The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-02-19
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER BORDERS
SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.

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HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER BORDERS
SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.
Newsy Notes Carefully Clipped, Quilted
and geographically Packed Into Col
umn.
Shelby wants a graded school.
Cata W ba reports good wheat stand.
Rich gold vein struck near New
ton.
Wilmington wants free night
school.
Many Northern strangers in Will
mington.
Many fine racers will be at New
Berne Fair.
Four Onslow hen eggs weighed
144 ounces.
Tobacco planting on the increase
in LenoiE
Hillsboro has opened q tobacco
warehouse.
Raleigh has proposition to buy
water works.
Great improvements to the streets
of New Berne.
Wilkes married "a couples since
January 1st.
Altamahaw cotton mills, ,Alamanee
has enlarged.
Robert L. harrington, of Charlotte
is dead at rs.
Rainey season throws Eastern far
mers behind.
White Hall Female Seminary, Ca
barrus, burned.
Dallas Eagle begs pardon for inflic-
ting long editorials.
Twenty five inch circumference
turnips in Cleveland.
Charlotte business men guarantee
the music festival.
Lutheran grave yard being moved
out of Burlington.
Cabarrus boasts 18 ponnd, 124
inch beard wild turkey.
Legislative committee gone to in
spect Morganton Asylum.
Nash claims to be among first to-
bacco producing counties.
Some moving into Burlington for
advantages of the Academy.
Conditions of roads prcducin Z
wood famine in many places.
Two Danvilleans go to Rocky
Mount in leaf tobacco trade.
Henrietta cotton mills double
their capacity at Rutherford.
Morehead cotton mills, Leaksville.
receive their electric dynamo.
G. G. Midget appointed commits
sioner of wrecks. Dare county.
DIR. Sparrow. of Beaufort county
has invented a glass burial case.
Builders and mechanics going
round Graham with tape lines.
Twenty Ave more sun vapor lamps
ordered on the streets, Raleigh.
Increased crops Of tobacco will be
planted in portions of Davidson.
Wilmington electric street railway
now pronounced an assured fact.
Shad fishing on the tributary
water of the Pamlico reported good.
Thomas Coleman, colored, of Ca
barrus, is manager of an Atlanta oil
mill.
Harper's Weekly has = strsng ar
ticle on Winston under a striking
head.
Sunday School State Convention
at Fayetteville, Oath, 25th and 26th of
March.
Greensboro parties comforting about
removal of Archdale Sash and Blind
Factory.
Newton expects electric lights,
water-works and street cars by close
of the year.
Wilmington Sea Coast Company
has bought the Ocean View Railroad
for $40, 900.
County Alliance, of Davidson,
called to meet in Lexington, Friday,
February 9th.
Norwood. of Orange, goes to New
Berne Fair with two cars, horses
and farm products.
Sam Brooks, a colored store-keep-
er, Greensboro, murdered in his
store, for robbery.
Jesse Shaw, of Davidson, 76 years
old has IL children, 76 grand, six
great grand children.
! Work progressing on the Young
Mems Christian Association fine
building, Wilmington.
Cabarrns Wood and Iron Works
Company will establish . wook work.
ing shop near Albemarle.
Arrangements completed to estab-
lish q $4,000 door, sash and blind
factory at Townsville.
On the passage of the railroad
commission bill l02 votes were re-
corded out Of 120 in all.
Greenville section of Pitt now
having good railroad facilities, goes
largely into truck farming.
Williams, who killed lawyer Will.
liams, Greenville, South Carolina
| arrested at Hendersonville.
Miss Freely Beemhan, telegraph
| operator at Walnut Cove has been
gived charge of the Germanton sta
| ton.
| Large number of enthusiastic new
county makers met at Liberty, il
Randolph and adopted the name Of
Worth.
Work of rebuilding Rutherford
College progresses rapidly. It is t.
cost $64, 900, and be completed BY
1st Of July.
g. "A. Archer, Of Cabarrus, whl
lost an arm during tho war goes Il
Beftimcre for treatment and : surgi
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