Wilmington journal., 1871-08-11
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
A buck weighing 2O2 pounds WIS killed
near Enfield, on the 2 inst.
TIE Tag e,teville Etgle has enter-d upon
the fourth year of it's existence.
The Salem rress calls most pa; he ticaliy
for ram.
There are At papers and periodicals
published in this State.
j. T. Labiaux denies the report that he
is to become editoriaiiy connected with
the r .ieigh Era
Winnie Ream. the celebrated sc1lp'ress,
is engaged upon bust Of Rev. DR.. Q. T.
Deems.
The grape growers of Goldsboro' and
vicinity, are SHIPPING large Quantity Of
this fruit North.
The Radicals are 10 test the eIectisn Ct
the Magistrates in Cherlotte township,
Meckleubarg County.
The Weldon News continues to hear
fattering reports of the crops throughout
it's section.
1t is said that Logan has fifty citizens
of RntheIf~rd county in Jail at Ruther-
fordton.
1heIe was to have been a grand Tenn
perance celebration at Fayetteville ye,ter-
day.
Col. VIM. Johnston. OF Charlotte. b AZ
recently presented the Independent Hook
and Ladder Company of thatcity with $50
It is rept rted that d female Child was
recently born at Rich Square, Northamp
ton county, with ''chignon" on lis head.
The Southern Home tells of vineyard
near Charlotte, belonging to DR.. Daniel
Asbury, which contains 3, 400 vines.
The Charlotte Democrat thinks that
Charlotte is destined to be the greatest in
land city South of Baltimore.
Hon. John W. Norwood, of Orange. has
been chosen to deliver the Annual Address
before the State Agricultural Society.
On Friday last near the residence o! Dr.
B. E. Pearson. in Greene county, a colored
man shot aud killed himself accidentally
while handling g1n.
The proposition of running road
steamer from .alia, via Nashville TO
Battltboro' is b ing agitated by prominent
ci'izer of Nash 'unty.
Tue Presby terians IF Goshen Copgrega-
tiOn, CASTOR county, want TO secure the
services Of young minister, who will de-
vote his whole time to his charge.
% the night of the 23d ult., during
terrific gale, the schooner Musco7ado went
ashore n Body's Island and is completely
lost.
1t is said that ON two to three hun
dred illegal votes were polled in Raleigh
at the election. numbers repeating tht ir
votes having come in jnsf before nigh.
The S4lem Pr es says: The campaign
just ended was one Of thu nnoss djsgt aca ful
ever witnessed in this State, rendered so
by the unscrupu!ous conduct of onr oppc-
nents. It is 20 be hoped that, fer the
honor o. the old North State there will
never be such another.
The Postoffice Department las es:ab-
lished money ord: offices, to go into eff
feet on the first inst. : Enfield, Rocky
Mount, High Point. Kinston, LumbertoD,
Rutherford :on, Williamson and Wilson.
The Weldon News says: John Wyatt,
the father of Henry Wyatt-the fist man
that was killed in the late war between
the North and Sonth, he, it will be re-
membered, being killed. while scouting at
Little Bethei-is now, and has been for
twelve months, an inmate of the poor
house of Pitt county. Although he has
lost health, property aud friends, his
spirit is unbrokep, and on Thursday last
he went to the polls and voted for Conven-
ton.
Our correspondent from Pitt, says the
Weldon News, Gays that there ere many
new bills Of the denomin alton of S., on
the Continental National Bank of New
Pork, now in circulation in that county, |
and as they can all be traced to Radical |
sources, it gives confirmation to the report |
that large amounts of money have been |
sent to this State by Northern bondhold- |
ers to influence the late election.
The Raleigh Telegram learns that Mid
shipman Perrin Busbee, of. that city, who |
and who has been awaiting
celved the same. He is to report on
board tbe q. 8. Steamer Iroquois, on the
l6sh inst, now fitting out at Philadelphia
Tor the Pacific Squadron, Commodore
Rogers ommanding.
The Goldsboro Messenger, in speaking
II colored men who dared to vote the
Conservative ticket, says Such are ostra-
sized, insulted, turned out OF Societies, and
ire even to be expulsed from church. One
)f these colored men informs us that he
lrrdly thinks his life secure. A colored
nan. and we have his name, said publicly
n one OF the colored churches on Sabbath
asst that "there was wolf in the church,
md he must be got OUT" referring to a
member of the congregation who had
'oted with the whites.
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