The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-02-19
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Interesting Points That Strike the Fancy
of the Scissors.

OF the Scissors
b. itish sympathy has aggravated
the hard lot Of the Russian Jews and
the cruelties heretofore complained of
have been redoubled in severity.
As Howard Hall was starting an
electric motor in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
a bright blaze shot out from the dy-
namo and burned his mustache off.
Governor Mckinney favors liber-
| al appropriation for the Virginia ex-
hibit at the Chicago World's Fair un-
| less there is q revival of the force bill
in Congress.
| Governor Pattison, of Pennsylva-
MIA, has 1000 applicants for thirty
five offices, which implies 1905 enc
mics and 35 ingrates, according to
Ben Buffers experience.
In the Senate House bill to revise
wages of employees in thu. govern-
ment printing office was passed, with
the amendment that night employees
be paid 20 per cent. extra.
There is railway in Mexico on one
section of which the ties are mahog-
any. simply because in that part of
the country mahogany is the cheap
est and most available wood.
The New York Press, rabid Rep,
says schools make Republicans as
surely as sunshine makes flowers. !"
What's the matter with the schools
at the North, then? Have they
played out?
The devil is not so black as he is
painted, and-if Baron Hirsch is a
specimen bad man, as has been
limned in the papers, the world
would be no worse if other million
aires would go to the bad also, and
do as he has done.
Mrs. Salter a nervous looking and
timid little woman, who bosses big
husband, looks after six children and
does her own house work, is the
Mayor of -Argonia, Kan, and when
any of the Aldermen get to be sassy or
obstructive she just walks up to them,
asks if they" consider themselves
gentlemen and threatens to tell
their wives about their carvings on.
She'd like to see them attempt to
override one of her votes.
Double tracking the Norfolk and
Western Railroad from Roanoke,
Va, to Bristol, Tenn, which is now
progressing rapidly, is an improve
ment made necessary by the devel
opmont which has been going On for
some time on the line of the main
road and its branches. The Norfolk
and Western is one of the best man
aged railroads in the South, and the
freight it is called upon to carry has
long demanded the double tracking
of the main stem.
The first and second circuits re-
main as at present. Maryland is in
cluded in the third, and the fourth is
to include West Virginia, Virginia,
Ohio, and Kentucky; the fifth North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Georgia and Florida; the
sixth Indiana, Illinois and Michigan;
the seventh Texas, Missouri, Arkan-
sas. Louisiana, Mississippi; the eighth
Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas
and Wisconsin; the ninth Montana,
Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, North
and South Dakota, and the tenth
Washington, Oregon, Nevada and
California.
by the reorganization OF the She
nandoah Valley Railroad last year
the Norfolk and Western acquired
that property, and issued Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company,
Maryland and Washington division,
first plortgage5 per cent gold bonds"
to the amount of $1O,OOO,OOO. or
this sum 100000 was set aside to
construct the branch road 70 miles
long, from Front Royal to a point on
the Potomac opposite the city of
Washington, and 100000 for the
extension of a branch into the city of
Washington and for. terminal facili-
ties. AS the company has the money
with which to construct the Wash
ington branch, there will be no delay
after the location of the line has been
finally determined.