Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-04-22

Tar river, which were swept away by the |
late freshet.
The State Baard of Education offers for |
sale about "A, 600 acres of the swamp lands |
belonging to the Board in Fender and Dup
lin counties.
The citizens of Johnston county are max
ing preparations to erect a monument to the
memory of the Confederate dead who fell at
Rentonsyllle.
On Thursday evening the first engine
came through to Wilson on the Wilson and
Fayetteville short cut road from Neuse river
ut Smithfeld.
Two Russian peddlers have canvassed the
counties of Jones and Onslow and within
very short time Collected thousand dollars
worth of filrs at Polioksville
Ga.ton county, through McAden's mills,
Is supplying plaids to South America. 4
large shipment Of plaids from these mills
were male to Brazil last week.
The Monastery, near Garibaldie has been
! incorporated under the name OF the South
| ern Benedictine Society of North Carolina,
| with a capital stock of $4,000
/ The body Of the woman who was recently
drowned, with three men, in Iuckasagee
I river, was found where it had washed ashore
| ten miles below charleston, Swain county,
recently.
A sewing machine agent named Jetton
| came near being drowned in the 1adkln
| river during the recent rainy season lie
attempted to cross and was washed down
the stream.
The rails will be laid on the Murphy q
North Georgia railroad TO within twenty
two miles of Murphy by July the list. Doubt
less BY January next the road will be COM
pleted to Murphy.
ARRANGEMENTS have been perfected for a
grand cooking main between Washington,
I'D. G., and North Carolina, to come on In
Norfolk the 2lst Of this month. Mucn
money will be invested.
At log-rolling near Mount Olive on Fri
day last, Levi Ward, colored, routed nest
of large moccasin snakes four OF which NIL
ed half bushel measure. Ihey s"o"ea
fight but were promptly dispatched.
Col John Ashford has just finished put
, ting out 1000 fruit trees this spring on M.
Six Runs plantation, in Sampson count!
He had already growing about that number
Ills orchard covers nearly 50 acres OF land
Hon. r. R. Bridgers, President OF tn
n | Atlantic Coast Line denied the reporte'
: purchase of the Norfolk Southern by tn
: w. & W. Road. He asys there is
! particle of foundation for the report
The new telegraph line being constIncte
by the Western North arollna Raliroa
. Company between Asheville and henderson
Vile is nearing completion, and VIII
opened for the transaction OF business In
1t few days.
One hundred Thousand extra copies {
h Senator Vance's speech on the repeal OF In
D Civil Service law have been printed. Bel
4 resentatlve Henley, of California. ordere
n ten Thousand copies sent to his constitHen
N and by every mail orders are pouring
from all parts of the country.
4 very remarkable discovery has be-
rs made in Bladen county. Men sinking pl
o, there came across massive walls of stone al
cement at quite depth below groun
a There is no record of any building harIi
- been built there by white men. The pla
=. is on the banks of a creek. The buildln
- must have been of great size.
Judge Hugh L. Bond, sitting in chambe
y, as of the U. S. circuit court for the weste
III district of North Carolina, on saturd
heard and refused a motion to dissolve t
of pending injunction in the case of the ",
Oh Point Terminal Company vs. the Danvll
Mocksville & Southwestern Railroad 20
pany, and to discharge the receiver, Col.
nus Turner Norehead, of Leaksviile, N. Z
d" Baltimore SUI.