The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-10-23
NORTH CAROLINA IN BRIEF.
The Fair was a success.

The Fair was success.
One negro wss fatally stabbed by
anorher at Gold Hill Saturday.
All appointments of Hon. w. H.
Kitchin have been cancelled ON ac-
count of sickness.
-Buncombe county has taxable
property to the amount OF. $8,012,
295. In 1880 it was only $2,74S,-
S67.
The Intelligencer is out in new
dress of type, aud has been enlarged
to nine columns. Long may it h2ur-
ish.
Two persons We're run over and
killed by the train on the Oxford and
GAINESVILLE road near Durham last
| week.
"A new hotel is being built at
Washington by DR.. S. T. Nicholson.
It will be three stories high with 40
rooms and three stores.
"A genuine cyclone struck the vi
cinity of Maxton last Thursday. No
lives were lost, but it made a clean
sweep of the buildings in its path.
The Elko, new steamer, has
been put Oh the Clyde line between
Washingtor and Norfolk. She car
ries 900 bales Of cotton at a trip
"A serious affiay occurred on w.
N. G. passenger train Saturday night.
| A white man was battered up with
| brass knucks and negro seriously
stabbed.
Miss Kate Guion, of Lincolnton,
has gone to take special course in
surgery She has already received a
diploma from the Training school fol
nurses in Boston.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis passed
through the State last Thursday OF
her way to New York, where she goes
to look after the publication of the
life of her husband.
The A. and NJ. college authorities
are considering the question of holding
the session during the summer months
SO the students could obtain practical
knowledge of farming.
John A. Beaman has been nomi
mated for the Senate by a mass meet
ing Of Democrats in Sampson who are
opposed to Mr.. Butler, the nominee Of
the recent convention.
The efforts of Brewers boot-lick
to whitewash him are sad to behold
but they are unavailing. The colo
of the whitewash is about as black a
Brewers own record-Reidsville Re
vieaU.
John Wanamaker established 20;
new postofices in this State durin:
the past year. The number for the
whole country is 4,427. A good mum
Der of Johns new appointees have de
faulted.
The Tarboro Southerner says: TIL
abundant cotton crop, supplements
by the successful production of tobac
co in Edgecombe has made the farmer
vastly happier than they have been 70
many years
H. C. Hopper, S. T. Griffith, Q
Bedford City, Va; w. Duke, of Dur
ham, and others have, it is stated, pun
chased 1 900 acres of land near Nj
Airy and will organize a $5,000,00'
company to build an industrial city.
"A Presbyterian minister in VIII
mington told Sam Jones that the pee
pie objected to his light use of sue
terms as "My Lord" God Almight
etc, and Sam promised to be goo
little boy and not to do so any more
B. L. Duke, S. F. Tomlinsol
Peter j. Otey and others have incol
! porated the Mutual Land d Manu-
featuring Company at Durham fo
the purpose of dealing in land, mani
featuring cotton, etc. The capit'
stock is $2SO,00O.
> From all accounts the State Fa
was one of the most successful eve
held. The exhibits of stock and fru
from this Piedmont section were es
pecially fine. The racing was ia
and the balloon ascensions an inter.
ting feature. The
+ The Newbern Journal says tw
! large fine deer were killed Tuesds
about two and half miles from Il
J. city, and little previous to that tin
another deer was captured alive i
Mr.. w. F. Crockett's field not mo
. than half mile from the limits of Il
city.
The people of Hayesville, SAND
Creek, Gold Mine and Ced,
Rock townships held elections la
, week upon the question of subscribe
stock to the Henderson aud Nashvil
railroad. The Louisburg Times sa
all voted against the railroad exec
Cedar Rock.
Rev. A. C. Dixon, North Car
lima man, has been called to be paste
of large Baptist chnrch in Brookly
His brother Tom is just across the b
:, bridge in New York, preaching
! such crowds that church the size
Talmage's Tabernacle is being built
accommodate them. North Carolil
is proud of these two sons.
8 The fends are at their devilme,
t again, trying to usher human sous i
8 to eternity without warning. The e:
e cursion train from Raleigh Tuesds
night came in contact with an in
mense piece of timber just this sids
Stems The engine struck it wi
8 such force as to knock it clear off Il
9 track, and thus saved the lives of q
t passengers on board.-Oxford Day
"A fearful tragedy occurred in A
le ghany county last week job
q Dixon, young farmer, discovert