The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-10-28
ALL OVER THE STATE
NEWS or rsxe syEEKIN ssoBTa cAIs-
DINA,
Carefully CuIied From Our Contemporaries
..ns; Compressed into Small
Particles

Particles.
A branch railroad is to be built from
the line Of the Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley 10 the town of Madison.
The ladies Of St, Stephens Church,
Oxford, ze,.iized 81 from their en-
tertainment to furnish new rectory
Crystal rock is being eagerly
searcbet: '4r III Ashe county, as 81
pou.,. iz obtained for it. It is a
new industry
The work on the State canal in
Hyde is finished, and the convicts will
now to 90 the head Of Pungo river and
made a road from there to Plymouth. 4
We are informed that a friend of
DIR. Bays, recently from Transylva-
MIA county, has with him q two pound
nugget of virgin gold.-AsheciHe CIT
azc7l.
A committee from Oxford q Clarks
vile Railroad Co., are now in Rich
mond for the purpose Of concluding
the contract for the building of the O.
& G. Il. r.
Six thousand dollars to be given
away in premiums to the fortunate
and enterprising farmers, mechanics,
manufacturers, ladies and children
of North Carolina at the State Fair.
Mr.. S. I. Flake has scuppernong
vine which has produced him $50
from the sale Of the grapes this season,
and there is vet ten or fifteen dollars
FL LHoIaaIa,.a T1,oa
Mr.. VIM E. Graves, of Island
Greek township, Duplin county,
made 107 gallons of fine syrup from
cane raised on less than three-fourths
of an acre of ground.-Goldsboro
Messenger.
Capt. Wainman, last Saturday,
closed contract for 1000 acres of
timbered land 5 miles south of town.
We understand he proposes to erect
steam saw mill and engage in the lum-
Der business erally.-4sheboro
Conrter
Col. Holt, president of the Durham,
Blue Wing & GAINESVILLE Railroad, in
forms the Durham Recorder that three
miles of the road has been graded and
some twenty miles located. The en-
gineers are going over the whole
route.
On Saturday night last colored
girl, about fourteen years old, was
burned to death by the explosion of
kerosene oil can. She was filling
lighted lamp at the time and the
oil ignited, causing the explosion
Weldon Neaus
1t has been definitely decided by
Capt. Thompson to remove his school
from Oakdale to Siler City. The en-
terprising citizens of the latter place
have agreed, according to the Pittsboro
Record to give him lot and $1,000
for building an academy
There are now in the State 1926
convicts, Of whom only 1854 are white
and / ,O99 colored. There are 1877
men and Sc women. Of the men
159 are white and ,O38 colored, while
of the women 81 are colored and only
five are white,
Mr.. Micahjah Henlay's grist mill
about 4 miles west of town was burned
Monday night. Everything destroy
ed. It is thought to have been rob-
bed and then burned. This is Sc
rious loss to Mr.. Hendly and to the
community-AsAeboro Courier.
Gen. Clingman in letter to the
Land Of the Sky, speaking of the yield
Of the Bolston gold mine says: ''The
returns are so encouraging that it
seems as if that mine, for its richness
and profitable mining, will much sur
pass any mine hitherto worked in
any State east of the Mississippi
AS the Marrow Gauge freight and
accommodation train was pulling out
from jacksonville, a station on the
Lenoir end Of the road, one day last
week some one fired into it. The en-.
gineer came near being hit. The pas
senger coach was crowded and if the
ball had passed through it instead O.
through the cab of the engine some
one would have been killed.
A colored preached was going
about the city Yesterday trying to ge
party of one hundred colored PEG
pie to emigrate to Liberia. He wa
meeting with good success, and thu
party will no doubt be secured. III,
will take them to Norfolk, where they
will join another colony and set sal
direct for LIBERIA Charlotte Obser
ger.
The Democratic barbecue at Har
per's Mills in Jones county on the 14tl
inst. was a great success in every way
Over six hundred people were present
one hundred of them being Stroud an,
one hundred Harpers and the balanc