Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-11-15
STATE NEWS.
.aosbOro' has Ia LAWYERS.

Heavy rains, last week, in lredell county.
Goldsboro is talking about a gas com
pany.
No fatal cases, as yet, among the horses
in Raleigh.
The Raleigh merchants are preparing for
ox-horscs.
The Raleigh Sentinel calls for public
reading room.
The Tarboro Bank Building is 70 be sold
on the 23d instant.
Only one death, as yet, among the
horses in GOldsbOrO.
The Marlborough House waggage bag
on " is drawn by oxen.
The Newbern Times fears that the horse
malady is in that city.
Col. Thos p. Aston, citizen of War
rem county, died few days since.
Col MehafIcy, living near Newton,
raised on eight acres of land 800 bushels
of corn.
Eight hundred men are employed on the
airline road from Atlanta, Ga, To Char-
lOtte, n. c.
The young men Of Wilson have conclli-
ded to have a tournament on or about the
27th instant.
Jim Alexander killed Caleb Henry, both
colOred, at a corn shocking near Salisbury,
last Friday night.
Rev. Jas. Reid, Superintendent of Pub
lie instruction, elect, died at Greens 'oro
suddenly on Friday evening.
Gov. Caldwell has commissioned I. Il.
Thomas as Congressman from the 2hd
District to the Ard Congress.
Mr.. John b. Hussey, of Catawha, with
draws as a candidate for Reading Clerk Cf
the House OF Representatives.
Dr. Benbow is having constructed in his
hotel, at Greensboro, electric enunciators
after the most approved style.
MI. W. j. UzzelI, father Of Mr.. w. II.
Uzzell, of the Raleigh News, died very
suddenly OH Thursday, i'll Petersburg
Col. 5. ID. Pool, of the Newbern Journal
Of Commerce, is Il candidate for Principal
Clerk of the House Of Representatives.
The ladies of St. Stephens Church, in
Goldsboro, are to have 'neck-t!e FEST wal
next Wednesday and 7 thursday evenings.
The State Council Of the riruds of
Temperance Of North Carolina ill meet
In Fayetteville, on Wednesday next, The
18th, at 10 a. III.
The Battleboro' Advance says: Mr.. j
r. Moore, Of Nash, Informs us that he has
made this year seventy-tivc bales OF cotton
on seventy-fve acres of land. This is hard
to beat
The Raleigh News says: Hornet, the
celebrated buggy horse OF Coz Tucker,
reached his 2lsC year in October last, was
never sick a day in his lifI, aud is said to
be eppihippic proof.
The Charlotte Ohser er says: The Com
panies of the Fourth Artillery, stationed at
this post, We learn, will leave next week
for the Pacific coast, California or Alaska,
it Is not known which.
The Magnolia Advertiser says: j. W.
Swinson, Esq, of this township, planted
one-sixth of an acre of sugar cane, fOm
which he has made fifCy-SiX gallons Ct
syrup, worth ST. per gallon.
The Newbern Times says: We are
pleased to note that r. Il. Stanly, Esq,
President of the A. IL n. Z. Railroad, is
improving very rapidly and viii he able to
resume business in short time.
w. II. Uzzell, Esq, one Of the prcIlle
tors Of the Raleigh News, was summoned
on Thursday morning to the bedside Of bis
father, who, we are panied To say, is lying
dangerously i'll at his residence in Peters
burg, Va.
The Hillsboro Recorder says: Mr.. Jno.
White, Of Chapel Hill, writes us that he
raised this year on his lot two sweet pota-
toes weighing each pounds s ounces.
ElmOre Woods raised one weighing seven
pounds twelve ounces.
The Tarboro Southerner says the polls
in that township on Tuesday last disclosed
the fact that a number of illegal votes
were cast by negro boys under p years Of
age, all Of whom had registered few days
previous to the election.
The Raleigh News says: The official
returns from the counties come in slowly.
AS far as heard from, the indications are
that Grants vote will fall at least ten thou
sand under the Caldwell vote, ana Greeley
twenty thousand below Judge Merrimon.
The Greensboro Patriot says: Mr. Julius
Gray presented the Fire Company aud
Hook and Ladder Company last week with
5000 as a recognition Of the services rem
dered when his residence was burned. We
take pleasure in recording such acts of
hberality.
The Greensboro Patriot says: We saw
on our streets Tuesday, Mr.. VIM. Permar
an old gentleman IS years of age, who had
come to vote and set an example to the
laggards. There are but few, unfortunate
ly for us, of these old-time patriots left.
We wish there were more Of them.
The Raleigh News says: Rev. James
Reid, the sO-called Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, was taken violently i'll on
the Raleigh & CASTOR II. r., while en- route
to this city yesterday evening. On his ar
rival he was borne to the Cottage Hotel,
where he is now lying quite ill.
The Goldsboro' Journal says: An out
house on the farm Of p. III. Sasser, ESQ,
about a quarter of mile from the city, in
which was stored a few bales of cotton,
was burned to the ground at an early hour
on Friday morning last. The fire is sup
posed to have been the work of incen-
diarism.
The Statesville American saws: Mr..
Toney Wilson, CT Ohio, who was returning
home from a trip South 10 Sell tobacco, and
had stopped at the house Of relative in
this place, last Wednesday, with his team,
and while attending to the horses, was
kicked by one Of them and died short
while aferward.
The WadesborO Argus says On Tues
day there was in our office a Mr.. j. A.
Saunders, living in this county, who paid
for the Argus the Goth time He COM
menced with the first issue (1S43) so he
informs us, and has taken it steadily
ever since, and means to take it the bal
ance of his life.
The Raleigh News says: The latest re-
ports from the horse malady in the city
last evening show a large increase of
cases since morning. Nearly every horse
In Wynn's stable has taken the disease.
and it is believed that before tomorrow
night necessity will compel this firm to
temporarily suspend business.
The Goldsboro Messenger says: We
near II rumored on our streets that the
horse epidemic, the laryngitis, has made
its appearance in this place There are a
number of horses here, said to have all the