The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-01-09
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Eight or ten persons persisted in
California from a snOw-slide.
-Four Republican members of the
House reported i'll from the Grip.
TON Burwell, colored. has been
appointed postmaster at Kittrells.
1.-The Godsboro Messenger reports
strawberry plants in bloom there.
"A new courthouse is being built
at Carthage, one of the handsomest in
the State, it is said.
IA three year-old child of Mr.. B..
Clontz was burned to death in Burke
county a few days ago.
AT Wilmington, N c., on Friday,
Dec. Goth, a uen-year-old son of S.
Walker was run over and killed by a
street-car.
Judge Kelley, of Philadelphia,
] the oldest member Of the House, is
very sick and possibly near the close
of his career.
In Spartanburg county. S. c.,
negroes logged one of their own race
for marrying a white woman. Be
ware of lynch law.
..Bradstreets made a bad mistake
in reporting Hall Bros, of Hickory,
as failed this week. It should have
been Hale Bros of Halifax Hall
Bros. are solid.
The Boston Merchants Associa-
ton, in a letter from President JON
athan A. Lane, to S. M. Inman. sends
81 ,OOOto the Grady monument fund.
This is the largest subscription yet
| received.
The State Convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association
of North Carolina will meet in Colds
boro, March IS, Ii, Is and 16 next.
State Secretary Coulter writes that
800 delegates may be expected.
lone store was burned and whole
block of buildings narrowly escaped
being burned in Chester, S. c.; early
Sunday morning. The fire was the
work of negro, who was seen to
apply the match, but who got away.
lon the 31st of December the
death rate at New York City had in
creased 100 per cent. La Grippe is
credited with being at the bottom OF
the increased fatality. Policemen to
the number of 357 are on the sick
list.
The Danville Register says that
j. s. Carr, of Durham, and delega-
ton of North Carolina tobacconists,
went to Washington Tuesday to ask
the Ways and Means Committee to
urge the abolition of the tobacco
| tax.
Minnesota and other Northwes.
tern States were visited by heavy
snow and rain storms on the night of
the 28th of December Telegraph
wires are down and travel delayed.
| It was a veritable blizzard in Dakota
The mercury fell 80 degrees in two
hours.
The State Auditor Saturday issued
q warrant to James B. Glenn, Ad-
jutant General of the State Guard for
seven thousand and five hundred
dollars for annual appropriation by
companies allowed the State Guard
for the year 1889.
1.-Two hundred exodusters left
Thursday night, says the Kinston
Free Press, and a considerable mum
Der have gone from Edgecombe and
other eastern points, while here a
large number have been congregated,
| some going as occasion permitted.
| DR.. Eugene Grissom has been
in Washington City several days.
| For years it has been his ambition
to have charge of ST. Elizabeth's, the
National Insane Asylum, near that
| city. The post is a lucrative and
responsible one.
/ IA terrible case of premature blu.
J rial is reported from Madison, Wis.
consin, where a young lady supposed
to be dead, was buried, and few
weeks after, when the body was re
moved and the coffin opened, it was
found that she had turned over and
in her desperation torn the flesh from
her face and hands.
IA terrible tragedy took place in
Mitchell county, II miles from Bak.
ersville. In a drunken row on Christ
mas day, three men were killed. Fri.
day, Monroe Garland, a brother Of
one of the murdered men, rode up to
a crowd in the same place and fired
into them, killing three more and
wounding twelve.
"A young man from Caldwell and
a young lady from Lincoln went uI
to Lenoir to get married last Satur.
day night. She cautioned him Of
the danger of her changing her mind
if she found out that he drank. Or
Sunday he got fool drunk. Monday
she took the train for home, he going
along trying Co persuade her to re
consider.
The News and Observersays that
Major E. G. Harrell has made up his
party of fifty from this State to at.
tend the next Mardi Gras at New
Orleans The party will go together
and viii get a great reduction oil
rates. The entire trip will cost each
one only $50. This will include sleep.
ing car and hotel charges. They will
be gone ten days.
IA dispatch from Richmond, Va,
on Monday says: A bill was intro
duced in the Legislature to-day to
incorporate the Jefferson Davis Mon
ument Associations also to provide
suitable resting place for his remains,
with the privilege of making provis.
ion for the interment of the other
members of his family at the same
place. A letter received here to-day
from United States Senator Daniel
announces his sickness at Lynchburg
with q severe case of La Grippe, and
therefore he is unable to set a day for
delivering his memorial address IN