The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-05-31
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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.
Goldsboro is to have a shoe factory.
Wilmington is to have an extensive
cotton seed oil mill.
Wilmington is to have an extensive
cotton seed oil mill.
Bishop Cranberry will preside at
the next North Caroline conference.
The yorn~ re of Toisnot enjoy.
ed a picnic at Mr.. w. r. Carriers last
Tuesday.
Revs. Sam Jones and Sam Small
will lecture in Durham some time in
September.
Oxford has $500 or more inhabi-
tants, and in March there was not
single death.
The Wayne county agricultural
works have been incorporated with a
capital stock of SIS, 800.
Winston and Durham are hand in
hand. They are both going to have
tobacco fairs next fall, and they are
both going to celebrate new railroads.
Official reports show that the catch
of shad in the Cape Fear and Black
and Northeast rivers during the past
season aggregated S6,799. The Cape
| Fear shad are the finest in the known
world.
An occurrence in Craven county
last week Shows that age and romance
are not incompatible. A couple of
lovers, each aged rs years, ran away
and had themselves married. Their
grand parents objected to the match.
A company has been organized in
Goldsboro for the manufacture of
farming implements. The capital
stock is $4,000 and the company has
been Incorporated under the name of
the Wayne Agricultural works.
The Shelby Ne,c Era says the stock.
holders of the Cherokee Falls Manu-
featuring Company decided to in
crease their capital stock to $125,00O
and to add two thousand spindles at
once to their work. The business for
past year has been eminently satis-
factory.
A friend, writing to the Charlotte
Observer about the recent election to
Professorships in the South Carolina
College, at Columbia, of Prof. Atkin-
son, Mr.. Randall and Mr.. Whitney,
| all of North Carolina, truly remarks
"a true story, what we lose others
gain-North Carolina prepares work.
men for jobs elsewhere"
The Asheville Citizen says Mr..
Robert Lee Longstreet, son of Gen
eral Longstreet, and member of the
U. S. Geological Survey, is in the city
stopping at Battery Park. He will
be joined in few days by John w.
Hayes, Esq, of the same department,
and together they will make survey
of the mineral deposits of Western
North Carolina.
A correspondent of the Hillshttu-
Recorder quotes an Orange county
man as saying, when he heard that
White, Releigh bank thief, had said
that Notwithstanding all his vicissi-
tudes he had not lost his religion,
"Well, if such religion as that will
save man, the devil had Just as well
shut up shop and rent out hell for
goose pasture"
The Charlotte Chronicle says: Our
new railroad to Weldon is IAN assured
fact. 1t is to be built. and no time
is going to be lost about it. A meet
ing of the railroad committe of the
Chamber of Commerce was held yes
terday, and the contract for the sur
vey of the entire lire from Charlotte
to Weldon was given out. Captain
John S. Webb chief engineer Of the
Gees company, secured the contract.
He is TO furnish his own men and is to
begin work on or before the first day
of June.
The Anderson InteLigencer says,
ga few nights ago a gentleman who
had just undressed and prepared for
bed, blew out the lamp on the table
and was cropping his way across the
room, when feeling for the bed his toe
struck something cold and plant.
The thing seemed to open its mouth
as the gentleman put the weight of
his foot upon it, and he jerked up his
foot in double quick time, while the
thing held its hold and dangled from
his toe. There was lively dancing
around the darkened room, and the
man made lively racket with his
mouth till he succeeded in Singing
| the thing across the ROOM" 1t prev
ed to be his wife's hustle.
There will be excursion trains from
Raleigh to Chapel Hill, and Greens
boro to Chapel Hill, and return, on
Wednesday, June 9th, at the usual re-
duced rates. Our people will have the
opportunity of hearing our able Judge
Walter Clark deliver the annual ad-
dress, and the Bacalauraeate sermon
by the eloquent Baptist divine, Rev.
DIR. Wayland Hoyt, of Philadelphia.
Old students of the university can at
tend the called meeting of the Alumni
association on the same day. The spe-
cial train leaves Raleigh at o'clock
a. M, and returning, arrives at Ra-
leigh at 9:10 p. m.; will leave Green's
boro at o'clock u. m, and returning,
will arrive at Greensboro at $40 D. M.
1 Traina will sf0p of s.d1 snfarr,a1,oto