The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-05-14
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER ,OR-
DEE> SINCE OUR LAST ISSi.E.
Ncwsy Notes Car, fully Clipped, Gull
ed ard Paragrapi;calIy Packed Into
Column,


ed ard geographically Packed Into
Column.
The Red Stocking Base Ball Club,
of Durham, challenges any team in
the State.
A schoo of several hundred por-
poises is seen nearly every day on
Wrightsville Beach
The Great Falls Canal Company
has contracted with the Carolina
Construction Company for its con-
struction.
Governor Holt pardons Thomas
Crocker, of Halifax county, serving
three years sentence in the peni-
tiary for larceny.
The liabilities of the old street
railway company in Raleigh are
being sold preparatory to the begin
ming of work on the new.
State Auditor Geo. w. Sanlerlin
| will deliver the annual address of
the knights of Pytheas in Green's
| boro on the night of June 1st.
Mr.. Hunter Harris, clerk in the
| Agricultural Department, Raleigh,
| has been awarded a professorsbip in
the Bingham Military School.
Mrs. J. D. Carpenter. a lady evan
gelist of some note, will begin a pro-
tracted meeting at Sandy Ridge,
Stokes county, on the 18th inst.
1t is learned that the recent cold
| spell did but little damage to the
crops throughout the Srate-being
protected by the dense foliage.
Large quantities OF gold has been
| found in Anson and adjoining coun-
ties and in some neigh borhoods there
seems to be gold hunting fever.
The Raleigh Mirror will be tbs
name of the new afternoon daily to
| be started in that city with Mr.. Fl.
H Roberts in the editorial chair.
Governor Holt has pardoned
Donas Rogers, convicted in Hay
wood county of larceny and senten-
ced TO three years in the peuitentiary.
| A very rich gold mine has been
| discovered at the Lowder mine, 8
miles from Hugh Point, and arrange
ments are being made to work it.
Rev. Jno R. Brooks D. D., lead
ing Methodist divine an. Presiding
| Elder of the Greensboro district, is
in Baltimore for medical treatment.
The citizens of Burgaw have raised
one hundred dollars for the Southern
Inter State Immigration Bureau to
aid North Carolina at the Colum bia n
Exposition.
In 1856 only 1885 pounds of
manufactured cotton goods were
shipped from Salisbury, last year
995, ,2S2, or about thirteen times more
than in 1856.
The large granite slab to be used
as mail platform III rear of the
government building in A shevillc is
liz feet in length, 6 feet inches in
width and weighs $3.50 pounds.
| Wilkesboro has elected the fol
lowing municipal ticket: Jam. $
g. Hackett, mayor rnis>i"ners:
j. c.. Hubbard, +. Wallace, Milton
Mcneil and r NJ. Stanley.
Mr. Harris, foreman OF the mining
force at The Walnut Cove iuin-s says
that work has begun III earnest. and
thinks lie Will he taking cut large
quantities OF coal i'll few days.
The grancry and lumber house al
Mr. Joseph Willis, hear Leaksv,ilr
was burned few days since; loss il
feed stuffs. C 'rn, carriage, wagor
etc., about 81 900. No Insurance.
The excitement over the school
book question in Raleigh continues
Superintendent of Public Instruc
:. tion Finger denies the charges pre-
ferred against him by the Bib!lca
Recorder.
, The proposed Fife-meetfng i,
Greensboro is being pushed by ,h
Y. NJ. c. A., and it is thought quit'
probable that the services OF TIL
, Evangelist will be secured in tn
near future.
Much dissatisfaction has beel
caused in the State by the recent nc
of the Legislature in reference to TIL
effect of alcohol upon the human
: system The Biblical Recorder, o
Raleigh, has fercely attached tn
? act.
W. R. Henry, Of Henderson, viii
, deliver the annual address befOr
: the Wilson Collegiate Institute. L
. = making this announceEe emf, the WI
l son Mirror pays high tribute to NJ,
Henry rs an orator ornate an
forcible.
The incorporators of the Blu
Ridge Railroad, to run from Lemon
via Patterson and Boone, throug
Mitchell to some point on the Nol
e folk and Western road, have made
t tenn porary organization by the elet
: ton of S. T. Harper as President.
All the Bishops Of the Metho.lis
! Episcopal Church, South, ten i
: number, namely, Bishops Keene
Wilson, Galloway, Duncan. Graz
;, berry, Key, Hargrove, Fitzgerald
= Hagood and Hendrix, are in Wi
u !, mington this week holding their al
nual meeting.
3 Mai Charles NJ Stedman and vii
q have moved from Wilmington
It Asheville. They have leased tt
2 residence of the Rev. R. G.. Pearson
the evangelist, aud will occupy it
). number of years. Maj. and Mr.
1t Stedman expect to go to Europe
4 June to see their daughter, who
Is there.
g. The Railroad Commissioners ha,
g. issued an order to Telegraph cor
le panies operating i'll the State instru
r ting them that on and after June Is
ic all kilograms having their orig
q and terminating in the State shs
9, be charged at the rate of twenty>fi
8; cents for ten words and two cen
! per word for each additional word