The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-07-23
GENERAL NEWS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes raken from All Portion
OF the Country and Quarters OF the
Globe

News Notes caken from All Portion
OF ehe Country ana Quarters OF the
Globe
A disease among the cattle, sup
posed to be Texas fever, has broken
out at Independence, KY, and is Gre
ating alarm.
John Cockerell, night watchman,
who was fatally scaled by the explos-
ion on the steamer Jane. Mosely, at
Portsmouth, Va, died of his injuries.
r. c. Duncan, of Washington D. c.,
accused of murderously assaulting
his wife at Eettsw-y-Cced, North
Wales, has been acquitted on the
ground of insanity.
Two white men and a negro while
hunting seals near San Minguel, Cal,
last Sunday were drowned. Another
party clung to a rock for twenty four
hours and was saved.
In hitherto unpublished letter,
written after the death of her sister
Emily, Charlotte Bronte wrote: "La-
Dor must be my only cure-not SYM
pathy. Labor is the only radical
cure for rooted sorrow"
The Watagaua Democrat says there
is gold mine on Elk that shows a
four-footed vein Of solid ore which
yields gold and silver to the value of
$3O6 per ton. John r. Hodges and
the Knoxville Mining Company are
"lawing" about it.
A Topeka special says reports
from thirty eight counties in the
State published in the Capital, the
official State paper, show that mort
gagas on farms were paid off in
June to the amount of $7S5, ,352,
while new ones were filed for $473,-
GA.
Hiram C. Wheeler, Republican
candidate for Governor of Iowa, has
farm of 5000 acres of the best
land in the State, and has imported
more Percheron horses into this
country, it is said. than any other
American. His other stock includes
500 hogs and 1000 Polled Angus
cattle.
The census office has made public
the tobacco statistics of Florida.
The total number Of planters in the
state during the census year was
500; total area devoted to tobacco
1, ,169 acres; total product 1929
pounds, and value of crop to pro-
ducers, estimated on a basis of actu-
al sales, $1OS,6
On the farm of Col. W. B. Worsh-
am, of Henrietta, Texas, there is q
remarkable well. Itusually contains
about eight feet of water, but when
the wind blows from the north the
we'll goes dry, and remains SO until
change of wind, when the water
again flows in and resums it's normal
height. This strange phenomenon
has been observed for several months.
A floating rock is one of the wond-
ers of Corea. 1t stands, or seems to
stand, in front of the palace erected
in its honor. 1t is an irregular cube
of great bulk 1t appears to be rest
ing on the ground, free from support
on all sides, but, strange to say, two
men on opposite ends of acrope may
pass it under the stone without en-
countering any obstacles.
The young lady who killed herself
in Maine a few days ago was polite
void any misunderstanding she pin
ned to the headboard of the bed a
slip ofpaper bearing the words "Dead
ladies and gentlemen" She thus en-
| abled those who found her body to
| ascertain at once that which thev
otherwise might not have discovered
until they had examined her more
closely.
Prof. George Il. Winston, the new
ly-elected president of the North Car
| olina University, has returned from
an extensive trip through all the
principal universities and institution
of learning in the North, including
Johns Hopkins, Harvard and others
He has been observing and inspect
ing methods of these institutions
preparatory to entering upon his
duties at the fall term of the Univer
sity.
The people of the United State.
give $75. 900. .00Oa year to the snppor
of the churches, and $31. 100000 /;
year to other purposes purely devo
tional. Fifty years ago there wer'
653 ordained foreign missionarie
from America; now there are 6.696
Then there were but 1.266 other la
borers and helpers; now there ar
4O.552. We hope the next fifty year
will show yet more marvelIou
growth.
| The State of Georgia appropriate,
$4,000 for the encampment of it
troops at tChickmauga, and the publ
there made large donations. 1t wa
not brigade encampment, but tn
troops were put in by regiments. l
turns out that che appropriation ha
been exhausted, and nearly one-fou1
tn of the troops who were ordered in
to encampment will have to stay q
home. A bill to make further appro
priation for camping these troop
passed the Georgia House, but faile
for want of q constitutional major
ity IN the Senate.-Ex.
Two Cleveland burglars who al
tempted to saw their way out of ia
used rats as sentinels. At nigh
when they were ready to begin ope
ations, they sprinkled bread cruInt
in front of their cells and collected
2 drove of rats. Whenever a turnke
: approached their section of the ia
! the rodents scampered away, thr
, giving the alarm. For several night
they worked that way, and thoug
the turnkey heard the saving an
: went on tiptoe, he never could local
the noise.