The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-02-05
OVER THE STATE.
Numerous Newsy Notes Gathered from
Curri,uck to Cherokee.

Currituck to Cherokee.
Reporter Post says Stokes roads
are bad.
Mt. Airy and Sparta mail route
badly out of gear.
A new rich gold mine has been
found in Cabarrus.
Mount Airy claims building and
improvement boom.
Cabarrus wants a new postoffice
on the Mill Hill route.
Average yield of tobacco in Nash
county $l66 per acre.
Crazy high teas are the tony enter
tainments of Durham.
Wilmington Messengers Sunday
edition runs Sc columns.
The R. & D. Yadkin bridge will be
completed in three weeks.
Representative Morse, of Curri-
tuck, is quite ill in Norfolk.
Craven county teachers associa-
ton organIzed at New Berne.
Baleigh has organized big ferti
izer manufacturing company.
Work on new Union Railway Sta
ton at Raleigh will soon begin.
Stokes farmers awaited themselves
of the good season for saving pork.
Alleghaneans subscribe literally
to the ACADEMY project, at Sparta.
The News admits the fact that Mt.
Airy streets and side walks are lit
tie off.
ClvilService Examiner Hoyt, of
Washington, examining the Char
lottese.
The sheriff of Johnston complains
of nothing to do in the claim and
delivery line.
A short cut turnpike road is likely
soon to be built between New Berne
and Aurora.
Cabarrus farmers are taking stock
in a new 10000 spindle cotton fac
tory at Maiden.
From fifteen acres aus Edgecombe
farmer shipped thousand barrels
of Irish potrtoes.
The Danbury Reporter urges the
Legislature to create the Office of
inspector of mines
A Trap Hill correspondent says
the schools of that portion of ALLIE
ghany arc booming.
W. II. Hearne, of Albemarle. has
$500 nugget of gold found in a
Stanly county cornfield.
Anent the State printing, the Dur
ham Sun wants to know chow about
the county printings.''
Yadkin railroad grading. from
Salisbury to Norwood, in Stanley,
will be finished by March.
Only twelve applicants before the
Supreme Court for law license, two
of whom are colored.
Senator Ransom, approaching tina
this is ia, mer legislature has
i seeded" all the members.
Northern sportsmen report good
| game along the line of new railroad
between Greenville aud Kinston.
The mayor of Taylorsville declined
! the invitation of the board of com.
missioners to step down and out.
Many pleasure and fishing yachts
from the North are noted s cruising
this winter in our Eastern waters.
| Gen. Rufus Barringer, of Char
lotte, is gathering up war records
and relics for the Veterans Associa
ton.
| AT Taylorsville court 1900 acres oil
land brought SIC, 900 the largest auc
ton sale of land in the history of the
county.
Conductor McJones on the r. G. D
left an insolent Pullman porter
counting cross ties for insulting &
lady passenger.
Concord Commissioners decline t.
clothe station employee of the r
& d. with the authority of a polio,
officer.
The proposition before the Legis
l2ture to give back to Ashe the stril
known up there as Oklahoma
creates some stir in Allegheny.
| Hon. VIM. T. Gre wford. mcmbe
of Congress elect from the Ninth dis
trict, is standing for license to prac
tice law before the Supreme Court.
In the Methodist Church, Concor,
Sunday, a thousand dollars to pa,
off the debt on Church and parson
age was raised in fifteen minutes.
| WI UOh tue JUICES COuupcI IL
county commissioners to furnish tn
court houses with new, decent bible
to swear witnesses on In nine case
out of ten witnesses would be just
fed in refusing to kiss the filthy
disease terminating books.
Another new county is wanted 9
portions of Wake, Franklin, Mash
Wilson and Johnston. An advocat
in the ''corner" says it is % mile
from my house to Louisburg, twenty
four miles to Wilson, % miles t
Nashville, 26 miles to Raleigh an
81 miles to Smithfeld.
The High Point Enterprise, thu
refers to a new industry of tbs
town: The broom factory is taxed t
its utmost capacity. The deman
for the brooms has been great eve
since the first one was put upon til
market. We hope soon to see th
capacity of the factory increased
| one hundred dozen a day.
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