The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-10-17
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings in North Carolina and
Elsewhere.

Happenings in North Carolina and
Elsewhere.
Newberne is to have electric lights.
Fourteen burglars have been jailed
in Charlotte.
Samuel H. Wick, negro, has been
made postmaster at Wilson.
Bishops Wilson and Galloway are
soon to visit North Carolina.
Geo. Vanderbilt has bought two
more farms near Asheville, paying for
them over $4,000.
Fifteen government distiilerieS Of
Mcdowell county were seized by rev.
enue officers this week.
The Raleigh Signal has resumed
publication. 1t will be an independ-
ent Republican newspaper.
The Presbyterian Synod Of North
Carolina will meet in Wilmington
next year, first Tuesday in Novem-
Der.
Rev Baylus Cade has sold his rail
way telegraph system to syndicate
for a large sum of money and hand
some royalty besides.
The Raleigh News and Observer
says, speaking of the Boyle case,.
from what we learn the sentiment is
very generally entertained that the
jury erred.
DR.. VIM. j. Martin, of Davidson
College, at the request of the Univer
sity Faculty, will at some future day
deliver at Chapel Hill memorial adj
dress on the late DR.. Charles Phillips.
The North Carolina Synod has
accepted the invitation of Mecklen-
burg Presbytery, to establish the
Presbyterian Orphans Home in
Charlotte.
A destructive fire occurred in Savan-
nah Wednesday. Six warehouses
and two congresses were destroyed,
together with 1000 bales of cotton.
Loss 100000.
The Asheville Journal says a true
bill has been found against Ed
Brown for the killing of Col. Roger
j. Page, at Marion, on the Oath day
of July last.
dered the running capacity of dis
tilleries to be increased and that
more whiskey is required to be tax
paid from a certain amount of meal.
This will lessen the profits of running
a government still.
The Hatfield Mccoy feud, in Pike
county, KY, has broken out again !;
while marriage ceremony was being
performed at Peter McCov's house, a
volley was poured through window
which killed the young couple and
wounded fatally the officiating cler-
gyman.
Mrs. Eva Ray Hamilton, sentenced
to two years Imprisonment for as
sault upon Nurse Donnelly at At
lantic City some weeks ago, was
placed in the new Jersey State prison
Saturday afternoon. Her husband
is suing for divorce.
Twenty five negro families left Raj
eigh last week for Mississippi. Itwas
learned that all these families were
from Franklin county. tits said that
this fall only one negro has1eft Wake
county for the South as an exoduster.
Thirty families, numbering 1O4 per-
sons, have left Selma for Arkansas.
The Grand Encampment of Knights
Templar of the United States at
Washington City, in secret session
on Thursday morning elected j. p.
T. Goblin, of Pennsylvania, Grand
Master, and Hugh McCurdy, ofMich-
igan, Deputy Grand Master of the
Grand EncamDment.
According to the returns received
from all Legislative districts in South
Dakota the Republicans have elected
135 of the 169 members. The Dem
ocrats have ~ and seven are indie
pendents with Republican proclivities.
The Republican majority on joint
ballot will be 125-
The election returns from the
Narthwest show that both parties
claim Montana, but the indications
point to a Democratic victory. North
Dakota, went Republican by 1000
majority, prohibition defeated 900
The Republican ticket was elected in
South Dakota by 10000, prohibi
ton carried by nearly 10, OOO Wash
ington Territory gave q Republican
majority of over 8 900.