The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-01

would give to the road, and to report
to Coils. Med. Tate, who would then
report to the authorities of the Balti-
more & Ohio, Railroad.
| HERE AND THERE.
Ice in Leaksville last Monday.
Cleveland county is out of debt and
has Sc 900 cash in her treasury.
Richmond county Democratic con-
vention meets July 8. Township meet
ings July 8.
Greene county is the only county
in North Carolina that has Republi-
can county commissioners.
Married at Pittsboro, June 22nd,
Mr.. A. B. Matthews, of Durham, to
Miss Ora Vestal, of Chatham
Hands working On the streets of
skeletons Of two full grown men.
The District Conference of the
Trinity Callege District will be held at
Mt. Gilead, Montgomery county, open
ing August 4th.
The corner stone of the new indus
trial building at the Oxford Orphan
Asylum was laid Thursday last 5000
people were present. =
A negro girl while playing on a
turn table at Gastonia last Sunday
fell and was badly mangled and some
of her bones broken.
Died in Pennington township, Da-
vie county, June 10th, Mrs Mary
Furches, aged 72syears. She was the
mother of Hon. D. NJ. Furches, of
Statesville.
Ashe county magistrates elected
Messrs. John Dent, Mac Sbsher and
Isham Goss board of county commits
sioners and Mr.. Geo. w. Bower coun-
ty superintendent.
The Lenoir Chronicle tells Of the
discovery of another all healing spring
1t is in Caldwell county, near Petra
Mills, and when the water from it is
left standing awhile substance forms
in it like mother !" in vinegar.
At the residence of the brides father
near Hillsboio, n. c., on the 7th inst.
Dr. William Lynch, of Chapel Hill
was united in marriage to Miss Mag
gle B. kirkpatrick, Rev. DR.. A. W.
Mangum, of the University, officiat-
ing.
Died in Wilmington, June 18th,
Capt. Eugene B. Virgins, aged 50
wears. He was a native of Halifax
county, but moved to Wilmington in
1875. He leaves wife daughter of
Hon. A. H. Van Bokkelen) and three
children.
The Graham county Democrats
have held convention and instructed
the delegates appointed to the various
conventions to vote for Capt. T. d.
johnson for Congress, j. G. L. Gudger
for Judge and G. S. Fergerson for So
licitor.
Wayne county delegates to the sew
eral conventions are instructed to vote
for Hon, Geo. V. Strong for the SUI
preme Court Judge Hon. w. T.
Dortch for Congress Judge Walter
Clark for Superior Court Judge, and
Capt. Swift Galloway for Solicitor.
A drunken negro desperate was ar
rested and jailed at Reidsville Wednes
day, for entering private residences
and trying to force ladies to cook some
beef which he carried with him So that
he could appeas his hunger. He Wis
tied several houses, and frightened the
ladies nearly to death, in the absence
of their husbands.
The Asheboro Courier says two
men by the name of Crisco were sleep
ing in small house in Moore county
some nights ago when the house caught
on fire. The house had but one door.
One of the men was burned to death
and the other escaped by tearing up
the floor and crawling out under the
house.
The first Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal church in this State was
Rev. Charles Pettigrew, elected in
May 1894, in Tarboro, but he died
before he could be consecrated. The
first convention was held here Novem-
Der 18th, 1890, again in 1898 and
1894 The present convention is the
10Th Tarboro Soatherner.
At meeting of the board Of Trus-
tees of Trinity College recently held,
the following named gentlemen were
appointed committee to suggest
president for that college subject to
the endorsement of the board of trus-
tees Judge w. S. Montgomery, Rev.
7. NJ. Jones j. S. Carr, Esq, Col. j.
w. Alspaugh and James Gray, Esq.
The salary Of the president will be two
thousand dollars per annum.
A Point Well Taken.
Correspondent in Charlotte Observer.