The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-16

Asheville this summer.
A correspondent Of the Nroth State
| suggests a Republican ticket for Su-
preme Court Judges, viz, E. 6.
Reade, w. P. Bynum, and d. L. Rus
sell.
Steps have been taken by the bust
ness men of Fayetteville to establish
a tobacco ware house in than town.
1t will be ready tor the crop now ma
turing.
1t is as true that a pine tree near
Greenville which was struck by light
ming in April has been burning ever
| since, and the harder it rains the more
it burns,
The fences of North Carolina cost
S10,O00,00O while our stock toots up
| 100000. We can eat stock but
fences make dry food. More stock
and less fences.
The increase of catapillars in this
| town, is no doubt due to the ruthless
destruction ofinsectivorous birds, and
the presence of the worthless English
sparrow Greensboro State.
The hotel on top of Roam Mountain
is built upon the state line, and the
| dining room is in Tennessee while the
drawing room is North Carolina, and
| the bed rooms are in both States.
VIM Carver, Esq, who lives four
miles from Roxboro, sold Wednesday,
July 18th, at Henderson, n. c., at
80, 33, As, II, 80, 55, 50, Is. Average
for five best grades including smok-
ing Jugs s56.37.
Salisbury has made contract for
water-works, paying s2,25O year n.y.
drant rental. Moffett, Hodgkins &
| Clarke of Watertown, n. Y, are the
contractors. Water will be taken
from an immense well.
Last Saturday the 14th of August,
was the ffty-second anniversary of
the first election of sheriffs ever held
in North Carolina. Up to that time
the sheriffs had been appointed by the
rts-lSlatesuiUe Landmark.
Mullets and sheepsheads are now
emerging the attention of our fisher
men on the lower sounds. Fishing is
now an all-the-year-round industry
and supplements our agricultural
work.-Ehzabeth City Economist.
! Caswell Democrats held their coun-
ty convention Saturday and .nomina
ted the following ticket: For the
| Senate, Jack Allen; for the House,
Julius johnson; for Sheriff, B. S.
Graves; for Clerk, J. D. Neal; for
Register, Felix Roam
The receipts of cotton at this place
from September 1, 1885, to Septem-
| Der 1, 1886, amount to 1864 bales.
+! This cotton was all sold out of wagons
ia our merchants and cotton buyers
and not shipped here on the railroad.
Monroe Enquirer and Express.
The Yadkin Falls Manufacturing
Co., in Stanly county, will begin OPP
| erations, we learn, in about ssx weeks,
and will make thread and sheeting
Mr.. VIM. Smith of Ansonville, is Pres
ident, and Mr.. S. j. Pemberton of
Albermarle, Secretary and treasurer.
Mr.. John Spoon, of Alamance
county, who is II years old, sold a
load oftobacco at the Globe warehouse
yesterday. 1t was the first tobacco he
ever raised and the first he ever saw
on a warehouse floor He said if he
had been raising tobacco all his life
he would be as rich as Jay Could
Durham Recorder.
The Prohibitionists of Raldolph
have nominated the following ticket:
For the House, j. G. Fuller and M.
Hammond; for Probate Judge, T. G..
! Worth; for Sheriff, A. L. Marsh; for
Register, H G. Ingram; for Coroner,
| Y. H. Cox; for Surveyor, w. ]. AL.
bright--Raleigh Chronicle.
! We hear much said about the op.
preston of the poor by the rich, but
the tax payers of Cleveland are .heavi
I, ly burdened by jail birds. In. ten days
after Superior Court our Jail had d
dozen prisoners, costing over $50
per month. Thus the law breakers
impose burdens upon the law-abidine
and industrious, Shelby Aurora.
The earthquake phenomenon was
very startling in the mountains O
Mitchell county,, in the vicinity o
the pinnacle of Alacd Mountain
The subterranean rumblings were
tremendous and lasted fifteen minutes
! Immense rocks were moved from
their beds and hurled down the noun
tain sides into the valleys. Peopl,
. fled from their houses to the woods.
, The Presbyterian Synod OF Nortl
Carolina will meet in tho Presbyte
; rian Church in this town on the 5tl
: of October. Preparations are bein.
made by the church officers and GU
citizens to entertain the delegates. L
{ due time the arrangements will b