The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-05-06
ALL OVER THE STATE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN NORTH CAR
E& Sal OLINA.
Carefully Cul1ed From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.
DURHAM.

Particles.
Capt. L. NJ. Hawkins, of Greensboro, and
Mr.. Charles D. Vernon, of the Mt Vernon
Hotel at Salisbury, have rented the hotel at
Durham.
Last week difficulty occurred in Ceder
Folk Township, between ]. E. Norris white
and Geo Hayes, colored, resulting in the
latter being shot fatally.
The Supreme Court declares the Graded
School act unconstitutional in the case of
Riggsbee versus town of Durham, and the
school will be closed.
Durham last week signed contract for
water works. The works will approximate
In cost S1OO,0O0 and are to be constructed
by Northern firm. The city takes eighty
hydrants paying an annual rental of 81, 900.
The Board of Directors of the Durham
and Roxbore railroad organized by the
election of the following offic, RS President
Julian S. Carr; Vice President, W. Duke;
Secretary, Geo. w. Watts; Treasurer Eu-
gene Morehead
CHATHAM
One night last week some one set fire to
and burned nearly half mile of the fence
of L. b. Fowler, near Pittsboro.
L.
of Chatham county, caught fire while alone
at home and was burned to death.
A Baptist union meeting will be held with
the church at Brush Creek, in Chatham, be-
ginning on Friday, the 2Sth of May The
Introductory sermon will be preached by
Rev. J. F. Moore
I. The Pittsboro Home continues its inter
esting discussion on "Chatham Worthless"
dor. n
d. the eminent Baptist minister, brother of
the late Governor and late Judge Manly.
John Dixon, who is subject to alteration
of the mind. caused by epilepsy, left Pitts
boro one day recently riding bareback
mule and has not been heard from by his
family. 4 reward is offered for him. Sui
eide is expected.
Mr.. Greenberry Burns has shown the
Plttsboro Record curious looking stone,
that seems TO be petrified terrapin with a
hollow in each end where the head and tail
might have been. 1t was found on his moth
ers plantation in the lower edge of Chatham
county.
Mr. Hasting P. Straughan, of Evans,
Chatham county, has done something novel.
He mounted pair of monster spectacles on
his horse, and that animal now goes along
with two regular headlights IN front of him.
He is apparently pleased at his great
amount ofstyle ard the curiosity he excites.
Mr. Straug han says the animals eyes were
failing and almost a month ago he put on
the spectacles. They had happy effect
Mr. Stranghan laughs as heartily as anybody
at his novel scheme.
WAYNE.
Goldsboro will soon have a telephone ex-
change.
Deans, Pearson & Ham are erecting a
saw mill near Goldsboro, at a cost of So, 800.
Teachers Institute for the colored
teachers will be held in Wayne county dur
ing the month of June.
There was quite fire at Dudley. on the
w. 4 w. r. r., Friday night. Several
stores and dwellings were destroyed. 1t is
supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiary.
The Wayne county Teachers Institute
will open on Wednesday the 2nd of June,
in the Graded School building, and will
hold daily sessions until Tuesday the 22d.
Prof f. 4. Alderman has been selected to
conduct the Institute and he will be assisted
by competent corps of teachers.
A case of considerable interest was dis
posed of in the Superior Court at Goldsboro
recently. SIR. A. MCGOWAN, of Duplin
brought suit against the w. & ". Railroad
for the statute penalty for failure to trans
port freight with proper promptness. The
Messenger says 1t seems that Mr.. MCGOWAN
had delivered to the railroad at Mt Olive.
for shipment, small lot of rice, and be rea-
son of their negligence claims to have sus-
tanned loss which he offered to compromise
for SIG. This the company refused and
hence the suit. The jury gave him the full
amount Of the penalty provided by statute
In such cases, amounting in this instance
to 81 $50, from which verdict the railroad
appealed.
A Danbury lawyer has $4,000 in mort
gage notes to collect for Winston firm.
Germanton is to have tobacco ware
house, stock company being in organiza-
ton.
Stokes county hogs are dying very rapid
ly. The cause of the epidemic Is said to be
acorns.
The Danbury Reporter says that the Coun-
ty Surveyor was engaged nearly all last
week in laying off new towns at Walnut
Cove and Stokesburg. About three hundred
lots were surveyed, and it is proposed to
call the new town North and South Walnut
Cove.
A Cleveland county woman brought suit
10 eject lei husband from "a tract of land
which he had decided her. The court drove
him off.
The Cleveland county bond question re-
mains IN statu quo. The chairman has not
yet signed the bonds, nothing has been done
since the report of the Investigating Com
mittee by the County Commissioners, who
were to meet on May Sd.
A year ago Mr.. E. A. Morgan, of Shelby.
gained q suit against the First National
Bank OF Charlotte for the recovery of usuri-
GUS interest, getting 81, 100. An appeal was
taken and the case went to the Supreme
Court OF North Carolina where the decision
was confirmed. An appeal was again taken
to a still higher Court, and now this little
Cleveland county case is in the Supreme
Court ofthe United States H#