Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-08-23

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The Episcopal Church at .Ringwood,
Halifax county, viii soon be commenced.
Some parts of Robson county have suf-
fered severely from drought.
A negro man. was drowned at Wallis
Ferry On the Pee Dee recently.
f.raarville ia m have brass band. In
struments already received.
lis rumored that . detachment OF n.
G. cavalry Is to be semitic Wadesboro'.
The escaped penitentiary convicts were
heard from Tuesday In johnson county.
A Greeley and Brown Club has been or
ganized in Tarboro'.
DR.. Simmons, the great Liver Invigora-
to. man, is native Of North Carolina.
The Conservatives had their grand dem
onstration In Raleigh last night.
A Tbespian club has been formed at
Durham.
Fayetteville is to have grand Conserv-
alive jubilee on Tuesday night next.
Corn is very promising in Catawba
county.
Some $4,000 changed hands in Raleigh
on the recent election.
The corn crop in Chatham is said to be
suffering for want Of rain.
There was grand bull fight at Cas-
Italia, Warren county, last week.
Raleigh Conservatives jollifcate to-
night.
Mrs. Sallie Smith, wife of Richard Fl.
Smith, Esq, of Scotland Neck, died at
Kittrell's Springs on Wednesday.
Hon. Daniel R. Goodloe, of Warrenton,
has left for Washington City in the inte-
rest of the Greeley canse.
A grand iollification is expected on the
occasion of the Conservative demonstra-
ton in Goldsboro' Monday night next.
Over 400 white registered voters in
Johnston county are said to have stayed
away from the polls at the last election.
A Lodge of the Independent Order of
Good Templars is to be established in Raj
eigh.
The gauge of the North Carolina Rail
road from Greensboro to Charlotte is TO
be widened.
A negro boy, says the Raleigh Sentinel,
was killed by lightning during thunder
storm on Friday.
The tobacco factory of Mr.. Kean, at
Thomasville, was destroyed by fire MOn-
day night. Incendiarism was the cause.
The Public Treasurer OH Tuesday paid
w. p. Burns, Treasurer of Hyde county,
the sum of 81 ,2S3 25, the balance due the
county under the school law.
A negro woman by the name of Davis
was burned to death by the explosion OF a
Kerosene lamp i'll Raleigh on "Wednesday
night.
The Warrenton Gazette says William
May, living near Castalia, although SO
years Old, never took dose of medicine,
and is still vigorous and hale. Occasionally
he suffers slightly from asthma.
The Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad
will soon put larger steamer on the
Roanoke river, to run between Halifax and
HIPS Ferry, in place of the Silver Wave.
Mr.. Reddin Newill, of Enfield, while
walking on trestle near thai place Wed
nesday last, was Overtaken by train, and
knocked off and very seriously injured i'll
The head and chip. 1t is found that his
injuries will prove fatal.
The Democratic and Conservative Exc
cutive Committee of Wake, have the names
of several cOlored boys, under u years OF
age, who voted illegally in the late election
They will certainly be vigorously prose
cuted.
The SherifTs of the Sixth Congressional
District assembled in WadesbOrO', We'd
nesday, for the purpose of comparing the
vote for Congressman. Hon. Thos. 3
Ashe Conservative was shown to have a
clear majority of z, 149.
Capt. Swift Galloway, of Greene, being
a Presidential Elector and desiring to make
vigorous canvass, resigns the chairman
ship of the County Democratic Executive
Committee, and DR.. w. S. Jones is elected
to that position. So says the KinstOn Ga
Zette.
A number of shoes, and a quantity OF
cloth stolen during the recent Hicks rob-
berry and outrage in Wake county, were
resurrected from the garden on the prem
jses of Tom Griffice, one of the negroes
now awaiting trial in the case.
The Battleboro' AdUGnce says The site
has been generously given by Oren Cobb
Esq, for the erection of a neat Protestant
Episcopal Church on Main street, in Nash
vile, n. @. And the means for the build
ing has been mainly contributed by the
friends Of the enterprise.
There is in the neighborhood Of Whita-
ker's Mill, in Nash county, an instance OF
a wonderful development of nature. a
former servant girl of Mrs. Roda Archibald
has had seven successive pairs of twins,
which are all living and healthy. The girl
does not now exceed 35 years. So says
the Battleboro' AdcGnce.
CoUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED.-T W O
white men were brought down ON the train
from Rocky Mount yesterday evening, says
the Tarboro Enquirer, by Deputy Sheriff
Petteway, charged with passing counter
felt money. They were taken before JUS
tice Keech, who continued their case until
Saturday morning at O'Clock.
The Raleigh Ne,cs says: We regret to
learn from DIR. Jas. II. Mckee, the attend
ing physician of Mr.. Hicks, the victim of
the recent horrible outrage near this city,
that his condition yesterday was not as
favorable as the day before.
p. S. At o'clock last evening the con-
dition of Mr.. Hicks was still worse, and
serious doubts arc now entertained as to
his recovery.
The Magnolia a Advertiser is responsible
for the following: On Saturday evening,
the 10th instant, John r =, son of A. n.
Merritt, of Sampson county, killed moe
casin snake measuring four feet in length,
inside of which was found thirty-three
young ones, which averaged ten inches in
length, the whole making a length Of
thirty-One feet aud six inches.
The Radical parade, last Saturday, was
truly ludlcrous. The procession was head
ed by the marshals, we suppose, and band,
the latter consisting of an ACCORDION and
drum, with numerous pieces of vocal in
Struments. One of the banners, an old
torch light concern, had on a motto,