The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-09
GENERAL NEWS,
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.

News Notes Taken From All Portions of
the Country and Quarters Of the World.
The value of exports for March was
$4,851, ,1S3.
DR.. Koch is much depressed over
the non-success of his lymph.
General Booth, the head of the Sal
walton Army, is seriously i'll.
F. II. Vigginson. a retired Boston
merchant, committed suicide.
The Pope is i'll from the effects of
severe attack of stomach trouble.
Earl Granville, the liberal leader in
the British House Of Lords, is dead.
Big Stone Gap and Radford, Vir-
ginia, become presidential postofices.
American coal is being shipped to
Germany for the use of steamships.
Great suffering among the poorer
classes in Monroe county, West Va.
President Harrison will leave Wash
ington April IA on his Pacific coast
trip.
The New York Tribune celebrates
its fiftieth anniversary on the 10th
inst.
Some anxiety is now felt for the
peach trees in the mountain regions
of Maryland.
Delaware Methodist Conference
(colored) has voted against women
as delegates.
Philip johnson, appointed Rear
Admiral in accordance with special
act of Congress.
The receipts of cotton at Norfolk
for the past seven months foot up
SIT, 1892 bales.
The semi-centennial of German
Methodism in America was celebrated
in Baltimore.
Many deaths have occurred in Ber-
lin, caused by influenza which is rag
ing in that city.
The steamship Borinqueen, ashore
at Ocracoke, is well up on the beach
and full of water.
Gilbert F. Chinn. colored, of Balti-
more, fallen heir to $5O,OOO, left by
an uncle in Denver.
A conference of delegates repre-
senting the mine workers of Europe
IL III SESSION Ia fdF1S.
The Pope desires to consult Arch
bishop Ireland. of st. Paul, Mimi,
on American affairs.
Carter, of Montana, new Commits
sioner of the General Land Office,
Washington, takes charge.
German steamship companies have
decided to raise the price of steerage
fares to America about $3.50.
The Farmers Alliance in Virginia
will demand more liberal legislation
at the hands of the next Legislature.
So far 422 bodies have been recov-
cred from the wreck of the immigrant
steamship Utopia in Gibraltar Bay.
The Philadelphia city councils have
authorized the use of the trolley sys-
tenn for electric roads in West Phila-
delphia.
For four years from July the gov
ernment will pay bounties of 2 cents
per pound upon sugars grown in this
country.
The Governor of volhynia, Russia,
has forbidden Hebrews to acquire
land, either by freehold ar by lease,
IN MS province.
Miss Ellen Bayard, daughter OF
Hon. Thos. F. Bayard, and Count r.
A. Lewenhaupt were married in Will
mington, Del.
The will of the late Gen. Joseph E
Johnson was filed for probate in
Washington. James L. McLaue, ol
Baltimore, is the executor.
Supervising Architect Windrim, oi
the United States treasury, has ac
cepted the position of director of pub
lie works in Philadelphia.
A meeting of citizens of Richmond
adopted resolutions favoring the re
moval of the remains Gen. Joseph E
johnson to Hollywood Cemetery.
The Allan Line Steamship Compa
ny, purchasers of the State Line, vel
known in the New York and Glasgow
trade, will inaugurate a weekly ser
vice between these. ports.
During the past year IA Alpin
mountain eli mbers met death by ac
cident or by freezing. "In no pre-
vious season have there been 81
many disasters in the Alps"
The Australian Federation Conven
tion has approved of the title of Com
monwealth of Australia for the feder
ated colonies, and made provision il
the constitution for the appointment
by the Queen of a governor-general
The Cunard Steamship Company
have made a contract with a ship
building firm on the Clyde for tt
construction of two steamships
each of IA 900 tonnage. The nev
vessels are designed to cross tn
ocean in five days.
Some peculiar measures are bein
!. introduced in the Nebraska Legisls
, ture. REPRESENTATIVE Fulton, Of Hal
Ian, has introduced q bill providing
for the creation of the Office of 'loa
! cgent and abstracter. Whose dut
. it shall be to negotiate loans for tt
. people at the lowest possible rate an
make abstracts of the real estat
titles. The bill provides for the ele
tion of this official by popular vot'
but does not fix the salary.
Il Photography or short hand WI
: ting is a profitable, but nevertheless
r sadly neglected profession. 1t is
: profession that is growing; that e
4 cry year offers q larger and larg
!. field. It is not a crowded professio
r and is not likely to be SO 500
e Stenographers are always in deman
y It is therefore a profession to whi'
y the young men and young WON,
: too, of this country should turn the
attention.