The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-08-12
ALL OVER THE STATE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN NORTH CAR
OLINA.


OLINA.
Carefully CuIled From Our Contemporaries
land Compressed into Small
Particles.
GRANVILLE
An excursion to Morehead CITY is
contemplated by the Granville Grays.
Oxford is to have a new bank, Mr.
jerome Horper will be the President
of it.
A negro man at New Bern was dan
gerously stung by spider Tuesday.
The New Berne graded school re-
opens September 13 Prof. G. w. Neal
has been elected principal.
Dun ham intends to send g tierce of
fine tobacco to Lee Camp Soldiers
Home, at Richmond, Va.
Durham paid over $4,000 more for
revenue stamps during the month of
july than the great tobacco manutact-
uring city of Danville, Va. Durham
Recorder.
The Durham Recorder says the sur
veyors have returned from surveying
the Durham & Sanford end of the new
railroad. This route lies east of New
Hope and is forty miles long. 1t is
believed much shorter, cheaper and
better route can be had to Sanford.
BUNCoMBE
The manufacture of bogus Indian
relics is said to be a growing industry
in the country near Asheville.
Col. John H. Barnard, of Alexan-
ders, informs us that the tobacco crop
III his section is anything else but
promising.
Col. James Madison Gudger, ST.,
has returned to Asheville from his sur
vey of the dividing line between North
Carolina and Tennessee.
A freight train was slightly wrecked
between Marshall and Warm Springs
yesterday morning, which prevented
the train from passing.-Ashecite Ad-
rance
The Asheville Adra,,ce says the line
of projected railway from Rutherford
ton to Marion has been located by Col
Thad Coleman, the engineer of the
Massachusetts Southern Construction
Company. The work is to e pushed.
1t is now thought by the AsheviIle
Citizen that Mrs. Eliza Merrill did not
commit suicide by drowning, but while
attempting to cross Cane creek On a
foot log, missed her footing, fell in
and was swept away by the swift cur
rent.
The commissioners appointed by
Governor Scales to act jointly with
the commissioners feom the State of
Tennessee, for the purpose of running
disputed line of about twenty miles,
Saturday returned to Ashevslle with
out having run the line. The COM
missioners on the part of Tennessee
are not ready, and the work was post
poned until October Is.
1t was currently reported some
time ago that presentments had been
made in the Inferior Court of Bun
combe county against Richmond
Pearson and James r. Hamilton-one
for sending and the other for bearing
challenge to fight duel. At this
term of the court bill against each
was sent before the grand jury, which
body, after full examination, return
to the court not true bills. This ends
the matter. The punishment in case
of conviction is disbarment from hold
ing office.
1redell county is divided between
Messrs. Leazer and Holman for the
house of commons. Sheriff Allison
has no opposition.
1t is said that the Charlotte anC
Statesville railroad is to become ;
part of the western division of tn,
Richmond & Danville system under
the same management as the Western
North Carolina railroad. 1t is known
as the South Carolina division of tina
system.
WAKE
OF the Superior Court judges sever
are to be chosen at the next election
Six are to be elected for the regula
term of eight years, while the seventh
(Judge Boykin) will be elected to I'll
Judge McAoys Ll.ap.:e, :or.n 0
four years.
Misses T. l. VanGilder and E. G
Carrier, of this city, have contracte
with Mr.. E. J. Armstrong for tn
building of magnificent brick hott
at the famous White Sulphur Spring
situated four miles west OF Raleigh.
will cost S25,OO0.-AsheuiZe Adpanc
YADKIN.
1t is thought there is rich doposi