The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-12-25
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER BORDERS
SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.


HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER BORDERS
SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.
Newsy Notes Carefully Clipped, Culled
and Paragraphioaily Packed Into Col
umn.
Granville county is practically out
OF debt, and will soon get $500
from Vance county.
The next session of the n. C. Con-
ference of the NJ E. church, South;
will be held at Greenville.
Mr.. j. r. Hughes, of Allegheny
county, raised a kershaw this year
which weighs sixty pounds.
Granville county is still on the
boom: Another good copper mine
near Blue Wing has been discovered.
The roll of the Rutherford Militia
ry Institute, Capt. W. T. R. Bell,
shows an attendance of eighty-four
cadets.
1t is now a certainty that the First
Virginia Regiment of Volunteers will
encamp at Wrightsville, this State,
next summer.
A commission has been issued to
John F. Bruton, of Wilson, as Lieu
tenant Colonel of the Second Regi-
ment, N. G. S. G.
George 81. White, the Solicitor in
the ''Black'' district, has been elect
ed Grand Master of the Grand Lodge
of colored Masons.
Raleigh has raised and forwarded
$114 for placing headstones over the
graves of North Carolina soldiers
buried at Fredericksburg, Va.
Rev. D. NJ. Austin has accepted the
call to the pastoral care of the Trade
Street church, Charlotte, N. c., and
will enter upon work Jan. 1st.
A little boy in Norfolk, Va, was
arrested Wednesday for smoking a
cigarette and both he and the seller
had to shuttle out some cash. Right.
The schools in Tarboro have been
closed on account of scarlet fever,
and the homes of G.. I. Austin and
Judge Phillips haye been quaran.
tined.
r. o. Holt Esq, formerly of Oak
Ridge Institute, but now of the Navy
Department at Washington, is spend
ing the holidays with his people or
the Ridge.
j. II. Carlisle, of Oxford, has Gov
that furnished his family of six will
all the milk and butter they used fo
the year, and Mrs. Carlisle sold SIS
worth of milk besides.
| Mr.. A. A. Conley, of Linville town
ship, has reopened the old Conle,
gold mine, and is meeting with every
indication of striking it rich befor
long.-Morganton Herald.
Rev. DIR. II. T. Hudson has be
come associate editor and Rev. DR.
J. H. Weaver corresponding edito
of the Raleigh Christian Advocate
Its circulation is over 5000.
There are only about 200 ponsion
ers who through the negligence O
clerks or county commissioners fail
ed to get their applications befor
the State Board of Pensions within
the time required by law.
Gov. Fowle has appointed the TO
lowing notaries public: p. C. Hun
; phrey of Forsyth; l.. F. Tillery {
Edgecombe; John W. Ward, Sr., {
Dare; H. T. Rumbough OF Madison
T. B. Douthit of Forsyth.-News an
Observer.
| There are now white Orphan Asy
: lums at Oxford, Thomasville an
? Charlotte, and one for the colore
race at Oxford. The Legislatur
: will be asked by the negroes to max
= special annual appropriation
' aid of the latter institution.
A Hyde correspondent of th
= Washington Progress says DIR. Gal
E an eminent Baptist divine'' of tn,
! county, charged poor ''sister S.
: for receipt to cure warts" an
8 that her friends are out with sui
scription paper trying to raise tt
: amount.
f A few days ago one of the grindir
!, stones of Blackwell's mill, in Il
northern part of Robson count
while running at a moderate spec
bursted, one-half going out of o,
side of tha house and the other ha
# out of the other side. The miller W
J, knocked senseless, but was not SCI
n ously hurt.
II Mr.. John Med. Brown made til
4 year 450 bushels of corn, 20 bales
n cotton, 400 bushels of sweet potatot
Is 5000 forage, rs bushels peas, a go,
!. crop of oats, watermelOns, veget
:. bles, ETC., on 81 acres of land, wit
i, out the aid of commercial fertilizer
The plowing was done with one hOr.
~ and one-fourth of the time of anot
= er.-Red Springs Farmer.
Mr.. w. H. Whitehurst, of Pamli
county, gathered 1880 pounds
seed-cotton off of ten acres. II
c. was over 600 weight of lint cotton
n the acre at o cost to him of thl
e. cents per pound for producing a
w housing. There is money in su
ID farming as this where the yield
Is been good and the expense of raisi
at small. Small acreage and well tel
rs ed is the future success Of the NOl
or Carolina farmer.
8 Marcellus Dawson, Tom Lane, q
another man were hunting rabf
:, near Greenville recently, and as Il
il were returning home and when
nd near the road stopped to rest. S
md denly Dawson called out, "there e
ing q rabbit" !" and in whirling to sh,
it the whole load of his gun str
Lane, who was q few yards aw
to Sunday Dawson offered to surren