The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-12
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER BORDERS
SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.
Newsy Notes Carefully Clipped, Culled
and geographically Packed Into Col
umn.


Base ball has entered Guilford
College.
Wake issued 33 marriage licenses
| in February.
Only four interments at Green's
| boro cemetery in February.
Hillsboro threatens to put up q
$loO, 900 cotton factory.
Eleven ipterments at Oakdale,
Wilmington, in February.
New Hanover bank shares sold for
$2S at auction, Wilmington.
Raleigh made 1O4 police arrests in
Feruary 42 white, 81 colored.
The other revenue district of the
State paid $7O,7O4 SO in February.
Asheville revlves interest in a
society for prevention of cruelty to
| animals.
Goldsboro region agitated on the
| effect of the cold snap on fruit and
early crop vegetation.
William Johnson. colored .Bugaboo
Creek, Wilkes, shot and killed his
wife, Friday night.
British steamship Craighead ashore
at Ocrocoke, remains in good condi
| ton, and may be saved.
Five hundred able bodied laborers
are advertised for to work on the
streets of North Wilkesboro.
Rush station, High Point and
| Asheboro Road, changed to Rankin,
in honor of Conductor Rankin
Greensboro claims to be the best
| place in the State for the Girls Train
ing School, and confidently calcu-
lates on being chosen.
| Leaksville is talking about adop-
| ting Rife's automatic hydraulic en-
gine or ram for affording a distribu-
ton of water in the town.
Guilford College growing into a
town. Ten neN houses built in the
past half year, and many more in
| perspective this summer.
Durham live people rejoice at pros
pect Of a $25, 900 graded school bull
ding authorized by the Legislature,
after vote of the people.
Hornets Nest Rifemen, Charlotte,
volunteer as salvage corps in
caring for and protecting property
during large fires in the city.
Alamance could not stand $500 for
| the StateChemist's analysis of dead
| negroes stomach. and the coroner S
| jury concluded that he was bitten by
a mad dog.
Some maliciors person cut the
main 3S inch driving belt of the new
machinery and throwing 400 people
out of work for a day.
The Charlotte Chronicle discussing
the charter amendments thinks it
| would be pretty tough to say the
people for or against ratification
shall not be allowed to vote.
| The census bureau announ-
ces the populatiin of the State by
races, as follows: Whites, 1049, ,19I
colored, 567, ,17O; Indians, 1871 /;
Chinese, Is. Total, 1,6I7.948.
Moses Ford, near Forestville,
Wake county cut down a tree in
which he found twenty-four live
opossnms, two gray squirrels, two
owls and four flying squirrels.
William Sprowles, a journeymau
tailor in Charlotte, a Federal soldier
during the war, and who was present
and fred on John likes Booth the
night of his capture. died Tuesday.
/ The Workman says Roxboro has a
little girl named "Tiddlewink." and
Winston has a "Tube Rose" A
woman in the mountains got the
beautiful name of her daughter out
of the Bible-"Talitha Cumi.'
The Progressive Farmer asks "ii
State can borrow money to secure
the prosperity of her people along
one line of development why car
she not borrow it to secure thesspros
perity for her people along another
line -
johnson, colored, who shot hi.
wife in Wilkes claims that he wa:
playing, and did not know the pisto
was loaded. The fatal shot was thu
only one in it, and the man showed
no disposition to escape.
They think over in Wilkes tha
Judge Bynum is very fashionabl,
and accomplished man. The Chronl
Gle says the Judge has had tn,
Sheriff teaching some of the fellows
when and where to not wear thei
hats.
The Chronicle tells that about ter
Wilkesboro-ites attendd the magnifi
cent fair at New Berne, floatet
! across the Neuse Greek in box will
pole stuck in the end of it with !,
big rag tied to it, and had the big
gest time of anybody there.
The Goldsboro Argus says: Mer
chants are enlarging their territory
manufacturers are increasing thei
plants and there is certain hopeful
ness and buoyancy about the spiri
. of people, that augurs well for tn,
future growth and prosperity of on
beautiful city.
n The Watauga outlaws referred t,
last week have been having q prett,
tough time of it. They left Watau
q ga after shooting the detective ant
went to Tennessee where they sho
another man. They then went oYe
! into Virginia and stole some horses
Tho Virgins authorities got afte
, them. caught mp with four Of then
aud in attempting to arrest then
| killed three Of the number. Th
s others have made their way back I,
Kentucky, it is thought. Wilkesbo
70 Chronicle. ~.