Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-06-03
STATE NEWS,

/ serious confagration was nearly caused
at Statesville on Monday night by che
careless throwing aside of burning match.
When will people learn to be cautious =?
THE Conservatives of Surry county have
nominated Hugh Gwyn. Esq, for the
House and William Haymore. Esq, fo1
Sheriff.
The barn of Mr. James Horton, a most
worthy citizen of Wilkes county. was fred
by an incendiary and totally consumed on
Friday night with a quantity of grain,
wagons, &c.
THE Charlotte Observer says that the
special election on the proposition to sub
scribe So 900 of the bonds of that city, to
purchase Fair Grounds for the NJ, Y &
G. A. & NJ. Society will come off on Fri.
| day next, the Bird of June.
THERE are quite O number Of Railroad
men in town. Col. A. S. Buford, Presi-
dent OF the Air Line and the r. & D.
Railroads. Maj. ". A. Smith, President of
the n. g. r. r., Col Theo S. Garrett,
of Virginia, Col. b. Y. Sage, of Atlanta,
and Mr.. 2. ?. Dickinson, of New York,
are stopping at the MansioniHouse.
Charlotte Observer.
| Tho Conservatives of Rowan county
met at Salisbury last Saturday and nomi-
mated Major W. NJ. Robbins for the Sen
ate, Capt. W. Fl. Crawford and DR.. F. N.
Luckey for the House, Mr.. Obadiah Wood
son for Register of Deeds and Mr.. W. A.
Walton for Sheriff. The Convention en-
dOrsed Hon. T. E. Shober for nomination
to Congress.
HIGH WATER.-We learn from various
directions that the recent rains have pro-
duced freshets in the streams throughout
the middle section of the State, and con-
siderable damage has resulted to crops,
fences &c.
We learn that Mcssrs King & Whitelaw,
whose brick yard is located some two or
three miles from the city, lost about 900
900 bricks, by the water overfowing the
yard.
The wheat has also been considerably
damaged by the rains and by the wind of.
Thursday afternoon. 1t is feared that
many bridges will be washed away on the
streams III this county. Raleigh Sentinel.
The Statesville American says: On one
Of the trains that collided west of st. Louis,
recently. was IL young man by the name of
Perret, from Chatham county, N. c., who
was severely, but not fatally, burnt. We
learn from gentleman who was likewise
on the same train. and escaped uninj ured,
that he saw Mr.. Perret, who was brought
to ST. Louis and we'll cared for, and that,
although he is badly afflicted, he will GER
tainlY recover, which Intelligence will
crafty his friends in Chatham.
The DIFFERENCE organs are
constantly prating of radical economy.
How this works viii be shown by the fol-
lowing comparative statement, which we
find in late Sentinel exhibiting the
difference in cost to the State of the Con-
administration of 1867 and the
Radical administration of 1868 and 1869:
Entire expenses of all departments
for the year ending September
30th, 1867, s349, 244 67.
Entire expenses of all departments
tor the year ending September
GOth. 1862 (the first under radical
rule) $782, O92 Sc.
that this radical admins
tratiOn costs the people in
year, more than they paid the
year before, S449, $50 10. |
And the expenses Of the session of
1869 20 to be added which will
reach $500, 900 90
Making a grand excess of s748, $3.50 90
PETERSBURG AND WELDON RAILROAD
BRIDGE AT WELDON, N. Give understand
from the Roanoke Ne,cs that survey has
been completed for the new track, includ-
Roanoke river at Weldon for the Peters
burg and Weldon Railroad Company:
Two routes will be presented to the
Company, one the old route crossing the
river some mile below Weldon, and using
the piers of the old bridge, which are still
in q good condition. The other proposed
route would strike the river on the North
ampton side. some two hundred yards
above the present railroad bridge, cross
ing on the lower end of the upper island,
and would require the building of some
six piers. The latter route would make a
distance of two miles from Garysburg to
Weldon, the former a distance of four,
but the cost of using the old route would
be considerably less.
THE religious revival in the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Raleigh is inoreas-
ing.
Nor TRUE.-A correspondent in Cas-
well writes that the statement published
in the Standard of the Goth inst, in regard
to Sam Allen killing some white man who
came with crowd to ''Ku Klux' him, is
totally untrue, and known to be untrue
throughout the neighborhood.
Raleigh Sentinel.
The contradiction of the Standards as
sertion was hardly necessary, as that paper
seldom tells the truth in such cases unless
by accident.
PoLITICAL.-Captain Plato Durham, of
Oleaveland county, has been nominated
for Congress by the Conservatives of the
Seventh Congressional District.
Mr.. G. M. Whitesides, of Rutherford,
has been renominated for the Senate from
the 38th District, composed of the coun-
ties of Rutherford, Polk and cleveland.
W. ?. Welch has been renominated for
the House from Haywood county.
WESTERN DIVISION OF THE w. n. G. r. r.