Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-04-29
THE WESTERN SENTINEL, THURSDAY APRIL 49, 1886.

3IiZdDSth lily greatly ueSlreS 10 De Tie
site Of the next encampment of the State
Guards.
&C. Il. Hardee, at Iron Hill, attempted sui
eide by taking laudanum, He was saved
by the doctors.
In the suit for $4,000 damages for SLAM
der at Greenville, the plaintiff was awarded
five cents damages.
The Tarboro Southerner notes a decrease
in the crime of larceny in that county \
good sign of moral development, or of the
power to steal without being caught.
The first Besssemer steel made in the
South was made at Chattanooga, A pril 10Th
of pig iron from the Cranberry North Car
lima ores 1t was pronounced excellent.
W. II. Snow, of High Point, has sold a
half interest in his patent tobacco curing
process to Goodell & Waters. Philadelphia
and has sum sufficient to push the bust
ness.
Twenty -one head of cattle in one pile,
were found drowned on the plantation of 81.
j. Pope in Halifax county, recently, after
the freshet had subsidized in the Roanoke
river.
A Kinston lady lost gold ring year
/ ago. A few days ago the ring was found on
bean stalk in the garden that had grown
| through the ring and pushed It out of the
ground
We learn from the Lincoln Press that
Maj. w. II. Burton is shipping water to
persons in Philadelphia. The list of remark
able cures effected by this water is growing
steadily.
The prohibitionists of Charlotte are very
active just now getting petitions signed for
the election in June. Hon. R. Y. McAden
,xlo,,- 81,
movemf MT.
The Ashford Curtain Fastener Company
has been organized at Clinton, for the rur-
pose of pushing the patent recently issued
to Mr.. Thos. b. Ashford on his metal eye
let and button holes.
An editor in North Carolina says: " Gold
I is found in thirtv-six counties in this State,
silver in three, diamonds in twenty-six, and
whisky in all of them and the last gets
away with all the rest"
The people of Johnston county are con-
,ributing morey for the erection OF Il monu-
ment to the Confederate soldiers who fell on
the battle field of Bent onsville. People of
other O mites are also contributing.
Over thirty thousand acres Of fine Hay
wood county lands we're sold last week, thir-
ty thousand being i'll ne sale. Some Lon
don capitalists were the purchasers of this
letter. Sale va, made by the executors of
the estate.
On last Saturday night Mr.. Tobias Tyre
| ", who lives on the Gold Hill road about
| six mile. from Salisbury, had his house,
| barn and stock destroyed by fire. The fire
| is believed to have been the work of an in
cendiary.
The Troy Vidette tells of four voung men
attempting to cross Little River in boat
on their way to see their sweethearts The
river WIS swollen, and after being washed
some distance down the stream, they had to
return home but in 4 bad humor. 1t was a
narrow escape of life.
The little sensation the people OF Stanly
county and those attending court last week
experienced over the cracking of he court
house while the court was in session, will
| probably result in the erection Of large,
| durable brick structure that will reflect much
credit upon ihe good people of Stany.
The negroes in the employment of the
Msssach,lsettle AMI Southern construction
| comp anv, i'll Rutherford county, have organ
lied court, with sheriff, judge &c, and
| when any ii their number is suspected of
theft he is arrested tried, and if found gull
ty, hogged in good old style. Two of them
received 1oggins the other day for stealing.
Ella Baldwin, young woman who lived
with the family of a Mr.. Fowler, near Com
pany shops, recently became mother, and
is nov suspected OF infancide. The Ala
nance Cleaner says that the woman has
been arrested and put in Jail at Graham.
The child WAS found partially burie.! in a
sand-bank on the ceeek near Coolies mill
pond Its head was partially crushed.
Mr.. Robert Madison, of Virginia, is at
Pigeon River to investigate the facts of the
MURDER of Prof Monroe Madison. The cor
oner Of Haywood county held an inquest
The jury found that unknown assassin
had slain young Madison. They offered q
reward of $500, and this will be duplicated
by the Virginia relatives of the young man
Search for the assassin continues. Excite
ment Increases.
Challenged for a Duel.
Wednesdays Charlotte Observer contains
ed II special from Ashevilie which says thai
on Tuesday, Richmond Pearson, Esq, chal
lenged Gen. Johnstone Jones for duel
The last legislature passed stock law bill
for this county. These two gentlemen, rep