Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-25
Dull times complained of everywhere.


Weldon is to have another drug store.
Ex-Governor Holden was expected to
arrive in Raleigh yesterday.
There are over two hundred visitors at
Piedmont Springs
Daniel W. Price. an old citizen of Gas
we'll. died in Danbury on last Tuesday.
man named John Jackson is confined
in Stokes county Jail, charged with coun-
J terfeiting nickel coios.
The Raleigh Sentinel has an egg plant
19 inches in circumference and weighing
2 pounds.
The Winston Sentinel says that the
drouth IN that section has been very severe;
The upland corn will be almost q total
failure, and tobacco will scarcely average
half-a-crop.
i The Weldon News says Some hundred
or more Federal troops passed here yester.
day evening en- route from Raleigh to Old
Point. SO North Carolina is sufficiently
quiet to allow the departure of Federal in
reference.
A fellow in Raleigh named Wicker, a
defaulting clerk in the City Market, to the
amount of $7OO, was nominated as Jus
tice of the Peace by the Radicals, in less
than one week after his defalcation had
been exposed. How is that for g hone sty
and integrity in office ?"
The Raleigh Era is hefty on the rattle
| snake question. It says that Mr.. Blake,
of Wake where's John 81. Bone- p. re-
| gently came across q rattlesnake in the
| woods. and when it showed fight, quietly
| caught it around the neck and chOked it
| playfolly awhile, and then threw it on
| the ground and crushed it with his heel.
The Salem Press records the death, on
last Monday, of Col. Isaac s. Gibson, of
| Winston He had been smoking in the
porch, as was his wont. and had gone into
| the house for glass of water. After
drinking the water, he passed pleasant
remark with one of the members of his
family, and approached desk IL which
| he kept his papers, Before he could open
drawer, which he essayed to do, he fell
| backward upon the floor, and expired in
! few seconds.
The Rockingham Observer says: One
| of the best appointed manufacturing es-
| Establishments to be found in the entire
| South is situated on Falling creek, within
| the corporate limits of our town, and
known by the name and style OF the
| "Great Falls Manufacturing Company"
| A head of water, Of about forty feet ele-
vation affords the motive power, which,
operating through an iron f1ume, on tur-
bine wheel, enables the company to weave,
except during a very dry season, from five
| to six thousand yards of sheetlng daily,
and supply the looms with all the neoes-
sary thread. The style OF goods made is
not surpassed by the products of any mill
In tho country.
Rhodosville township, Lincoln county,
| in the recent election, gave Alfred j. Nor
rison, the Conservative candidate for Con
vention, one hundred and thirty-thfee
wIila his sG6i6 not oct q
VOTE"
The Fayetteville Eagle says There is
sCme talk of getting O small steamer again
to run on the upper Cape Fear in Harnett,
from near the Falls below Ellington, to
Haywood and to Lockville on Deep River.
Some years ago the light steamer j. 81.
Haughton. was used there proftably. This
part of the river is navigable nearly all the
time and o small steamer there would
afford Ellington and vicinity direct con-
nection with the Chatham X. T., both at
Haywood and LockSille.
Says the Goldsboro' Messenger The
| first bale Of new cotton was received by
our townsman, A. Day, Esq. from Mr.. W.
J. Perry, of Falling Creek, Lenoir county,
on Tuesday. the 18th inst. Its weight was
427 pounds and is graded as low middling.
It has been forwarded by Mr.. Day to the
Messrs Dibble, Worth & Co., at New
York, to be sold. Many of our readers
| will remember that it was Mr.. Perry who
shipped the first bale of new cotton last
year. This season he succeeded in getting
| to market ten days earlier. He is an en-
terprising farmer. Our Wilmington ex-
changes will please make note OF this.
| A descent from the sublime to the ride
ulous may sometimes be effected by the
substitution of but a few words. For in
l kolr ho nj
1" You may break. you may shatter tho vase if
But the scent of the roses WILL hang round it
| still"
/ And read it thus
"You may break. you may shatter the vase II
you choose to-,
used to-"
j There are 45O, 900 miles of telegraph wire
in Europe. 100. 900 in America, IA, 900 IN
India, and 10, 900 in Australia. There are
in addition 80, 900 miles of submarine ca
. BILE, and yet telegraphic extensions through
, out the world are going on at the rate OF
100, 900 miles of wire per annum.
} In time the mulberry tree becomes a
silk gown, and silk gown becomes wo-
J man.
: The tide of European passenger travt
has turned for the season. Americans are
beginning to come back TO Amerlcs'
A company has been incorporated in
California with S., ,OOO 600 capital to con-
s'ruct eight canals for the irrigation of the
entire San Joaquin Valley.
The Renfrew Manufacturing Company.
organized in 1869. run 25. 900 spindles,
turn out weekly 100000 yards OF ging
, hams, employing 600 hands.
A few nights since, at a late hour. the
speaking tube at the office door OF one oi
, New Haven's popular physicians was used
by some midnight :caller to the following
effect
!, The Doctor was in sound sleep, wheI
= he was partially awakened by " haiioo
3 throuph the tube, when the following dia-
logue took place " Well, what do you
want ?" "Does DIR. Jones live here ?'-
t eyes what do you want ," Are you