The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-10-09
NORTH CAROLINA IN BRIEF.

ford Orphan Asylum.
Twenty seven fairs will be held in
North Carolina this year.
The output of the Halle gold
mine is about $4,000 per month.
1t is believed that the Stokes
county tobacco crop is the finest ever
grown there.
The trial of Policeman Hogue, of
Raleigh. for killing negro, has been
postponed until January.
The Farmers Alliance had every
thing their own way in the Rocking
ham county counvention last Monday.
Mr.. H. G. Wall has severed his
connection with the Rockingham
Rocket. Mr.. T. C. Guthrie is now
sole editor and proprietor.
North Carolina received 1892
from the Peabody Educational Fund
during the year ending Oct. the 1st.
South Carolina heads the list with
1866.
II. E. McCrary, postmaster at
Lexington, A. d. Rike, p. m. at Thorn
asville and collector Rollins were all
confirmed by the Senate before it ad-
journed last week.
Mr.. Abel M. Huitt, Democratic
Representative from Catawba to the
last Legislature and a candidate tor
the next, died, aged AZ years, Sept.
21st, of typhoid fever.
Mr.. w. C. Stronach has pur-
chased Camp Russell near Raleigh
for the Soldiers Home. Work has
begun on the houses, and they will be
ready for the reception of disabled
Confederate soldiers in few days.
Andrews is the name of a new
station on the Western North CARROLL
ma railroad in Cherokee county. 1t
is hustling young town. At an
auction sale of lots there the other
day eight thousand dollars were re-
allied
The farmers in the eastern coun-
ties have made good crops this year,
but the cotton is hanging in the field
for want of pickers. The negroes
have caught the western fever again
and the annual exodus will soon take
place.
Mrs. Alma Avera,' of johnson
county, has given to Trinity College
$40 acres of land, which is to be sold
and the proceeds applied to building
the "Avera Memorial Building" in
honor of her husband, the late VIM.
III. Avera.
notwithstanding reports to the
contrary, the street railway Of Will
mington has been sold to a company
represented by Mr.. E. L. Hawks, of
Winston. The Star says that the
terms Of purchase have been agreed
upon, and that the electric system
will be substituted for the present
plant.
Mr.. w. B Phillips. of Birming
ham, has completed the survey of the
North Carolina Bessemer Co.'s lands
near Marion, and has returned to Ala
bama. where he takes a Professorship
in the Tuscaloosa University. Among
other things the surrey developed
some rich deposits of very fine blue
marble, as rich building stone as is
to be found in America. a.-Asheville
Democrat
The citizens of Macon county
have voted for the issuing of bonds to
the amount of 100000 for the pur-
pose of aiding in the construction of a
railroad through Macon county. These
bonds are to run for thirty years at 6
per cent. interest, which will oe $4,000
per year. The road will be built
from the Georgia or South Carolina
line through Macon county Dy Frank
lin, thence to the Murphy division of
the Western North Carolina railroad.
Charlotte Chronicle.
"A matrimonial epidemic seems to
have struck this section of the moral
vineyard. j. G. Caudle and Miss
Hassie Allen, Joseph Shaw and Miss
Jennie Smith, and T. M. Whitlock
and Miss Desdemona Smith are three
happy couples who have taken the
vows since our last issue. We have
been expecting returns of some others
in time for this weeks paper, but the
particulars are slow coming in aud we
are compelled to go to press without
them.-Rockinghdm Rocket
One Of the contracting parties for
$4,000 worth Of iron property here
was in town last Friday and said that
positive arrangements have been made
with railroad ,mpany t. build a
branch here. From the information
we got from him we think it is the r.
& s., bpt have no idea where it will
start from; whether Madison or fur
thor Snuth. hut ha uivos the aseur