The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-05
TuENGSIN GENERAL.

An Englishman broke the gambling
bank at Monte Carlo, Saturday, win
ming $1,000.
j. I. Franciscus, of Philadelphia,
shot and killed himself i'll hotel in
Washington city.
President Harrison has become a
Pedestrian on Pennsylvania avenue,
like General Grant.
There is strong pressure for an ex-
ira session Of the Senate by aspirants
for the nine new circuit judgeships
just created
The Senate passed u bill granting
the widow of Admiral Port n a pen
sion of 50, 800.
The man who was arrested for the
last Nhitechapel murder will not be
prosecuted by the English authori-
ties.
Members of the German conserva-
tive party are displeased with the
governments passport regulations
in Alsace- Lorraine.
In the Senate, Saturday, House
amendments to the direct tax bill
We're concurred in and the bill now
goes to the President.
American cOnsuls in italy state
that the opportunities for the devel-
Opment of trade between italy and
the United States are excellent.
The centenary of the death of John
Wesley, the founder of Methodism,
which occurred Monday, was celebra-
ted in churches Sunday throughout
the world.
The Queen of Italy visited the
foundry in Rome where the statue of
the American Republic has been COM
pleted by Mr.. Simmons, the Ameri-
can explorer.
4 mass meeting was held at Vicks-
burg Saturday night and resolutions
We're adopted protesting against the
appointment of James Hill, colored,
| as Postmaster.
The House passed, with amend
| ments, Senate bill authorizing the
| Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
pany to extend its road into the Dis
trict of Columbia
| The plant of ship building at New
port News is the largest in the Uni
\ ted States and it would not be sur
prising to learn that in a few years it
employed 5000 men.
1t is the English opinion plainly
expressed in the Hobbies and clubs
that the events of the week have ma
terially imperilled the continuation
ofpeace in Europe.
Mr.. Lemeke has not yet determined
whether he will accept the United
States Treasui.ership. Poor health
is the most important factor in caus-
| ing him to withdraw his acceptance.
The cylinders weighing $4,000 lbs.
for the two ships now building in the
Newport News dry dock for the Nor
gan Steamship Company will be fur
nishedby the Richmond Locomotive
and Machine Works.
Licenses come high in Boston, but
she must have them. A first-class Ii
cense for hotels will cost 81 500, and
an ordinary bar room license ST 900
This means small glasses, watered
whisky and fewer dcunks.
The clerks employed in the offices
of the railroads termina ting in New
York and Jersey City propose to get
up an association for the purpose O
getting the weekly payment system
substituted for the monthly system
Senator VOORHEES, declares that
Cleveland is unavailable as the Dem
ocratic candidate because of his atti
tude on the silver question. HI
mentions Hill, German, and Chic
Justice Fuller as possessing the nee
essarv requisites for success.
G neral Boulanger seems likely tt
try his hands at taking advantage o
the excited state of public mind anG
is said to be hard at work with hi
friends cOncOcting an anti-GermaI
manifesto in Brussels, where he is nov
staying.
z. I. Barnum is gradually break
ing down from old age, and as h
looks back through a long vista O
J years at the good he has done ant
the millions he has amused, he laugh
ingly torgives himself for n few of tn
innocent humbugs with which he ha
tickled his patrons
The Kaiser has determined, it i
said, to effect an entire change in tn
attitude of Germany toward France
There will be no more attempts a
Cancellation, and while there is NJ
ground for hostility, the relations
maintained will be those of reserv
and rigid formality.
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