The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-04-17
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

Mark Twain smokes 800 cigars a
month.
Nellie BLY, will make her next
tour of the world as lecturer, with
her first as the theme.
Hon. James Russell Lowell is
slowly recovering, but is as yet una
BILE to resume his literary work.
-Thos. P. Devereux, of Raleigh
has been appointed Assistant U. S.
Attorney for the eastern district Of
N. G.
The report is denied that Senator
Beck, of Kentucky, contemplates re-
firing from the Senate on account of
i'll health.
The Presbyterians of Reidsville
have decided to call Rev. Mr.. Craig
to this church for all of his time at a
salary Of 5000.
Rev. A. G. McManney of Char
lotte, has in press volume Of unpub
lished sermons by Mr.. Spurgeon, which
will be issued about June 1st.
Sam Jones says; "when a colored
man gets little education he does
one of three thihgs-he goes to preach
ing, teaching or to the chain gang"
Rev. DR.. Pritchard, of Whining
ton, is already spoken of as the first
president of the Baptist Female Col
lege. So says the Raleigh Chronicle.
When Republican boot lick or
gans can't find anything else to say
about brother Wanamaker they praise
his new red postage stamps WI.
mington Star.
The Ashville Journal states that
Evangelist r. G. Pearson is seen daily
passing through the streets of Ashe
vile. He has regained his health and
seems ready for work again.
The friends of ex-senator Thur
man propose to celebrate his 18th
biz thday November 18th. by ban.
quet to be attended by the great par
| ty leaders of all factions.
Speaker Reed will be the princi-
pal speaker at the banquet of the
Americas Club of Pittsburg on Gen.
eral Grants birthday, April 26th. He
goes as the guest of the Quay people.
p. T. Barnam has presented to
| the public library of Bridgeport a
scrap book containing all the illustra.
lions and comments of the London pa
pers on his show while it was in that
city.
Capt. Geo. N. Watt, so long a
conductor on the r. Is D. road, has
| lett that company and accepted po-
sition on the Atlantic and Danville
Road running from Dlnville to Ports
| mouth.
Gov. Lowry, of Mississippi, has
an article in the North american Re
vieau. He thinks that the South needs
| less legislation and better labor and
more capital. He likes the negro and
says:I regard him as the best and cheap
est laborer that will ever be found fol-
the cultivation of our chief product
cotton Wilmington Messenger.
-Jonesboro, Tenn, is the oldest
town in the State having been settled
in $780, In few miles of the town
lived for some time the heroic pioneer
Daniel Boone. On Boone's Creek
about seven or eight miles distant, is
still to be seen a tree bearing this re
markable inscription: I'D. Boon cilled
a Bar on Tree in the year 1902
| Charlotte Democrat.
1t is now stated that President
Harrison has sent some of his personal
and political friends to different points
in the South for the purpose of feeling
the people on the negro question; anc
the proposed federal election law which
that great South hater, Senator Hoar
has been instructed to prepare. Iftht
report is true, the emissaries foune
that the South felt very hard on boti
questions.-NeaU Orleans States, Den,