The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-22
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Interesting Points That Strike the Fancy
of the Scissors.

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Henry George has gone to Bermu-
da for the winter.
Explorer Stanley is drawing large
audiences in the west.
General Cassius NJ Clay, of Ken
lucky, has been quite i'll for some
time.
Senior NJ A. Martinez. president of
the Spanish Chamber of Deputies, is
dead
Governor Thayer of Nebraska sur
renders the office to Governor Boyd,
under protest.
John A. Hart, mayor of Chatta-
nooga, and among the wealthiest
Tennesseeans, died from q second
stroke of paralysis.
The Russian ministry has decided
to begin building q railway across
Siberia to the Pacific Ocean this
year.
Milledge L. Bonham, son of the
late Governor Bonham, of South
Carolina, is defaulter to the amount
Of about 5000.
Farmers Institutes are to be held
in each of the congressional districts
of Virginia under the auspices of the
State board of agriculture.
Dir. A. ID. Mayo, the distinguished
writer and lecturer on education, will
spend the winter in Georgia, making
his headquarters in Atlanta.
The Queen of Sweden, who still suf-
fers from shattered nerves, finds esise
n nd IN,
wedding and digging in her garden.
The Duke of Marlborough has in
veste1 100000 at Glasgow, Va
Heretofore the Duke has been spend
ing his American wife's money in
stead of investing it.
Senator Vest said he saw recently
at Grand Island, Nebraska, an aver
age pair of farm horses sold at auc-
ton for SIS, and eight head of cattle,
two and three years old, for $40
each.
Despite the high duties imposed in
the KcKinley bill the receipts from
the tariff are larger than they ever
were, and the effect of the measure
will probably be very different fir IN
what was anticipated.
Nebraska has three governors, Ida
no has three United States senators
and Montana two houses of repre-
sentatives. What is the trouble? 1t
is the Republican party s soul a-pass-
in'.-Atlanta Constitution.
Professor Shaw, of the Guelp Agri-
cultural College, at Ottawa, Ont,
L. -, l. ~ E.
suffer by the Mckinley tariff to the
extent Of $5000O0 on the egg trade
and 81 100000 on barley.
The will of Emma Abbott, the sing
er, leaves property in trust to pay
her nearest relatives $500 a month,
gives $4,000 each to nine churches,
and, after other personal requests,
gives the residue to six charitable in
situations in New York city.
The ninety foot tower erected at
Kearney, N. j., in 1913, has at last
been torn down. Haskell built the
tower, and on a certain day ascend
ed it with his family expecting the
Lord to snatch them into heaven.
They were disappointed.
Senator Quay's substitute for the
Davenport-Lodge- Hoar bill contains
all the Objectionable features of the
latter and more severe provisions.
1t is said he presented it merely to
show how ridiculous the original
measure can he made, and with
view of embarrassing the efforts of
Mr.. Hoar and his following.
The time will soon be here for SOW
ing grass seed. Every farmer in the
county should have everything in
readiness to sow small patch or
large field. Don'6 neglect it, it is a
good paying crop. Two bushels of
orchard grass and sixteen pounds of
nice clean clover seed per acre makes
a good misunderstanding Reporter.
If the six Republicans who voted
with the Democrats Wednesday night
should not go to the length of tech
nically absenting themselves and
should content themselves with cast
ing their votes in opposition to the
Republican majority, the latter
would have an even quorum, exclu-
sive of the Vice-President's vote.
Stanford, the millionaire Senator
from California, is one of the many
for the Republican Presi-
Dental nomination. He will make
his campaign principally. on his land
bill, which is unquestionably an out |
and out alliance document and upon
which he expects to get the farmer
vote. 1t provides for the govern |
ment to1end money to the farmers
On real estate at very low rate of |
In 1870 there were only two States
With larger population than North |
Carolina-Virginia and Pennsyl-
rania. New York ranked fifth. In
1900 North Carolina took fourth |
place, and held it until 1880,
In 1910 our State went down to
.ank seventh In 1850 she fell to
;enth in 1860 to twelfth in 1870
% fourteenth in 1880 to fifteenth, |
ind in 1880 to sixteenth. There are
low forty-four States in the Union.
"A Michigan farmer who drove to
own on certain days of the week al
rays arrived at q railroad crossing
he same time an express train did. i
vho had the right of way, and to
ettle it he started to drive across
he other day and the next moment
ound himself in an old cornfield |,
vithsakbroken leg, while his horses
we're dead and wagon smashed.
George Estes and Fannie Hogan
vere married at . country church in
darion county, Georgia, Friday
lights IN the presence of = few rela-