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


They have Greeley aud Brown Club !
in New Berne. ~ -sa-S
Goldsboro' Conservatives jubilled last
night. .E -.. s.stss 2, - -
Fayetteville Conservatives jubileed last
night.
The report that Col w. P. Bynum has
declared for Greeley is incorrect.
General J. G. Breckenridge VIII not be
able to deliver the address before the Fair
! OF the Carolinas" on the 22d of October.
A negro boy was killed by the train near
Joyner's depot on the 18th. Whiskey the
cause.
crazy negro has been frightening the
negroes in the RingwOod section, Halifax
county.
Hon. j. J. Hickman, the Kentucky tenn
perance orator, delivered his celebrated
temperance lecture in Raleigh last night.
Gross frauds have been detected i'm the
county o. Jones. AT one precinct alone 43
votes more tlan were registered were pol
led.
The officers Of the North Carolina State
Agricultural Society are making extensive
preparations for the success Of the coming
State Fair. .
1t is reported that Col. f. G.. Yellowley
will contest the seat of McCotter, Radical,
who was elected by 10 majority as Senator
from Pitt county.
Prof. O. w. Carr, of Trinity College, on
Sunday afternoon, entertained the pupil,
OF the Methodist Sabbath School with an
instructive lecture.-Raleigh Sentinel.
IL DoJ
handling pistol Sunday evening, was aC-
cidentally shot in the breast, causing
Sigh flesh wound.
Henry Porter, Esq, All old and highly
respectable citizen of Raleigh, was stricken
with paralysis Sunday afternoon, and is
now lying dangerously i'll.
Harry Dancy, the Nash colored demo-
cratic champion, gives a DINNER on the
23d in honor of the victory in this county.
SO We learn from the 1dU0nce.
! Col. J. E. Lindsey, Democratic candi-
| date for the House of Representatives from
Nash county, received every white vote at
DattlebOro.
The U. S. District Court, for the West
ern district of North Carolina, convened
at Asheville yesterday, Judge K. p. Dick
presiding.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: We regret
to learn that Joseph Howard, ESQ.,, a most
estimable citizen of Granville, has been
stricken with paralysis, and now lies at the
point Of death.
Most of the cases taken up at the last
term of the U. S. District Court at Sails
bury, have been laid over until the meet
ing OF the court at Statesville in next Oc-
tober
sufficiency Of stock for the building Of
the Carolina narrow gauge Railroad has
been subscribed. The termini we believe
are Torkville, S. c., and Marganton, N. G.
1t is stated that Col Yellowby, of Pitt
county, intends to contest the seat of his
Radical opponent, McCotter, who was APP
parently elected TO the Senate by 10 ma
jority.
There is fowl in Warren county which
has laid number of eggs, and Matched
and raised large brood of chickens. 1t
now has long spurs, and large comb, and
crows, struts and fights with the cocks.
Three prisoners attempted to escape
from the garrison guard mouse at Camp
Russell, near Raleigh, on Sunday evening,
We're fired by the guard, retaken and
brought back.
At a recent run off of a train on the
Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad, the engine
and tender were capsized and thrown into
ditch and the engineer and fireman
caught and confined, but miraculously es
cape1 injHry. ,.r
On Saturday night last, three negroes
| got into a fight about a woman, near
Clarenden's bridge, Cumberland county,
and Bill Manner shot and killed Aleck
FaisOn. Manner and The other party were
arrested and taken TO Fayetteville for eX
animation.
Not KILIED.-We learn that DR.. r. j.
Gill, who, we stated yesterday moning,
was recently killed in Franklin county,
near Kttrell's Springs, by his horse run
ming away, was not killed but severely
hurt by The accident. We are pleased to
know that we We're Mistaken Raleigh
| NetUS.
ARREST FOR FORGERY.-John ID. White,
who claims to be from Richmond county,
! n. G.. ;Swas arrested in Rock Hill and com
mitted to the jail in this place on last
Tuesday, charged with forgery committed
in North Carolina. He is detained to await
a requisitiOn from the Governor Of that
State.-Y Orkville Enquirer.
| CONGRESSIONAL RETURNs.-In the Sec
ond District Thomas (Radical) majority
over Kitchen Conservative is S,445.
| In the Fourth District Smiths (RadicaD
majority over Rogers Conservative is 732.
In the Seventh District Robbins (Cou-
servative) majority over Furches (RadicaD
is ,6l3.
A correspondent of the Raleigh ,Sentinpl
accounts for Major Robbins majority in
the Seventh District being no greater in
| the following manner:
"Revenue oppression, threats and prom
| ses, accounts for the falling Off of our vote
| and majorites in the upper counties. We
are getting up indictments for intimida-
ton, &c, through this means.'
A MURDERER CAUGHT.-We take the
following from the GoldsbOro MESSENGER {:
The readers of the Messenger will remem-
Der that during the early part Of 1871,
near La Grange, in Lenoir county, a negro
man, Jerry Lasitter, beat a small negro
boy to death, and ran away. All efforts
! to capture him at that time proved unsuc-
cessful, and the affair had been almost for
gotten. On the 18th inst, Jerry was
caught near La Grange, and is now lodged
in Jail at Kinston. Tue capture was eff
fected by Mr. Warters and another gentle
man who had been missing melons from
their field and had gone out to trap the
thief when they overhauled the murderer.
CASE OF SOMNA MBULIsM.-
Jones, cOlored man in the employ of Mr..
Jas. NJ. Wilson, on the new hotel building,
| fell from the second to the first floor of the
building, distance of IA feet, on the
night of Thursday last, and received in
juries which it is thought will terminate
fatally. Tom had been sleeping in that
portions OF the building together with others