The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-05-24
CAROLINA NEWS NOTES.
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE OLD
NORTH STATE.
Men and Events.-Persons and Things.
An Epitome of What has Occurred
Since the Last Issue Of The Sentinel.

Men and Events.-Persons and Things.
An Epitome of What has Occurred
Since the Last Issue of The Sentinel.
The "tooth doctors" hold their an
nual convention in Raleigh June 18th
to 10Th.
The Charlotte oil mills are to be
enlarged. 10000 brick have been
ordered for the purpose.
The Mt. Pleasant Grange Fair is
to be held at the Grange Hall, Ca
beautiful place. September 9th to
/ 9Th.
The recidence of Capt. w. T. R.
Bell, at Kings Mountain, was par
TALLY burned Monday. Loss about
$500.
1t is rumored that train of vesti-
bule cars will run between New York
and Asheville twice week during the
| summer.
Three men smoking near powder
keg near Durham-result: 8 badly
scorched and burned bodies, though
none will die.
William Burnes, living near Bur-
lington was seriously cut in the abdo-
men Tuesday, by a negro, who is still
at large.
Col. L. L. Polk has accepted an in
vitation to deliver an address at Trini-
ty College on "The Future of Agri-
culture in North Carolina"
A bold, bad burglar on Monday
night, entered the store of F. M. Sor-
rell, in Raleigh, and stole greenbacks
and silver amounting to about 81, 300.
The new cotton factory at Lexington
is booming. 1t employs 1925 hands.
Mr.. w. E. Holt is proprietor and Mr..
C. A. Hunt foreman. The factory is
making reputation and is a blessing
to the community.
| Five hundred colored people last
week left the line of the Western
North Carolina railroad from Salisbu-
| ry to Asheville for California, under
fair promises of bettering their condi-
tion during the past two weeks.
Four of the colored normal schools
maintained by the State will this year
receive ST. 800 each, and will keep
open nine months. The other school,
at Fayetteville, gets $4,000 year, and
is kept open the same length of time.
Maj. Finger, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, has effected ar
rangements for special rates of fare to
the State Normal Schools. The rate
is about 2 cents per mile for short dis
tances and l cent per mile for long
distances.
Mr.. J. B. Whitaker, Jr., of Colds
boro, a gentleman of considerable
newspaper experience, goes to Dur
which Mr.. j. S. Carr proposes TO con-
vert into daily paper.
Prof. Albert Rouse, late music
teacher of the Charlotte Female IE-
stitute, who dropped dead of heart
disease on the 18th inst, was belieY-
er in the art of cremation, and ac
cording to his expressed wish, his body
was burned to ashes.
Mr.. j. E. Brady formerly of Dav.
idson College, has returned home safe
and sound after six years absence in
Europe. He is a native of Mecklen.
r burg county, and a graduate of the
University of North Carolina. He
has been for some years in Germany
and Greece pursuing certain studies
and has been again graduated with
, distinction.
Miss Alice Give, young lady II
: years of age, daughter of Thornton
Give, who lives in Catawba county
left her fathers house on Saturday ev
ening, the 10Th inst, to pay visit tc
: neighbor's house, short distanc,
s from her home. She walked and haC
e to cross the South Fork river on ,
e foot log, and is supposed to have falleI
), into the river and been drowned as n,
trace of her has been found as yet.
r An official correspondence on tn
s part of Governor Scales, speaking TO
p the people OF North Carolina, ha
been carried on between him and Hon
David Schenck, of Greensboro, look
ing to the publication and distribu
ton of the latter's recent address a
n the celebration of the Guilford Battl
Ground Association. The object is t
spread before the people of North Cal
% olina the bold defense by Judg
" Schenck of our militia during the bat
tie of Guilferd Courthouse, which hs
been the subject of so much unjus
y comment by historians generally.
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