The weekly sentinel., 1886-06-24
very good board. Rev. Mr.. Barber
was reelected County Superintendent
of Public instruction.

Since the Communication and respite
having been refused by the Governor
to John Cardwell, sentenced to be
hanged at Wilkesboro June 18th, the
Solicitor of the district has made re-
quest that q respite be granted the
prisoner, that opportunity might be
given to investigate certain evidence
discovered since his trial and convic-
ton. The Governor has therefore re-
prived John Cardwell until Friday
July End.
BUNCOMBE.
Willie Wood, aged five years, was
fatally burned at Asheville by an sx-
plosion Of kerosene.
Asheville has closed contract for
for the Patton mill property, four
miles up the Swannanoa river, at
which point is to be the course of the
water supply for the new water works
The price paid was s6,0O0.-Ashe-
vile Citizen.
| HERE AND THERE.
Goldsboro is to have the electric
light.
A negro man while hoeing corn two
miles from Jonesboro the other day
unearthed slug of gold worth $3S.
In Catawba no county tax was lev
led on marriage license. $1,000 was
appropriated to build bridge across
Henry's Fork near Rowe's ford.
After the Goth of June double daily
passenger trains will run for the sum-
mer on the Western road leaving
Salisbury at 1:2O at night and 11:25
in the day.
The loss Of the wife of Jonathan
Bass, of Wilson county, had the effect
of wrecking the mind OF that unfortu-
nate man, who is now in the asylum
at Raleigh.
An effort is being made to raise an
endowment of $4,000 for North Car
olina College, located at Mt Pleasant.
$4,000 OF the amount was raised in
Mt. Pleasant.
Letters received from Minister Jar
Wis state that he hopes to come to this
State from Brazil next winter if he
can get leave from the Department Of
| of State to do so.
IredelPs full tax, State and county
is 7S cents, 5 less thon last year. They
have Legislative authority to collect
special tax oveI and above 66s, the
constitutional limit.
In Bakersville the Baptist have
erected and covered very substantially
a new church, and the Methodist have
done the same at Forest Home, about
six miles from Porcelain.
A grand excursion and celebration
at the battle field of Guilford Court
House July 4th, are proposed by the
enthusiastic Greensboro plople. There
is talk of speeches by Senator Vance
and others.
The time and place for holding the
Republican State Convention will be
announced in few days, the State
Committee having voted by letter to
the chairman, DIR. Mott, on the ques-
tions of time and place.
A lady in Wilmington, watching a
game of base ball played by a party
of youngsters was struck on the arm
by ball thrown to one of the players
which he failed to catch. The arm
was broken just above the wrist.
There are now in Swain and other
extreme Western counties 1 1881 Cher
okee Indians. They hold $4,000 acres
of land by deed of trust. They are
urged to go to the Indian Territory
| ,,J oro ,,o,,, oopc;Jor;,,o ~ tb n ,,,,+tox
w. M. Wilson, of Crowder's Creek
CASTOR county, plowed up in field
near his house $24 in silver money,
some of it being foreign and some
American coin. One piece is 100
years old and the latest was minted in
1853
The following have been elected
commissioners of Duplin county: F.
H. Keathley, Henry J. Faison M. T.
Horne, VIM. Sanding and David S.
Williams. B. F. Grady was reelected
Supt. Public Instruction. County
Tax levied % 1-6 cents, the Conttitu-
tional limit.
There is now q probability that
there will be no encampment of the
State Guard this year. As the reason
for this it is stated that the funds on
hand that could be used for this pur-
pose are insufficient to pay the ex-
penses attending the encampment, un-
less the railroads would make a fur
ther reduction in rates, and this ar
rangement, it is found, cannot be
made.
We hear such chat as this An eff
fort is being make, i'll quiet way, to
induce the D. & N. R. r. to extend
, -itsline on to Mt. Airy. And thai
!. work will commence soon. &c. These