The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-10-16
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
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week caused the death of j. F.
Thompson, one of the principals.
1t is reported that Ex- President
r. B. Hayes is to be married to Vir
ginia lady. She is widow and a
great favorile in society.
Robert Hayden, of the Charlotte
Chronicle, receives $1,000 q year from
the stock kholders for doing the "edito
rial act" on that paper.
The material for the construction
| of the Electric street railway at
Lynchburg, Va, has been purchase
and the cars will soon be running.
Robert p. Porter, the man who
pretended to take the census, has gone
back to England to escape the torrents
of ridicule that are being heaped upon
| him.
President Harrison has been max
ing a grand tour in the West and visi-
| ted the scenes of his childhood days.
He received an ovation all along the
route.
"A fight between two men in AL
exander county, near the Iredell line,
Saturday, resulted i'll the death Of a
man named Warren. The murderer
is in Jail.
Eight graduates in politics and
history at the Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, have just received good positions,
and three who have not finished have
been called to positions.
The C. f. & Y. V. railroad has
3o1 80 miles of track and twenty To-
comotives, a1.d the net profit of the
road for fifteen mouths ending June
the SOth were $3l2,936 36.
In taking the census of New York
the Policemen found the oldest woman
in the world. She was born a slave near
Oxford, N. c., and is now 118 years
old. She Is deaf and blind now but
bids fair to live several years longer.
There was great excitement in
the collectors Office in New York Sat
urday. caused by the efforts of impor-
teIs TO have the duties on the cargoes
of incoming steamers assessed under
the old tariff law before the new law
went into effect at 3 o'clock.
Two of Durham's enterprising
business young men will present the
city with a public school building to
cost $4,000 and hospital TO cost
$4,000. The Gobe says the archi.
tect is at work ON the plans and the
buildings will soon be constructed.
Mr.. W.. G. Stronach, secretary Of
the Soldiers Home, has received a
dispatch from Assistant Attorney
General Tyner that all letters, posters,
papers, etc, containing advertisements
of the guessing scheme, which the Ia
dies were getting up for the benefit Of
the Home, during the State Fair, are
unavailable.
Voolfolk, the Georgia murderer,
who killed ten members of his fathers
family, has been sentenced to be hung.
Upon being asked if he had anything
to say why sentence of death should
not be pronounced upon him he said +:
Nothing. didn't do it, and l had
rather be in my grave than to be sur
rounded as l am"
Sam Jones says that railroad cor
porations have no souls to be damned
or backs to be whipped and are hard
to deal with by evangelical methods
or any other way. He thinks the peo-
pie ought to send men to the Legisla-
ture who will vote for railway COM
mission. 1t is said that the Whining
ton and Weldon refused Sam free
pass.
chairman Eaves has gone to Ral-
eigh to look after the Republican cam
paign. He refuses to state whether
there will be any "reliables" this year
or not. Loge Harris says that Eaves
has no funds with which to run the
campaign and is in dispairing frame
of mind. Quay is not interested in
North Carolina politics just now and
refuses to come down with the Doodle.
Woodruff, the president Of the
Mormon church, has issued procla
smation~ in which he denies that the
Latter Day Saints have been practic-
ing polygamy in violation of the law,
and recommends single marriage to
his followers. This, in the face of the
fact that vessel full of girls landed
at New York the other day bound for
! Utah looks like double game is be-
ing play ed on Uncle Sam.
The convention of straightout
Democrats, which met in Columbia
last Thursday, nominated Judge Hask-
ell for Governor and full State ticket.
This means that the Democrats op-
posed to Tillman have come to an
agreemeLt with the Republicans, by
which the negro vote will be cast for
Haskell. Capt. B. R. Tillman, the
Alliance nominee for Governor, says
that this will cause strife and blood
shed. He says that in his county of
Edgefeld the people will resort to any
means to prevent the negroes voting
this ticket.
Al Fairbrother, the new editor of
the Durham Globe, from the wild
and woody" west, is jumping in the
midst ct things like a Texas steer on
the rampage. He hasn't got the N. G.
brand on him yet. but will soon be-
come civilized. A few days ago he
said that Gov. Fowle was trying to
step into Zeb Vance's brogans and
that the breezes were gently playing
through his whiskers. Now he actu-
ally accuses brother Josephus Daniels
of crawling on his stomach before the
Alliance and giving them advice at
the same time. Mr.. Fairbrother for