Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-02-18
NEIGHBORHO0D NOTES.
ITEMS OF NEWS FROM NEAR BE
N0OKS.

Haversack of Happenings Contributed by
our Correspondents and Clipped
from Our Exchanges.
Salisbury is talking Water Works.
Kernersville has new public school
building.
The county fence around Guilford cost
the county about thirty hundred dol
lars
The Kernersville Neps is much improved |
in its new shape. We wish it renewed pros |
perity.
Greensboro ladies are agitating the ques-
ton of coffee house and reading room, as
an offset to the liquor shops
The Alexander County Jourmal is the name
of a new paper at TayIorsyille, recently
started with Mr.. C. w. Sewer as editor.
We heard few days ago that farmer
from Davie took 100 pounds of tobacco to
the Winston market and realized $237 for
same.
It is thought that the R. & D. r. E. will
erect a large and handsome depot at Safs-
bury in place of the one recently destroyed
by fire.
J. w. Irby, prominent merchant OF
High Point, so we learn from the Enterprise
| was arrested in that place few days ago
for attempting to assault Is year old girl
named Jane Cecil.
Mrs. Amelia Butler, wife of L. @. G. But
Ter, died on the 9th inst, at her home near
| County Line, in Davie County, of apepiexy.
She leaves an aged husband, three sons and
many friends to mourn.
Danbury is to have a tri-weekly mail from
that place to Patrick Court House, Va. If
the horse flesh is no better up there than
some that leaves Winston they will go some
t weekly and tr(y)i to go the next.
The High Point Enterprise says, that
4 Snow & Co. received last week twenty three
car loads of lumber, and shipped several
| loads OF sash, door, etc. They have been
running day and night this week, to fill or
| ders.
The Ne,cs says that the Greensboro Dist.
S. School convention of the Methodist
hurch South will be held at Kernersviilo
sometime i'll May next. AS it embraces the
| WnOIG QiStIiSt, SOod Sfo"o 90 49, -
good time, is expected.
The Herald says that Prof j. c. Price
the colored orator of Zion Wesley College
has returned from his Western tour, having
collected SIS, 500 for the building fund o.
the above mentioned institution. He has
gone to New York to secure enough more te
make it $4,000 S4O9 was subscribed il
Salisbury.
An Iredell man accompanied by his girl
saws the TayiorsviIle Journal, drove up te
our Court House, the other day, and thu
man went in the Registers Office and applied
for a marriage license. The license was fill
ed ont, and the would-be Benedict, upon be
| ing informed that it would cost him So, al
lowed that was too much he could get then
cheaper in Iredell, and waltzed of.
Mr.. ]. A. Hendrick has bought the Lock
plant ation-84 acres. Mr.. Lewis Bearc
who built the Beard now Locke bridge
the great-grand- father of our townsman Cap
John Beard, left this estate to his daughte
u Mrs. Locke, and it has been in possession
d the Locke family until now.-Herald. He
) also the great grandfather Of our townsmal
e Mr. John L. Beard.
The Greensboro Patriot says that abo,
;, twenty-five colored people emigrating froI
g Robson county to Arkansas, came up Q
:. the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroa
. Monday night, and have been camped /;
the depot since. The ticket agent of the
T., V. & G. R. r. promised to furnish the
tickets from Charlotte to Arkansas, but Sd
e nothing about getting them from here
10 Charlotte No one of the immigrants seen
n to know what will be done or when tn,
A! will start for Arkansas. We would advi
re them TO go back home and go to work.
A negro by the name Of ALT Mabry, brol
Jail in Lexington a few weeks since, L
around that place for several days aad sli
IS ped into town, to consult his legal adviser
% to what he should do but to the negro ST.
he prise, no sooner had he entered the Office, TIT
O, the sheriff called for admission. After a fl
On words ALT decided he would climb up t
W chimney, but the Dispatch says he cenclud
cI that it was too hot to make the attempt al
.st soon he was marched off to Jail, where
is likely to remain until he has a hearing
nv next court.
k: The Danbury Reporter of last week Civ
of the following in regard to a lynching scra
e that took place few days since. 1t s.
raj that last week, as we noted at the time
man calling himself Martin, was jailed HI
nd upon the charge of horse stealing. In
m the stolen property was found in his poss
an sion. On Friday last, some parties FIR
Virginia appeared here, With the necesss
papers to transfer the prisoner to Rockil
~ ham Jail, in which county the theft occurr
They report that they were met on the re
by party of fifteen or twenty masked n
who taking forcible possession, of the pris
er, carried him to the Virginia line, VIII
:. they hung him to a limb. One of the n
'os- Rhodes who left here in charge of
prisoner, returned on Monday, bring b
ner the handouts, and giving the above yers
eek of this terrible affair. There is little q,
ton as to the guilt of Martin. alias wills
cen and he richly deserved severe punishnl'
but they were not the ones to administer
Under the law the punishment for no
an stealing is not death.
NEW FURNITURE STORE.
-. If you want 10 buy Cheap and nice Flu
~ ture go to the new Furniture House on
iue. ertv Street near the Post Office and near Fla
ntlvsi ers Ware Heusei where A. Kennedy, Jr,
Il <l<<sH 1ncf lin,