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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1879
Page
4
Dr Woodbridge reports the Sioux sun-dance near Poplar River Montana as a grand festival with a 150 foot medicine lodge, thousands of participants, and intense rites. Dancers endured injuries while fasting for hours, invoking the Great Spirit for hunting success, horses, food for families, and victory over enemies.
The piece argues that pride harms young men who avoid honest labor. It urges starting with any work to earn bread and butter, then improving, noting many poor proud or discharged youths remain unemployed. It condemns idleness and praises practical effort over social rituals like cards instead of parties.
A lengthy essay urges young men to marry promptly, praising wives as universal helpers and companions who ease daily cares and support husbands in work and life. It counsels against delay, extols unwavering love, and ends with a comic anecdote of a horse, hedge anchor, and two old sailors.
A dated note extols neatness as essential for women to gain admiration and stable marriages. It counsels mothers to raise daughters capable of industrious, honest living and to respect household work as a route to happiness, while conceding that housework is drudgery yet necessary.
A financial overview shows the year ended with a net surplus near 3 million, set aside to the Sinking Fund, despite higher revenues totaling about 274 million. Customs, internal revenue, and miscellaneous sources increased, while tobacco tax changes delay fiscal legislation and relief is argued to aid a key industry.
A Florida Ship Canal is moving from idea to near certainty with a Florida legislature charter appeal and Parisian investment in route surveys. Advocates urge an extra session to grant the charter, arguing the project will cut Atlantic to Gulf sea routes by about a thousand miles and reduce reef dangers.
The passage extols Texas as vast, larger than Britain France and the German Empire, and capable of hosting 35 Massachusetts sized states. It notes a 2,000,000 population with immigration booming at 300,000 annually, mostly from northern states and Europe, asserting even all U.S. residents would not overcrowd its land.
A Cincinnati conductor objects to a passenger smoking in a car full of ladies. The man insists on puffing a five-cent cigar, arguing women may object but refusing to halt. The exchange ends with the passenger continuing to smoke despite objections.
A historic medical notice lists right and left side pain under ribs, shoulder blade radiation, loss of appetite, general discomfort, memory loss, fatigue, cold feet, and prickling skin as signs of liver derangement. It cites Dr McLane's Liver Pills as effective for fever and hepatic imbalance, praising their purgative action and urging fair trial before Quin ine.
Warning about counterfeit versions of McLane's Liver Pills from Pittsburgh market. Genuine bottles bear a red V on the lid and signatures C. McLane and Femina Knos on the wrappers. Consumers urged to insist on authentic Dr. McLane's Liver Pills Pittsburgh.
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