Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-10-29

cles consist of baskets, picture frames, etc.
fashioned with taste and Judgment and
displaying in their order a superior ap-
probation OF arrangement. Roses are
fashioned with perfect justice to natural
shape, and even color is strictly regarded.
Among the horses entered for premiums
the fine dark stallion Golden Hawk, be-
longing to Messrs. Jenkins & Co., of
Edgecombe and sired by Goldfnder, out
of a full -blooded l. i.ck Hawk dame, took
our eye. He is a beauty and calculated
for most excellent stock raiser
There are on exhibition the finest speci-
mems of hogs-principally of the Chester
and Essex breeds-that have been gather
ed together in North Carolina in many
a day. 1t does me good TO SEQ evidences
that we are recuperating and even improv-
ing in this particular. Mr.. Robert Tate,
of Greensboro, will probably take the pre-
MUM in this department, which will be
won by a Chester barrow and SOW 20
months old, weighing $50 and $50 pounds
respectively.
AS q matter Of much Interest we noticed
among the agricultural implements an i'm
proved cotton press, known as the Beasly
press, invented by young man originally
of this county, and manufactured by
Nessrs. Tappey, Lumsden & Co., OF
Petersburg, Va. It IS claimed that there
is some Improvement on the Utley press.
which renders this machine most valua-
BILE. Tomorrow we are to have an oppor-
tunity of seeing Fosters type-setting ma.
chine at work. and will endeavor in our
next to allude to it in somewhat explana-
tory terms.
The weather was little inclement to-
day and prevented many ladies from at
tnr oth +hr> nkt H.
grounds would have exhibited a far great.
er representation of the fair sex.
The unfair and prejudiced, not to say
corrupt and dishonest, act of the State,
through its management in the North Car
olina Railroad, in bargaining to lease that
road to DR.. Hawkins and his competing
line, is much talked of here. Those stock
holders of the North Carolina Railroad,
who also own stock in the lsaleigh and
CASTOR Railroad, influenced by q narrow
and short-sighted policy, are said to favor
the movement. They as yet profess to see,
when it is so apparent, that the stockhold-
ers as we'll as the State will lose money by
the operation. If the road is to be let, it
should be done at decent figures. And
every sentiment of justice in all of its bear
ings on this case dictates that competing
corporations should come in and be per
mitted the privilege of at least bidding in
the matter. Surely if the State and stock
holders are determined to relinquish the
management, it should only be done to
the highest bidder. If the stockholders
were to stop moment and calculate that
out of the six per cent. agreed to be paid,
the one million of dollars of the preferred
stock of the State must be satisfied and the
sixty four thousand dollars interest on the
present indebtedness paid before they can
come in for their share, they would act
with decision in repudisting the contract
them on the 18th proximo. The Whining
ton influence must como in to bear against
it with all its might and main, and the
scheme which DR.. Hawkins has been en-
couraged to propose must be defeated
Although we object seriously to the pres.
ent management, Joe Turner is half right
when he says he wants the North Carolina
Railroad reserved in order to be appropri-
ated as homestead when the State of
North Carolina goes into bankruptcy.
This afternoon an exhibition by the
Deaf, the Dumb and the Blind pupils OF
the Asylum is progressing. Ny genial
host, the Superintendent, Mr.. Palmer, is
now engaged heart and soul in it. and
hope to tell you something of it in my
next.
A salute of guns has been fired here
throughout the day, occasioned by the
reception of the official order regarding
the death of ex-President Pierce at this
military post.
AS ever, yours, j.