The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-06-17
ALL OVER THE STATE.
NBHxoF THE WEEK N North CAR-
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SURkY.
Correspondence Of tie Ses.t.ael.
Tho Justices of the Peace oil. e;nrry county
met ri ,.,i,.,n on the first Mon.isr Tor the
purpose OF levying tie taxes Tor this year
and eleetins Boar .ifGoanty Commission
erS and Il Superintendent ni Public lnaric-
ton for the COUNTY. The old Board
Nessrs Miller Bnrras. sai PARK. were re-
elected and Mr.. Lv"eiirn the present eth
Gent Superintendent Was also retained A
tax OF 81 80 on The poll AMI SO cents On the
hundred dollars worth Of property WAS lev
1 ti.--I'he farmer are greatly i'ehInd
with their crops ewing 10 the recent rains
- he cio>iD. exercises al the Rockford
High School took place III tbs Al inst and
in .pit. Of clouds and ntid there MAS = large
crors: present. The exercises were opened
with lr. ser h- I.ev. d. Il. Holcomb. The
annual address was made By j. l.. Patterson
Esq, al your city, and an able and lnstriic-
tive one il was. 1 shsll not attespt resume
OF it. Among other things lie paid glow
ing tribute 10 the memory of that gallant
soldier, Capt. r. y. Cr,.mpier, who was
killed in battle and who lies buried here,
the place of his birth, and whose. irieri.ls aud
admirers here and elsewhere, am told, are
making successful Efforts ~ raise fiin''s To
erect monument To his Hi..aiurr. The
speaker showed by facts and figure. the
steady and rapid pro. ress hat North Caro-
lima has made in the cause OF educstion In
the last fsw years. Altogether 4 speech
I admirably suited to such AN occasion. The
morning mostly taken zap with compost
| tions by the Young .a6iee and ,teclanations
by some of the younger students An inter-
esting feature of the program WAS debate
H. he enJ,r fi,S
question, E" Which has been productive of
I the most good, the Clergyman, the Lawyer
I or tie Doctor 2" the subject ably dis
| cu.sed and closely matched were the
! .iisputants that the committee of three APP
| pointed to decide the question were unable
! to agree. In the afternoon several original
| speeches were made and they were written
and delivered in Il manner that would have
done CT edit to any institution of learning III
| the State. They showed evidence of spscl-
al training in this line. The dialogues and
recita,ions at night were especially interest
ing and amusing. Prot. Cheely, the princi-
| pal is graduate of Emory and Henry Col
lege and of the University of Virginia and
has been teaching in various parts OF the
State for nearly thirty years and keeps full.
abreast with the modern methods Of lnstuc-
ton. There is fine prospect of AN in
creased attendance AT the next term. Nj.
! HERS AND THERE.
The Convention in the Fourth Judicial
! District will meet at Smithfeld on the 22d
of July.
VIM. Chayis, a Croatan Indian aged 81,
was killed at Ed. Oxenuine's house. near
| Lumberton by lightning last Sunday.
At Reldsyille recently MIR. j. II. Black
well was bitten by mad dog, and has gone
to Person county in search of Il maidstone.
4 The artesian we'll at Fayetteville is now
500 feet deep. 1t yields no water /; though
it is expected to yield 5000 gallons a
day.
The building known in Charlotte AS til q
headquarters of Lord CORVALLIS, during the
| Revolutionary war, was torn down last
week
The L.. s. fish department had she mil
lion voupg shad deposited in Deep river,
near Lockville, on last Tuesday night
Pittsboro Record.
Work will in few days begin the
Durham, Blue Wing & Ciarksville railroad
/ The company has been organized and every
thing ready for work.
Between two and three hundred banks
ponies were penned at thu middle pennins
on last Monday. Prices ranged from $50
to S775.-Beayort Record.
The Judicial Convention for thi. district
meets in Fayetteville June 29th, and the
Congressional Convention in Wadesboro
July 2lst.-Lumberton Robesonian.
The members of the syndicate of the Al
bermarle and Pamiico land company ar,
looking xfter their lands in Dare and Tyrrel
counties, the Elizabeth City Economists says
The census of Durham-just completed
gives the population at $3.50. In 1870 the
population was ESQ, in 1880, 2,l00, an in
creas OF 1869 since the census of 1880 was
taken.
The Republican Congressional Committes
OF the Second District met at Wilson Frida,
AMI selected August 18th as the time fol-
holding the Nominating Convention, and
Kinston as the place.
The prospects for a railroad from States
vile, via Taylorsville to Wilkesboro, ar,
bright. The r. & d. people have sent ar
engineer over it and the prospects are thai
work will soon begin. ~
Statesville voted on !, proposition to sub
scribe $4,000 to the proposed Roanoke ane
Southern railroad TO secure the extension
} through their town, which resulted in ma
jority Of $50 for the Issuing of the bends
The minority vote wxs only 20.
Mr.. B. F. Jacobs, ii well known citizen .o
Macon COUNTY, died at his residence nea
Franklin on Thursday last, from an attacl
brain fever. Mr.. jacobs was about 30 year,
of age. He received wounds in the late a
| from the effects of which he suffered unit
5. he died. N
, Four convicts attempted an escape on
, and half miles west of Black Mountain OF
Wednesday. The guards opened FIRE, q
: Jones WAS killed, two we've wounded, one o
which, John chapman, was rrcap.nred, tn
other Two were Boo Smith and Henry Rob
, Inson, all colored
The Chadbourn Times says Ne lear
that the Big Swamp Company, who bough
81 the Big swamp lands in Robeson and per
haps partly in Baden county, contemplat
establishing large mills at Fair Bluff for til,
purpose of swaying their Valuable oak, cy