The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-07-11
STATE NEWS.
Fresh News Items from Cherokee to
Currituck.

The cotton mills are declaring fine
dividends this year.
Hardy Loftin's gin and forty bales
of cotton, in Lenoir county, were de-
stroyed by lightning.
The executive committee of Univer-
sity trustees have decided to put in
81, 900 electric light plant.
The late Rev. DIR. Bailey, editor of
the Biblical Recorder, left an estate
valued at between $4,000 and $50, 900.
A citizen of Newbern received from
the dead letter office some days ago a
letter written by his grandfather "a
years ago.
The Railroad Commissioner is noti-
fled of the extension Of the Aberdeen
& West End railway to Star, Mont
gomery county.
1t is pretty certain that fair will
be held at Charlotte next autumn.
The ground purchasing committee is
actively at work.
The weather report for June shows
a mean temperature of u degrees, or
degree above the average. The rain
fall was 3.79 inches, the average being
4.64.
EX-State Treasurer S. Med. Tate
has bought the Dunavant cotton mill
at Morganton, for S25, COO, but Mr.. Lee
roy Springs, OF Charlotte, contests the
sale.
The sales of the huckleberry crop in
Sampson and Duplin counties this
season aggregate $4,000. OF this
amount $4,000 goes to one railway
station-Warsaw
J. r. Holland, the ex-bank cashier
and defaulter, has an easy piece of
work in the Albany penitentiary. He
is in the shirt factory, and puts paper
in shirts to keep them in shape.
1t is not now believed that the Com
missioner of Agriculture will be able
to hold any farmers Institutes this
year. as it is thought the money it
was hoped would be available cannot
be used.
In Montgomery county two broth
ers-Pink and Fennel Williams-got
in a fight Friday and while their
mother was attempting to take from
one revolver she was shot in the alb
domen and will die.
Private Secretary Telfair is quite
busy now making out the appoint
| ments of a large number of magis-
trates to fill vacancies. The vacancies
are due to various causes, failure to
certify names, failure to qualify, etc.
The Waldensian colonists, in Burke
county, are now doing well. Their
crops are for the first time good. They
raised much wheat. Half of them
have paid good deal on their land,
which they hold individually, and not
in common, as formerly.
The State Treasurer has received
from the government from the fund
under the Morrill, act, $21 900 for the
two agricultural and mechanical col
leges. OF this GA per cent. goes to the
one for whites, at Raleigh, and SO per
cent. to the one for negroes, at Green's
| boro.
bequartermaster general is issuing
$4,000 worth of clothing to the State
| Guard, just received from the Gov.
| eminent, on requiSition from the
| various companies in the State Guard.
| Most of the acquisitions are for dress
| uniforms, helmets, leggings and
| blouses.
The registered whiskey distillery OF
| p. G. Saunders, at, Moratock, Mont
| gomery, suffers the loss of its ware.
house and forty barrels of whiskey
| Revenue officers have just returned
from an Investigation of the fire. II
is found that the warehouse was
| robbed and then set on fire. Most Of
| the whiskey was stolen. Several bar
rels were found buried in field, and
six barrels were hidden on an island
| in the Pee Dee river. There is some
evidence as to the men who did the
work, and arrests will probably fol
/ low,