The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER BORDERS
SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.
Newsy Notes Carefully Clipped, Oulled
and geographically Packed:Into Col

Oh 1f6Oell.
A large Danville tobacconist will
remove to Oxford.
Goldsboro streets are blocked with
cotton this week.
Hog cholera In Tyro and Boon
township, Davidson county.
Reidsville wants amended charter
to permit subscription to railroads.
The Department of Engineering at
the University makes a good begin
ming.
Durham recognizes that other
places are drawing off some of her
trade.
The main building of the Oxford
Orphan Asylum is much in need OF
repairs.
There are two hundred and six.
teen children at the Oxford Orphan
Asylum.
Osca w. Hicks, of Oxford, was
seriously hurt in a Georgia Railroad
smash up.
Now is the time to trim your fruit
and shade trees, and also to set out
young ones.
A general movement among the
merchants of the state for repeal of
the purchase tax.
New Berne is aeitatlng issuance
of city and county bonds for public
improvements.
Mississippi immigration agents
failed to get away with GRANVILLE
negroes this year.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, of New York,
pleads for Cross and White that SEN
tence was too severe.
Mrs. E. A. Wharton Of Germanton,
returns from Rome, Ga. much i'm
proved in health.
Eph Means, colored, of Concord,
sixty years old, is sending his wife,
aged thirty, to school.
The Linville Improvement Com
pany is applying for charter for its
Grandfather turnpike.
The tobacco outlook is reported
brighter and encouraging in all
North Carolina markets.
DIR. R. W. King, of Wilson, an ex-
State Senator and long prominent
man OF his section is dead.
The sheriff of Cabarrus says not
one-half of the mercha ants have made
their returns for purchase tax.
The Wilson Lumber Company has
begun on the upper end of its Pole
Road from Lenoir to Mulberry.
Frank R. Brown, of Mocksville,
has been appointed cadet to the
West Point Military Academy.
The Workman states that Greens
boro merchants are selling Salem
made baskets, from Hege's Works.
Hon. J. NJ. L. Curry says the Pied
mont country of North Carolina has
the finest climate in the United
States.
Petition introduced in the Legisla-
ture for location of colored agri-
cultural and mechanical College at
Durham.
The Atlantic Railroad pays Kleber
Denmark, of Goldsboro, So 900 COM
promise, and all costs, for loss of leg
ten years ago.
The Salisbury Watchman says a
owned by North Carolinians, and it
is stock worth having.
Reidsville Cotton Mills has in
| creased it's capital stock, The ca
pacity will be increased aud addi,
tional machinery added.
| Rev. DIR. Miller, of Charlotte. has
a letter from Jerusalem, stating that
| 900 Russian Jews had reached the
Voly Land since December.
Ben Terrell, the Alliance orator OF
Texas will address the people of Eas
tern Carolina at various points du
ring the month of February.
| The Governor transmits letter tc
the Legisture, from the Census Office
that our population by counties is
not yet tabulated and ascertained.
The bill fo- Normal and Indus
! trial School for the white girls oi
! North Carolina came up as the spec
ial order in the Senate Thursday.
Solicitor Settle was delegated by
the Cham Der of Commerce to go t.
Washington and represent Reidsvills
in the matter of public building.
Notla Consolidated Marble Com
pany have offered to give, free OF
board the cars, the marble to built
the court house for Cherokee County
The Concord Standard hears of al
untaught boy, eighteen months old
who could read the Bible. He reat
until he was four years old and thel
died.
Alexander Graham Bell, -ot Bel
telephone fame, lectured at Wax
Forest on visible speech elucidated
by which persons can make, witt
greater accuracy, the sounds of ou
language.
Il The Cherokee Scout says: If Che
rokee farmers would stop talkin
about minerals and go to work i
earnest they would soon dig the big
gest kind of prosperity out of tn
soil
The Greenville Reflector enter
, upon its tenth and Its editor hi
twenty-fifth year, and the last ten 9
which have been passed in the Re
| fieetor Office.
: Col. Charles Bradshaw and Fran
Snider, of Charlotte, and Mr.. Scot
of Durham, are the only survive,
Of twenty passengers ON = Mort
Carolina Railroad train that foo
Ave days to reach Raleigh frou
+ iCharIotta in fha great annH nf 1897