Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-05-26
STATE NEWS.
Hiilsboro' hes highway robbie RI.

| Raleigh Is entirely without light in the
street lamp.
NewbeEn pays its policemen $50 per
month.
Heavy rain and hail in Charlotte last
Wednesday.
The Newbern Journalof Commerce has
been shown an onion weighing 30 onces.
An additional steamer is to he put on the
RIVER between Warrington and Turboro.
A ma ignant type of measles is prevail
ing at the Penitentiary.
| The SO,aherne7' says that 81 colored la
borers LETT that place last Wednesday, to
work on sugar plantations In Louisiana.
Memorial services 10 Hillsboro yes.er-
day. F. N. Strndwick, Etq WAS to have
deliS cred the address.
Mr.. Davis Cox, aged II. and Mrs.
Sophie Doxie. aged 45. hymeneated in
Elizabeth City tho other day.
Jones Fuller. colored. of Edgeccsnbe,
has been given five years in the Peniten-
tlary for barn burning.
The ladies of Williamson. Martin coun-
ty. sre raising funds to bnild Baptist
| Church edifce there.
Persons from the up country represent
I
| the rust
The Presbyterian gives a short account
of tae Memorial Services in Fayetteville
on the 10th inst. Rev j. c. Huske acted
as Chaplain on the occasion, and j. FL.
Myrover, Esq, delivered the oration.
The Tarbcro' ISout1er-ae, regrets to hear
that in many sections of the county the
growing cotton crop has been seriously
damaged by the late cold weather, causing
it to rot to u considerable extent.
Jack SCOTT, convict in the Penitentiary,
! from EdgecOmbe county, died in that ln-
stitution on lest Monday night. Jack WIS
in for term of five years.
Mr.. Willie D. Brysn, of Tarboto', has
been appointed Express Messenger on the
TarborO' branch of the W. & W. Railroad,
vice Mr.. G. D. Horne. resis n sd.
| j. f. Lamonde was overhauled IN New
bern on Tuesday, for selling uns.amped
! tobacco and calling it bacon. The contis-
ca ion Uf one pair mules, one wugOn and
| two hundred pourd DIS tobacco Was the cOL-
sequence.
The Raleigh Telegram learns that
warehouse for the sale of Tobacco has been
| established at Durham, the headquarters
of Smoking Tobacco Manufacturing in this
State.
The RobeSonian tells US how one little
negro about l3 years old, Ku-Kluxed an
other little ditto az ed 8, on last Sunday,
| a. the residence of M. Zach Fillmore, about
II miles from Lumberton. by filling him
chock full of bullets from a shot gun.
The Hillsboro' Recorder says The debt
of Orange county Is about $780, 900. An
election was held last Thursday "Tax or
no Tax to know if the Pc ople were willing
to enlarge the tax SO as to pay the county
out. By a majority of some SO or 60, the
people decided "no tax"
travelling correspondent Of the R0-
aaoke Nelcs, who has travelled extensively
| in the Eastern and Middle portions of the
State within the last five weeks, gives it as
his opinion that there will be at least one
third less cotton planted this season in the
sections alluded to, than last year.
Thus the Hillsboro' Recorder Not a half
i crop of apples this year, and the peaches
and cherries are rotting and falling of. E.
| The wheat has been damaged by the Hes
| sian f1y, and has now the rust in it's blades.
But the recent sunshine has brought it out
some, and the prospect for wheat crop is
more encouraging.
Somebody fooled the Tarboro' people
| badly the other day. Huge placards an
nounced that Prof. Bond would walk the
wire on a certain day, and. Of course, a
huge crowd was in attendance at the time
designated. It is needless to say that no
Bond appeared.
DIR. DEEMs.-The st. Louis Adcocate
saws: "When in New York We had the
pleasure of an hour in d.. Deems study.
We found him at work on the concluding g
pages of his f0rthcomiDg book Jesus.
It was commenced nearly three years ago,
and written while building up church
from small beginnings to It's present en-
larged prosperity.
Gov Caldwell1s "Appea" appeared in
Mondays issue of the Nav York Herald,
in advance of its appearance in print even
here in Raleigh. The Go vernon telegraph
ed his "Appeal' 10 the clergy of North
Carolina through the Herald aud on Sun
day too !! What does it mean-shis hot
haste to reach the Herald on the Sabbath
And does The Governor think the Herald
the proper channel through which to reach
the people of North Carolina, including
the clergy Was not the "Appear' in
tended Tor quite another market 10
encourage immigration to our State, eh
Will the Governor give US another card
and explein the matter?-Ral. Sentinel
FROM ROBSON COUNTY. member oi
the Convention of '65. writes the Telegram
from Lumber'O1
1.-The manly and Conservative position
you have taken against the revolutionary
, and illegal course of the last Legislature il
= calling a Convention with less than two
: thirds vote meets with the appreciation o
: all law loving and law-abidipg citizens.
Gnats are 10 season. Bully fer t. Q law
3 loving and law-abiding citizens OF o!G
q Robesop-over the left. Hurrah for Gnat
/ How you would like to be constitution
: maker. Nary time Gnat. THE law low
3 ing and law-abidiug citizens " don't see it
- R0besO1idn.
d The SoorCH FAIR.-We spent day an
: half at this place. The weather was We
and cold and the assemblage small, AM
y mostly from distance. There were abon
forty y. s. soldiers in attendance, foil
armed and equipped. These were said
y y be there for the enforcement of Revenu
= claims. Quite number OF arrests Wer
rs made, fines collected, and some Liquor
seized and an ABUNDANCE drank, b
- the uniformed gentry. We sup