The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-02-13
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

"A cotton factory is to be built at
Marion.
:. In the q. S Senate there are 76
members and SIS lawyers.
;. Newport News, Va, is to have
the hugest shipyard in America.
-. One Chatham wagon csrried
l 800 rabbit skins into Raleigh.
Mr.. Randall is losing his health.
The political excite ment has sapped
bis strength.
The Tarboro Southerner says that
the cotton factory there made clear
profit of $500 last year.
80. North Carolina has 1900 miles
of railroad. More than 1000 miles
have been built since 1880.
...Jesse Brantley and Thomas Por
tbs had fight at Weldon Friday.
Ports killed Brantley with stick.
...Mr. Julian s. Carr, of Durham.
has given the Students Aid Fund of
Wake Forest College a check of
81, 900.
The Pitt county Farmers Ali.
ance has passed a resolution against
taxing the whites to educate the ne
groes.
1.-The Grand Secretary of North
Carolina states that there are $4,000
Masons in the State and 230 active
lodges.
-. A colored child was burned to
death in Asheville last Thursday. Its
parents had left it locked in the
house. .
Natural gas is suspected to be
stored beneath the surface of the
ground in the Egypt coal section of
the State.
-. DR.. Browning, of Philadelphia,
will erect a hotel near Swannanoa
Junction similar to the Battery Park
in Asheville.
The Supreme Court will remain
in session until the middle of June.
The docket is about as large as usual
at the spring term.
The worst blizzard on record is
reported as raging in Minnesota, the
air is filled with snow and the mercury
far below zero.
Three hundred and sixty-two ne
groes left Enfield Friday night on a
special train under charge of an emil
grafton agent for the South.
...Go7. Fowle will formally open
the New Berne Fish aud Oyster Fair
on the Oath. The fair will continue a
week from the Oath.
Evangelist Pearson and wife are
ministering to crowded houses in Bal
timore, and their reception there is
said to be very warm.
-Four of the pick-pockets arrested
at the Fayetteville centennial last
November have been tried and get
two years in the penitentiary.
Warren G. Elliott, of Norfolk, a
son of Mrs. S. A. Elliott, of Oxford,
N. c., has been elected President OF
the Wilmington and Weldon R. r.
| Davis Military School at La
Grange, suspended last week on &C.
count of the prevalence of grip and
will not reopen till the September
term.
Col. Julian Allen, of Statesville
died Saturday. Although Pole, he
was warmly interested in the prosper
ity of this State and did much to ad-
vance its people.
:. 1t is said that Wharton j. Green
/, Thomas III. Sutton and G. B. Aycock
will be prominent as candidates fol-
the congressional nomination from the
Third district.
-. There is so much travel on the
Wilmington & Weldon railroad that
it is thought double track will soon
be put on the line over a part Oh all
of the way from Weldon to Whining
ton.
Mrs. Davis writes to the papers
that she requests copies of all letters Of
Importance President Davis my have
written to any of his friends, to be
furnished her for use in preparing the
volume now in progress.
20. The House Committee on elec-
tions Tuesday morning, by strict
party vote, decided to recommend
that the House unseat Pendleton and
seat Atkinson, as representative from
the first West Virginia district.
-. The Wilmington extension Of
the G. F. & Y. v. road has been com.
pleted from " ilmington to Fayette-
Vile, and will be open for business
February 18th. Distance from Will
mington to Fayetteville SO miles.
-. Silcott, the defaulter who abb
seconded with $4,000 belonging to
members of Congress is living in Can
ada. He is making his home at the
house of a Mr.. Tribault at Terrebonne
Quebec. Louise Thibault, Silcott's
paramour, is with him.
-. The Senate has passed the direct
tax bill, which passed the last Con-
gress and was vetoed by President
Cleveland. The vote was Al to Z.
The negative votes were cast by Sena-
tors Berry, Blair, Call, Coke, Plumb,
Vance and Vest. SEQ.
edward L. Duckworth, recently
appointed postmaster at Sharon, Ia.
leaferro county, Ga, has represented
to the Postoffice Department that he
is prevented by threats of personal
violence and hostile demonstrations
from taking possession of his Office.
Judge Emory Speer, who was
holding the Circuit Court of the Un-
tied States in Georgia, has decided
that the marriage of white man and
negro woman, solemnized in the Dis