The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-09-05
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings in North s'aroiin:s and
Elsewhere.

Happenings in North Carolina and
Elsewhere.
London's great strike is still on
Sam Jones will be in Durham in
October.
Mrs. Senator Vance and son are in
Asheville.
Mr.. HI. E. Norris W II be Chief Mar
shall at the State Fair at Raleigh
Over 1 900 persons have been con-
verted in Robson county this year.
A cable costing 10, 900, 900 is to be
laid between San Francisco and New
Zealand.
Gov. Fowie has consented to open
| the Alamance Fair The Fair opens
the Sth of October
! Hon. j. Z. Campbell has been NOM
mated by the Democratic Convention
| for Governor of Ohio.
1t is reported that Dr. B. +. Dixon
wilt resign the superintendency of the
Oxford Orphan Asylum
The New Workers are preparing a
big reception for Mr.. Chauncey NJ.
Depew when he returns from Europe.
Miss Mamie L. Hatchett has retired
from the editorship of the Oxford
| Orphans Friend, on account of ill
| health.
I The Greensboro Moth State has
changed hands. Messrs. keogh &
| Boyd have retired from the editorial
| SancCum.
| Stanl.v count has voted sub
scliption of $1OO,OOO-to the propos-
ed 1adkin Railroad from Salisbury
to Wadesboro.
There are many believers among
Republican pol.t clans in the rumor-
ed intention of Mr.. Blaine to reti.,e
from the cabinet.
The damage to the State Agr:crl
tural and Mechanical College at RAJ
eigh, by the fire, was not ove.. 81. :
900. Fully insured
Wake Forest College began it's fall
session on Monday, Sept. I'd. One
hundred and eighty students report
ed for duty on the first day.
Mrs W. E. Christian, nee Julia T.
jackson, was buried beside her father,
Gen. Thos. j. (StonewalD jackson,
in Lexington, Va, on Sunday.
1t has not yet been decide wheth-
er the tribe CT Apache Indians
will be located at Sherwood Farm,
Va, or in Cherokee county, n. C.
The Sanford Express says that
Warmers Safe Liver and Kidney Cure
Company has bought 900 acres O
land at Southern Pines, Moore coun
| ty.
The breaks on the Carolina Contra
Railroad, caused by the recent cloud
bursts, have all been repaired, and
trains are running through without
| detention
A little daughter of J. W. White
hurst, of Watauga county, was
scalded to death by falling INTO ket
tie of boiling water. She lived only
fi-3een minutes.
Col. HI. l.. Fry, Il brother of Mr.. J
w. Fry, has been elected to succeed
the late Major Roger Atkinson as
chief engineer of the Cape Fear
4adkin Valley Railway.
Engineers have left Asheviie tc
make reconnaissance of the most ;av
Orable route for railroad connection
| with RutherfOrdton. They arc oeI,t
out by the Three C's railway.
The Board of Trustees of the A. K
NJ College have elected Pros AlexaL-
der Holiday, of the Florida Agricul-
tural College, President. Prof. Hol-
laday is by birth North Carolinian
The Durham .Sun announces that
Sam Jones will be in that city from
Oct. 9th to Oct. 14th. 1t also saate.;
that Prof. E. o. Excel will be pres
ent to conduct the mus c at the meet
ing.
The United States Circuit Court OF
California was officially informed on
the 9th ult. that the charges of mur-
der against Justice Stephen J Field
had been dismissed by the Stock ION
court.
The Democratic candidates on the
State ticket opened the canvass in
Virginia Monday. Capt. Mckinney
spoke at Charlottes, lie, Major Ty er
at Brentsville and Capt. Scott in
! Newborn.
I The Trustees of the State Univer.-
| s'ty at their session in Raleigh on
August goth, elected DR.. Richard
Whitehead, of Salisbury. \. c., Pro
lessor in charge of the Medical De
partment.
Early Sunday morning, upon the
! arrival of an excursion fra in n + Gou1S
bOro, La, fight occurred, in which
400 or 500 shots were fired. One
white man and several negroes were
seriously wounded.
Capt. Robert Ewell was dangerous
ly shot by young man named JOS
eph Taylor. Joseph Taylor had paid
attention to Capt. Ewell's niece and
was notified by the Captain that his
visits must cease.
The Hickory Catawba Industrial
Association will hold its fifth annual
fair at Hickory, n. c., September "a
25, 26, 81, 1889. This is the Oldest
I fair in Western North Carolina, and
has always met with grand success.
A woman in Maine, speaking of the
sudden death of her husband, is re-
ported by the Salem, Mass, Gazette
to have said: "BefOre he died he ate
a gallon of oysters for 500, and
cleared $50 forhis family, his funeral
! only costing SIS
| The present Board of Directors of
the penitentiary has paid off some
| 81, 900 of debts contracted by the
former board in various DartS of the