Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-06-17

A NUMBER of farmers from near Gettys-
burg, Pennsylvania, visited the Salem sec
ton 4 few days since
FL. FL. HELPER has announced himself
as a Conservative Republican candidate
for Congress from the Sixth District
The Conservatives of Pitt county have
gone to work in earnest; speeches, meet
ings, &C., are the order of the day.
THE Conservatives of the First Congress
ional District are to meet in Convention
at Edentor, on Thursday, June 23d.
THERE is scme talk of forming a new
county to be formed of parts Of Wayne,
Dupln and Sampson.
THE first gold mine il the United States
was discovered in Meadow Greek, Cabar-
rus county, N. c. in 1890. by Conrad
Reed.
w HAWKINS, Of Shelby, who was lnjur-
ed sometime ago by the explosion of a
Kerosene lamp, has died from his inju-
ries.
THE trial of VIM. Mclshea, charged with
LAO VI HE "1ACs A1H@~ '~OA-
set for Mecklenburg Superior Court, last
week, has been continued.
ONE Joseph Whitfield has disappeared
from the neighhorhood Of Kirston. As
he is Il Radical of course he has been Ku
Kluxed
The Sentinel has !, sample of oats from
the farm of Mr.. Ii. T. Tucker, OF Wake
county, which is something to brhg on
The stalk is six feet high and surmounted
by very full heavy bead of grain.
The Memorial Concert i'll Goldsboro',
on Wednesday night, WAS II delightful af-
fair, but the Messenger complains bitterly
of very small audience.
Two new mail routes will go into opera
ton about the first Of July next. One
lending from Salem to Jerusalem III Davie
county, and the other from Salem to Pan
ther Creek, Yadkin county.
THERE are now fifty students at Chapal
Hill. The commencement exercises of last
Wednesday were opened by S. s. Ashley.
John Fl. Wheeler and Senator Abbott were
the speakists.
ABOUT fifty inmates i'll Halifax county
poor house, and all supported by private
charity. The county funds and credit
have both been exhausted by the vampire
carpet -baggers. The same may be said
OF Edgecombe.
ThE Wayne county Conservative Con-
vention was held at Goldsboro' yesterday.
The Conservative Congressional Conven-
ton assemblies at the same place on
Wednesday, 22d inst
The Conservatives of the 18th Senate
rial District, composed Of the COMMITTEES Of
Wayne and Green, are to meet at Snow
Hill on Tuesday next, 14th inst The
contest for nomination Will bo between
Messrs. Swift Galloway and William 2.
Darden.
W. J. CLARK, formerly Confederate
Colonel, and moro recently bought by
the Radical party at the price Of petty
police judgcship, has been invested by
Holden with the rank of Major General OF
Militia and has been authorized to raise q
regimentIof Radical voters, ostensibly to
put down the Ku Klux but, in reality, to
bayonet though fair and free election al
the polls next August. Was William Gas
ton in earnest, or did he dream of an Area
dia, when he sang,
'sThen let sll who love u.s. love the land that we
live in.
As happy d region as on this side OF heaven;
Where plenty and freedom. love ana peace smile
before u.s..
WAKE FOREST COMMENCEMENT Both
the Raleigh Sentinel and the Petersburg
I1der contain letters from Wake Forest
College, giving description Of the Com
menoement Exercises of that institution
on last Wednesday and Thursday. Rev
John Mitchell, A. NJ, of BERTHE, delivered
the annual address before the Alumni AS
sociation, on Tuesday night.
! On Wednesday, the address before the
Society was delivered by Hon. John Kerr
| of Yanceyville. Chose as his theme, 1.-THE
revealed in the Bible is the hope of the
audience in rapt admiration.
The valedictory sermon was delivered
by Rev. Jno. A. Broadus.
The Trustees conferred the degree of A
M. in course, on Rev. VIM. Benent, pastor
elect of the Fayetteville Church, and thu
honorary degree of A. NJ. on Julius Pioot
ESQ, of Murfreesboro', n. G.. Rev. W
L. Brooks, of the College Hill and Prof
C. H. Toy, of the Baptist Theological
Seminary of Greenville, s. c., were hon
ored with the title of Doctors OF Divinity
| Death of O CentenarIan
The Hon. Moses Wingate died at Have1