The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-10
PERSONAL CHATS.

William Dean Howells says that
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was the wittiest
man he ever knew.
Commander Booth Tucker of the Sal
walton Army has been elected fellow
of the American Geographical society.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Sir Ar
thur Sullivan have been elected mem
bers of the Swedish Academy of Music
Miss Frances Hayes, daughter of
President Hayes. lately married one of
her childhood playmates, Harry Eaton
Smith, at Fremont, o.
Washington rockingham, the New
York correspondent of the Troy Times,
has completed 80 years of continuous
service in that capacity.
Durham Bull is the name of a farmer
in Greenwood county, Mo-, whose
mothers name was Ann Durham and
his fathers Jonathan Bull.
Nicholas McQuillan celebrated his
one hundredth birthday anniversary at
Southold, N. Y, by leading dance with
his sister, whose age is 81 years.
Miss Mary Ball of Valparaiso, Ind. =,
daughter of the cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of that city, is the youngest
and first woman director of an institute
of fine arts.
Captain Brown of the British ship
Windward has spent 40 years sailing in
the arctic seas. He began on a whaler
polar seas oftener probably than any
other man.
Viscount Encombe, heir of the Earl of
Eldon, has been received into the Ro-
man Catholic church. He is the lineal
descendant of the lord chancellor of
George III and George ", who was the
most stubborn opponent of Catholic
emancipation.
Mgr. Della Volpe, the pope's major
domo, will be made a cardinal soon and
will be succeeded in his office by Mgr
Stonor. This makes it certain that the
English prelate will also, at no distant
period, be raised to the cardinalate, as
the post of major domo is always I'M
derstood to lead to the purple.
Thomas A. Edison, Jr, thinks he has
discovered an improvement on the in
candescent lamp invented by his father
He says that he has devised new vac
uum pump which enables a workman
TO exhaust ten bulbs in the time that
it now requires for one. He also claims
that he has new process for getting a
pure carbon filament.
Pioneer Women Journalists.
or the 81 newspapers in the Ameri-
can colonies at the time of the Revo-
luton, says e. Cora Depuy in The
Household Realm, several were owned
and managed by women.
The first newspaper published in
Rhode Island was owned and edited by
Mrs. Anna Franklin and established in
1882. She and her two daughters wrote
the items and set the type, and their
servants worked the printing press.
For her 1uiekness and correctness Mrs.
Franklin was appointed printer to the
colony. supplying pamphlets to the
colonial officers. In 1772 Clementine
Reid was publishing a paper in Virginia
called the Virginia Gazette. favoring
the colonial cause and greatly offending
the royalists Two years later Mrs. 81.
Boyle started a paper under the same
name, advocating the cause of the
crown. Both were published at Will
Harrisburg, and both were short lived.
In 1773 Elizabeth Timothy started q
paper in Charleston. After the Revolu-
tion Anna Timothy became it's editor
and was appointed state printer, which
position she held for IL years. About
the same time Mary Crouch started a
paper in Charleston in vigorous opposi-
tion to the stamp act. She afterward
moved it to Salem, Mass. and contin-
ned it's publication for many years.