The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-05-13
ALL OVER THE STATE.
NEWS OF THE wEEKIN NORTH CAR
OLINA.
Carefully Culled From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.
GUILFORD
Correspendence Of tie Sentinel.

Although the people of our hamlet
are quiet and enterprising they are al
so looking forward with high hope. for
prosperous future, this place having
been selected for the second depot
from Greensboro on the c.. F. e Y V.
r. Rs Situated on the Main Roads
leading from Madison, Wentworth,
Riedsville, DanLury and the adjoining
counties of Virginia, all the above
roads converging at this point iLto the
great highway leading to Winston,
Salisbury etc.--The people have
wisely selected the name of Graysboro
for the town in the near future in hon
or of that highly esteemed gentleman,
Julius A. GRAY, President Of the road,
who has won for himself so many
friends from Mt Airy to Greensboro.
i am confident it will be but a
short time until a thriving town will
spring up as if by magic, where now
the fields are clothed with growing
grain. The song Of the mocking bird
will soon give place to the shrill whistle
of the locomotive and the busy hum
of machinery-W have all the fer
tile valleys of the Dan on the north to
roll III her thousands of freight into
the lap of the nearest market, while
far across the blue hills stands our
neighboring mountains like giant SEN
tinels smiling TRANQUILITY at our future
prosperity --The peaceful Dan as
she moves along in her winding course
murmuring her own story to its pebbly
bed as she has done for thousands of
years, has recently been disturbed by
the restless ingenuity OF Mr.. Laster, OF
Rockingham county, who has a small
upright engine used in threshing
wheat J mounted upon Il boat 30 feet
long by s wide, converting it into a
small sidewheel steamer. On Easter
Monday she was duly launched IN
Dan river. We suppose he felt much
as Fulton felt on the Hudson but still
he fires up surrounded by an impatient
throng. He pulls the lever She
starts. She moves. She seems to feel
the thrill Of life along her keel" and
glides like Il swan down the river
perfect success.--Efforts are being
made to build a brick church at old
Goshen, under the management OF Rev.
}. &. Thomas few DAYS ago some
men in the service Of Mrs Canon Moore
went to plant-bed for some purpose
and saw a large black snake on the
bed, being afraid of it they tried to
run it away but soon found it was
dead with out any marks Of violence
upon it. On revisiting the spot the
following morning they found four
more in the same condition. Could
the fertilizer in the plant-bed have
killed them ?-Wheat is looking
very promising in this section. The
crows are making sad havoc in the
young corn. VIII not some enterpris-
ing person get up something that will
eXterminate these pests Of the farm
ers. HORACE GREEDY.
Pond, ". c.
Guiltord county jail has y prison
ers.
The Guilford county horticultural
Association will have an exhibition Of
small fruits at Greensboro, on Tues
day, the 1Sst inst
Ed Barton and Alfred Williams.
two negroes, broke out of Person
county Jail, recently.
In the noted case Of Blackwell VS..
McElwee, tried in Person county Su-
perior Court last week, a verdict was
rendered against McElwee. Judge
Clark presided This is another vic
tory for the Durham Bull
DURHAM
More suits in regard to Durham's
graded school are threatened.
At Durham five local option and
two license commissioners were elected
Freeland was elected mayor, defeating
Redmon by IA votes.
Col. w. t. Blackwell, writing in
reference to the future of the Durham
School, regrets the action of those OPP
posed to the school, anc closed by say
ing to the Trustees To go ahead and
secure al the available funds that can
be had from the county board OF educa-
ton and to collect from the friends of
the school such amounts as they may
be willing to contribute and the com
mittee are hereby authorized to draw
on me for the balance that may be
necessary to carry on the school as
heretofore.
CALDWELL. al
A son of John 7. Brooks, who lives
in Caldwell county on Smoking Creek
was drowned recently.
During thunderstorm the light
ming struck chimney to the house
of Mr.. Coleman Bowman's, near Petra
Mills, Caldwell county, injuring those
sitting around the fire.
CHATHAM.
Renorts from all over Chatham are