The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-09-25
NORTH CAROLINA IN BRIEF.


Trinity College building this week.
John Latimore, a negro, is in Jail
at Shelby, charged with burglary and
attempted rape.
-Asheville is to have new town
hall at cost of $21, 900, and work
will soon begin.
Only about four miles of track
remain to be laid On the w. and w.
branch road between Tarboro and
k;ns.3n.
Raleigh will put 100000 into her
street railway and treble the present
mileage. Electricity will be the mo-
tive power.
1t is estimated that Allianceman
Rogers, Of Northampton, will carry
Lenoir county by over 600 votes over
Cheatham.
The Southern Pines Chewing
Gum company at Kinston is in full
blast, turning out sweetened stick
rosin by the thousand boxes.
The new shoe factory at Char
lotte is now well under way, and is
making one of the best shoes ever
placed on the market, says the Nesos.
Col. |. A. Sugg, of Greenville,
offers $500 for the best pound of to-
bacco grown in Fit county, proceeds
to 60 to the Oxford Orphan Asylum.
-Edenton expects to have a big
agricultural and fish fair Oct. 2Sth to
31st. A premium list has been issued
which includes 1000 premiums, worth
$4,000.
MIR. j. c. Miller, of Goldshoro, a
very highly educated young man and
a deaf mute, has been elected teacher
in the Deaf and Dumb school at
Raleigh.
The Kinston knitting factory,
which is fast approaching completion,
will turn out shirts, hose, drawers and
other knit goods in large quantities
and fine finish.
The Tarboro Southerner says that
the number of fine cattle in that
county is being increased every year
by additional purchases Of thorough
breds, as fine stock is found to pay.
Last Saturdays Charlotte NeaUs
was six-page paper, full of news. The
prohibitionsists have leased two col
umns for their exclusive use during
the campaign and propose to make it
warm for the liquor men.
Prof. Cain has been authorized
by the trustees of the University to
purchase instruments tor use in his
engineering department to the amount
of $500. A complete school of engin-
eering has been organized.
North Carolina has wild pastur-
age enough to maintain well 100000
sheep. If our legislature would pass
proper dog law for the protection of
sheep this industry would bring mill
lions of dollars to our people.-Ioisnot
Home.
There are 164 North Carolina
soldiers whose graves are without
headstones in the Confederate GENE.
terry at Fredericksburg. Gov. Fowle
calls on the people of the State to raise
a fund to place stones over these
graves.
The Greensboro Progress, a ne
gro organ, says: "Some of Mr.. Brow
er's friends not more than mile from
the United States court house seem
quite anxious to assist us in editing
the Progress. All such aid respect
fnlly declined"
1t is learned that the Lynchburg
& Durham railroad will soon put on
six trains from this place to Lynch
burg-two passenger trains, two local
freights and two through freights.
This, with the other roads, will make
twenty trains a day.-Durham Smm.
South Oxford is to have $780,
900 cotton factory. This has just been
determined upon by the directory of
the Oxford Land, Improvement and
Manufacturing Company. A factory
with an established trade will be Sc
cured, and the land company will sub
scribe $4,000 of its stock.-Oaford
Day.
We forgot to mention the Green's
boro convention last week. Here are
the nominees: For sheriff, j. w. Cook,
Friendship; clerk, J. j. Nelson,
Register, A. G. Kirk
man, Friendship; Senate, Jno. L.
King, Greensboro; House, VIM.
Wiley, Jamestown, and r. K. Denny,
Madison.
The Carolinian has good news about
old Dismal Swamp Canal. The mon
ey has been raised, the contracts
made and active work will begin on
the 1st of October. There will only
be two locks, one at South Mills and
the other at Deep Creek. They will
be made 250 feet long and 40 feet
wide: The depth of the water all the
way through will be 8 feet.-Eliza-
beth City Garoiinidne
"A blockader for some months
past has been doing a pretty lively
business around through the Shelby
selling illicit whisky at
Miller's factory and through the coun-
try in general. Last week, one morn
ing before day, Deputy Collector
Field and Marshal Falls captured Joe
Porteron the Shelby road. His wagon
% gallons of blockade whis-
ky. In bringing Porter to town he
and is probably now in the
Palmetto State. Joe Porter is of the
firm of Porter & Hambright, and has
a government still about four miles