The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-07-25
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
happenings in North Carolina and
Elsewhere.

III l
Elsewhere.
Dockery has sailed for Brazil.
Earthquake shocks were felt in
Kentucky Saturday.
James NJ. Skies has been appointed
postma ster at Oxford.
The n. c. teachers landed in Glas-
gov, Scotland, last Friday
James II. Ramsey has been appoin-
ted postmaster at Salisbury.
Near Carthage Mrs. d. C. Kelly was
terribly gored by a Jersey bull.
Mr. Samuel HOWE, of Waxhaw,
came very near losing his life by being
gored by a vicious bull.
Rev. Rhomas Needham, the Irish
evangelist, is conducting series of
meetings at the Baptist church in
Shelby.
Charlie Parnell, ten years old, of
Charlotte, died from blood-poisoning,
the result of kick from a COW recevi-
ed three weeks ago.
VIM Rule, of Tenn, has been ap-
pointed pension agent with office at
Knoxville, Tenn. North Carolina is
| embraced in his district.
Capt. T. w. Whisnant, former road
master, has been appointed superin-
tendent of Carolina Central railroad,
vice l.. c. Jones deceased.
J. A Samuels, now conducting a
broom-factory in Augueta, Ga, will
move his plant to Charlotte and have
it in operation inside of sixty days.
Governor Fowle has accepted an in
vitation to be present and deliver an
| address at the Thomasville On. CO.
Baptist Orphanage on the 31st in
| slant.
Colonel Jesse Grant died at his
nome in Alamance county. He was
one of the Oldest and most prominent
men in the county, being over eighty
five years of age.
Miss Lizzie Towns, of Yanceyville,
n. c., has accepted a position on the
faculty of the Oxford On. Co. Female
Seminary, of which Mr.. F. P. Hob
good is principal.
The Asheville Young Mems Chris
tan Association has found ten 500
men to guarantee the salary of the
General Secretary, and negotiations
are pending for nice rooms.
Malone has whipped out his party
enemies in Va again and the Nation
al committee has recognized him as
the legal Chairman of the State Re-
publican committee of Va.
A telegram was received announ-
cling the death of Mrs. NJ o. Leftwich
at Liberty, Va, at the age of eighty
five wears. Mrs. Leftwich was the
mother of Mrs. A. NJ McPheeters, of
Raleigh.
The Ore Knob Mining Comp any
are removing their machinery from
| Nash county, North Carolina, to Car
roll county, Va, where they will res
urrect the old copper plant four
miles from Hillsville.
Col. A. H. Jones, of Asheville, who
went to Florida last winter and who
had not been heard of since the 22G
of April, and whose friends were
about to give him up for dead, has
turned up in Oklahoma.
John p Hunter, justice of the peace
in Mecklenburg county, was terribly
beaten by Charlotte policemen. Thu
case excites great Indignation ant
one of the policemen has resigned
They will be tried for the assault.
The seventh annual convention O
the North Carolina Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union will be hell
in Asheville to-day and tomorrow
| ~ &c oil 70 ay
haustive The attendance will be I'm
usually large,
Blanche, seven-year-old daughte
of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Gill, of States
vile, was walking across the yart
where her fathers horse was grazing
and struck it on the hind leg with ;
switch. The horse kicked her and sh
died before sunset.
Mrs. Mollie Fullmer of Asheville
committed suicide by drowning her
self in a pond. 1t appears that sine
the birth of her last child, six months
ago, she had been fretful and hard t.
please, and took the notion that he
husband did not love her.
At the beginning of the presen
year North Carolina had $3.50 mile
of railroad in operation; capita
stock, $25, 561 sol: bonded debt
$25, 63S, 500; unfunded debt, 81 ,523
145. The total cost of our roads
with their equipments, was $50 ,O6O,
693.
' The encampmento of the State Guar,
at Wrightsville ended Friday, AM
the $500 people who have been ma
king the place gay for ten days pas
have left it. The encampment wa
eminently successful in every respec
and created much enthusiasm in tn
State Guard.
Another woman was murdered il
London last week and man was al
: rested for the crime has cOnfesse,
,, that he is 'Jack, the Ripper, wh'
has murdered so many abandoned
; women during the last twelve months
But he been proved to be a liar. No
man wanted.
Steward, John w. Thompson, Dr.
S. HI. Rogers, engineer JAS. S. West
asst engineer Nottingham, baker {
L. Woodall, and gardener VIM Tur
ner, all resigned their positiont at tn
Raleigh insane asylum last Saturday
upon the acquittal of DR.. Grissom
Sup't. They say they are unwillin.
to serve under him any longer.
A severe storm passed over Senate
Nj. w. Ransom's farm in Northamp
ton county, last week just as tn
: hands were returning to the field