Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-06-10
STATE NEWS.
Weldon has female fisticuffs.

AT special election, held in Charlotte
on Friday, it was decided to appropriate
50, 900 in aid of the Agricultural Society
THE cotton crop in Halifax, and adjacent
counties, has been seriously injured by the
late heavy rains.
THE heavy rains have been very disas-
trous all along the line of the Raleigh and
CASTOR Railroad.
young man named Hutchinson, was
.illed IL lightning, at Rock Hill, last Fri
LAY afternoon.
COMMENCEMENT exercises of the Univer-
aitv Of North Carolina takes place at
Chapel Hill tomorrow and Thursday.
TIRE United States Circuit Court for the
district of North Carolina began its sum-
mor terra in Raleigh yesterday His
Homer, Jndgo Brooks, prcsidos.
BASE ball match between the Bryce Club
Of Charlotte, and tho ChicOraa. of Kings
Mountain S. c. Military echooI, next
,.a.nrlay.
\. &. McIETosIr has been nominated for
me Senate by the Conservatives of tho
--,u District, composed of the counties Of
Wilkes, Alexander and Ircdcll
HAMILTON McMLMAN, ESQ. in e grace
-. @tntatory, makos his bow to the public
as associate Editor Of tho Eobcaonian. in
t.o Jatl iasuo Of that paper.
IrlE stables Of &. &. Moses, Of Wayne
.aanty. together with horse, four mules,
lay, fodder. &C., were destroyed by an in
caaliary fire or last Thursday night
TIE present session Of the North Caro-
Liza Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
oaI the Blind viii close on Friday next,
til. 10Th inst. \ larger number of pupils
nave been III attendance this session than
ct any previous time.
SOUTHERN ANp ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH
CNrA&Y.-This company. says the Char
,tto Ojsarer, has been organized under
the laws Of the State of New York and as
directors we see the names OF number
of prominent Southern men. among them
col VIM. Johnston Of this city, General
Wade Hampton, of $. c., General John
r.. Gordon, Of Georgia, and others.
WE sec by some of our eastern exchang-
,.4, thai the fight between Andy Jackson
Jones and Confederate Colonel o. II.
Uockory. wakes warm for the Radical NOM
nation for Congress in the Bird district
They say it is pull Dick, pail Devil be-
-gnon them.
We bet on Jones, he being the biggest
7-oundrel. therefore, moro acceptable TO
the party with which he acts. ''-SentiHe'.
Tins Conservatives Of Wake county had
g, large and spirited meeting last Saturday.
lir a.Ilrasa of the Conservative members
. the General Assembly, to the people of
tan State, was endorsed and adopted rs
platform and principles for the party. A
Convention, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for county officers, was ca He'd
fIr Saturday 18th inst, and fifty delegates
were appointed to the District Convention
which assemblies Of Franklnton to-day.
Tur .T1u,lo'd suggests Centennial
Celebration Of the Grand Lodge of Masons
Of North Ca:olina, to take place next Jan
nary This Grand LULge IS one OF the
Oldest in the United States, having been
chartered by the Grand Lodge Of England
January II, I'LL. The records were all
DESTROYED ut EdentOn, during the RevC-
tionary War, by the British forces, but the
charter escaped the ruthless hand of war,
nnd now oraces the southeast corner Of the
Grand lodge Hall in Raleigh.
The Raleigh Sentinel has information
that points to Daniel A. Graham. the in
famous scoundrel, on whose remarkable
testimony the &,n1,u0 made grave charg-
f., of murder and arson against fifteen of
the most respectable citizens of Moore
county, as the author OF the murder Of the
NcLcods He was assisted by two negroes
from Shoe Heel and was recognized and
called by namo by Mrs Mcleod while he
Was numbering her husband and daughter.
Graham fled and has not been seen or
heard Of since the murder.
SUPREME CorRT.-This Tribunal assem-
blcd in this city yesterday morning ana
opened ut 10 o'clock. Present; Chief JUS
tco II. Nj. Pearson, and Justices f. G..
Rrade, w. Il. Rodman and Robert z.
Dick.
No business of Importance was transact
ci other than tho examination of appli-
clnts for license to practice law Ill the
several Courts Of the State.
The following gentlemen passed, we
learn, credtably, their several examina-
lions, and were licensed, viz: Joseph young
AlHgOn, Cabarrus county ; George Francis
EAsou, Alamance county; Daniel Bond,
Halifax county; William Shipp Bynum,
Lincoln county; Beverly Cameron Cobb,
Lincoln county; William Henry Cooke,
Craven county: Robert Davidson Graham,
UFngC county; Armistead Jones, Wake
rounty: Charles Finlay Mckesson, Burke
county; Thomas 4. Pnrnell, New Hanover
county: William Martin Smith, Cabarrus
county; William Lewis ThOrp. Nash coun-
y, Plat Dickinson Walker, New Hanover
county; James Z. Wbcdbec, Pasquotank
county.
The Court adjourned until 10 o'clock,
\. NJ, to-day. Sla1uGn-H.
Iug FEEsuET.- regret very much
u learn that the freshot is doing tremen-
dous damage to the crops i'll this section.
The overflow Will doubtless surpass that of
I0tg. The river lands IN tho counties of
Wayne, Lemon and Johnston are almost
entirely overtIowed and, on many Of the