Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-20
The Lutheran Church in Salisbury has
been handsomely repaired.

The Lutheran Church in Salisbury hes
been handsomely repaired.
A TOBACCO factory is to be started in
Fayetteville at an early day.
SOME PIG.--Mr. J. Fl. Leak, of Trinity
College, has killed Chester pig, 19 mon tbs
old, which weighed 622 pounds NET.
GEoRaE V. STRONG. Esq. lately of
Goldsboro', and lawyer of great ability
and recognized prominence, has removed to
Raleigh, and formed law partnership
with Ex-Governor Thos. Bragg.
Capt. w. w. Davies, late conductor
on the North Carolina Central Road, has
resi- isned that position. and Captain T. G.
Arlington, formerly of the Raleigh and
CASTOR Railroad, has been appointed in
his place. Messenger.
WESTERN RAILRoAD-The meeting of
| the stockholders of this road in Fayette-
vile was postponed from Wednesday last
sence of the State proxy. President and
five Directors will then be elected by the
individual stockholders. and four Direc-
tors appointed by the State.
CAPT. SWIFT GALLOWAY contests the
seat of Gen. G. FL. Brogden as Senator
from Greene and Wayne counties, claim
ing to have received a legal majority of
the votes cast in those counties in August
last. Formal notice has been served upon
Gen. Drogden aud an investigation will be
instituted on the 23d inst.
The Weldon Ne,cs says that Mr.. Richard
ii. Smith, the President of the Roanoke
and Tar River Agricultural Society, has
appointed the following gentlemen as the
Executive Committee of said Society for
the present year Messrs. Peter E. Smith,
W. w. Brickell, G. Ell. Macon. VIM. Ell.
Shields, J. Buxton Williams, Richard p.
Spiers, James II. Tbigpen. James Sim
Timely notice will be given of a meeting
EQUAL JUsTICE.-We learn that His
Honor, Judge Watts. passed the follow
ing sentences this week:
A negro. who was convicted Of stealing
q dog. was sentenced to two years in the
Penitentiary.
Two other negroes were indicted for
stealing a COW, and both convicted. One
! of the party was discharged, while the
other was put in jGH for four months!
Ii a cow is worth $75, and imprisonment
10 jail four months considered an equiva-
lent therefor, what is the value of dog,
at two years confinement to hard labor in
the Penitentiary. We submit this as O
mathematical problem.-Senti1aeI.
RALEIGH is to have Junior Temperance
Society.
Weldon has the new patent postoffice
lock boxes.
Ice five and six inches thick and plenty
of skating at Salem.
In the Eastern part of the State. good
farm hands receive from $8 to $40 per
month.
A SPECIAL term of the Halifax county
Superior Court, will convene at Halifax
| tomorrow.
THE last performance, of the season, of
Mrs. Oates troupe, was given in Raleigh
last night.
GEO. w. FoUsT. Esq, OF Guilford coun
| ty, engaged in d distilllng spirits. recently
had 800 worth of revenue stamps entire
ly destroyed by rats.
The Sentinel hits ha.d. when it says that
"Pool and Abbott are fighting men, pro-
vided, always, that some one else will do
the fighting"
| SOME of the Radical officials at Raleigh
have been borrowing" wood and Goa
from the public stores. The Grand Jury
will act on the matter.
The Newbern Republican learns that 6
movement will soon be made to have q
ship canal cut through from the Neuse &c
Newport river, thus making direct line
to the ocean vie Beaufort narbor.
There is much cotton yet remaining in
the feld-we heard gentleman say, few
days since, that he had one hundred bales
yet unsecured. We fear that much of the
crop will remain unpicked, owing to the
want of hands in many sections.
Weldon NeOs.
The Battleboro Adcdnce says that Dos
sey Battle, Of Rocky Mount, the politica
renegade, has given up the idea of moving
] to Texas, and still hangs out his shingle
in the neighboring thorough" Some
people could very we'll afford to leave their
country for their country's good.
ANOTHER INSTANCE OF RADICAL RoGUERY
John l.. Pennington, who, during the
war, edited paper in this city, and was
known generally by the sobriquet Of
''rascal john" is now one of the wealth J
men of Alabama. He left this State just
after the war, as poor in pocket as he was
in reputation, and took up his residence
in Alabama. where, by negro votes, he
was made State Senator. Johns party
friends soon discovering what a shrewd
and accomplished rascal ne is, made him
head centre of the 'tRing," through the
| agency of which he became a railroad
President; and now, without ever having
done an honest days work, he is said to
be worth over 500, 600. He owns q large
amount of valuable real estate in and
about Opelika. Sentinel.
| MR. EDITOR saw in this morning e
telegram what shocked me very much.-
Gen. Abbott intends to contest with Gov.
Vance his seat in the Senate. on the ground
that all the votes cast for Vance were nuh
]ities because of his disabilities.
say this shocked me, for though am
an ardent republican, believe in fair
play. If this Congress had always acted
upon the principle that votes fox one under
disabilities were blank votes. then it might
be proper now SO to act. But when the
whole State Government, elected by the
republican party. had to be relieved after
their election, it 10 unjust to act on a differ
ent rule. -..s
Mr.. Abbott is not the choice of the re-
publican party of North Carolina. and If
it had been thought that Congress would
vary from its former precedent, and let In
the minority candidate, he would not have
received the republican vote.
lam satisfied Mr. Editor. that IL the