The weekly sentinel., 1886-06-24
ALL OVER THE STATE.
NEWS OF THK WEEK IN NORTH CAR
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Particles.
GRANVILLE.
The wheat, oat and corn crops of
Granville county are very promising,
the farmers report.
Oxford and Oxford township on
Thursday the 10th inst, voted almost
unanimously a donation of 100000 to
the Oxford s. Clarksville railroad
company.
JACKSON.
jackson county has authorized the
building of So, 900 court house.
Mr.. John Henly was fatally injur-
ed in jackson county Thursday, by
being thrown from a hand-car.
There was over $4,000 illegal taxes
collected from the people of Jackson
last year In other words there was
5S4 cents on every hundred dollars
worth of property and IS cents on
every poll over the constitutional linn
itation collected.
CLEVELAND.
A fire at Waco, Cleveland county,
caused loss of $1,000, burning the
general store of Mr.. G. M. Webb.
Last week in Shelby notorious out
law, Allen J. Hooper, alias w. w.
Clark, alias Will Walters, alias w.
w. Moore and Henry Scott, who has
followed as profession horse e-stealing
for twelve years, was captured by w.
T. Clarke, and carried by Sheriff w.
P. Cole to Darlington, S. c., on a re-
QUESTION from that State. Hooper is
a native of Central North Carolina, of
good parentage and SO years old.
DURHAM
A new daily paper is to be started
at Durham.
Durham is to have another hand
some Methodist Church. This will
give it two attractive edifces of the
same denomination.
A few days ago a colored man at
Durham attempted to cross the rail-
road just in froEt of an approaching
train. His boot hung and the wheels
caught his leg and mashed it off.
Mr. w. II. Kerr will leave to day
for Ilion, N. Y, where he will go to
manufacture 80 of his bag machines
preparatory to start a bag factory in
Durham next fall. A campany will
be organized to manufacture from
100000 to 100000 bags per day
Durham Recorder.
ALEXANDER.
In Alexander the school fund gets
a property tax of 12lc andsa poll of
81 500. The county tax is SO 1-6 cents
on property and poll of 405 cents.
Alexander county some years ago
abolished the office of county treasurer
The finances of the county soon got in
to such tangle that at the meeting of
magistrates and commissioners last
week the office was re-established
The Solicitor and citizens of Raj
eigh have agreed that the liquor deal
ers of that city shall be allowed to
keep open until the first of July for
the purpose of winding up their bust
ness
The Baltimore american makes this
timely observation Raleigh, n. c.,
has adopted local option. Hereafter
when the Governor of North Carolina
wishes to speak to the Governor of
South Carolina, he will not select Raj
eigh as the meeting place"
Property tax in Union is 81 cents
on the S100-3 cents less than last
year. There is special tax for a
new court house and for schools.
The following persons have been
elected Commissioners for Union coun-
ty to serve two years from the 1st Mon
day in December 1886, viz: L. G.
Eubanks, G. N. Simpson and G. A
Ashcraft.
1t is stated that the druggist sof Mon
roe have pledged themselves to sell no
man whiskey, for medicinal purposes,
unless the man be really sick, and that
the doctors have pledged themselves
to write no man a prescription, unless
he be sick and really needs the liquor.
This will make prohibition a realty in
-..~,-,v,--- Il ,.ti-<5.:o Iatctt,y ye..cer.
MECKLENBURG.
After the first of July the R. & D.
r. r, Co., will run double daily trains
through from Charlotte to Savannah
and daily train through from Char
lotte to Moristown
Yesterday afternoon the employes
of the express Office were suddenly
disturbed in their duties by SHARP
report at one of the windows fronting