Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-01-26
RATES OF ADVERTISING: !.
STATE NEWS.
Tarboro has had some shad.

4dIDOIO HIS Ldu SOlllc Snau.
Eggs % cents per dozen, in NewbeIn.
Corn sold at 50 cents, in Newbern, on
Wednesday.
Greensboro is proposed for the Demo-
cratic State Convention.
Newbem is also shipping terappins to
New York.
High Point has shipped $4,000 partrdges
to the North, during the present season.
The Patriot calls for an Agricultural So
ciety for Greensboro.
John Green, of Nash county, raised last
year, with one horse, 50 barrels of corn and
II bags Of cotton.
Hon. Thos. Settle, late Minister TO Peru,
is in Raleigh. SO is Judge Logan. Fixing
up the Radical slate.
Hon. VIM. T. Dortch has arrived at
home in GOldsboro, accompanied by his ac-
complished Virginia bride,
Senator Pool has withdrawn resolution
in the United States Senate, appropriating
100000 for the erection Of Federal public
buildings in Raleigh.
The Carolina Eagle says that Mr.. V. u.
Wiltong killed hog, last week, Is months
old, that weighed 1GS lbs. nett. Seventeen
gallons of lard were rendered from it.
The Goldsboro Nclcs says flat the new
hotel that Col. Humphrey is about to build
in that place, will cost about S5,O00 in
addition to the amount paid for the ground,
which was $4,000.
The Charlotte Commercial saws that a
white man, name unknown, was found
dead under a trcstle on the Air Line Rail
way, near Charlotte, last Wednesday. lie
probably fell while drunk, and was killed.
A difficulty occurred in Greenvillc, Pitt
county, on Tuesday, between two gentle
men named Prtchard and Mr.. Robert
Greene, which resulted in the death OF the
elder Prtchard, by pistol in the hands Of
! Mr.. Greene.
| Edward Z. Gayle, the son of Mr.. J. i.
Gayle, Master Machinist at the Raleigh and
| CASTOR Railroad Shops, III this city, will
enter as a Cadet at West Point, the twenty
hssrd of next May. Mr.. Gayle is just ell
tering his eighteenth year. SO says the
CdrOlinjom.
Mr.. Tucker, dark member of one Of the
Houses, arose the other day and said Oh
the State debt:
"Gent'men how is we gOin' TO pay dis
thing? Don't the members say we are
bankrupt? How ken bankrupt pay Il
beht ? Say! say this. L say that every
man in this chdHtber, and outside Of it, is Il
counterfeit -
1t was decidedly the best speech on ''pay-
ing the State debt" that we have yet heard.
Make another, Mr.. Tucker.
Yesterdays Ncwbern Tdacs says: This
morning, about , o'clock, the alarm OF fire
was given, and repairing to the scene, we
| found Hahn's bakery, on Craven street, i'll
| flames. Spreading, the fire soon reached,
and consumed the building occupied by
Messrs. Henry Hall and Saml X. Eaton, as
a bookstore and icwelry establishment, and
the building used as a confectionery by +.
NJ Agostini, both on Pollock street, and
extending down Craven, the shoe shop of G.
| B. Robbins, the harness shop Of Phillips q
Dowdee, and Il. Berry's drug store, We're
all laid in ashes. Loss, about $4,000.
The tremcn worked well.
THE FIRE,-Our estimate OF losses i'll
yesterdays issue was rather Oyer-cStimated.
The losses were as follows
Il. Berry's Druggist building and stock,
$4,000. No insurance.
NJ. NJ. Manly, Bakery, loss, 1880. Par
! TALLY insured.
NJ. Prugg, Dry Goods merchant, $500
insurance.
Samuel X. Eaton, Seweler, $500. No i'll
suance.
II. L. Hall, Stationcr, $500. No ins,t-
lance.
a. NJ. Agostine, $4,000. Partially i'll
surcd.
Phillips q Dowdy, so. No insurance.
Mitchell, Allen ~ g., 5000. No insll-
rance.
G. X. Robbins, Boot and Shoemaker,
5000.
E. r. Stanley, 81 800.
DR.. j. l.. Watkins, $500.
We happened to be one Of the first on
the ground, and the first person we OBJ
served, and who apparently gave the alarm,
was officer Tucker.
The fire department as usual, worked
well, and no effort or cXcrtiOn was spared
to stop the progress Of the destroying ele-
ment.-Newbern Times.