The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-18
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
HAPPENINGS WITHIN her BORDERS
SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.
Kewsy Notes Carefully Clipped. Oullsd
and Paragraphicaily Packed Into Col
umn.

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Durham is talking about building
$3.50. 900 hotel.
Editor Scott, of the Lenoir Topic,
has been elected captain of . base
ball nine.
DR.. Thos. G. Taylor is erecting .
commodious tobacco factory in
Leaksville.
The Dallas Eagle observes that
Col. Polk is still indulging in the
ghost dance.
There are five inmates of the Sol
diers Home in Raleigh and seven ap-
p)ications on file.
On Saturday morning last Prof. j.
C. Horner, of Oxford. shot off his
hand accidentally.
Bob Hamilton, colored, of Union
county, has been indicted for burn
ing a Baptist church.
Mr.. Lemuel Hart, a stock dealer
of Fayetteville, was found dead in
his bed on Tuesday.
Taylorsville will organize a Land
and Improvement Company by Jan
uary 1st says the Index.
Peg Leg Williams, who has orders
for 1000 North Carolina negroes to
be taken South, cannot get 70.
Beaufort has two oyster canning
leigh capitalists and will employ 800
hands.
Rev. Thos. h. Newberry will at
an early day commence in Fayette>
vile tho publication of the North
Carolina Baptist.
Rev. E. Weisner, of Davidson
county, raised 400 bushels of sweet
| on one acre of land,
We learn from the Wilson Mirror,
that Mr. Jno. Nettles of .Edgecombe
county, nets 81 900 from his crop of
seven acres of tobacco.
The Express wants a grave yard
for Sanford. What's the matter,
brother? Any one been trying to
show you how to run your paper?
The c. F. & Y. V. railroad depot
at Madison is to be removed from it's
present location to the "Ed Jones
| lot'' which has been purchased for
the purpose.
It's S. fine to play crack -a-loo in
Marion, or to be on the streets after
10 o'clock at night without having
business. run, nigger, run, pater-
roller ketch yer.n
| Frank Dixon, a brother of the well
York, is to come from Oakland, Cali
fornia, to be pastor of the Baptist
church at New Berne.
Haywood county Is going to feed
the Immigration Convention dele
gates to Asheville on apples. Maj.
W. w. Stringfield, of Waynesville,
has offered several barrels.
There is a man in this county who
recently caught and sold load of
'possums for $40. He then sold the
dog that treed the 'possums for Sc
land silver watch.-Monroe Regis
ter.
There was a big revival meeting
at Hanes' school house in Yadkin
county last week, with about 80 con
versions, and every one pronounced
it the best meeting ever held in that
section.
A connection has been established
between the r. &. S. and G. F. &. Y
V. Railroads at Madison where freight
is now transferred instead of at Wal.
nut Cove. The News saws that from
six to ten car loads of freight are
now transferred there every day.
The Linden Cotton company, oi
Iredell county, have the foundation
of their building laid and the first
sleepers on. They are pushing the
work forward as fast as they posi-
bly, can. The company intends put
ting in 1900 splndles to start with
In the national Alliance at Ocala
Fla, last Thursday, Gen. r. B
Vance, of North Carolina, introduc
ed a resolution, which was referred
to committee, demanding of Con
gress and the State Legislatures tn,
passage of measures reducing tn,
salaries of public officials.
The Raleigh News and Observes
says an estimate shows that as tn,
result of the labors of the railroad
investigating committee there will
/ be permanent additional reyenu,
to the State of $4,000 annual,
! which it has not heretofore received
The shipment OF Ia carload of goat.
to Richmond by Ex-Governor C. II
Brngden, of Goldsboro, from his farm
near that city, is worthy of note q!
an indication that stock-raising O
every available species could be en-
gagged in with profit by the farmer
OF that section.
A correspondent informs the Wa
i tauga Democrat that at Elk Park
Mitchell county, on tho 1st inst,
. little 2-year-old son of Rev. Mr.
4 Reece fell into tub Of boiling va
: ter which his father had prepared 4
: scald q hog and died in few hours
: This is the second child that ha
been scalded to death in the sam
neighborhood within 15 months.
: Some time 20 news reached thi
place that VIM. n. Manchester, o
Waco, Texas, wel known in theS
parts in former years, had decampe
with q large sum Of money =belonn
3 ing to : firm Of which he was . mom
g Dor A Waco paper just receive
: by one Of our citizens states that b
has been captured il Mexico. Nul
ply Bulletin.