Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-10-09
STATE NEWS.


FmE.-About u o'clock last night the
barn of John I. Shaver ESQ, of this city,
was discovered to be on fire. The flames
had already made such Roadway that it was
impossible to arrest their progress. The
whole barn with its contents, including
four valuable horses and mules, was en-
tirely consumed. The fire was undoubtedly
the work of an incendiary.
Salisbury OLD North State.
Forty Withdrawals from the Union League,
noticed this week I! |! Bully for Durham !!
Hurrah for Seymour
Rutherford indicator
A Railroad Conference was held in this
place on Tuesday, between the officials of
the Richmond and Danvillo and North
| Carolina Railroads Presidents Smith and
Buford were in town, but we are not adj
vised as to the result of the meeting.
Greensboro Patriot and Times.
SoRGHUM.-We are glad to see that q
goodly number of our farmers continue to
raise cane and to make their own molasses.
It is certainly great advantage to them to
do so, and we doubt not they have so found
it to be.-Salisbury Old North State.
PREMIUM FOR TIE FIRST lBALE OF COTTON
FROM FRANKLIN COUNTY, N. C.--The first
bale of cotton from Franklin county, N.
c., was received last week by Messrs.
Marks & Iittlejohn, grocers and commits
sion merchants, Old street. It was grown
by Mr.. B. j. King, one of the most expe-
rienced, skillful and successful farmers in
the county, and who received from Messrs
Marks & Littlejohn the premium of ton
of guano, offered for the first bale from
the county. Hader.
"SpEcrnEN BRICKS "-WHAr THEY SAY OF
EACH OTHER.-A gentleman, who heard q
discussion, few days since, between
"Judge" Tourgee and "Windy Billy"
Henderson, the boiling and regular Radi-
cal candidates for Congress in the Fifth Dis
trict, describes it as exceeding, in personal
vituperation and billingsgate, anything
which he ever heard on the stump before.
It may be amusing, if not profitable, to
hear what these specimen bricks of carpet
bagism and scallawagery, respectively, In
| North Carolina, have to say to each other.
We learn that Tourgee charged Hender-
son with having stolen the law books of the
late Benz. Kittrell, of Lexington with
having forged note on the old Branch
Bank of Cape Fear at Salem (; and, also,
with the mule business.
| In reply, Billy accused Tourgee of hav-
ing been ca Sded by negro, and elected
| from tenement which he had rented, and
for which he had failed to pay, and with
disgracing the bench of North Carolina by
partisan exhibitions and personal depravity
And of such is Radicalism There is an
old adage that when "rogues fall out, hon
est men get their dues !'-Ral. Sentinel.
A few white men on last Tuesday night
tried to instigate the negroes to take down
the flag from the stand where the Conser-
vative speakers addressed the assemblage,
and to mob p. L. Duffy, Esq. The ne
groes prepared for the undertaking, and
their white allies took an OGser00tica and
concluded their cowardly hides would be
safer at homo than in q row, and fal!ed to
come to time with the negroes, who being
| left without assistance, concluded to defer
the undertaking. Winston Sentinel.
ONE OF VANCE's BEsT.-A few nights
since, in Salisbury, when Vance was ad-
dressing large and enthusiastic audience,
somo scallawag suddenly and malicously
turned off the gas. Almost any one but
Vance would have been frustrated by the
circumstance. But not he. He at once
cried out, in the midst Of the darkness -
GO Heroes Of America! Come 10 OrCIer :"
This created shouts of applause and laugh
ter, in the midst of which Ia stray dog. as
tonished at the uproar, set up howl
''Turn that scalawag out p said Vance
and the merriment grew " fast and furi-
ous" The lights were soon restored ana
Vance resumed.
ARRESTED. Nitchum and James
Arlington, whites, citizens of this
county, were arrested last Sunday charged
with firing Lanesboro', in this county,
on the 9th cf August. The evidence was
sufficient against them to send them to Jail
for trial at our next court. Others are
charged as participants, who are still at
large. The principal witness against them
is negro. Mitchum is supposed to be
the ringleader of gang that has been do
| ing much mischief hereabouts for some
time past, and evidence hereafter may fix
many other crimes upon him.
| Wadesboro ArYws.