The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-02-12
OVER THE STATE

Durham has glass dancer, dances
with bare feet on broken glass.
Durham has located the fire alarm
boxes of the Gamewell system.
Bank of New Hanover declares
semi annual dividend of per cent.
Milton Advertiser makes = good
deal of fuss about sales of tobacco.
A daily paper will be set up and
printed On the fair grounds at New
Berne.
Extension of the town limits would
double Greensboro corporation popu-
lation.
Tennessee is sending large num-
bers of fine young mules to North
Carolina.
Asheville claims a population of
$4,000 and registers 100000 visitors
annually.
The Health of President Gray,
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley, much
improved.
Greensboro Tobacco arehouse adj
vertises to give their customers to-
bacco seed.
Mrs. Mary Mays Buel. only daugh-
ter of Bishop Atkinson, died at Ashe-
vile Thursday.
The North Carolina Baptist, Fay
etteville, Rev. T. B. Newberry, has
made it's appearance.
Oxford is moving for the Oxford
and Coast Limo Railroad, to either
Sprlnghope or Nashville.
Miss Mary C. Boyd, of Reidsville,
is one of the maids of honor at the
New Orleans Carnival.
Guilford farmers say that the
roads are the worst ever known.
Travel is almost suspended
Two new patents granted W. II.
Kerr, Manager Kerr Bag Manufac>
turing Company, Concord.
Engineer Crutchfield of the Mil
ton and Southerlin goes on the run
between Atlanta and Greenville.
Col. A. B. Andrews, Rsliegh, is
one of the Worlds Fair Committee
on railway ami steamship transport
tation.
Rev. R. g. Pearson, Frustrated in
Arkansas with pneumonia, is expect
ed to recover rapidly at his Ashe-
vile home.
Bill Nye, the well-known statistician
and philosopher, has taken . house
near Asheville, and will remove
thither in the spring.
Two runaway couples from Vir-
ginia, without money to pay fare
back, and buy license, were helped
out by Milton philanthropists.
James Williams, formerly of Dur
ham, late of Danville, fell from a
freight train Sunday night near Lex
ington, and was instantly killed.
The body of Thomas Neal, promi-
nent Caswell farmer, found near
Ringgold, missing since Monday,
and supposed murdered for robbery.
Turpentine men from from Georgia
and South Carolina complain of their
failure to secure the usual laborers
from our State, this season.
Samples of cotton from every Sec
ton of the State, Egyptian, Brazil
ian and Sea Island cotton will be on
exhibition at the New Berne Fair
week after next.
Don't forget that return tickets to
New Berne Fair, February 18th to
March End, only cost from Winston
Salem 81 40, Greensboro -, Sails
bury, $3.50, Charlotte, $3.50.
The Globe says the live men in
Durham should all unite and lay out
an entire new town, leaving the
mossbacks to enjoy the present ruins
upon which they alone set value.
As we understand it, the Franklin
county Alliance was only in favor OF
a sworn weigher at the various to-
bacco warehouses. AS to the fees
they seemed perfectly satisfied
Louisburg Times.
The contract for grading the
tracks to the new Union Station,
Raleigh, has been awarded to P.
Linehan & Son. The grading and
excavating will be pushed forward
| at once preparatory to track-laying
! and the immediate erection of the
$50, 900 station building.
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