The western sentinel., 1891-06-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Various Happenings in the United
States and Foreign Country.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Various Happenings in the United
States and Foreign Country.
The President and Cabinet are now
busy discussing the new phase of the
Behring sea sealing question.
Harrison now has a great reputa-
ton as an call around'' orator. He
can talk all aroand subject without
ever touching it.
Ex-Gov. John Ireland of Texas,
says that when Galveston has deep
water there will be a new line of rail-
road between that city and Chicago.
By this time Kennedy is no doubt
fully convinced that it's better to be
right than be president, more partic-
ularly of bank that's been scooped
Crops in Eastern Carolina continue
to be promising. Those that have
matured have been remunerating,
and the faces of our farmers are
bright and smiling.
There was waterspout near Bry-
son City, on the Murphy branch,
causing a washout of over 100 feet
of roadbed, undermining the track
so that trains were delayed a few
hours Wednesday.
Tammany, Richmond's big Demo-
cratic club, is preparing for a great
celebration on July 4th. Among the
distinguished persons invited are
ex-President Cleveland and Govor-
nor Hill, of New York.
A Tennessee man has dog that
goes to church and joins in the cho-
rus, keeping time. The reader IS left
| to infer whether this is saving little
for the Tennessee chorus or much
for that Tennessee dog.
A Greensboro correspondent wri-
ting to the Charlotte Chronicle about
a recent society reception, says "the
supper was simply dream" Well,
we suppose from what he says there
was nothing real about it.
The executive committee of the
Worlds Fair has confirmed the ap-
pointment of F. J. V. Skiff as chief
of the department of mines and
mining and M. E. Stone as chief of
the foreign department.
John Gladstone, the father of the
expremier of Great Britain, trained
his children to give a reason for
every opinion they offered. 1t was
in this way that William E. Glad
stone was early trained to debate.
The organs are advising it's oppo-
nents to 'wait and give the McKin-
ley bill chance" This is tanta-
mount to saying don't draw until
the rOad-agent covers you AMI Or
ders you to throw up your hands.
The longest sleeping-car run in the
world is doubtless that on the Cana
dian Pacific Railway, from Montreal
to Vancouver. 1905 miles. This is
nearly 200 miles longer than the run
from St. Louis to the City of Mexico.
The Ministry has been modified as
follows: Minister of Justice, Senior
Carvalho; Minister of Finance. Sen
hor Brazilienze; Minister of the Inte-
rior, Senho: Araripe; Minister OF
Posts and Telegraphs, Senior Caval-
cante.
Mr.. William Simpson, Secretary
says that the State Board OF Phar
macy and the North Carolina Phar
macutical Association will meet al
Morehead City July Sth and 9th in
stead of the 1st and End as hereto
fore announced.
Mr.. William j. Battle, son of DR.
Kemp P. Battle, has won the Nor
gan fellowship at Harvard Universe
tv. There were forty competitors
The fellowship is worth $500 year
Mr.. Battle two years ago won
scholarship at Harvard.
,, A railroad mass meeting will b
: held at Garysburg, two miles mort
of Weldon, on 18th June, to discus
. the proposed railroad from North
: ampton to Hertford. Senator Ran
= som is to speak. A vote for subscriE
!. ton is to be taken on that day.
@ The Charlotte News says: Evang,
: list Flies tent at Spartanburg wa
r wrecked in a wind storm a day @
t two ago, and the poles were shiveret
He is now negotiating for Arthu
Butts tent to use at his GreensbOr
meetings, which begin on June Is.
Chevalier Gustave NJ. Finotte,
a former well-known banker of Flo
d ence, Utaly,) Boston and New Yorl
IS and once an Italian consul, Is dea(
y aged seventy-eight. He was men
It Der of two titled Italian families an
II had been living as a farmer of LAT
l. years near Yankton, S. D.
y The Index, of Murfreesboro, say
y the work of fgrading the Murfreesbt
, TO Railroad is progressing rapid.
q A large force is at work and the nun
70 Der is being increased daily M
:; Jno H. Winder, the contractor, we
q there on Tuesday in the interest
10 the work. He says the road will
in operation by August 1st. !.
= A party of negroes report seeing
:. wild man near Lafayette, Ga, I
~ Gently. He was in an almost nut
e. condition, his hair almost hiding h
~ face and reaching to his waist. {
= being approached he uttered lo
=. growl, like that of a dog, and fled i
"A to the woods. The negroes we
ia frightened, and also took to the
heels.
Jim Corbett, the pugilist, is t.
most courteous and refined man
~ 10 the knocking out profession, and h
~ the build, manners and style of
90 90 gentleman amateur. His hands a
- shapely, firm and white, and as lit
-, ~ like slugging mauls as they were t
e day he dropped his pen as q bal
"a clerk and ceased to ask: "How "
you take it ?"
ne The latest report about Color
It. Cockerill, lately of theNew Yo
=. World, is that he and George
tn Turner, tho business manager of +