Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-07-15

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HE Fall Session of the Goldsboro'
Female College will commence on the 9th
of August next.
IoL' L. w. HUMPHREY, Conservative can
dldato for Congress. is actively canvassing
his District (the Second.)
A YOUNG man named Sinclair, of Gull
ford county, was killed by lightning last
Sunday evening.
NEUsE Lodge No. 6, I. O. o. f., of
Goldsboro', give q grand excursion to
Morehead on 22d inst.
Col. VIM. z. Hill, Of Duplin, recently O
Republican, made a telling Conservative
speech at Mt. Olive, On Monday last
The Conservatives of Mecklenburg nom
mate, to-day. q candidate for the Sen
ate, vice exGov. Vance, declined. Col
II. G. Jones is prominently mentioned.
TIE Express is the namc of a new pa
per, now in prospectus for publication at
Williamson, Martin County, by Mr.. r. L.
Smith.
Jordon Jacobs, living near LumbertoD,
has stalk Of corn, in his field, with no
tassels out, - feet inches high and a
collard in his garden feet inches across
the top.
THE Nowborn J0uudL IF COmanaerce says:
On Sunday, IL detachment of thirty-ti7e
United States soldiers from Fort Macon,
passed through the city on their way TO
Person county, whittier they have gone, |
ne understand, in accordance with q wish
INrz oil Nff hA
THE Raleigh Sentinel asserted that the
city negroes in Raleigh were not hOspita-
BILE TO their colored friends from the |
country, on the Fourth, whereupon an
amendment replies thusly:
81 had eighteen Of my friends from the
country to stay with me last night. l have
bat two rooms IN my house"
4 correspondent from "up the Road "
informs US that Billy Smith, who is Presi-
dent Of the n. G. Railroad and candidate
for the Senate from Alamance and Gnil-
ford, has given not lesss than eight A2ndred
free passes to persons in these two ccun-
ties. within the last Ten days. on his road,
which is loss to the Stockh oldcr8 Of one
thousand dollars. .--Sentinel.
He NEVER DID AND NEVER WILL
During the session Of tho Radical Convcn-
ton last Monday, the Republicanism Of
Maj. IL. J. Mclean, Chairman of the
present Board Of County Commissioners,
was called in question. A delegate waited
on Maj. Mel. to inquire whether he had
voted the Republican ticket at Il certain
election. The Major replied that he had
nerer voted Republican ticket, and 'aerer
RObeSOni07a.
NORTH CARoL1NIANs AT UNION SIENNA
the past session seven North
Cnrolinians have been in attendance at
Union Theological Seminary, Virginia,
viz. John ". Primrose and Charles M.
Payne, from Orange Presbytery; L. W.
Currie, from Fayetteville; W. III. Davis,
J. II Davis, Il. nj. Tuttle and J. W. Rose.
bOro, from Concord.
MATTERS IN ORANGE. learn from
the Hillsboro Recorder that Capt. Boshor,
If Holden's militia, was sent up to that {
place to keep order on the "4th." The ,
Captain found everything very quiet and
orderly. :
Jas. II. Harris, colored candidate for
Congress, addressed the people Of Hills
boro' and vicinity on the Fourth. He !
made O sensible speech, in which he at |
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Poor fellows, everybody is down on them.
INFORMATION WANTED-Of Fl. NJ Turss
ner, who Is at some point in the country
medicine, as he has left me be- :
fore and gone off where he was not known, I
and passed himself off for q doctor. He
is about seventy five years old, hair and :
beard white, heavy built, and will weigh
nearly, if not quite, two hundred.
Any information leading to his where- |
abouts will be more than gratefully re-
ceived, by addressing his distressed wife,
ELIZABETH TURNER,
81. I'D' ~ ~ O'' ''I'
ONLY marriages in Cumberland county
IN juno white and colored.
EFFoRTs are being made in Weldon, to
build Methodist and Baptist Church.
Funds have been subscribed for an Episco-
pal Church.
FROM the Weldon Ne,0s, we learn that
there is trouble in the camp of the Halifax
county Radicals. Some two weeks since q
was held and ticket nomina-
ted but, this meeting with a strong opposi
ton, a large number of the boilers met
last Saturday and put forward a new ticket.
The principal of these are Henry Eppes, =,
colored, for the Senate Benz. Il. Frank =
lin, white, and Irwin Hill and W. T. J. !
Hays, colcred, for the House John 4.
Reid, white for Sheriff, and Robert j. ,,
Lewis, white, for Register. .,
THE Methodist Church Fair, recently I
held in Newbern, netted about two hund-
red dollars.
OS NToDTov Iact tba NOrthorn mart of 6
Person county was visited by hail storm
which did some damage.
FROM the Weldon Ne,cs we learn that I
the Conservatives Of Bertie last week
nominated for the Senate p. Fl. Winston,
Jr. subject to ratification by the Conserva-
tives OF Hertford. These two counties !
compose the 9th District.
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