The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-10-14
ALL OVER THE STATE

ALL - LII 1hi ~ L al
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN NORTH CAR
OLINA.
Carefully Culled From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.
WAKE.
The Centennial graded school at
Raleigh opened last week with seven
hundred pupils.
Of 1858 convicts belonging to the
penitentiary, all but 250 are at work
on railroads or elsewhere.
GRANVILLE.
A weather observing and signal
station will soon be established at Ok
ford.
The colcred asylum at Oxford will
be open for the reception of a few or
phans on the first of November.
HERE AND THERE.
At bethleham Church, Union, there
were % additions of members.
North Carolina expended $4,000
for public education this year.
The Rocky Mount fair will be held
this year on November 10th, 18th and
18th.
The corn crop of Warren will be
three times greater than that of last
year.
There is an oak in Camden county
ence.
The ex-Confederate soldiers of Gas
ton county have organized an ossocia-
ton.
w. M. Manning has been nomina-
ted in Gates county for the House by
the Democrats.
The Scotland Neck people are haul
ing goods in wagons from the river be-
cause of the high freights by rail.
Hickory is to have a bank, to be
operateds by parties from johnson
City, Tenn, and Grand Rapids,
Mich.
The Wadesboro h.telHgencer says
that the People of Cairo, Arson coun-
ty, desire a good doctor. Address,
Sherwood Lilies, Cairo, n. c.
The Recorder says that some Dur
hamites have offered to take $1,000
stock in the Lynchburg and Durham
railroad for the privilege of throwing
the first shovel fdirt.
The ladies of Hillsboro have sent
packages of fancy work to the Shot
well Memorial Bazaar. The young
ladies of Miss Alice HEARTS school
are making a silk patchwork quilt.
A special says the handsome brick
residence of Colonel /. A. Sugg, of
Greenville, Pitt county. was totally
destroyed by fire last Friday night,
the fire originating in the cook room.
Loss about $4,000. The building was
insured for $4,000 and the furniture
for $1,000.
The Democrats of Cabarrus county
nominated the following ticket: For
the House, H. G. McAllister; for
Sheriff, VIM. Propst for Clerk, Jas.
G. Gibson for Register, John K.
Patterson; for Treasurer, John A.
Cline for Coroner, James N. Brown;
for Surveyor, J. II. Long.
The Democrats of Jones county
have nominated the following ticket ::
For the House, Lewis Bynum; for
Clerk, Thomas j. Whitakar for
Register, Joseph A. Smith for Treas
urer, A. G. Barnes for Sheriff, S. E.
Koonce; for Coroner, DIR. G. B.
Woodley; for Surveyor, w. A.
Jones.
1t has been discovered that Ander-
son Lee, colored, of johnson county,
whose dead body was found recently
in the woods near his home with the
throat cut from ear to ear, was muir
dered by a colored preacher ard
school teacher named Robert Jones.
The Smitnfield Herald says. Jones is
still at large.
The Democrats of Greene county
have nominated the following ticket
For Sheriff, Luby Harper; for Clerk,
A. D. Speight; for Register, George
Sugg; for Treasurer, John Sugg for
Coroner, DIR. w. c. Galloway; for
Surveyor, Charles Lassiter; for House,
A. J. Ormond George Sugg, Esq.
was elected chairman Of the Demo
cratic County Executive Committee
Henderson Gold Leaf: w. E. Ga.
ry & Co. bought 200 pounds OF to-
bacco last Tuesday. for which they
paid $3.50. E. D. Mitchell sold one
barn of tobacco this week at an aver.
age of $44.89. There were six lors in
all, the four best of which brought
Gar. S71. S75 and SS7 with the he's,