The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-22
GENERAL NEWS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes Taken From All Portions oi
the Country and Quarters Of tho World.

AND COMMON AFFA1RS.
News Notes Taken From All Portions of
the Country and Quarters Of tho World.
Arkansas Treasurer short $94, 900.
In Japan the act of Irritation is q
penal offense.
Natural gas supply at Columbus,
Ohio, has given out.
Senator Hoar asks the Senate to
sit out the force BILL
Senate Silver bill referred to House
committee on coinage.
The crisis in Connecticut is getting
more and more complicated.
Senator Stanford was reelected by
the legislature of California.
Great distress and suffering for
food and raiment in London.
The rainfall in the Mississippi Val-t
ley has been below the average.
There is less wine-drinking at din
ner in Richmond than formerly.
A party of eighteen Boston capital
lists is visiting Southwestern Virginia.
A rubber syndicate has been formed
to control the rubber trade of Bra
zil.
The Sugar Trust will go on unin-
terrupted in New York State under a
Jersey charter.
The Republicans of Philadelphia
have nominated Edwin s. Stuart,
bookseller, for mayor.
The Supreme court of Nebraska
recognizes Boyd, but Thayer, the old
Governor, will not give up.
The express companies are object
ing to having their stock taxed by
New York city authorities.
A boy has just died in one of the
New York hospitals from the effects
of excessive cigarette smoking.
Forty-seven colored to fifty-three
white is the Georgia ratio of the
school census.
Vice-President Mortcc is the latest
candidate for the next Republican
Presidential nomination.
1t is announced that the Norfolk
and Western Road has determined to
build a branch into Richmond.
The French committee has agreed
to the governments proposal to ex-
| empt undressed hides from duty.
Into the streets of Denver $25 ,OOO,-
900 in gold and silver coin are shov-
eled from the mountains every year.
The Senate by a vote of "a to SO,
took up the election bill, the Vice.
President casting the deciding vote.
| The farmers alliances in Virginia
areprotestingt to Governor Mckinney
against an extra session Of the Legis-
lature.
The Democrats of New York seem
to be still waiting on Governor Hill
to name the successor of Senator
Evarts.
Daimio persimmons weighing eigh-
teen ounces have been grown on the
place of Colonel Church, just east OF
Orlando, Fla.
An unbroken line of levees from the
mouth of the Mississippi to Middle
Arkansas will soon be completed il
rains do not interfere.
| A half million was staked on the
Dempsy-Fitzwilliam fight at New
Orleans. Dempsy was knocked out
in the thirteenth round.
The fact that the next Democratic
candidate for President will have to
subscribe heartily to free silver il
gradually making itself felt.
The Russian police have succeeded
in obtaining confessions from severa
of the hundred or more persons to b,
put on trial shortly for nihilism.
Philadelphia statistics show thai
so women are employed to 100 mel
in that city. Not long ago the sight
of a woman following any avocatioI
in public attracted a crowd.
The fact that Great Britain has an
piled to the Supreme court of th,
United States for relief shows tha,
Lord Salisbury is tired of CORES
ponding with Brother Blaine.
| 1t is suggested, and the PROPOSE
tion meets with some favor, that il
settling her debt Virginia shall issu
81 100000 in such small bonds q
may be used as currency by the peo
pie.
Wolves are invading Western Kan
sas, causing the farmers and stock
raisers immense losses. A mothe
\ and her six-year-old boy were attack
: ed, and after biting the woman 81
verely carried off the child before he
eyes.
The statistics show that there n
: 2,7O0 husbands in New York Cit
who are supported by their wive.
The probabilities arc that there n
!. ten times that number in New Yor
City who were in like condition An
!. wife and mother who cares for th
|: home, and keeps it cheerful an
,, bright and happy, always docs 4 fu
: half in the support of every family
o A minister at Sault Ste. Marie lei
: his pulpit in disgust the other evel
ing. Suddenly stopping in the midf
of a sermon, he said: sThere is fir
ing, talking, note-writing, gum-chev
: ing and visiting going on here, and
will stop until you get through" 3
), waited fifteen minutes, and the festi,
! tiles went on, until finally he il
!. structed the janitor to lock up Il
: temple.
8 A commission has been appointe
. by the Pope to study the religiot
o situation in South American repul
5 lies. 1t is reported that the Pope
+ Of the opinion that the Cathol
. church has everything to gain I
d claiming simply a reign of liberty 4
}, all, and that he wishes the cierGy [
8 be in line with both the political al
= social situations Of their respecti'
countries.