The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-08-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
fersOnaA and Political Points and
Common A Hairs.

massachusetts, Democrats will hold
convention at Worcester September
1t is calculated that I46, ,OO0. 900
meteOrs fall upon the earth annually.
but they never seem to hit any Of
the superfiuous politicians.
After a strike of nearly. four
months for an eight hour day the
ship carpenters Of Chicago have de-
cided TO return to wor6.
Attorney General C. A. Culberson.
OF Austin, Texas, has fled an appli
cation for receiver of the Texas
Grand Trunk Railway Company.
Sara Bernhardt changes the color
OF her features and hair so frequent
~ that she is becoming the envy of
the ordinary lightning-ch artist.
The Labor Assembly of Chicago
mas decided to issue a warning to the
workmen of the world not to come
| to Chicago in expectation of getting
work In connection with the Worlds
Fair.
A large consignment Of the finest
Georgia watermelons were shipped
last week from Cincinnati to London,
England. 1t is an experiment which,
II successful, will be established reg
ularly.
Professor Wiggins, the great prop
het. who has wasted a good part of
his life in predicting big storms that
never came Of, has turned his attent.
ion to a scientific novel.
James Gordon Bennett recently
gave s4 900 to the striking omnibus
men of Paris, but nothing is heard
of MIR. Carnegie having sent similar
help to the striking coal and iron men
of this country.
William J. Elliot, editor of the
Sunday Capital, Columbus, Ohio,
was convicted ON the 2Sth Of murder
IN the second degree, for the killing
OF A. c. Osborne. Tho punishment
Is imprisonment for life.
Three thousand devout Catholics
iourneyed to the shrine of St. Anne
last Monday. The shrine is located
at the village of st. Anne, near Kan
kakee. Fifteen hundred of the pill
grims were from Chicago.
The proportion OF insane to sane
persons in the United States is one to
every 262 in Scotland it is one to
every aS4s in agricultural districts
Of England it is one in $40; i'm Lon
ar.n hn r,rnno-4 is>,, 50 ONO -, Ann
were promised, the Ohio farmers are
getting less for thei. wool than before.
The only thing left for Mckinley is to
| advise them to sell their sheep and
| take stock in the new tin works.
/ l,<>
at Fort LeavenwOrth escaped by
tnnneling under the prison. Une OF
the four was Baseball Pitcher Lucas,
who made his third successful attempt
to escape since his incarceration
some months ago.
Properly dressed and properly
trained. woman presents rs grace
ful an appearance on the bicycle as
she can off. And at the rate youna
women are taking up the sport tney
evidently think so.-Boston Beacon
In spite of the reduction of the
tobacco tax the internal revenue re
ceipts for the last fiscal year are sew
eral million dollars in excess of til,
returns for the previous year. Th'
increase Is attributed to the larg
|
Larkin Brown. who keeps the bridg
at Roswell, Ga, is a remarkable oil,
man. He was born in Washington
county, Ga., is the Youngest of /
family of sixteen children, and hi
mother was fifty-One years old whe
he was born. He il now ninaty-on
years old, is in perfect health an
bids fair to live many years.-Ex.
) A movement is on foot in st. Loui
, looking to the organization of a trus
} |: on canned tomatoes. Agents are a
work all over the country trying
, induce the Gamers TO enter into &
: agreement not to sell for less tha
T So cents dozen. at the cannerie
| and tIey have already induced
large number of canners to sign th
contract.
In the older communities the ma
riage rate seems to be steadily d.
elining OF 1000 people in Mass,
$ ehusetts in 1857 and previously,
d got married each year. Since tn;
! date the rate has been from 10
rate in England occurred in lS5
II | IL WAS l. 4 u III lCCO IL udu ltlicu
= IA aud is still declining.
5 A special from Dayton, Ohio say
e Grasshoppers are running oats pro
= poets in twenty counties along Il
y Ohio and Indiana border line. II
IS crop is ruined by n small green no
per on farm after farm, and maj
IS gro xers, alarmed ut the ravages
the pest, cut their oats gr en, but t.
hoppers followed it into the sho
and are now in the corn.
One of the deepest coal mines
el the world is at ST. Andre dn Poirie
IL France, aud yearly produces sor
al 100000 tons Of coal. This mine
% worked with two shafts, one of viii
III is a little short of 5000 feet dee
I'd and the other nearly 3, LOO feet, t
~ intention being to deepen this latt
y. shaft to 1000 feet. A remarkai
1T feature in this mine is the compal
m tive low temperature, which seldt
exceeds 75o.
A Western cattle ralcher says
lg is becoming an every day OccurreI
ce to see women out West dealing
rs' cattle and horses. The lonelin
zee and hardship of the great prair
he do not seem to deter energetic '
ut men from the purpose of conduct
b. q profitable business. A few d.
in ago cattle queen from Idaho S
,es two carloads Of fine horses at Oh