The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-08-06
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!, The property OF tie Old Colony
Distillery Com ban5, of New Haven,
Conn, has beef attached for $780,
900 in the interest Of u New York
brewing company.
The Shah of Persia is developing
into kodak fiepd, and his courtiers
| all say that his pictures are wonder
| full successes. 1t wouldn't be healthy
for them to say anything else.
Col. +. A. Odds of Raleigh has re-
signed his position as adjutant Gen.
eral of the N. C. State Guards. He
has made an efficient officer and his
resignation is to be regretted.
A special from Indianapolis says
The administration Republi-
| cans have an agent organizing every
county in the State against Harrison,
and fight will be made to gam con-
! troll of the State Committee.
We have received the sad intelli-
gence of j. Wesly Jones, Jr., death
at Tarboro Sunday. He was bright
Christian young man of 20 years
and would have graduated from
Trinity College the next session.
A bill has been filed in the Chicago
Circuit Court to declare illegal the
| assignment made some time ago by
the Consolidated Ice Machine Com
pany. 1t is said that $50, 900 worth
of stock subscribed for by William
B. Bushnell has never been paid for.
The Southern Assembly of the Wo
| mans Christian Temperance Union
has accepted the gift of the citizens
OF Waynesville, N. e., of $4,000 and
five acres of land, and hereafter that
site will be it's annual meeting place.
Arrangements have been perfected
for the erection of the pavilion.
News comes from Laurinburg that
McDOugald, the man who so brutal
ly murdered his uncle, in Richmond
county, few months ago, and who
succeeded in escaping from the State,
has been captured in Oregon. He was
identified by means of letters found
on his person.
There seems to be a considerable
stir in Raleigh over the collection of
the Merchants Purchase Tax under
schedule 'B''. The sheriff is endeav-
oring to collect and the merchants
refuse to pay. 1t is not known how
the matter will be disposed of, but
probably will BE- settled by the Sup
RENE Court.
Ex-United States Senator Sawyer
of South Carolina died at his home
in Shawnee, Tenn, Saturday after
noon at 3 o'clock. Sawyer was a
reconstruction fgure-a deep dyed
republican and distinguished him
self in the Senate by voting himself
back salary to which he was not
entitled.
A new kind of trust is proposed in
Montgomery, Ala. 1t is the organ
izatiOn into a trust company of the
depositors in the bank ofMoses Bros,
with view to the protection of their
own interests and to liquidate the
affairs of the suspended firm. This
is trust to which there can be no
reasonable outside opposition.
The business failures during the
last seven days number for the Uni
ted States 229 and for Canada Is, or
a total of 247 as compared with a
total of 254 and 274 the week previous
to the last. For the corresponding
week of last year the figures were
1S9, representing 167 failures in the
United States and % in the Dominion
Of Canada.
A special from Staunton Va says:
Saturday night when the east-bound
c. and o. train was between Waynes-
boro and Basic City, a man entered
the sleeper and going to berth oc-
cupied by Mr.. Connel ofPortsmouth,
Ohio, demanded his money. Mr. Con-
nell refused to give it to him and
started to make a defence when the
robber shot him, infiicting a danger
Gus wound. The assailant escaped.
Mr.. Council is now at Charlottesville
in a critical condition.
A Harrisburg (Penn.) correspond
ent writes: eve have Il few rural leg
islators here who can scarcely take
care of themselves, let alone looking
after the interest of their constituents.
Only yesterday a gentleman from
one of our neighboring counties, who
had just received his order for stamps,
went to the postoffice to get them.
"What denomination? % inquired the
modestly.''-New York Tribune.
A Picayune's San Antonio, Tex,
special says: The terrible drought |
prevailing in southwest Texas for the
past nine weeks, was broken last |
night by a storm, followed by a
rain. Only two showers
had fallen for nine weeks in vast |
area south of San Antonio for two |
hundred miles, and west for four |
hNndred miles Cotton hollis had he
gun to drop from the stems. The |