The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-07-13
STATE NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered in the Old
North State.

North state.
Sandy Sellars, an old colored man.
was run over and killed by train at
Burlington.
The Grand Lodge knights of Honor
Of North Carolina will meet in States
vile August End.
Chas. f. Fisher Camp of COnfeder-
ate Veterans was organized in Sails
bury on the night of the 4th.
Burglars continue to work Char
lotte, and the efforts OF the police to
cage them seem to be without avail.
u. NJ. Holts Sons are putting in a
roller mill at Alamance mIls, in one
OF the best grain section, of the
county.
The store of J. r. Nicholas, at
Salisbury was burned on the night of
the 4th. Loss So, 100; insurance
&, 500.
The Atlantic National Bank, Of
Wilmington has determined to in
| crease its capital stock from 5000, 900
TO S250,O00.
According to the Record, Chatham
| county has an egg-sucking pig. When
| he hears hen caclle he strikes trot
| for the nest
At public sale at Rockingham last
| Thursday stock pf the wrecked Bank
IL
| share afS25
Concord is to have another cotton
mill-a spinner. The Standard SAYS
that So, 900 Of the $4,000 wanted
have been subscribed.
The burglars have reached Sails
barry and are plying their vocation
vigorously Several raids have been
made the past few nights.
c. V Darlington, native of Gran
| vile county, n. c., died in Dallas,
| Texas, a few day, ago. He was a
| young man and highly esteemed.
| The cotton-oil mills at Raleigh have
| just completed the shipment of 1000
| tons of cotton seed meal to foreign
| ports via Norfolk and Newport News.
DI. j. II. Hodges, of Wilmington,
! has been rendered and has accepted
! the chair of Anatomy i'm the College
| OF Physicians and Surgeons of Rich
| mond, Va.
| y Northern man has been in the
water melon section south of Neuse
| river buying the growing crop, taking
| all melons from u pounds up for
| cents apiece.
Seveuty-live of the operatives of
the Charlotte gingham mills went
out on a strike on the 7th, because
they didn' { like the new superintend-
ent of the mill.
One of the Charlotte burglars was
caught a night or two ago through
/! the instramentality of a colored man
whose house he entered. The burg
lar was {, negro.
Judge Walter Clark. one of the as
sociate justices Of the Supreme court,
yaI Y AL III 1;,,f,
have been chosen t. teach the new
Wake Forest law school.
Work on the University of North
Carolina buildings ana grounds is
rapidly progressing. Between seventy
five and one hundred hands have been
busy for week or more.
While A. f. Lutz. of Lincoln coun-
ty, was in his field cutting oats light
ming struck his reaper upon which he
was sitting. badly stunning him. The
reaper was practically ruined.
a correspondent of the Statesville
Landmark claims that diamond
weighing nearly two ounces has been
found in Macon county. The finder
has been offered $4,000 for it.
During the year ended June Both
over 5000 persons registered their
names at the State Museum, at Raj
eigh. These represented twenty-sev-
en- different States and a number of
foreign countries.
Mrs. Emily Polk Crow died in Will
mington. She was the wife of Capt.
John Il. Crow and a daughter OF the
Hon. George Davis, who was a mem
Der Of the Confederate cabinet. Mrs.
Crows mother was sister Of Gen.
Leonidas Polk, q. S. A.
The Methodist church at Mat.
thews, Mecklenburg county, was
burned by incendiaries on the night
of the 9th inst. This makes the
third incendiary fire in that town in
three consecutive nights, and the
people are aroused.
The Secretary of State has revoked
the license of the North Carolina
State Insurance Company, with
headquarters at Asheville. After an
examination he did not consider the
, company a safe one. 1t was COM
, posed principally of Ohio men.
Governor Carr has received a life
: size oil portrait of the late Gov. FL. II.
! Clark, presented to the State by the
family of the latter. The Governor
in letter accepting the portrait,
speaks in the highest terms of Gov.
Cldfk anu Terms MIN Iyplcal SOuUn-
: ern planter.
! President Winston, of the State
,, University, reports that he is receiv
! ing many applications from young
7 women for admission as students or
: to take special courses of study. This
knocking at the door Of the Univer-
sity is believed by many to be the
; first step in the direction of co-educa-
tion.
The Wilmington, Newbern and Nor
/ folk Railroad people are rapidly push
: ing work on the gap between Pollocks-
vile and NewbeFn. A large force is
: working between those two points and
: permanent track-laying has been be-
/ gun in Newbern. Trains are expected
TO run through between Whining
ton and Newberne some time in
August.