The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-18
GREENSBORO BUDGET.
THE CREAM OF THE WEEKS NEWS
FROM THE CITY OF FLOWERS.
Collapse of the Temperance Fo1ks-The
Matrimonial Campaign--Greensb orc 8
Fire Observation-Disclosures

Collapse of the Temperance Folks-The
Matrimonial Campaign--Greensb oro's
Fire Observation-Disclosures
Special Correspondent of the Sentinel.
GREENSBORO, Nov. 17.-Our fire depart
ment is being put on very effective footing.
The new steamer is to arrive about Dec. LIST.
The company now has 80 members on the
roll and is to have AZ, full complement. The
engine is from the La France Co., Elmira,
n. Y.-capacity, 500 gallons per minute
and to throw four streams when necessary.
A new uniform has been ordered for the
company to arrive on the 22nd inst. A els
tern of $4,000 gallons capacity has been
built and filled-located near the Market
House. Another soon to be begun, located
near the NcAdoo House.
RAILROAD.
If anybody wants to go anywhere, Greens
boro is the place 70 come for start. Six
railroad lines radiate from here, upon
which sixteen daily passenger trains ar
rive and depart. Added to these we have
about thirteen freight trains daily in all
directions. Cash receipts per month from
passenger and freight channels average
SIS, 200.
TAR HEEL LINIMENT
Seems to be taking place among the
sphemeral marveis of the day. Houstan
& Bros. one of the largest grocery firms here
are now closing out their business. Their
progress has been feature of our commu-
nifty for Is or 20 years. The managing
partner, w. IL. Emerson, will manufacture
Tar Heel Liniment, panacea for all ills
human or brute, real, possible or imaginary.
They claim to have the unapproachable
juice on sale with 800 dealers scattered
through the State.
THE TEMPERANCE FOLKS.
English & Maybe were here on time and
had one meeting. They seemed to make
good beginning, but there was domes-
tic trouble of some kind in the camp. The
| next night they came up missing. Rumor
has it there was feud. At any rate,
when last heard from they were speeding
| away Northward.
LITTLE TONI TATE,
who got a good appointment in a land
| Office in Idaho several months ago, is suffi-
GENTLY amused and is back at home Tom
couldn't stand the limited degree of civil
ization out there and the weather and the
solitude even at S75 per month";
ABOUT TOWN.
The new Methodist Centenary Church
in South Greensboro will be occupied fol
worship for the first time next Sunday.
Miss Bessie Yates, the charming little
singer of the Presbyterian choir, was mar
ried on the morning of the 18th inst, to Mr.
Dorsay Hagan, of this place, and they are
now off on the regulation tour.
The spire of the new Baptist Church is
being rapidly completed. 1t is something
unique and rather quaint for this part Of
the world. The roof of building is to be
covered with slate and part of the tiling
has arrived.
Inside wood work for Federal Building
all of white pine, carved and ready to be
| fitted up in several car loads has arrived
and been transferred to the building. Also
two car loads of granite slabs for stree
front paving of same building.
In all probability. the exit of another
most charming young lady of this place
from the state-the state of single bless
edness-will be chronicled in very few
! days. She has not the usual "far away
expression of eyes, but evidently has hel
wits we'll in hand. If her plans do not
Miss Carrie (CaldwelD by the time another
budget reaches you, the very biggest dream
of her life will be a stunning reality The
very same kind of lightning is expected
| to strike two or three other places about
the time the Thanksgiving turkey is sacri-
feed. L. w. A.