The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-19

dENEKAL NEWS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes Taken From All Portions of
the Country and Quarters Of .he World.
Patti will be obliged to remain in
South America nearly two months in
order to earn $15O,OOO.
Car Reed rides a fifty-six-inch BIZ
cycle, not with naughty imperious-
ness. but with the wild-eyed terror OF
the Siberian slave.
The Monte Carlo bank lost $780,
600 on Thursday, the highest
amount lost in one day in twenty
years. The Trente ct Quarante table
alone paid out $4,000. The win
ners were English players.
The Ohio excursionists were roy
ally entertained at Fort Valley.
Editor Kersh invited all of them to
his Office, which may be remembered
by the Georgia Weekly Press Associa-
ton, and made q five-column speech
to them, nonpareil measure.
OF course everybody would well
come prstical reciprocity with South
America, but this will not prevent
the peerless Platti demanding $75, 900
. month for singing there. These
are the only terms upon she will ex-
change her notes for gold.
A horror occurred in New Jersey.
A woman struck q barrel of sauer-
kraut, when 10 !! an explosion followed
and away she went up among the
cObwebs, and the kraut went too.
We never knew before that this Ger
man delicacy was explosive.-Wil.
Messenger.
If, as reported, Admiral Brown, OF
the United States cruiser Charleston,
kissed all the pretty girls in Homo
lulu, during his recent visit there, he
must have been tired of such a Sand
wich feast, and should have turned
over the duty to lot of his young
lieutenants, who never object to the
use of lip salve.
The man who wrote "Spartacus to
the Gladiators" and "Regulus to the
Carthaginians," once so familiar to
every schoolboy, is still living. He
is a clergyman eighty-one years old,
and still breaches regularly. He
wrote the pieces when a student in
Bowdoin College, and his home now
is Harpswell. His name is Elijah
Kellogg.
The Arizona legislature has passed
a brutal law, providing that a re-
ward of 5000 shall be paid for every
Indian killed while carrying arms
This simply encourages murder
Few Indians can resist the tempta
ticn to carry guns and pistols. Un-
der the present law, designing white
men will make Indians presents O.
cheap firearms and then murder them
in order to get the reward.
The billion-dollar congress has
swept away the surplus in the treas
ury, and has made a deficiency in
svitabls at the end of the next fisca
year. It remains only for the fifty
second congress to follow the exam
pie of the forty-fourth, and to aver
as far as possible, by rigid economy
the disastrous consequences of tn,
past two years of criminal reckless
ness and unparalleled folly.-Atlants
Constitution.
Postmaster Van Cott, ofNew York
is q sensible man, who doesn't clos
his eyes to the fact that women ar
coming to the front as wage-earner
and proving their ability to supper
| their husbands. He has alread,
| given positions to six young ladie
in the money order department, ant
intends to open other branches Q
work to their competition, alway
drawing the line at the letter-carry
ing section.
A celebrated New York physician
gives this as a sure cure for insom
mia: eff you cannot sleep, the prot
ability is that it is because you
stomach is empty. Get up and eat
cracker or two and drink a glass c
milk and go back to bed again; the
you will sleep. The rule with all tn
animal kingdom is to sleep on flu
stomach. Man has not ceased to b
an animal. Beer is not SO good a
milk, but a bite of some light food
better than either.'
| The Springfield Union (Rep.)
worrying because it sees q possibilit
that the Democratic majority in th
next Congress twill expose itself t
possible obstruction on the part {
the minority" Oh, bless you, th
Republicans in the next Congres
can't obstruct anything. There ar
hardly enough of them, when the
are all present, to call for the yea
and nays, and when that is don
their obstructive power is exhausted
Boston Globe.
Mrs. Coils p. Huntington, wife {
the railroad magnate, is being sue
: for 5000 for repairs executed upo
her by q New York specialist, VIII
processes to make ladies more charm
ing by the removal of facial impel
fectiOns and the reduction of owe
thick necks. The professional claim
that it is owing to his skill that Mr.
Huntington's neck was so deftly r.
duced in amplitude that it becan
possible for her to wear the magnii
cent diamond necklace of which 81
is the possessor.
The Atlanta Constitution prints
review of the farming situatio
throughout the South, based upo
the declaration of Hon. r. T. Nesbi
commissioner of agriculture, that I'll
prospect has not been SO bad in fort
years. From South Carolina, Al,
bama and Mississippi reports a
that farm work is fully one mont
behind and that with the most favo
+ able prospect the record of last We,