The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-09-11
WINsToN-sALEn1, N. G., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER H. 1890
NORTH cARoLINAIN BRIEF.

NORTH CARoLINAIN BRIEF.
Raleigh has three tobacco ware
houses and two plug factories in oper-
alton.
The oyster canning factory at
New Berne is getting ready for big
fall trade.
There are 1923 cotton and wooden
mills in the State IAN increase of IA
since last year.
-Greenbaum & Co., of Baltimore,
will establish an extensive oyster can
merry at New Berne.
Allen & Ginter, of Richmond,
are building two more large tobacco
stemmeries in Henderson.
j. V. Lee, a Wake Forest stu.
dent, while handling pistol carelessly
shot himself in the foot. He went
home.
The State Convention of Demo-
cratic Clubs meets in Raleigh, Sept.
4th. Cleveland and other distinguish
ed men have been invited.
The Panacea Springs, which
has been bought by Stock Company,
will be opened up and the water prop
erly placed on the market.
Mr.. Victor Umphreys, the yourg
gentleman whom Hon. j. S Hender-
son appointed as cadet to West Point,
failed to pass the physical examina-
tion.
The dead body Of Mr.. Frank L.
Bond, of Tarboro, was found in Tar
river, eight miles from Washington on
Aug. 29lh. He is supposed to have
committed suicide.
Two ladies al Wrightsville were
carried out by the undertow while in
surf bathing aud were rescued in an
uncons cious condition by rhos. NJ.
Webb and others.
"A wealthy northern gentleman,
Mr.. Bostwick, has proposed to give 50
for every 81 subscribed in North Car
olina, for the further endowment of
Wake Forest college.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College opened its fall session with
bright prospects. About 100 students
are in attendance. Several new forges
are to be erected at once.
The Nash county Alliance has
set apart Friday Sept. 18th, as day
Of thanksgiving and prayer for the
purpose of acknowledging gratitude
and thankfulness for the prospect of a
bountiful harvest.
The Industrial Manufacturing
company, of Wilmington, is making
veneering for orange boxes for the
Florida trade. This week they ship
$4,000 timed butter dishes to New
York by steamer.
Col. A. B. Andrews, second vice.
president of the t. & D. railroad sys-
tenn, was in Stanly county last week
looking after the building of the Yad-
kin railroad. Eight hundred hands
are at work, and by spring the rail-
road will be completed from Salisbury
via. Aibemarle to Norwood, near the
Pee Dee and Rocky rivers, a distanc of
forty one miles Concord Times.
Last night about 9 o'clock, while
Prof. v. Kneringer and his daughter
were in the front lower room of their
house on Charlotte street, a thief en-
tered the back door, which was un-
locked, and passing up stairs went in
to Miss KEeringer's room and took
800 gold watch and $3.50 out of
pockeLbook and left. The police were
notified, but so far have no clew.-
Asheville Citizen
Raleigh correspondent Durham
Globe: Among the recent gifts to
Trinity College, at Durham. is cash
one sufficient to build and equip a
first class school of mechanical en-
for the special purpose of
training young men for the professions
of practical machinists, electrical en-
gineers and master mechanics. This
school will have four years course
of study and shop work.
The secretary of the North Caro-
lima Agricultural society says that the
coming fair will embrace new features
of special interest to the farmer, the
mechanic and educator. Amusements
will not be neglected. Negotiations
have already been completed for some
of the best and most unique entertain
ments ever offered to the public on
similartoccasion, and the groands will
be crowded with shows and curioslties.
"A railroad hand named Barclay
entered the house of Mrs. Gray, in
Wilkes, last week ordered out and be-
gan firing upon Mr.. Gray, son of Mrs.
Gray. Mr.. Gray went to a neishbor's,
procured gun, and filed the fellow
full Of bird shot. Ba.c clay has been car
ried to the camps per order of the
County Commissioners, and his leg
which received the volley of shot am
putated. He is in a very critical con-
dition-
The stone cutters sent here by
Capt. w. II. Smith Of Wilmington to
get out brownstone for the Greenville,
S. c., postoffice building are making
progress. A huge derrick has been
erected. and large boulders weighing
four or five hun ired pounds are lifted
out of the bed of a ravine aud dressed,
ready to go into the building. The
quantity Of the stone appears to be in
exhaustible and the cutters pronounce
the quality admirable. The color is
red gray. The artists with their CHS
els are also carving and engraving the
stone at the quarry. This work Is be-