Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-11-16

HE RUMBLING NOIsE.-On w ednesday afternoon
sometime between the hours of three and four o'clock
a rumbling noise heard out Southwest from this
place, resembling, but which was more monotonous
than, thunder. 1t heard for about the space of
two minutes distinctly and Jared the glasses in
houses It was heard fifteen twenty miles east Of
this and still appeared southeast of that 1t is sup
posed to have beer the result of meteor of uncom-
mon size which was travelling from one knows
where, to no one knows whittier.
Hornets Nest, Charlotte Nov 8.
The same noise was heard in Wadesbofough over
in Montgomery county, down in Cheraw, and thro'-
out the region around as far we have heard from
We give satisfactory reason for the
than the Hornets Nest-Wadesboro' Arg., 9Th INST
We copy the following from the Baltimore Aneri-
ca and send it forth with our hearty endorsement
"At convention of publishers of newspapers, re-
Gently held in Vermont the following resolution was
adopted:
"Resolved That as representatives of the Press of
Vermont, disapprove and will discountenance i'll
natured personalities in editorial intercourse that
we discern and rejoice in gradual improvement in
this respect; and that will endeavor to further
that improvement by observing strictly, in edito
rial illusions, the amenities and courtsies which
should mark the intercourse of gentlemen. ""
CAT similar Convention at the West a resolution
of the chaacter of the foregoing has also been adop
ted. We heartily join with the Boston Transcript
in the hope that the time will come when the Anne
rican press generally will be governed by the spirit
of this resolution Nothing is more disgusting to
readers of taste than the paltry personal illusions
and attacks so frequently interchanged between
American Editors. Egotsm is the besetting sin Of
our writer's for the press. We too apt to imagine
that what intensely interest ourselves must necessa
riy be of moment to the public forgetting that the
public best appreciate that information those refec
TONS which are of and universal interest"
In the town of West Bradford, (Pa.,) there is an
old Churchyard in which stands seven tomb-stones
side by side covering the remains of the Hon. Ma
thaniel Thurston and has sic vlves. They stand II
order as follows:
| Mrs Betsey Thurston, died Nov 25, 1870, aged "a
Mrs Martha Thurston, died May H. 1899, aged 80
Mrs. Hu1dah Thurston died Sept. 8, 1901, aged "a
| Mrs Clarisa Thurston died Nov. Ia 1903, aged Sc
Mrs. Martha Thurston, died July q, 1904, aged 70
| Mrs Mary Thurston, died March 3, 1903, aged 81
| Hon. Nathaniel Thurston, died in Lansingburg
i On. Y.,) October 81 1911, aged Sc.
/ This case hardly beats more modern one WI
know of, little nearer home. A deacon in one o
our most prominent churches in this city, and hi
amiable better-half form queer instance in Matri
mony. The deacon is the fifth husband Of the lady
while the lady is the deacons fourth we! Beat that
who can.-Conmecticut paper.
4 TOBACCO FOR FRANCE-The French consulate il
New York gives notice that proposals for supplying
the national manufactures of tobacco will be deci
died. at the Ministry of Finance in Paris, the 20tl
of December next, for the quantities following:
i Zone million and eight hundred thousand kilo
grammes of Virginia leaf tobacco Of the crop of l849
according to four samples million and nine hun
dred thousand kilogrammes of Maryland leaf, crol
of l849 according to four samples two millions AM
two hundred and forty thousand kilogrammes 0
Kentucky leaf, crop of 1849 according to four sam
pies; and two hundred thousand kilogrammes of Ha
vana leaf crop of l849, according to two samples
Further information may be obtained at the consu
late"