Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-09-15
STATE NEWS.


State.
Trinity College opepd its fall session
with 1O1 students.
A man in Jefferson, Ashe county, raised
forty three bushels of wheat 90 a town lot
an acre and a half in size.
The Newbern Journal of Commerce is
ahead on the pumpkin question. 1t has
seen one weighing 679 pounds, ard meas
ureirg 81 inches in circumference.
Reports from Moore, Chatham and
| Montgomery counties represent the crops
as very poor, and great scarcity and suf-
fering are appreherded.
The Raleigh Sentinel of the 6.h says
that Gov Caldwell returned to the seat of
| Government yesterday, from c visit TO his
home-in the mountains.
II. J. Menninger, Secretary of State,
says the Raleigh Sentinel. who has been
on visit to Europe for his health, is eX-
pected homo The latter part of this month.
| We learn. says the Battleboro Advance,
that few doys since dog was discovered
in the yard of Rev Mr. Barkley, of Nash
county, living near this place, with the
bones Of human being in his mouth
| We have heard no solution attempted Of
this dark mystery.
| ] he CAGES of State rs. Brown, negro,
charged wi h rape, of State as. Pop Oxen
dine, charged with having been connected
with the outlaws, and of State rs. Leach,
negro, charged with burglary, were con-
| .lnued for the term, end the prisoners
ordered to be confined in Wilmington Jail.
"Ly-o7, McDuff
And id he no who first cries
HoLd-enough."
z. I. Lyon & Co. says the Raleigh Sen
tinel. are erecting q very large establish
ment for the manufacture OF chewing and
smoking .tobacco at Durham. This is the
largest establishment of the kind in the
State.
At Robson Superior Court in session
this week, the Robesonian says that VIM.
Coins was arraigne1 under an Indictment
found against him by the grand jury du-
ring this term of the Court for the murder
of Sherwood Locklear, in July last, and
placed on trial. Solicitor Richardson for
the State, and Col. N. A. Mclean and
Col. W. Mel, Mckay for the prisoner
Verdict of mauslaughter returned.
The Lumberton Robesonian says: Some
specimens of genuine English walnuts
have been laid on our-case. for we were
at the case correcting proof ~ the time,
take notice working men, by our Young
friend, Mr.. E1. Mcqueen, of this town.
They are the fruit of tree now growing
on the premises of Mrs. Susan Mcqueen,
in this town and are altogether equal in
size and flavor to those imported from
abroad.
STAGE ACCIDENTs.-There have been,
says the Charlotte Observer of the 5th in
stant, no less than three upsets of late oD
the stage line from the head of the road
to AsheVile. Ia one we understood there
RS
Badger, of Raleigh. though both provi-
dentially escaped injury, but IN another
where the stage horses and all went over
a precipiece Of some fifty feet, Mrs. Eek
hart, daughter of the Hon. Ldwis ThOmp-
son, of BERTHE, was quito seriously hurt.
TOBACCO PEDDLERs IN NORTH CAROLINA.
In reply to a letter from the assessor of
| internal revenue for the Third District OF
| North Carolina, in relation to the practice
| # tobacco peddlers in that district who
| sell to the little shops ''chunks" of tobac
co from boxes, and after emptying the
boxes taking therefrom the stamps, which
they reafix to other packages from fac
| tories hid away, and sometimes from regis
| tered factories, and asking for permission
| to publish an order requiring dealers to
purchase only in original unbroken packa-
yes, the Commissioner says:
Since May Isl peddlers are not required
|
such, and therefore they have no right, IS
peddlers, to sell tobacco. Manufacturers
are only authorized to sell tobacco in full
| pa ckages, put up as prescribed in sec. 62
and stamped as required by sec. 81. Ped
| dlers employed by manufacturers to sell
their goods have no right in this respect
which their principals, the manufacturers.
| have not, and, therefore, such peddlers
can only sell in original and unbroken
\ 1Toh !
| they retail manufactured tobacco OthorW1se
than from original and stamped packages.
SoMNAM BU11sT.--We Wednesday night,
about one o'clock, says the Sentinel, as q
| gentleman was returning from the chop
| at the Marlborough House, he was consid-
erably surprised at something very white
| on the top of house In the middle ward.
Stopping, he watched the apparition, and
ascertain ed it to be a man, and fearing to
call aloud to him, and not exactly COM
pretending the situation, concluded to
remain quiet. The sleeping man, for so
| il proved to be, walked slowly all around
the top of the building three times, then
climbed to the top of large chimney,
grasped the lightning rod with one hand
and striking the position OF one in great
earnest, viewed the heavens, making
several gestures toward the ground. just
at this time very briliaat meteor passed
directly over the sleeping man in the d1-
rection his gesticulation had indicated,
and ended its train near the earth. He
gazed upon it with a smile upon his
countenance, then kneel in an attitude
of prayer, loosing his hold on the lightning
rod. The witness of this strange freak of
the sOmnambulist now became alarmed
for his safety in this position, and hailed
him in q loud and commanding voice,
which awakened the sleeper, and he care
fully climbed down from his perch on the
lOhimna1 tom and nniatlY returned to his