Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-04-01
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NEWS OF THE WEEK IN NORTH CAR
OLINA.



Carefully Culled From Our CotsnporsFtes
and Compressed Into Small
Particles.
e,.ar LINCOLN.
All the inmates Of the Lincoln coun.
ty Jail have measles.
Miss Bette Hovis, of Lincoln coun.
ty was bitten in both hands by mad.
dog last week. A maidstone was at
once applied. 1t adhered ten hours
to ohe hand and six to the other.
'Old Sorrel." Stonewall Jacksoa's
horse which died recently at Rich.
mond, was kept until a year ago by
Rev. DR.. Morrison, the Generate
tether-in-law. WHO lives near loves
The first looms ever built in the
South were put up at John Hoke's
Machine Shops at Lincolnton in 184S
or ~. Mr.. Hoke manufactured 40
looms and used them in his cotton
mills. In addition to these looms, the
Hoke shops made all the wool-carding
machines, axes and mill irons used in
Western North Carolina.
a ats, FRANKLIN.
Three Franklin county people all
Of one family, and whose total ages
made 205 years walked q mile to
church recently.
A Franklin county man owns pot
that MAS buried containing valuables
when Gen. Cornwallis invaded North
Carolina during the Revolution.
Alexander Puddy, in the 64th year
Of his age, died in Franklin county,
March 7th. He was a private in Capt.
]. ]. Davis Company. 47th N. C..
Regiment.
DR.. ]. K. Rufin, former citizen of
Graham, but now of Wilson, was mar
ried to Miss Nina w. Rufin, at her
home in Louisburg. on the evening Of
the Srd ulto.
In tho lower part of Franklin coun-
ty. on the old JeArey's plantation, a
rock rises almost psrpendicularly for
fifteen or twenty feet, is almost circu-
lar in form with fat top fifteen feet
across. Into this rock tomb was
hewn and a marble slab marks the
resting place of the remains of some
one named Jeffreys.
a.ss CRAVEN.
A cod fish weighing about pounds
was caught in Neuse river about five
miles above New Berne, recently.
The canning establishment at New
Berne is in full blast. Three thousand
bushels of oysters were gotten in few
days ago.
The she'll roads in New Berne ar
blowing away 50 badly that tho Jour
nal suggests sprinkling machines t.
keep them in place.
! NEW HANOVER
Sylvester Pope, of Marion, 8. G..
has been jailed in Wilmington. charg
cd with bigamy. He was arrested un
der bench warrant and q requisitioI
of the Governor of N. G.
| Died in Wilmington, March 10th
Mrs. Susan ]. Alderman, aged 8;
years. She was q member of the Pres
byterian church. She was the mothe
| Of Prof. e. A. Alderman, the scholar
ly Principal Of the Goldsboro Grades
School.
| A Board consisted of Commodor
Meade. OF the U. s. Steamship Dol
phin, U. 8. Naval Constructor Webt
of Boston, and p. G. Asserson, Chic
Engineer. U. S. Navy, appointed b
Secretary Whitney, have been in Wi
mington investigating the method @
treating timber for its preservation b
the Carolina Oil and Creosote Comps
ny of that city.
The Hebrews of Goldsboro wi
build a synagogue.
Tho February term Of Wayne Su
, perior Court cost the county $4, 900.
A four-yeer-old child Of Matthe'
Jones, in Grantham's township, Wayn
county, was seriously and perhaps Fl
tally burned, by its clothing takin
. fire one day last week.
i I
An elm tree in Rockingham has
:. tin can embedded in its trunk, dashe
there by the 'S4 cyclone.
) Laurinburg merchants threaten
: boycotte the houses represented b
: two drummers whose bad conduct di
: turbed recent services in the Meth
, dist church in that place.
HERE AND THERE.
Mcdowell county is enjoying gol
: fever.
The fisheries in Croatan Sound a
n doing poorly in consequence of the i
d and cold. Tne nets in the still low
sounds are doing we'll.
Mrs. Sarah Benton, of Anson cou
ty, has a three-year-old hound viii,
v she sends IL miles to the post-ofice f
# her mail. The dog has never lost
# paper or letter yet.
!. A Fayetteville colored man is a 3
= MUS at carving, having become pro
: cient in the art while in Mexico.
- has an autograph letter from VIM.
! = Vanderbilt enclosing cheque for :
= for . walking cane.
Some mouths ago q woman nam
!. Barbara Gray mysteriously disapps'
., ed from her home, near Tarboro. 4
:. - efforts to find the missing wom
3 proved futile until Friday. Her bo
y was found 600 yards from her hous