The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-02-12

GENERAL NEWS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes Taken From All Portions Of
the Country and Quarters Of tho World.
La Grippe attacks New York in full
force.
Mccarthy Irish wing pressed for
funds.
Opals worth 5000 found in Ore
gon.
Danville and Western Railroad re-
organized.
Negroes are insisting on a place in
the cabinet.
Parnell believes home rule bill as
sured in few days.
Proposed State reform school for
boys in Virginia.
Spring dry goods trade, New York,
opens in earnest.
Large quantities of Western silver
shipping to New York.
Richmond Howitzers gone to New
Orleans Mardi Gras.
Poor of London threaten violent
resort unless given work.
Pennsylvania Railroad employees
threaten general strike.
Professor Koch arrives at Constan-
tinople on his tour to the East.
Boston capitalists are visiting Nor
tolk with a view to investment.
New York Chamber of Commerce
protests against free silver coinage.
Confederation Industrial Organize
tion is a new party movement, Nor
folk
Socialist propaganda in the Bel
gian army most active for some time
past.
In a battle at Castro, Chill, the
regulars lost II men; 13O insurgents
were killed.
Bismarck sees no reason to abstain
from expressing his views on German
public affairs.
Baltimore merchants say that
city will greatly benefit by reciproc
ity with Brazil
General Mitre, ex-President Argen-
tine Republic, again a candidate for
the presidency.
Congress makes appropriation for
exploration and survey of the inte-
rior of Alaska.
Iowa decides upon a 500, 900 Iowa
building at Chicago, to be entirely of
iron and glass.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
builds another large grain elevator
at Philadelphia.
Queen Victoria has presented q
: richly caparisoned Indian elephant
to the Emperor of Morocco.
Colonel Mcfarlane, who was Kala-
kaua's chamberlain, says the King
left an estate worth about 300, 900.
Thoreau graduated at Harvard,
but declined to take his diploma.
He said it was not worth IS.
James Redpath, the lecturer and
Irish sympathizer, was knocked
down by street car in New York.
The underground system of tele-
graph of the German Empire. it is
reported, has total length of 8, 900
miles.
George tGraham Vest is the first
Senator in Missouri since the days OF
| Thomas Benton to be hOnored with
third term.
Boston's system of parks includes
1,O42 acres, and the city has expend.
ed upon them for the purchase OF
land and construction about Sc, 600
900.
VIM. Jay Schie ffelin, grandson OF
John Jay, marries Maria Louise
Shepard, granddaughter of COmmo-
dore Vanderbilt.
The Pope contemplates large &C.
cession to the cardinalate. The
death of Cardinal CristOfOri leaves
80 Italian cardinals and 70 foreign
cardinals.
Italian imports into the United
States for the quarter ending Decem.
Der, ,$5, ,874, 900, an increase Of $780,.
600 over corresponding period in
1889.
Turkish soldiers are said to be very
poor marksmen. Recent target con
tests in the Turkish army demonstar
ted that not one soldier in twenty
could hit man at twenty PAGES.
A majority of the salt manufactur
ers of Michigan have agreed to reor
ganize and become members of the
Michigan Salt Association in case 95
per cent. of those in the State could
be induced to dosO.
Ransom Russell has come to thu
rescue of downtrodden woman in 6
new role. He wants laws passed anG
marriage contracts drawn 80 as te
secure to wives the payment of g
fixed cash sum each week for theil
services.
Director-G General Davis, of the Chi
cago Worlds Fair, announces that
he will resign if Congress adopts tn,
report of the Chandler committee
which makes no provision for hi
salary.
j In the old Dablo mine shaft, Du
range, Mexico, remarkable vein o
, ore over four feet wide, composed o
: | q solid mass of oxide of tin, assayins
from so to 60 per cent. of pure meta
has been discovered.
The President issues q proclama
tion declaring that the governmen
of Brasil has accepted the term
] prescribed by Congress for reciproe
: ity, and that reciprocal trade rela
: tions will go into effect April /, 1891
} The storekeeper and agent Of th
! Farmers Alliance supply store q
| Spartanburg is charged with helm
, short, in his aCeOunts from $40, 90
| tn $40 O00 II II allouna fhut !,