The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-05-18
STATE NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered I'm the Old
North State.


North State.
The State Dental Society meets in
Oxford May 23rd to Goth.
The Newbern schooner E. w. Bur-
ton has encwrecked off the coast of
Virginia.
Since the burning .of the Davis no
tel at Kittrell, Captain sDavis has de
cided to rebuild.
Robert Williams, a colored man
aged sixty years, dropped dead in
Wilmington.
Mrs. Liscey Norman was struck by
Lightning and instantly killed in
Baker county, Ga.
The AsheviIle Y. NJ C. A. is in finan-
cial straits, the result, largely, of the
general depression.
The office of the general secretary
of the |. 0. 0. F. of the state is to be
removed to Greensboro.
Bishop Ducan will preside over the
North Carolina and Western North
Carolina Conferences this year.
A suit was tried in Salisbury for
81 25, and the costs exclusive of
lawyers fees amounted to over $25.
A Mount Airy News man saw q
horse sold for IS cents at Danbury
during the recent term of Stokes
court.
1t is estimated that the RATS of
timber thai have arrived in Whining
ton since Saturday will foot up $50, 900
in value.
Cleye Maxwell, young colored man,
is in jail at Sparta charged with the
of a thrnn-Vn1r
Lena Hawthorn.
The Fayetteville Gazette says the
caterpillar plague has reached Cum
berland and the trees are being by
them stripped of their foliage.
The Catawba gold mine, in Cleve-
land county, was sold few days since
for S75, 900. The mine is to be oper-
ated on a larger scale than ever.
The remains of white infant were
found buried in small pine box near
Trinity College few days since. The
box was only about six inches under
ground.
The Burke Tanning Company, near
Shelby, has let the contract for an en-
laEggement of its already extensive
t. When completed it will turn
70 hides per day.
The schooner Lizzie James has been
chartered for the entire seaAOn to run
haul nothing but lumber. 1t will
carry to New York millions of feet.
Mr.. Dickens. superintendent IF the
electric light works at High Point,
made his rounds one day and got 90
English sparrow's eggs out of the
hanger boards of the lamps.
A $4,000 deal in real estate took
place in Charlotte. The property
known as the McAden residence, On
TFyon street was sold, the First
National bank becoming the pur-
chaser.
The Richmond & Danville passen-
ger train known as No. 13, that now
runs between Danville and Washing
ton as a local train, it is said will
shortly begin running through to
Charlotte.
President Cleveland has appointed
Prof. Edwin A. Alderman, of the
State Normal and Industrial School a
member of the Board of Visitors to
the United States Military Academy
at West Point for the present year.
DR.. W. J. Hill. young physician
of Statesville, son of J. H. Hill, Esq,
clerk of Iredell Superior Court, and
Miss Maggie. daughter of Judge R.
T. Armfield, of the same place, were
quietly married at the brides home
May 9th.
Mrs. j. M. Redwine, of AIbemarle,
went out to her well to draw some
water and while there the curbing
gave way and she fell to the bottom,
IL distance of about As feet. When
taken from the weliit was found that
she was not seriously hurt.