The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-10-26
STATE NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered I'm the Ola
North State.

18th, Goth, 9th and 2Sth.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Raleigh Street Railway Company.
Col. G. w. Sharpe, of Statesville,
was killed by train on the Western
n. G. road.
A proposition is pending to build
knitting mills at Ashevllle employing
5000 hands.
The f1remen of Newbern are worked
up over an attempt to destroy their
steam engine.
In Chatham county the farmers
have made a considerable quantity
OF sorghum this year.
Asheville has something new in the
drug business, in the way of drug
store conducted by colored people.
The corner stone of the new NJ. E.
church. now in course of erection on
the corner of Ashe and West Market
streets, Greensboro, was laid recently.
The Concord Railway will be sold
at public auction on Monday. Nov
9th. The sale will include all proper
ty of the company, right of way, fran
chise, etc.
The Marietta & North Georgia
railroad, which runs up into the pan
handle of Western North Carolina, is
to be sold for its debts on the Goth of
November.
Two extra surfmen are to be placed
on duty at Cape Fear life-saving sta
tion at once. Two extra men will
soon be added to the Oak Island life.
saving crew.
Rev. Mat. Fl. Moore, an able North
Carslinian, author of an useful and
entertaining work, has just been
made a presiding elder in the Mis-
souri, conference.
Annual meeting of the North Caro-
lima Confederate Veterans Associa-
tion of North Carolina will be held in
tue FAIR grounds of Raleigh on Thurs
day, the 10Th, at noon.
Four hundred persons have made
application for admission into the
State Normal and Industrial school
Greensboro, and still other applica-
tions are going in daily.
r. II. Battle, of Raleigh, declining
a reelection, j. S. Carr, of Durham,
was elected President of the State
Agricultural Society. Ii. w. Aver
was reelected Secretary.
MIR. L. L. Jenkins, formerly of Char
lotte, but who has been in the bank
ing business in Gastonia for several
years past, is moving to establish Il
national bank in Wilmington.
The North Carolina Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, will convene in Wilmington
December 9th. The meeting will be
held at Fifth street church.
Walnuts are very scarce this year,
and hickory nuts are not plentiful,
but we learn that the chestnut crop
in the mountains is an unusually
large one, says the Newton Enter
prise.
The people around Lexington make
their fruit an item of profit to them.
The Dispatch estimates that 10000
pounds of dried fruit have been ship
ped this season by the merchants Of
that place.
1t would be Il great convenience if
the several county authorities in
Western North Carolina would have
sign boards put up at all important
crossings and forks of road, so as to
make the travel of strangers more
easy and certain.
The Wilkesboro News says: The
finest hay we have ever seen is now
being baled in Ashe county by j. S.
Foy, of Winston. 1t is the first that
has ever been baled in this county,
and is better by far than that which
has been shipped here.
The Wilmington Messenger of
Thursday says: A telegram was re-
ceived yesterday announcing the
death of Rev. j. T. Finlayson, of the
North Carolina Conference, M. E.
church, South. He was stationed at
Roper City, n. G. He was a good
man and good preacher.
The Washington correspondent of
the Charlotte Observer says: 81 hear
| on highly respectable authority some
startling news about the EliaS-Sim-
| mons matter, but await the slow
course of events for confirmation. A
correspondent should not be ''too pre-
vious" in these weighty matters"
Mr.. S. A. Hensey, of the Egypt coal
mines in this State, says: The coal
outlook at our mines is better than
| ever before. We have nearly compile
| ted and will have in use within sixty
days holsting engine with capacity
| of l 900 tons in ten hours. The quail
| ty and quantity of the coal improve as
we go down.
| The Charlotte News says: Chief OF
| Police Mason reports the city fairly
J alive with tramps. They are working
their way south in search of employ
ment. Most of them are mill men,
but there is a sprinking of mechanics,
| printers and representatives of other
trades thrown out of employment by
the industrial stagnation in the
| North.
The Greensboro Record says: To
bacco In this part of the country is
exceedingly poor. Some hope was en-
tertained after the August storm
that it had not been badly injured
and for a while it appeared that the
damage was not very great, but since
it has been put up for curing it is dis
covered that something is radically
wrong. 1t is impossible to cure it.
Col. W. Fl. S. BurgwYn, of Hender
son, United States bank examiner
says that after travelling in all th'
Southern States. he has reached tn,
conclusion that in none are the people
better off than in North Carolina: il
fact, he thinks they are in better con
dition. Large farms in some States
once worth $40 an acre, are now giveI
up to tenants and the owners are il
the towns.
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