The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-02-26
GENERAL NEWS,
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POMTs
AND O0MNON AFFAIRS.


PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POMTS
AND O0MkON AFFAIRS
News Notes Taken From All Portions Of
the Country and Quarters Of the World.
The Bank of England continued it's
discount rate at 8 per cent.
Great food damage in West vif.
ginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Professor Mason says our conti-
nent is inferior to the Eastern.
The salary of the Vice-President of
the United States is $1,000 a year.
Date trees seldom bear until they
are twenty-five or thirty years old.
The Northern Pacific directors de-
clared the usual quarterly dividend.
Prussian council of ministers de-
eide against prosecuting Prince Bis
marck.
Ex-President Cleveland's silver
views seem to be making converts in
Virginia.
Hamilton Fish thinks the McKin-
ley tariff is prohibition, not protec-
tion.
The Decatur, Cheeapeak and New
Orleans Railroad will be sold on
April 7th.
Prominent Methodists will meet in
Baltimore next week to discuss mis-
sion work.
Population of the world ], ,45O, ,O0O,-
900, of which only 400, 200, 900 are
christians.
Bright Democratic prospects for
capturing United States Senate after
March 4, 1898.
One of the principal figures in the
Sherman funeral was that of Gener-
al Joe Johnston.
The Treasury Department pur.
| chased 562, 900 ounces of silver at
99.75 to 100 cents per ounce.
Judge Warder, who killed his SON.
in-law in Chattanooga last month is
fatally i'll and hopelessly insane.
The exclusion of lottery advertise.
ments and tickets from the mails will
be tested in the Supreme Court.
Improvement in Western corn re,
ceipts and transactions at the Baltf.
more Corn and Flour Exchange.
An official report has been made on
the recent boy and dog bone grating
case favorable to the experiment.
The Richmond Terminal directors
have confirmed the purchase of the
Covington and Macon Railroad.
Merchants and Manufacturers As
sOciation of Baltimore adopted reso'
lutions in opposition to the free coin
age bill.
| Gen. 81. 81. Sibley, of Sibley tent
fame, Minnesota pioneer and frs
Governor of the State, died at hil
home, in st. Paul.
| Acknowledgement Hensel, Of Penn
sylvania, decides that women are not
competent to be incorporators OF
treasurers of a corporation.
The vote by which the bill author
izing women to vote in Kansas va,
recently defeated in the House at To
peka, has been reconsidered and thu
bill passed.
| O'Brien and Dillon have been re-
moved from the jail at Glonmsl te
Galway, where it is expected they viii
complete their six months term o
imprisonment.
| Virginia, North Carolina and Ten
nessee raise an average of 2,97O,OO(
bushels of peanuts q year. The an
nual value of the crop averaged
%, 500, 900 for the last four years.
Cardinal Gibbons holds that i
ministers of religion are to continu
to exercise a salutary influence owe
the workman they must make earn
est efforts to better his material in
terests.
Minta Hayns, white girl, of Ian
caster, S. c., eloped with mulatt.
named Jim Presson, q few days since
They were arrested in Mecklenbure
but released. The girl returned tt
her parents.
Ex-State Treasurer Woodruff, {
; Arkansas, has paid State Treasure
Morrow and taken his receipt 70
363, ,74O.5O, the full amount of tn
shortage shown to exist in Wood
ruff's cash accounts.
When Lincoln WAS ass&ssinated i
1865 tho Marquis di Rudini, no,
Premier Of Italy, changed In hi
honor tho name Of one Of Palermo
handsomest streets, the Via St. An
tonic to that Of the Via Lincoln.
New York is ahead of oil the othe
cities if individual riches running q
. into seven or more figures is meant
1t is said that New York has owe
]. 900 millionaires, while London ha
600, Paris 500, Berlin 200 and Vier
ma 100.
. To the New York Heralo's quea
ton: What are the qualities mos
: essential to tho development of th
perfect man, Mr.. George w. Child
writes from Philadelphia; IA clea
conscience, an earnest purpose,
bright mind and a healthy body"
, The Baroness Burdette- -Coutts
reported to be in failing health, a
!. though not seriously i'll. The BaPol
: ess is about seventy-ffve years {
! age. Her young husband, Mr.. Bul
dette-C -Coutts, N. p, 10 her devote
attendant.
!: Apparently age cannot withef nc
custom stale the infinite vigor Of II
Gladstone. Though eighty-two yeAl
of ago, he made long speechi In Pa
lament q few nights ago, and sat q
with the body until the hour Of q
liournment, tuo O'Clock IN the NOR
Ing.
A New York statistieian and hnaa
: cier figures that out Of sc, 600 me
! only 8, 900 win die worth over 410
) 600, and only 9, 900 who can be cal
] ed rich. He says that I, ,OO0 0men lol