Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-12-16
From Washington.

/ InnfHtn- Inc hepuhlicanS
! locked happy, and the Democrats
were hl~y fighting over the late
/ election aud giving excuses for
! their defeat. | asked Que of tiem
who was ucnlar!y di>ensied
with the result in New York what
bis party would do now. He
thonght for awhile. and then said
There are two things we can do.
( Flist, we can nominate some mill
ionaire like Vanderbilt, Fais or
| Flnod, md LET him oulnid the Re
! publicaps in New York, IuCiana,
aud Connecticu', or we can 90 to
Senator Blaine and say to him,
James, we have big army With
ont leader, and you are n great
Lender without ar army let us jGlp
hands and beat Grant, C.hkliDg
L"gan, Cameron & Co. mex time
You will see," be added, "that in
| the next Congress, while the Gran
tites Will he more stalwart than
! ever and more bitter towards the
! Suuth than during the admlni>tia
/ ticn OF Hays, the Distinguished
| Senator from Maine will be m"re
| concillatory than he has ever been
towards YOUR section" STRANGER
:aings have happened since 1865
in politics than the latter pro-
/ graDme.
j THERE WILL BE QUIET SESSION
! APPoRIIONMENT.
| | met Jndge Bnckner, of Mis-
souli, at the Metfopolitln to-day
| in conversation With number OF
southern cong' essmen, al d asked
| him if the session would he quiet
or exciting. The Judge, who was
born in fredericksburg, answered
promptly and pleasanlly that it
will he qnie'. There is nothing
to get mp row over, SAID he, for
the Republican, are al. in the bes
hnmor possible, and we have rot
much fgha left in us. The app mt
ment one~,insi may. after Christ
mas he added, "cteate some stir
This seemed to he the opinion of
southern congre- GMen generally.
fhe report on the census, by the
way. will be ready hv the lst of
} ,nnary. The Sonth, incirding
frXas, gains ten mem bers, aud the
Northwest six, while New England
and the Middle States lose ten.
THIS will give the Democrats the
next House.
NO NJ RE RAILROAD sUBsIDEs-NR.
EUNTINGToN AND HI, VIRGINIA
RAILROAD ENTERPRISES.
The railroad men here say there
Will be no more applications for
subsidies from Congress, a~ IN 1ney
i. SO plentiful that companies can
g.t all they Uart on ealy terms
IN resp to qle-tl Dns IL railroad
mhnagar who has been benin The
scenes in all the g,eat fights iu
Congress since 1870, said - lne
This afternoon that the railroad
ieosrns, ml.lions of money being
made by the trunk iiues and the
genera, prosperity OF the county,
are tue ahsoi birg topics il New
York and Washing on Jay G. puld,
laid he, l. the wonder ot the age.
Tue millions that be made by his |
wonderful com blhatlous recently
il the Pacific road, ranks him as
the richest man in Ane! icl, with
the possible excep ion of Fander-
bit Could is the owner OF the
Uuion Pacific from Omaha to OK
den. in Utah. Last sp,iug be
bought u Tom S;ott, aud is now
II. principle owuer a d cDntrolling
spirit of the Texas Pacific, which
is being pn>had on to El Paso.
Con & has recently consolidated |
the U ZION aud Central P.,cific rail
rnai-, which gives him control to
San + anci-co and it is now gem
orally believed that Mr.. Huntington,
the builder and principal owner OF the
Southern Pacltic, wi sell to the Texa.
Pacific in order that the latter may get !
poss s,lon OF the 10000, 900 acres Of |
land in Arizona and New Mexico. Mr.. |
Huntington being prudent and eau
tious man, he is unwilling to go into |
the big ombinations OF Gould and |
others, but will sell out bis interest in
the Pacific roads, and come with his
$40, 1000. 900 and devote the remainder |
of his life to the Chesapeake and Ohio /
railroad, Newport News, and the de-
ve!opment of Virginia.
THE BARLEY-MALT RILL-A STIR
AMONG THE BREWERS i
At present the duty on barley and
malt is 20 per cent. al calorem, but
bill passed. the House late last session
making it 25 cents per bushel. This
is in the interest of New York and
avowedly against the Canada produc IS
who now furnish good deal of the
malt and barley used in this country.
If the bill becomes law it will IN
crease the expenses Of some OF the
large brewers 550.0oO, Mr.. Conkling
favors the bill and large western lcb-
by will oppose it. There will be an
earnest fight, and the indications at
,,roeapt arf, that # will hn hoctan