The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-02-05
GENERAL NEWS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL POINTS
AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes Taken From ;All Portions Of
the Country and Quarters Of the World.

AND COMMON AFFAIRS.
News Notes Taken From :All Portions of
the Country and Quarters Of the World.
They are burning Senator Cameron
in efigy in Pennsylvania.
The first saw-maker's anvil was
brought to America in 1919.
Senator Aldrich is in Rhode Island
working against Free coinage.
Lieutenant-G Governor Jones, ofNew
York, is out for the governorship.
A rumor is current that Governor
Hill will resign the position of Sena-
tor.
Charles McGregor, a census clerk,
Was suffocated by gas in Washing
ton.
The Force bill wet blanketi is a chill
ly covering for a statesman suffe ring
from a Hoar frost.
Senator Hoar is said to have
washed his hands" of the force bill
with a sense of relief.
1t is the constant reiteration that
Jay Gould will control the Richmond
ana Danvllle system.
The net earnings of the Farmers
National Bank of Salem, Va, for
1890 were % per cent.
A 20 per cent. dividend has been
declared by the South Norfolk Devel-
opment Company, of Norfolk.
The property of foreign residents in
Chill is suffering considerably from
the rebellion in that country.
Miss Haller Horwitz, of Baltimore,
and Claude Ponsonby were married
at Ascot, near Windsor, Eng.
A strong element in the Indiana
Legislature is making an effort to
abolish the grand jury system.
1t is finally settled that the cloture
resolution and the Force bill are not
to be again taken up in the Senate.
The Prince of Wales will be present
at the marriage of the Marquis de
Breteuil to Miss Garner, of New York.
Colonel Haywood, it is
thought, will be eappointe,lc command
ant of the United States marine
corps.
At Nashville, Tenn, during snow
storm, on Saturday, countless num-
bers of small fish fell. They resem-
bled carp.
The sale of Senator Stanford's
horses was continued in New York,
the highest price being $1,000 for
Electioneer, a bay filly
Capt VIM. r. White was fined $50
for having unculled oysters in his
possession, this being the first case in
Baltimore under the new law.
Jno. Graves, who has unsuccessful
ly searched for fifty years for perpet-
ual motion, has just died at Harri-
sonville, Md, at the age of 80 years.
The Columbian Iron Works, Balti-
more, reports to the Navy Depart
ment that cruisers 9 and 10 will be
ready for launching in May.
Goods in customs warehouses in
New York are being taken out OF
bond prior to February /, when the
Mckinley tariff woulu apply to them.
At Bristol, Tenn, 100000 gas
works are to be built and at Mem
phis, an $S5, 900 ice factory; Chatta-
nooga a 100000 oil and gas com
pany.
Col. John C. Taylor, of Dayton,
| KY, has fallen heir to estates in Ire
land that make him the Earl of Ty.
rome, and, better still, gives him prop.
erty valued at $7,OOO,OOO.
The Fort Worth Iron Works, o1
Fort Worth, Texas, which employs
130 men, earned zS per cent. net last
year, paying 10 per cent in dividend
and putting 1S per cent. aside to sur.
plus profits.
The Norristown Herald observes
that "the man who will complain
that q twenty-minute sermon is toe
long will sit half a day watching 8
couple of chess players making two
moves"
DIR. Helen Belts, of Boston, is the
first woman physician to go to Ber
lin to study Dr. Koch's methods
She is graduate of the Woman's
Medical College of Pennsylvania, anG
visits Germany as the delegate of the
college.
A third branch of the Mormon
church has just been organized, it il
stated, in Iowa. It consists of those
who accept the Book of Mormon, but
do not accept the Elder Joseph Smith
as prophet of the Lord.
In a speech at Leavenworth eigh
teen years ago, just after his first
election to the Senate, Mr.. ingalls,
said: 81 shall not be like that mar
who went into office with but little
opposition and who went out with
out any,"
| Mr.. C. P. Huntington denies the
statement printed recently that he
lost q large amount of money in the
New York Star. He says. his interest
in the paper was always small, and
he could not have lost over $40, ,OO(
altogether.
In his trip of investiga tion over thu
Richmond Terminal, besides JAY
Gould, the party is likely to consist
of George Gould, John III. Inman
Senator CalvinS. Brice, General Sam
uel Thomas, Abram s. Hewitt ant
i John G.. Moore, and the start win b,
made some time in the early part o
next week.
| For thirty years Secretary Win
dom has been one of the most prom
| inent public men in Washington
For twenty Ave years he was In tn
House or the Senate or was q mem
Der of the cabinet. In both branche
i Of Congress he occnpied q foremos
4 position, and as Secretary of tn
4 Treasury under Garfield his nam
win always be associated with the n
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