The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-03-15
PRICE B CENTS.
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
PERSONS AND THINGS THROUGHOUT
NORTH CAROLINA.

PERSONS AND THINGS THRoUGHoUT
NORTH CAROLINA.
Interesting Items Gathered From The
sentiners Exchanges. and Boiled Down
for Its Busy Readers. -r
Concord is to have National Bank.
A porpoise measuring ten feet was
shipped from Elizabeth City to Phila-
delphia last week.
A favorable report has been made
for the establishment of a life-saving
station in Virginia, and two in North
Carolina.
The petition to congress for tar riv.
er fishing creek appropriation has
been sent to Senator Ransom. Mud
turtles, look outl
The Blackwell Durham Co-opera
tive Tobacco Co. has a machine that
cuts out $4,000 paper boxes per day.
The boxes are small and are used to
ship pipes in.
Messrs. Harper & Bros, publishers,
! IN. Y.) have presented the Teachers
Assembly with one hundred dollars,
to be used in the erection of the hall
at Morehead City.
The House committee has made
favorable report on the bill to erect
monument to Gen. Nathaniel Green,
ON the battlefield of Guilford Court
House.
1
Mr.. Jack Reinhardt, of Lincoln
county, while plowing in a cotton field
opened very rich, well defined vein
of gold, for which he has refused ST.
900 in cash. North Carolina is the
richest country in the world, any way.
| The papas of Taylorsville now sleep
| with a loaded shot gun at the head of
the bed. Mad dogs. Three were
killed last week and more are yet loose.
Some scared folks in that neighbor-
hood.
| Mrs. Louis Wickey was burned to
death with her house and its contents
at daylight Friday morning about 8
miles from Jonesboro. She was sixty
years old and insane. Her daughter
left her to go to the spring. On her
return she found the building in
flames.
/ On Saturday, last, Capt w. III.
Kitchen, Of Scotland Neck, got into
an alteration with Mr.. Haddry, which
resulted in blows during which a
young boy, brother of Haddry cutMr.
Kitchen in tho back twice with knife.
His wounds are painful but mot dam
gerous.
Col. Rowland has introduced a bill
in Congress for the improvement of
the Cape Fear below Wilmington, ap-
propriating 1866, 900; another for
$4,000; another, for $4,000. He
will introduce bills to improve Shall
. lotte and Big Pee Dee rivers.
DIR. H. B. Battle, of the Agricul-
tural Experiment Station has been in
Washington city for several days past
laboring to secure the funds appropri
ated to the Station by the provisions
Of the Hatch bill. The bill provided
$3,750 quarterly to the Experiment
Station, and DIR. Battle secured pay
ments for two quarters, the payments
having been due since October.
Sometime ago the Wadesboro Intel
ltsencer charged Mr.. J. l. Stone, OF
Raleigh, with fraud in the sale of cot
ton seed to the farmers of North Car
olina. Mr. Stone asked retraction
,, from Mr.. Hearn, editor of the InteLIi-
gencer, which the editor refused to
give. Thereupon Mr.. Stone secured
the arrest of Mr.. Hearn upon charge
of criminal libel. Mr.. Hearn was
carried to Raleigh and bound over to
court in the sum of $4,000.
Week before last considerable sen.
sation was caused by the publication
in the Sanford Espress Moore Coun.
Ety) of an article which, in so many
words, charged that Judge Fred
: Philips of the Superior Court, had
become drunk while holding court
!. there, and that his drunkenness was al
|. the house Of Sion III. Buchanan, q
man who was under Indictment for
|. fornication and adultery. The mat
= ter was brought to the attention OF
. Judge Philips, who at once denounced
.. the statement as absolutely untrue.
, The Sanford Erpress reiterated the
| cnafg0, anu bdlu IHdt dIter nav
,. ing drank to excess at Buch.
: anan's house the Judge heard the
= case, in which Buchanan was de.
fendant, and by ruling out certain
testimony saved him from conviction.
! Official cognizance will now be taken
J of the matter, and and an exciting
sensation is sure to follow.
The young business men of Char.
{ 1otte and Fayetteville stand ont to-day
/ an admirable example to all the young
men Of our State. Thery have CO .op
!! erated-put their money, their brains
.. and their energies together to build
I factories and other industrial enter
, prises. The young men of Fayette.
. willie got together last week and in less
. than twenty-four hours had 40,00C
subscribed for putting up cotton fac
tory with 1000 spindles, engaged 6
superintendent, signed contracts and
a appointed q committee on selection oi
: the buildings, &c. The most hopeful
and encouraging sign of the times ii
, the active interest manifested by oul
young men in prominent industries
We heartily aud earnestly commend
the example of the Charlotte and Fay.
etteville boys to those of Raleigh and
: other towns and cities of our state. Gel
: together, young men, and start on en-
terprise.- Progressive Farmer.