The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-09-01
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North Carolina.
The handsome new Union depot has
been opened at Oxford.
John ID. Mcneil, ofQuwhiffle. Cum
berland county, died on the 18th of
the month He was a Scotchman of
old school.
r Miss Kate Potter was killed bv
lightning in the house of her sister,
Mrs. Lyles, at Farmers Turnout.
Brunswick county, Wednesday.
NJ f. Bohannon, well known in
HICKORY, II \, c., died in Tippacanoe,
O., last Thursday and was buried i'm
Greenville. Tenn, Saturday.
Miss Lou @. Anthony. of Richmond.
Ind, was married to j. G. Hodgin, of
Centre, n. c., at the residence of c.
L. Anthony, Nandalia, n. c., on the
18th.
The Greensboro races are over. Out
of the crowd of about 800 in attend
ance. two-thirdS were visitors. The
Greensboro Driving Club about made
expenses.
The man held in New Berne sup
posed to be Albert Mitchell. an eXpreSS
robber from Hayre de Grace. Md,
turns out to be the wrong man and
has been liberated.
Gov. Holt has pardoncd Wiley Rob
erts, who was convicted last August
in Cleveland county of assault with
Intent to commit rape and sentenced
to five years imprisonment.
VIM. Gilmer. an aged and well known
citizen of Southeast Guilford and a
brother of John A. Gilmer. ST., died
Thursday near Alamance church. His
remains were inferred in the burying
ground at Alamancc.
The Greenville Reflector recently
| M s-Af
| Col. Harry Skinner. which so pleased
| L. w. Fenner of Scotland Neck. that
| he sent Editor Whichard. of the Re
! fiector, 81 new subscribers.
w. 5. OBJ. Robinson. receiver of the
| defunct First National Bank of Will
mlngton, will. as stated lately. pay its
creditors Il second dividend of II per
cent. on all proved claims.
| Elias Carr in Fayetteville the
other day told the editor of The OBJ
server that he did not think the Wea-
yer ticket would pole anything like
| One-fOurth of the reform voters. many
| of whom are members of the Alliance
| Mr.. Woolcott. of Charlotte. was the
| winner of the collin offered by +. F.
Smith, of Greensboro, for the tenth
average in the gun shoot. 1t is being
| painted and trimmed up with his
| name on il, and will soon be shipped
to him by freight.
The following gentlemen will at
tend the races at the Concord Fair:
Jas. w. Bethel, Rcidsvillc: John G.
WilfOng, Newton: Jack McCauly,
Winsboro; Owen DAILY, Columbia, 5.
c.; G. p. Nanstory, Greensboro.
There are now 179 convicts inside
the penitentiary and about 1000 out
| side. OF the latter. all save l25, who
are on the Great Falls canal. near
Weldon, are on the farms near Wei
don and at Castle Haync. None are
now in railway work.
| DIR. Thomas f. Wood. one Of the
most prominent physicians of North
Carolina, died in Wilmington. of heart
disease. He was secretary of the
North Carolina board of health and
| editor of the Medical journal, pub
lished in Wilmington
A colored woman named Catharine
| McllwCan was drowned Thursday at
Nelson's Ferry. She and another col
ored woman were fishing in separate
boats and she fell overheard. The
body at last account had not been
recovercd.-NewB Bern Journal.
The Fayetteville Observer regrets
to hear of the cowardly attempt by IL
Young Croatan to asSasSinatc Col.
Neill Archie Mclean, of the Lum-
berton bar, last week. Col. Mclean
is one OF the most brilliant young law
yers in the State. At last accounts
he was rapidly recovering.
The Ashevillc Gazette reports the
case of Mrs. VI. A. Jordan vs. the city of
Ashevillc for $1,000 damages as taken
up Tuesday i'll the Superior Court.
| Mrs Jordan was injured in 1887, while
walking on Merrimon avenue, by II
defective plank. The jury gave Mrs.
Jordan no damages.
The Washington Progress is author
ity for the statement that Hon. +.
NJ. Simmons, of New Bern, has been
employed to bring a suit of damages
against the town of Washington for
some suppose, from being confined in
the town lookup some time ago.
a 26l-pound loggcrhcad was cXh ib
tied on the wharf at the New Bern
market. lie measured ,! feet from
mouth to tail and , feet inches from
side to side. His front llippcrs were
two feet and three inches around. He
was caught at Pincy Marsh, below
New Bern, by Capt. Josiah Daniels
in a Dutch net.
Sheriff Shuford, of CASTOR. has
twice saved the life of Il negro, Will
Adams, charged with assallting two
young ladies of Castor county. On
two occasions the sheriff quietly re-
moved Adams to different jailS, once
from Dallas to Lincolnton, thence
again to Charlotte. Forty armed
men reached Lincolnton shortly after
he had been removed.
The crew of Ocracoke life saving
station came up to New Bern and
passed the regular annual physical cX-
animation at the hands of DR.. Duffy
Wednesday to see that all were in
proper condition for performing what
ever perilOuS duties the nature of their
employment might place upon them
during the period of winter storms
from September to May.
w. Green Steele, Il Mecklenburg
Third partyite went to Charlotte Sat
urday with his little girl. He got
nominated to an Office in the Peoples
, party convention which met that day
and felt so good over it that he went
home in the afternoon forgetting all
about his little child. His alarmed
wife soon had him making night TRIP
, to Charlotte after her child.
A special from Asheville says that
Cobb, Peoples party candidate for
Lieut.. Governor, will be taken down.
His unsavory record as a revenue Off
Ger has made this necessary. He was
indicted in 1878 charged with assist
; ing the removal of distilled spirits
: from the distillery of Huffman & Co.,
| Burk county, being at the time store
keeper at that distillery. He was
; again indicted in 1882 charged with
presenting false vouchers as Deputy