Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-04-12
STATE NEWS.
Five schools in Wadcsboro.

Inc Chatnan wheat crop is reported as -,
promising
The Raleighites wait Booth to visit
Them.
There are seven Indian inhabitants of
Wake county.
The gas bill of the Capitol at Raleigh for
the last month was $50.
The Democrat is the oldest paper in the
State West of Wilmington.
Goldsboro is about to erect Bank
building.
Grand picnic at Goldsboro on the ID of
May.
The Roman Catholic congregation in
GoldsbOrO have erected a neat little church.
Mr.. T. r. Waring is the local editor of
the Charlotte Dispatch.
Sha1 go to 40 cents per pair in New
bern.
Col. j. f. IIoke is spoken Of as a can
didate for Congress in the Charlotte Dis
trict.
Hon. Il. P. Dick lectures in Newbern !
next Monday and Tuesday evenings.
The Board of Directors of the Penitenti-
airy have ordered work to commence i'll
building the exterior wall.
They are Offering thirty-two dollars
month and board for ditchers in Edge
combe county.
The Times says that haul of 5000
herring was made the other day on the
opposite side Of the Neuse river from New
bern.
Judge Buxton is so far recovered from
L \ - Al
bemarlc last week. and is now at Monroe
holding his Court for Union.
Salisbury has had a burglary and rob-
berry. The thieves succeeded in carrying
off $50 or 5000 werth from the store of
Mr.. Terrill.
/ Ex-Sherin w. S. Ballinger died at his
residence in Craven county, on Friday
/ night, says the Newbern journal OF Com
( HtcfCe.
The annual pony pennings on the banks
below Beaufort takes place May 10th, June
10th, July 10th and August 10th, according
to report made in the journal Of Conn
nlerce of the 9th inst.
Theo. II. Hill, associate editor Of the
Friend of Temperance, has been elected
President of Oak City Council, and W. NJ.
UtlCy, foreman inthe same office, has been
made its Secretary.
It has been estimated that there have
been no less than IS candidates recon-
mended for each of the State offices which
the people will be called upon TO fill in
August next.
The Raleigh Ne,rs says that Mark
Fisher, ESQ, of Harnett county, but near
the Wake county line, died suddenly at the
pillow handle last week, while at work i'll
his field.
The Hickory Tavern Eagle dominates
/ M. L. McCOrkle, Esq, of CataWba county,
as a candidate for Congress in that District
The EAGLE says it will cheerfully support
Hon. a. NJ. Scales for Governor.
John \. Lyman, colored, of Warren
county. is out in a card denying that he
has declined Congressional honors, and says
he will be an aspirant until nomination
is made by the Radicals
The Norfolk Journal says: On Thursday
evening the Se-board freight brought down
COP boxes and barrels of fish chiefly shat!,
which were shipped at Edenton, and Is
the largest shipment made from that place
since the war.
The editor of the Cleaveland B0utcrp par
t;cipated III an April Fool Sociable on the
list inst. where he nibbled cake made OF
cotIee-grounds, mustard, vinegar, &C. ano
slipped soap-suds for egg-nogG.
The Charlotte Observer says: \ letter
| dated Auburn, Ark, March 10th, to his
friends in Rowan, announces the SAD deatl
of Samuel II. Pendleton, native OF SANS
bury, but for several years past native O.
, Arkansas.
After expending $40 900, i'll developingtht
{ long abandoned Ports gold mine, in Nasi
county. Col. Sturges, Northern man, has
/ struck a new vein which is likely to yiel(
! some millions of dollars Of the q filth!
: ! needful."
4 The Weldon Ne1rs says Mr. Emry vii
;, omen his new Hotel on the 18th OF May
with q Grand Festival. His reputation 10
d getting up such things, and the many pre-
G paratiOns going on, guarantee splendl
d affair.
Il The Raleigh Ne,cs, speaking OF Gen
1t F. Cary, says Extensive preparations ar
# being made for the reception OF this dlS
tinouished Temperance lecturer on th
IL occasion of his visit to our city. Iucke
re Hall has been procured for him and
n price of admission will be charged.
e, An anti-railroad meeting was recent
ge held in Stokes county, at which resol'
IN ton, in addition to others, was adopte'
. with a view to instituting suit for u
III purpose Cftesting the legality of the count
lit subscription of the North Western Mort
ng Carolina Railroad.
IS. The Tarboro' Enquirer suggests Jes
ne r. Mclean, Esq, of Cumberland, as ca
Inv didate for the office of Superintendent
10 Public Instruction, and says:
n0 We believe no better man for the pc
Tor ton can be found in the State, and
in earnestly urge his claims upon the Greer
mr.. boro' Convention.
on The Raleigh Ne.rS says We are reque:
od ed be the Rev. DR.. T. II. Pritchard to s.
to all churches in the State sending de
gates to the General Southern Baptist "a
Vention, which cOnvenes in this city IN Ma
on to enclose to him at once list OF the san
to 1t will greatly facilitate him in making ID
of eSsary arrangements TOT tiler eHleII"
IN ment.
lall The Durham Tobacco Plant says: NJ
of this place lives an old man who was be
to in 1SO1-married in 1S26-fOught throu
di- the Mexican war-served four years unt
RS General Lee in the late Confederate str
ne gle, and is now the father OF daugh
I'M six months old.
Sed :, IT, .- . ,
it's have, in the past week, gone over sc
,os portion of CASTOR and Mecklenburg
rs, found the farmers very backward in tn
1nai sprlne work. Some old men told us t
%. thew had not had so backward season
~ thirty years. The wheat, nevertheless
. 20 generally good and the winter oats left Il
On also well, though too thin on the ground
ant, The Raleigh Sentinel learns that T.
I, cd no