The western sentinel., 1891-03-05
GENERAL NEWS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes Taken From All Portions of
the Country and Quarters Of the World.
A Paris banker has absconded with
100000 francs.
Baltimore shipped 5000 head of
live cattle to Europe this week.
First steamship Baltimore and
Brazilian line sailed Wednesday.
A Leslie (Mich.) woman has a
geraDium four feet and one inch high.
The new Italian prime minister
says Italy shall be pacific force
amidst armed Europe.
In the United States Senate, House
bill to establish a land court was
passed with substitute.
A Washington swell has q S. 900
brown poodle that was formerly the
property of the King of Wurtemberg.
Senator VOORHEES,, indisposed for
some time. left Washington for Hot
Springs, Ark, to be gone several
weeks.
Secretary Foster has appointed
Mr.. Charles NJ. Hendley his private
secretary. He acted in a similar ca
pacity for Secretary Window.
In the S,nate Mr. Hale said there
was little time for the consideration
of anything but appropriation bills
before the end of the session.
The fishing season on the Potomac
is fully month later now than in
ITO, as shown by q memorandum
in General Washington's diary.
Chicago propose to limit street-car
fares to three cents, and the corpora
ton counsel has rendered an opinion
that the council has q legal right to
pass such an ordinance.
The Australian ballot law is grow
ing in popularity. The bill passed
the Arkansas House of Delegates,
and q similar bill passed the West
Virginia House of Delegates.
Senator Hale, from the committee
on appropria tions, gave notice that
he will ask the Senate to hold ses-
sion on Sunday in order to facilitate
the public business.
Speaker Elder introduced q bill in
the Kansas House declaring gold and
silver coin of the United States as
legal tender for all debts within the
State, and prohibiting contracts in
gold payments.
In the lower house of the Tennessee
Legislature, bill to regulate the
rates of freight charged by railroads
in that State was defeated by vote
of 53 to 81 after three days acrim-
OniOus debate.
Governor Russell, of Massachu-
setts, has been requested by joint
resolution of the Legislature to petit
tion the Secretary of the Navy for a
United States war vessel to be used
as q nautical schoolship in Boston
harbOr.
Cyrus Buckland, who contributed
most important part to inventions
which have perfected gun-making at
the national Springfield armory is
dead. His inventions are used all
over the world.
The Capitol, at Washington,
swarms with schemers promoting
raids on the treasury, under the inn
preston that the Republicans will
not soon again control the govern
ment, and that the Democrats will
guard the treasury more carefully.
A reporter, in conversation yester-
day with several farmers, from Sha-
ron, learned that there is more cotton
now on the farms unsold, than has
been known in years. The farmers
think this an indication that the
county is in a better condition, as
shown by the fact that farmers are
able to hold their cotton.-Charlotte
Chronicle.
Mr.. George Bame, of this county
who died recently, had buried 50 SOC
in the woods. He had told only one
person about the money and where
buried. Had this person died about
the same time perhaps the money
| never would have been found, and
Mr.. Bame's heirs would have lost
that amount. nt.-Salisbury Waterman.
A congressional committee on the
relations of the States to the Federal
Union will report that the constitu-
tions Of both Massachusetts and
South Carolina appear to be in open
viola ton of the Federal Constitution
and that there is good warrant for a
congressional investigation.
Sir Charles Dixie, speaking al
Glasgow, said that the Empires Of
Europe were well armed, watching
for whom they might devour. Not
withstanding an expenditure of fifty
seven millions annually for defence
| England stood in dread of othe1
| powers, for the whole fabric of tn,
British constitution rested on tn,
avoidance of defeat. More than an,
other power, England maintained
herself on prestige and was living
out that prestige.
A coach horse baked on the street
of Boston and nothing would star
him. A man brought out a small
electric battery, put on tho current
touched the animal on the flank, ant
he got out of that SO fast that he raj
over two men and = dog. It is be
lieved that tho subtle current woul,
even move twelve loafers OF . gro
cry platform.