Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-04-22
ALL OVER THE STATE.
NENsOF THE WEEK N NORTH CAR
OLINA.

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NEWS OF THE WEEK N NORTH CAR
OLINA.
Carefully Culled From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.
Stanford, who lives in Person county near
Bushy Fork got his leg broke recently by
the kick of horse.
An enthusiastic railroad meeting was held
on the 18th inst at Roxboro to take action
rsgardin. the Lynchburg q durham ROAD
or at any rate a road through Person coun'
ty. Another meeting will he held Tuesday
of court week.
SAY. the Courier, Mr.. Wm. Faust, nesr
Surl. accidentally shot himself in the foot
with a pistol last Thursday. The ball was
successfully removed by E. A. Spead, who Is
successful and popular Phy.ieian OF that
community.
During the recent rains the streams in
| Person we're higher than they have been IN
years. Roxboro was cut off from mail facil-
tiles for a week. The mill dam Of Mr. };
Pas, was b son.;d.r,b1r d p,an DEUS
On Sunday. the 18th, Mr.. Tillett Vaughn |
near Antioch church, was married 10 MISS
Margaret Ashley, Squire H. FL. Nichols, Of
floating. THE SENTINEL wishes the hap
py pair joyous married life.
COL winstead, of Person. while attempt
ing to cross a stream while swollen, during
the recent rains, came very near being
drowned, and only escaped by dint OF hard
struggling after testing sufficiently the depth
Of the water.
The Roxboro Courier says, With the
last issnc of the Western Sentinel it entered
on its fourth year under tho present man
agement 1t is good paper and We wish
it much success" and THE SENTINEL" can
very fairly reclproe.te ny menlipning .ne
fact that Mr.. John A. NOEL has made man!
improv eInents in the Courier.
Since the heavy rains many of our farm
ers have cut their tobacco crops down to
about half Of what they first intended plant
ing. We think it would be much To their
advantage If they would half 1t again and
! plant more corn, SOW grass seed and make
more food for stock; thus stopping 81 much
, Of this Western hay being shipped to this
county. We can raise as good hay ana
clover here in Person county As is raised In
!. West Virginia or elsewhere, and much bet
ter than that that is shipped here.-Coss-
rter.
l. Eggs ar. seven cents . dozen in Tarboro.
Tarboro is building . a5O,eoe hotel
/. Farrar House.
The Tarboro cotton seed oil mill has shut
'' down for want of SEED.
The Convention Of the Episcopal Church
for the diocese of which Right Rev. Theo-
I. dore B. Lyman, is bishop, has been calle
/. to meet at Tarboro, on May 10Th. The con
z yention for the Eastern diocese meets In
4 Goldsboro the 36th Of May.
B. KEW HANOVER.
Wilmington in the past twelve zoA tn
N had forty eight fires, causing loss OF $soo
600; with insurance of $780,
Their. .r. said to be seven hundree
III Knights of Labor in Wilmington. An an
officer of the order is expected there shorti
y TO perfect their organization.
WAKE
PA The Governors mansion ut Raleigh vii
/, be completed by November.
The Democratic State Convention c
North Carolina is called to meet in Raieig
August 25th.
-, There are said to be over 400 Knigh
of Labor in Raleigh The order Is col
stantly increasing in strength there
e. Mrs. Fowle, wife of Judge Fowls of Ra
,or sigh, is dead. She was a daughter of Il
he late Df. r. y s'hS We - -"
ith old.
sd Raleigh is to have another important .
an terprise . cigarette factory. There will
20" ample capital behind it and the owners n
NY well known in the trade.
lad Tn. interior of the Capitol at kaieis
I'd. will he frescoed and the walks in the Squz
BY are to be laid with asphalt The dome a
~ roof of the Capitol are ~ b. painted.
II Capt. Thos. G. Arlington, of Rale:s
10, attempting to Jump on = moving train,
900 GENTLY. was thrown down and severely
me jured. His 10y will have to be amputate'
"a MHcKLENBune.
The mich COWS, it is said are dying up
tho heishborhood Of Grifith's and HEIR
in Mecklenburg.
A Knights of Labor Association, consi
ing of the laborers Of the city has been
ganized at Charlotte.
,.d One of the county commissioners OF bul
has twice ridden to town, Transacted his bt
tory ness, ana walked nome 'orse''ins III ~
now his horse.
Denis Caldwell, colored, of Burke coul
'rtsr has been placed on the pension list fer {
xay vices rendered in the Federal army.
sx- will receivs At one time 1886 aad ~ mo
io2y thereafter. as.
iuls :.
very 1ns Astnoois'' Vi
n. | other imurov sIaents 70 their church.
aud The Raniienau Mfg. Co. made dnI
with the month of March OH 100 lsOms zsS
e II. yards of Plaids. averaging ever 81 y
per day to the l,,on.
oce.~ The Australia, formerly kno~a ~
com- Winningham gold mine, near Asheboro
go changed hands. Capas Fisher and Way
a !. of England. are the purchasers.
The CUMBERLAND.
rtise- The State fruit fair IL to be held 1t
that etteyille.
Henry Thornton, \ lad about ten yeal
,,.;,s age and the son Of Frank W. Thornton
r RI Fayetteville, il lying In \ critical eondi
N;n.. while both Of the parents arc temper,
ia. in New York City. The Neos says
,.t,s, while playing with some companion
80 Friday he was accidentally run over
49,. small push cart and he has remained
: = : i bad state ever since. The chief underl
cause is understood 10 b congestion o.
bowels. Aass 50 4.
81. HERR AND THERE
: two One of the prisoners in Nash Jail sue
a half ed in escaping few days ago.
are The two female colleges in Aurfree'
ao Yer spend in that town from sc, 900 to ~
~. year.
eapest ED. Winstead & Co., Milton, have
IS who considerable new machinery in their
ainted tobacco factory.
10 not J. w. Sanders & Co., are erecting
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