The western sentinel., 1890-12-04
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

the Life and Sayings of Mrs. Parting
ton died in Boston last week.
Over two thousand foreign doc
tors are in Berlin trying to get an op-
.portunity of studying the Koch meth
cd of treating consumption.
The wife of Frederick Douglass
delivered an address on Hayti before a
colored nigh school in Washington
last week, her talk being illustrated
by magic lantern views.
-Parnell has been re elected their
leader by the Nationalists in spite of
the divorce scandal. Mr.. Gladstone
has written letter requesting Parnell
to retire from public life.
-Democra attic leaders express them
selves as opposed to carrying Reeds
rules into the next House. No meas
ure will be passed until it has been
freely and fully discussed.
Hon. VIM. F. Villas. President
Clevelaud's Sec'y of Interior, will
probably be elected Senator from Wis
consin. He says he hopes Cleveland
will be elected President in 1892.
Writing to friend. DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes says: 81 have made
up my mind to do no literary work at
all during the coming months, and I
am declining all literary offers at pres
ent. I must have some rest"
The St. Paul Globe says: Quay
was to make it hot for his assailants
after the election, and vindicate him
self in some spectacular way. But he
is so busy saving wood down in Flor
ida that he has forgotten all about it.
jas. L. Lowe, of Durham, was
arrested in Richmond, Va, last week
by detectives, on the charge Of bigamy.
He left his wife a short time ago and
skipped by the light of the moon with
Miss Oracle Campbell, young lady
of Durham.
Eva Steele, the alleged wife OF
Robt. Ray Hamilton, the rich New
Yorker who was drowned in the Yel
lowstone Park while on hunting trip,
has been pardoned out of prison. She
will make strong fight for the prop
erty of the dead man.
Princes Bismarck is said to be
happier, now that she is enabled to live
quietly in retirement with her husband,
than she has been since he became a
minister of state. She has always dis
liked the publicity entsiled upon her
by her high social positi IL.
-kepuI,!ican Congressman who
have arrived in Washington say they
rely on the "bi,nders" of the Demo-
Gratis for the future success of the G.
O. p. The Democrats will never be
foolish enough to perPetrate such an
idiotic blunder as the Mckinley bill.
"A recount of the vote Oh State
Senator in Marionette county, Wis
consin, finds Schofield, Republican,
elected by 56 majority, before declared
defeated by Al. This gives the Re
publicans II and the Democrats 16
members of the newly elected State
Senate.
The Democratic leaders will fs ht
the Force bill and the Appointment
bill, based on Porter's fraudulent cen.
sus, to the bitter end. If the Repub-
licans insist upon passing these meas
ures it will probably result in the call
ing of an extra session of the Sind
Congress in the spring.
Senator Wade Hampton. while
hunting in Mississippi, was accidentally
shot in the face by his son, McDuffie
Hampton. One shot struck him in
the eye. His I'M uries are not serious
as it is thought that he will not lose
the sight of his eye. The accident
happened in the same locality where
the Senator lost his leg few years ego
by being thrown from his mule while
out shooting.
-Horatio Harrison Hughes, of
Franklin, Mo-, is a hero of six wars.
The first was the Iowa war against
Big Neck chief the second was the
Plack Hawk war, the third the Nor
mon war, fourth the Florida war, in
which he ranked Major General; fifth
the Mexican war, and sixth the War
of tae Rebellion, in which he served
four years in the Confederate Army.
He was in more than forty battles in
which his comrades fell right and left,
but escaped without wound.
The total collections of the inter
nal revenue department for the past
fiscal year we're $142,594,696, which
is an increase of about eleven millions
over last year. Nearly this much.
or to speak more accurately,
about $133,173,OS5 will be needed
to pay pensions for year 1S91-1S92.
North Carolina pays her full share of
this tax which is gobbled up mostly
by Yankee bummers who stole spoons
with Butler and burned houses with
Sherman but never formed an init
mate acquaintance with bullet.
Grover Cleveland is reported as
saying: There is no one thing of the
same grade of importance which has
resulted from the recent election which
ought to please Democrats and decent
people SO much rs the prospects of the
retirement of ingalls,. | do not know
what kind of Democrat it would be
who would not labor in season and
out of season to prevent the return to
the Senate of this vilifier of everything
Democratic; who has been put forward
by the Republican party to pour out
abuse too bad for even decent Repub-
licans, and who was made the presid.
ing officer Of the Senate to crown their
insults to our party
Ewellings in the neck and all other forms of
scrofula, salt rheum, ETC., are cured by Hoods
Sarsaparilla.