The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-07-03
LATE NEWS NOTES.

meet next year at Durham.
The lightning last week did con-
siderable damage in Chatham county.
The r. & D.. railroad have es-
tablished a-cotton compress in Char
lotte.
There has bes n race war near
Bambury, S. G. Negroes ambushed
some white men, wounding eight.
"A fire broke out in the mines at
Dunbar Pa. last Friday that left no
hope of rescuing the buried miners.
Chicago has decided that the
Worlds Fair of 1892 shall be known
as the columbian Exposition"
The supervisor of the census in
Chicago estimates the population of
that city at 1,O86,OO0.
The Democratic convention of
the 7th Congressional District will be
held in Salisbury on Friday, August
LIST.
The recent census will show New
York to be the third city 10 popula-
ton in the world, London being fret,
Paris second.
The sons of Vetnrans of the
American Revolution will celebrate
the Battle of Kings Mountain on the
7th of October.
In the United States Senate, Sat
urday, another conference committee
on the silver bill was appointed. A
message was received from President
Harrison announcing that he had sign
ed the dependent pension bill.
The board of missions assessed
the North Carolina Methodist confer
ence $13, 800 for foreign missions next
year, and the Western North Carolina
conference the same amount. The
different assessments ON the entir-
church were $35O,O0O.
Over GOO teachers attended the
Assembly at Morehead just closed.
The only sensation was created by an
Episcopal minister who drank too
much julep and then tried to enter a
lady's room at night. They talked of
using him roughly but his friends got
him away.
"A letter from Baptist minister
in Tyrell county, N. c., to the Raj
eigh Recorder says: "There is no
whiskey sold in the county, and when
the Judge last came here to hold court
he found no pauper in the poorhouse,
no prisoner in the Jail, and no case on
the docket"
About week ago, an alteration
took place in tho store Of Captain
London in Pittsboro. between Thomas
W. Wright and Jacob Thompson, a
clerk in the establishment. Wright
was in the act of drawing a knife
when Thompson dealt him blow on
the head with a rolling pin. Erysip-
elias set in and Wright has since died.
"A very destructive fire at Wash
ington, N. c., few nights ago. From
the wharf of the Eastern Dispatch
Company, which was burned, the fire
was communicated to the large ware
houses of S. r. Fowle & Co, which
were consumed. The loss is estimated
at from $4,000 to $15, 900, with very
little insurance.
The Observer states that last Tues
day there was placed on the records in
the court house at Fayetteville a
mortgage made by the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Railway Company in
favor eff the Mercantile Trust and
Deposit Company of Baltimore, Nd,
to secure the sum of Sc, 250,000, in
vested in consolidated bonds of the
road.
A New Haven Comm special
says there is probability that the
population of Connecticut may be
shown to be not laage enough to re-
tain the States present representation
of four in Congress. The farming
villages, as shown by the returns in
the first district, have decreased In
population during the last ten years.
The heat did fearful work last
week. Many men were stricken down
in Chicago and several died. Dis
patches from many points in Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin all tell
of insupportable heat and many fatali-
ties. At Burlington, Ia, and at Wa
tertown, Wis, the thermometer went
up to 104 and there were several
deaths. In the former place, business
had to be suspended.
From January LIST to June LIST,
this year, there have been 802 miles
of new track laid in the States of Vir-
GINA. North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida. Alabama, Mississip-
pi, Tennessee and Kentucky. About
one fourth of this, or 106 miles, has
been laid in Georgia. North Carolina
is the second State in this comparison,
with III miles to her credit The
total number of miles under contract
or construction in the States named
is 1892.
The renewal of the alliance be-
tween Germany, Austria and Italy un-
til 1895 is effectively assured, the com
munications which have already been
exchanged committing the Govern
ments to the exsension of the period
OF the compact-Russia is reported
to be preparing to back mp her de
maud on Turkey for the Immediate
payment of 30,O00,00 francs war in
demnity by sending the Black sea
feet into Turkish waters.
Great preparations are being
made at Knoxville, Tenn, for re-
union of Federal and Confederate vet
Grams who took part in the battle Of
Fort Saunders, near that city. The
reunion will last four days of the first
week of October, and will include