The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-05-16
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings In North Carolina and
Elsewhere.

The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
is in session at Fayetteville.
w. A. Albright was on Tuesday
appointed postmaster at Durham.
Ex-State Treasurer, John NJ.
Worth will go to Richmond for
medical treatment.
The Pearson meetings at Fayette-
vile continue. There have been
$50 conversions so far.
Gen. Simon Cameron, ex-U. S.
Senator, &c, of Pa, who has been
quite i'll, is reported better.
Burglars robbed the store of Sans
pie S. Brown at Greensboro Satur-
day night, of several suits of.clothes.
President Harrison visited Fort
ress Monroe last Sunday and return
ed to Washington Monday after
noon.
Mr.. w. N. Andrews, of Raleigh,
aged 70 and one of the landmarks
of Raleigh, died in that city last
Friday.
A young carpenter by the name
of Burwell Benton was Instantly
killed last Saturday at Matthews by
falling from a scaffold.
The storm of Tuesday was partic.
ularly severe at DanvilIe, number
of buildings having been unroofed,
including achurch.
A negro, named Lee Carson, was
hanged at Shelby last Monday. His
crime was burglary, and over 5000
people witnessed the execution.
-Four townships in Randolph
county vote next Thursday on the
stock or no fence law. There is less
voting this year than usual on this
question.
Five negroes and seven whites
were publicly whipped at Newcastle,
Del, Saturday afternoon, for lar
ceny, highway robbery and horse
whipping.
Zeb Vance Walser, member of
the Legislature from Davidson coun-
ty, and Robert Douglass, of Greens
boro, are applicants for Assistant
District Attorneyship of this district.
The people of Laurinburg have
boycotted the newly appointed post
master at that place CIV. r. Terry
and send and receive their mail
through Johns Hill, neighboring
office.
A Paris paper reports the recent
arrival of a distinguished American
from the West, whose outfit was
GIVE hundred thousand francs, red
necktie and a pair of bottle-green
gloves"
A young lady's letter to her papa
in Brookline, Mass, says of the end
ing of the New York centennial
bali: champagne was all over the
floor, and men pouring it down one
another's backs"
The game Smithfield Herald has
risen from les ashes aud is before Us.
1t is not so large as it was before it
was consumed by fire, but the Her
aid will eventually get there again,
our word for it.
The Pennsylvania who has mar
ried seven wives and got money from
them all should be put on the next
Tariff Commission or employed on
the census. Such talents should not
be wasted in a dreary prison house.
The seventy third annual conven
ton of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the Diocese of North Car
olina began at Henderson yesterday
in St. Philips church, Bishop The
odore B. Lyman presiding.
IN Wilkes county last week while
a white woman named Nancy
Church was at work in a new
ground helping her brother to roll
some heavy logs her dress caught on
knot. She was thrown down and
the log rolled over her, breaking her
back and crushing her head. Death
was instantaneous.
The first contribution for the es-
tablishment of Confederate SOL
diers' home in this State has been
made by Col. w. F. Beasley, of
Oxford, who has hadded his check
for 500 to Mr. W. c. Stronach,
treasurer of the Confederate As
ISOLATION of the State for that
purpose.
William Kemmler, who is con
victed of murder in the first degree
for the killing of his mistress, Title
Seigler, was sentenced at Buffalo,
N. Y, to suffer punishment of death
to be inflicted by the application of
electricity, within the week CONS
mencing on Monday, June 24th.
THIS is the first death sentence under
the new law.
Cards are out for the annual ball
at Chapel Hill complimentary to the
class of 1889. The managers are
Castor Battle, chief; A. Sidney Will
liams, Robert q. Vaughn, T. Mos
settle Lee. james J. Phillips, A. Paul
Branch, Henry Station. Honorary