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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1881
Page
2
The clipping reports the death of railroad magnate Thomas A Scott and notes stock moves to 1274 with a drop to 112. It mentions a Statesville YMCA meeting on the 216th, plus regional notes on cotton, silk, and public figures. It also covers political commentary on the Senate, prohibition debate, and regional opinions from the Charlotte Observer.
A political impasse arises as Wite Conking and Platt seek re election with favorable odds. A Raleigh convention of representative colored men demands equal rights and threatens alliances to gain political and patronage parity within the Republican party. They urge white Republicans to join in action to safeguard minority interests and enforce party equality.
The Kansas prohibition amendment took effect on the first of the month. On April 20 liquor stores in Leavenworth and nearby towns closed at midnight, causing record sales the day before. In Leavenworth a Chicago Tribune correspondent noted many drunken pedestrians as pubs shut. The following day most stores resumed selling with strict precautions and discrimination. Liquor remains available to some by request and payment.
New York reports from Albany indicate it is nearly certain Conkling and Platt cannot be re elected unless Administration factions unite on proper candidates or Conkling allies win Democratic support. Express editorial and Tribune note potential candidacy plans and officeholders backing. Governor Cornell criticized as unreliable.
Col E W Cole of Tennessee formed in New York a vast railroad syndicate to acquire and build lines from the Northwest and Southwest to the Atlantic coast. It includes the Macon and Brunswick Georgia line and East Tennessee and Virginia system totaling about 1300 miles with hundreds more to be built. The group subscribes 16 million dollars in capital.
A Boston woman credits Neuralgine with curing fourteen years of sick headache and neuralgia and sways twenty two families to adopt it as regular medicine. The note also mentions rising dried apple exports to France and a Raleigh death by steam pipe burst.
A Charleston Mercury note reports Democrats of South Carolinas no proposal to erect a monument on Gen M W Gary's grave. It mentions patent applications for human form instruments and asks readers to write to Poncede Leon Co Atlanta for information. Also reported is the execution of Lucinda Fowler in Meherrin Virginia for her husband's murder, the first woman executed in Virginia in years.
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