The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-10-30
WINSTON-SALEM, n. c.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1890.
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

Commodore John Page, of the
Argentine navy, died recently near the
Bolivian frontier. He was a native of
Virginia, and had served in the Unit
ed States and Confederate States navies.
! Mrs. Custer, the widow of the
Indian fighter, is black-haired wo-
! man of medium height and gracious
presence. Her complexion is rosy, and
she is the picture of health and youth
fulness.
Bishop Huntington, of Syracuse,
goes so far as to declare that more
than half of the religious organizations,
great OF small, are at present practi
cal contradictions of the "Sermon on
the Mount"
The real name Of John Fiske, the
historian, essayist and college profes-
sor, is Edmund Fiske Green. He
changed his name when a boy, upon
the death of his father and the mar
riage of his mother.
The handsomest man in the
House of Commons is now on his way
to this country. He is William Abra-
ham, member from Limerick, and
comes Of Quaker family. He comes
in the cause of Ireland.
Miss katherine Lee Bates, pro
fess ,r of English literature at Welles-
ley College, and a we'll known writer
of verse, is now taking years rest
in Europe. after which she is to enter
on years study at Oxford, England.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the
southern novelist, is short and stout,
with good natured, intelligent face,
having an expression of contentment,
she wing that she is on good terms with
her husband and the rest of the
world.
Elizabeth Ney, who lives near
Hampstead, Tex, is grandniece of
the famous Marshal Ney of France
She is both pretty and talented. and
is a sculptures by profession. Her
father was a Frenchman and her
mother Pole.
Archbishop Feehan of Chicago
will celebrate the twenty fifth ami
versary Of his accession to the Episco-
pal Office Nov, l, and great prepara
tions are going on to make the occa-
sion notable one. 1t will close with
a great toi chlight pl procession and a
grand banquet.
Lord Wolseley. who used to be
an inyeterate smoker, but has given
up the habit entirely, says that he
kept clear ot the usual evils that be-
fall the heavy smoker by having req
ular intermittent periods of i week OF
a fortnight during which lie would
smoke none at all.
MIR. Giaisto is beyond his fou,
score, and while every one knows his
tondness for work, manual and ment-
al, and bis delight in pictures and
flowers, every one does not know the
still more remarkable fact that he
likes the good things of the table as
we'll as younger Men
DR.. Mott is in Raleigh looking
after the new election law. There is
a man in each State, employed by the
Republican National committee to
look after matters of Registration and
election, just as Mott is doing. The
idea is that all these shall report when
Congress meets and then lay before
the conservative Republican Senators
what the Republican committee claims
will he the most powerful reasons for
the passage of the National election
law. The registration has been very
fair i'll this State and the Radicals
will find in it no material to work up
on in this their Observation-Disclosures
Messenger.
The Champion, a strong Repuhii-
can organ of Atchison, Kansas, has
this to say about Spittire Ing alIs, the
defamer of the Suuth: "Senator In
gals in no sense represents Kansas.
He is not in accord with the sentiment
Of the State nn any vital issue. He is
not in harmony with the sentiment Of
prohibition, only SD far as it may be
utilized to secure votes; nor with anti
prohibition, only so far as it viii secure
vot.s; nor on the tariff; indeed, on this
important question .he is positively
hostile To the interests Of Kansas fsrm-
ers ard consumers in general, having
voted for the Mckinley bill, a meas
nre which is nothirg but & ,hieving
scheme in the interest Of manufactur
ers, and which forces farmers and 9th
ers to pay ali unjust tribute in the way
of excessive profits to irusts and mo
nopulies.