The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-06-25
GENERAL NEWS.
PERSONAL. ANB POLITICAL l. POINTS,
AND COMM MON AFFAIRS.
news n Ot fa1Nen from All Portions
of the Country and Quarters of the
Globe.

IHe army worm has appeared III
Central and Western Kansas.
The treaty of peace and amnesty
between Salvador and Guatemala
has been ratified by the Salvadorinn
Congress.
General Grants sister, Mrs. Mary
Grant Gramer, of Orange, n. T., is
lectnring to ex-sOldlers in Central
New York.
The French chamber of deputies
has fixed July 10th as the day on
which the reduction of corn duties
shall take effect.
The United States steamers Mohi-
can and Alert left San Francisco yes
terday morning to join tie other
government vessels in Behring Sea.
Rev. J. N. Booth, of Durham, for
merly pastor of Second Baptist
Church IN that city has accepted the
call to the Baptist Church at Edge
field, S. c..
1t is rumored in London that Lord
Brooke has secured letters written
by the Prince Of Wales to Lady
brooke which calls for a clear deiini-
tion on the Princes part.
The government of Chill has awar-
ded 81 $4,000 prize money to the
commanders of the Lynch and Con-
dell, the two cruisers who blew up
the BlancO not long ago.
Of the paper money circulated by
the Government it is estimated that
at least $50, 600, 900 of it has been
destroyed. That is a money making
investment for the Governments.
The Austrian consul at Prizend,
Turkey, killed himself because he was
censured by his government for being
instrumental in securing the aboli-
tiOn Ofthe bells in the Catholic church
at that place.
A speeial from Quebec says: \ sec
ton OF country at Point de Monts is
reported to be still almost buried in
snow. The locality mentioned is
about 300 miles below Quebec. on
the north shore.
Prof. F. p. HObgOod, who waa ;or
many years connected with the Ok
ford Female aeRlnary, has accepted
the Presidency of the Richmond Bap-
tlst Female College which WAS ten
dercd him some weeks ago.
Herr Clausmer, Il critic in a Berlin
| newspaper, cnf1ed the ears of Herr
Barnay, the German traoedian, he
| cause the latter charged the critic
with Qyerus;aG the free list of the
tLeater where the actor was playing,
for the benefit of friends.
A special dispatch from Guatema-
la says d plan has been discovered
to annex Guatemala TIL the United
States. Some Of the most promi-
nent officials of that country and
the principal coffee planters are in
terested.
The law passed by the recent Kan
sas legislature providing that eight
hours shall be days work for all
| employees of the State caused great
embarrassment. To do the work
properly will necessitate the employ
ment of . ,200 uew men, and there
is no appropriation for that
Commenting ON Bill Arp's asser-
on, in Kansas City, that Georgia
is for Hill,' the Mobile Register
facetionsly observes: eve did not
know that William laid any claim to
being a political authority. We
thought that he knew more shout a
potato hill than any other sort of a
hill"
MIR. Y. f. McBee, for the past two
years superintendent of the Western
| North Carolina division OF the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad system,
has been appointed general sliperin-
tendent of the Georgia Central syss-
TEN at a salary of $12, 900 IL year.
Mr.. McBee is one of the most popular
and successful railroad men i'm the
Sonth-Baltimore Sun.
Prominent North Carolina Repub-
licans have called IA convention, to
be held in Asheville, July %, for the
purpose Of organizing Il State Pro
tective League" 1t isalso proposed
to organize auxiliary leagues in each
county. Senator Sherman, Hon.
VIM. Mckinley and other prominent
advocates of protection have been
invited to attend the convention.
| Melons have begun to go forward
now and in a few days the shipments
will be heavy. Several ear loads
have been shipped from Georgia and
other Southern States. The crop in
this State is very backward on ac-
count of the long dry spell, but the
recent rains have brought the vines
to the front and ere many days the
fruit will begin to move heavily.
The Southern Interstate Immi
grafton Bureau has established II De
partment of Health Sanitation and
Climatology, receiving the co-opera
ton of Southern Medical Organiza
tions. 1t will furnish foreign inves
tors with data on the climatOlogy
and sanitary condition of any see.
ton ofthe South of which an enquiry
may be made. 1t will be at either
Asheville, Knoxville or Atlanta.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark.
to the Boston Herald says: esquire
James Ritter, believed to have beer
the largest man in the South, died al
Elm Springs. Ark. lie weighed SAC
pounds and was seventy years old
He had his coffin made two years
ago, and for two seasons utilized il
d as granary. It was made of wal
nut and held % bushels of wheat
J Twelve men acted as pall-bearers
and it took four strong ropes to
lower the coffin into the grave