Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-11-10
STATE NEWS.

D It'll, boru wants t. be q town. Shoe
Fly
The State debt amount, to the snug sum
of $34 ,987, ,419 As.
The Neuse River Paper Mills resumed
work on tuesday.
Chicken cholera is raging in O number
| of counties in this State.
Mr.. Armstrong, of Raleigh. is about to
engage in the manufacture of envelopes.
From 1904 to 1866, the North Carolina
mines yielded about SO, 300, 900 in gold.
The Egypt coal mines are now being op-
Grated and large Quantities of fine coal are
turned out.
Martha Arlington, colored woman, of
Nash county, gave birth to triplets, re-
Gently.
Mr. G. ". Ward, of Batteboro, had 100
pounds of seed cotton to yield 40 pounds
of lint
Good beef may be bought in Weste rn
North Carolina for four and five cents per
pound.
The cotton crops in Nash and Edge
combe counties are coming in rather
short.
The Battleboro Advance says: J. G..
Arlington, Esq, of this county. killed q
buck lest Monday weighing 24O pounds.
The Goldsboro Messenger gays A Mrs
Edwards died near Boon Hill, in Johnston
county, few weeks ago, at the ripe old
age of 1O5 years. She had distinct recOl-
lection3 obl ut the war Of the Revolution.
From the Iarboro Southerner We learn
that railo is to be built from Rocky
70 oli ho lin Of flo
Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad. An organi-
zation Of the company has been effected,
and the treasurer is to collect at once ten
per cent. of the amount subscribed, which
is something over $780,
The Tarboro Southerner says: Who
don't remember "Old Frank johnson
| and how few there are Of the present gen
Grafton that have not tripped their toes tc
his music. The cold gemman" i, now il
| Tar boro, where many of his former admi
rers have furnished him material assist
almost double. His band has been dis
persed, and soon a standing landmark o.
another age will have passed away.
The Raleigh CaroliDian says : The sher
| ifs of the various counties of the State
| are unusually slow in returning their ta1
lists for the year 1871. Two as yet, only
have reported-Caswella and Alexander
and they are second rate tax paying coun
ties since the war.
The time fixed by law for the return e.
the annual tax from all the counties expires
on the 30th Of November.
The point is we'll taken, in the following
extract from the Raleigh Carolinian The
amount of Internal Revenue tax paid II
| this District for the month of October
foots up the snug little sum of $41, 928 30
And yet our member of Congress is not
seated, and q Senator from North Caro-
! lima stands out in the cold, both cases il
| lustratiDg q new principle of government
-Taxation without representation.
The crop of acorns and chestnuts in tht
mountain country is represented to be I'M
precedented, affordipg the people of tha
section a splendid opportunity for porh
raising the coming season. Hogs are nov
| fat, and until the warm weather of mex
spring decays the fallen acorns and chest
nu.s, it will not be necessary to feed an.
corn, whatever. to the hogs of the noun
tain country.
The Collector for this District, Col. I,
Young, says the Oarolinian, has placed il
the Y. .. Depository in this city, to tn
credit OF the United States Treasurer, sine
April II, 1869, one million and twent
Thousand dollars, being the total amour
of internal Revenue tax paid by The pee
pie OF the eight counties composing thi
Collection District, within a period Of tw
years and half. And that's the wav til
| money goes pop goes the weazel