The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-02-05
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Interesting Points That Strike the Fancy
of the Scissors.

machine is dead.
1t is alleged that Ray Hamilton is
alive and living in Australia under
an assumed name
Whitelaw Reid. United States min
lister to France, has returned to Par
is after his journey up the Nile, which
lie descended as far as the first catar
| act.
Senator Stanford contemplates Wis.
| iting Baltimore to investigate the
| ground rent system because of its
similarity to his scheme for lending
farmers government money on thcir
lands.
Application has been made to the
| comptroller of the currency by Mr.. J
I Wesley Guest and Others to organ
ize the Continental National Bank OF
Baltimore.
The Nashville and Cumberland Gap
Railroad will be built at once and
| connect with the Louisville and Nash
vile and Norfolk and Western. reduc-
ing the distance from Nashville. to
New York one hundred ard forty
miles.
| The Democratic convention in the
| eigt h ward of Philadelphia Endorsed
the Republican candidates, including
4 cOiOred man, and nominated two
women. one Of them n grand-daugh-
| ter of Benjamin Franklin, for school
directors.
Judge Shipman has given iudg-
ment for s;21I, 175 in favor Of GUSTAV
GeItin Guyot. as liquidatorO of Charles
| E'Orden, the kid glove manufacturer.
against ex-Judge Henry Hilton and
William Libby, assuccessors Of A. L.
Stewart < Co.
Andrew Carnegie has given away
mere than any man of recent times.
| About $1,000, 900 can be counted up.
His largest gifts have been the mil
lion-dollar library and the million
dollar art gallery to the people o!
Pittsburg.
Secretary Windowm was an enc
my of silver, SO much so that, it has
been published, he would not receive
his salary in silver certificates,
which is the currency in which the
government pays its employees and
Congress, at Washington.
Take any twenty five tall, lean
men, said an old court officer to a re-
porter, ''and you can secure jury
in murder case. They have no
conscientious scruples against the
death penalty. AS a rule, short
thick men have doubts on this point
Fred Ford, negro, slave-born, is
the latest sensation in Philadelphia
He can read Hebrew and wants to
become Jew. He says he has read
the Bible enough to convince him
| that in ancient times all the Jews
were negroes. Thus far he has bee n
! rejected.
The Nebraska Senate has adopted
Il memorial to Congress asking an
appropriation of 81 900 900 for the
relief of the sufferers in that State
4 maximum freight bill based on the
Iowa laws and bill to divide the
State into six congressional district.
has been introduced.
f. W. Howe, the Kansas newspa-
per man and novelist, has been offer
ed 800 for the original manuscript
of the ''Story of Country Town.
the novel that made him lannon's six
years ago. And yet, according to
the Kansas City Times, "there were
lots of nights while Ed. was writing
the story that he would have taken
fifty cents for the whole business and
thrown up the job"
The indianapolis Sentinel an
nounces that this has been a disas-
trous year for trusts, and to prove
its assertion states that "the salt
trust has dissolved, the glass trust is
broken, the Chicago gas trust has
gone glimmering, the harvester trust
was cut down in its infancy, and the
barbed-wire men are having a very
rough time of it."
A drug trust, with proposed cap
ital Of $780, 100000, is a matter
which it is reported has been submit
ted to some of DetrOit's wholesale
drug manufacturers recently by a
promoter from New York, represent
ing capital Of New York and London
1t is said that such satisfactory
terms were made with two of the
largest manufacturing houses in De-
troit that they were accepted.
The PENNSYLVANIA Legislature
adopted a resolution calling on the
United States Senators from that
State to support the federal elections
bill by all fair and honorable means.
The Delaware House adopted after
an hours debate. resolutions express
sing unalterahle opposition to the
federal elections bill and calling
upon the Delaware Senators to use
every honorable endeavor to defeat
the bill. The resolutions were adopt
ed by a vote of Ia to 6, strict party
vote.
The proposed deposition of the in
sane King Otto of Bavaria, in favor
of his uncle and heir, the Regent
Luitipold, meets with general appro-
val in Germany. His favorite amuse-
ment is to stand at window of his
castle prison, under watch of an at
tendant, and shoot at peasants, not
with a gun, which he
supposes to be loaded with ball, but
which, of course, is not. Peasants
are kept under regular pay to be
shot at. They come thin gunshot,
the King fires, and at the sound they
fall pretending to be killed.
Armored cruiser No. 2, at Cramps
Philadelphia, has begun to
take shape, nearly all the frame hav-
ing been erected, the stern pieces
bolted in and two thirds of the out
err plating put on. She will have a
tonnage of $500 tons and is to de-
velop lG, 900 horsepower. The keel
of the uparmored war-ship known as
cruiser No. u has been laid. She is
to have 81 900 horse power, and is to