The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-04-06
STATE NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered In the Old
North State

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Hall were married at Charlotte.
A fire on Ed. FL. Lees cotton plat
form in Raleigh consumed 480 boles of
| cotton yesterday evening.
It is now certain that the general
offices of the Seaboard Air Line will
soon be moved from Raleigh to Nor
folk, Va.
In Asheville Nancy Fortune has
| been divorced from w. p. Fortune,
| and T.. d. sHeiman from Bertha Hell
man.
The sales of fertilizer tax tags are
arger than at this time last year. A
million tags were printed for this
years use.
A dinner naTfuy was given at Bat
tery Park in honor of Gen. and Mrs.
+ Lew Wallace by the indianapolis
guests at the hotel.
Congressman Bum has been assur-
| ed by the President and Postmaster
General that he should be fully heard
| in the Raleigh postmastership matter.
DR.. r. Fl. Whitaker, of Raleigh, has
been appointed to Oxford station NJ.
e. church, South, which was made
| vacant by the death If Or. Gordon.
Rev. Frank L. Reid, editor of II.
Raleigh Christian Advoc&e is to q &c
| liver the commencement adu. oss
| the MurfreesbOro Methodist college.
The annual convention CT the Kings
| Daughters of North Carolina will be
| held at Oxford. The membership il
| now perhaps larger than ever before.
The Governor has appointed Mrs.
Pembroke jones as representative of
| North Carolina at the moulding of the
| great Columbian bell, for the Worlds
| Fair, at Troy, N. Y.
Wilmington's new Board of Alder
men is having time of it. The anti
! administration members refuse to
| caucus or fellowship with the admin.
| istration men and things are kind
! chung UP.
1t is reported that Grover Cleveland
| Bridgers, of Northampton, aged twen-
| ty-four years, and named by a friend
| of Cleveland when he was lawyer in
Buffalo, will apply for a fourth-class
postoffice.
Professor burlington, of Johnson
| county, has walking-cane which was
presented to Commodore Perry, Unit
ed States Navy, in commemOration or
his famous victory on Lake Erie in
| the war of 1872.
Mr.. Robinson, Commissioner of Ag-
riculture, says he will in a few days
send out the blank forms for the first
| monthly crop bulletin for the year.
Sometime toward the end of April
this will t,erhabs appear.
Salisbury Watchman: The COM
pany have ordered one hundred new
SromptOn looms for the Salisbury
Cotton Mills, twenty of which have
arrived. The OTHERS are expected
oil n ya1.f
tion.
Governor Carr has appointed the
following Beard of Directors of the
North Carolina Confederate Soldiers
Home: w. @. Stronach and +. Ell.
Busbee. of Raleigh; A. d. McGill, of
Fayetteville, and w. E. Ardrey, OF
Charlotte.
The last Legislature enacted law
giving the Railway Commission au
thority to make regulations for the
proper handling of baggage. A geL-'
eral order by the commission on this
subject is now in hand and will be is
sued next week.
The covered bridge of the Raleigh
s. Augusta Air Line Railroad over
Haw river, near Monroe station, Chat
ham county, was consumed by fire
about the middle of Wednesday night.
| 1t caught, presumably, from sparks
| from an engine.
| The executive committee of the
| North Carolina Press Association has
| decided to hold the next meeting of
| the Association in New Bern, April
| 26th. Arrangements have also been
made for the Association to attend
| the Worlds Fair at Chicago in
| body.
| A little white boy Lamed Johnson
was found hanging by the neck at a
schoOl-house at Loves Creek, near
| Siler City, Chatham ce1nty. His body
was outside and window sash held
his neck. He had Cried to get in the
window, and the sash slipped and
caught him.
| The Fayetteville Gazette under
! stands that DIR. J. A. Hodges, of Will
| mington, is to build a sanitarium at
either Wrightsville or Southport for
| invalid children, to be kept open all
| the year round. "a large company,
with strong backing is behind the
/ movement.
John Best, colored. of Mt. Olive,
died of hydrophobia. He was bitten
/ by dog last January. Best died a
| most horrible death. The physicians
| who had been treating tue case were
| called, and it was necessary to chain
i him which was done with great diff
| Guilty and risk. Even in death his
face was the picture of agony and des-
| pair.
The Greensboro Patriot learns that
"white caps' in the shape of young
| girls with switches have made their
s appearance in the neighborhood of
| Tabernacle, Guilford county. The
| person visited was very respectable
lady, who was taken to task for some
uncomplimentary language ON her
| part. The visitors did not, however,
carry out their intentions.
i The first of the series of bulletins
issued by the State geological survey
March 29th It is number of the
series and is On ssRoad Material and
Road Construction" in North Caro-
lima. 1t is the JOINT production of
State Geologist J. A. Holmes and
Civil Engineer William e. Cain, and
is effectively illustrated. The first
view is from photo of the Yonah-
loossee pike, and most of the other
views are from Good Roads.
/ The Wilmington Messenger says
the clock in the SeaDoard Air Line
office at Maxton would not run. The
| agent took off its face, when spider
walked out, and examination of the
clocks works showed a large, heavy
web, systematically run from whee
to wheel, from centre to circumfer
ence Of the machinery, locking it fast
After it was taken out the clock NOV
ed off with its usual tick and power