The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-09-18
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

| A Democratic Club has been organ
lied in Charlotte with Col. H. G.
Jones as President.
james Redpath is aiding Mrs.
Jefferson Davis in getting up the me-
mnirs of her husband.
President Harrison congratula-
ted Boss Reed on his reelection. but
Blame preserves an ominous silence.
The Sam Jones Tabernacle at
Wilmington will seat 1000 persons,
and 800 voices have been engaged
for the choir.
Brigham Young's youngest
daughter has announced her inten-
tion of entering on lecture tour
shortly. Her subject will be Nor
monism
Several huge barges or floats are be-
ing built.for the Cape Fear and Yad
kin Valley r. r. for the purpose of
transporting cars across the river at
Wilmington.
The Worlds Fair seems to be in
bad way. 1t is rather too big a
thing for the Chicagoans to handle
There is great difficulty in procuring
a suitable site.
johnson county nominated Mr.
w. n. Rose, Jr., a successful farmer
| and sound Democrat, in place of Mr..
J. II. Pou, who withdrew from the
legislative ticket.
-Tennyson's back yard is said to
he strewn with clay pipes that he has
used and discarded. The poet is a
| prodigious smoker, and like Carlyle,
he prefers the humble clay pipe, rarely
smoking cigar.
Miss Grace King, the Louisiana
novelist, is described by one of her
friends as woman of stately figure
and striking features. Her hair and
eyes are brown and she is twenty
seven years old.
-Eaves is in brad luck. Harrison
professes q desire to do all in his pow
; er to make him collector, but the
will probably make some other good
place for the Reliable"
-"What in the hi are we here
for Fiannigan, of Texas, has been
nominated for Governor by the Re
publicans. He will probably find out
what he is "there" FIR when he is
buried under genuine Texas Demo.
cratic majority.
The colored brethren who waited
Oil Harrison with the sad story of their
many grievances in North Carolina
received cold comfort. He was sorry
for them, but didn't propose to do any
thing to help them out. The "man
and brother" is in the soup.
Mrs. James X. Polk, the widow
of President Polk, completed her S7th
year on Thursday of last week. She
lives on the Polk place, near Nash
vile, Tenn, and each year the mem
bers of the General Assembly go out
to pay their respects to her at her
home.
Captain Kimberly, the newly ap-
pointed consul general to Guatemala,
has fine setter dog, said to be one Of
the best in the country, which, when a
puppy, cost 5000, and whose father
cost $4,000. Before leaving for his
post he intends to present the dog to
Secretary Blaine.
Judge Jeremiah Smith, of Dover,
N. H., who has recently been ap-
pointed to professorship in Harvard,
is said to be the youngest of the few
sons of Revolutionary soldiers now
living, having been born in 1887. His
father, Jeremiah Smith, fought in the
battle of Bennington.
Col. Evan P. Howell, editor in
chief of the Atlanta Constitution, and
life long friend of the late Henry
w. Grady, is quoted as saying that
the brilliant young editor left his
widow and family in comfortable cir
cumstances. His estate has all pass
ed into her hands, and is valued at
about s175,000.
Gov. Mckinney and Senator Jno.
W. Daniel, of Virginia, were present
at the banquet given to prominent
Northern capitalists in Durham last
week and made speeches. Senator
Dsniel was invited to be present st
the convention of Democratic clubs at
Raleigh, Sept. "a, and he promised to
be there if it was possible.
Mr.. w. A. Wynne, of Raleigh.
makes a challenge to ride bicycle
twenty five miles against any number
of entries of horses on Friday of Fair
week on the race course, the purse
offered to be one hundred dollars,
seventy five dollars to the winner,
fifteen to the second and ten to the
third. Entrance fee five dollars.
The election of Reed is no setback
to the Democrats. Reed is notorious
ly the pet and protige Of the monopo.
lies, and their purses are always open
to him. This is the real secret of
Reeds success. With plenty of "fat"
and Dudley to manage it the result
could hardly have been otherwise in one
of the most venal districts in Maine.
Senator Mande1son, when a plain
Ohio youth, came to Washington one
day and got seat in the Senate gal.
lery. He had been tramping around
in the wet and his stockings were
saturated His boots were tight and
his feet felt sore, and as the night
session wore on lie took them off and
sat in his stocking feet. The air of the
Senate was very warm and the tight
boots shrunk. 8 At the adjournment
he found to his horror that he could
not get his boots on, and he had to
walk down to his hotel on Pennsyl-
vania avenue in. his stocking feet. car