The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-11-13
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT,
Senator Vance will succeed him

Senator Vance will succeed him
self.
Mckinley didn't know the tariff
bill was loaded.
Gov. Morris, Democrat, had only
majority of u in Connecticut.
Little Benny Harrison says some
say Elijah and some say Moses but he
don't know.
William L. Wilson, the able
Congressman from West Virginia,
was reelected by 1871 votes.
Wonder if Thomas B. Reed will
prove as vigorous a kicker in TIE next
Congress as Kilgore was in the last?
Governor elect Russell, of Massa-
chusetts will now seek rest after an ex-
acting political campaign by going on
hunting trip.
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Arkansas,
from whom the Republicans stole his
seat in the House, has been t-ium
phantly re elected.
"A Moore county girl is charged
with having said: eff cart wheel has
nine fellows, it is pity that pretty
girl like me can't have one.
Boss Reed will cut sorry figure
in the next House. 1t will be inter-
esting to see him when the Democratic
Speaker begins to count quorums.
The President has appointed the
9th of November as Thanksgiving
day. We wonder if Quay and Reed
will eat their turkey with any relish.
Hon. Richard Vaux says he will
contest the seat OF Mr.. McAleer, elect
ed to the House from Rsndall's old
Philadelphia district, on account of
fraud.
MIR. Chauncey Depew said before
the election that reform is the shib-
boleth of FOOLS He must think now
that the fools" are greatly in the ma
jority in this country.
The majority of Epes, Democrat,
for the House from the Petersburg dis
trict, over Langston, the negro who
was given Mr.. Venable's seat by the
Republicans, is over 5000.
John Wanamaker says that the
President will not call an extra session
of Congress to pass the Force Bill or
any other bill. He is afraid he might
be monkeying with buzz saw
-Cheatham is the only Republican
Congressman from North Carolina
this time and will be the only negro to
have a seat in the next House. His
majority over Mewborne is 1920.
While walking upon the streets
of Warrenton Mr.. Alfred Plummer, OF
Middleburg, was assaulted and robbed
by negro who had served term in
the penitentiary for a similar offence
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, OF
London, is making crusade against
old methods of worship and exhorta-
ton. He says that preaching is no
longer an effective instrument of the
Gospel.
The French papers hail the sue
cess of the Democrats with joy and
urge the French authorities not to
pass any retaliatory measures against
the Mckinley bill until it is seen what
policy the Democrats will adopt.
john Reilly, an organizer of the
National League in Ireland, has been
released from prison, after suffering
four months Imprisonment under the
Coercion act. He was presented with
an address Of congratulation and a
purse Of $500 by his friends
"A movement has been started tc
depose Senator Quay from the chair
manship of the National Republican
Committee. They see now that his
blocks-of.fve methods are no good
and that the souls of the American
people cannot be bound up in five
dollar greenbacks.
When Dick Quay, the hopeful
son of Boss Quay, inquired at the
Washington postoffice Saturday fol-
his fathers mail he was told that il
had gone to the Dead Letter office
Whereupon young Quay was highly
insulted and went to Mr.. Wanna
maker with his tale of woe. Wanny is
busily engaged trying to find out who
the smart clerk was that got off this
insulting joke on his friends.