The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-03-28
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings In North Carolina and
Elsewhere.
A negro instructions is threatened
in Sussex county. Va
Rochester, n Y. capitalists have
formed trust in dried apples.
Geo. w. Cannon has been appoint
ed postmaster. at Ashesille.
The Durham street railway system
is to- be eonsiderahly gexteuts,i
Justice Stanley Matthews of the
U. S. Supreme Court died Friday.
Asheyille is, to have an evening pa
per, the Tribune, with w. w. Vandi-
yer as editor.
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At the lowest estimate there are g.
600 game cocks pitted ia battles eve-
ry winter right in, and around New
York.
Mrs. Evans, wife of Capt. T. C.
Evans, of Reidsville, died in that
town Thursday, after a protracted ILL
ness. sd 4ae T..
The track Of. the Lynchburg and
Durham railway is graded. and track
laying is to be begun at the Durham
end in sixty days -
Charles S. Bryan, Esq, has been APP
pointed Pay Master General of the
State Guard, vice Col. Eugene More
head, deceased. 80 = tnaa 3ssa.
| Miss Pauline Fuller, one of the
daughters of Chief Justice Fuller of
the U. S. Supreme Court, eloped with
J. M. Aubrey, of Chicago. ati mas
The dismal swamp canal, with all
its franchises, has been sold for. $685.
600, but no names of purchasers can
yet be given by the agents making the
sale. eaa. H.II e.n5.,
| In Catawba county fourteen year
old negro boy named John Gibbs set
fire to and burned the barns of j. S.
Bridgers. He has confessed the
crime.
Senator Zeb Vance reached Asbe-
vile Thursday. The Citizen says he
is looking better than usual, despite
the painful illness which he has re-
Gently passed through. d3os SD
Montgomery must be the prize
county for wild turkeys The Troy
Ndette learns that A. J.. Beaman, OF
that county, killed FIVE of the noble
birds at one shot one day last week.
Mrs. Amelie Rives- Chanler's latest
publication is a novel entitled "The
Witness of the Sun, which appears
in Lippincott for April, copies Of
which are having enormous sale.
Mrs. nellie Grant Sartoris, the
daughter of the late General Grant,
and her two little children, sailed on
the Cunard steamer Servia for her
husbands home in England Saturday.
Last week 100 persons left Mitchell
county for Utah, all having embraced
the Mormon faith. The Mormon
missionaries continue their work in
Michel and Yancey counties.
The closing argument has just been
made, in the Court of Appeals of New
York State, in case which has been
in the courts for fifty years. The
amount involved is only about 50, 900.
Henry Jett (colored), of Raleigh
is one hundred and five years old. He
was over forty years of age when in
1925 he drove Lafayette's carriage
upon the occasion of the latter's visit
to Raleigh. 8i l. ee.e.-.
The new Georgia State Capitol has
been formally turned over to Gov
Gordan. The commission completed
the work within the original appro-
priation of 81 100000, and the State
has balance Of s11S.43. a9'
On Wednesday, April d, there
will De a competitive examination in
Salisbury for the appointment of a
United States navel cadeten Candi-
dates should correspond with Hon. j.
s. Henderson, of Salisbury stiar ID
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Ed. Turner, young man living in
Caswe1 county, wandered away from
home some days ago, and it was fear
ed he had beer murdered, but he re
turned hopeIessly insane. He had
been wandering in the country sever
al days, and doubtless suffered from
hunger and exposure. a-, lI$r-s..,-
There is much uneasiness in Raj
eigh among the merchants in conse-
quence of the negro exodus. They
have sold a great many of the far
mers supplies, taking mortgages on
their crops and the farmers having
lost nearly all their hands by the ex-
odus of negroes, apprehend great
shortage of crops this year. The clerk
of the court says there have been a
great many more of such mortgages
in that county that ever before