The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-22
OVER THE STATE.
Numerous Newsy Notes Gathered from
Currituek 10 Cherokee,

s of labor.
Wilmington orange market over
stocked.
Greensboro has the Gaynor Fire
Alarm syste m
The present Legislature will elect
/, 400 magistrates.
Vesper is the name Of the North
Carolina oyster nan-of-war.
Tie shipment of early market
truck has begun at New Berne.
Work begins soon on the railroad
from Washington to Grenville.
More sick members in Raleigh
than in any previous Legislature.
Many Goldsboro ladies are recipi-
ents of New Year cards from Japan.
Durham Baptist Female College
has opened under flattering auspices.
W.T.. McMahan, of Davie, died at
his home near MocksvilIe last week.
Wayne county Teachers Associa-
ton has been formed monthly meet
ings.
Stokes farmers are industriously
preparing their land for the coming
crop.
Danbury awakes to numerous
steam whistles in the timber forests
around.
The Charlotte Savings Bank has
been organized to have a capital of
5000, 900.
Warren Edwards has become edi-
tor, and manager of the Burgaw
Herald.
New Berne Collegiate Institute
issues the Semi monthly School
Chronicle.
The snow took down the telephone
wires end impeded street traffic in
Asheville.
During the past ten years the Leg
islature paid the public printer a
bonus of $25.437.
The Tarboro Banner has suspend-
ed, and Mr.. King, the editor goes to
South Carolina.
Edgecombe farmers raised more
corn and meat last year than for
many past years.
Seven thousand bushels of mer-
charitable peanuts were raised on rs
acres in Edgecombe.
Wilson, Edgecombe, Pitt and
Green negroes are again afflicted
with the exodus fever.
President Smith, of Wayne Agri-
cultural works, have invested largely
in Florida phosphate lands.
The North Carolina Car Building
Company, of Raleigh, declared a
dividend of eight per cent.
county are mandamused for refusing
to grant license to sell liquor.
The Scotland Neck Democrat ur-
ges the extension of the Tarboro
and Hamilton railroad to that point.
Col. John C. Upton has been look
ing into the matter of establishing
another afternoon paper at Raleigh.
The Wilmington, Onslow and East
Carolina Railroad opens up fine
game country to Northern sports
men.
The Times says that the late A. N.
Chaffin, of Virginia, who recently
died in Salem, was native of Davie
county.
Senator Bell, of Clay, had four
hogsheads of tobacco shipped to him
at Raleigh, from, his Clay county
| farm.
With seven plows, 100 bales of
cotton, and ample supply of corn,
were made by w. R. Tolson, of Edge
| combe.
The through vestibuled train from
| New York to Florida over the Allan
tic Coast Line, was put on last
Sunday.
John NJ. Balance, Jr., accidentally
shot and killed himself while out
hunting near his homo in Lewiston,
BERTHE county.
Mrs. Parker, wife Of the poisoned
man, and ex-Sheriff Rogers, of Gran
vile, have been admitted to bail in
the sum Of $4,000.
Captain Wilkinson, of Whining
ton, undertook to eat six crackers in
five minutes without water, and
failed on the third one.
There are in Arson coanty, accor.
ding to the recent school census, Z,
294 children Of school age. OF those
3.617 are white, and 3,677 black.
| The Aldermanic board of Whining
/ tOA A0S PAOP1ACN 0AA PACcOAtCu
bill to the Legislature consolidating
and re-funding the city debt.
The editor of the State Chronicle
and the editor of the News and Oh
server are now making faces ut one
another about the State printing
matter.
4 W. Wharton Grier, whose deatf
was reported as having occurred a
Dalton, N. c., from pistol wound
is not dead, and has recovered sufB
GENTLY to return home.
The will of Mr.. Paul Cameron, dis
Lposlng of two million dollars, bear,
date February as, 1890, and wa.
found in travelling yalise in which
he carried many valuable papers
I The Wilmington Messenger wal
presented with clam thirty year,
old weighing nearly three pounds
and forwarded it to the State muse
um, at Raleigh.
The Times says an effort will b,
made at the next regular meeting O
the Davie commissioners to form Z
new township out of parts of Nocks
vile, Clarsville and Farmingtor
townships, to be known as Cans
township.
Rev. Walter p. King, of the Chi
nese school, to have been established
at Kelly's Cove, in Bladen county
has left North Caroline for NOR,
congenial parts, leaving his Chimes