Wilmington journal., 1871-07-07
STATE NEWS.


There were six interments in Cedar
Grove Cemetery, in Nevbern, in June.
Only marriages in Craven county in
Jcnc.
Grand temperance demonstration in
Raleigh on the 18th inst.
Raleigh is to have frst-class bathing
saloon.
Tha Campaign has opened gloriously in
Orange county.
Some 80 900 pounds of tobacco were sold
at Darham warehouse on the Goth ult.
Thc blackberry crop in this State is un-
usually large.
Corn and cotton in M ecklenburg prom
i,e an abundant yield.
Thermometer 90 in the shade in. New
bern on Monday.
Catawba county has nominated M. L..
NcCofkle, Esq, for Convention.
Charlotte is to have another Building
Association.
The Convention campaign opens in
V'a.e OF the 12Jh.
Company G, 7th Cavalry, Captain " r.
Har- commanding, is stationed a. Ruther-
foidtOn.
No rain o the vicinity of Rocky Mount
vrt, bling now a month since any has fall
en-
The Winston Sentinel is in possession
ot l. stalks Of oats SIX feet three inches
L.eh, all raissd rom one grain.
There were nineteen marriage licenses
issued in Wake county during the month
Of june.
Capt. p. Horton is announced as the
Conservative can didate for Convention in
Wilkes county.
1t is stated in a Washington dispatch
that q Ile IN all has been ordered over
tue rlir5.d from Charlotte to s atesvile.
The Military Institute of Charlotte is
shortly 20 b. re-OpeneI under the auspices
of Mr. ". Z 'aumont CIarkson.
Three gentlemen Of the Weldon section
are going oI. a prospecting tour to the
Pn.Itic coast.
Inc excursion from Raleigh TO Norfolk.
on the Fourth, about one thousand
strong.
Tnn pr, sent drouth is beginning t. Sc
riousy rt1, ct the crops in some sections,
esPecit!iy where they are not well worked.
Tie Conservatives Of Buncombe county
have inflated Col W. ID. Rankin for
Convention.
IIe temp rance demonstration which
va to have occurred in q oldsbOro' to day,
has been postponed.
lhsre hsve been money orders to the
ruouut Il $l2 5Z8 II issued from the Tar
boro' post ollice during the past six
months.
Mr. 4 J. Reeves, Of Richland Valley,
EgS mi to AGh Ia
CItIz-n wheat straw measuring six feet
aud Sc ven inches in length.
The Warrenton Gazette has a long and
iLt resting description of the Masonic
Celebration OF the Festival of st. John
tae Is pust, in Warrenton, on the Oath ult.
The contract for grading the new route
0i tue i. tlraburg and Weldon Railroad
from Garysburg to Weldon has been
given to L. j.. Hawkins.
We learn from the Shelby Banner that
the barn Of james Witherow was burned
mp teS nigt IS ago. 1t is thought that
the hte vas the work of an incendiary.
l.ttlo son of Mr.. W. S. Royal was
severely but not fatally burned in Colds
boro' on last sunday. The result of ''pop-
ping MATCHES" says the News.
Anneika Jones, a mulatto girl of this
city, died suddenly on the cars of the
North Carolina Railroad at Auburn, on
Sunday morning, on her way to Johnston
county, says the Raleigh Telegram.
The Wake county Radicals have nomi-
mated Mes>r5. S. f. Phillips, Robert s.
Phillips, r. ". Wynne aud James II.
Harris as their candidates for Convention.
severe indisposition prevented Gen.
NJ. ". Ransom from delivering the literary
address before tho societies of Davidson
College
The residence OF Mr. JAS Il. Ray, near
Salisbury, was burned on Sunday morning
aud every thing was lost, says the Salisbury
Examiner. the cause was probably in
cyrdiaTy.
The Washington Express says that a
new steamer to run between that place and
TarbOrO' will be put on the river about the
first of September She will be command
ed by Capt. HattOn.
man named Tosta, the master of O
small sIoop lying at Newbern, was badly
cut ou Saturday night by a razor in the
haLds Of drunken man named Curtiss.
Toeta is very low and CErtiss is in Jail.
! mis- from the Newbern Times.
TIE stockholders of the Raleigh and
Castor Railroad residing in Norfolk, met
on Thursday, aud unanimously declin ed
- sell tn stock in the road to the Penn
Sylvania Central Railroad, in accordance
with the proposition recently made to pur-
chase.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the Atlantic Il North Carolina r. r was
held at Morehead City on last thursday
and F'iday. The session WIS u very in err
estng one, rs we learn from the report In
the Newbern JotrnuL Of Commerce. John
Il, HaugLtou, ksq., holding the State
proxy under authoriev from the speakers
If the Senate and House, while A. Q.
Davis (Radlcal) claimed the same, by virtue
of power rec Ivtd from Gov Caldwell.
The COnserva ives were IN the minority,
and, the meeting having ignored the
proxy held by Mr.. Haughton. they with
drew, carrying with them the Secretary
and hi. report of the proceedings and Or
ganlzed another meeting. The following
D1reckors were then announced J. c.
Washing on. j. d. Flanner, l.. T. Oglesby
and Hon. NJ. e. Manly for the stockhol-