The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-03-07
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT THE
STATE,

STATE,
Various. Occurrences Reported Since
The Sentinel Last directed Its Read
ers.-Piedmo mont Items.
Col. Eugene Morehead, of Durham,
died IN Savannah, Ga, and was bur-
led at Durham.
The Washington Gazette is respon-
sible for this: Tom Silly and Rufe
Shelton both have twins
The Governor has appointed Julian
,ssiarr, OF Durham, as Commissioner
Of this State at the Washington iLau-
guratiOn centennial.
The number of convicts received at
the penltenLiary duiing last month
has been So large..as. to bring the total
number up to 400.
Salisbury Herald: 1t has been
definitely determined that Thoulasyilie
Female College shall be moved to
nish Point All arrangements have
been perfected, and the change OF the
school ~ It's new location will soon
take place.
kernersvilie Neos: The bridge
known as Smiths some Two miles from
this place, was washed away during
The last rain. IL was repiaceu by a
new oue.-Llltle Macie, daughter
OF II. L. CoDle, who has been quite
| SICK Tor the past week with erysipelas
mas recovered. Measles and mu.rps
| have been prevalent in our town for a
few weeks past.
The legislature has 1t as yet made
any appropriation to provide for the
| representation of this State at New
ork. 1t is very doubtful as to the
passage Of u resolution making pro-
vision for such representation. 1t
would be very dlsgraceful thing if
one of the ''Old Thirteen" were un-
represented ON such an occasion.
The remarkable railway develop
ment in this State naturally attracts
attention. Tn 1873 there were only
400 miles of railway. On the first
of February there were 1850. There
are now under contract LOO miles.
1t is asserted, aud perhaps with truth,
that North Carolina leads all the
South in this matter. 1t was used as
powerful argument by the opponents
of the Railway Commission that its
creation would caeck to an immense
extent railway development.
Greensboro Patriot: This morning
at one O'clock the barn of J an Nc
Knight, three mics north oI town,
| was destroyed, toy. ther VIA six
horses, three COWS, threshing machine,
mower, &c. Nothing was saved. -
The new engine house for the Green's
boro Steam Fire Co, No. 1, has been
completed, aud as soon as received
from the Contractors by the city coun
Gil the company will move in. 1t is
undoubtedly the finest fire engine
house in the State.
High Point Enterprise We un-
derstand that there are several marri-
ages to take place very soon in which
some of our young men expect to fig.
ure conspicuously.--Mrs. Spoopen
dyke and twelve daughters had d
"quilting' at DR.. w. o. Jones store
last Friday night and gave fun and
pleasure 10 all who attended.--Rev
j. H. Gordon has been appointed a
trustee of the University in place oi
DIR. N. H. D. Wilson, deceased.--
The Snow Lumber Company have
orders for sash, doors aud blinds for q
S125, 900 cotton mill at Chester, S. G.
Howard Anderson was hanged al
Goldsboro last Wednesday. Death
occurred in seven minutes. The neck
was broken. The prisoner was un
communicative to the last and made
no talk or confession whatever. He
was white man and his crime was
the murder of poor old barbecue
vender, named William Porter, al
Goldsboro last July. Anderson struck
him on the head with a stone becaus,
Porter had that day refused him cre,l
it for 25 cents worth of barbecue. The
evidence was positive and Andersen
had been drinking on the day tn,
crime was committed.
| Lexington Ledger: A base bal
club has been formed at Welcome, il
this coYpty.--Mr. T. M. T. Parrish
who lives at the Wennonah mills, w
learn is dangerously ill.--Miss Eff
Morrison has temporarily suspended
her school ON account of her own ill
ness.--At his residence near Denton
last Thursday, Esq. S. J. Buie unite'
in marriage Mr.. Levi Rogers an,
Miss Mary j. Bean.-On las
Thursday night the Cox school house
: in Healing Springs township, was to
tally destroyed by fire, together witt
what bucks and furniture it contained
1 The fire is generally supposed to hav
been started by an incendiary.
Lexington Dispatch: Mr.. S. w
Rice is slowly recovering from his lon
and severe sickness. F. [
} Hediick and Miss Victoria Koont
were united in matrimony yesterda
afternoon at Tyro, by Rev. D. W
Michael. Bette Lore, girl abou
15 years old, daughter of Mr.. Joh
, Lore, of Conrad Hill township, cam
to sudden and untimely death o
Monday in Mr.. R. S. Adderton's girls
) mill near Holly Grove Academy. Sh
was in the mill with her uncle VIII
left here there alone while he went I
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