The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-30
GENERAL NEWS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes Taken From All Portions
OF the Country and Quarters OF the
Globe.

1y anu SuofsefD OF the
The grip is rapidly subsiding in
Washington.
Secretaries Blaine and Proctor have
returned to Washington.
Three great scientific bodies will
meet in Washington in August.
More than 10 per cent of thezieaths,
in Now York CiCy are from the grip.
A $3,OOO,OCO suit has been begun
against Robert Garrett of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad.
Ex-Gov. Evans, of Colorado. has
presented the University of Denver
with 100000 for it's further endow-
ment.
Major Peyton Randolph. third vice
president of the Richmond and Dan
will, Railroad, died in Washington
Thursday.
A citizen of Baltimore has just been
mulcted $50 for swearing on the pub
lie street. One fine way to stop this
bad habit at least.
The coal operators having head
quarters in Chicago are laying in
large stocks of coal in anticipation
of the miners strike on May 1.
The Great Northern Railroad has
met the reduction in freight rates in
| augurated by the Canadian Pacific
between New York and st. Paul.
The strike of street car drivers and
conductors IN Detroit, Mich. contin-
ues; no cars are running; the rails
have been torn up in several places
and streets blockaded.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided to withhold $1,000 of the
direct tax money due Illinois until
that State settles its account for an
overdraft of arms.
While the Panama Canal was orig
inally intended for a short cut be-
tween the two oceans, it looks, from
the time it has already taken and its
future prospects, as if it is going to
be about the longest on record.
| Dispatches from several points
along the Brazos and Navasota riv-
ers in Texas, say that those streams
are overfiowing, and that much
damage will be done in the low lands
At Hearne numerous drowned cattle
are floating down stream.
thorning each other it is satisfactory
to notice that Judge at a recent
Assize Court, sitting in that distract
ed country, had a pair of white gloves
rendered to him in recognition of the
fact that there wasn't q single crimi
nal for him t, try.
Detective Cook, of the Pittsbure
and Lake Erie Road, made the first
five arrests of gang Of railroad
thieves, who are estimated to have
gotten away with fully 100000
worth of plumber during the last
three or four years. The gang has
been operating on freight trains or
the Baltimore and Ohio and Other
roads.
A man in Covington, KY, has just
paid a fine of $15 for firing a small
cannon on the 7th of April in honor
of the anniversary of George Wash
ington. He had forgotten the date
but the court held that a prudent
man would have chalked it down OF
the woodshed door and burned hi
powder at the proper time.-Atlant,
Constitution.
Ex-Congressman Mckinley has re
turned to Washington from the Re
and expresses the opinion that TIN
outcome of the convention will b
beneficial to the party. The admin
istration people are in better spirit
and profess to believe that the gath
ering was Harrisonian in spirit an,
flavor
A suggestion is made that au
diences should rise upon their fee
when the Star Spangled Banner" i
J played. just as they do in Englan,
when "God Save the Queen" strike
, up, but we are afraid that it wouldn'
: work. If, however, "Annie Rooney
, was fired at them they might iris
, upon their feet" and go out to de
: mand their money back
Henry Carter, a Colorado million
. aire. was walking about in Philadel
phia and saw servant girl sweepin,
off the front steps of a house. 'Jus
the gal l want for a wife!" whispere
Henry. And in three weeks he ha
I her on his arm and was Mestwar
going Thirty-two thousand fiv
8 hundred and eighty-six Philadelphi
servant girls now hustle to sweep
Detroit Free Press.
J Nowhere. save in the wilderness bt
yond the frontiers of civilization, ca
, such perfect privacy be enjoyed as j
, a large city. The deuizens of a bus
3 metropolis have enough to do in al
= tending to their own affairs The
1 have no time to bestow on the doing
: of their neighbors and take no intel
, est in them. The curiosity of village
3 and small towns is Unsuitable. E.
, pionage is the main employment {
: at least one-third of their inhab
: tants. On the other hand, if
stranger takes up his abode anon
them, he becomes the center of obse
vation-a target for conjecture
standing topic OF conversation.-Ne
a | YOrE odUor