Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-07-28
STATE NEWS.

The colored people OF tayetteVlIie nave
4 skating rink.
Mr.. Clement c. Clawson, of Raleigh, has
pltented a revolving ice-shaver.
II. Il. Helper. the "Trrepressible Crisis
man, is postmaster at Salisbury.
Dry Pond P. O., in Lincoln county, has
. been rc-opened.
In Newborn cotton 17(918 cents u fb,
and corn S0C0S5 cents T. Dushel.
The Newbern Journal of Commerce has
he'd watermelon weighing As! TBS.
Pic-ncs and excursions are the order OF
d the day all over the State.
A skating rink las been opened at Kit
tr rs Springs.
Thermometer only 60 in Newbern On
\ Monday.
Twenty thousand dollars has been sub
scribed towards rebuilding the Roanoke
Valley r. r.
A negro by the name Of Tyler was killed
4 Nv lightning near Oxford, on Wednesday
4 O. lat week.
It is thought that over 5000 persons
s vrrc in Wadesboro, on last Friday, at the
\ iauGing
All conviots sentenced TO the peniten-
t..rv fer two years or more will be receiy-
s IL o. md after 1st day of August.
Fayetteville is soon to have road
n .t.amer Six thousand dollars have been
Y u1scfibed for that purpose.
The colored people of Elizabeth City
.g5 q Zeal Estate and Building Asso-
B c.-Io4.
Carey ". Granger, Young North Caro-
i 'iulaD, carried of the highest honors at
s. the commencement Of the Virginia Mill
S tuy Institute.
DE- Ningate, President Of Wake Forest
1 College, proposes to spend his GUNNER
A vacation IN the mountain region Of this
state.
The Telegram says that Mr.. John 4.
D4u, OF Raleigh, has been appointed
.,ufe Agent on the railroad between that
lace and Fayetteville
Rev. Columbus Durham, Of Rutherford,
ll.tacr of Hon. Plato Durham, has az
: cepled q call TO the pastorato Of the Bap-
j TIT church in Goldsboro
y. g. R:cks. E.q, worthy citizen of
E.-h county, died las: woek at his resi-
utnco III hat county.
Hoh.rs Rogers. Esq is tine Convention
~
Il. Martin in PasquOtanE.
4 rooster with horns on his head ressm-
bling the syurs OF tho fowl, Is the latest
cnriO7ity in Charlotte.
Hillsboro' contemp lH tes establishing a
National Bans, aud few prominent gen
tlemen have sub cribcd thereto
The Weldon News says that the late
rains have materially injured the pc sch
crop in that section. At The same time
cotton is gro"i1g most rapidly.
Y. s. Lu-k, the Ra7ic4l Solicitor of the
lth Judicial Di tIict, has been app 5inted
special Q. S District Attorney to operate
under the Infamous Ku-Klux Law.
Ambrose McGinnis, colored. was shot
and probably mOrtalIy wounded at ii g
hands Of Geo. Stewart at a house of Ill
..me, in Charlotte. on last Saturday night,
as wo learn from the Observer.
Th Pee Dee Herald speaks thus dole
4 rlIly It has been nearly three weeks
-iuce we had rain enough to lay the dust
Z this cotton, and the corn is already dy-
Irg and FILLING down, while the cotton l.
shedding It's fqr ares, and if we do not get
rain in the course OF day or two, there
VII not be helf crop made.
The acts of Assembly, public and private,
and the journals and documents, are all
printed aud will be delivered shortly. The
Secretary Of State has the distribution in
and
Five men were recently poisoned in
Ashe county, from drinking strychDine
whisky. At last accounts three OF them
wcrl not expected to live.
John W. Maroon, Esq, foreman of the
book and job department of the Raleigh
) ntineI, was caned last Saturday by the
employees of the Sentinel office. 1t was
silver headed.
The Newbern Times learns by a letter,
that DR.. John A. Mcdonald, of Washing
ton, n c., who was injured by being
thrown from his buggy few days since
mad his leg amPutated on Wednesday.
Jacob Karrer. Esq an old and worthy
citizrn of R4leigh. and a native of Ger
many, died at his residence in that city
on Saturday, after an illness of about 1
weeks duration.
Telegraphic communication between
Fayetteville and Raleigh has been agreed
upon. The Western Union Telegraph
Company is to furnish material, operators
Offices, &c, and the two railroad com
panies are TO put up the poles and wire
md keep up the line. So says the Fay
etteville Eagle.
The Kalelgh Seulnel chronicles tus
death by suicide, on last Saturday even
ing, Of Mr. Bennett r. Utley, of Wake
aged % in the woods near his father
house, about 9 miles from Raleigh. Ht
irst attem pted to cut his throat and after
wards discharged the contents of sho
gun into his head.
We learn says the doldsboro' Messenger
tbet Drs. Kirby and Miller removed from
Tempe Whitfield, colored woman living
near this place. Oh the 18Th inst, by cut
ting through the walls Of the abdomen, {
full grown foetns. the product of an extrf
uterine CESSATION extending through u pc
Rod of over three years. The mother il
still alive and doing well with every pros
pect of a speedy and complete recovery.
Our section, says the Battleboro Ad-
vance, OF the Dist inst, was visited by 6
severe hail storm las. Saturday evening
which blew down the trees and fences, anc
IN some places seriously damaged the crops
Some OF the drops were as large as a man
thumb. The principal scene of it's rava-
ges was the rich country Just below thi.