The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-09-11
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Bret Harte was 81 years old las
tuesday.

Bret Harte was 5l years old last
tuesday.
Senator Carlisle was ffty.fve
years old last Friday.
Rev Thos. Dixon will speak at
the Weldon Fair, Oct. the 30th.
Raleigh has just opened third
tobacco warehouse for the sale of leaf.
-Thos c. PIa.t refused the Span
ish mission offered him by the Presi
dent
The first shipment of yarn was
made from the Raleigh Cotton. Mills
Sept. the 4th.
Representative Mckinley will
stump Wisconsin for the Republi-
cans this Fall.
Livingstone, President of the
Georgia Farmers Alliance, has been
nominated in the Fifth District.
Max O'Rell rises to remark that
the population of the United States is
about 60 million people-mostly Col
onels.
The ReY. Sam Jones a few years
ago bought piece of land in Georgia
for $4,000, and it is at present worth
$4,000.
Henry M. Stanley, Mrs. Stanley
and her mother, Mrs. Tenant. will
sail for New York by the Teutonic
Oct. the 29th.
MI. Walter III. Page, once editor
of the State Chronicle, now Of the Forum,
staff,.is visiting friends and relatives
in Moore county.
--Loge Harris predicts that Hon.
B. II. Bum will be elected by 1900
majority. He says the nomination of
McIver by the Republicans vas fa-
tai mistake.
The poet Swinburne is a little
man with big head, which is fringed
with auburn hair. He is quick and
nervous in his movements and very
brilliant talker.
-John Wanamaker says he doesn't
want to be Senator or President.
Running Sunday school and getting
out new-fangled postal cards is fun
enough for him.
"Blocks-of-fve Dudley has left
Washington for Portland, Maine.
where he will NJ doubt be of great
benefit to Speaker Reed in securing
his reelection to the House.
Hon. Roger Mills, who has been
making speeches on tariff reform in
Illinois, says that the Democrats stand
a good chance to capture the legisla
ture and send General Palmer to the
Senate
Judge Albion Tourgee who cut
quite a figure during reconstruction
days in North Carolina is in trouble.
His wife is committed to jail for con-
tempt of court and he is being sued by
his creditors.
The Republican convention at
Raleigh nominated Alexander McIver
for Congress in the 4th District. He
is Republican of the old school, and
was once Supt. of Public Instruction
under Gov Tod Caldwell. Hon. B.
IL. Bum will have walk over.
Referring to the Radical Cannon
who fired off his vulgarity in the
House, the Richmond Times says:
"The American hog may be pro.
hibited in France; but he still -four
ishes on the floor of the House of
Representatives of the United States
Congress.
Gov. Gordou 50 enthused young
lady at Eatonton, Ga, the other day
that she rushed up to to him to tell him
that she slowed him." and then the
sly fox said ne would rather have
her love than the love of all the men
around there The Governor don't
take Mrs. Gordon along when he goes
out speech making and enthusing
folks, regardless of sex
"A Washington Correspondent
reports Congressman Ewart as saying
that 1.-the Republicans of the entire
State of North Carolina are opposed
to the Force Bill" The Republican
State Convention at Raleigh, few
days ago, endorsed this infamous bill.
Who speaks for the Republican party
of North Carolina, their own State
Convention or Mr.. Ewart?
DIR. Tyre York. the hero of the
mule campaign, announces himself as a
candidate for Congress against Col.
Cowles. He will run neither as a
Democrat, Republican or Liberal, but
as an Allianceman. Now if he will
just catch Joe. Caldwell's new ami
NAL the Santer or Cougar and ride
him around while canvassing the Dis
trict he may draw respectable Groves.