The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-08-30
CAROLINA NEWS NOTES.
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE OLD
NORTH STATE.

w ia l. Is dAPPENING IN THE OLD
NORTH STATE.
Items of Interest Gathered From the
Sentinel's Exchanges and Boiled
Down for Its Busy Readers.
The tobacco season has about end
ed at Asheville.
Frost and ice at Bl wing Rock FIJI
day, SO the papers say.
The Colored Fair will be held at
Raleigh Monday, September oath.
The Elizabeth City Fair will be
held on the 18th, 18th and 18th of
October.
The first through train from Ok
ford to Durham was run Tuesday of
last week.
Wilmington has an artesian we'll
405 feet Geep aud the drilling goes on
vigorously.
Asheville's cigar factory, n. I.
Sherman, proprietor has been moved
to Greenyillc, 5. G.
r. L. McNiell tried at Moore Court
| ioi tiiC iiiuiNcl vi w III. JdCRSoU AT
Carthage four years ago, was acquit-
ted
The Elizabeth City Fatcon says the
only Republican flag in that town
floats from their headquarters-the
county Jail.
Morehead City had two conventions
this week. On Monday the Tobacco
men met and on yesterday the Demo-
cratic Clubs
Last Saturday 1,401 casks spirits
turpentine were shipped from Viii
mington to GLASGOW, Scotland The
Messenge. says it was valued at S23,.
700
The Oxford Ne,cs is young can
didate for public favor. The SENT
MEL knows its editor, Mr.. Abe Ven
able, and believes his ability insures
success.
A great time is expected in Dur-
ham, Oct. 10th and 18th, on the occa-
sion OF the Tobacco Exposition. Sun
set Cox and Jno. w Daniel have
promised to be there
The 18th Annual Fair of the North
Carolina State Agricultural Society,
will be held at Raleigh October 16-
10, 1888. There are premiums
amounting to over $4,000
The yellow fever case at tioldsboro
was almost a joke. The man is We !.
Traius are running through, 50 Mr..
Cooke tells TIE SENTINEL nnd
Morehead City is open to the State.
The Greensboro Patriot says the
Joel Shipman place, IAN extensive
farm of about 400 acres on Deep
River, was purchased at public sale
Mcndy, by Mr. J n Nelson, for the
sum of $4,000.
John Carver and Berry League were
playing cards and drinking mean
whiskey at AshevilIe Carver was
carved until his entrals hung out
They think he will die League was
slightly cut in the head.
The man who was at one. time
thought to be Scott Partin was re-
ported to be heir to large fortune
This too is mistake He is simply
; poor, vulgar Irishman and is still
in Raleigh. Thus endeth the Com
edy Of Errors.
Mr. Thad Jones tells THE SENTI
MEL that Greensboro Female College
never had such "A promising opening
Thr young ladies are rolling III on
every train THE SENTINEL is glad
to know it. Greensboro College is
one of the best.
According to the Citroni le the cot
ton fields Of Mecklcnburg are getting
white. The farmers of that county
say that the plants of this season are
generally small, but unusually vel
fruited and u larger crop than had
been anticipated will be realized
The date set for the unveiling of the
monument Of the late Capt. Randolph
A. ShotweIl, in Oakwood Cemetery al
Raleigh is October 3. That is the
anniversary of the day when judge
Bond sentenced Capt Shotwell to the
Albany renitentiary, upon his convic
tion as a Kuklux The monument
will be of granite, about 20 feet ii
height, and will cost some $3.50.
Goldsboro is OH the eve of gigant
ic sensation Some parties who have
been digging wells for an ice factory
discovered at some distance under
ground what they believed to be trac
es OF al extinct volcano. Prof. Holmei
ofthe University, was sent fer to visi
the phenomenon and make an investi
CATION oi it, which he did. He hsl
returned to the University and ha
not yet made a report of his observa-
, tions, but will do so IN few days
. The trustees of Wake Forest Col
!. lege have elected Prof B. F. Sledd, o
, Virginia, to the chair Of modern AN
guages. He comes highly recommen
; ded from Washington and Lee an,
> John Hopkins Universities, John
r Hopkins now has representatives il
all the leading colleges in the State
Prof Richmond Harding at David
son, Prof. j. L. Armstrong at Trinit,
: Prof. B. F. Sledd at Wake Forest an
: Profs. j. w. Gore and j. L. Love a
!, the University.
f Well, Well! Zebulon Vsnce Wa
{ ser, Republican nominee for the Hous
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