Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-03-04
THE NEWS OF A WEEK.
OCCURRENCES IN STATE AND
WORLD.

WORLD.
Carefully Culled From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.
STATE.
The convicts have graded six miles of the
railroad from Clinton to Warsaw.
We learn that Raleigh is soon to have
a Sunday paper to be called the Times.
1t is said that Col. Thomas S. Kenan will
probably be the new clerk of the Supreme
Court.
HiIlsboro is on somewhat of boom as a
tobacco market. The old town is walking
up.
A passenger train ran into section car
on the n. c. e. r. near Townsville, damag-
ing the car but not injuring the occupants
The subscription price of Country Homes,
Asheville, Mr.. J. S. Tomlinson's paper, has
been reduced from 81 90 per year to so cent
4 large number of convicts have recently
been sent cut to increase the force now at
work on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
r. r.
Messrs Snow & Co, of High Point, are re-
doubling their capacity fer the manufacture
of sash, doors and blinds. They ought to
advertise in the Winston papers.
The Steel mine, in Montgomery county.
is being put in shape for extensive opera
tions. About seventy-fve hands are employ
ed in building and placing machinery.
One thousand Of the three thousand voters
in Raleigh have signed petition asking
that an election be ordered in that city on
| the question of prohibition
Some miscrsant placed torpedoes on the
AZ 81 Nhor Loft
which exploded when ran over by a freight
train. Col. j.. T. Anthony received severe
| hurt. =.
| The McAdoo House, of Greensboro, has
| been leased for a term of Eve years at an an
nual rental Of s., 600 by E. F. Hall, of Green's
| boro, and W. w. Martin, OF Cincinnati,
| Ohio.
! Mr.. Julius A. Gray, Of Greensboro, Presi-
dent Of the Cape Fear & YadkiA Valley
Railroad, says work progresses satisfactorily,
! In all 300 convicts are now at work on the
line.
i, Judge Walter Clark has caused scatter
ing of the "soiled doves at Greensboro. He
gave them the alternative of leaving North
ECarolina in twenty-four hours or Of going to
IJail for thirty days. They all left.
/ Prof e. A. Aid erman, the excellent and
deservedly popular Superintendent Of the
| GOIdSDOfO 4faQeO SCHOOL, ms Occu SiccteO
to the Superintendancy Of the Ashville
Normal School for next summer.
Mr. J. F. Turrentine gets 81 900 from the
Richmond & Danville Railroad, for the loss
of his voice, caused by cold taken in a cal
without a stove. He had sued the road but
compromised with the sum mentioned.
Mr. W. G. Troy informs the Lumbertor
Rebesonian of the death Of Kelly McKinnor
a negro convict from Rcbeson county, on thu
Asheville & Spartanburg Railroad. He wal
accidentally killed by an avalanche of eartf
from deep cutting on the railroad.
Mr.. Della Worth Bingham, wifs.of Col
Robert Bingham, of Bling ham school, diet
on 25th ult.. after long illness, at the ag
of 43 years. She was the daughter of tn
Hon John NJ Worth, ex-State Treasurer
and was widely known as noble Christian
women.
A young New Bernian undertook to ligh
a fire with an open can Of kerosene in hi
hand. The Journal says: "The back doc
of the room happened to be open and admit
ted Of his passage out TO the back yare
where he found himself after recoverin
3 from the shock of the explosion" 1t ais
3 tells of another accident from a kerosene ca
left near the fire. An explosion followed.