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A calf in Wilson county, according to the Advance, sucks eggs like a dog. The case of the Town and State VS. C. C. Daniels was up before the Superior Court last week. It will be remembered that we put in an engine to work our press with some time ago. The Town fined us one hundred dollars for running the engine. We took an appeal to court and the case was dismissed last week, because the Town exceeded its jurisdiction.- Wilson Advance. NEW HANOVER. The Wilmington Gas Light Co., are preparing to renew and enlarge their plant. Preparations for the lighting of Wilmington entirely by electricity are in progress. Mr. McNett has the contract and has given bond for the work. There will be fifty are lights of 2,000 cardle power each to be located at the distance apart from each other of not more than 800 feet, making one at every other intersection of streets. Work will be begun immediately. GUILFORD. Mr. Paalzow will erect a mill at High Point, for grinding bark. An offer of $20,000 has been made for the Gibsonville Gold Mine. Dr. J. A. Hodges, of Fayetteville, will deliver the memorial address at Greensboro the 10th of May. Mr. Ed and Bascom Field, of High Point, have moved to Greensboro and will manufacture tobacco. The High Point National Bank will be opened for business the first day of June. The safe they have purchased is of the latest improved and most approved made and weighs about 7,500. RICHMOND. Mr. Allen Patrick, of Rockingham, killed recently, a water moccasin which measured four feet and ten inches in length and was large in proportion. Miss Lucy E. MeIntosh, of Wolf Pitt township, the young lady who a few weeks ago was bitten by a dog supposed to be mad, was taken to Dr. Kollock, immediately, who lost no time in cutting out the affected part and cauterizing the wound. The place is healing favorably. DAVIDSON. Correspondence of the Sentinel. Notwithstanding the low price of tobacco preparation is being made for a large crop. New barns are being erected ground is ready for setting, and plant beds look fine. Most farmers are done planting corn, though some will be planted yet. The dry weather injured gardens somewhat, but the late rains will bring them out, and the housewife smiles as she thinks potatoes and peas, corn and beans are things of the near future. The prospect is good for an abundant fruit cฮop, but the thought is fraught with sadness, when we remembered, that SO much of it will be turned into that which causes misery and crime, crowds our jails and poor houses, and fills our country with mourning bloodshed and The quiet of our neighborhood was broken last week, by three suspicious men, two colored and one white, supposed to be escaped convicts, who are hiding in the vicinity of Abbott's Creek church. Monday morning as a negro girl living with Mr. J. P. Traynbam, was returning from her uncle's, she saw one of the negros behind a pile of wood. The girl started to run, and the man ran after, but she escaped and reached home, breathless and very much frightened. The alarm was given, and Esquire Davis and about thirty men hunted all day, but failed to eatch the intruder. They have been seen several times since, once in Mr. Traynham's barn but have managed to escape and are still at Rev. S. H. Thompson paid a large. flying visit to this vicinity last Saturday He looks well and happy, and reports the H. P. C. I. in a flourishing condition.Rev. L. E. Duncan and family, and Miss Duncan, of the Southern Normal, spent the Easter holidays in this neighborhood, guest of Mr. E. E. Pitts. Miss Cora Pitts accompanied them. Mr. B. F Mcgehee, a student in the Normal, also spent several days among us, he was the guest of Mr. N. W. Beeson. He and Mr. E. E. Beeson attended the Easter services of the Moravian church, Salem, and were much pleased, They were kindly entertained, by Mr. Mcgehee's uncle, Mr. Henry Barrow. The Normal numbers about one hundred and thirty, largely boarding students. Commencement day, June 3rd Mr. C. W. Davis' singing school at Spring Hill, in this county, closes second Sunday in June, it numbers about fifty. We are pleased to note the_progress of THE SENTINEL; and looked forward with interest to the coming Seriel, by Miss Jones. This is certainly a step in the right direction. North Carolina talent should be encouraged. We hail the day, when we can have a good, pure, literary paper in North Carolina. A Southern en terprise, its columns filled by Southern comE. G. B. tributors. Abbotts Creek. May 3rd, Rev. A. L. Crawford, of Lexington, will attend the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Augusta, Ga.. Mr. Crawford will represent Orange Presbytery as one of the two clerical deligates. The last issue of the Lexington Dispatch said, on last Monday, a deed of trust from Chas. Heitman to J. C. Buxton and J. B. Eldridge, for the benefit of creditors, was recorded in the office of the register of deeds. There are some preferences. The amount of assets and liabilities has not yet been ascertained; but the latter doubtless exceed the former. CATAWBA. The wheat crop in Catawba and Lincoln
