Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-06-14
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS
DEATH OF GEN. w. A. BLoUNT, OF BEAU
FORT CoUNTY-The friends of this veneer
| able gentlemen will not be surprised to hear
| of his death. He died at the residence Of
| his daughter, Mrs. L. OBJ. Branch, in this
| city, on yesterday (Tuesday) morning.
Mr.. B. had been in bad health for years,
| but has been rapidly declining for several
| months His feeble but once vigorous
constitution withstood many a shock, till
at last the very wheels of life stood still,
and he ceased to live. Gen. B. bore an &C
| tive part in the war Of 1912, and devoted
| most of his life afterward to the quiet vo-
| cation of farming. We are not advised Of
the facts of his public life. He was a gen
| tleman of the old school, kind, hospitable,
fond of his circle of friends, and few pos
sessed in higher degree than he, the in
formation and ability to render colloquial
intercourse entertaining and agreeable
He leaves large circle of friends to lament
his death.-Raleigh Sentinel.
The Ladies' Southern Relief Society has
published an earnest address to the public
soliciting further aid. It has made the
following disbursements to North Carroll
ma:
Through Bishop Atkinson, Viii
mington, n. c., $4OO 90
Through Rev. Geo. B. Wetmore,
Salisbury, n. G., $50 90
Through Rev. S. G. Roberts, Nor
canton, 100 90
Through Rev. T. NJ. Jones, Louis
burg, 100 90
Through Rev. Jarvis Buxton, Ash
vile, 100 90
Through Rev. c. T. Bland, Wades-
Through Rev. J. G. Huske, Fayette-
vile, 100 90
Through Rev. Mr.. Drayton, Hen
dersOn CO., 300 w
Through Gen. D. H. Hill, Char
lotte, 100 90
Through Rev. W. s. Lacy, Raleigh, 100 90
Through Rev. A. w. Miller, Char
iotte, 500 90
Through Rev. DR.. Morrison, Char
lotte, 200 90
Through Rev. W. c. Powers, Char
lOtte, 100 90
Through Rev. J. J. Prather, Neck
lenberg, co. 100 90
Through Rev. Nh. Barringer,
Greensboro, 100 90
Through Rev P. NJ Bowman, Nor
canton, 100 90
eigh, $50 90
Through Rev. Mr.. Young, Whining
ton, 200 90
Through Rev. H. T. Hudson, Raj
eigh, $50 90
n. Y. Cor. Raleigh Episcopal Methodist.
The RECEPTION AT THE Commons Hail.
Yesterday morning, between the hours of
9 and II O'Clock, the President gave re-
ception to the citizens in the Commons
Hall. During that time immense crowds
of persons, both white and black, were
passing the position occupied by the Presi
dent, Messrs. Seward, Randall, Gen. Sick
les and Gov. Worth, to all of whom the
President extended his hand and intro
duced them to the gentlemen near him.
1t is seldom that more interest has been
evinced on q similar occasion.
Sentinel June 5th.
FROM GASTON TO WARRENToN the
drive from CASTOR to this place, [ was for
cibly struck with the contrast between this
country and that east and south OF the Will
mington and Weldon, and Seaboard and
Roanoke railroads. To the wall of the
pines has succeeded the Tustling and the
whisperings of the oaks. The monotonous
dead level of the white sandy roads has
changed into the rutty, rocky, stony, un-
even, uphill, downhill, red clay, hard to
L
extensive view of half mile around you,
to which the traveller is sometimes treated
down the country" is here stretched out
to eighteen or twenty times the distance.
The wide Clubhouse, with its sweeps, be-
gins to give way to the two-story square
built tobacco barns, with which the hill
slopes are picturesquely dotted On the
road, you no longer meet the one horse, or
one-ox team, with no breetchen to the har-
ness, and q nondescript sample of human
ity astride of barrel of tar, or a hundred
shingles, 'agwine to the store to trade ;"
but a heavy wagon with two or four mules,
and loaded with one or two hogsheads of
tobacco. The water is no longer brown
with juniper, nor gray with mud, but
limpid and clear, so that you can scarcely
see it in the glass. Though there is large
quantity of land in this county under cot
ton, yet the main question has ceased to
be-"how many bales will you make p
and resolves itself into-"how many hills
have you planted ?"
For the first ten miles after leaving Gas
ton, to come this way, the road is almost a
continual ascent, until you reach the sum-
NIT, whence you have full view of the
Roanoke valley-up, down, and across, as
| far as the hill tops of Brunswick and Green
vile, in Virginia. You then enter de-
hghtful rolling country, covered with for
ests of oak and hickory, and studded here
and there with well cultivated farms of
greater or lesssextent.
Cor. of Norfolk Journal