Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-05-12
HftTE NEWS.


Salem has a ga: that kills moe Asin
snakes.
Very heavy rails at Weidoa last We'd
nesdav.
j. f. Pace has been elected tax c0lectcr
of Salisbury.
ing w5ll-
There is sai to b, good deal of coun
terteis % :ney In circulation i'll this Stntf.
Asheville has succeed al i'll tcciiOg three
Democratic COnmls~lo r. iptw.t Ia hca!s
! Commission. rs aud a Ead.cal Mayer.
The Weldon Nescs con IL .ins of the great
scarcity Of money thr shout The Roarose
50 ctiOn.
The body of a co o. ed IN an, yet not
identifi d, was found in the Ro .noke, at
Weldon. last Friday.
The Greenville Erpositor, @. G. Silly.
Editor, has changed to GreeuvilIe COnser-
rqire.
There will be a "Pony Penning" at
Shacklefori Banks, near Beaufort, next
Wedne day.
A lad, son of DR.. Drury Lacy, fell and
broke his arm at the Skating Rink in
Raleigh.
On Friday last, shortly after noon, the
negro Youngblood was executed at Smith
field, for the murder of Draughan.
The Winston Seutine! has seen bundle
of oats, of So stocks, containing 5000
grains, the product of one grain. raised
BY VIM, B. stype, Esq, of Lewisville.
The Asheville Citizen regrets to learn,
that Mr.. Jacob siller, an old and highly
respected citizen of Macon County, died
on Saturday last.
It is said that wheat 10 the Western por-
ton Of this State will be ready to out
twenty days earlier than heretofore. The
crop bids fair to be fine and abundant.
The Sentinel says that since the death of
Elk Gov. Chas. Manly, there is but one
surviving member of the class that eradu-
ated at Chapil Hill in 1S14-Dr. Alexander
Long. of Salisbury, aged 80.
The Win~ton Sentinel says two soldiers
| of the war Of 1912, aged respectively 80
and SO. lately walked from the Pilot Noun
tain to Winston, d s'anc3 of abyus %
milee. for the purpo 8 of making applica-
tion for pensions, under The new pension
law Of Congress.
! On Wednesday at meeting of the
Stockholders OF the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Il, r, at Columbia, s. @ 4,
Col. VIM. Johnston Of Charlotte, n. c.,
was re ell. c*ed Pret ident, and Gen. Alex
ander was elected Snpe tendent
The Charlotte Democrat complains OF
the perverse ADD wicked id entss of the
negroes of that locality, and their dispo-
sition to stand around corners and loaf at
public places, and attend every gathering
Of the public.
The Weldon Ne~s seys thai, on Wed
nesday Mr.. Walter B. Jordan, of Virginia,
mstrimouy, in Weldon, to Miss Pattie B.
Alston, daughter of Mrs. DR.. William
! Aston, of Halifax county, and grand
daughter of Governor Burton, deceased.
The Ashevitle Citizen is Informed by
gentleman from Jackson County, that tie
Union League in at connty, exec Can.
non and Hampton who are at HayW ODD
Court, have taken to the woods and have
succeeded in bush whacking the ''Reve-
nue. Department" out of the county.
One ". r. Howle, a sub contractor on
| the Chatham E. r.. has made complaint
of maltrestnc1t at The bands of disguised
! persons. but the Telegram says that "the
reliability and truth of his statements are
| subject TO doubt. The matter will under
go Judicial investigation in few days.
We regret to learn, says the Weldon
Neses, that the Rev. Mr, Owen. of Tar
boro', WHO recently visited B.t.more ith
vi. W Of eudt aeOring 10 recover toe sight
of bis LEFT eye. which he has entirely lost.
has returne home without Icing able to
have anything done for its relief. The
mC st celebrated o, tic;ans declared the
sight Eopclessly Lest.
GooD NEws-A friend. who has been
travelling the past week or two, in tie
counties south IF hi, informs us that
there never has be- such a splendid
prospect for wheat there now is in
Davidson, Davie. Randolph, Rowan, Ire
dell and CataWh la coupties, but that in
Castor, Lincoln and Cleaveland, tho pros
rect Is not SO encouraging
He als o iDfurms Us that The sentiment
in favor of Convention is spIe ding with
gratifying rapidly; and that he stopped
at one place in CASTOR -Cherryville-whe
there was not a single white man in the
entire neighborhood appose1 to it,
Salem Press.
CHARLOTTE, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA
RAILROAD. -At the meeting OF the stock
holders of the Charlotte, Columbia and |
Augusta Railroad, held at the Nickerson
House, on Wednesday. there was a very |
full representation, and Colonel Johnston |
was reelected almost unanimously as Presi- |
UOh'' 20 Otu OOaAu VI ul4CCbOIS WSF0 TO- |
cleo ed. with the following EXCEPTIONS:
Colonel T. j. Roberts in place of G. D. |
Melton, declined, and Colonel Palmer in |
place of General Quattlebaum. General |
r. P. Alexander was elected general super |
iptepdept.
AN INGENIOUS PRINTING MAeHfNR.-Mr. |
Robert E. Draper, of North Carolina, has |
on exhibition at the hardware store of |
Messrs. Plummer. Young & Co. printing |
machine invented by himself. which dis |
plays extraordinary ingenuity in its con- |
struction, and if it meets the expectation |
of its inventor, will create a revolution in |
the printing business. This machine dis
penses with the use of movable types, and |
is SO simple in Its management that any |
one who has no knowledge of the printing |
business can learn to operate it in short |
time. All Northern newspapers of large |
circulation stereotype their forms. The |
type are first set up and made mp into COL
umns and pages, and then an impression |
is made upon a soft paper or pulp, some
thing like blotting paper. This paper is |
then put in the matrix and the stareotxpa |