The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-11-30
STATE NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered in the Ola
North State

Interesting Items Gathered in the Ola
North State
". Jones & Co., large dry goods
dealers, of Durham, have assigned.
L. j. Jones and J D. Pridgen are
trustees.
lt ls the purpose of the trustees of
the Baptist Female University to
start the first building in Raleigh
next year.
Quite a number of people from the
North have arrived i'll the State dur
Ing the past ten days, and are look
ing after lands.
1t will probably require one year to
complete the State Confederate mon
ument. There will be 5000 feet of
granite in the monument.
The State business agency of the
Farmers Alliance has become an ex-
tensive dealer in eggs, which it is shipp-
ing North In great quantities.
The A. NJ. E. Conference meets at
Washington, n c., on the 29th in
slant. L. has so churches in this
State and 13, 900 members. Bishop
Gaines will preside.
A newspaper has made an estimate
that $500 North Carolinians visited
the Worlds Fair. Some railroad
people say they think these figures
ought to be doubled to get nearer to
the correct number.
The Topic says that one morning
last week. there were fifty wagons in
Lenoir. Some of them had come down
from the mountains to sell produce,
| and Others had gone up from Lincoln
and Catawba to buy produce.
Rev. George w. Hardison writes the
Lexington Dispatch that about 124
| persons were converted and reclaimed
| during the. past year on the Davidson
| circuit. Ninety nine of this number
became candidates for church mem
bership.
Capt. John O'Connor, an Irish Con-
federate scout Of great daring. and
| for whose head the Federals offered a
| Va, few days ago. His field of
operations was mainly around New
bern under Gen. Robert Ransom.
Mr. Alfred Shoaf, of Davidson coun-
ty, raised on acre of ground this year
| ,140 pounds of fine cotton. He got
the seed from Georgia. The ginners
said it was the best lint they ever
| saw. The cotton is said to be of a very
prolific species, says the Dispatch.
Richard Watt York died Nov. 21st
at his home, in Chatham county, OF
Bright's disease. During the war he
| was major of the Sixth North Carroll
ma Infantry. He was son of the
late DR.. Brantly York, and was prom
inent as Mason. By profession he
was..a lawyer.
The Christian Conference of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina met in an
nual session Nov. 2lst at Jonesboro
Rev. P. FL. Fleming, of Graham,
presiding. The attendance is quite
large. Most of the churches in Vir-
ginia, in this conference, are in the
| Underwater section.
The Robesonian says that three
couples who were married the same
night in Lumberton over quarter of
a century ago have each had fifteen
children born to them. The husbands
are Messrs. James S. Mcneil, j. H.
Lewis and VIM. Hooper, the latter d
colored drayman.
| Sixty-six convicts were sent from
the penitentiary Nov. 21st to the
Caledonia farm. on the Roanoke river
The Board of Directors of the peni
Tertiary after inspecting the farm!
say they were aStonished at the eX
tent of the floods in the Roanoke anC
at the damage they had done tn,
State crops.
Mr.. Stephen Coleman, who livel
near Stokesland, Rockingham coun
ty, lett his house the other day in hi
usual health, and not returning
search was made for him and he wa
found in the field unconscious having
been, as supposed. suddenly paral
yZed. He was carried home an,
medical aid summoned, tut up t,
the night of Nov 22nd. he had no
been able to speak SO he could b
understood.
The Lenoir Topic says that work OIL
| the Caldwell s. Northern railroad ant
on the plant OF the Caldwell Land s
Lumber Company has been stopped
by Col. Wire, general manager. Th
reason for his action as given to Sew
eral citizens by him, is that he is no
willing to put another dollar into al
enterprise that meets with so mucl
opposition from the people in the wa
of damages, right of way, etc, and il
country where an assault upon hin
by several men is unnoticed by officer
of the law. The company has beer
sued by contractors for 1000 fol
work done. 1t claims that it doe
not owe the money.