The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-02-09
STATE NEWS,
Tar Heel Happenings from Cheerokee
to Currituck.

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z. A. Poston and Miss Grace Turn
er were married in StateSvIlle.
Fifteen marriage licenses were is
sued in Durham county during the
month of January,
Julius McClurd, of Number Ter
township, Cleveland county, had a
hand and foot frozen while going
home drunk.
They have begun to catch shad in
the cape Fear river. The season is
some ten days late on account of the
recent cold weather.
The Burlington News says that the
peach crop in Alamance has been Kill
led In the bud. Such is the opinion
OF experienced fruit growers.
James and John Hart, colored, have
been bound over to court charged
with burglarizing the residence of w.
o. Wolfe in Asheylle
J. w. Bolin shot J. w. Sechler at
China Grove recently. Bolin was in
toxicated and was brandishing his
weapon when it accidentally went off.
Maj. w. NJ. Robbins has gone to
Washington 20 look after the Mexican
Mission. The Salisbury Herald learns
that his chances for the place are con-
sidered good.
The report on fire Insurance losses
in the State for the past year as pre-
pared shows the amount to have been
IS COG, ,OO0 an increase of $I50, 600 over
the previous year.
A farmer living near Shelby, ON
awakening one morning recently.
found seventeen rabbits huddled to-
gether in corner of the room They
had got in the house in some manner
to escape the cold.
w. c. Fletcher of Wilkes county.
died suddenly at Taylorsville He
was 20 years Old and had been a medi-
cal student in Louisville. The day he
expected to died with his mother he
was taken home corpse.
At the Mountain Island Cotton
Mills, near Charlotte, yesterday Anna
Prlmm, young white girl, got her
arm caught in the machinery and
torn from the socket. 1t is not
thought that the girl can live.
The Acme Corundum and Mining
Company was organized recently at
Statesville. with capital stock OF
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new industry for this State, and we
hope will prove profitable.
A negro woman at Greenville, y. c.,
recently gave birth to triplets-all
boys, averaging eight pounds each.
Another woman, also cUlored. in Cra-
ven county has just given birth to Il
child weighing twenty-five pounds.
While Messrs. ID. NJ, NJ. J. and
Johnnie Baker were gUaning neaI
Shelby, they flushed partridge from
a nest. In the nest were four eggs in
process of incubation. This is some
thing unheard of in the habits of the
quail.
The penitentiary board, which has
Cor two years received no appropria-
tion from the State. has asked the
Legislature to allow them S37. .50C
yearly. There are now on hand 800
convicts, heretofore employed on rail
way work
Col. Francis H. Cameron has ac-
cepted the appointment as adjutant
general with the rank Of brigadier
general, North Carolina State Guards,
which was rendered him by Governor
Carr on January 21st, from which
time his commission dates.
The Agricultural department is in
receipt of reports from the wheat sec
tiOn of the State, which show that
winter wheat and oats look uncom-
monty well. Snow has protected them
from the severe weather. The gener
al outlook for all the crops is extreme
ly favorable and farmers are very
hopeful.
A Charlotte lady is making up a
party of her friends to take in Cleye-
lands Inauguration. She will char
ter car and engage quarters in
Washington, and will manage the en-
tire trip. 1t is to be an ''old hem af.
fair. The husbands of her respective
guests will be left at home to take
care of the children.
In the Cabarrus Superior Court the
ffrstthing on the docket was the con
test of the relatives of old Billy Bost
the Cabarrus miser, who died with
his house chinked with gold, to break
his will. The old man lived in Bethel
township, and the whole of that sec
tion was in Concord to see the case
through court. If the old miser's will
is broken, a large amount of boarded
gold and real estate will be distribu
l. It,