The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-12
PET sONAL AND PERTINENT.
Interesting Points That Strike the Fancy
of the Scissors.

of the Scissors.
| German merchants will make an
exhibit at the Worlds Fair in Chi
cago.
The frs lord Of the british atlmi
rally is in favor of maintaining the
! English navy, so as to hold the fight
ing supremacy in every part of the
world
Hon. Thomas Whitehead. Virgin
las commissioner of agriculture,
does not attach much Importance to
! the projected third party movement
! in that State.
A supposed disappearance of $677,-
000 OF Delaware State securities was
! discovered ut Dover The Legisla-
ture directed that legal action be
| taken against the bond of ex-TIeas-
! uTei Herbert.
S;gnor G. P. Riva, the Italian
+ Consul General at New York, has
written to Gov. Tillman, requesting
! him to investigate the charges made
! by Gaelano Marello of cruelty to the
Italian laborers in the phosphate
| mines near Charleston.
Morrison and Carlisle, the ori@ina-
| tors Of anti-tarif legislation, both
/ think that the Mckinley bill will re-
/ main for some years in force because
| the Senate is probably to be Republi-
| can, and the pension list and other
hirgs will require big revenue to
! be raised.
Miss Bessie Kirkland. n daughter
Of General ". W Kirkland, of North
| Carolina has been one of the features
! Of tie play, Men and Women" at
the Twonty-third Street Theatre,
| New York, sisce it's opening last De-
tohor. She made up her mind to go
on the stage long before she was out
of short dresses.
Mr. Jefferson NJ. Levy, the owner
Of the homestead of Thomas Jeffer-
son at Monticello, Va, has IL suit an
exact counterpart of that worn by
the distinguished American states
man at the cou. of Louis XVI,
which consists of Il coat and knee
hreeches of white brocaded silk, with
silver sword and decorations, set in
diamonds.
Several more heirs to an immense
fortune, left from the estate of Rob
ert Edwards, of Kentucky, have
been discovered in Houston, Tex.
The Inheritance involves the right of
ownership Of land on Broadway,
Wall Street and around Trinity
church, New York city. The proper
ty is said to be valued at $50, O0O,-
COO
The United States Supreme Court
rendered final decision in the suit of
the Great Northern Railway Compa-
NY against the Northern Pacific. in
which title was disputed to 100000
acres of l0nd, conferred under Con-
gressioual grant. The decision is in
favor of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company, and involves over
$5,0G0,00O ~
Senator Carlisle, in making rough
estimate of tie amount contained in
the appropriation bills of the present
session, including the direct tax bill,
says tie figures will aggregate 1925
900, 900. Such pro;iigious figures
are absolutely startling and will
surely create a large deficit in the
national treasury. All previous rec
ords in matters of appropriations
are broken.
1t
Mutual Benefit Association in the
Hin is Legislature are indignant at
the failure of the Republicans to
vote their full strength for A. j.
Streeter, the Farmers Mutual Bene,
tit Association candidate, upon whom
1t was agreed by the manages to |
unite. Six Republicans hold out for |
Ex-Governor 0glesby. The Demo
Gratis are solid for General Palmer.
The census bureau shows that the |
total population of Louisiana is
1 ,11S5S7. OF this number 54,712 |
are white, 362 ,S93 colored, 62S In
dams, 315 Chinese and 80 japanese. |
In the parish of Orleans there are
116, 2S5 whites and 65.603 colored.
In thirty-five parishes the number of
colorcd people exceeds that of the
whites; in S )me cases in the proper
tIOa of fifteen to one.
At meeting of the stockholders O
the Virginia Beach Railroad, Norfolk,
the purchase of the charter of the
DaiNiile and Seaboard road was con-
firmed. Both have been consolida-
ted under the name of the Norfolk,
and Atlantic and the line
viii be extended to Pungo Ferry on
the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal
route, a distance of twenty-five miles.
The present narrow gauge line will
be made standard gauge.
A traveller who recently visited Je-
rusalem tells of the sensation pro-
duced there last month by the intro
luction of electric light just four
years after gas light was first seen
there. The electric plant is used in
arge flour mill adjoining the sup
posed site of Calvary and close to the
Damascus gate If the Arabs and
Jews were filled with wonder by the
tanning gas jets in 1887, they are
:onlounded when they see the light of
.lectrIeity in 1891. Many of them
ire so alarmed that they hardly dare
10 look al it, and the Mohammedans
ali upon the prophet for safety
they ask what it is, where it comes
rom, and how the magicians make
{. When told that it is the same
hing as lightning. they become still