The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-12-05
OUR FELLOW MORTALS
THEIR MOVEMENTS UP AND DOWN
r. THE COUNTRY.

THElR MOVEMENTS UP AND DOWN
r. THE COUNTRY.
Some are Good and Others are Bad; Others
are Grave and Yet Others are Gay, But
They're All Interesting.
The late John Gilbert, the actor,
left an estate worth 1000.
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is said
to have made Buffalo Bill an offer of
marriage:
Rev. DIR. Talmage is in Athens,
GREECE, and preached twice in the fam.
Gus city.
Brazil's new President, Fonsesca,
was. lat one time In charge of an Amer
| lean school
Queen Victoria is much worried
about the Prince of Wales and is very
low spirited.
Panlo To.ti, the famous song COM
| poser, has lately taken unto himself
wife, Nine. Baldi, an opera singer.
Evangelist Moody recently receiv-
ed draft for $500 for the Govern
ment from Canadian smuggler con-
verted at one of his meetings
| Prince Bismarck, in consequence of
recent illness, has lost the few hairs
that were on the top of his skull, which
is now as smooth as a billiard ball.
| Postmaster-General Wannamaker
will, it is reported, recommend Con-
| gress to reduce one-half the cost of
sending merchandise through the
mails.
DR.. Holmes, aged so, is preparing
a series for the atlantic Monthly for
1890, called "Over the Teacups"
His "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"
is delightful book.
Rev. Thos. Dixon, of North Car
| olina, who has Won such distinction in
New York, has moved into a larger
church. The World says his congre--
CATION will build him a churc to cost
a million dollars.
One Of Washington's most promi-
nent printers has been discharged from
the Government printing office be-
cause while on the street on the night
of the recent elections, he gave a cheer
over the bulletined announcement that
Ohio had gone Democratic.
The General Term of the Supreme
Court, New York, has decided that
the clause of Samuel j. Tilden's will
creating trust for the establishment
and maintenance of a great library in
that city is invalid. The case will 60
to the Court of Appeals.
Prof. D. H. Hill, of Raleigh, spent
yesterday III the city. He reports
sixty students entered at the A. q NJ.
College, three-fourths of whom are the
sons of farmers. Wood work is going
on in the college all during the winter,
but the iron shops will not be built
until SPRING Charlotte Chronicle
Old Mr.. Billy Whitley, of Stanley
county, is said on good authority, to
be at least 115 years old. He has
never been out Of the county and has
never seen a railroad Efforts were
made to have him attend the Fay
etteville centennial. He was ask
ed to attend the centennias at Char
lotte and Philadelphia, but declined.
: Thomas Nelson Page, the Virgin
ian, is having a boom in London.
The demand for his work. is greater
than the supply Mr.. Page spent the
Summer in England and made many
fl iends. The English critics speak
highly of his writings, and the British
public is inclined to take him up as a
fad-perhaps being tired of Ibsen.
Rev. DIR. Brooks in Raleigh Aduo
cate writes 'If we never furnished a
Bishop or other correctional officer
directly to the church, we gave Geor.
gia her Pierces, California her Fitz-
. gerald, Tennessee her Paine ano
Young, and Virginia her Edwards
Hall and Tillet. We are only sorry
! we can't claim Lafferty. In the spir-
itual line he is a grandson of North
Carolina.
t Hon. VIM. T. Dortch, of Fayette
Vile, died last Friday. He was an
e able lawyer and a man of prominence
l in North Carolina. The following
t aae some of the offices he has held
Served nearly ten consecutive years in
the Legislature; was speaker in the
q House of 1860; member of the Con
8 federate Senate; was a member of the
e Code Commission in 1881; he was
t offered, but declined, a seat on the
Superior Court bench in 1859.
Miss Amelie Rives had host of ad
mirers when she lived in maiden medi
:. tation at the home of her ancestors
Castle Hill, Va. She was pette6
and spoiled beauty, and treated hel
lovers with indifference, and some
times with absolute rudeness. Once
when dozen gentlemen called upoi
her in the morning, she entered th'
|. parlor in bewitching riding habit
7, excused herself, mounted her horse
It rode an hour or two, and, finding tn
d gentlemen waiting for her ON return
ing, she went to her studio back of tn
l. parlor, and amused herself by draw
70 ing caricatures of her admirers, repre-
IS senting them sitting in various atti
d tades of idiotic vacancy.
: Swift's Specific cured me of ugly an