The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-05-27
ALL OVER THE STATE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN NORTH CAR
OLINA.

Carefully Cu1led From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.
NEW HANOVER.
The Wilmington Light Infantry
is holding baby show this week
Wilmington is building up her
burnt district and new lite seems to be
infused into the old place.
The first regatta of the Carolina
Yacht Club. of Wilmington was an
nounced for May 26th.
A public meeting is to be held in
Wilmington to decide the location of
the new government building and to
discuss other city improvements.
Rumor has it that the Wilmington
IL Weldon Railroad Company has
made proposition to lease the North
Carolina Road from Goldsboro to
Charlotte.
MONTGOMERY.
III. H Warner, Of Rochester, \. Y.
the safe liver cure man, is president of
the Steel Gold Mining Company,
whose mine is in Montgomery county,
this State He was at the mine re-
Gently and is well pleased with his in
veStnent.
BUNCOMBE.
There was slight frost in Bun
combe county, and perhaps at other
points west Of the Blue Ridge, last
Monday.
The members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, of Ashe-
vile, are running coffee house. They
have recently learned that their milk
man is an anti and have boycotted
him.
DURHAM.
The Presbyterian church at Dur
ham is now lighted by electricity.
Durham is to have q new Metho-
dist church. Work on it has begun.
w. Duke, Sons & Co., will give $500
a year for the education of poor chill
dren in Durham. The money is to
be used for clothing also.
There are at least 500 girls in Dur
ham who earn their livelihood. They
are making cigarettes, working in the
bag factory, and are earning their
bread by the sweat of their brows.
Raleigh knights of Labor denounce
the Socialists and Anarchists.
The Raleigh papers announce the
death of Mrs. Julia 4. Dewey in that
city on the 21st inst, aged 80 years.
Last week an old colored man Mat
thew Smith, aged about so, was burn
ed to death at his house in Middle
Creek township ten miles southwest of
Raleigh. He had gotten up to make
a fire and was smoking his pipe, when
the flames were communicated to his
clothing. The house and all its con-
tents were totally destroyed. His
wife, an old woman about the same
age as her husband, was badly burn
ed.
CASWELL.
Dr. Samuel f. Brackin was born
in Caswell county, n. c.. June 14th,
1916. and Died in Danville, Va, May
Sth, 1887.
George Mcdaniel, a colored man
living with Van Strader, near Pei
hams, was killed by lightning on the
9Th of May under barn shelter on
his place where he had stopped out Of
rain.
Married at the residence of the
brides father, near Corbett's, in Cas-
we'll county, on the 10Th, by Rev, J.
d. Buie, Mr. Charles B. Flintiff and
Miss Emma Malone.
RANDOLPH.
John Mendenhall committed sui
eide in Randolph county by hanging
himself in the loft of his house.
The Greensboro Workmon SAYS
there was strike at Naomi Fall, Ran
dolph county, last week, for a reduc-
ton of time from IS to - hours. 1t
was not acceded to and about rs hands
went out.
MECKLENBURG.
The Medical Convention will be
held in Charlotte next year.
Arrangements are being made to
consolidate all the car work and ma
chine shops of the entire Richmond g.
Danville system at Charlotte.
HALIFAX.
A smoking and chewing tobacco
factory is to be started at Shetland
Neck.
The Enfield Blues have been organ
lied at Enfield with DR.. Exum Hun
ter, captain Fletcher Parker 1st lieu
tenant, and DR.. J. A. McGuigan, I'd
lieutenant.
CHATHAM.
Two mad dogs have been killed re-
Gently in the section beyond Lockville.
According to the latest bulletin is
sued by the State Board of health,
Chatham has more paupers at the