Wilmington journal., 1871-07-21
STATE NEWS.
swbern has ripe grapes.

Considerable building going on il
Raleigh.
: J. w. Holcomb, Esq., is the Conve n
t tIon candidate in Yadkin county.
The colored Methodist of AshevilIe ar,
building themselves new Church.
} Bountiful rains and promising crops il
Halifax.
Turtle soup is standing item with the
Raleigh locals.
It is estimated that there are IL, 1874 Ma
sons in North Carolina.
Tarboro' is organizing a base ball club
raleigh has organized its Lodge OF Z
of P.
Raleigh had base ball match game yes
terday afternoon.
Raleigh has had a good rain. First il
six weeks.
The oat crop in Buncombe county is
almost an entire failure.
Association.
| Charlotte has begun to shoot its spare
! dogs.
The Biblical Recorder. of Raleigh, has
finished it's 35th volume
Rail communication between Raleigh
and Fayetteville is now complete.
WesIly Pittman was badly cut by James
Cormick. both colored, III Edgecombe, on
last Sunday.
The Salem Press tells how "a valuable
horse (or mare owned in that neighbor-
hood, committed suicide last Tuesday.
DR. H. E. T. Manning, of Weldon, who
hoH lat oil lNoo
returned home.
Mr.. Arthur Daniel, a highly esteemed
citizen of Weldon, died rather suddenly o3
Wednesday laat.
The Radicals Of Stokes county met IN
Convention recently and refused to make
any nomination for the State Convention.
The Sentinel has been shown a corn
field pea-pod, grown in Raleigh, feet 2
inches long.
The revenue authorities in the western
part of the State are vigorously railing Oh
the distillerles.
A man in Leaksvile. it is said, has in
vented boat that will sail up stream bJ
the action of the current.
Ex-Prasident Davis is soon to visit the
Ocean House, at Beaufort, per Invitation
of MIR. S. r. Streets, the proprietor.
The g and Lodge of the I. 0. o. F. Of
this State mee,s in Raleigh next Wednes-
day.
The first through freight train from
Fayetteville, bound north over the Raleigh
& CASTOR Railroad, passed Raleigh on
Friday last.
Sheriff B. s. Buobanon, of jackson, says
the Raleigh Telegram, has been jailed in
Raleigh, charged with embeZzlement CT
taxes. No particulars.
Tho commission TO examine into frauds
and corroptions, appointed by the present
General Assembly, last session, consisting
# Attorney General Shipo, Gen. j. G.
Martin, and J. B. Bachelor. Esq, is now
in session in Raleigh.
The news from Pitt and Beaufort conn-
ties, and from other portions of Eastern
Carolips, is in effect that the cotton and
co1n crops are the finest since the war.
The Patriot says Mr.. Lowe, of Gull
ford, has invented a process of drying
fruit, which gives it very bright color
and prevents the worm from getting in 1t
after wards. 1t is patented.
Henderson Young, the negro who was
convicted at the last term of the Mecklen-
burg county Superior Court of the murder
of Mr. Edward Smith, of that county, was
hung in Charlotte on Friday.
No little interest is manifested in To-
caIity in Charlotte, by those who live near
q pubic well, from which part of an arm
and several pieces of the flesh of an infant
have been taken.
The Tarboro' Soutaerner records the
| demise, in Edgeconlbe county. on las
Sunday, of three colored children, two
| boys and girl. One of them fell in the
| " ater and the others we're drowned with
him, in the attempt to save him.
Rev. I. G. Vass, of Newbern. and Rev.
DR.. T. H. Pritchard. Rev. 81. Z. Hudson
aud Rev. J. V. McNamara. of Raleigh, are
the orators on the occasion of the grand
temperance demonstration 10 take place III
Raleigh on Monday, July II.
It il proposed to have grand supper
at the Yarboro1gh House. IN Raleigh, on
next Thursday evening, on the occasion OF
the Annual Session of the Grand Lodge 1.
o. 0. F.. which meets next Wednesday.
In speaking of the meeting Of the Stock
| holders of the n. G. Il. b.. held in Greens
boro' on Thursday, tho Raleigh Telegram
SAYS It has been rumored on our streets
| for the past day or SO, that more lDlunc-
tions have been ISSUED and will be served
npon the Governors appointees aud Stare
Proxy, and it is anticipated by soma that
this Injunction will dissolve the meeting of
| the Stockholders.
The Rntherfordton Vindicator has been
! informed that many Democratic citizens
| have been arrested for violation CT the
revenue laws, while their Radical neigh
bors known to be guilty of .hese violations
have not been molested, or If arrested
have gotten off by compromising with the
revenue officials.
One hundred and twenty-nine home
steads in this county are to be sold by the
Sheriff for the taxes, on the 9th day OF
August next.
The present Constitution protects the
'poor mans homestead" with ven
geance.-Lumberton Robesonisn.
We regret to learn, says the Newbern
Times, that q serious fire occurred on the
Egypt plantation about 20 miles from the
city last Saturday afternoon, which resulted
in the destruction of large three story
house, grist mill, cotton screw, out houses
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