The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-01-02
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Honduras.
THE Asheville citizen has tempo
1arily suspended for lack of cash.
New Berne lost $4,000 by the
burning of a planning mill on Christ
mas day.
Col. Polk will make a tour
through the northwest next spring.
he has many pressing calls to speak
Jhere.
The French Govern ment intends
to enforce the legal penalty against
hree hundred priests, convicted of
.neddling with the elections.
...Governor Fowle will open the
third annual fair of the New Berne
Fish, Oyster and Game Association,
on the oath of February.
Miss Lula Womble, a younglady
of good family and excellent church
standing, took her own life with a
revolver in Raleigh on Monday.
The Raleigh Savings Bank has
over $4,000 in deposits. 1t pays
per cent interest on deposits and
pays it's stockholders 8 per cent.
The President of Shaw Universe
". Raleigh, has received a letter
rom the King of the Belgians want
ing four colored men for various
IA des.
Plans are on foot for Southern
teachers Association meeting at
forehead City next summer, under
he auspices of the North Carolina
Teachers Assembly.
Mr.. Jacob Mesimer, living near
china Grove, has an old rifle gun
made by Henry Bruner, a gunsmith,
who manufactured guns in this coun-
cry before 1919.
La grippe" or Russian intlu-
onza, which has been getting in some
heavy work up north, has appeared
n Charlotte, but fortunatelyit is not
4 dangerous disease in this climate.
"A train loaded with 1900 ne
groes from eastern North Carolina
went through Charlotte Monday,
bound for Arkansas. Another train
load is expected to go this week.
The Paris Steele says that an
other Nihilist plot against the Gar
has been discovered in st. Petersburg.
Several of the conspiratars, the paper
says, We're arrested in the palace pas
sages. Some of them resisted arrest,
and one was killed by an officer.
There were two race rows in Ten
nessee on Christmas. At Nashville
two white men and one negro were
fatally injured. At GAINESVILLE two
whites were injured in trying to make
arrests. The rioters were jailed,
when 500 negroes surrounded the
Jail and threatened to burn it and
the town.
w. E. Weatherly, of ST. Louis, has
been elected assistant professor of
practical mechanics at the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College by the
Executive Committee of that insti-
tuition. The committee will meet on
the 23d of January to elect an assis-
tant agriculturist.
Congressman Henderson on De-
cember 2Sth told Chronicle repre-
sentative that he expected stormy
session during tbs next sitting of the
House. Mr.. Henderson said that in
his opinion two-thirds of the House
were in favor of the repeal of the to-
baccO tax.
Between 2 and 4 o'clock Satur-
lay morning about one hundred
armed masked men broke the county
all at Barnwell, Ga, and took out
light negro prisoners, carried them
10 the woods three quarters of a
mile off, tied them to trees and shot
them to death. The negroes were all
awaiting trial for murder
Mr.. Micajah Wright was in High
Point last week and carried cane
which had been in constant use for
rs years. His father used it so years
and he for 25 years. 1t is in good
Wright says thousands Of guesses
have been made as to the kind of
wood 1T was cut from.
yesterdays Chronicle contained
u clipping from the Salisbury Truth,
stating that probably the Oldest coin
in the State had been found in some
relics Of the late j. NJ Richie, of Chi
ia Grove. The coin bore the date of
80 a. D. Capt. John Irwin, of Char
lOtte, has a Roman coin in his pos
session bearing date 800 B. C. What
Al prophet it's maker was
There is a report from New Or
leans that will created profound as
tonishment throughout the South.
1t is that some grave robbers and
human hyenas from Chicago were
prowling around the Cemetery at
New Orleans with the intent of steal
ing the body of our late President,
Jefferson Davis. New Orleans has
already placed protectors at the
grave. 1t is a great shame that such
devilish purpose could ever enter
the brain of even Chicago villains.
IS. w. Hearn, formerly editor of
the Wadesboro Inteligencer, died at
Wadesboro last week. Mr. Hearn
created quite a sensation eighteen
months ago by making a violent at
tack in his paper upon j. L. Stone, a
prominent merchant of Raleigh.
Stone instituted a heavy libel suit
against Hearn in consequence of the
article in the InteHigencer, but the
jury brought in verdict of not gull
ty. Hearn was q man of rather re-
markable record, having been en-
gagged in one or two duels and shoot
ing ARRAYS.
1.-The Grady Monument Fund at
Atlanta has now reached nearly $14,-
900. Subscriptions thus far are al
most all from Atlanta. The young
men ofother parts of Georgia are in
teresting themselves, and while no re-
turns have yet been received, indica-
tions are that subscriptions from
other Georgia towns and cities will