The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
PERSONAL And PERTINENT.

PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Interesting Points That Strike the Fancy
Of the Scissors.
Virginia has refused to help tho
Worlds Fair.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate to reduce letter-postage to
one cent.
It is too bsd to let the Indians suf-
Ter from the cold. Why not make it
warm for themf
Ex-Governor Fitxhugh Lee calls
the present scare in the Senate the
Senatorial Ghost dance.
The Georgia Legislature has ap-
propriated $22, 500 for the establish
ment of a school of Technology.
Washington Mclean, tho veteran
editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
died in Washington city on Monday.
Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina,
has appointed Mrs. Car oline LIE Coute,
of Columbia, to succeed Maj. III.
Clay Richardson as State Librarian.
The council has passed the COR
| rected House bill locating the tenn
porary capital at King Fisher. Now
| the question is, will Gov. Steele ap-
prove the bill.
Ingalls, had to shell out 5000 to
get his son Bill elected to the Kan>
sas Legislature. Is that some of the
IL per cent interest taken from the
farmers on his loansi
| 1t is said that Postmaster-G General
Wanamaker has some manufactur-
ing establishments in Germany, the
products of which are seriously af-
fected by the Mckinley tariff bill.
Chaplain Milburn provoked many
smiles in the House when he prayed
at the opening Of the Session: "We
thank thee, Oh God that so many
have been spared to como back"
The private correspondence of Al
bert Edward, the Prince of Wales, is
something enormous. He is said to
receive four times as NANNY letters a
day as does the President of the
United States.
Senator Vance presented Saturday
in the Senate q memorial from the
Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte,
N. c., stating that by unanimous
vote that body opposed the Congo
Lard bill.
Some of the big capitalists who
have been squeezing tho little fel.
lows to death during the past few
weeks agree with President Harrison
that the country is enjoying excep>
tional prosperity.
Mr.. Powderly is away behind the
times. He says that labor saving
machinery is q fraud, although it
has provided work for a thousand
men and women where only one had
q chance to work before.
Governor Hill will doubtless come
Senatorship in the hand is worth
more than Presidency in the top
most bough of 8 very high BUSH
Greensboro North State.
A Boston paper has come to the
conclusion that in the distribution
of vocatiens it is . strange fact that
the man who could run q newspaper
to suit every one is always in some
other business than journalism.
An extraordinary bill has been in
troduced into the South Carolina
Senate by Senator Peake. 1t pro.
vides that all railroad trains in the
State which carry tho United State.
mails shall stop at every station or
the line.
The silver half dollar is so unpop
ular . coin that $17, ,000. 600 worth Of
them remain piled up in the Treas
ury vaults, and cannot be got into
circulation. The Director of tn.
Mint suggests that they be recoiDet
, into dimes and quarters, and ask.
for an appropriation for that pur
pose.
President Polk, of the Nationa
Farmers Alliance, has named Friday
February 9Th, 1891, and Washing
ton, d. c., as the time and place fOl
holding the first meeting of the Ma
tional Legislature Council, which j.
: composed of the National President
and all the Presidents of all Stat.
Alliances.
, Valentines bronze statue of Stone
wall Jackson has been completed anl
. will be unveiled at Lexington, Va.
the 21st of next July. Jackson
: grave is in the little cemetery neal
Lexington, where it is marked b.
a plain marble headstone three fee
high. The mound is frequently GOV
r cred with punches of flowers.
9 A drummer" called on one Of on
! leading dealers in hardware and cut
lerY q day or two since and produce'
his samples of pocket knifes. Fo
? . standard knife which he formerl,
!. sold the dealer at $11.5O per dozen
= he asked $500, and he frankly ad
mitted that tho Mckinley tariff bill
! was solely responsible for the ad
3 vance.-Wilmington Messenger.
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