The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-13
CAROLINA NEWS NOTES,
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE OLD
NORTH STATE.

Wake county makes three thousand
bales of cotton.
Three tobacco factories are being
built in Oxford.
Caswell comfy will vote on her
railroad October 3Oth.
The Cabarrus county Fair opens at
Concord on October 9th.
There were 80 deaths in Raleigh
township during the month of August.
The young mems Christian associa-
tion at Tarboro has receptions every
month.
The Parish Warehouse Company at
Durham has been organized with a |
capital of 100000.
1t is said that Hon. Allen G. Thur
man will probably speak in North Car
olina during the campaign.
A special Pullman car loaded with
girls passed through Greensboro last
week, for Staunton, Va, Female
College.
Prof J. II. Hill has been appointed
Superior Court Clerk Of Iredell in
place of the absconding Clerk, j. B.
Connolly.
Orange county has a new post Of
flee called Joppa, located at Ridge
Chnrch and John F. Thompson is
| post master.
The Charlotte Chronicle has been
bought by strong joint stock compa-
ny which starts with capital stock
of S30,s00.
! 1t is stated that $4,000 cases of wa
ter will be shipped from the Bromine
! Arsenic Spring, Ashe county, during
this year.
A man living in Beaufort county
has watermelon vine that has on it
twelve melons that average thirty
| pounds each.
The Northern Conference of the
North Carolina Synod, will meet in
St. Enoch's Church, Rowan county,
Sept. 2Sth inst.
Crops east of Colds boro are very
poor. Col. John Robinson, Commits
sioner of Agriculture, says he never
saw them worse.
The Holston annual conference of
the M. E. Church South, will meet
at Asheville on Wednesday, October
Sd, Bishop Hargrove presiding.
A joint stock CO npany has been
formed at Morganton for the purpose
of building hote! with sixty rooms
with all the modern conveniences.
Wilmington has spider which
writes the word Wilmington" in his
web. The Reoteao has seen it and
pronounces the penmanship very
good.
Several of the State papers are cal
ling on the farnars to plant more
largely of Irish potatoes, because
''they are scarce always and must be
brought into the State from abroad.
The wedding fever is raging in the
vicinity of Bridgewater, and if all the
marriages that are reported take pl ace
Register Estes viii have harvest and
pound cake will be plentiful this fall
-Morgdratox Star.
Murphy, Cherokee county, has ex.
!, tended an invitation to all refugees
!, from the yellow fever to come and
abide there until the danger is past
and arrangements are being made to
!, convey to Murphy all who desire tc
accept the hospitable invitation.
t Gov. Scales has telegraphed to DIR
Mitchell, of Jacksonville, Florida, that
e he and the council of State had decid
L ed that they had no authority in rela,
tion to granting permission to parties
from the fever districts to locate il
. Western North Carolina, such author
ity being vested to the county ant
town authorities.
At the residence of the brides par
ents, in Salisbury, last Wednesday at
ternoon, Mr.. F. B. Arendell, of the
:. firm of Page 81 Arendell, of Raleigh
] led TO the hymenial altar Miss Bessi,
E. Holmes, one Of Salisbury's faires
and most accomplished daug ghters, tn,
Rev. G. w. Byrd, of the M. E. Church
officiating.
The executive committee of tn
q state Farmers Alliance has ordere,
n the bonds of all its officers to be just
O. fed. That of the treasurer is fixed a
t $4,000; of the secretary, $4,000; @
( the State trustee for the State ALI
Y ance business agency fund, $4,000
I and of the State business agent, $50
n 900. Annnal salary of the truste
$ has been fixed at 81 900, and that @
/. the State business agent at 81 800 fo
d the present.
q A Cleveland county octogeaa.iar
l. Harwood Harmon, celebrated hi
e birthday ON Sunday, and six of hi
y children and 27 of his grand -ehildre
q were present to wish him much haf
=. piness. Forty five enjoyed a goo
n dinner under the old walnut tree i
Ii the front yard. Not many can. cell
le brate the advent of four score yea
e and be able to pillow all summer,
hos Mr IT Horp,o,, He oox,o La m