The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-10-16
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Justice Miller, of the Supreme
Court, is dead
-Burnand, the editor of the Lor-
don Punch, gets $4,000 year.
Hugh j. Grant is the Tammany
nominee for Mayor of New York.
Rich deposits Of gold are said to
have been just discovered in Canada
Prof. Thomas NJ. Conrad, of
Mary land, has been appointed special
agent of the census bu eau to collect
tobacco statistics.
MIR. Harrison will probably APP
point Attorney General miller to be
Judge Miller's successor on the Su-
preme court bench.
The Prince and Adams Locomo.
tive. and machine works of Nashville,
!, Tenn. were burned last Saturday
night-ioss$20,000.
Track laying on the 8 Cs road is
going on rapidly. The rails for its
completion to the Tennessee connec-
ton are already on the ground.
Commissioner John Robinson says
! this will be the best cotton crop on
record. North Carolina leads the
South on the condition of this crop.
-"Glower de Hundred The story
Of Virginian Plantation is new
novel of Southern life, during and af-
ter the war, by Mrs Burton Harrison.
Chicago will erect tower for the
Worlds Fair That will overtop the
| Eiffel several hundred feet and will
throw the tower Of Babel in the shade.
Senator Vance spoke to an au
dience of 5000 people at Burlington
last week. At the ci ,se of his address
a mighty shout went I'D for sour Zeb."
The Charleston Pfesbytery re
fused to admit Dr.. Woodrow because
they say he has become thoroughly
secularized aud still holds to his mon
key theory"
Elliott, who murdered young
| Warren in Ired, II county few days
agn, has been Capture: lii Cabarrus
Warren Was Cut l., pieces ,.i.i knife
1t y as a brutal murder.
1t seems pretty certain now that
Harrison will Call all extra session CT
Congress Ia pass the Fore, bill about
Nov. 18th. One OF his Cai,ineE ,,ffi
GERS says that the Inajor.ty oi t!.c Gao
met are in favor Of IL
Two negro BARRIERS in Lexinstpn
had shooting match last Saturday.
Three distinct holes were put through
ones earthly tenement" He was
mortally wounded. The other was
unhurt and made his escape.
Gen. Mosby, the great guerilla
! chief during the war, has Withdrawn
from the Republican party on account
of its extreme anti southern policy
He says he will vote the Democratic
ticket in California this year.
The new fast train which was to
have been inaugurated on the Rich
mond and Danville Sunday has been
again postponed. The r. & D. has
had trouble with the Pullman Car Co.,
but the cars will be put on soon.
Marshall L. Mott went down to
| Halifax county and upset the arrange
ment for a Coalition ticket as pro-
posed by tie Alliance. A straight
Republican ticket was nominated, in
GLIDING two negroes for the House.
The Egypt coal mine is now six
hundred feet deep, and coal OF excel
lent quality is being taken out. A
railroad is being built to tap the Ral-
eigh and Augusta, which will put the
mine twenty miles nearer Raleigh bv
rail.
1t is admitted by politicians of
both parties that 80 per cent of the
Kansas Republicans, outside Of the
Alliance. The Alliance will vote for
Baker, the Democratic candidate this
year.
The latest thing in electricity is
an electric cigar lighter. The machine
is connected by wire with one of the
ordinary light currents and upon
touching a button a bright electric
spark is produced from which the ci
gar is lighted.
"A cousin of the great German
composer, Richard Wagner, has been
discovered living at St. Vincent MINI.
His name is Michael Wagner and he
has just recovered 100000 from his
sister GATHERINGS Estate, recently set
tied in Germany.
The Hong Kong banks made
millions of dollars out ofour new silver
law. They bought Mexican dollars
at 81 and sold for "a upon the rise of
silver. 1t is said that several of the
members of Congress also made a
good thing out Of it,
Col. Haskell, the man who or
ganized the movement that redeemed
South Carolina from Radical rule in
'76, now the nominee of. the Straight
outs for Governor, was burnedin efhgy |
at Kershaw last Friday. Many Of his |
old followers are forsaking him.
Lord Salisbury, the Premier of
England, returned to London the
other day after little trip on the
Continent. The Custom House off
GERS found d gallons of North Caroli-
ma mountain dew" and a lot of CT
gars concealed in his carriage, which
they Immediately confscated.
"A man in Illinois, weighing four
hundred, ordered his coffin made as he
couldn't buy one to fit at the under
takers, and predicted that he would
die at certain time. The coffin was
on hand last Friday morning and the
old fellow promptly passed in his
checks and occupied it within 20
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