Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1878-05-16
NJ. C. Judicial Districts.

1ne nine JUDICIAL DlsCrfctS OF tn0
State. as layed ont by the last Leg.
islatnre, are as follows:
The fst District is composed of the
counties Of Currituch. Camden, Pas
quotank, Perquimans, Chowsn, Hert-
ford, Gates, Washington, Tyrfell,
Dare, HYDE and Pamlico.
The 2l District. the counties Of
Wake, Franklin. Warren. Halifax.
Northampton. Edgec"mbe, Bertie,
Martin, Beaufort and Craven.
The 3d Districts the counties Of
Nash, Wilson, Pi:t, Wayne, Lenoir,
5ones, Carteret. Onslow, Duplip.
Sampson, New Hanover and Pendex.
The 4th District, the counties Of
Harnett, Moore, Arson, Richmond.
Robeson. Columbus. brunswick, Dla,
den, Cumberland and johnson.
The 9th District, the counties Of
Alamancs. Randolph, Gnilford, Chat
ham, Orange, Granville, Person, Css-
well and Rockingham.
The 9th District, the counties Of
Mecklenburg, Caharrus, Stanly. Mont
somery, Union, Lincoln, Castor,
Cleaveland. Rutherford and Polk.
The 7th District. The counties of
Davie, Yadkln, Wilkes. Aleghany,
Surry, Stokes, Forsyth, Davidson
and Rowan.
The 9th District. the counties Of
Cata~ba, Burke, Mcdowell, Yancey,
Mitchell, Watau9a, Ashe, Caldwell,
Alexander and Iredell.
The 9th District, the counties Of
| Grohap, Char,,Eoo Clor Afoooo
Swain, Jackson. Haywood, Transyl-
vania, Henderson, Buneombc and
Madison.
In the 7th, Sth and 9Th Districts
Superior Court Judges arc to be elec.
ted on the let Thursday of August
next by the qualified voters Of the
whole State.
State Solicitors, for each of the nins
Districts, will also he elected on the
1st Thursday of August.
RUSSIA STRIKES ILE.-Tankees
arc to sink wells and refine petro-
leun in the oil=reglons of Rnrsla,
on the western shore of the Caspian
sea. Agents, representing one Of
the wcalthiest firms in St. Peters
burg, have recently made tour of
the oil. regions of Pennsylvania,
and have purchased and shipped to
Russia all the machinery necessary
tor drilling and sinking wells. To
operate this machinery nnmber Of
4 experienced oll-drilers have been
engaged, at the head of whom 10
George Adams, OF Oil City. These
men are TO be paid large sums in
gold. The Caspian oil-wells aver
age about six hundred feet i'll depth,
and produce daily from forty to two
hundred barrels each. The oil 10
very heavy, having n specific gravity
Of thirty, and is comparatively free
from sediment. 1t has tn be carried
many hundred miles mp the Cas-.
plan sea and the Volga river to
) Novgorod, whence it has to be ship
ped by rail to st. Petersburg. The
cost of transportation has been SO
heavy that American oil has always
: been sold at lower rates than Rus
sian oil. The Czar, realizing what
All important industry can be crc-
, stcd in this country by fostering the
, development of it's oil territory, has
, directed the imposition of tax
equivalent to $3.50 barrel on all
foreign oil.
HEnDERBoNviIt Era Friday
; las: posse of Revenue officials
,. from Greenvillc, S. c., made their
raid into this county, III search ol
"moonshincrs." They were under
the guidance of the notorious Bill
3 Spring, who has quit his evil ways,
Q and been commissioned Deputy
, Marshal. The posse ca,nc across
: an illicit still in the vicinity of the
: old Stockade, destroyed it and cap
}. tured two or three of the "moon-
Y shiners," whom they proceed to
i to bind with ropes, and started te
: run into South Carolina. Two Of
the posse, named respectively Rl-
: fus Springs "a brother OF Bill1A and
9 Rufus Goslin, were ordered to, cut
= and destroy the still. The mair
body had not gone far besore hear
. ing shot in the direction uf the
II still. Returning they found Rufus
. Springs dead, he having been sho
{; through the back, and Rufus Cos
/; lin dubbed nearly to death. Alarm
q ed for their safety, they released
their prisoners, took mp their deat
= ard wounded eolnrads and retreat
= ed. The tsmoonshiners" bitterl,
z resent the treason, as they call it
q of the Springs, and have threatene'
- their lives whenever an opportuni-
ty occurs.
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