Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-01-30
News Items,
The yield of corn in Ohio this
year is 64,000,OO0 bushels.

The yield of corn in Ohio this
year is 64,000,000 bushels.
Senator Stanley Mathews will
succeed Judge Hunt on the Su-
preme Court bench.
New Orleans is promised a car
nival of more than usual gorgeous-
ness on next Mardi-Gras.
The gold mines of Georgia arc
said to produce not less than Sl,-
900, 900 bullion per annum.
Wars LosEs--There were buried
in Turkey in Europe 129, All Rus
sian soldiers, and OF the 120,95O
sick and wounded sent home, A.,
$50 died. Total, 172,42i.
1t is estimated now that tire
Pension bill, which nov waits the
Presidents signature, will phlebo--
t"mize the Treasury to thc extent
of $lO0,O00,000 instead Of $40
100000.
Indiana has a school fund amonnt-
; ing to 50, 100000, and the school
property of the State is valued at
$12, 1000, 500, aud tie State spends
S4,0O0,000 Il year for public school
instruction.
LABOR IN GREAT BRITAIs.-The
North Wales Miners Association
has resolved to vote e. ($;s3 So to
every member OF the union who
desires to cmi crate to America, and
Sl4 (S67 76) to cmigrants to Aus
! tralia.
1t is hoped that the present Leg
islature will introduce the Moffet
bcll-punch system for raising rcvc
nucs in this State. In Virginia it
has been success, and might do
much here to solve the public debt
question:
The banks of the United States
banks of issne-havc been CON-
pellcd to suspend special payments
various times since the beginning
of the century, viz In 1909, 1914,
1919, 1925, 1884, 1887, 1871, 1851
and 1861.
! Hon. ID. F. Caldwell has intro
duced a bill in the Senate to take
all local and special legislation out
of the Legislature and transfer it Ia
the counties interested. Ii this bill
passes it will get rid OF special leg
islaIion which consumes So much
time to the dctrimcnt of more iu-
portant matters.
The New Orleans mint will be.
gin the coinage of standard dollars
in week or two. Preparations
are being made to purchase large
lots of Mexican and trade dollars.
This will necessarily introdncc
large amount OF foreign silver INTO
the country. The purchases are TO
be made in lots of 10000 ounces.
The total cotton spindlcs in tho
North are row estimated at about
100000, and in the South at
600, 900, or total in the country
o: say 10,5On,CO0. OF the 5S,-
600, 900 spindles employed in the
manufacture Of cotton in 1876 the
! United States had, III round num-
hcrs. 10000, 900 and Great Britain
100000.
There are now in this country
ten Roman Catholic Archbishops
and twenty-five Bishops, against
six OF the former aud twcnty-scven
of the latter in 1850. The number
of churches 1913 while there are
now 1854 priests and a,5is,
churches. The colleges have IN
creased from Il to ~, and tb, Ra,
man Catholic population has
doubled.
HARD TINES E.vrRrwHEnE.---
Hard times in B.riin. More than
10000 persons, according 10 a. state.
ment PREPARED by Herr Zimmcr-
mann, were last year prosecuted for
.Eoll>paY mcht OF income tax, and in
the great majority of cases a seizure
81 tho effects Of the detanlters yield.
cd nothing. More than 10000
persons were prosecuted tor having
failed to pay their rent.
OF INTEREST TO THE SoUTH.-
From tho Boston Globe. e.]-There
is now being formed in Lynn, Mass,
a company of shoemakcrs, who pros
pose to send a committee through
the Southern States to find good
location in which TO start 81 large
shne-factory, The company will
consist of about one hundred shoe
makers, with their families, They
will each have small capital to
work upon, and their place OF 10