The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-19
| THE OLD NORTH STATE.
HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER BORDERS
SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.

/ HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER BORDERS
SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.
Hewsy Notes Carefully Clipped, Oulled
and Paragraphicaily Packed Into Col
A base ball club is being organized
at Madison.
The annual cattle show will be
held in Raleigh in May.
Madison will vote in May on the
question Of license or no license.
/ Thhe Prssbyterlans speak of build
ing great University At Asheville.
Tho State choruses for the May
festival. are working in earnest now
on festiyal music.
The Lexington Dispatch learns
that the condition of Gen. J. M.
I Leach is more favorable.
A postoface has been established
ut Idlewild, Ashe county, with John
| V. Hatson as postmaster.
! 1t is reported that the mammoth
| machine shops of the Richmond and
| Danvills Railroad will be moved to
Charlotte this month.
Mr.. John D. Pritchett, Of Rock
ingham, reports having recently
caught q beaver on Haw River
which weighed 20 pounds.
Tho Chatham Record says that
John W. Taylor, of that county,
raised on ono acre eighty-five bush
els of corn without the use Of ferti-
lizers.
! The will Of the late Capt. T. l..
Seigle, Of Charlotte, makes his son,
| Mr.. Thad B. Seigle, executor, and
also Wills him all the estate, valued
at abont $50, 600.
CASTOR county, through her repre-
sentatives, has, without submitting
to . vote of the people, declared it
self a dry county, and tho sale of
whiskey is forbidden.
Governor Fowle on Wednesday
pardoned out of the penitentiary w.
| p. Deshong, of Goldsboro, who was
serving a ten years. sentence for con-
cealing stolen goods.
| Grand Sire C. NJ. Busbee has ac-
cepted tho invitation to deliver tho
tho annual Literary address at the
next Wake Forest Commencement.
| 1t will be rare treat.
Goldsboro is to have a cigar manu-
factory. 1t is to be opened 1T once
and will be conducted on rs extern
sive . scale as the demands Of its
patronage may require.
A negro named Bud Nicholson has
been arrested and lodged in Jail at
Graham upon the charge of having
shot into the private car of Col. A.
B. Andrews few weeks ago.
The Greensboro Workman says
that the automatic cigarette ma
chine invented by J. B. Underwood
of Fayetteville is an other Gatling
gun made to kill boys with.
An effort will be made to have q
company of Confederate soldiers
from Cabarrus county to take part
in tho grand reunion Of old veter-
ans At Chicago during the worlds
fair.
Tho Governor has appointed the
following directorsof tho Soldiers
Home: w. C.. Stronach, F. 81.
Busbee, of Wake IA. D. McGill, OF
Cumberland w. E. Ardrey, of Neck
lenburg.
| Authorities Of the Monroe High
School, which was burned recently
and in which two young men lost
their livee, have decided to rebuilo
will be erected to replace the ole
one.
The Goldsboro Argus remarks
We are reliably informed that there
is . lady in this city seventy years o.
age, who some time ago had hel
teeth pulled out, on account Of non
ralgia, and is now cutting an entir,
new set.
DR.. Thos. Hume, Of the Universi
ty, has been invited to deliver al
address before the Nation Education
al Association At Toronto, Canada
next summer, ON 1.-The Coordination
English Work in Seconary School
and Universities"
The Stewards Of the several church
es of Charlotte have written . re
} quest to Rev. Sam Jones that on &C
count OF the revivals just held ther
; by Evangelist Fife he defer his visi
to Charlotte from May 10th unit
! some time in October.
Mr.. William Cook in boring tn
well for tho factory of the Vande
', mere Oyster Packing company strucl
mineral water at depth of 169 fee
that rises Of its own accord to the to-
Of tho well, and then flows on to tn
river.-New Berne Journal.
. President Robinson and Genera
!. Manager Winder, of the Seaboar
! Air Line, Railway are now in Florid
looking after their system Of road
in that section. John T. Patrick
now 1T Tallahassee, engaged in mat
: ters relative to the Southern Expos
! ton in Raleigh next autumn.
To the personal efforts of Capt.
B. Englehard, chief Of the Raleig
, fre department, are the voluntee
! fireman Of the State indebted for tn
, bill which creates fund for then
4 This fund, which - not to excee
, $500 annually, is raised from IS
: additional tax imposed upon each II
snrance company doing business
the State.
Mitchell county is the only on
that did not pay pension tax into th
. State treasury. As result Of tt
. pensioners within its borders get n
0 pension. The county levied the fu
3 amount Of taxes allowed under Il
. constitution, but the pension part
. these was turned INTO the count
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