ambition, meet, Atones lor failure, sneers, defeat. An " open sea," they long have said, Haa North Pole centering in its bed ; And, more, when ships far northward gn, They pass the drift and iceberg floe, And reac!i a calm and open sea, From Ice formations ever free. Yet none have passed this brumal line, Which "upen seas" begin, confine. Is this illusion, falsek untrue? Must we reject the olden view Shall youthful irtoU, one by one, jne? Still fall, till age, alas, lias none A myth, that "open polar sea?" A myth? Than prove it so to be. If not, then snows perpetual fall, As stone on stone build up the wall, Till oceans, seas, as vapor rise. And northward drift to polar skif ; There sink as snow, to rise no more. Till earth itself is toppled o'er. m When north pole bows to kiss the sun. An era's passed, a cycle's run. " What seek they at the note? What's there, Save cold, starvation, death, despair?" " What seeks he there, heroic man?" He seeks the key to nature's plan! Inter- Octan. I WONDEB IF HE WOULD CARE. If ha could know I was j eating In my Idle words that Say; If ha knew with what care rm investing The rose that ha threw away; How against decay I'm pro tasting I wonder what ha would any. If, whan the sun la fading From crimson to faintest pink. Ha know of the sorrow Invading My heart, which from it doth shrink With tears my folly upbraiding, I wonder what ha would think. If ha know that I waa repenting Words spoken so thoughtlessly, Would ho still the alight be resenting ? Still think unkindly of mat If ha knew that I waa relenting I wonder if ha would ha. If hs knew how I had 1 Over his picture there; If ha oould hear me sighing His name in sorrowing prayer; If ha should hear of ms, dying, I wonder if hs would cars. ZEPH PARKER S STRATAGEM. " Sleepy, baby-faced set o' people ? Air they! Baby-faced enough, you bet; but I tell you, sirree, that 1 believe thev're 'beout born with all their eye teeth cut in their celestial jaws; and vew've got to get up airly, sir, if you want to take in a Chinee 1" The speaker was'a hard-faced, hollow jawed gentleman, in a glossy black suit, which fitted him very badly, and the remark was made in the smoking-room of the " Continental." There he was to be seen daily, and he was supposed to have " given the speckylaters fits in He;" in other Words, he'was believed to have made a fortune in petroleum. At all events, he had plenty of money, and was very1 generous in the spending of it. The conversation had turned on the vexed Chinese question, and he struck into th discussion. " I reck'lect," he ssid. " there wss Zeph Parker. He was 'long o me and a few more up to Nevada, jus' 'beout the time of the silver craze. The boys had been washing for gold ; honest-like, neow eittin' it out o' pockets, neow outer tbe stream ; and when done they'd with a bit o" wash out, and gone off to another claim, Mister Washee Washee Chinee would come and go over the dirt after them and be satisfied with what be srot. Then comes the silver craze. All o' us goes off and loses all we'd made in gold, gits-no silver, and comes back disappointed to try after the gold again. " Guess we might try aud try again, but no gold could we get; and all 'beout a: was them smooth-faced, pig-tailed Chinamen, gettin' on prosperous and contended. " ' I tell yew,' said Zeph, ' I shall go and murder one o' them smilin' teapots, I can't st aud it much longer 1' " This here was in our bit of a tent, when we was trying to make ourselves happy, playin' poker on credit ami keepin' no account. " ' What for?' I sea. " ' What for? cries Zeph. ' Dew yew think that I, an enlightened sitter zen of a free country am gwine to set down and be robbed o' my mess o' golden pottage by a pack o' smilin', washerwomen-faced, ooium-smokin' celestial Jacobs? No, sirree, this dog's gwine to bite!' " ' But I don't kinder see what this dog's gwine to bits fur,' I sex, ' Teapot ain't done nuthin' to you.' " ' Mateys,' sea Zeph,' gettin' on the barrel as had been his seat, ' things haa come to a nurtv pass with us, haven't thevT " ' Right, old boss, sez some one, hammerin the chest lid as had been our table. '"Has any man here got any to bacco?' sez Zeph. "'No!' " ' Haz any man here got any old bourbon whisky Y "'No!' " ' Haa any man got any dust? "'No!' " ' Any flour, or pork, or boots, or new blankets?' " ' No, co, no, no!' ' ' Then them Chinese haz,' continued Zeph ; ' and what I sez is this ss it is a sin and a shame to let a pack of heath enish cure like them teapots, aa never goes ' to churches nor listens to par sons ' " ' I say, Zeph,' sez some ore, ' when did you go to meettn' last? " ' Never you mind,' sea Zeph, ' and don't yon interrupt a man as wants to give you suthin' to eat, A set of caasea, I sex, as never goes to mentis', and b'lieves in nothin' but joss-houses. I say, it's a sin to let 'em be rittin' fat on our land, while we're as thin and starved-1 lookin' as as as ' " As ole Zeph Parker himself,' sea Tom Paggins. " ' Well, ea thin ex I ana, if you like,' sea Zeph. " ' This is all very party,' I sex, 'but we can't ga and take a claim from the teapot, Zeph ; nor we can't rush 'em and annex the dust and naggeti they've washed out.' " 1 No,' said Zeph, ' wink-in' one eye, ' but we kin strategics) 'eat " 1 HowT I ars. Don't kinder see it. They re too deep lo be done; " 1 Yah !' see Zeph, ' they're 'bout es deep e a two-cent plate. Give me the means and I'll sell the lot and put a good pocketful o' dollars or dust in every man's pocket six o us I But what means d'yer want V I sea. " ' One handful o' dost,' sea Zeph. " ' And where are we to get it V sex Tom Paggina. " ' This bow,' sea Zeph. ' 'Morrow mornin' every man brat's to go round the camp and cadge. Tell the boys we're hard up, but we got a good thing on. They'll subscribe a little ail reourcf. Yew see if they don't ' "Well, we'll try,' sea we; and we went to sleep hungry sod got up rav enous. " There was nothin' for it but to go to work, and off we went, eittin' back to our tent about eleven o'clock) wh n five out of the six had got a little good dust. I was the unlucky one, bein' a bad beg gar, and had got none. "'Now, then!' res Tom Paggins, as soon as the dust was all put together about a big spoonful of all glitterin' stuff ; ' lei's ge up to the store and get a drink." "'That yew ies' won't,' sea Zeph, grinnin'. ' I'm kinder gwine to throw all thi- here dust away I'm gwine to sow it, boys, for a crop to come up.' " We all grumble ', for we were almighty hungry; but we all had a kind of trust in Zeph, and gave way. " ' Lookiee hear, lads,' he sea, ' it' jest twelve o'clock now, so let's go round and irita mouthful where we can.' " Let's go op to Billy Bolly s store snd ask him to give us a square meal, and stick it up,' I sez, ' he'll trust us.' " Think he would?" sea Zeph "'tiartin,' I sez, 'if you show him that gold, and tell him there's somethin' good on.' - And so it was ; mil, on seeing mat gold, and hearing as we d had some thing go d on, gave us a ngnt square mea), and taste round of Bourbon, endin' with the cheerful remark; 'I shall take it out o' some o' you if this here ain't squared up.' " That didn't make a nice dessert, for Bill was a wonderful clever fellow, and would think nuthin' o' pluggin' a man ; so we kinder sneeked outer that store, feelin' uncomfortable. " ' It's all right,' sez Zeph, laughing. ' Come on boys and get yewr tools.' " We took our tools then and went off up the gulch to where a strong party of Chinese was at work, and they watched us curiously as we began prospecun' about, w&ahin' a bit c' dirt here and a bit there, and always goin' off discon tented and sour-like, till we came to one place close up to the rocks, where it ran sheer up 400 or 500 feet, and, after working with our picks a bit, we began to wash the soil in a pan, gatherin' round it afterward, and knowin' all the time that one or the other of the teapots had an eye on' us. " Then washed a bit more earth Sjravely, quartxy stuff it was and col ected again, and then we grew excited snd began to dig faster, snd to wash more and to examine what we had done eac'i time after pickin' over the pan. throwiu' out the lubbish; and when this fell yew could see a few specks o' gold dust in the sun, while whst we got went into a leather bag what Tom Pag gins held. " ' We marks out this claim as our'n !' sez Zeph out loud ; and takin' a shovel he chops out a bit of rough trench, just to show tre extent we meant tohev: at d, as he did so, first one pigtail and then another comes up to watch us, and I saw them to look at the specks o' gold in among the refuses we had thrown over the aide beyond our claim. " 'Nogoodee, washee washes, Melican man!' sez one round-faced smilin' cuss. ' No golee, no goleeJ' " Oh. no : none at all.. Mr. Teapot,' sez Zeph. Just yew keep a bit farther off, or ' " He touched his six-shooter, and the Chinaman scurried back a little, ways, while one of us fetched some water, and we began to wash another shovelful of earth. "'It nant out fine!' sez Tom Pag o-ins out loud, as we all gathered round once more, and the top refuse, with specks o gold in, was thrown away again. " We kept on at that for two hours, and with Zeph to manage, we washed out that little lot o' gold we had bor rowed about four times ; but it was a good deal less at the last thai when we started, for tome on it waa sprinkled in each o' the holes we made, and half a teaspoonful o' dust was ly in to waste in the refuse. "All this time the Chinese were corn in' up from their bit of a camp, about a hundred yards away. Zeph was awfully jealous, an' kep' drivit.' em away not as we were skeered of 'em, for they're a quiet, sheepish lot, but to keep up the " Then half on us went down below and got our tents and odds and ends, and set 'em up as we meant to stay. while the others went on wash in and pickin ateadily, getting four Chinese vo fetch water and do a few rough jobs in morn' quartz blocks outer the way. " Somehow or other there were a few specks o' g-dd under each o' these blocks tnst the Chinese carried t h; snd when that was done Zeph pave the smilin' chaps a bit o' gold each, and sent oned of 'em with some dust to buy tobacco. " It's a workin',' sez Zeph to ms. ' 'Think so? I sez. "'Wait a bit, old boss, and you'll " That night, after we'd been a bit nrety and threat'aiu' to the teapot, who kep' leavin' their work, we could bear a good deal o' chatterm goin' oo, and bime-by a kinder deppytation o' six of 'em comes up, beaded by s smilin' curs who looted like a big, fat hoy. ' Now, then sea Zeph, tell yon what, ef yew don't make yerselves scarce ther'P be holes threw some on yew! '"Poor Chinaman." ass the big, fat feliow, and be puts bis bead on one side a- d smiles his bead half off. Then the other five sex. in a sort o whin in' sing song chorus, 'Poor Chinaman!' and all half smiled their heads off. " ' Don't want any today,' sea Zeph. ' Hook it!' "We all and every voiTer and sat amokin' abd lookin' on, maa with his hand on re bo wie, aa ef we was supic- ion. . ' Poor Chinaman ! whines 'an again. tne big "Don't want any, 1 tell you again T roars Zeph, savagely, and tbe deppv tatte r - ly holds their bead on owe aide "' e you gwine to cut?" sea Ze' seizin i umber one by the tail, when be goes down on his kne8 and the others the same, rubbin' their chest sod wag gliti4 their bead from side to side. "Why don't you speak out?" sez Sena, Mellicanman wasbee, waahec? let poor Chinaman savfs the fat fellow, v mtin to the neap o rubbish. " ' Too want to wash that dirt over again f sea Zeph. " fbS Whole party began to nod their heads fast. "'Oh, no!' sea Zeph; 'we don't wan vou here eb, lads? " ' No, no!' we all growled. " ' Send 'em off! sez Tom Paggina. "But they wouldn't go, only smiled, and at last Zeph seemed to be struck with a notion ; and the long aud short of it wss that, if we'd allow'em to wah our refuse over agen, the Chines 'd make a bit of a stream to lead water up to our claim. " ' Well, that's no goody Zepn' I sea, as soon ss they were gone. " ' Wait a bit, lad and yew'll see,' sez, Zeph, with a wink ; and we sat Here, in the pleasant evening, smoking, w ile there was evidently a mighty commo tion in the Chinese camp, and before long the deppytation came back. " ' Poor Chinaman !' sea- the fat chap again. " 'Oh, ves; we know all 'beout that!' sez Zeph. 'Now, what is it?" " 'Me'lcanman sellee claim two bun der dollars T says the fat-headed chap, and all the others nodded their heads. " 'Will we sell you this claim for two hundred dollars ? says Zeph. " t hey all nodded till you'd ha' thought their heads'd come off. "'Cut!' sez Zeph, catching hold of fat 'an by his tail and kick in' him. " Yew mayn't believe gents, but them ssme chaps came back twice be fore it waa dark and made fresh offers, advancin' a hundred dollars each time and we swore at 'em and said we would not sell, and if they warn't up to time in the mornin' to see shout the water, they shouldn't be allowed to wash the dirt. " Fust thing next mornin' them six fellers were up again, just as we had got a good panful o' stuff in course o' workin', and I saw their eyes twinkle ss they caught sight of the gold. " Then they offered MOO, and we said we'd shoot 'em if they'd come agen; but come they did, and offered $400, and as the mornin' went on, seven, eight, nine $1000. " 'Take it', we said, ss they came this last time. " 'They'll gi. 82.000, I tell yew. I'm sure they will.' m a Zeph. But ?l 0K it enougn to chisel tne beggars nut i f,' nz I . . n a a . i a a Yes,' srz lomraggins; "ana it n take this tin.e to-morrow sura to ret up to the $S,000. If 1 warn t so 'tarnal hungry, I'd hold oat,' sez Zeph, hesitatin' ; and tben tumin' to the six Chinese ss waitin' fur our answer: 'Look byar, you cheat in' cusse V he sea, takin' up a shovelful of earth, in which the dust were a-sparklin' in the sun, ' this claim s wortn JU,uuu i "'No? onlv worth $1,000,' said fatty shakin' his head. " Shall we let 'em have it, boys? sez Zeph, turnin' to us. "'Yes, let'em have it,' I sez; we can find plenty more.' " Come on, then,' sez Zeph ; and he and two more went back with the dep pytation to the tent of their head man, and a thousand dollars worth o' dust snd nuggets was weighed out into a bag; Zeph put his mark to a kind of docky ment in Chinese, and half an' hour afterward we went back to camp, leavin' the smiliu' Chinamen to their purchase. " ' It's a darned shame to cheat the poor, innercent babies like that,' I sez. '"Not it!' tez Zeph; 'it' only like playin' poker with 'em and winnin'. Let's go and liquor.' " We didn't expeck any row, for them Chinese se had lo keep very quiet for fear o' bein' sent off; and Zeph sed they'd put up with their loss, clear out and t o to some other gulch. ' But they didn't; for the next dsy Tom, who went up to see whst they was a'doin', said they moved their camp up r und the hole, and were workin away like a swarm o' bees " That night, as we were sittin' smok in' at Bill's store, some chaps strolls ia, and one of 'em says, in a bit of a temper : '"Call this here a free country T "Yes, stranger, I- dew,' sez Zeph, rattlin' some nuggets in his pocket; ' who sez it ain't f " ' I dew,' sez the new comer. ' Here are we workin' l;ke slaves for a few dol lars' worth o' dust, and a pack o heathen cusses comes snd settles down and grabs all the best on it.' " Dew they V sea Zeph, winkin' at us. '"Yes, be ses, 'they dew. There's that pack of Chinese moved up higher in. the gulch, and they've hit on a big pocket They got a two-pound nugget out on it tb;s very afternoon.' " What! roared Zeph, with bis eyes atari n' out of his head Pie a lobster's. 'A twtv pound nugget, and the ttutl'a panning out awful. I asy it's s shame and tbe government ought to stop it-' " ' Sold!' groaned Zeph. "Next dav it was tbe talc o' the place. The Chinese were pannin out gold at a tremendous rate from the claim, and some were and some were lor driving tue r . . . s e T heathen away, but tne parry oi or oer was too stron. and they know'd that if the rowdies was to get tbe upper hand h.r thsrw'd be iuat ss Hke'v to seise anybody else' ciaim ; so it was decided to temporize with the beatnen ana try to buy tbe claim. "They were two hundred strong up there; and when we went op to see the place which we did in a kind o' dee- nerate feeiing the fat chap smiled and clapped his hands and gave Zeph a little round nugget a big as a pea. " A meetir.' was held and we con- eluded to make 'a company and buy the claim. Twenty thousand was the moat as wrns to be offered. Twenty thousand dollar!" groaned Zepb. ' Oh, boys, what fools we was! But I did not waat to bold oat for $2,000. "'It's no use to growl.' ses Tom. How much ha' we got sow? " Boat $90-1, I guess.' sea Zenk. "' Wal, tben,' ars Tees, 'lea's po ia for shares as far as our money go.' "'The money was nearly all sab scribed; but we got on for $800, and could ha' sold onr shares the next hour for 1.00$, " Next mornin' tbe party settled to do the business, went up to the Chinese camp. but thev wooWa't take tne Thev s'tid they'd begun work, and meant to have the proceeds of tbe day ; but the boys looted dang roue, so tbe heathen finally said they'd stte np that night, take the money, aad give "This made taw gnleii at sver, Ilia' theirs bat they bought hack 1 I shall never forgive arvawf, boys,' sea Zeph, the next mornin,' ss w sat over some fried bacon and biscuit. ' I th rowed away a fortune!' "Hallo! What's the row? sas I, j umplng up. " There was nuthin' afloat outside, for there was s heap of excitement, bat ao one kinder seemed to know what it Alter a while we got to know that there wasn't s single Chi: ee ffa the gulch; they'd gone off, ao oae knowed where,- id ibe night. " ' They're darned artful,' sea Zeph ; and he was right, for we so knowd just wh had happened. " We six had cheated the Chiaese by retail ; they'd cheated us by wholesale, for tVere wasn't, and never had been, a grain o' gold ia that c aim that wa-n't put there first. It was only a small how that we had made; bat the heathens bad clubbed together their dust and nuggets to make a big show. That day they had pecked it all bp agen, and when they d got the $2-,000 they sneaked oat from the camp. 1 guess the gulch would aa' massacred them j but the heathen hidn't left behind even so much as a trail. "Yes, gents, jsw've got to set ap sirly to take ia a Chiawe. Waiter! whisky and seltzer and ice." Au Iadiaa intertribal fair wss held, not long since, in the Indian Territory, in order to show some of the results of civilising the Savages. A number of tribes attended, snd displsyed articles of home manufacture, such as needle work, embroidery, lace-work and blancket". Many of the Indians bad their photographs taken, and showed a childish delight in looking at their faces. Others, however, oould not he persuaded to go near the camera. Yellow Bear, of the Arapahoes, was the first to pass through the ordeal of a sitting. He suffered himself to be pro- Krly s a ted, and the camera brought to ar upon him for the first time. But when the prepared plats was E laced in the box, and the cloth lifted, e leaped to hit feet with a brand, and attempted to leave the tent. All attempts to reason with him failed. At last, a photograph of a Cheyenne, taken some years ago, was shown him. He looked st it s moment, then went quietly back to his chair, and like a statute white his negative taken. He explained that no Cheyenne rior was a greater brave than he. The gigantic Ossges, on the other hand , wilt not approach the tent. They say the camera robs them of their apod spirits. The Kickapoos give the same reason, and a photographer, just returned from their reservation, informs ate that Me was peremptorily ordered out of their country on that account. The Indian is a profound believer in the power of spirits for good or evil, and takes care never to oflead them. I he Mod oca have a curious custom, which affords a pertinent illustration of this fact. They are aa exceedingly cleanly tribe, and bathe frequently. even look into it. they agitate its surface with foot or band, ia order that the good spirits may not see them away. Mea Who Ken aire Presence of Mian. Many railroad accidents si vented bv a presence of mind on nart of engineers. A psssenger train on the Chicago, Burlington A Quincy Road waa rounding a sharp carve, lust under s Dieoa of tall timber. The watchful engineer saw a tree Wing across the track sixty feet ahead of the locomotive. Tbe train waa running at the rate of thirty-five miles an nonr. and to check its momentum reaching the ob-t ruction was aat of the ouestiou. lbe engineer took in me situation at a glance. He th ew the throttle wide open, and the engine ahead with the velocity of aa arrow and with so tremendous a force that the tree waa nicked up by the cow-eatcber and flung from the track ss if it hon onlv s willow withe. A man with not so cool s head would have made the best po sible ase of those sixty feet in the wsy of checking the speed of tne train. That would bsve caused s dis aster. rtradford. an engineer, was bringing an exnreaa train over the Kankakee lin from Indiananolis. As shot out from tbe deep cut and struck a short piece of straight track leading tn a brids-e. a herd of eoiSB were dts- mTered running down the road. The distance to the river waa only 100 feet. Bradford knew be could not stop the -train and a so knew II toe COiui nwati the locomotive to the brtOSTS tSsSV i fall between the timbers, snd the ob atrnctton would throw the train off aad nmhshlv result ia a frightful loss of fif. lttrt.khim onlv s half s seec tn think f this. The other half of the second was utilized in giving his sui-h a aunntitv of steam that It that oae hundred feet of track ia about the same that a bolt of lightning would travel from the top of a lightning rod to the ground. The costs 1 and knocked dowa the esal fa mtering the bridge, 1 ' Beauties jhia ta the latent nroud grandmamma, oho has l 1 promoted to the honors of that aanpy , ,-i.tionshio. i swskened in tbe dead of nifr;fal by the inexorable bsML " MassESa, caaeato her the voice of her be- i..rrl hot inexnertencsd daughter. i .nr th Vsabv knaa the crown. What ball 1 do with it r Orsniimsssa uhea that she will call the tastily tor. and be with her aasJeex n,l iIU him thai terrible lmmnA ff man her daughter. He, in bis tern, request to be pat ia MaasisBinnleotioa with the " Lift the eaua ta tne las ase hear it coach The child to lifted, and it nawh. "That not tne croup. as declare; and be decline, to leave bo use on such entail mattsrs. He vtoea grandatsmma also to stay in and, all anxiety oBWSSff, tne trto dowa for tne right. TWerr don't nave bees ia Greenland sad En Esquimaux who saw one fo at tir nicked up tbe insect ne ratr. mea st geTilir a- sacited pTseamaad .ftw.ri. explained that be " didn't it i jk i It to said that pea is from American baa ten, there to bat. loft ia a ' printing It is is far finer as be good Lots, faith, pstience seat is Is to a happy Ufa. iMFaTTKWCS dries the No asaastaaUoa is so final Is ananas of a good Know wall your incomings. outgoings may be they are apeedily conferred Hasty drink Pbidb hath two forward spring and aa early fait. As the body is purified by wauw, so is the seal purified by troth. Pabrx mast discuss -c-tteihutgit is the great preventive of insanity. IT Is a fool who praises hiatsslf , aad a madman who speaks ill of aiakstif. Hum an life Is eteeynkata a stats 1st whish mads ia to be endured. Without ooatoataseat there is ao wealth, aad with it there at ao Hi haa at lisii all things combined the useful with the i Hs that too much refines his deCoacy will always ends agar his quiet. The wise fortify thsmsslves by lesana, and fools by deapair. It ia mack waster to be than for ourselves Wa have tittle moral faith ia who have never been imposed apoa. Ornit a rasarvi that hides a bitter humiliation seesss to be hassyhUssea. Ax ounce of heart is worth s tea off culture; the mightiest fores ia orld is heart force. A mas s good breeding ta aba security against other pas pat's III Do not try to toree yourself into the re. ji assy give isnr betray it. lesve off, will frivolous and vexa4ons To wine all all faesa ia a . kal kn all. oo bard fo- viato misfortunes is within tbe atoat limited power. Whxxk one is hungry. The action of msn are like he indez of a book : they point out last ta vs the wrivnev of ssarri tze sta'c 't.d L.ark, Irm retaUtes and all the world. He who i stasis jc Bceisas, will the powerful. The noblest quality wnerewtta astare is endowed woatan, for. the good of tbe world, is maternal krvo. a sre ta sad aat of the bright sunshine all day -MM try and carry a little of it kosse with them at night. r yon are rick it comes easy s all sorts of reformation, aad yon recover It is just aa oswy gottan. HonasTT ceals It, justss leaves aM the f rait aad hide it from view. Do net tatetaiwrss yostr manasan fnMirn smla and hiah-soandlog ta It snows snectataon, aawa win i.n cats upon yon. Omnn than noaods of powder will rive aa orutnmry rw, jww. great reputation with one The Carlotta Pati knee act Joaqcih MuxEBkse Id for LoriSE theatrical trip. J. H. Haveext IsTVA near are ta new leva. ST A PLAT Is said ta it Daly. Acocsrrs Pitoo will i of the Toronto which to Eowte Booth will not until March s, the Park Senr riA Cot-rax says he boa i rJ Contain Kind. nit. it m annl Cnooaa seen nseassires as iwctssmsb DCS. aad cost little. FavOIs of the forget them. We take lessons in art, litevasars a iBSatasd things.; bat that sigh some of honor ssaa'- t'it'1 - BKnwfannV growevi afjas Mat aaAaT kaa witbdrasns bees the ' Consesspt of Cbnrt" com assy play la any its SOOth eight at the Leaden OaaHf, and psumiess to ma aas Isstanr. bent. Hatkblt. tbeltseky inisnr to b- h MHer Matossy treenya. G rand Brsfpndh OprraOoTpssy to a t re- the first lee aad a nan bii a m waa- A riraa tear ars said to knee keen ater $15 $00 . . . . M 1Z wii ?ZJJZtt7 ed: i TltlZ whSto"S kl payed el r -i
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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Feb. 3, 1880, edition 1
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