The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
Interesting Points That Strike the Fancy
Of the Scissors,

Of the Scissors,
Miss Newcomb lectured to women
in Baltimore on "How to Stand and
Walk"
Allen w. Thurman, of Ohio, is
president of the American Baseball
Association.
The new administration of Penn
sylvania is composed Of vigorous
young men not much above forty
years of age.
The James River Steel and Iron
company and the johnson Safe Au-
tomato Electric company of Rich
mond were organized.
Orion Frazee, of Atlanta, is at
work on the statue of Jefferson Davis,
ordered at the time the ex-president
of the Confederacy died.
The man who will take a newspa-
per six months and then refuse it at
the post office ought to run for the
Legislature or for Congress. In no
other way could he get all the abuse
he deserves.
The representa- tives of foreign gov
ernments at Santiago de Chill have
entered formal protests against the
blockade of Gillian ports by the war
vessels in possession ofthe insurgents.
Out of. the foreign immigration
through New York last year the
South is getting some settlers, while
the Germans who came to America
outuumbered the immigrants from
Great Britain and Ireland.
A patient in the Charity hospital in
Berlin, who was in an advanced stage
of consumption, was cut open by sur
geons, who injected koch's lymph in
the cavity OF a Diseased lung. The
patient is making rapid progress
toward recovery.
Governor Buckley, of Connecticut,
in a proclamation warns the recently
elected Democratic Governor and
other State officers against attempt
ing to take possession oftheir offices.
1t is thought likely that force will be
used should the Democrats attempt
to assume Office.
A motion was introduced by Herr
Berth, in the German Reichstag, to
re peal the prohibition on American
pork and bacon products. DR.. Won
Boetticher, secretary of the imperial
home office, opposed the motion on
the ground that American pork was
injurious to health.
One of;the largest hogs in America,
if not, in fact, the largest hog in the
world, was reared l,y a Junction
City (Kas. man. The length was 8
feet and 8 inches; girth of neck, 6k
inf II of ct
width across the hips, 80 inches;
weight, 1,532 pounds st. Louis
Republic.
There are even now, unfortunate>
ly, in the larger centres of the North
and West, an element which pro-
claims openly nihilism, and another
communism, with others divided in
to gangs of sufficient number to
make their presence in some of the
Western cities Observation-Disclosures
lotte Democrat.
The friends of the Three C's Rail-
road assert that there is prospect
of the financial troubles of this road
being overcome and that the tempo
rary embarrassments will be renov-
ed. 1t is claimed that the stockhol-
ders and directors will soon gain con-
troll. The road is still in the hands
of Receiver Lord.
Since the Secretary of the Treasury
that monthly disburse-
ments of pensions be made from the
Treasury Department he has received
hundreds of letters from old. pension
ers in every part of the country pro-
testing against being put to the ex
pense of collecting their pensions
twelve times year.
The agitation of the low valuation
Of railroads for taxation may have
)ne good result. Itisnotorious that
real estate in North Carolina is val
led lower than any other species of
property. The railroads can afford
20 test the matter of uniform taxa
ion, and that will teach our people
low to value for taxation.-North
State.
In the Alabama State Senate bill
o make an appropriation for an ex
libit of Alabama's resources and in |
lustries at the Worlds Fair in Chi
ago was laid on the table to await |
he fate of the elections bill. The |
senate took the position that if the |
rorce bill became Jaw it would so
njure the State that it would be |
Iseless to spend money to try to in
uce immigration. The vote was
Just four years ago Robert E. Pat
ison retired from the Guberna torial
hair of Pennsylvania and greeted
ames A. Beaver as the coming guest.
,o-day, James A. Beaver is the part
1g and Robert E. Pattison the com
az guest, and Pattison will be inau-
urated as the first Governor in the
istory of the State who has been re-
allied to the Executive office after
aving retired from it.-Philadelphia
lines.
Artist Albert Bierstadt has recent
7 been visiting his old haunts in the
,ocky Mountains He first crossed
he plains from the East in 1859,
nd it was then that he made the
rst sketches for the paintings of
Western scenes which gave him fame.
IN his latest work, "The Last of the
'uffalo," he spent thirty years. time,
nd made several hundred sketches.
he picture was in his mind when he
,llowed the trail to Pixies Peak
hirty-one years ago.
The British Admiralty have ar
anged to have an adequate naval
,rce in Gillian waters, and the news
ON Paris is that French men-ot-war
re also ordered thither. Itcan only
e regarded, therefore, as q precau-
onary step if some of our vessels
re also sent to that region for the