Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-04-15
THE GIST OF THE NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
The Cream Of the Wire Caught
by The SentinePs Careful Con-

AND AbhOAD.
by The Sentinel's Careful Con-
denser.
Three men of a surveying party
were drowned in New River, w. Va.
by the upsetting of ferry boat.
The new Senator from California,
Mr.. Hearst, has been sworn in and
took his seat on the Democratic side.
The Iowa Legs lature has passed a
bill prohibiting alien non residents
from acquiring title to realty within
the limits of the State.
have struck and resolved to remain
out until the strike by the railroad
men shall have been ended.
Oregon will have to conduct its
State election this year without reg
istration of voters as the Supreme
Court has declared the law contrary
to the provisions Of the constitution.
East St. Louis was in stale of pam
ic all of Saturday night, owing to
numerous incendiary fires, all con-
fined to railroad property. The fires
started about o'clock at night. so
freight cars, scale houses and lumber
yard were destroyed; troops are on
the ground; the strikers are still de-
termined to have revenge for Fridays
massacre.
THE NORTH.
School boys in Troy, N. Y, struck
for shorter hours and refused to con-
tinue their studies.
The bill for unlimited coinage hav-
ing been defeated, the silver question
remains as it did under the previously
existing law.
No further appeals will be made to
the public for funds to complete the
work of erecting the Bartholdi statue.
An entertainment in aid of the fund
will be given in New York, April %.
Senator Edmunds offered a resolu-
ton in Executive session to return
fifty three denominations laid before
the Senate, on the ground that failure
to confirm the original nominations
had the effect of rejection.
DR.. Hale, the Washington physi.
clan, whom The SENTINEL's Wash
ington correspondent exposed last fall
was arrested in Pittsburg Thursday on
a charge of conspiracy to defraud his
creditors, has been committed for trial.
FOREIGN.
The Sultan has donated e40O to
the Pasteur Institute fund.
The German Generals, Pearle and
Columbier are dead.
Tobacco from American seed is
now being grown i'll the Russian prov
idence Of Kharrow.
The Duke of Sutherland, possibly
the richest landlord, but one, in Great
Britain, is now visiting the Southern
ST ates.
The Earle Of SALISBURY killed him
self Tuess ay while riding in cab
SALISBURY was about % years old.
de leaves a widow, one son and FIVE
daughters.
The other day retired Major, aged
eighty-fouT, was sentenced to three
days arrest at Kief for marrying too
late in life, contrary to Laws. Pet
e,.6asrg Correspondence Of London
Times.
The impo1tations of French wines
into Great Britain at present are enor-
nous. The increase In the importat-
ions is in consequence of the sxpecta-
ton by dealers that the Government
in their forth coming budget will pro-
pose an increasein theduties on wines.
Gen. Tchernaleff declares that it
will be impossible to construct and
maintain line of railway from Merv
to Bokhara, because of the great inter-
vening deserts of loose shifting sands.
He advocates such improvements of
the ANU Daria, which flows midway
between these points, as will permit OF
its navigation by steamboats,.
THE SOUTH.
The cotton crop in sight is
6,137 .528 bales.
Moody and Sankey are holding
meetings in Charlottesville, Va.
A Pennsylvania iron manufactures
proposes establishing an iron furnace
at Kimball, Page county, Va,
James Paxton, wel1-known citizen
Of Allegheny county, Va. was caught
under falling tree and killed.
Sena tor H. E jackson, Tenn, o1
has been nominated and confirmed as
.. S. Circuit Judge of the Sixth
District.
THE Southern Telegraph case will
be argued before the United States
District Court at Norfolk, on the first
Monday in May
Mass meetings are announced to be
held during April in a number OF
Virginia counties to indorse the rec
concentration Of Governor Lee for the
payment of all State taxes in money.
An Italian shoema ker named
Frank, of Norfolk, leaped from a fer
ry steamer yesterday afternoon, while
crossing the harbor and was drowned.
It is supposed the man committed
suicide from drinking.
Nothing Venture Nothing win.
As phase of life in the Crescent City, it will
instruct many to know that certainly the I6Oth
Monthly and the Grand Quarterly Drawing of
The World Famed Louisiana State Lottery
came off, with its accustomed promptness, at