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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1881
Page
1
A young physician answers a mysterious late night summons. In a masked abduction, he assists a staged amputation for a wounded man, receives five hundred dollars, and returns home to read a newspaper report naming the victim as Evan Evans, the murderer in a celebrated case.
A Meadville, Pennsylvania dispatch reports Judge Pearson Church ruled that section 21 of the 1854 act allowing separate schools for negro and mulatto children is unconstitutional under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. A writ of mandamus orders Meadville school directors to admit the plaintiff’s children. This marks the first Pennsylvania case addressing these core issues.
A look at New York federal patronage shows Col lector Robinson controlling nearly a thousand appointments worth about 1.4 million dollars yearly while the new collector will appoint deputies and salaries include a twelve thousand dollar annual pay plus five thousand in fees. Jay Gould testifies on telegraph company stock and a ten million dollar check that he cannot recall, then recalls after reviewing his books. Think of it, a man of such wealth not remembering a ten million dollar check.
Nashville remembers Andrew Jackson through Gen. W. G. Harding who recalled the general’s rise at the New Orleans victory and his later dramatic intervention at Clover Blossom race track. Harding details Jackson’s fearless ride, whip gesture, and command that quelled a knife and gun clash among rival factions. He also notes Jackson’s turf years and a playful quote about Naney's Maria defeating his best racers.
A shoemaker’s bench is praised as a cradle of eminent men, listing Hans Christian Andersen and Hans Sachs among many others. The roster includes Welsh and English figures, bishops, signers, and reformers, with Roger Sherman and Henry Wilson from the United States. The extended list aims to uphold Colebridge’s claim that cobblers spawned notable lives.
An old bachelor faces isolation and missed affection in old age while contrasting married life. A city editor confrontation follows after the paper prints a suspicions report that insults a man named Smyth, leading to a demanded correction and a published outlet.
San Francisco lecturer Professor William Denton speculates on Earth's age citing California trees as ancient. He claims earliest human remains in tertiary California and describes vast geologic timelines from chalk to granite, asserting a lack of consensus on Earth's age.
A town in Massachusetts used annual vendues to sell its widows as a tax on the poor. Widow Lovell passed through many owners and died at town expense while Jane George outlived all. the practice produced fam ily disruption, including selling a widow with a child and cattle. The town repeatedly voted against building a poorhouse, embracing the grim commerce for years.
Of the cultivable fund in this country only 114 per cent is in use. Many young men would rather deface sidewalks with tobacco juice than take up the plow. With malice toward none and charity for all, let us pursue the right.
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