The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-04-24
OUR FELLOW MEN.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS - ABOUT
MANY INTERESTING PEOPLE.


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Some are Good and Some are Bad, But
Each One has Personality Of Interest
70 the Public,
1t is said that Gen. Longstreet
will vote the Democratic ticket In the
future.
w. O. Reddick, of Gatesville, N. c.,
has been appointed cadet at West
Point.
Prince Bismarck is worth So,
100000, but still he hasn't ducats
enough to be duke.
Harrison has appointed G. D..
Smith postmaster at Hickory and w.
j. Person at Rocky Mount
Col. w. H. Burgwyn, of Hender-
son, will deliver the annual literary
address at Chapel Hill this year.
DIR. Mellow, who killed Col.
Dawson, the editor, still continues his
practice in the city of Charleston.
The Gar is said to have lost his
teeth, but as his diet is champagne
and morphine he don't feel the need of
them much.
Thomas A. Edison smokes inces-
sanity, and much of the time with a
"chaw" of tobacco in his cheek, it is
stated. He is also up to snuff:
In the cleaning, oh, my darling,
When come thine eyes to see,
Tie the dog up-tie him tightly
Then I'll feel it safe for me,
DR.. Gatling, inventor of the gun
that bears his name, looks like super.
animated clergyman, with his snow
white hair and clean shaven face. He
is 80 years old.
Senator Plumb was an editor
when he went into the railroad bust.
ness and became millionaire. He is
tall and rawboned, wears goatee and
a slouch hat, and owns up to 50 years
The Asheville Citizen says: "It is
learned that David Worth Cowles
suicide at Oxford last week was caused
by disappointment in love-" The
Wilkes5oro Chronicle says this is moi
true.
| L. A. Coulter, who has acted al
State Secretary for the Y. NJ. G. A
of N orth and South Carolina for the
last yesr, has resigned al
State Secretary for South Carolina
and will now devote all his time to tn,
work in this State.
| Mr.. Thomas A. Edison is bonding
several hu drei thousand dollars
worth of mineral lands in Rowan
Cabarrus aud Mecklenburg counties
with view of beginning active minin;
operations at an earl y day, with mil
lions of money to back him.
| Harriet Williams, an in,lustriou.
| colored woman who was once servan
Of Senator Vance, was chopped t,
death with an axe in Asheville las
week A colored man named Pete
Strong has been arrested AMI lodget
in Jail for this murder.
Mr.. Macdonald, one of the IrisI
members of the House of Commons, i
totally blind. Through the devotion
of his wife he is also one of the mos
prompt in attending to his duties. Sh
takes him regularly to and from tn
House, where her figure has become a
familiar as his own.
Miss Julia Carmichael. youn.
girl aged seventeen years, of a vel
known family in Washington, N. c.
killed herself on the night Of the 9tl
inst with a pistol. She was alone il
her room at the time of the occurrence
and refused before her death to max
any statement regarding the matter.
1t is not generally known tina
DR.. Mary Walker has become Grip
pie for life. On Decoration Day sh,
fell and broke her right hip. She viii
never again be the man she was. l
is probable that Congress will no,
pass her moss covered claim for tw
thousand dollars for services rendered
as nurse during the war.
"A special to the Herald from Sy
racuse, N. Y, says that the announce
ment is made there of the betrothal O
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of tn
late jefferson Davis, to Alfred Wilk
inson, of Syracuse, a grandson of tn
great abolitionist leader, Rev. Samue
]. Lay. Mr.. Wilkinson is a youn
lawyer and but twenty eight years o
age, and stands very high in the com
munity. He first met miss Davis OF
the occasion of the visit of that lad
to Syracuse about four years ago.