The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-26
GENERAL NEWS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes Taken From All Portions of
the Country and Quarters Of the World.

Improvement.
Jay Gould looks for some improve
ment in Wall street.
Great damage to the orange and
lemon crops in Italy.
Mr.. Gladstone openly declares that
his party Is against Parnell.
Congressman VIM. NJ. Springer. of
Illinois, is i'll in Washington.
Florida travel over Atlantic coast
line the heaviest ever known.
Baltimoreans contemplat te building
an iron steam bark in Glasgow.
A series of reforms to the letter
carrier service in the various cities is
to be instituted.
or $50 Italian passengers on the
sunken ship Utopia, at Gibraltar,
SIG are missing.
Savannah cotton receipts reach q
million bales the first time in the his
tory OF that port.
The Cooperative Workers Society,
OF Baltimore, is furnishing d country
home for poor girls.
Gladstone's coachman, drunk, lost
control of the horses and had a run
away with the old man.
General Manager Tyler, Atlanta
and West Point Road, elected Presi-
dent Atlanta and Florida.
The first cargo of sugar refined
from Baltimore for export will go
out this week for Liverpool
Eugene E. Stevens and George d.
Mitchell, of Washington, will make "a
bicycle trip around the world.
California regulators recently hang
ed the wrong man and then sent a
letter of apology to his widow.
New York is compelled to seek new
devices OF taxation to meet the pub
lie expenditures for office-holders.
During the year 1890, 81 ,435 per-
sons emigrated from Ireland, a fall
ing off of 9,305 from the average.
General Malone is said to be back
ing United States District Judge John
Paul for one of the new circuit Judge
ships.
In 1890, 52,6S3 Irish emigrants
came to the United States, against
an average for the four preceding
years OF 81, ,7S5.
G. Wharton Ritchie. a teller of the
Commonwealth Bank of Philadel-
phia, disappeared with over $4,000
of the banks money.
1t is believed that unless Spain
shows n more liberal disposition on
the subject OF reciprocity the duty on
her sugar will be restored.
Pittsburg has A ,461 buildings, of
which SO ,943 are dwellings,, valued
at $57, 7,179,35O, and 1918 business
houses, worth 1924 135,975
Rev. P. j. Donahue, of Baltimore,
deliv red sermon, in which he said
that Irishmen should withhold finan-
cial aid from the ENJOYS of Parnell.
Stock of the Merchants and Miners
Steamship Company, Baltimore,
Norfolk and Boston, increased to
81 100000, and new steamer named
Fairfax.
Italy has such a navy that if she so
chose she could station her vessels
four miles from land and ruin our
coast cities. Italy has $50 or more
vessels of war.
Louis Armand, who prosecuted a
California millionaire's daughter
with love letters and was put into an
insane asylum, was declared sane by
a New York jury and set at liberty.
The movement against gift pack
age candy is not intended to affect
the right of an enamored youth to
draw u prize of the sweetest girl in
the world in the greatest lottery of
life.
Judge Holman thinks that the
time is near when national Senators
will be elected by the people. This
may be the case ultimately, but it's
dollars against sense that it won't
be very soon.
Mr.. Gladstone was given a tremen.
dous ovation at Charing Cross Rail
road Station, London, as he was
leaving for Hastings, Eng, where he
declared in an address that the liber
al party Was against MIR. Parnell.
The impression is general in official
circles at Washington that it would
| out the country would abandon the
idea of public meetings and resolu
tions about the popular execution O
the eleven criminals in New Orleans
On a factory bell in Saylesville, R
l., is an inscription purporting tC
show that the bell was cast in Am
sterdam in 1868. There is q tradi
ton that the bell was used on British
ship Guerriere. captured in 1912 b.
the United States ship Constitution
and it is supposed to have been he
fore that in an English convent.
Horrible as it may appear, it is al
unquestioned fact that the Chicag,
man who paid nearly $.5, 900 for
Bible did SO because it's the onl,
book of the kind that is to be foun
in that hopeless city. Chicago is
little late in getting into the fielt
and is evidently paying interest 70
all the years it has neither bough
nor read ordinary editions of th
Holy Writ.
4 Gen. Palmer's father died at th
age of 80 and his grandfather at th
ago Of 03. As the Gen. isnow, at 74.i
vigorous health, his Republica
friends who are worrying about b
great age may be interested in know
ing that il he lives to the age tn,
his. father attained he may be r
! elected to the Senate not only
:, 1887, but also in 1903.-Chicago He
aid.