The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-11-01
CAROLINA NEWS NOTES.
WHAT Is HAPPENING IN THE OLD
NORTH STATE.

NORTH STATE.
Items of Interest Gathered From the
Sntinel's Exchanges and Boiled
Down for It's Busy Readers.
AT Kenansville last Thursday
Mrs. Rebecca Brown, one of the most
prominent ladies of the State, cele-
brated her hundredth birthday.
-Bituminous coal has been dis
covered in Orange county near the
Durham county line. A stock COM
pany will be formed and careful
exploration made.
-Statesville has voted by large
majority fof the aldermen to issue
$4,000 ia six per cent % year bonds
and with the proceeds to purchase
and operate an electric light plant.
A few days ago Master Vance
Scott, of Lemon Springs, twelve years
old, shot and killed species of blue
heron which measured five feet in
height and six and a half feet from
tip to tip of wings.
There are five ladies in Manteo
that weigh LAO pounds together.
Mrs. Frank Riven weighs $40 pounds.
Mrs. Blanch Forbes 220, Mrs. Ward
260, Mrs. j. I. Daniels 22O and Mrs.
Nancy Dough 200.
The New Berne Journal says that
sportsmen i'll that vicinity are out
hunting every day and seldom fail to
bring back quantities of wild game
and in great variety. A gentleman
living in that city has recently gone
on three hunting expositions and Kill
led four deer.
Efforts are IN progress to locate
a permanent camp for the State
Guard near Wilmington, and to erect
batteries there for the great gun drill
and practice. It is believed that the
State Guard will go into camp at
Wrightsville again next summer, and
it is desired to locate a permanent
camp at that place.
Gel. Wharton J. Green was mar
ried at Tokay, on Monday morning to
Mrs. Davis, nee Miss Burr, the wild
CIV of the late Judge David Davis,
once acting Vice-President of the
United States. Mr.. and Mrs. Green
arrived in Raleigh Monday afternoon
accompanied by Col. Green's daugh
ter, Miss Mabel, who enters St, Mary's
School.
"A white man giving his name as
William Perry has victimized many
people at Durham. lie professed to
be an agent to hire laborers to go to
Kentucky, some as cowboys, and
made them pay him a dollar each to
assure him that they would go. He
has decamped with the money thus
obtained.
The Bureau of Labor and Labo,
Statistics has partially completed its
report for this year. 1t is learned
that the report will consist of seven
chapters, as follows: Mechanics and
| wages of employees Of mechanics, farm
statistics, road law, apprenticeship
manual and technical training, and
mining of all kinds. The report viii
be very full. So far 405 manufac
turing establishments, employing ovel
| 5000 persons, have made full reports
to the bureau.
Matthew Gibbs, who lives neal
Mooresville, is 108 years old. He il
the father of twenty children and hal
been married twice, his last wife being
the mother of fourteen children, ane
is eighty seven years of age. He ha
in all 145 children, grand children
and great grand children His oldes
son is forty-eight years old, and thu
youngest twenty six. The family i
composed Of three boys and severa
girls. Mr.. Gibbs has been bed-riddel
for two years but was able recently t,
get up and walk to the door.