Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-02-21

FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
Items of General Interest ON North Car
olina Topics.

We were at Company Shops one
day last week and were shown through
the new mill by Mr.. w III. Turren-
tine,. the president of the compa-
ny. There are one hundred plaid
looms, ninety-fve of which we're run
ming at the time referred to. Each
loom averages product of about fifty
yards daily. This makes the thirteenth
cotton mill in operation in this county
during the spring, while others will
be Increased in capacity, and probably
others built before the close of the
year. Truly Alamance is a manufac
turing Graham Cleaner.
There is an old lady living enc mile
from Pineville, in this county, who has
a relic that ought to go to the State
Exposition. Her name is Clarissa
Meekly, and she is about so years old.
When CORVALLIS passed through
Mecklenburg, beef was killed at her
house for his Lordship's dinner, and
the father of the then young lady had
the skin carefully dressed, and it has
since been used as bed cover. Mem
bers OF the family have slept under it
nightly ever since and it is yet none
the worse for wear.-Char. Observer.
The four pound nugget of gold al
luded to and which was found in
Montgomery county, though remarka-
BILE, is hardly circumstances when
compared to the nugget which was
found at the Reid mine in Cabarras
county, 4. c., a number of years ago.
The nugget i'll question weighed 2S
pounds, and for a long while 1t was
used as prop for a dwelling house
door, the occupants being unaware Of
its value This is fact well authen-
ticated.- d.-Atbcmarle Obserrer.
Mr.. J. C. McCandless has made an
offer to the Gold Hill Company to
lease the Barnhart Shsft-mine and
mill the ore and pay the company one
half Of the gross proceeds. This is
the shaft from which Mr. Nc
Candies and others made S180.0G0 on
q thirty months run, and this is why
he wants it again. The money was
made on Chillian and drag mills, and
they will be used again after the stamp
mill, if the company accepts the offer.
-.Salisbury Watchman.
Messrs. w. II. Whetmore and E. P.
Parker, of Thomasville, and nj. A.
Angler, of Durham have leased thirty
convict. at the State penitentiary for
ithe purpose of manufacturing shoes.
They have purchased the latest and
most improved machinery and will
manufacture the best coarse shoes in
large quantities. They have already
commenced operations and are turn
ing out $50 pairs day.-Durham
Plant
Kings Mountain has now bonan-
"a and the citizens are enthusiastic on
tin mines. DIR. David Macarthur has
control of copper deposit four miles
from the tin bonanza We have seen
several large and good specimens of
copper ores easily worked. The out
crop indicates rich bed, and under
skillful machinery and enterprise this
mine, which is not refractory ore,
would be valuable. Shelby aurora.
We understand, that it is the pur-
pose Of Mr.. Blocker and his Northern
associates, who recently purchased
from the State 400 acres of the Great
Swamp in this county, to drain the
lands thorugh a canal cut to Lumber
river, and if that fails then to cut one
through to Cape Fear river. The es-
mated cost of draining these lands, as
we hear, is from 100000 to 800, 900.
-Lalmberton Robesoniaa.
A young son of Hon. R. r. Bridgers
President of the w. & w. Railroad,
is an apprentice in the machine shops
of that excellent road, and fares like
all apprentices generally do.-Golds-
6oro Aessenqer.