The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-22

| the heavy rains and freshets in Roam
| oke River.--What was fine fields of
corn and cotton in the Roanoke bot
toms, or what is termed here the low
lands) ten days ago is to-day a vast
expanse of water. 1t is not possible
now to give a definite idea of the
damage to crops in general, although
there is total loss of at least ten
thousand barrels of corn in Halifax
and BERTHE counties, and even these
figures may fall far short of the actu-
al loss. Your correspondent was to-
day informed by a gentleman that he
has one hundred and fifty acres of
cotton that is now entirely submerged,
which is about three-fourths of his en-
tire cotton crop, and some of his
neighbors are equally as heavy losers
as himself. Previous to the freshet
there were several colored farmers
here who were in fair circumstances,
owning their own teams, renting their
land and having good crop in sight
now they will not make enough to
last them month, their years work. is
total loss. A.
Scotland Neck
HERE AND THERE,
Roanoke river is on great freshet.
The bottom lands are ruined.
The Durham Recorder reports the
drowning of Charlie Dattie, an Eng
lishman in Tar river.
Wilmington is to have another new
fire engine. It is to be No. 4 Silsby
with all the latest improvements.
Wilson county endorsed Hon. Geo.
n. Strong for Supreme Court Judge
and Hon. III. G. Connor for Superior
Court Judge.
The name Of Warm Springs post
office, this State, has been changed to
Hot Springs, and Beverly w. Hill is
the postmaster.
/ The convention of the Twelfth Ju-
dicial District, at Asheville, n c.,
nominated j. H. Merrimon; NJ. E.
| Carter was recommended for the Su-
preme Court.
We saw on Saturday last farmers
buying vegetables in this market to
carry home. This may seem strange
to some, but is nevertheless true. These
are the kind of men who complain of
hard times. Elizabeth City Falcon.
The Irish potato crop in the North
eastern counties has failed. This is a
very important carly crop for the
Northern markets, and in good years
bring much money to the truck farm
ers.
/ According to the Masonic Monthly,
Masonry in North Carolina was first
organized in Halifax county, and it is
we'll known that Royal White Hart
Lodge Of Halifax town is the Oldest
lodge in the State.
The Rocky Mount Talker says; Mr.,
T. M. Arlington reached his home in
this place Wednesday evening from
long journey to Brazil on postoffice
business. He looks we'll, but says there
is no land out there as good as ours
The post office authorities received
Thursday morning bag of Chicago
mail, which came across the ocean in
the steamer Oregon, which was wreck
ed. The mail foated down to North
Carolina, and was picked up in the
rocks off Cape Hatteras, N. c.
Two negro hands engaged in fight
in Williamson last week, during
which one stabbed the other with a
knife in the abdomen, infficting what
at the time was believed to be a very
serious wound. The wound has al
most healed up and no danger is ap-
pretended.
Two freshets in the Pee Dee river
have destoyed the prospects of a corn
all along the river, and some of the
bottoms are said to be ruined beyond
all redemption by washouts. Esti-
mates make it that 10000 people are
thown out of employment and reduced
to need by them.
A negro child in Mecklenburg came
to its death from drinking three tea
spoonfuls of concentrated lye. The
Charlotte Observer says the child
quicly died, after Their the most agon-
izing sutferings, Its throat was liter
ally burned out, and death was posi-
tive relief.
John S. Leary, a colored lawyer
from Fayetteville, was married in this
city on Wednesday, to Mamie E. La
than, who has been teacher in the
colored Female Seminary at Concord.
Leary is young man OF good char
acter, and much respected in Favette-
vile where he was born and .aised-
| Charlotte Democrat.
During the war there was buried
at Fort Clark, Hatteras Inlet, four of
ticers and ten soldiers of the Union
army. Reports having reached the
War Department that these graves
were being washed away ard the bones