Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-09-15
STATE NEWS.

Johnston county has two tax collectors
tor the year 1871.
Grand roller Skating reception in
Raleigh last night.
rha Tobacco crop of Buncombe and the
.a;oining counties is said to be good.
o.lisbury boasts of bottle of Nash
brandy forty years old.
The farmers of Haywood propose to orr
oonize en- agricultural society.
The Charlotte Columbia and Augusta
railroad has passed into the contract of
.Se Pennsylvania Central Railroad.
There are at present % white and IA col
o,ed prisoners in the Wake county jail
0f the % whites, Is are United States
prisoners
ONLY 81 Superior Court Clerks have for
r.rded their bonds to the State Auditor
Of Raleigh. The days of grace expired on
Tuesday
The store of George Goodlake, in Ashe-
,;lIe, was entered by burglars on Monday
riobt and robbed of come fancy articles
and cutlery.
Dayie county, seized on Wednesday last
uapon and team and a load of whiskey and
tobacco.
The celebrated "Walter Raleigh" Soup
rernong vine, on Roanoke Island, is said
10 be nearly 300 years old. Some 50, 900
worth of wine was realized from it last
year.
The Sentinel says that there are thirty
one counties in this State in whose county
aiIs are confined one or more lunatics
OF 70 ho
asylum.
The Raleigh Sentinel says that there are
d delinquent registers OF deed who have
failed to forward their abstracts of taxes
az by section % of an act to provide for
the collection of taxes.
DAN RIVER Coal FIELD r. R.-The
meeting in favor of the Dan River Rail
Road, which was to be held in Statesville,
on last Monday the 4Sh instant, was, upon
consultation of it's friends, postponed to
some further occasion.
Bishop Atkinson will preach a. Kittrell's
Springs on the 18th, in Louisburg on the
18th, Henderson on the 10Th, Oxford the
17th, Williamsburgh the 18th and War
ren,On the Goth inst.
Tue Warrenton Gazette says Mrs. A.
E. Green, widow of Gen. JEFF Green, is
the first to ship bale Of new cotton from
WarreD. Our Warren ladies are always
first in every good and meritorious enter
prise.
GREASY JUsTICE.-At the last Warren
court Judge Watt sentenced Geo. W.
Harris, a white man, for two years to the
usnitentiary for stealing fifty cents worth
Of tobacco. He sentenced Gillis Burns, q
negro and brother Lacquer, for the same
torr, 10 cto limo buSba If oOrD AT kho
close of the rerm he "ommuted the ne
groe' sentence bat not the white mans.
The negro is imprisoned in the county Jail
for four months, while the white man is
sent to the penitentiary. This is cheating
the State out of two years labor, besides
taxing the people of Warren to feed
roguish negro in idleness.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETrNa.-At meeting
Of the stockholders in the W. n. @. r. R.,
held at Marion, August 31st, the follow
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
year:
President-Ool SamI Med. Tate.
Secretary-H. G. Cowles.
Treasurer-G. p. Erwin,
Chief Engineer-Col. Thad Coleman.
Directory appointed by the State-Hugh
E. j. Aston, DR.. F. N. Luckey, Col. A.
O.. Cowles, Joseph O. Mills, @. L. S.
Corpening.
Elected by the private Stockholders-B.
c. Burgin, SamI Med. Tate, John /.
Shaver, and DR.. J. @. Mcdowell.
ARREST OF CAPT. PLATO DURHAM.-We
learn from the Shelby Banner of the 9th,
that on Wednesday lest, twelve .. S. SOL
diers, ''com manded principally by Andrew
j. Scoggins and squash-hesded Hawkins. I"
entered Shelby aud arrested Capt Plato
Durham and marched him off to Logan's
Bla Hole a. RUtherfordton. j. B. Car
penter, Logan's lackey, said at the late
Marion court that he would see that Plato
Durham did not app ar as attorney for the
Black Hole prisoners, and "to verify his
base, cowardly, hellish, unlawful and par
tzan threat" Capt. Durham has been ar
rested and incarcerated in the common
Jail!
Crops IN EDGECoMBE AND NAsH.-A cor
respondent of the Norfolk Journal, writing
from BAttleboro, under date of September
9Th, says shat from conversation with q
number OF prominent farmers in the coun-
ties of Edgecombe and Nash, and from
visits to several large plantations, he is
satisfied that the yield of cotton will be
one third less han it promised in July
The cold weather in the latter part of July,
succeeded by drought, produced blight
WAlOu pION0u 4OSG uASAStIOuSs AA0AO
has been an immense shedding of bolls and
premature opening, which makes the cot
ton-6elds. thus early in September, "white
unto the harvest"
The corn crop is better than usual, and
fine crops generally will be made.
LUTHERAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA.
This ecclesiastical body met last week
IN Pilgrim Church, Davidson county, N.
@. All the clerical members were present
excepting one. Rev. Prof. w. e. Hull
bert from the s. W. Va. Synod was re-
oeived as member of this Synod. Among
the business of special note transacted,
Was the following:
The "Basis of Unicn" between the n.
q. and Tennessee Synods, agreed upon by
the respective committees from these
bodies, was unanimously adopted by the
Synod, and the hope was expressed that
the Tennessee Synod would also ratify
said basis at its next meeting, and the
union consummated. Another item of i'm
portsnce was the following
Resolred, That we dissolve our connec-
ton with The Evangelical Lutheran Gen.
eral Synod in North Carolina" This re-