The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-05
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Interesting Points That Strike the Fame.

Interesting Points That Strike the Fancy
Of the Scissors.
Negroes are now migrating from
Arkansas to Alabama.
Treasury Department decides that
mail packages to foreign consuls
must not be held for customs exami-
nation.
There are over two hundred women
| preachers in the United States and
many times that number of the fair
sex who lecture at home.
What rebellion there would be if
the American citizen were to be sud
denly deprived of the right to puff
tobacco smoke into everybody face!
Louisville Courier-J Journal.
The Democrats of Licking county,
! Ohio, have forwarded a hickory cane
to Washington for presentation to
/ Senator German in recognition of his
leadership in the fight against the
| federal elections bill.
A requisition, by Morgan G. Bulke-
| ley as Governor of Connecticut, was
presented to Governor Hill, who de-
clined to honor it on the ground that
he did not recognize Mr.. Buckley as
Governor of the State of Connecticut.
With an honest enumeration in the
year 1900 the population statistics
of the south will astOnish the coun-
try, and will conclusively prove the
unrelia BILE character of the census re-
ports for the past three decades.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
| is of the opinion tina over 1 1000, 900
negroes were deliberately omitted
from the census in the south in order
to decrease the southern representa-
ton in congress and the electoral
vote.
The English police believe that the
sneak thief who stole a satchel con-
tanning ell $50 in Bank of England
notes from a clerk in a London bank
is an American and that he is now on
his way with a confederate to New
York.
Governor Pattison returned to the
Pennsylvania Senate with his ap-
prevail the concurrent resolution au
thorizing the appointment of a COM
mission to revise the mining laws of
the bituminous and semi-bituminous
coal regions.
The brothers of Mrs O'Shea, of
Pavnell notOriety, have brought &C
ton in London to have the will of
their aunt, who bequeathed a large
fortune to Mrs O'Shea, declared in
valid on the ground that undue in
fuence was used.
Governor Northen, Of Georgia,
seems to be in hot water with the
A - l.
though he did refuse to dine with
Jay Gould. The Southern Alliance
Farmer, the organ of the Georgia
Alliance, goes for him with gloves off,
and the Governor returns the blows
dealt him with all the vigor of which
he is capable.
The House Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads has reported
favorably the bill to establish postal
savings banks, but owing to the late
ness of the session it is not possible
that it can be acted on. Here is
measure that might have resulted in
great general good. but which, like
many others, has been totally neg
lected by Congress which has subor-
dinated everything to the one idea of
keeping the Republican party in
power, whether the people wanted it
or not.
The board of regents of South At
lantic university, Of four Presbyte
rian synods of North Carolina, South
Carolina. Georgia and Florida, met
in Augusta and decided to establish
a Presbyterian university somewhere
in the South. The university will
probably be located somewhere in
Georgia as the movement for the es-
tablishment was proposed in Georgia
particularly by Augusta and Atlanta
presbyteries and the support of the
university will largely depend upon
the presbyterles of that State.
The new dry dock provided for by
the naval appropriation bill to be
built at Point Turner, on Puget
Sound, will be by far the largest
dock in the United States, and one of
the largest in the world. 1t is to be
600 feet in length, with width of
seventy feet on the floor, and capa>
BILE of taking in vessel of thirty feet
draught. This will accommodate
any vessel in the world or any that
is likely to be built. In the event of
the proposed transpacific steamship
line from Puget sound to China beng
established this dock would be able
to accommodate the steamers of the
line.
The Alliance movement has done
more to destroy sectionalism and to
reunite an unhappily divided country
within the last two years, than has
been doxe by all the philanthropists
Of the country in the last quarter of
a century. What may we not ex-
pect in tho way of future healing,
when Kansas and South Carolina
drench out the fires Of political hate
in the tears of mutual forgiveness,
and lock their hands together and
move onward for the accomplishment
OF common purpose; when Ingalls,
and Hampton, the representatives. of
the opposite forces of spite and rev>
enge, are forced to sit down in the
ashes of their own political ruin and