Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-10-01
STATE NEWS

Nav KIND OF GRAPE.-J. Il. Jetfreys,
Esq, of Franklin, presented US bucket
Of grapes, or Saturday, which he consld-
ers new species of North Carolina native
cranes. They wore found growing on the
side of ditch on his farm, on vine re-
Sembling in body and branches the COM
mon native vine, but with leaves like those
of the scuppernOng, except that they are
iarler. The berries are black, sub-acld,
and of medium size, and have q thin skin.
MIR. Jeffreys calls them the "Berkley
grape" after the old man on the farm who
first discovered them; but We are OF the
opinion that they are the Halifax" grape
cultivated first by the late Sidney Weller,
proprietor of the Brinkleyville Vineyard,
Halifax county, in this State inc des.
cription of the vines differs slightly, put
the berries in size, color and taste, cores
pond with those of the "Halifax. Fer
haps cultivation would show them ldenti-
cal in every respect. Raleigh Sentinel.
PLASTER BANKS & SALT Works RAILROAD
AND GREENSBORO PATRIOT.-The Greens
boro' Patriot, Selling upon remark in
the Charlotte Democrat, of last week,
which mistook the Plaster Banks & Salt
the Western n. &. Road to the Lime
Beds" in Catawba county, jubilates consid-
erably and cndeavors to persuade the peo-
pie OF Surry that the Plaster Banks Il
Salt Works Road has not "a ghost of q
chance to be built" In this tho Patriot
il entirely mistaken. We can assure the
people of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin. that
no contingency likely to happen, will pre-
vent the building of this important rOnd
Ito them) earlier than any other road like
" to reach their borders, if their counties
will render reasonable aid-what might bo
within the scope of their ability to per
form. The survey of this road has just
been completed, and Capt. Bardwoll
makes a most favorable report # the rOnto
and moderate cost of building the road,
from Statesville to Mt. Airy and the Nir-
ginia line. The construction of tho road
will be in the hands of gentlemen OF ener-
gy and ability, who know no such word as
''fair'- especially if the people of the
counties through which it is to pass, will
co operate as they should and as their in
tereats will prompt them, no doubt, to do.
Iredell, will do her share IN the mat
ter, although, she stands not In the same
need Of tho road as the counties north of
her. If all the counties Interested, will do
their part as we'll as Iredell it will only be
a point of time, and that not far Off, when
the L. Il. & $. ". Railroad Will he built,
and the whistle of the engine revcrberate
among the hills of Surry.
We arc not antagOnistic to the n. w. N.
Q Railroad. and would be glad for it to
penetrate to the Western verge of the
State--Statesville American.
OUR STArE-ITs RESOURCES, &C.-The
Salem Press Is engaged iii writing a series
of articles on the resources of our State.
the many advantages which We possess,
both as to climate and soil In the last
issue OF the Press we liid the following
paragraph, which is strictly trne-not only
true. but the facts are not as lmpfesslVely
put, as they deserve to be.
We have seen as fine fruit raised In
Western North Carolina as can be pro-
dueed in the WOrld-bOth as 10 size and
haVOr will not except the enormous
Oregon apple and, as another recOmmen-
datinu, tho crop in the West Is never a
t0tdi failure Disasters may shorten tho
quantity occasionally, but this Is of rare
occurrence. Through the entire winter
and late H. spring, our market Is supplied
with the ''MOnntaln apple. and on several
occasions We have compared them with the
Northern apple. and the preference was IN
FAVOR OF our own grown.
But to the extract L" Some Of the finest
fruits known, south of New York, are of
North Carolina origin, and native seed
llngs of this State arc conspicuous for size
and fine flavor. Wilkes and Rutherford
counties with Surry and Yadkin and For
sythe, East of tho Blue Ridge and Bun
cOmbe county, West of it, are celebrated
for fine apples and fine cherries. The re-
quisites for fine orchard fruits appear to be
moro fully met IN the climate Of Western
Carolina, indeed. than in any part Of the
country South of New York. Peaches be-
long more particularly to all the counties
from Forsyth eastward"
Raleigh Standard.
COMMERCIALLY LIBERALITY.-.Sup
tendent Chic of the Seaboard and Roam
oke Railroad has addressed the following
letter to Mr. Young of Henderson
". ". YOUNG, ESQ,
Chairman Exec. Com, henderson, N. O.:
Hsar 81, Yours of the 18th, enclosing certti-
cate OF Membership OF the Uontral Agricultural
Far received, for which please accept my thanks
| shall advertise that all articles for exhibition
Will DO transported free, and all persons attend
ing Will be takon at half tarah Ovor tho beaboard
Road.
Yours truly.
Portsmouth, Va, sept. 20, go.
Why il it that the shooting of Mr.. VIM.
White, at Kinston, on Friday last, is not
heralded to the world as another Ku Klux
outrage 1t is true that he is a good Dom
ocrat and those that shot him were no.
groes, and members Of the League, but
then tho shooting occurred in Lenoir coun-
ty, that hot bed of Ku KlnXism, as radi-
Gals have it, and what is moro probable
than that, he was shot by order of tho G.
i. c.?
Also, how is it that Sheriff Hunter has
taken no steps to apprehend the attempt
Ell assassins ?-Newbern Jour. Of Com.
The REvTvAL.-The religious revival in
the Churches of the city still continues.
The interest is much increased with tho
Baptist congregation. On Sunday, nine
were received into the membership of that
Church by Baptism. At the Methodist
Church there was no reception of mem
bers, owing to the illness of the pastor,
whose pulpit was occupied at morning and
at night, by Rev. j. 3. Bobbitt. The
meetings will continue in both these
Churches, perhaps, during the present
WeeE.-Ral. Sentinel.