The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-09-04
SEPTEMBER f. 1890.
NORTH CAROLINAIN BRIEF,

Rev. j. E. McManaway, of Char
lotte, will hereafter travel with Bill
Fife and assist him in his revivals.
The Concord Daily STANDARD"
has been sued for libel by the Cabarrus
county officers $4,000.
Beginning with October 1, the r.
Il d. Co. will run train of solid YES
tibuled Pullman cars between Wash
ington aud Atlanta---z s
The track laying on the Yadkin
Railroad is progressing very rapidly.
miles from Salisbury.
-C,l. L. L. Polk has been elected
| President of the American Farmers
Association which lately convened in
session at Reading Pa.
The First Presbyterian church of
Greensboro has let the contract for
new church building to Porter &
Goodwin, of Goldsboro.
Mrs. Mary Boyd, accused of rob-
bing the mails at Bilesville was
bound over to United States Court at
Statesville in the sum of 81, 900 on
Friday.
DR.. Grissom has published card
| anent the Denver interview in which
he says that his statements were exag-
gerated as applied to North Carolina
politics, but intimates that they are
correct as regards South Carolina.
Mrs. Chas. McIver, wife of Prot.
McIver who held the Institute here
several weeks ago, will be the lady
principal at the Charlotte Female In
stitute this winter. Mrs. Alderman
was unable to fill the position on ac-
count of i'll health. Charlotte Chron-
icle.
The Charlotte Chronicle employs
a lady reporter, Miss Addie Williams.
The Wilmington Messenger recogni-
zes the admirable work woman can
do on the local side of a paper and
proposes to employ lady reporter for
society events during the fall and win
ter months.
Concord has. one of the largest
cotton factories in the South, just COM
pleted at the cost Of half million dol
lars, and the foundation of the Monroe
Cotton Mills has been laid, and work
has already commenced. The main
building is 800 by 80 feet, and the
work will be pushed as rapidly as pos
sible
The iron mines at Chapel Hill
are to be reopened and operated on an
extensive scale by a syndicate, the
principal members of which are we'll
known railway men Nine years ago
these mines were opened, but for some
cause work was soon suspended,
though the ore is of great purity and
easily accessible.
The Raleigh letter of the Durham
Globe says: Col. Bennehan Cameron
was here yesterday, and he brought
news that the Albemarle and Raleigh
railway is to be extended here, and
from here to Durham. The road has
for two or three years been at halt
in the woods at Springhope, Nash
county, about twenty two miles from
here. OF course it was always only a
question of time when it would be ex-
tended here.
The Cabarrus Democrats have
nominated the following ticket: A. H
Hileman, for the House; ]. G. Gibson,
for clerk of court; John K. Patterson
. for register of deeds; L. NJ. Morrison
for sheriff, j. H. Long for surveyor
T. A. Sims, for treasurer; E. F. White
cotton weigher; M. G. Walter, for cor.
oner.
Resolutions of instruction to vote
for Vance 'first, last and all the time
were adopted.
Mr.. w. H. Worth, State business
agent of the Farmers Alliance, tells
me that no jute bagging is being han
died by his agency this season. He is
purchasing in New York sugar sacks
and sacking. Of this the sub-Alli
ances are taking immense quantities
He does not handle the pine straw
bagging, as he could not procure
enough OF it to meet all the orders
many of which are pressing. He tells
me he is also supplying good many
groceries and fertilizers.
{ Oxford Day: "Who is Charles H
Moore, nominated for Congress from
this district as the colored mems can
didate ?" asked a reporter of the Dag
of the most prominent ofOxford's col
}, ored citizens. "He is good man" was
the reply; zone of the best colored mer
we have in the State. He is in the
race to stay. He is not of the kline
who can be bought to run by one side
or bought off by the other. We do moi
expect to elect him. but we are de
termined that Brewer shall be de
feated.',
The people OF Lexington are
much incensed by an assault commit
ted on boy about Is years old by j
M. Flemming, a drummer for E. A
Saunders & Son of Richmond. The
drummer was at the depot waiting fol
the train, and being guyed by the boy
promptly sprang at him and inflicted
severe chastisoment with rawhide
whip. The people insist on his being
given the full penalty of the law
$4,000 fine and three months in Jail
He has given bond for his appearance