The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-03-22
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
Fresh News Items From Cherokee t<
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Salisbury is organizing a baseball
club.
Davidson county sent eleven con-
victs to the penitentiary as a result of
her recent term of court.
Mrs Keogh, of Greensboro, wife of
Col. Thos- i. keogh, died in New
York March l4th of nervous prostra-
tion.
The number of students at the in
stitution for deaf mutes and blind is
249. The white department is greatly
crowded.
w. Corbett, one of the largest mer-
chants of Wilson, has made an assign
ment. His liabilities are about
$4,000.
Mrs. Black, widow of the late Mr..
Pleasant Black, the founder OF Madl-
son, died at her home in that town
recently.
Congressman Settle has introduced
a bill in Congress asking the govern
ment to app. oprjate $4,000 Tor pup-
lie building at Durham.
In the Goldsboro section, which is
making great progress in trucking,
the planting of beans is now in prog
ress A heavy crop will be planted.
Rev. r. e Peele becomes pastor of
Brookly Baptist church, Wilmington,
in place of Rev. J. L. jenkins, re-
signed to go into eyangellstlc work
The night Waterman at the Rich
mond s. Danville railway at Salisbury
is under arrest for stealing whiSkey
from cars. He made a full confession.
The Forest City Ledger says that
Mr.. and Mrs. James Sparks, of Gar
nett, have been married "A years and
have II children, none of them twins.
A large pulpit Bible was stolen
from the Three Forks church in Wa
tauga county a short while ago.
liberal reward is offered for It's recOV-
cry.
DR.. Edwin A. Anderson, one of the
leading physicians of Wilmington, is
dead. His age was IS. His family is
one of marked prominence in this
State.
Mr.. Jerry Roberts, yard conductor
of the c.. f. Sc Y. V. railroad, was run
over by shifting train and horribly
mangled at the freight depot in Fay
etteville.
The East Carolina Piscatorial Asso-
citation Will, by August 1st, plant
100, 900 bushels of New River oysters
on it's property along that river in
Onslow county.
Miss Addie Dixon, of Shelby, sister
of Revs. A. c.. and Thomas Dixon, of
New York, will be married at her
| home in Shelby, to Presbyterian
minister, of Mocksville.
Business in Kings Mountain seems
| to be reviving. The sulphur mine has
a large force of hands at work. The
| iron mines between there and Besse-
! mer are raising considerable ore.
| The Commissioner of Agriculture
says that it is notable fact this year
| that in the trucking districts the use
| of fertilizers is very liberal, but that
elsewhere the use is very sparing.
The North Carolina commissioners
who will go to Antietam to locate the
positions of troops from this State
expect to leave Raleigh April 18th,
and will remain week on the battle
field.
The State Farmers Alliance will
observe April oath, that being the
| birthday of Col. L. L. Polk, its first
| president, and sub-allianees will meet
for the purpose of raising funds TOR a
monument to his memory.
1t is claimed that wild bananas,
wild olives, and even wild coffee grows
in New Hanover county, in the vicini-
ty of Rocky Point. There is some
talk of trying the experiment of Guilt
waiting the coffee bush in that section
1t is said that Professor Tieruan
who married "Christian Reid" miss
Fishery, the well-known novelist, anG
who has for many years lived in
Mexico, has sold his mining property
there for one million dollars and will
return to this State.
The Department of Agriculture /.
informed by it's fertilizer inspector.
that farming operations are now fur
ther advanced than ever before, an(
that the farmers are working lik,
beavers, with a determination, as the
commissioner says, 'tO make thing
moye.o
The receLt discovery of large de
pOSitS OF tin ore at Kings mOuntai il
is attracting considerable attention
on account of it's high grade. A bill
offer has been made for the propert,
by a syndicate, but it is understood
| that a majority of the stakeholder
are opposed to selling.
The list of Insurance companies de
ing business in this State has been is
sued. There are 80 life and acciden
and 80 fire and miscellaneous. TIL
premium receipts of the life compa
mics were 81 ,007 800, and their losse
S506, $50. The premium receipts o
the fire companies were SS78, 900, ant
the losses 1907, TIT.
Charles G. Hackett died in States
vile on the night of March 14th, ages
&c years. He held position in tn
Department of the Navy unde
Pierce's administration and was
splendid soldier during the civil war
His wife was the daughter of Chic
Justice Sturgis, OF Georgia. She die
four years ago. Mr.. Hackett will b
buried in AShe county on the 10th.
Perhaps the richest prospect TO
gold ever found in North Carolina ha
just been struck in Union county
The vein is the same as the Stewar
mine in that vicinity, which prove
so rich several years ago, and whicl
has never yet been fully developed
Though the property is owned by
man in Cabarrus county, it is bein
Opened by an expert miner from Eng
land, who says the vein is exceedingI
rich.
The Confederate Monument.
An important meeting of the Mort
| Carolina Confederate Monument, AS