The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-12-02
ALL OVER THE STATE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN NORTH CAR
OLINA.

oAANAs
Carefully CuIled From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.
MECKLENBURG.
The colored people are very much
elated over the early establishment of
a hospital for their use Charlotte
Chronicle.
A darkey went to Charlotte, sold
his cotton for $50, filled up with tan
gle-leg, and started home. When he
got to the Catawba river he was fast
asleep. The Chronicle says, the mules,
familiar with the surrounding, pro-
ceedeb even to cross the river The
water being high, the body OF thh
wagon was soon submerged, whice
aroused the darkey from his slumbers.
Realizing his precarious condition he
in an instant cut the hame strings,
but not quick enough, for one of the
animals was already dead" He got
out, but lost his $50 in addition.
Raleigh's street cars will be running
this week.
In an alteration between Mr.. F.
/ II. Broadfoot and Mr.. Jos. III. Fraz-
er, at Milburne, Wake county, Mr.
Fraiver was killed
The furniture in the Governors
mansion will be made of native wood
and the contract for it will be given
to a North Carolina factory.
A large gang of convicts resumed
work on the Governors Mansion. The
interior wood work will be done all
the winter. The chief architect said
said that the rapidity of the work de-
pended upon the action of the legisla-
ture.
The Governor has received the
printed reports of the Tax Commission.
This commission was appointed under
an act of the Legislature of 1885, and
is composed of Messrs. John W. Gra-
ham, George rHoware and Thomas M.
Patton. Their duties were to thor
oughly investigate the subject of tax
alton and report bill for listing, as
sessing, equalization and collection OF
taxes, and also for the sale of real
and personal property for taxes, and
, such other subjects in regard to taxa
tion that they may deem proper for
E the best interests Of the State
: FRANKLIN
The gin house of Messrs. A. D and
rs. r. Kitchener, of Franklin county
has been burned. Three or four bales
of cotton, quantity of cotton seed and
considerable amount of tobacco was
: destryed.
A few days ago, we learn from the
: Franklinton Weekly, the boiler at the
, saw mill of John Chapel, in Wake
j county, burst and Mr.. Chapel, wa:
by the force of the explosion blown OF
the saw and his body nearly cut il
twain. He died in about half ar
hour. A colored man was also hurt
but not seriously.
l AT Louisburg, Henrietta Neal, the
colored woman tried for the murder
+ of her child, two years old, has beel
!. convicted and Judge Shepherd sen
n fenced her to be honged January II
3 She broke the child's skull with .
stone and threw the corpse into a
f pool OF water in a ravine. The Gov
ernor will be petitioned to commut,
/ the death-sentence to life-imprison
q ment.
q HERE AND THERE.
Mr.. Allie Cox was killed by fall
ing wall in the fire at Durham.
The Northern papers. are recon
mending New Berne as a summer re
sort.
A woman from CASTOR county hat
70 pound tumor taken from her a
Charlotte. She died.
A barn containing 5000 pounds O
tobacco was burned IN Buncombe be
longing to Mr.. W. d. Black.
Maj w. Scott, of Lemon Springs
has in his orchard peach tree that i
now hanging full of unripe peaches
Pine Tree Blade.
Mr.. E. j. Lilly, of Fayetteville
had four tenement houses destroye'
by fire on the 18th inst. They wer
worth $4,000, insured tor 81 500.
The Secretary and Treasurer of tn
!. New Berne Board of Trade has turn
: ed over to Mr. T. Green $4,000 as
r. Thanksgiving offering to the Oxfor'
d Orphan Asylum.
1t Three new tablets have recentl
It been put in the Swain Memorial Hal
u at Chapel Hill. They are to Hor
II Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, Pro
t. J. De Berniere Hooper and Mis-
4, Mary Smith.
- There are some sixty bushes
:, = houses in Edenton, with about forty
4 eight occupied and doing we'll, repre-