The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-08-31
STATE NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered in the OId
North State.

Around Concord the fruit crop is
immense.
Geo. w. Vanderbilt is building a
Baptist church at Biltmore.
Reidsvllle graded schools will open
on Sept. 11th.
The Atlantic Hotel, at Morehead
City, has closed for the season.
A conference of Epworth Leagues
will be held in Durham October 6,
and s.
The Farmers Alliance have set
apart April2s, 1894 as Polk Memorial
Day.
Mr.. B. c. Ashcraft has bought the
Monroe Enquirer from Mr.. w. j.
Boylin.
rial has been discovered in Jackson
county.
Mr.. 2. S. Early, of Mana, is the
most earnest Democrat in Yadkin
county.
Mrs. r. B. Grinnan, formerly Miss
Lena Leete, OF Fayetteville, died at
Kabe, Japan.
The uw-fever-infected ship
which caused fiutter at Wilmington
last week has departed those coasts.
The tobacco warehousemen of
Reidsville have issued circulars sus-
pending public sales of tobacco.
Five prisoners made their escape
from Wadesboro Jail last Friday af-
ternoon. Three of them have been re-
captured.
Mr.. w. p. Bethel, of Danville, Va,
has been elected president of the
bank of Reidsville to succeed the late
| Col. A, j. Boyd.
The Rocket says Richmond county
| farmers expect a good crop of August
| cotton this year for the first time in
| two or three years.
This year there are 275 State wealth
| er stations which make weekly wealth
er crop reports; the number being
greater than ever before.
| Marion Butler, Vice President of
| the National Farmers Alliance, and
| Miss Florence FaiSon, of Sampson
| county, will be married August 31st.
/ The Allegheny Star says it is esti-
| mated that the people of Ashe county,
this State, had S75, 900 in the banks
of Abingdon, Va, which failed re-
Gently.
The Washington Post states that
|
at Sanford, n. c., has been arrested
on charge of embeZzling registered
mail matter.
sNorth Carolina's gifted divine, Rev.
A. G. Dixon, of Brooklyn, N. Y, has
won his fight against Ingersol, the in
f1del. lawyer and lecturer"
The board of health of Wilmington
1 hac n A r..
lanta and Columbus, Ga, because OF
the number of refugees at those places
from feyer-infected points.
| The Progressive Farmer declares
| that farmers in Wake county have
lived this summer only on vegetables,
J doing without meat and using salt as
the only article to be purchased.
Revenue Collector White, of the 4th
district, says he has thus far this
season issued license to 464 distillers
of fruit brandy, against 257 last year.
This shows it to be great fruit year
The Shelby Review says that FOL
the first time in the history of the
: State corn is selling fer more thar
wheat. 1t says wheat is worth 81
. cents on the Shelby market and corr
, 60 cents.
! the Greensboro Record says that ;
man by the name of Brookes, who wa
!, one of the.clowns in Barnum's circus
! | has been living in Guilford count,
since the circus was at Greensboro
and Tuesday made profession of re
ligion at Muir's chapel camp-meeting
: Mr.. WaddinYton, of Alamance, who's.
3 arm was broken recently by being hi
4 by COW tossed from the track by al
: engine, is going to sue the Seaboart
\ Air Line for S., 900. He says the COY
when she regained consciousness ant
when he had not, dragged him dow
to the creek and nearly drOwnded hin