Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-04-29
ALL OVER THE STATE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN NORTH CAR
OLINA.

|
OLINA.
Carefully Culled From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
| Particles.
ROWAN
A Salisbury policeman has couple
of bloodhounds which will enable him
to track thieves.
| The Rowan County Teachers In,
stitute will be opened on the 26th of
July, and continued for two weeks.
Rev. F. j. Murdoch and Pref G. r.
Mcneil are the tutors.
r. M. Davis, of Salisbury has the
contract to furnish forty mattresses of
his own make to Meroney Bros, new
hotel at the Icard Springs.
The new chapel at Blowing Rock,
built by the Presbyterian congrega-
ton of Salisbury, will be dedicated
about the fret of june by DR.. Rum.
pie.
A Salisbury man sent 25 cents in
answer to an advertisement that read
How to raise chickens" The answer
received read, "Sit 81 days on as
many eggs as it is possible to cover"
A firm of Salisbury gentlemen will
begin the manufacture Of baking pow
der. This is the third enterprise of
the kind THE SENTINEL has noted in
North Carolina recently there being
baking powder manufacturers at Fay.
ettville and Lexington.
We learn from the Watchman that
Mr.. c. A. Kraus, has just finished
large painting which will be litho-
grnphed. 1t is birds eye view of the
old Federal prison, or Salisbury gari-
son, as it was sometimes called as it
looked in 1864. The stockads, dead
lines, tents, pits, old factory building
dead house, headquarters, etc, are dis
tinctly shown. The lithograph will
probably be 24x36 inches
A man named Holtshouser was ar
rested near Salisbury recently and
was to have been tried in that place
on the charge of burning the dwelling
barn and outhouses of Mr.. Tobias Ly-
erly, on the 18th inst. A bloodhound
was prt on the track of the incendiary
and the scent led the dog to the house
of Holtshouser, one of Byerly's neigh
bors, who was himself member of the
party following the dog in pursuit OF
the incendiary.
, BUNcoMBE.
Col Frank Coxe's Battery Porter
Hotel, which is being built at Ashe-
vile, will contain when completed 100
rooms and II is estimated to cost
S15O,OOO.
Beautiful white limestone is being
quarried on Crane Creek in Buncombe
county. When Stacked it is snow
E white and is unequalled for white
washing. The Citizen says that a
gentleman recently here from Maine,
, pronounced the samples he saw from
! the same guarries equal to the famous
D Rockland lime which has gained re-
pute all over the country
). HERE AND THERE.
t The residence of Mr.. w. G. Burk.
r head was burned in Goldsboro last
! week.
= In the suit for s25, 900 damages for
= slander at Greenville, the plaintiff was
:. awarded five cents.
r The first Bessemer steel made i'm
+ the South was made at Chattanooga
a April 10Th, of pig iron from the Gran.
!. berry North Carolina) ores. 1t waS
. pronounced excellent.
s The Ashford Curtain Fastene,
t Company has been organized at Clin
t ton, for the purpose of pushing ths
patent recently issued to Mr.. Thos. B
Y Ashford on his metal eyelet and but
a ton holes.
A cyclone passed through Ruther
= ford county week before last. Dwell
ings. barns and fences were blown
: down and large trees up-rooted. A
= number of horses, COWS and sheas
e were killed.
The State Democratic Executivv
Committee have set the 22th of August
= for the time of holding the State Com
vention. That leaves little over tw|
months between the convention am
o the day Of election.
e The Fayetteville Observer has beef
e informed that experts who have care
e fully examined the streams and theil
d surroundings at that point declar,
: that, with the expenditure of littl
n money, the two creeks can be earriee
back to their old channel and fo,s
and be made to form again t
table "Cross-Creek" of olden t
Lewis kilgore will be han
20 Hendersonville on the 7tE day
for the murder of Mat Hendd
white woman. If this execution
u u place at the time appointed it "
: the fifth time that the death pen
has been paid west of the Blue r
s since the war. The Adairs were
y y ed at Hendersonville in 1S70,t
- son at Webster in 1878, CunninY
= !, at Marshall in 1875, and Ha
= = Asheville in 1875, if we remembe
y rectly.
d The State Board of Medic
l. iners meets in New Bernes on
Is of May next. Every prac
in graduating since 1880 has to
examination before this Board, "
Of is composed of DIR. VIM. r. Wo4s
d, Scotland Neck, President; DIR. a
it Knox, Raleigh; DIR. p. L. Muir
s. Morganton; DIR. Frank Duffy
rs Berne DR.. j. A. Reagan,
h. vile; DIR. Willis Ais1ol
a and DIR. w. J. H. Bellamy'
ton. e