Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-01-25
NO s.
There have been sixteen revisals
# the laws of North Carolina.


Of the laws Of North Carolina.
The daily production i'll the oil
region Is now about 900 barrels
n Gay.
Col. Thomas NJ. Holt has been
ciected President OF the North
Carolina railroad.
In the year 1924 there were bus
$4,000 Raptists in the State Of Geor-
9ia, nov there are 195, ,00U
George Elliott, the novelist, has
realized frem her pen, in the eighteen
years she has been writing, $l65, 900,
The bondholders propose plan
of settlement by which the State
would be in debt $1O,000,GOG.
The project of building an Ex-
ccutive Mauison has been abandon
ed. Very proper, considering the
times.
Mrs. Sophronia Walker, who died
at Raleigh on December 9th, 1876,
aged 20, WAS granddaughter of
Governor Richard Caswcll.
Somebody wants q new county,
to be called Vance, to be made out
Of portions Of Wayne, Lcnoir and
Duplin.
| During the storm OF last week
the wind over Mount Washington
below at the rate Of 200 miles an
hour.
Over "a 1000 Masons were made
in North America last year, aud
the Whole number of affiliated Ma
sons on the continent at this time
exceeds 100000.
Monroe, on the Wilmington and
Charlotte railroad is stepping to
the t'rcnt as cotton market, and
is taking considerable amount of
that trade from Charlotte.
We don't know that it was the
t epizooty that affected him, but he
T. said with some violence IT
/ that nose was running for office it
Y would be elected by q handsome
| majority"
! The introduction of American
beef into England has proved such
Il success that the butchers arc COM
:. PEELED 70 make great reduction in
. the price to compete with the i'm
, porters.
o The Directors of the n. c. r.
II r. have declared dividend of six
h per cent, three per cent: payable
i April 1st, and three per cert,
: September 1st, at the office at
e Company Shops.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has
# located here to take charge OF
= large insurance interests. He has
q rented house on Grace street, be-
y tween First and Sccond.-Rich-
II mond Enquirer.
e Governor Colquit, the newly
S installed Governor of Georgia,
said in his inaugural address that
IS Georgia will stand square up to
y the Northern Democracy and fol-
:. low them through thick and thin.
is The New Hampshire Constitu-
= tional Convention has proposed an
'e amendment providing that no per-
= son who is not a property-holder
~ shall be chosen Il member OF the
p State Senate. 1t is thought the
l. people will ratify it.
- MEMPHIS, Jan. 17.-Dnring a
IF heavy rain storm Monday, fall OF
Q. live snakes was observed iE the
Sc Southern part of the city, where
r thousands of them could be seen
&c Yesterday. The snakes are from
il one foot TO eighteen inches III
Z length.
.p Owing to the drouth in Texas,
is which prevailed for SO long in the
fall, preventing the fattening OF
l. cattle and the growto of grass, and
D. reducing their power of bearing the
incIemencies Of the winter, many
\ CtALIIC Aio'1
i starvation and other causes. The
g loss to the country and to the owners
II of stock will be very great.
l. A pint OF milk taken before retir-
1t ing at night Will cover the scrawniest
= bones. There are many lean and lank
e females who sig gh for the fashionable
e measure of plumpuess, and who would
$ be vastly improved in health could
:. :: they be rounded with good solid flesh.
j.. Nothing is more coveted by thin wo-
men than full figure, and nothing
proyokes the scandal of one of the
q ''clipper builds as :hc consciousness
!. of plumpnes in rival. In case of fe-
yer and summer complaints milk iS