The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-12-05
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

1T is reported that Gladstone is |
to be offered a peerage.
Thirty negroes from Union coun-
ty left this week for Mississippi.
Six people were burned to death
by fire in Philadelphia Monday.
1T is probable that the direct tax
bill will soon come up in Congress.
...Of six Governors voted for in the
late elections, the Democrats elected
five.
"A coin for universal circulation is
under discussion by the Pan-Amer-
lean Congress.
Mr.. Cleveland says he will not go
into q personal canvass for the NOM
nation in 1892.
Goal is being delivered from the
Chatham county coal mines at from
So to 81 per ton.
bill Alexander, the Charlotte bur-
glar, has been reprieved by Gov.
Fowle until January 5.
"A company capitalized at $500,
600 has been organized to develop
the iron ore at Kings Mountain.
The California Athletic Club has
decided to offer q $4,000 purse for
q firht between Jackson and Sullivan.
"A petition is being circulated in
Raleigh asking for the pardon of 5.
G.. White, eX-caShier of the State Ma
tional Bank.
Miss Emma Dick, the youngest
daughter of Hon. r. P. Dick, was
married to Mr.. Williams, of BERTHE, in
Greensboro, Wednesday.
Large deposits of brown stone
have been discovered in the vicinity
of Durham. They are said to be
rich and of excellent quality.
The Scotland Neck Democrat tells
us that gold has been brought up on
the drill with which the artesian well
is being bored in that town.
...Gen. Collett Leventhorpe died
suddenly at the dinner table Sunday
at the residence of W. D. Jones, on
the Yadkin river, near Lenoir.
Mr.. Powderly, the head of the
Working Mems Party, has been, or
is to be, arrested on a charge of con-
spiracy preferred by ex-Representa-
tive Collagham.
"A law suit has recently been de-
cided in Kentucky which has been
| seventy-eight years in court. 1t orig
/ :.nx olxoS @S OOO opd 10 cold to
have cost about q million.
The Salisbury Waterman says
Mr.. Jim Graham, who lives near Gle
veland, Third Creek is reported as
having quite a curiosity in four pigs,
| each having eight feet.
| The citizens of Boone are moving
to raise 5000 to pole and wire tele-
graph line from Boone to Blowing
Rock to connect with the Lenoir and
Blowing Rock Telegraph line.
Work on the Yadkin railroad,
which is to extend from Salisbury to
Norwood, Stanly county, by way Of
Gold Hill and Albemarle, will begin
December 10th, and will be pushed
vigorously to completion.
1T is reported that Judge John
A. Gilmer is to resign his position Oh
the bench, the resignation to take eff
feet on the first of next January. The
cause we suppose, is the small salary
paid to Judges in this State.
China Grove is the best rabbit
market in the county and one of the
best in the State. The firm of Wine
coff & Eddleman sold 722 rabbits
last week, which did not amount tC
more than half the plumber sold II
China Grove.
The Brazilian minister at Wash
ington expresses the opinion that
Dom Pedro, the deposed Emperor o
Brazil, will take up his residence II
France, and will probably visit thu
United States, as he has warm at
tachment for this country.
...Jno. VIM. Brown and Charles W
Henderson, two clerks in the post
office at Charlotte were arrested il
that city on Wednesday last. charged
with rif1ing letters to the amount o
$4,000 in that postoffice and Were
sent to Jail in default of $500 bal
allowed which they could not give.
Chatham county made it's frs
payment to the fund for the Nortl
Carolina Confederate Soldiers Home
The amount was $113, and was rails
ed by the ladies of Chatham county
1t was turned over to w. c. Stronach
of Raleigh, who is treasurer of thu
State Veterans Association.
The Farmers Alliance of Burk,
county have passed resolutions cen
surfing their Senators for voting
against the R. R. Commission am
praising Representative Hoffman fol
voting for that bill in the last Legis
lature and declaring that hencefortl
they will vote for no man who viii
not vote for r. r. Commission bill
1T appears that the students O
Wake Forest College are an usually
lively lot, but the exuberance some o
of them crops out the wrong way
and it becomes necessary for the col
lege to get on without them. During
the last few weeks fifteen have left thu
institution by request, expulsion OF
otherwise.
THE first statue erected in this
country to workingman will soo1
be unveiled in Sacramento. 1t is il
honor of E. J. Stevens, late master
mechanic of the Southern Pacific
who had for years been in charge O
immense railroad shops in Sacramen
to. The funds for the monument
| were contributed entirely NV work