The western sentinel., 1890-01-30
LATEST NEWS NOTES. +,

LATEST NEWS NOTES..
THE town of Shelby is to have
electric-ligh5s.
MRS. s. B. Alexander, of Char
lotte, died in Louisburg last week.
The light house at Cape Hatteras,
N. c., will cost half a million and viii
be the greatest in the world.
The Lenoir Topic says that two
sevenths of Caldwell coupty's reel
estate is7now owned by Northern
capitalists. = sss~s.
The Wilmington Star expects the
Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley r. R. to
be completed to that place by Feb
ruary 18th. ;, : . - : = =
...The doctors of Lexington have
formed q "trust,p 2 and agreed not to
go to see any one whose name is on
their delinquent lists. ---'---'-
q...It is rumored that Senator RAM
som is rich, and that he got his for
tune last week by, drawing $500, 900
in the Louisiana lottery. u Z
...Now It is reported from Washing
ton that the President snubbed For
aker. when he called at the White
House day or two ago., asl
The Atlanta people will build q
Henry w, Grady Hospital" co cost
$75, ,O0O.7 He will also have q fine
shaft to cost probably $40, 600. >,
And now, Oklahomais is the COM
ing paradise selected for the colored
race. Tt is said that abouj twenty
five thousand are already there.
IA little two -year-old child of Mr..
j. B. Bennett, of Pamlico county,
swallowed some concentrated lye
and died the next day from the et-
fecCs. 3ssA.t s.T 3aE gGss i @Hs a3
. Ash Wednesday, the beginning Of
Lent, falls this year on February /.
10th. Easter Sunday will come on
the 9Th of April, somewhat earlier
than usual. sdI eiEf II gsDogt 80.
The State Convention Of TIE Sum
day School Association of North
Carolina will be held at Wilmington.
on the 25th, 26th and 9th days Of
February. esd 1s3t' san o" "a
The North Carolina Teachers
Assembly will meet at Morehead City,
June 9th, and continue until the
l81st. Two thousand teachers are
expected to attend. g ea3 bha .fli
The Call says that letters receiv-
ed in Raleigh announce the death of
Rev. C. L. Powell, the insane mis-
sionary, who recently killed his little
daughter in Algiers. to- y "a, 81
Miss Nellie Bly, has completed her
trip around the world. She accom-
plished the task in 70 days, 6 hours
and II minutes, having. covered dur
ing her travels a distance of q, 600
miles. go "''s ~ 81
Charles Ricketts, was stabbed and
nearly Instantly killed, at Battery
Park hotel at 1Asheville last. week.
The name of the murderer is Alfred
McElrath Both of the parties are
colored. "a IL .
News comes from BERTHE county
that the farmers are hiring white
iaborers instead. of colored, and they
are succeeding in getting fair sup
ply. The colored people are so de-
moralized that they cannot be hired
at all. ..,-s.... Z.
The Atlantic & Danville railroad
from Norfolk to Danville was formal
ly opened Thursday, by special ex-
cursions from points along the line
to DanviIle. The road is 2O7 miles
long, and gives Danville a direct
route to the seaboard.
The Florida orange-growers have
become weary of the small returns
from the shipment of the fruit COM
mission house in the Northern cities,
and have formed an association to
handle their entire crop and dispose
of it by auction in New York and
Chicago. sd ioi 1ipYi'i-5tA - ~
Mr.. E. C. Day, who recently con-
tracted romantic marriage in Hen.
derson to a lady from Mississippi
who advertised for a husband, has
come to. grief early in his honeymoon.
He was arrested in Charlotte Friday
night ON q charge of forgery COM
mitted in Clarksville, Va. bsli4 nisl
Gu.....A sad fatality occurred at Dur
ham last week, A white man named
/ Parish, attrain hand, was coupling
some cars about a shifting train, and
while walking backwards in front OF
the moving sectiOna of the train his
heel was caught in a SWITCH He
struggled to free himself, but before
he could do SO the car ives upon him
and crushed him. He died in O. few
minutes ~ nOsIsq 1sdje- gaA .ss'Sit !
lid Celia Cradle, a, icolored woman
who went to- Mississippi with the
other exOdusteTB to that State, writes
to Tom Green that Mississippi ID not
as represented by, the agents. She
| is especially wrathy, against Charles
Henry, in her letter, asking Tom "to
kill Charles Henry, the first chance
you get, for he lied to us bad She
says tell he's. folks not TO come t6
H'1 's'1 t'p sspzsq Iaoi4iz1 Iisdl M
T The thriving and u enterprisink
town of Plymouth, Pa, hassa novel
society in it's midst. 1t is known al
the Young Ladies' Protective Asso
citation, and it's primary object is the
protection Of the matrimo onia1 inter.
ests of the young women of the place
Girls between the ages of II and SO
are eligible No woman can be ad'
mitted over the age Of 80. Aaso ,i Isa
9l..a..wild hogs entered the calm yof, .
farmer in the Chickasaw Nation, neal
Arbuckle, Indian Territory, last Fri.
day, and devoured as tfvelyear-old
child which was alone in the house.
When the mother returned to the
house q wild boar ran ont at the
door and. into the brushys swampa
near BY, carrying one Of the legs OF
the child in tsmouth. The remainder