The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-07-17
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

gastritis.
-Iredell county Alliance re elected
! Mr.. j. B. Holman as President.
General Longstreet is reported as
writing a history Of the war in s, far
as his own campaigns are involved.
Beverly Tucker, a promiient aad
we'll known Virginian, diei in Rich
mond on the 4th, in the list year of
his age.
Sergeant at Arms Cannady was
presented with gold watch and chain
by the officers of the House Oh his re-
tlrement.
The Statesville Lmdmrk is in
dignant because Judge Womack was
not re-nominated and says his defeat
was "a shame"
Capt. Crawford. Of Mac,u. GA,
has purchased Andersonville Prison
and it will be used as club b-house by
a grand Army Post
Charley Oy, tall, angular Chi
naman, has been granted a license in
Philadelphia to marry Maggie Brach,
a pretty white girl, eighteen years old.
Gov. Fowle has appointed Judge
Spier Whitaker to hold the fall terms
of the Superior court of Rockingham
and Stokes counties in lieu of the late
Judge William Shipp.
President Harrison is charged
with negecting his grandfather's
grave. Perhaps he thinks he has
enough to do in trying to fill his
grand fathers hat.-Wilmington Star.
Prof. NJ H. Holt scored good
point in the convention at Greensboro
last week when he declared that the
only pledge the Republican party had
kept was its promise to reduce the
surplus.
The nomination Of Pattison and
Black for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor by the Pennsylvania Dem
ocratic Convention has already excited
great enthusiasm in that party
throughout the State.
Mr. Eaves has retaliaLed. DR..
Motifs son has been his chief deputy,
and few days ago the collector ask
ed for his resignation. Young Mott
declined to resign, whereupon Mr..
Eaves removed him.
Rev. w. B. North, Phi D., of
Chapel Hill, has been transferred to
the Missouri conference, and Rev. r.
II. Whitaker, D. D., has been ap-
pointed by Bishop Hargrove to act as
pastor of Chapel Hill Station.
While Judge Furches was in
Washington week before last the
President remarked to him that he
was not pleased with North Carolina
politics. and the Judge replied that he
wasn't either -States0ille Landmark.
DR.. Talmage receive $4,000 a
year from his Brooklyn congregation,
800 from firm for the advance
publication of his sermons, $1,000 for
his contributions to religious jour
nal, besides what he earns on the lec-
ture platform and from general litera-
ry work.
old Gov. Jarvis is long headed,
bold, fearless statesman. He advoca
ted, in terms that are uneqivocal and
unmistakable, an increase in the pub.
lie school fund from 124 to 25 cents.
He struck the key note and the
people of the State who believe in ed
ucation are with him.-Wilson Ad-
vance.
-Areporter had the pleasure of
shaking hands with DR.. B. F. Dixon
to day, and inquired of him whether
he would accept the Presidency of the
Greensboro Female College. eyes,
sir" he said, "aEd I propose to put
my whole heart and soul in the work. !"
This means great things for the Col
lege.-Durham Globe.
One old fellow said we need four
certain men in Congress from North
Carolina: that whenever the Demo-
cratic party wanted to down the Re-
publicans they called on Cowles and
Vance, but whenever they wanted a
measure put through for the South
they called On Ransom and Hender-
son.-"Bob," in Statesville Lnnd-
mark.
in Sundays Chronicle there was
a paragraph copied from the st. Louis
Globe Democrat to the effect that
Senator Ransom hal polled the Sen.
ate and ascertained that they would
vote for the federal election law. SEN
ator Ransom telegraphs that he never
made any such statement and that the
St. Louis paper had no foundation for
its publication.-Raleigh Chronicle.
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