THE GREAT CYCLONE STRIKES MONTGOMERY COUNTY
A special Sentinel dispatch from North Carolina dated February 20, 1884 reports a devastating cyclone that destroyed thirty eight dwellings and killed eight whites and twelve or fifteen African Americans. Dozens were wounded as the storm swept through Montgomery County and nearby towns including Lilesville Polkton and Beaver Dam. Homes barns and outbuildings were demolished and livestock injured or killed with reports of uprooted trees and moved millstones. Several families fled or burned structures, with widespread destruction along the river and in surrounding communities.
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Sentinel
N. C
Lilesville
Polkton
Beaver Dam
Old Soldier Tariff Tales and Odd Courtroom Snippets
A Milton Chronicle note recalls an eccentric veteran in Orange who rails about tariffs while lecturing to passersby. Other items quip about a broken clock weight hidden in a stocking, a runaway horse fleeing a signing, and the coined phrase Brindle Tail traced to a Raleigh editor. An eastern magistrate’s query asks where the woman was as a man fell from a house. A local negro preacher joked into jail about freeing inmates from sin.
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Milton Chronicle
Orange
Gaxtonia Gazette
Seth Thomas
Asunt Ridge
Siock
Gastonia Gazette
Clover
S. C
Geo. Lea
Johnson
Danville
Joe Turner
Raleigh Sentinel
North
Joe
Mitton Chronicle
Cartage Gazette
Salem’s College To-Day: From Quiet Seminary To Modern Town
A 1884 glance at Salem and the Vasser College of the South. Once a religious, isolated town dominated by its academy, Salem now features new buildings, expanded grounds, and advanced scholastic standards. The adjacent Winston city growth mirrors this change, blending old town charm with modern commerce and industry.
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The
Sentinel
Save
Salem
Thi
South
Chan
Winston
Reidsville Ripples News From a Tobacco Center
A 1884 Reidsville column lauds the town as a thriving tobacco market with hundreds of thousands in annual sales, bustling warehouses, and active brokers like Walter L. Blackwell. It praises the opera house, notes a free gold rock find near town, and highlights local education, farming life, fertilizer making, and a critique of the current Internal Revenue system.
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The
Sentinel
Aeidsville
Reidsville
Coutts & Andrews
Walter L. Blackwell
A. J. Ellington
Blind Tom
E. Thomas
Charles
Rockingham
Annie L. Hughes
Nannie Scoffin
Columbia
London
W. J. Coutts
United States
Mahone
Arthur
Kernersville growth and industry in 1884 era
Kernersville N C February 23 1884 notes a thriving town rising from 150 to nearing 1000 residents. Tobacco manufacturing expands with Beard Roberts W U Leak Co Kerners Greenfield and the Joint Stock Company boosting capacity. New factories planned a five story brick plant and a large higher output. Schools led by Rev J W Pinnix and Mrs E B Rights educated youth. S C Lindsay heads Kernersville High School with music by Miss Sieg. Local warehouses bustle with tobacco. politics subdued as town grows, with potential county seat discussions and many new residents.
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North Carolina
Winston
Greensboro
Beard, Roberts & W. UW
Leak & Co
Kerner & Greenfield
Joint Stock Company
Springis & Co
W. H. Leak
Usu
M. C. Crews
State Free School
J. W. Pinnix
Sieg
Staunton
Edwards & Stone
Jim Id
Reid
Kernersville
Post Office Petition Aims At Waughtown’s Growth
The Sentinel reports a deputation to gather signatures for a petition to the Postmaster General seeking a post office for Waughtown in Forsyth County. The village, two miles from the Twin City, hosts major wagon factories led by J. P. Nissen Wagon Works and W. E. Spaugh Wagon Works, with production rising and expansion planned.
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Sentinel
Waucurowy
the Sentinel
Waughtown
United States
Forsyth County
J. P. Nissen’ Wagon Works
Messrs. Geo. E. Nissen & Co
North Carolina
W.tl. Blackwell Tobacco Co
Tyson & Jones Carriage Factory
Granite Cotton Mills
J.P. Nissen
Carolina
Zeb Vance Himsel
William M
Samuel J. Niesen
W. T. Blackwell
North Carol
W. E. Spaugh
Wm. Anl
J. C. Spaugh
J. J. Nissen Wagon Works
Atent
C.F. Nissen & Co
Nissen Brothers
Dr.Teague
Co. T. Counte
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Dave Linerty Brock
Salem Female Academy
Fe Newue
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Sey
Ssteat
Ee Phe Crear
J. B. McKenney
Ricusosp
WalruTs
H. A. Lineback
Main Street
Gividers
N.C Ag? Ly
E. M. Griffin
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French Bros
Rocky Point
C. T
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Wenston
D. C
Winston and
Satow
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F. G. Crutchfield
N. Tantly
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Uorsas
sHerves
Buxzies
Tam
I. W. Durstam
Pomona Hill
J. van Lindley
Salem Junction
Grear
Lane Books
Williamson & Corrie’s
DR. W. 0. Thompson
North Side Court House
Square, Winston, N. C
Jani, Ly
Frightfus
Richmond County
Montgomery County
Charlotte
Neil McKay
Troy
Stanly
Kirk's Ferry
Willis Dennis
McKay
Dennis
Silas Kerns
Wiley Harris
Eltevan Sanders
John Morris
Ed. Mullinix
Mary Hurley
Wilson Davis
Richard Dennis
Hansels Beaman
Polly Crawford
Tarheechia
N. R. Richardson
Wanston
Merriman
George V. Strong
D. G. Fowle
Raleigh
Mr. Co
Chas, Flor & Co
Richmond
W. S. Rempson
4Th Street
Wisston, G. C
Vasser College OF the South
Ripples
Oxford
Wasrax
Tee
Garey Maxoracrogy
Florida
Oran
C. Sc
J. L. Bryan
Buxton & Lemby Blok
Liberty Street
Farmers’ Warehouse
Febny
ATH
Ting Little
Kernersview
Goldsboro
Dobson's Tavern
Henley
Pruit Tree
Piedmont County
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N.il
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Durham
Winston Sentinel
America
New York Sun
Prussia
York
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Randall
Democratic Party
Carl
Pretzels National Weekly
Chieu
Western Sentinel
Winston, N. C
Ed. A. Oldham
Scales
Hon
Chas. Clark
Congress
S J. Montague
Robert D. Johnston
Corrina
New York
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