Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-04-08
ALL OVER THE STATE.
NEWS OF TIE wEERIS soRTH CAR
OLINA.
Carefully Culled From Our Cote1.poraries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.

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Carefully Culled From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.
WILSON.
George Bryant, a young white man about
% years OF age. was drowned IN Tar River
q riie above Thompsons mill in Wilson
county recently He went fishing had fit
and fell in.
MIR. Farrar of TarLoro, u few days ago
contracted Nth Mt Wilkins, OF Wilson, To
build his hotel and six store s, and 10 have
them completed and read IL Tor occupancy by
September LIST. The work will tegin se.rr
The dweilin. house of Mi. e. E. Yelver-
ton, Of Black Creek township vas destroyed
by fire one day last week. Tie FIRE originat-
Ell iroin i defective fiue. The inrnlture was
all saved. The less is estimated at $1,000.
at the Episcopal Convention in Wilson
recently, Interesting addresses were made by
Col W. II. S. Burgwyn, of Henderson, Ja-
cob Battle, Esq, of Rocky Mount, Z. FL.
Battle, ESQ., OF Raleigh, MIR. j. B. Stickney,
of iison, and r. Fl. Smith, of Scotland
Neck. Among the divines who preached
were Revs. Gilbert Higgs, w. j. Smith, A.
Smith. The Wilson Mirror says the meet
ings were well attended and highly enjoy
ed
The Grand Division of the Sons of Tenn
perance will meet at Black Mountain on the
18th of April.
A man named Micajah Loring is under
arrest at Asheville on the charge of robbing
the postofiice at Ivy, Buncombe county.
capt J. Nj. Palmer, a former resident of
Buncombe, who left that county when the
gold fever broke out in California, in 1s49
returned few days ago for the first time.
robson.
Moses " ood colored, aged 100 years died
recently at Lumberton. He was the same
age as the town of Lumberton, having been
born in 1856.
a fire occurred near Red Springs last
week, burning up nearly ali OF D. McP.
Buie's, J. Mel. Browns and Mrs. W. II.
Browns timber and fences.
Mr. john A McRae caught a large wild
cat near Shoe Heel swamp, last week in a
steel trap. His catship was twenty inches
! high, and stretched four and a quarter feet
Messrs. Wilkinson & Fore lost their store
| and about one thousand dollars worth of
goods by fire at Alma last week, also two
story house, the lower floor being used for
forage, &c. and the upper one was a hall,
which was used for church, and where the
| Alma Sunday school met. A negro house
about one-quarter of mile of, was ignited
by spark and burned. Total loss about
81 500 or $4,000; no insurance.
A forest fire in Robson county last week
caused considerable obstruction. On Eliza
! beth road about three miles from Lumber
ton the fire burnt over space ofseveral miles
in length and l. miles in width. Mckay
Rozier, Robert Rozier, Arch. Baker and
VIM. Purnell lost nearly all the fences
-, 70 ltxy., al
turpentine boxes destroyed. On The Garth
age road the fire burned crop Of boxes on
the land above the ''old Aorrisey Mill,
rented by John Z. Carlyle. A quantity OF
cross-tie timber belonging to b. Goodwin and
others was destroyed.
DAVIDSON.
1t is understood that MIR. john G. Hunt
will be appointed Postmaster at Lexington
says the Dispatch.
little son of Mr. A. l.. Clodfelter, al
Lexington, fell down stairs recently and
broke his left arm between the wrist and
elbow.
Mr.. 4. 4. Koonts was badly hurt by :
log rolling over him during the baru raising
recently, of Mr.. John II. Michaels in Tyre
township.
The meetings which have been conducted
for some time past in the Lexington Pres
byterian Church have closed, with eighteeI
converts the good results.
Nil. H. J. Hunt of Lexington, seyera
days ago, caught an eel while fishing in Alb
bott's creek, that measured eight inches il
circumference and IS inches in length.
ORANGE.
A colored preacher at Hillsboro recent,
married a white woman to a colored man
p not knowing that The former was N hIte
Mr. Green Anderson killed fish hawl
recently near Hilisboro, which measured
feet and inches from tip to tip.
Alex Laws. of Little River township wa
arrest ed by Deputy U. S. Marshal Watkin.
recently, for illicit Disabling. He was al
, forwards discharged, the evidence being in
|. sufficient
The contract for making the brick for tn
new chemical laboratory, an extension {
Person Hall, at the University of Mort
, Carolina, has hesn awaI ded to Mr.. Thoma
2 Brockwell.
Z. H. Stubbins, charged with retailin
. and disabling spiritnoas liquors without /
cense, had a hearing before q. S. Commii
. sioner Jones, at IIillsboro, March 30th, an
!. WAS requil ed TO give $500 bond for hi
; appearance at the next term of the U. {
| Court at Greensboro.
WAKE.
S Raleigh j. arranging for cattle show
May.
SIS, 600 in construction bonds came into til
State Treasury Monday for renewal, an
$4,000 of old bonds were received to be e1
changed for four Der cent bonds.
< The graduation of six csiored men in Ii
: school OF medicine at Shaw University la
= | weak RIG an in,port3Df -eDues in the In /
: tory Of the colorcd race in North Carolin
! The body of Thomas Ryan, whose disal
pearance from Raleigh, THE SENTINEL no
4 ed in last issue, was found Sunday ne;
/ Raleigh He committed suicide by takir
!. laudinum.
e The Shaw University (colored at Ra
T eigh, wooden building 50x30, two stori
in height, is in course of erection for use
: mechanical shop. 1t will be thorough
! equipped with all necessary machinery.
. A Raleigh man picked up dead En-
lish sparrow a few days ago, and fastened
its throat was one of the hideous bugs whit
fell in shower in that city recently. Sc
eral dead sparrows were found in simul
condition. A man put one of the bugs in
self to the birds neck and killed it. Sever
a n persons have also been bitten by the "cr
= ters."
"a SAMPSON.
r. A colored man in Clinton died few da
e ago from injuries received from fall in
y the fire when both of his legs were severe
n burned, necesitating amputation.
le DIR. Holiday, of Clinton, has curiosi
l. l. in the shape of a twin pig; which has t,
- bodies, eight feet and two perpect develo
4 a.,