Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-11-22
STATE NEWS.

Tarboro' is ct work on new Dahh
building.
Winston and Salem together have eight
lawyers.
Nearly every horse in the city of Raleigh
has the disease.
The first ice Of the season in Raleigh on
Friday morning.
Raleigh has not yet reported any deaths
from the horse disease.
Bear meat and slrinips are the latest
Injuries in NeWberp.
It is claimed that there are now $50 new
buildings going up in Raleigh
Sparta bridge was injured by one of the
steamers on the Tar river last week, and Is
now impossible.
Captain j. Q. De Carteret, a prominent
citizen Of Raleigh, died last "Wednesday
morning, aged 40 years.
Sixty colorcd men from Stokes county
took tbe cars on Tuesday night last at
Greensboro fJr Tennessee.
There are four cheese factories in West
EN- North Carolina, which viii turn out
this year 100000 pounds, worth 10 cents
pound at tie factory.
Thomas johnson, colored, will be hung
in Lexington on Friday, Dec. 18th, for
committing rape on the person OF an old
Whit, lady, So years OF age.
The Raleigh News says that an applica-
tig! for a writ OF HdJeds cOrD3ts in the case
of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Mann, is to be
heard this morning before Judge Watts.
Tie Magnolia Advertiser says: Rev. W.
y. Kennedy raised on his plantation this
year two ears OF corn, one of which pro-
Iuccd 80 kernels and the other 1896.
The Grccnville Spectator is sorry to learn
that GIr. James l.. Clarke, near GreenviIle,
a lew days ago, met with an accident that
may recess ltato tie amputatIOn OF al arm.
The State Fair Grounds are to be re-
moved to q place known as Cooks Hill,
about throe-fourths of q mile from the M
it, Of the city Of Raleigh, and on the line
Of the \. c. < b. 4 c.. Railroads.
Tie Winston Sentinel says: Jas. w. Ell
li5tt was convicted atlast tenn Of Davidson
court ofkilling Jesse Harris, and sentenced
10 be hung on Friday, Dee. 20. An appeal
la, been taken to the Supreme Court.
The uTlshoro' Rccor,j,r says: We learn
that party Of Scottish ,cmigrauts aye
Low visiting UaWftlHs, With Il view TO
purchase and settlement, and that Ill some
Instances, purchases have been made at
&Il per acre.
The Spirit Of tic Ego says: Theodore
Y. Ramsay, q -, has organized two mOre
Lodges Of G0ad Tcmplars since Our last
issue, o.e al Graham, with - charter
members, AID aaotlli ii Hill Point with
20 members.
The Eal7ig]. News says: Every N. D.,
Ill the city, Us far rs aeceItaineG, it'll the
excaption Of DIS. L BtuI1e Haywood and
WIZ. Little. are ca foot back. DR.. John
sons ''oid Ul.yey' and Dir. Eoystel's lion
gray gave Up Yesterday.
The Tar5oro' EnquIer says Mr.. Me
Knight, y L0 has been engaged in brick
Ddiding i'll our town for the past few
months, IS laying the foundation Ct the
new bui'd ding to be used by the Tarboro'
tranch Of the New Hanover Bank.
The Dattleboro Advance says Mrs.
Dcnsy Ann Jones. near IIiliiarIston, was
bitten on the arm and foot by dog at
Calhoun Grifln's last week and SO injured
that Size had TO call in the aid Of physi-
clan. The injury IS very serious, aud may
TrOve fatal.
Tbs RaIei3h Sentinel says The tobacco
crop in Granville is no. a failure as pub
Eshcd in some Of the papers. In one sec
ii II the dry weather injured the first cut
ti,..s, but TIE crop, taking tie county
Trough, is an average one, whist in some
pats it IS tie largest ever grown.
The Tarloro Southerner says q: It is very
clearly settled that MADISON, the negro
Representative to the Legislature from this
county, viii not be allowed to take his seat.
He was not resident Of the county at the
time Of election, having voted i'll beaufort
county within tie previous twelve months.
The Raleigh Era says : Mr.. Andrew
smith, WHO resides some seven miles South
Of Raleigh, while on lis way home on
Tuesday night last, had his pocket knife
open in his pocket, and unfortunately
stumbled and fell, inficling a severe wound
III the abdomen, which resulted il Lis
death this morning.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: Yesterday
OrIcl Stephens, cOloTed, was brought to
this city and lodged in the county jail on
TIE mittimus Of ". II. Stinson, j. p, Of
Middle Creek township. 1t was in eyi-
dence that OlTvl went to the house Of
Prince Page, cUlOrcd, on Saturday night
last, i'll the township aforementioned, and
look pop al the proprietor through the
window. Fortunately tie aim of the
NOuld-be assassin was not good.
The Rocky Mount Mail Says: We learned
1his morning from highly respectable and
5,liaJle farmer III Halifax county, that
w mornings ago he heard 4 noise amoug
lis hogs, ana thinking the dogs were after
fl.em he went to see, and GA approaching
he found that they were chasing d fox, and
IN few minutes after he got there they
caught Lin. He rallied thu fox before they
lilled him and ian Off with him, and the
hogs followed Oh after him like a pack of
hounds.
The Charlotte Home says: Professor
Kerr exhibited at the Charlotte Fair some
specimens of iron sand found on Panlico
Sound, Beaufort county. This attracted
the attention Of Mr.. VIM. ". Biggs, of the
firm Of Biggs, Holland * Stuart, Liverpool,
England, who was present at the Fair.
We have seen a letter from him to Prof
s>eTr III relation TO the working and Ship
ping to Liverpool Of tits iron sand. The
"yhlbitiOn at Charlotte will most probably
result il the development Of new indus
try III North Carolina. This is but one Of
the thousand ways in which the Geological
Survey benefits the State
The Raleigh Sentinel says Yesterday
"wednesday morning, just about the break
Of day, Turner Davis, cOlored, came to his
death by means of u stab in the right groin
by pocket knife in the hands Of his step
son, one George DOwd, colored, aged about
20 years. The affair took place in Oberlin,
a negro settlement about Que mile north
west Of this city. Tie boy states that
Davis made an unprOVOked assault upOn
him, striking him on the head with his fist
and then jerked him down, and in falling
Il knife, which he had been Whetting at the
time the assault was II AIDE, in his hand
accidentally struck the deceased inflicting