The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-02

GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes Taken From All Portions Of
the Country and Quarters Of .he World.
Queen Victoria has arrived at
Grasse, France.
Constantinople founded the first
hospital in the world.
A company has been formed to
bore for oil at Athens, Ala.
The Virginia Board of Pharmacy
is in session in Richmond.
Large foreign exports of refined
sugar from New York are reported.
Ballot reform amendments to the
New York election bill will be adopted.
The money needed to erect the
Sherman statue in New York has
been secured.
Women architects are to submit
all plans for women's buildings at
the Chicago fair.
Cuba wants reciprocity with the
United States. She is even willing to
put sugar in it.
1t is believed in Berlin that France
and Russia have concluded a formal
treaty of alliance.
Zoe Gayton has arrived in New
York, having completed her walk
across the continent.
A Swedish steamship went ashore
at Chicamicomico beach and one of
the crew was drowned.
The Grant Monument Association
wants 100000 of the direct tax
money received by New York.
1t is calculated that in Maine this
season about one million and u quar-
ter tons of ice will be harvested.
The suspension of the Washington
National Bank, of New York, is said
to have been due to ''check kiting." +"
The New York Camp of Confeder-
ate Veterans is growing rapidly, and
has already done much good in re-
lieving distress.
California has Il plank sixteen feet
wide. Write tariff reform and free
silver on it and put it in the Demo-
cratic platform.
The richest man in the next Con-
gress will be John l.. Mitchell, OF
Milwaukee, who is credited with a
fortune of $40, 100000.
A Kingston IN. Y. man has an egg
6h inches round, * inches long, and
weighing X ounces, which he claims
was laid by a hen he owns.
Republican State League of Massa-
chusetts adopt woman suffrage cs a
means of keeping the Republican
party in power in that State.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union buy the old building OF
the First National Bank, Baltimore,
for headquarters at $25, 900.
A turnip measuring four feet in cir
cumference and weighing fifty pounds
is on exhibition at the New Whatcom
wash Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Mary Ann Buchanan Smith,
of Philadelphia, daughter of John
Smith, Jr., a merchant of Baltimore,
was the first of the French spoliation
claimants paid.
Aaron Holman, a farmer of West
Milbury, Mass, who died the other
day, used for a bookmark in the
family Bible a certificate of deposit
calling for 500.
There are about 1884, acres oi
land in Allegheny and Garrett coun.
ties, Md, owned chiefly by non-resi
dents, on which no taxes have been
paid for century.
| William Fowler is the name of ar
eight-year old tramp now in Mem
phis. Tenn. He began to trave
when barely six years old, and "has
been all over the country"
A committee of the Virginia Hous,
of Delegates have adopted a plar
whereby it is expected to cut dow1
the criminal expenses of the Stat,
$75, 900 or 100000.
The Marquis di Rudini, the Italia1
premier, and Lord Dufferin, the Brit
ish minister at Rome, have exchang
ed protocols delimiting the British
and Italian spheres in East Africa.
A trust" has been formed to rais'
the price of Jewish beef, in Philadel
phia, and a counter organization il
preparing to open q cooperative
butcher shop to break down tn
trust.
The Supreme Court of Georgia ha
decided that conductor has III
right to put of train a passenge
who has no ticket and refuses to pa.
more than the fare would have beeI
had he purchased ticket.
Real estate, 81, ,5O4, TAT; personal
| 81, ,3OS, i %; city debt, $133 900; ta,
receipts on real and personal prop
erty, 43,387.72; street improve
ments, average amount of annua
expenditure about $25, 900.
Don't imagine for a moment tha
we think you impertinent or conceit
ed when you suggest to us the bes
method drumming our paper, for "
are fully aware of the fact that tn
most humble man in the world ha
suggestions he would like to offer til
Lord.
A Nebraska Supreme Court jude
has announced that no more forecl(
, sure sales of mortgaged farms will b
, confirmed by, him when the NOR
gagors can make it plain that failuI
! Of crops was their reason for noI
!. payment to the mortgages.
!. Mr.. Moody continues to have har
work to convert the inhabitants {
e Boston. "There are $4,000 men
. this city," he told the stifi-necked fe
/. lows, "who would be Christians
, ten minutes if they could get int
r hoo~,c 1,v onsno eide do1r0 IT.,