The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-03-30
STATE NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered in the Old
North State.

cGrder Office ate two dezon eggs in 6!
minutes, the other day.
Robson county is now dry county
and at the same time one Of the most
prosperous counties in the State
The new Hotel Claiborne, of Dur
ham, is rap diy approaching compile
tion, and it will be a beautiful build
ing.
S. d. Chichester and son have bought
the Grand Central Hotel property at
Asheyille from the Reynolds estate
for S3I 900.
vile, died Thursday night. He had
been sick d long time and his death
was not unexpected
Fire destroyed the dwelling and con-
tents Of Lem Carter, Halifax county.
Carter lost everything he had and was
himself badly burned.
The new Burlington band was or
ganized Monday night with W. |. Holt
as manager and Q. w. league, secre-
tary and treasurer.
Ashevilie is full Of Northern and
Western visitors. The leading hotels
are turning away wculd-be guests and
the boarding houses are rapidly fill
ing up.
Mr. T. j. LoweTy severed his con-
Eection with the North Wilkesboro
News last issue. His brother. also
the paper.
There is & rumOr that the SeabOard
Air Line will at an early day put on a
through train from Portsmouth. Va,
to Atlanta, Ga., 10 make the run in
III hours.
On the State farm, near Castle
Hayne, great quantity Of peanuts
was the crop last season. Now the
cnnyicts are preparing the ground for
the same crop.
+. P. Tate and a party Of engi-
neerS are surveying a railroad line for
the Caldwell Lumber Company, from
LenOir to Wilson's creek and from
Wilson's creek to MOrgantOn.
Figs ripen in the open air in the
south mountains Of Burke county.
The mountains cut off the western
winds and the southern exposures are
as warm as sections many miles fur
thcr South.
1t is reported that Oxford is going to
reduce her municipal expenses anOth-
er year very greatly. 1t is proposed
to have only one man on the police
force and to place the mayors salary
at SO per month.
Governor Carr has offered a reward
of two hundred dollars for the appre-
hensiOn or arrest of one Add Sutton,
Of Sampson county, charged with the
wiIful murder of John B. Robinson, Of
the same county.
Secretary Eugene G.. Harrell, of the
North Carolina Teachers Assembly,
has had up to date 400 applications to
join the teachers excursionists, who
will go to Chicago to the Worlds
Fair. Secretary Harrell will carry
| 200 in his party.
Fertilizer dealers in Statesyilie say
the sales of fertilizers will be much
larger this season than last, and the
indications are that the cotton acre
age in that section will be increased at
least one-fourth. This seems to be
the state of affairs all over the South.
One day last week, a physician, in
his rounds, was called to see a>cOlored
woman who has given birth to eigh-
teen children. She has been married
only eighteen years and is just thirty
six years old. There was never more
than one at time.-Thomasville
News.
A gentlemen in Durham, who was
| afflicted with rheumatism, recently
| stepped into a vessel of hot @ater and
| severely scalded one of his feet. He
! was laid up for a week or two, but
| when his foot got well he was sur
| prised to find that his rheumatism
was gone.
a Harnett county horse trader went
| out few weeks ago with an old horse.
| traded it for an OK, carried the OK. tC
4 ENay tny 10 nd Soli l0 nv
so he swapped the OK for two barrels
of hen eggs, two hundred dozen. ship
ped the eggs to Dunn and sold then
for sixteen cents per dozen.
Mr. Cooper, of Autryville, recent,
placed a driven well at his home. anC
at depth of thirty-fye feet strucI
water. clear and pure and ofconsidera
BILE volume, which flows spontaneously
up and cut of the boring similarly il
every respect to an artesIan well. Au
tryville is in Sampson county, on th
Cape Fear 81 Yadkin Valley railroad
, Mr.. 9. E. Graham has decided t.
erect a large weaving mill in Ashe
vile soon, for the purpose Of manu-
featuring ginghams and other colore
goods. Mr. Graham says he will a
2 first place 264 looms in the mills, bu
later on will add 240 more, making so
, ! very largest establishments in th
2 State. The machinery has all bee
purchased.
A small white boy in Matthew
township, named johnson. met wit
D sudden and strange death on las
Thusday. He was scholar attendin
the school at boye's. Creek churcl
: about two miles east of Siler Cit
: and on last Thursday morning he ws
D found there dead, his body hanging O
e the outside of the school hous
| with the window sash resting 0
] his Ieck.-Chatham Record.
q The railroad shops at Rocky Mour
are moving steadily forward and wi
o shortly be ready for work. A numbt
: of valuable pieces of machinery hay
!. been placed in position. The railroa
!, company is using none but the late.
), improved machines and continuing Q
!, this line. One room alone contain
8 machinery valued at $40, 900. Thu
far about 800, 600 has been expendt
in improving their plant, says tt
Wilson Advance.
# Prisoners Taken to Ncrth Carolina.
re From the Roanoke World, 22nd
k The sheriff of Buncombe county,
u C., arrived in the city yesterday NOR
y ing and left on the noon train wi
Ie two escaped prisoners, Lewis Hes
le alias L. III. Washington, and Jas. He:
j, alias J. H. Adams These men we
ID captured Saturday night by Sergea
4 Griffin at their boarding house
| Eacf RaanaEa