The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-05-20

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ALL OVER THE STATE.
NEWS OF TIE WEEK IN soRrH CAR.
Carefully Culled From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
ALAMANcE.
Correspondence Of the Sests,,el.
Company Shops hasn't a single
bar-room.- -Four couples were
married at Haw River in one
week, lecently.-Company Shops
hopes to boast of fine tobacco
warehouse soon.-Aurora and Plaid
Mills are now connected by telephone,
On Monday, May 18th, Mr.. M.
j. Hughes was pushing on the rail
road hand car, three bales of cotton
weighing $50 pounds each, from the
depot at Company Shops to Aurora
Mills, a distance of one-half mile,
when unexpectedly the wood train
came sweeping along at the rate of
about SO miles an hour. Mr.. Hughes
was unaware of the danger until the
train was in about $50 yards of him,
and seeing he had not minote's time
to lose, he threw the cotton right and
left, then picked up the car-which
will weigh 800 pounds threw it
about ten feet from the Railroad, let
ting the train pass in safety. A fell
low don't know what he can do until
he gets in a Eight place"
Co. Shops, c. F. KING.
The State Board of Dental Exami-
ners will meet in Raleigh June LIST.
The commencement exercises at
Peace Institute will begin Sunday,
May 80, when Rev. Alex. Sprunt, of
Henderson, will preach the sermon
before the graduating class. The
commencement will be held Monday
evening, the 31st inst, and the concert
Tuesday eveng, June LIST.
Judge Walter Clark is man of
versatile genius. Letters patent have
recently been issued to the Judge and
George II. Glass, of Raleigh, as pat
entees for two new inventions, viz:
Telephone Circuit Breakers" and
Improved Telephone Signal and
Switch" Both these patents were is
sued April 9th, 1886.
Gov. Scales has appointed the fol-
lowing gentlemen as delegates to rep
resent the State in the 18th annual
Conference Of Charities and Correc-
tions, which meets at St. Paul, Mimi,
July 10: DR.. Eugene Grissom, Raj
eigh; DIR. P. L. Murphy, Morganton !;
DIR. j. d. Roberts, Goldsboro; w. j.
Hicks, Raleigh; B. F. Dixon, Oxford;
J. II. Mills, Townsville.
DAVIDSON.
The Knights of Labor organization
at Townsville is in a fourishing con-
dition.
John T. Vann, Of Baltimore, repre-
senting a business house of that city,
has purchased a lot in Lexington and
will build thereon.
The town election in Townsville
resulted in the election of James A.
Leach, Mayor; l.. w. Elliott, A. L.
Grimes, J. w. Gray, J. j. Sullivan
and Geo. A. Thompson, Commission
ers.
In Lexington, the town election re-
suited in the election of M. III. Pinnix
Mayor, F. G. Robbins, c. j. Wheeler,
r. s. Adderton, G. w. Trice and J.
F. Ward Commissioners. The vote
for Mayor was, M. II. Pink II, J.
B. Newsom II.
John A Roberts, of Reepsville,
Lincoln county. says he has been
farming over forty years, and has new
er seen better prospect for good
wheat crop.
The 18-month-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. F. Anthony, of Lincolnton.
fell from piazza last week and its
head caught between the banisters.
He was nearly choked to death when
discovered.
Henry Cline, for several years Clerk
of the Court of Catawba county, but
more recently citizen of Lincoln
county, died at his residence near Lin
colnton last Saturday, aged about 80
years.
A very peculiar disease has affected
the horses around Triangle in Lincoln
county, for two or three weeks. Near
ly every horse in that neighborh hood
has been attacked by the unknown
disease and number have died.
RANDOLPH. &A
A camp meeting will be held at Old
Union church, in New Market town
ship, the 9th Sunday in August. The
first camp meeting in the county and
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