The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-12
GENERAL NEWS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes Taken From All Portions of
the Country and Quarters Of .he World.


I'll. I. Inman will probably be made
president of the Georgia Central.
There has been no reorganization
of the American Loan and Trust
Company.
Virginia Knox, the Pittsburg heir
ess, has been divorced from the Count
di Montercole.
Jay Gould was fined $3.50 in the
Court of General Sessions for refusing
to act as a juror.
One effect of the Mckinley tariff has
been to kill the sewed muslin trade of
Ballyshannon, Ireland.
Steps have been taken to erect an
equestrian sta tue to General Sherman
by New York business men.
The Louisville and Nashville bonds
offered for subscription have all been
taken by European investors.
The two women who attempted to
kill King Milan Of Servia, in 1882,
were strangled to death in prison.
The United States war-ship Swa-
tara has been placed at the disposal
of the city OF Boston for a school
ship.
E. Buford Grymes, a clerk in the
Office of the city treasurer, Richmond,
was arrested on charges of embezzle-
ment.
The Car of Russia encourages the
raising of cotton in Asia, and will
employ Louisiana planters and negro
field hands
1here Is a strong pressure on the
President to appoint some of the
leading ex-members of the late Con-
gress to Office.
The cheroot factory of P. Whit
lock, Richmon /, has been purchased
for 100000 by the American To-
bacco Company
High heels owe their origin to Per-
sia, where they were introduced to
raise the feet from the burning sands
of that country.
Gold exports attracted attention,
and the Treasury Department has
put the charges on gold bnrs author
lied by the newl law.
A meeting was held at the White
House in Washington of ladies' inter
ested in promoting the fund for med
lCcl eO OucdllOu vi WOUleu.
The report about Sam Jones break
ing down in health is now denied
He tells the Atlanta Constitution
that he is as clipper as ever.
The berth secured by Senator Blair
as Minister to China was looked for
by Mr.. John Russell Young Mr.
Young formerly occupied this post.
The people of the west will soon
have an opportunity to study the
race problem at home. The south
very cheerfully transfers it to that
section.
1t is intimated that the Vicksburg
| colored postmaster will be depended
| upon to supply a Harrison delega-
tion to the Republican convention of
1892.
The Richmond Bar Associa ton has
unanimously indorsed Judge Luns-
| ford l.. Lewis, of the Virginia Court
of Appeals, for a United States judge
ship
! Bishop Hurst made an address be-
fore the Baltimore Conference ON the
success of the undertaking to build a
| great national Methodist university
in Washington.
The Secretary of War will spend
March IL at Chattanooga. He will
visit Chicamauga National Park.
| Preparations have been made to en-
tertain him handsomely.
The total number of negro inhabi-
tants of Virginia, according to the
last census, is 64O,S57, an increase
of only 9,246. The white population
increased in the same decade 1877 1873.
Postmaster-G General Wanamaker,
it is said, intends to make some one
familiar with postal matters, the
| Fourth Assistant, and does not
want to put any ex-Congressman in
the place.
The executive committee of the
WORLDS Fair directory has agreed to
concede the demand of the organized
labor in the city for an eight hour
day and the appointment of board
of arbitration.
Chicago Rapid Transit Company
capital Sc, 900 900, incorporated to
construct and operate an elevated
railway from the Auditorium to the
northern limits of the city.
The bishop of the combined diocese
of Down, Connor and Dromore, Ire
land has written letter practically
communicating followers of Mr.,
Parnell from the Catholic Church.
North Ashland, one of the Reading
Company's largest collieries, resumes
work after three months suspension
thus giving employment to six hun.
dred and fifty men an boys.
| The Census Bureau announces the
population of the State of Georgia
| by races, as follows: Whites, 973,
462; colored, s63,716; Indians, "a
Chinese, lilo; Japanese, /; total
1,s37,3 1853.
Four years ago the Methods,
| Episcopal Church, South in Roanoke
was small congregation of $40
Since that time a handsome house O
worship has been erected and paiG
for, the membership has grown tc
nearly 900.
| Under arrangements with the. Penn
sylvania Railroad the Richmond
Terminal will run through vestibult
trains from Washington to New Yorl
by way of Baltimore and Philadel
phia. The matter of freight traffic il
| left undecided.