The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-04
ALL OVER THE STATE
NEWS OF TIKI. WEEK IN NORTH CAR
OIINA,
Carefully Cu11ed From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.
STATE FAIR NOTES.

er to build one. 1t costs very little to
build wooden silo.
All the departments have been full
Ter and more excellent tEan ever be-
fore and the attendance has been cor
respondingly larger than usual. The
increase in the number Of entries, for
example has been SO per cent. over
that Of last year.
The address of Maj. w NJ. Pegram,
of the Baltimore Manufacturers asso-
citation and the general public at the
fair grounds was fine effort.
NEW HANOVER.
The blockade runner North Heath
was sunk in the Cape Fear River
near Wilmington during the war, and
was afterwards au obstacle to
navigation, has been raised and 112
tons of her material were sold at auc-
ton recently.
Tie funeral of the late Capt. w. A.
Cumming took place yesterday morn
ing from the First Presbyterian church
the remains being followed to Oakdale
cemetary by a large concourse of rel
atives and friends. The poll bearers
were Mr.. A. A. Willard, Col VIM.
l.. Smith, Hon. George Davis, Capt.
o. A. Wiggin., Col L. c. Cantwell,
Mr.. r. J. Jones, Mr.. L. Hansen and
Capt. w. P. Oldham Wilmingtoaa
Star.
i The Star says the body OF the white
man which was found floating in the
river at Wilmington on Friday was
pronounced to be that of Mcmahon,
the sailor who jumped overheard from
the steamer Harrogate some time
ago.
HERE AND THERE.
Franklinton, on the Raleigh and
CASTOR Road, had a big fire, Loss
$4,000.
1t is stated that some forty or forty
five Northern Newspaper men were
at the Raleigh Fair.
Olin Codgdell, negro boy II year
old, was killed near New Bern while
coon hunting.
John Ingram, wanted in this State
for murder, was last week killed in
Texas by a Sheriff and posse.
The Horner Bank at Oxford has
begun work. So that fourishing
town has now two banks.
n. B. Weaker, formerly postmaster
at Plymouth has been aquitted of the
charge of falsely issuing money orders.
The last earthquake shock at Ashe-
vile threw down a set of shelves fifty
four feet long and twelve feet high in
ocfnr c,,oohi,,r, 1ror Ryo
Senator Vance bucked against Bar
NUNS circus in Riedsville ON the 23rd
and had crowd nearly as large as
Barnum = Greensboro Patriot.
Col. W. T. Blackwell few days
ago commenced building more dwell
Ings. He will continue to build I'M
til he erects 58 more in that part Of
town.-Durham Recorder.
The North Carolina Colsred Indus
trial Association will hold its 9th An
nual Fair at its grounds near Raj
eigh, November 8th-13th inclusive.
John S. Leary is president.
The tobacco crop is about being
rounded up. Nearly all the farmers
are done curing. Tobacco has not
cured we'll for the past two or three
weeks though. This of course will
add to the inferiority of the CROP
Henderson Gold Leaf.
We regret to learn. that the gin
house and about twenty bales of cot
ton, of Mr.. Council P. Davis, in the
Bucklesberry section, of this county,
was burned Monday night at about
one o'clock. 1t is though to be the
work of an neutrality-suspicious. Free
Press.
Three dogs ON Sunday night killed
six sheep and wounded several more
for Mr.. H. M. Thompson, at Stantons-
burg. His son Henry killed two OF
the dogs the next day, and it is to be
hoped he has the other by this time
Being all guilty of larceny in the night
they ought to suffer Death Wilson
Mirror.
Col. Gardner, chief engineer of the
Atlantic Coast Line has commenced
the southwark extention of the Short
Cut. The line will run from Fay
etteville to Moss Neck, and will run
from Fayetteville to Moss Neck, and
will run from thence to the Pee Dee
River bridge, where junction with
the w. G. & A. road will be made.
A Richmond & Danville officia
was here last Friday on railroad bus
mess. He gave out an intimatior
that his company contemplates buy
ing the Winston & Fayetteville roac
with a view to completing and equip
ping it. High PoinHpeople are ready
and willing to manifest substantial
interest in this enterprise
when anything definite is underta
ken.-Hsgh Point Enterprise