Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-04-08
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ALL OVER THE STATE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN NORTH CAR
OLINA.
Carefully Culled From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.


Carefully Culled From Our Contemporaries
and Compressed into Small
Particles.
NEW HANOVER.
Since the recent disastrous fires
Wilmington has invested in big
alarm bell which weighs 2,050 pounds,
is four feet high and the same in di-
ameter. 1t is doubtless the largest
bell in the State.
Gov. Scales has issued prolama-
ton offering reward of 800 for the
capture of Alexander Stewart, who
was sentenced to 20 years imprison-
ment in the State penitentiary for
burglary, but who escaped from GUS
tody ON the morning of the recent fire
in Wilmington.
The Wilmington Star says Messrs.
Alex. Oldham and Jas. Barnes have
formed o-partnership and will con-
duct a general commission business
in Baltimore. to which point they will
remove in few days. Both these
gentlemen are well-known in this sec
ton, and they will carry to their new
home the best wishes of host of
friends.
ALAMANCE.
Walter Holt and Ed G. Holt will
build cotton mill at Company Shops
soon, which will be 50x150 feet, two
stories high.
Jerry Shaffner who escaped week
before last, from the Sheriff of Ala
nance county has been caught and is
now in Jail in Graham.
Col. Tom Holt has made contract
with Mr.. H. G. Zachary of Company
Shops, for the erection in August next
of Is tenement houses at Haw Rever.
Col. Holt's new factory at Haw
River will be q weave mill two-stories
high, 75x172 feet; ZIG looms on the
upper floor. It will be running by
| October.
Mr.. J.. S. Patterson, OF Southwest
Alamance, sold S02 pounds of tobacco
at the Banner Warehouse, Greensboro
recently, at an average of Split per
hundred.
John Slaughter, of Contentnea town.
ship in Pitt county committed suicide
recently.
Governor Scales has commuted the
death sentence of the Negro Mathew
| Noble, convicted in Pitt Superior
Court on the charge of burglary, to
ten years Imprisonment in the peni
tentiary.
Mr.. James III. Joyner was out gun
ming last Friday near Greenville, and
killed eleven partridges at one shot.
A few days before while hunting in a
pocosin he captured six wild hogs,
four of which he sold for $40.
CABARRUs.
The Odell Factory is the largest
factory of the kind in the State. 1t
heads the list with 294 looms. 1t
manufacturers enough plaids every
year to give every woman and child
in North Carolina dress.
A man was arrested in Richmond,
". on the Goth ult., who is believed
to be one of the safe blowers that rob-
bed Mr.. Davault at Concord last
month. He gave his name as Charles
Shaw, of New York.
Elias Misenheimer, a resident of
Concord, committed suicide last week
by hanging himself to tree at an old
graveyard. He used bride rein,
tieing one end to limb of tree and
theth DER around his neck.
NASH.
The Tar River Ialker thinks the
Railroad will reach Nashville in time
to have big fourth of July celebra-
ton at Nashville.
A man by the name of Sorley, who
several years ago murdered man in
Nash county, was arrested in Kansas
City last week. He will be bought
back and tried.
MOORE.
Jonesboro is to have bank shortly.
Messrs. Buchanan and Murchison are
the founders of it.
The sheriff OF Moore county handed
to the county commissioners list con-
tanning one hundred delinquents, say
ing that he could collect nothing; that
they had nothing and the taxes were
not to be had. The commissioners inn
mediately indicted each one, and near
ly every one at once produced the
money and paid up.
ALEXANDER.
The Alspaugh cotton mill, in Alex
ander county, employs 30 hands, runs
600 spindles, and "a looms.
Mr.. Benedict Russell, of Alexander
county, now Sc years old, is still able
to cut and split 200 rails per day.
The Journal says that Pres. Daniels
the irrepressible Alexander connty
horse jockey, had good mare killed
while at Wilkes court. He had hitch
ed to a plank fence, and the mare
broke loose and ran, carrying planl
to her bride. The plank stuck. in he
thigh, severing an artery, from which
she bled to death.
J. Henry Long, of Union county,
! surveyor for Cabarrus.
The Monroe Enquirer says that tw,
t negro men were lodged in Jail las
' week on the charge of burning th
corn-crib of Mr.. S. ]. Huey, of Uniol
f county.
: A petition is being circulated ask
S ing for the establishment of new posta
: route from Monroe to White Store, i
f Anson county, with offices at Roc
Rest, Rev. j. L. BENEFITS, and Nj
Jas A. Marsh's Mill.