The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-03
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
Fresh News Items From Cherokee TO
CurrituCk.

Fresh News Items From Cherokee TO
Currituck.
The Raleigh public schools will close
May 18th.
The satisfactory at Statesyillc be-
gun work Monday.
The new company of the Fourth
Regiment at EIkin was armed Mon
day.
The Hamburg cotton mill at Mount
Airy has been sold to DIR. ID. w. G.
Benbow for SIS, 300.
Mr. james Hunt, prominent farm
er of Wilkes, died at his home near
Roaring River April 18th.
"MetrOse" is the name of the new
cotton mills which are to be built at
Raleigh on the cooperative plan.
The wooden mills at Leaksville have
SO arranged their financial difficult
ties that they will soon resume work.
Arrangements have been made for
the erection Of new courthouse in
Mecklenbufg county. 1t is to cost
$50, 000
The State University's summer
school of geology will have it's head
quarters the coming summer at Kings
Mountain.
The girls of the Normal and Indus
trial School and others went up On an
| excursion to Mt. Airy and Pilot Noun
tain Saturday.
A daughter of United-States-Mar-
shall Allison has died of diphtheritic
Group. For fifteen hours she breathed
through a tube.
1t is said to be Mrs. Vance's wish
| that the peoples monument to Sena-
| tor Vance shall be placed oyer his
grave at Ashevi!le
The date of the commencement of
the State Agricultural and Mechani-
| cal College is June Goth. There are
| eight graduates this year.
| The remains Of William Hooper. a
slgner OF the Declaration of luGepen
| deEce, will be removed to the GuilfLrd
| court house battle grounds.
Hon. Julian 5. Carr and Washing
| ton Duke, of Durham. have each con-
tribute.l 800 towards the Friends
Orphanage at High Point.
The North Carolina State Music
| House at Raleigh has assigned. Cecil
U. Stone is manager. The preferred
debts aggregate $1,000. r. H. Barker
is the assignee. The assignment was
not unexpected.
w. E. White. Of Alexander county,
chairman of the executive committee,
announces that the convention to
nominate a POpulist candidate for
Congress in the Eighth district will
meet in Len0ir May %.
The entire family of Mr.. W. A.
Watson, OF Greensboro, were poison
ed by eating cabbage. 1t is supposed
that some kind of poison was used
on the cabbage to kill the bugs.
All the military schools in the
State are invited to compete in a
prize drill at the Teachers Assem- bly,
next June. The prize 20 the winning
company OF cadets will be a hand
some silk North Carolina flag.
Mr.. J. F. Liggett killed a large
gray eagle on the farm of Mr. W. T.
Parker, near Enfield, which measured
seven feet from tip to tip. The bird
ferocious ones ever seen in that
county.
/ A letter from Guthrie, Oklahoma
/! Territory, says that Mr.. John Dew
eroux, the young attorney who re
Gently lett Raleigh, it is supposed
with an abandoned woman, IS now
in that city engaged in the pra ctice
of his profession.
The Supreme Court has decided an
| interesting case. a man standing il
this State shot and killed a man in
Tennessee. In what State ought he
to be tried? The court says in Ten
nessee. II is the first case of the kind
which ever came up in this State.
Sunday night. April 22nd, at Stone.
vile, Rockingham county, young
| man dressed up in WOman'S clothes
and went to church. The unusual
sight created great CONSERVATION
among the congregation, and the of
Tending party has been indicted for
disturbing public worship.
Among the young Ladies' who will
represent the Confederate States in
the grand tableau at the reunion of
Confederates being held at Birmiug
ham, is Miss Bessie Henderson, of
Salisbury, daughter OF Congressman
Henderson, who represents North
Carolina.
Secretary Hoke Smith will certainly
deliver the Grafton at the State Uni
versity. Rev DR.. Murdoch, of Sails
bury, breaches the baccalaureate SER
| mon, and Rev. DR.. Frank l.. Reid, of
| Greensboro. delivers a memorial adj
dress on the life and services Of the
late Rev. DR.. Charles f. Deems.
The remains of William Hooper,
having been removed from the old
| Presbyterian church-yard at Hillsboro
to the battle ground of Guilford
Courthouse, it is now desired that the
| remains of Gov. Burke, which lie in a
neglected spot two miles from Hills
boro, shall also be inferred in the bat
| tle-grOund.
"a wolf in sleeps clething"-the substitute
| offered by the "cutter" as bein, iust as BOD az