Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-09-08
STATE NEWS.

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A new Presbyterian Church is being
erected in Tarboro.
Raleigh has the horse breaking com
plant again.
Dull. duller. dnllest is the cry of the
Tarboro' Southerner.
Msjnr Robert Bingham lectures on
The Bible, ," in Hill ilsboro', next Saturday
eveLlng.
The new road steamer ordered foruse in
Fayetteville, il TO be exhibited at the
State Fair in Raleigh, ntx5 month.
Mr.. r. E. Stamps is to publish shortly.
in boro', a new weekly paper. Demo
attic in politics. So says the Tarboro
| Southerner.
The sum If SIS has been raised in
Charlotte ard paced in the Observer s
| hands, TO be for rWarded to Mr.. John
Wyatt. the father of Henry Wyatt, the
| first Martyr to the Southern cause.
The HiIlsboro' Recorder says that Mrs.
Graham, wife cf Mr.. D D.nlel Graham, of
Orange county, berame entire,y deaf on
Monday last, and her voice will soon be
gone. The aff1 ction fell on her in the
| 'winkling of an eye.
A great revival Of R4ligion, and pro
tfacted meeting has just closed in the
Ba ptIst Ch9rch at Ddrham~ nnder the
and management of tie Rev. f. M {.
J rdan. About twenty one lave made an
open profe sion of their faith.
Newbern received lis first bale of new
cotton on Wednesday l. was shipped by
s. B. West & Co., of KiDs on. to Geo. W.
Dill & Co., Of Newbern, aud is to be sent
on to New York. This we learn from the
Journal of Commerce.
On Sunday last, John Bron, q negro,
charged with the commission of rape upon
khe person of q respectable white lady IN
this county, several weeks ago, was arres-
ted on our streets by the town Constable,
Mr.. j. E. Hartman, and lodged in jail
He will probably be tried during the pres
ent term of the court.
The William ston Spectator says: A gen.
tleman residing in the upper portion of
the county informs us that root doctor
and conjurer, made his appearance in that
section a few days ago, and was soon call
ed on by one Of bis colored friends. who
was suffering with some slight ailment.-
He administered a large dose of his ply
sic, and promised relief, but the patient
instead OF getting better, grew gradually
worse and worse, until at last he was com;
PEELED 'to shuttle off this mortal coil, F." and
the doctor left in great haste for parts IN
known.
Major Townsend of the Cheraw and
Salisbury r. r. and Mr.. MAuny of the
Yadkin r. r. made telling speeches in
the Court House last Friday.
MLjor Townsend said if Arson would
subscribe $25 900 to the Yadkin r. r.
lie had 10 doubt that it wonld be put
through, and he bad no doubt that two
other new Railroads would make thisithe
point of intersection, which, with the two
already nearing US, Wadesboro' would
become great inland distributing market.
and a city OF Importance. We think so
too-and earnstly urge our people to take
stock in this great work.-Wadesboro'
Argus.
The Raleigh Era contains the following:
''AMERICAN LEGATION.
BERLIN, Aug Z, 1871.
His Excellency Tod r. Caldwell,
Sir: [ have had the honor of receiving
your communication of the 9Th of May. in
which you expressed your hope that the
highlands of North Carolina may receive
a large emigration. Be assured it will
always give me the sincerest pleasure to
bear my testimony to the beauty and
natural fertility and salubrity of that
lovely region of country and the hospltalI-
ty of its inhabitants. Western North Car
olina is the Switzerland of the United
States, East of the Mississippi. l have
passed through four of its gaps, and 1
have twice been up or down the valley OF
the French Broad. I hope it may ere
long, be filled with as dense, as industri-
Gus and as free and happy a population
as that of the European Switzerland.
remian yours, since rely
GIG. BANCROFT"
AN OLD CREMoNA FIDDLE ON ITS TRAVELS. |
We saw an old fiddle shipped the other
day from Company Shops to Maryland.-
Col. johnson shipped it to Mrs. DAVIS |
formerly Mics Hollister, of Ralelgh.-
This old vic in was bought In 1645 by the
late Wesley Hollister, at that lme super
intendent of the Raleigh and CASTOR Rail |
road, at sale of old baggage on that
ro4 ID. He paid ton dollars for it. Had 1t
fixed up and strung and loaned Ii
to a lady in Raleigh to play on
This lady offered Mr.. Holiister five
hundred dollars for it and begged
him to name the price. Rnt he wouldnt
sell. At his dealh the fdle was loaned out
and went the rounds, at last landing IN
the hands OF DR.. Stith. of High Point, who
paid fifty dollars for it. In the meantime
Mrs. Davis, of Masyland, wrote to Col.
johnson, the Executor of her fathers es-
late, to look the old violin up, and he did
so, buying it back from DR.. Stith at q hun
dred dollars. Inside of this violin is the
inscripton "Antonius Strsdiuarius, Ore
mon faciebat ammo 1863" The sound
board is of pine and maple. but shaved SO
very thin, that you Can hear the vlbra-
tions of the strings by just pressing the
h0ord With vour Hr0ora UhAn Won tall. .-