Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-09-24
STATE NEWS

II CCIENTIFIC OPERATT0N.- waiter
Duffy has recently performed one of the
most skilled operations on poor cOlored
woman, the removal of cancerOus breast
The patient is we'll. Berne Times.
FIRST New CorroN SOLD IN TARRoRo'. -
The frat bale of now cotton aold in Tar
boro' this season was purchased by Mr.. o.
T.. Earrar at 20 cents per pound. There
will be no necessity for shipping cotton
when we have such liberal buyers i'll our
market az Mr.. Farrar.
TarborO' .&1nthfrner.
HANDSOMELY DONE ladies con-
city, have presented their pastor, Rev.
Mr. Pritchard. with full suit of cloth,
including a superb overcoat-and to finish
the present, they have placed upon his
! head one of Beebe's best beavers The
compliment was we'll deserved, and the
dear creatures, with their native gensitivc-
| ness, were quick to recognize and ac-
knowledge the fnct. No pastor has ever
won more largely and rapidly tho attec-
tOns of the members and congregation of
the Raleigh Baptist Church. "May
brOtherly love continue"
Raleigh Standard
| NoMINATIoNs MEcKLENBURG COUNTY
The Democratic Conservative Convention
OF Mecklenbnrg county met in Charlotte
on Tuesday, 18th inst, to nominate can
didate for the Senate from that county to
fill the vacancy OccaslOned by the death of
| Hon j. ". Osborne. Col. Thos. Grier
presided and j. nj. Hutchinson, ESQ.,, act
Ell as Secretary.
The townships OF the county were we'll
represented, and the utmost harmony char
acterized the proceedings On the first
| ballot Col. III. T.. Jones received q large
majority Of the votes cast. and before the
result was announced from tho Chair, tho
nomination was declared unanimous
The nomination ID most excellent one
and of course will result in the election OF
the gallant Colonel to the Senate.
! Raleigh Sen
| STATE FAIR-SHoE MANUFACTURERS We
have long thought that North Carolina
promises rare advantages for the mannfac,
ture of shoes on large SCALE In the first
place We have immense forests of trees,
suitable for tanning, and the leather can
be made here as cheaply as In any part of
the world. In the next place we have all
requisites for cheap manufrcturers-cheap
labor-Water power-mild and healthy eli
mate-proximity to the localities where
shoes, &c, will find ready sale.
| We are glad, therefore, to learn that Mr.
JAS. A. Leach, of the firm of 'James A.
Leach Il Co." Wholesale Shoe Manufac-
turers, at Thomasville, n, c., will, at the
request of President Battle, read paper
before the Agricultural Society at the next
Fair, on "The Advantages of North Caro-
lima for the manufacture of Shoes, &c. u
Such paper will not only be Interesting,
but emihently instructive.
Raleigh Sentinel
THE following discharges in Bankruptcy y
have been declared by His Honor, Judge
| Brooks
| Lenoir O0unty-Amos Harvey, Elias +. Albrt-
| ton, !. II. Dibhe.
| Uraven-aenry Il, bryan, J. W. Baxter, Ste
phen d. Pool, Alex. Miller. Joseph l.. Them, a.
| Ii. Foster
Pitt-Elias !. Blount john II. Hines. J. O. O.
Jenkins,
| Edgecambe-Thomas T. IhOm, Isaac r. Joslin.
| Hahfax-Arch. Ii. Davls.
Rocking Il. Clarke, a. l.. Ward,
| Jones w. Burton, Milton II. Saunders.
Oaswell-Thos. o. Dodson, Daniel Mclaughlin,
VIM. r. Walters.
Forsyth Samuel Alsrsugh, Isaac Tise. COL
Davidson-Wm. F. Roberson, John Mikels.
| Randolph-John Il. Uoverneas, John M.
| Greene.
Guford-Jacob Deans, A. b. Hinshaw,
| Orange-D, II. Hamilton, Jr.
Raleigh Standard.
THEFT AND SHOOTING. On Tuesday
night, about nine o'clock, MIR. Moten,
overseer on the plantation of VIM. p.
Moore, Esq, adjoining the city, determin,
ed to go over the farm and see that nc
thieves were forestalling him in gathering
the crop. While he went in one direction
he sent his son, lad of thirteen years, in
another. The latter armed himself with a
shot gun, loaded with small shot. Going
in the direction of the potato patch. the
| boy discovered objects moving in it. A
| close inspection disclosed them to be two
negro men in the very act of stealing pO-
tatoes. Young Moten approached within
twenty or thirty yards of the thieves with
ont being discovered. levelled his gun and
| fired. One of the negroes dropped at the
report evidently wounded, though the gan
was too lightly charged to lnJnre him
seriously. The other negro canght MP q
gun and fired at the boy in return, and
with almost fatal effect, the ball passing
| entirely through his hat and grazing his
head. The negroes than ran off.
New Berne Jour. Of Com.
Anothony King, formerly of Haliax CO.,
recently died ont in Mississippi, leaving q
handsome property to his two sisters in
| Halifax, now inmates of the poor house.
Raleigh Standard.
The Conservative white mon of Wash
lngton township, Beaufort comfy, are ma
king arrangements to give an entertain
ment to the colored Conservative voters of
the township at an early day.
As the season for sowing wheat is ap-
preaching we would be glad to chronicle
the result of last seasons harvesting. One
farmer, Simeon Wagner, of Gibonsville
has reported He reaped from i acres 40
bushels of fine cleaned wheat
Greensboro Patriot
"STRUcK lie. MIR Grupp is now man
ufactarlng in this county Sassafras Oil
from the roots and stumps of the sassafras
I tree. He turns out from ten to twenty