The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-11-29
THIS Is NEWS.
The Sentinel Gathered 1t from all Quarters
and Presents it Fresh.

tlhe Sentinel Gathered it from all Quarters
and Presents it Fresh.
Total receipts of cotton at all of the
ports since 1st Of September, 1854 ,69s
bales.
The Democrats claim the election Of
Clunie to Congress, from California,
by small majority.
Cleveland's majority in South Car
olina is 52,0S5; the entire Congression-
al delegation is Democratic.
Destructive fires are reported from
Fort Wayne, Ind, Lynchburg, Va,
and Eureka Springs, Ala.
Senator John T. Morgan, of Ala
bama, has been renominated by the
Legislature for the third term.
The National Exposition at Au-
gusta, Ga, promises to be grand
success.
Heavy snow storms prevailed on
Sunday at various points in the North
ern States.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, in his annual report, estimates
the receipts for the present fiscal ear
at 1925, 100000.
The Northern brothers of the poor
negro refuse to take him into their
Labor Unions.
1t is reported that Jay Gould has
bought the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe telegraph system for $780,
900.
A clerk of law firm in New York,
who swindled his employers and their
clients out of s264,00O, has been SEN
fenced to the State prison for twenty
five years and four m onths.
At the Danville tobacco exposition,
Saturday, the first premium, bright
wrappers, was sold at $3.50 per pound.
Six men were blown up by dynamite
in Troy, n. Y, Saturday; three were
killed, and the others are unconscious.
The knights of Labor closed the
election of officers Saturday; the work
of the General Assembly is drawing to
a close.
The Judson Female Institute, at
Marion, Ala, was destroyed by fire
Saturday afternoon; the loss is about
100000.
A violent storm is reported all
along the North Atlantic coast, doing
great damage to telegraphic communi-
l cation. and it is feared there has been
/ large number OF marine disasters
An injunction has been granted, in
the Chancery Court at Knoxville
against the lease Of the Tennessee road
by the Richmond & Danville.
| O'Conner, the Canadian oarsman,
beat John Teemer in boat race on
the Potomac Saturday, for $1,000 a
side, and the American championship.
The town of Pocomoke City, Mary
land, has been nearly destroyed by
fire; the aggregate loss is $253,600
and the greater portion Of the inhabi-
tants are homeless
The Supreme Court of Appeals Of
West Virginia will be applied to for q
writ enjoining the Governor from is
suing writs Of election to three Repub
lican Cangressmen; the grounds of ap
plicants are not known.
There is some talk of an extra ses
sion of Congress being called by Pre-
sident Harrison, to enable the Terri,
tories awaiting admission to take ad
vantage of the passage of an enabling
act.
Heavy snow storms are reported
from all points North, and telegraphic
communication is seriously interrupt
ed, there is no direct Northern com
munication beyond Baltimore.
Jacksonville and various othel
points in Florida report frost and ic'
Sunday night; there is great rejoicing
thereat, and the people talk of nothin!
else; the embargo on travel will doubt
less be taken off by Saturday next.
The official canvass of the vote o
San Francisco shows the election o
? Clunie, Democrat, from the Fifth Con
gresslonal district, by a plurality o
fifty votes.
A strike Of railroad switchmen wa
inaugurated Friday at Indianapolis
Indiana, and all Of the roads are at
stand-still; an increase of pay is de
manded, and general strike on all c
the trunk lines is threatened.