The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-26
wINsToN-sALEN1. N. c., THURSDAY, MARCH 26 1891

Compositor Scott, on Charlotte
Chronicle, set Is, 500 ems, BREWER, in
z hours, nearly 500 ems per hour
above the average.
Wilkes Superior Court awarded I.
S. Call $3.50 damages against Wilkes
boro commissioners for street right
of way across his lands.
Thomas Reditemus Christopher
Holmes Peter Calvamus Trubamus
Jones Patte rson resides at classic
Lenoir, Caldwell county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waggoman, Wash
ington City, make 5000, 900 deed to
Concord Mining Company, of Mont
gomery mine, Cabarrus.
Berta Lowdermilk, of Burke, has
regularly tended his fish traps on
the -Catawba for forty years, and
takes a new five years lease.
A vestibule train goes on between
Washington and Savannah, via
Charlotte, over the Charlotte, Co.
lumbia and Augusta Railroad.
The Walnut Cove Advance says
taking out as fine coal as is found
any where in the United States.
Finest town clock ever seen in the
State, the government is now put
ting in the tower of the new custom
house and post-office, Wilmington.
Johny Phiter, of Concord, later of
Raleigh, died of pneumonia al Salem,
Va, where he was opening q stock of
goods just purchased in New York.
Walton and Wilson, Morganton,
are awarded the contract for build
ing the Belt Railroad at Middlesbor-
ough, Kentucky, the Cumberland
Gap City.
At a meeting of the directors Of the
North Carolina Geological Survey,
at Raleigh, Professor Holmes for
mally accepted the position of State
Geoligist.
C. S. Andrews, Wilmington, invents
a machine for berry crate making,
that enab bles one man with it to do
the work of five with the machinery
ordinarily used.
Farmers are cautioned by the Ag-
ricultural Department against buy
ing any commercial fertilizer not
bearing the guaranteed claim and
the tag as required by law.
The Mutual Insurance and Aid So
ciety of Wilmington, chartered by the
late Legislature, to insure persons
between z and go years, accident,
sickness and death has organized.
Davidson county map, an elabo-
rate and valuable one, prepared by
Professor Johnson, of Trinity College,
is now being distributed. Every
county in the State should have such
a map.
The plaid manufacturers of the
State had an important meeting at
Charlotte. Steele, of Rockingham,
Cone, of Baltimore, Holts, of Ala
nance, and Graham, of Asheville,
were noted as present.
Meeting of projectors of electric
railway over the mountains from,
Tryon City to Rutherfordton, via
Chimney Rock, was held at Chimney
Rock, and $4,000 subscribed to-
ward building the road.
Doctors Payne, of Lexington, have
not yet determined the nature of the
mysterious cases of sickness at the
Lexington Gotten mills, resembling
smallpox, but prudently isolated it,
so that in any event there can be no
spread of contagion.
The bounty of two cents per pound,
allowed to all American manufactur-
ers of sugar by the Mckinley bill, ap-
plies as well to maple sugar as to
that manufactured of the juice of the
sugar cane or the beet. There is a
great deal of maple sugar mode in
| the mountains of North Carolina, es-
pecially in the counties of Yancey,
Mitchell, Watauga and Ashe, and
while the bounty is going, the noun
tain men should get the benefit of it..
The two cents pound is well worth
saving.-Morganton Herald.