The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-04-30
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER BOR-
DERS SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.

HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER BOR.
DERS SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.
Newsy Notes Carefully Clipped, Gull
Il and Paragraphically Packed Into
a Column,
Mining business is booming in
Montgomery county.
Burlington has raised $1,000 to
build tobacco warehouse.
w. II. Lucas, of Raleigh has taken
charge as Commissioner of Shell-fish.
Graham will vote to give $4,000
to the Training School and thereby
secure it.
The Kings Daughters will meet
in convention at Raleigh on the 14th
of May next.
The Soldiers Home at Raleigh
will be formally opened May 10th,
memorial day.
The Railway Commissioners have
taken in hand the equalization of the
telegraph rates.
The Dunn Mountain granite quarry
near Salisbury has been sold to
Northern syndicate.
There are rumors that an anti-Al-
lance paper will be established in
Raleigh before a great while.
The Davidson County Teachers
Association will meet in Lexington
on Saturday, May 9th.
Governor Holt has been notified
that the patrol boat of the Eastern
oyster waters has been discontinued.
The noted Hodge penalty suit
against the railroads of North Caro-
lima has been decided In favor of the
railroads.
The Railroad Commission is daily
receiving complaints against the
railroad and telegraph companies of
the State.
A great revival is in progress at
the Baptist Church at Salisbury.
Thus far there are forty conversions
reported.
The Railway Commission finds
that there are over sixty railways in
operation in the State, including
branches.
The young gentlemen of Lexipg-
ton have arranged to have a picnic
on Friday May 1st, at Trading ford
on the Yadkin.
The Supreme court is now at work
| on the appeals at the end of the
docket. The bulk of these are from
the Fifth district.
The Morganton Hospital is to have
| telephone connection with the town
and two of the big land companies
at that place have consolidated.
The will of the late Col. Paul c..
Cameron is in the Wake county
clerks Office for probate. 1t is a
great document. representing over
81, 100000.
A we'll known old lady who lives
in Iredell county, Mrs. Margaret
Compbell, aged 85 years, can very
| easily walk Is miles in one day says
| the Landmark.
Durham county Farmers Alliance
has elected Mr.. j. E. Lyon dele
gate to the Tobacco Growers Con-
vention to be held in Henderson on
the 2Sth of this month.
The thirteen veterans now in the
Soldiers Home, Raleigh, have taken
up their quarters at the permanent
Home. The latter will not be for
mally opened until May 10th.
A man in Wayne county, while
| looking over some old papers in
search of direct land tax receipts
found in the bundle $1S7.25 that had
been lying there at least 26 years.
| Brabham, the negro who killed
| Mecca, the Italian, in Charlotte,
will hang on Thursday, May 21st.
The execution is to take place in the
county Jail and will be private.
The Danville and Western rail-
way will be operated by Col. A. B.
Andrews, as president, and not by
the Richmond and Dan vile railway.
The organization is entirely sepa-
rate.
1t is now a growing sentiment,
that Prof. Winston, of the University
of North Carolina, will be elected by
the trustees in June president of the
University.
Col. Thad Coleman, with a corps
of engineers is now in the field sur
veying the route of the Atlanta
Asheville and Baltimore Railroad
from Asheville to Weaverville, dis
tance of eight miles.
The Durham Globe is printing
some very plain words about the un
savory condition Of it's reservoir. Il
is q very good time of the year. fol
those in authority to see that the
sources of water supply are clean.
The safe of Messrs. Griffin anG
Trogdon, general merchants at Lib
erty, Randolph county, was broker
open and robbed of money, note,
and other valuable papers to tn,
amount of six thousand dollars Wed
nesday night.
Lumberton will vote on the frs
Monday in May on . proposition t.
subscribe $25, ZOO to secure the ex
tension of the Wilmington, Chad
bourn and Conway Railroad to tina
place where it would tap the Carroll
ma Central railroad.
The burglars who broke into th,
store of Messrs w. III. Lasley & Sons
of Mebane, few nights ago, tool
$3.50 from the safe which they blew
open with dynamite. They hay.
been heard from and parties are OF
ON their track on the Atlantic Coas
Line.
The oldest drug house in the stat.
has assigned. 1t is that of William,
. & Haywood, which for fifty year.
has done business in the same store
in Raleigh. The assignee is ALI. w