The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-05-13
HERE AND THERE.

The work OF grading the Whining
ton, Chadbourn & Conway Railroad
has begun in real earnest at Mt Ta-
Dor.
The session of Moravian Falls
Academy was cut off on the 3Oth of
April, owing to the prevalence of
measles.
The Richmond & Danville Compa-
ny has leased the Charlotte, Columbia
& Augusta and Columbia Il Green
vile railways for term of SO years.
The contract for building the Jewish
synagogue at Goldsboro hasa been
awarded and the work will be pushed
as rapidly as practicable to compile
ton.
Gov. Scales has reprived until the
tsof June, George McNair, the negro
youth who was sentenced to be hang
ed at Jacksonville, Onslow county,
May 7th, for rape.
Durham furnishes Raleigh with its
music on Memorial Day. Raleigh is
great on fairs and conventions, but it
has no soldiers or bands of its OVID
among the whites. Wilmington Star.
The A. & N. c. R. R. will run a
truck train every day until the truck
season is over, leaving New Berne at
2:3O p. m. each day. Ventilated cars will
be used and they will be put through
in quick time.
Mr.. Jas. Spivey, killed a very large
gray eagle on the plantation of Mrs.
Monroe, three miles from Troy, recent
| ly The bird measured feet trom.tip
to tip, with foot and talons measuring
six inches.
The Board of Aldermen Of States
vile had meeting on the LIST of May
and raised the tax on liquor dealers
from $3.50 to 5000 each. Two retail.
and three wholesale licenses were
granted for the year ensuing.
The Pilot Mountain Baptist Associ-
alton will hold their third session at
Westfeld, Stokes county, beginning
Friday before the fifth Sunday in Nav.
Rev. H. A. Brown will preach the in
| treductory sermon. Rev. S. f. Con-
rad will conduct Bible reading on
the proper use of money.
The Justices of the Peaoe are re-
quired by law to meet at the court
house on the first Monday in June to
elect Board of County Commission
ers, a County Superintendent of public
instruction, to levy taxes, and transact
any other business that NAV come up
r,
a colored Presbytery assembled at
Laurinburg last week and on Thurs
day night the house was very much
crowded, causing the galarias to fall
A number had arms and legs broken
and received other scratches, but no ope
was killed. THE escape was almost
miraculous.
We are informed that Mr. Charles
Gunter, guard on the c. F. & Y. V.
r. r., accidentally shot himself while
on duty at Dalton on Monday last.
Mr.. Gunter, although badly hurt, is
not considered dangerously wounded,
as a pistol in his breast pocket ward
ed off most of the shot-M 4jry
Neaus.
The Asheville 4drance has made
inquiries of farmers from different sec
tions of Buncombe county in regard
to the prospects of the tobacco crop of
1886. In most sections plants are
plentiful and more healthy than usual
The crop in Buncombe county this
year, however, will not be so large as
that OF last year The acreage Will
be greatly reduced.
Recently committee from Tennes-
see was sent out TO visit the different
asylums in the South with view of
building an asylum at Boliver, Tenn,
inspected the Western n. G. Asylum
at Morganton, and after making a
through examination they were pleas
ed to acknowledge that it surpassed
any institution of the kind that they
have visited in the South.
The body of an old farmers named
Nathaniel Modlin, living near Powells-
vile, who mysteriously disappeared on
the 9th of April, was found buried in
the woods near his home An exami-
nation of the body showed that the
man had been hanged, and skull was
fractured in two places. Suspicion
pointed to w. B. Styron, the stepson
of Modlin, as the murderer, and he
was arrested and lodged in Jail at
Windsor. At the coroner's inquest
the evidence was very damaging
against Styron.
Col. r. R. Bridgers and other Off
Gals of the Atlantic Coast Line have
established a depot on the Wilson &
Fayetteville road, and have marked
out streets for the new town which is
to spring up at that point. 1t is
twelve miles from where the new road
turns AWAY from the main line helow