The western sentinel., 1890-01-30
Personal AND PERTINENT.

PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Bill Fife, the evangelist, has con-
verted IS people at Shelby and will
next go to Concord.
...John Ruskin, the great leader in
English critical literature, has be-
come hopeleesly insane.
Hall Brothers, of Hickory. will
probably sue Bradstreets for report
ing that they had assigned.
Mr.. r. F. Whitehurst, of Durham,
has invented medicated cigarette,
and a stock company has been form
ed at Durham for it's manufacture.
The engagement is reported Of
Miss Ellen Bayard, youngest daugh-
ter of ex Secretary Bayard, to Count
Lewenhaupt, formerly an attache OF
the Swedish legation at Washington.
The rumor's getting to be wide
spread that Secretary Blaine will
soon resign the portfolio of State.
The death of his favorite son and the
incident depression ensuing from it
are said to be the cause.
...Ex-Congressman Horr, of Michi-
gan, who is an itensely partisan Re
publican, says "the general opinion
over the country is that President
Harrison is weakening rather than
strengthening the Republican party"
The engagement is announced of
Miss Mary Anderson, the beautiful
and gifted American actress, and Mr..
Antonio de Navarro, of New York
city. They are now travelling to-
gether in Europe.
lit Is said that the Prince of
Wales, accompanied by the Princess
of Wales and Prince George, will visit
Canada and New York State in the
spring. Then we shall have an cpl
demic outbreak of Anglo-mania-} -
A New York Manager has offered
Henry, N. Stanley 81, 900 a lecture
for fifty. lectures to be delivered in
|. America during next winter, and the
great explorer has not yet signified
whether he win accept the offer Or
? .1.....Adam Forepaugh,, the veteran
circus menager, died last Thursday
night at his residence in Philadelphia.
MI; Forepaugh was attacked q week
aof two ago with the prevailing in
fluensa, which developed into pneu-
monia. Taij9o q 7a.oa tt--@ 4s
uot.. Ex-Governor r. E. Pattison is
looming up for the Democratic GU
bernatOria1 nomination in Pennsvl-
Exanio. Several counties have al
ready instructed their delegates to
vOtelfor his nomination, and other
counties will follow suit unless the
sx-Governor calls a halt on the
y movement: ussa buE s1s.i- - i5l
I7o.. Mark Twain has spent about
800, 900 in perfecting the Page type
setting machine, and he is the princi-
pal owner of the company that will
manufacture them. The machine is
| sixteen feet long, nine feet high in
the middle, and will set, justify and
distribute As, 900 ems Of type daily.
I'VE see the statement in the pa
pers that Mai. VIM. A. Graham will
probably be q candidate for the Con-
gressional nomination in Hender-
sons district. There are few clever
Ter men than Mai. Graham, but he
must remember that Mr.. Henderson
has made q record in Congress since
he has been there. wilson Advance.
Ild LAT the late communication of the
Grand Lodge of Masons DR.. Eugene
|Grissom was appointed and installed
Grand Lecturer and Grand Custo-
dian of the work in North Carolina.
All the assistant Grand Lecturers
are requested to report to him for
examination, SO as to make the work
uniform throughout the jurisdiction.
Rev. Sam Jones has just closed q
revival in New Orleans. In one of
his sermons he greatly frightened the
women by predicting coming disas-
ter. They wept with blanched faces
droyes.r They are preparing for him
in Charlotte. He 10 going there in
April. 95Ai ~ - i,;.,
'lii TT Is too early to anticipate what
'92 VIII bring forth, but must say
the feeling in favor Of ex-Presiden't
Cleveland is very strong, and if it
to Increase, nothing can
.Daevank his reuOmination. @ If any
thing, J beleve Ar. Cleveland is more
lpopnlar With the masses to-day than
he sHaA n n,ez.-Ex-SecresaEy Whit
b REV. B. g. Pearson, the noted
evangelist, iss now conducting q Sc
Eies. Of meetings in Charleston, s. c.
His meetmas are being held at the
Citadel Sqpare Baptist Church. He
ahaS mads elgagements for the next
twelve nOnfhs "a Southern cities, and