The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-10-31
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Wilson will have a tobacco ware
house next year.
Jefferson Davis, the grand old
man of the Confederacy, is in his
eighty-second year.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has made a
personal subscript ion to the Worlds
Fair in New York of 100000.
Friday night at New Berne, a
man went to bed and failed to turn
off the gas. He don need any gas
now.
Caldwell county comes to the
front with six-legged, four-eyed,
two-headed, winking and kissing mud
turtle.
1T is reported that there is a smo-
king mountain within three miles of
Cooper's station, on the Western n
C. railroad.
The Virginia Democrats are press
ing Senator Vance to go there and
make speech before the close of their
campaign.
Work on the public building at
Statesville has been suspended. A
new site and an increase of the limit
of cost is wanted.
REV. DR.. James Atkins, Jr., of
Asheville, has been elected President
of Emory and Henry College, Va,
and has accepted.
The North Carolina Annual Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, will convene at Greensboro,
Wednesday, November 9th.
...John L. Sullivan is said to have
spent all the money he won in the
fight with Kilrain, and declares him
self ready to fight anybody.
Jasper Hopkins, colored, killed
John Raybon, white, with hoe, last
week, in Franklin county. Hopkins
made his escape and is still at large.
In the Cronin case in Chicago,
!, is jurymen were examined before a
| jury was secured Of these 975 were
excused. There were 1877 challenges
THE Western Baptist Convention
meets with the first church, Asheville,
on the 23d. The North Carolina
Baptist State Convention meets in
Henderson November 18th.
Rev R. G. Pearson, the evangel-
Henderson on Monday. A large new
tobacco warehouse at that place is
being used for the purpose of his
meetings.
Major Burke, State Treasurer of
Louisiana, has been indicted in New
Orleans by the Grand Jury for for
gerry. He did not return on the City
of Paris as it was published he would
do.
| DR.. Grissom will engage in the
practice of medicine in Raleigh His
card says he offers his professional
services to the public, and will also
treat in person or through correspon-
dence, the various forms of nervous
diseases.
..Edgecombe Farmers Alliance has
esta blished an Alliance cotton agency
in Tarboro, with j. M. Cutchen, as
Agent. We predict that it will be a
success, for Edgecombe farmers never
do things by halves.-Progressive
| Farmer.
The schooner F. E. Waters, of
Baltimore, with cargo ofshingles, lis
ashore at Mays Head, N. c., having
been wrecked in the storm of last
Wednesday,. The entire crew was
lost. One man was found dashed to
the rigging dead when the vessel
came ashore.
The Egypt, IN. CO. coal shaft has
been. emptied of it's water The shaft
is 425 feet. Some of the coal was ex-
hibited at the State Fair. The COM
pany say they will put the coal on
the market by the first of November,
and will sell it from three to four dol
lars per ton.
| Andrew Carnegie has appointed
a committee of prominent Pittsburg
citizens to select suitable site in
that city that he may buy and erect
thereon free library, which is to
cost $4,000. The building, it is
said, will eclipse anything of the
kind in America
The Georgia Legislature has pass
ed a bill doubling the length Of the
| school term and increasing the ap-
preparation accordingly. This is
another Indication of Georgia s pros
perity, as well as the growth of a
healthy public opinion. 1t will be
money well invested.
The Governor has received a
| pleasant letter from Fayetteville. in
forming him that at the pageant at
the grand celebration there thirteen
young ladies would personate Che
cold Thirteen States, and that Miss
Maggie Pemberton would be ssNorth
Carolina" She will have the pleas
ure of bearing as her banner a mag
nificent State flag.
| Mrs. Lawrence, who has been ma
tron of the Insane Asylum for the
past twenty-one years, has been ask
ed to resign by Messrs. Coke, Foote
and Smith, Executive Committee, be-
cause DR.. Wood and the new manage
ment want confidential officers in the
varions Offices of this institution
There are no charges against Mrs
Lawrence and there can be none.
THE Raleigh Call is authority for
the statement that thus far this sea.
son 1875 900 yards of cotton bagging
have been furnished by State Bust.
ness Agent Worth to the sub-Alli-
ances in North Carolina. A great
many farmers are still waiting for
the bagging, and gin houses, barns
ETC., are filed with seed cotton which
is being held back. 5ai sa e,a Is .lss