The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-25
STATE NEWS.

A colored boy in Durham was
burned to death Sunday.
The great Durham Bull tobacco
factory is running night and day to
fill orders.
There are on file over fifty applica-
tions for admission ia the Agricultu-
raj aud Mechanical College next Sep
TENDER.
Mr.. j. D. Mccall, u member of the
Charlotte bar, was married to Miss
Sallie Nooe of rutherford College
yesterday.
The municipal authorities of Will
mington and Raleigh will take steps
to secure a correct census OF their
population.
Mr.. J, Schwartz and Miss Lena
Bernstein of Durham were united In
marriage by the Hebrew ceremony
Sunday afternoon.
The profit of the First Building
and Loan Association of Hickory
reached SO per cent.
Railroad and steamboat connec-
tons have been SO arranged as to
give Baltimore direct connection
with Newberne, n. c.
On Wednesday of last week, Capt
J. w. Porter, Of the Wilmington &
Weldon railroad employ, was mar
ried to Miss Nora Currie. of Scotland
Neck.
The next General Assembly will be
Western North Carolina Insane Asy-
lum to the Estate Hospital at Nor
CANTON
Mrs Lucy Atkinson, wife of Rev.
VIM. r. Atkinson, principal of the
Charlotte Femal Institute, died in
Columbia, S. c., at 1 o'clock Satur-
day afternoon.
The Horner School Oxford cadets
recently debated the question ::
''ShOu!d Il Student Have Il Sweet
hearth and decided it in the aftir-
NATIVE, of course.
The Press and Carolinian comes
out strongly in advocacy of abolish
iIg touoio uiSlIIGtS.
dividing the State into fifty dis
tricts as the Constitution requires"
a Raleigh dispatch says: The can
collation. of farm mortgages is now
gong on at remarkable rate. Du-
ring the preselt mouth more have
been cancelled than III the years
1SSG'S7 in this country.
At the NJ. E. Conference at Wilson
resolution was adopted appointing
a committee to look into the expedi
ency of celebrating the one hun
dredth iyerSary of the death Of
John Wesley, the great founder of
Methodism.
The psize of gold-headed cane,
suitably inscribed, offered by Mr..
Thos. McBryde to the confederate
soldier who participated in the great
est number of battles was awarded
to Mr.. J. l.. Cody, of Richmond
county Robesonian.
The record was broken in Raleigh
in the matrimonial business last Sat
urday. Nine marriage licenses were
issued by the registr of deeds and
of that nun Der three were issued to
one man-one was for himself, one
for Il sister and one for brother.
We learn that the Methodist's of
Raleigh will make an earnest move
to get the Rev. Sam Jones to go
there the first opportunity, Rev. f
D:Swindell stated to the conference
last week Il t Wilson that Mr. Jones 5
work in Wilmington had done great
good.
II is estimated that the nswspa-
pers of the country have spent a
great deal more money in telegraph
tolls since the Sioux Indian scare
began than wouid have been requIr-
ed to have quartered every living
tnen Der Of that tribe at first class
MOTEL the entire winter.
We learn from the Richmond Dis
patch that DR.. Morehe;,d Whitfield,
Ga Greensboro boy,) of the United
States Navy, who has been stationed
at the hospital in Portsmouth, is in
the city on his way to New York
where he viii join the U. S. Steamer
Chicago, flagship of the White Squad
ron.
1t is probable that q railroad will
shortly be constructed from some
point on the c. e. 4 Y. Y. railroad,
near Gulf, in Chatham county, to
some point on Deep river near GIenn's
Mills, Moore county. The object of
the projectors of the proposed road
is the development of the mineral in
terests in the valley of Deep river.
Thos. Pe,tiford. most worthy COL
ored man, who resides near Oxford,
was in town a few days ago. He
says he assisted in laying the foun-
datIon OF the State House in Ra-
leigh. The old man moves around
as if he was only so years of age,
while he is So and enjoys excellent
health. Oxford Ledger.
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