The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-23
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
The new court house in Union is to
cost $4,000.
The contractor is putting up the
poles for Asheville's Janney electric
lights.
Tarboro fails to support an ice fact
DRY and the one there will be taken
elsewhere.
Eight new store houses have been
built in Riedsville within the last two
or three months, and the work goes
on.
W. B. Blake, a worthy citizen of
Of Robson county, died at his home
near Lumberton on Friday, the 3rd
inst.
The erection of new buildings in
our town lends us an air of progress
which is refreshing.-Edenton En-
quirer.
Capt. Heady, of Onslow, has 800
diamond back tarrapins in pen, and
after while he will sell them for 50
or $3.50 each.
Richard Daughterty was bitten by
a poisonous snake in Caterest county
and died of the bite. 1t is thought to
have been rattlesnake.
It's free fight in Mcdowell this
year. About forty candinates are in
the field for county offices, all on their
own hook.-Hickory Carolinian.
The Grand Jury of Watauga coun-
ty, at the recent session of the Supe-
rior Court. report the jail as very un-
safe and the roads in bad condition.
Our town has a new industry. 1t
is the Sumac trade. Thousands of
pounds are brought in every week
and finds ready sale arreuton Ga
zette.
Col. Fishers famous regiment the
Sixth, will have reunion at Durham
probably. A preliminary meeting is
to be held on the 25th inst, at that
place.
It is now said to be certain that the
earthquake caused the recent fall of
the roof of the great tunnel through
the Blue Ridge at Swanoanoa on the
Western North Carolina railroad.
The Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad company has purchased l.
900 tons of steel rails for use on that
road. Rails arenow being distributed
between New Berne and Kinston.
Altha Elizabeth Cara died in Eliz-
abeth City last Wednesday, aged IA
years. She was badly burned last
month by the explosion of kerosene
lamp and her death was the effect of
! it.
In difficulty in Wilkes county,
Sim Byers shot Henry Edwards twice
and killed him. Both the parties was
from Allegheny county. The diff
Guilty was abouta horse again.-States-
v;lle Landmark.
The colored people of Keyser have
recently purchased brass band that
cost 100. While practing on Tuesday
night of the earthquake they lost the
tune, if they had any, and abandoned
music for a foot race.
Died, at Bingham School, at the
residence of his daughter, Mrs. o. w.
Bingham, Saturday Sept 4, Mr.. Will
liam White White, oged 80 years.
He was citizen Of Raleigh number
of years and was for sometime post
master.
Under the law requiring registra
tionsbooks to be kept open for thirty
days next preceding the election Eek
Guiding Sundays) the registrars will
have to begin their work on the twen-
ty-eighth day of september. The cleo
ton will be held ON Tuesday, the End
of November.
| The Neacs- Observer keeps up a big
racket and thinks much credit is du-
it for furnishing the news of the earth
quake. So do we think it deserves
credit. but there are other papers
that furnish the news fully as did the
Observer, the Wilmington Star for in
stance.-Rocky Mt. Talker.
At Marshall the earthquake was
terrific, but no damage was done.
Houses were very much shaken and
it was feared they would go to pieces.
The citizens were very uneasy ex-
pecting that the cliffs and hills in the
rear Of the town would come down
and bury them.-Ashemlle Citizens
| Some of the people in the lower
part of Columbus county are in 6
state of excitement from the earth
quake. In some places are adding te
the fear hy nreachinp that the earth