The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-10-30
STATE NEWS.

re- We would suggest to our winter cabbage
rasers, that if they will take proper care of them
and put them in crates, or something of tat kind,
! large quantities of them can be sold this winter
T! in the Raleigh, Goldsboro', Newbern and Viii
mington markets Moreover, if they will put
them up properly in barrels for sour krout, any
quantity can be sold at good prices. Our people
| should Int them up in manner to compete
! with the Northern article in the Baltimore and
! New York markets. Try it--Rol. Sentinel.
0+Iredell Superior Court was in session
week before last, Judge Buxton presiding.-
Thomas Dula was convicted of the murder of
Laura Foster, with whom he had been on terms
of improper intimacy. An appeal was taken to
the Superior Court.
FREEDMEN IN NORTH CARoL1NA.-The Bureau
report for September, on Freedmen's affairs in
this State, states that there issued to Freed
men in that month 25,3O2 rations; the number
of schools for the negroes is 10; teachers 20 ;
scholars, ,487. The average wages for freedmen
are, for males, 50 IS per month; for females
S. %. The opinion is expressed tina: if the issue
of rations be stopped during this month as Or
dered, (and as it has been,) many blacks will die
of starvation, neither the municipal, county nor
State authorities are able to make any provision
for their support.
REs1GNED.-Calvin J. Cowles, Esq, has ten
dered his resignation as a member OF the Councl!
of State. This step induced, we understand,
by the fact that he had become candidate for
the Legislature and, if elected, would be dlsqual-
fed from taking his seat in that body, if he had
continued to hold the former position.
PETROLEUM OIL.-The North Carolina Petro-
! leum Company is now sinking WELL two miles
from Madison, Rockingham County, on the farm
of Robert Lewis, Esq, and they are prose-
cutting the work with energy and at considerable
| 10y % horse power engine, and tools manu-
featured in Titusville, Pa, the boring conducted
| by two Pennsy lvania experts.
The prospects for reaching petroleum are pro-
nounced encouraging; at present the upper sand
stone is being pierced, which abounds in fossils
and indications of oil. 1t is the intention of the
| Directors to commence liking a we'll in the Deep
River section soon, in which the Company has
secured large tracts Of coal lands.
| CATAwBA LINE This article, We under
stand, is now being burned in large quantities
! from excellent quality of lime stone, by
Messrs. Powell & Wilson. They offer it, on
good terms, as a fertilizer and for building pur-
poses. They propose to deliver it at any point
on the N. C. Railroad, at SIS per ton.
Mr. T.. W. Watkins, of Warren, N. G., sold
six hogsheads of tobacco in Petersburg, on
Tuesday, at an average Of S34 per hundred
The six hogsheads brought, gross, ,65
Mr. John K. Boyd, of the same county, sold
three hogsheads, sun-cured, at $50, $50 and
S3l.
| CATAwBA MARBLE We have specimen
of Catawba county marble on hand now being
quarried pretty largely and convenient to trans
portation. 1t is not equal to Italian marble or
to the marble which we learn is found in great
quantity in Cherokee, but may answer many
purposes at cheaper rate.