The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
w1NsroN-sALEM N c. THURSDAY, JANUARY 80 1891.
Tilla Grady and daughter -in-law

WnO were arrested ana LOGGED IN
Wake Jail on suspicion of poisoning
Tilla Grady's wife, were released by
Judged Clark on 500 bonds.
The Argus says the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad, regardless
of the Atlantic Coast Lines new
branch at Kinston, is doing the heav.
lest freight traffic in its history.
j. j. Stewart, editor of the Sails
bury Truth has been compelled to
give up work and go to Baltimore
for medical treatment. During his
absence Mrs. Stewart will edit the
paper.
DR.. Walter Hargrave, recently a
resident dentist of Charlotte died of
Consu nption at San Antonio, Texas,
where he had gone to practice his
profession in the hope of improving
his health.
The Farmers Alliance Manufac-
turing Company, of Durham has
been sending out first class plug to-
bacco. Some of their brands have
become great favorites. The capital
stock has been increased to Sic, 900.
The biennial meeting for the ex-
tension of the Atlantic and North
Carolina railroad, west of G Goldsboro,
has just been held in that town, and
standing resolutions for extension
re-adopted and forwarded to the Leg
islature.
They have poor postal facilities on
the Western North Carolina Road ac-
cording to the Watchman. It says /:
Tho train that leaves here at 1925
a. m. for Knoxville carries no postal
clerks and the mail is handled by the
baggage master.
Greensboro is getting up an illus
trated 32>page book-describing the
advantages of the town as a business
and manufacturing point. One pic
ture will create more impression
than four times the space to q
written description.
The House committee on public
buildings and grounds has ordered a
favorable report on the bill intro
duced by Mr.. Brewer appropria-
ting 100000 for the enlargement
and improvement of the government
building at Greensboro.
The property bought in Madison
by the Massachusetts, syndicate is
thought to be one of the best timber
tracts in the State, and is known to
contain vast deposits of magnetic
iron ore. The purchasers contem-
plate the rapid development of their
large possessions.
The Murphy Scout says the gra
ding on tho Western North Carolina
railroad is nearly completed to the
corporation line. There are two cuts
back of that point that will require
perhaps two weeks of good weather
to complete. In the meantime the
advance force is moving steadily on
towards the terminus.
The New Berne Journal says: The
truck shipping season has begun.
We are already sending off cabbage
of the early varieties. Peas were
being shipped from here last
season up to the middle of November
Only two months in the year when
crops are not being gathered. Who
wants climate that will do more
than that?
One Prof. Mott, a dancing master,
struck Statesville q few weeks ago
and got up large class of young
men. He collected for the first hall
of the session in advance and last
Friday night collected in advance for
the second half. Saturday he got on
a bat and Saturday night he sloped,
| and to hear his pupils talk now one
would suppose they had been attend
| ing swearing school and had been
given the full course.-Landmark
The prohibition war in CASTOR
county in this State is waxing prett y
warm, and has attained to the great
est local excitement that the county
has yet known. The trouble grew
out of a movement of the prohibi
tionists to petition the Legislature
to prohibit the manufacture and sale
of liquors in Castor county which is
famous throughout this section for
corn whisky. Leaders of the Prohi
bition and anti-Prohibition parties
are carrying around petitions, and
the feeling is intense.
| A Norfolk dispatch says: The
damage to Elizabeth City by tn,
passage of the act of the North Caro-
lima Legislature preventing resident.
dS Wcll dS uou -TeSlueutS lTOm OTeOS
ing is immense, closing several larg,
canning factories and throwing ou
OF employment twelve or fifteen hun
dred men, women and children
Everything was ON q big boom, bu
this is a complete setback. Most oi
the citizens are very indignant. Sew
eral of the oyster boats which hav'
been at work have gone to Baltimore
and the captains of others will leav,
this week.
Iugalls Surprises the Senate.
+ One of the surnrisos NJ tho Sonat r.