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

The Durham cotton mills are to
be considerably enlarged.
-Louisburg has three tobacco
warehouses which are selling the weed
daily.
The Republicans of Guilford re
nominated their old county officers
last Saturday.
The bonded debt of Mecklenburg
county, amounting 10 100000, will
be refunded Nov. 1st.
AT recent meeting Of the direc
| tors of the Asheville Natural Gas and
Mining Co. they decided to begin
work soon.
"A man named Carpenter was run
over by the train last week near Cary
and killed. He came from Ilaw River
! and had family.
The Raleigh Neaos and Observer
says that there has been more tobacco
sold there up to date than was sold up
to Christmas last year.
The Cannon Manufacturing Co.,
of Concord. have been shipping shirt
ing to California. North Carolina
goods are beginning to compete with
the world.
North Carolina is the second
State in the number of miles of rail
road constructed in 1889. In ten
years the South has built nearly TO-
900 miles.
Two negroes get into dispute at
Silver Springs and both draw pistols
and "razzers" and proceed to business.
Result: One dead niggerand another
in the lookup.
The Advance says that at the
opening sales of Wilson warehouses
the other day $4,000 pounds of the
! weed were sold at good prices. vii
son is booming as tobacco market.
the work on Salisbury's two
new banks is progressing rapidly, says
the Charlotte Chronicle The Davis
I& Wiley building is nearly completed
and the First National is half finished.
The Progress size Farmer this week
says that the Alliance has abolished
several Congressman this year, and in
Inmates that unless the Sub Treasury
bill is supported it will abolish Some
| more.
-Sylvanus w. Pearce, farmer
living near Louisburg, was shot in
the abdomen by colored bound boy
| last Saturday. Pearce's condition is
critical, and tire boy is in Jail to await
| the result.
Greensboro has struck another
'ile" we'll, it is said, but it is safe to
say that it is not ''spouter." There
appears to be something decidedly
tishy about all this boring Tor gas and
oil in the State.
In the stomach Of mule which
died uear Rolesville, Wake county, one
day last week, was found measured
bushel of sand. The Raleigh cores
pendent of the Wilmington Messenger
suggests that the beast wanted the
earth.
Some Shelby cranks are debating
how the aurora should be run, and
say that the aurora should boom the
town, while these same cranks sit idly
on the streets, discourse. the state Of
the nation and initiate themselves with
gas.--.Shelby aurora.
Deputy collector Of internal reve
nue., Mr.. j. D. Grimsley, informs us
that there are in his division, now in
operation, twenty five fruit and two
grain distilleries From this 1t would
appear that the fruit crop was not
very short after Goldsboro Dis
patch.
Mr. F. L. Banks, who lives in
Pamlico county, turned over plank
few days ago and VAS promptly bit
ten by big 'attlesnake concealed
under it. The Snake had thirteen rat
ties and a button, and Mr.. Banks is
not expected to live, says the New
Berne Journal
The Farmers Alliance has pur-
chased % acres of lad on the North
Carolina railro;,i south Of Salisbury
on which they are laying off a race
course and othery VS.. in Or wing it.
The grounds are t., De uses an an
nual fair or exposition Of Rowan
county products.