The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-07-02

"A Idu.H lIVIHS III lOfflnSUOn, Conn.,,
this week found a humming-bird
with it's bill buried halt an inch in
one of the wooden posts of the YER
anda of her house and quite dead.
The lite thing had evidently darted
at flower close by and struck the
post with such velocity that it could
not get away Hartford Courant.
At Salisbury Wednesday evening,
Prof. Joseph r. Chamberlain of the
Agricultural and Mechanical college,
Raleigh, was married to Miss Hope
Summerrell, daughter of DR.. !. J.
Summerren and granddaughter of
the eminent geologist, Prof. Elisha
Mitchell. The ceremony was per-
formed by the brides brother, Rev.
Mr.. Summerrell of Tarboro.
A press dispatch says: The
drought is so great in the province
of Quebec that everything is parch-
ed and the crops are likely to turn
out failure. Manager Lafleche has
issued a pastoral to the priests
throughout the Province to repeat at
mass the prayer ad pendam fuvia-
mus, or prayer for rain. His lord
ship says that absence of rain has
become alarming.
1t is announced that r. II. Wright,
of Durham, who was formerly a
member of the firm of W. Duke Sons
& Co., will bring suit against the
Dukes for the recovery of about
100000. About three or four years
ago Wright sold his intesert in the
concern to the other partners, and
he claims that the recent BOnsack
trial against the Dukes at Charlotte
| revealed that there were certain as
| sets which he knew nothing about at
the time he sold out.
1t is now learned definitely that
Willie Davis, the young North Caro-
linian whose case of murder has been
pending in the Texas courts and the
United States courts, and who has
been resentenced at Fort Worth,
Texas, to be hanged, will receive no
executive clemency. August 10th is
the date set for the execution. The
particulars of the crime, the killing
of his employer b. c. Evans, a prom
inent merchant of that city, have
been published in this paper.
A rather sensational special from
Parkersburg. w. Va, is to the effect
that Clarence New, a boy, eighteen
years of age, who killed his father
when only fourteen years old, killed
Charles Skidmore, boy fifteen. at
| Riverside Friday night. New had a
I quarrel with a boy named DitsOn,
and after they had been separated a
| short time New started out to find
Ditson with the intention of killing
him. He mistoOk Skidmore for Dit
son and, slipping up behind him,
| crushed his skull with "a loaded whip.
New fed.
At its annual meeting at Trinity
| College commencement on June IL
the Alumni Association of that in
| stitution adopted a resolution pro
viding for reception and banquet
| or entertainment of some other char
acter to be given by the alumni com
| plimentary to President John F. Gro
well, upon the opening of the col.
lege at Durham, in September. The
committee of arrangements met in
Durham yesterday and made prelim
mary preparations for banquet on
the opening of the College.
The Bennettsville & Gibson Rail
road Company are still surveying
lines between this place and Gibson
Station. The first line ran through
Adamsville, making the distance a
fraction over eleven miles. The c..
S. & N. Company are making sur
vey from here to Gibson. They
have also run a line from here t.
Hamlet, so the outlook at present i!
favorable for abundant railroad
J facilities. We interviewed the Pres
ident of the B. & G.. Company las
Saturday. and learned from him tha
the road will be built. Pee De-
Argus.