The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-03-14
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS,
HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUrTH
STATE, f.

mar ENtNoS III Ii II
STATE,
Various Occurrences Reported Since
The Sentinel Last Greeted Its Read
ers.-Piedmont Items.
There is a fve-year old boy in
Mecklenburg county who can read a
chapter in the Bible. eH
The, ;Presbyterians at Greensboro
are preparing to -buil.l a handsome
church at that place.
Governor Fowle will pay Whining,
ton visit about the middle of the
month at the special invitation Of the
citizens.
Kernersville News: Forsyth coun-
ty ought to have new court house.
The wealth and enterprise of the coun-
ty demand it.--Kernersville has
bought more tobacco from her own
warehouses this season than ever be-
fore in the history of the town. q
Statesville Landmark: A negro
woman 121 years old, who lived near
Munroe, was burned to death.--,
Tuesday evenings train from Char
LITE brought surprise to the people
OF Statesviile. j. B. Connolly, the
d-faulting ex clerk # the Superior
Court; arrived on it, with his wife
and ynunge. child.
Lexington Ledger: Mr.. Geo. M.
Bn,ia left last Friday night for Wash;
ington city where he expects to make
his me for some time. He may,
however. return in ten or fifteen days
=. r Evans, Esq, will address
the public on the subject of Farmers
Alliances at the residence of Mr.. L. L.
Conrad on Friday, 18th inst at one
o'clock.-Mr. Spencer Chaplin, of
Davie county, died last Monday. He
was about 33 years of age. ,,
High P"int Enterprise Mr.. Chas.
Weldon brought hawk in our Office
this morning which measured 81 inches
from tip to tip. 1t was shot ON the
Field Trial Club grounds yesterday.
The Friends Union meeting took
place Saturday at the meeting house.
Mrs A. n. Allen gave two very inter
esting and Instructive lectures one on
1.-The Holy Land" and one to the chill
dren Sunday afternoon. con-
tract for laying the iron on the High
Point, Randolph, Asheboro & South
ern Railroad, has been awarded to the
Greystone Granite Constructive Com
| .,any. of Henderson, of which Mr..
John H. Winder is business manager.
Leaksvi'le Gazette Rev. Alban
Greaves has rendered his resignation
as rector Of the Episcopal church at
this place, to take effect Immediately
| after Easter. Our community was
startled last Tuesday night by the in
| selliyence that Mr. Sam Lake Hamp.
ton had fatally shot himself at the res
idence of Mrs Fannie Ragland, about
Two miles from town Mr.. Hampton
was very small man, aged about 80
Years, and all his lite had been an in
valid, the result of measles while q
small child. He was of !. very nerv-
Gus temperament and eccentric in
manner, the result no doubt of physi
cal iufirmity. Conceiving hopeless
attachment for one of the Misses Rag
land, he became mentally morbid
aud although he has often threatened
to commit suicide, few of his friends
believed he would ever be so rash.
| Greensboro Patriot: Last Tuesday
night, as Mr.. Albert McAdoo was or
his way to his home, looking around
saw a huge club uplifted above him
in the hands of a very tall white OF
bright mulatto man, in a big sloucf
hat and long overcoat buttoned to hi
neck. Mr. McAdoo made an outcry
and the man ran.-There was quit
large assemblage of substantial citi
zens in the rity last Saturday, brough
together for the purpose of forming I
Farmers' Alliance. The following ar
the officers elected President-L. G
Winchester; Vice -President-J. S
Murrow; Sec:etary-D- p. White
Treasurer. G.. Rankin Buslnes
Agent-R. NJ. Stafford; Lecturer
} Daniel Worth; Chaplain-Alber
Peele Doorke eper--Mr. Willis As
sistant Doorkeeper-Eugene Murrow
Committee on Good of the Order
II. Stanley, S D. Mclean, Mr.. Chill
cutt; Executive Committee-D M
Fox, D. G. Clapp, w. j. league.
Lexington Dispatch: Mr.. Set
Ketcham and family took their de
parture from Lexington last Saturda
morning to. retu II to their forme
, home at Charlotte, Michigan.--Pee
!. pie who suppose that Davidson count
, lies entirely east of the Yadkiu river
will be surprised to learn that such
| really not the case. Mr.. S. S. Jone.
| who has recently made some survey
! upon the northern boundary of Glen
7 monsviIle Township, found that tn
northwest corner of the county is at
! tree standing upon the west bank {
the river not more than twenty or thi
: ty feet from the waters edge.-M
S. S. Jones, chairman of the count
board of education, called on the ed
tor on Monday. He is enthusiast
z for the scheme proposing to annex
: large portion of Clemmonsville towl
: ship to Forsyth county. Why (
clever . gentleman as Sam jon
should want to break up his associ,
tions with the good people of Davit
son, issone of these things that nobod
= can understand. You may not |
q able to understand it, Bro, but M
Jones evidently does appreciate Il
!. advantages which will accrue to Il
people around Clemmonsville, no
that the. bill annexing a portion.