Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-02-23
STATE NEWS.

Elizabeth City Is TO have new hotel
Over 2, 700 rabbits were recently killed i'll /
one day in Rutherford county. Il
De Castro, the magician d--xentrilo
quist, is now in Charlotte.
There is a Shanghai rooster at Trinity /
College that weighs 3la lbs. !
The Rutherford TjndicatOr publishes
birth occasionally.
Newbern has the ''Great Southern PIANO.
rama'-whatever that may be-to-night.
Neuse river is very high and is still
rising.
Slight snow in Charlotte on Sunday
| night.
VIM. Ward, colored, was fatally crushed
between two cars at the depot in Newbern,
OH Tuesday.
| L. J. Moore, Esq. is to deliver the adj
dress to the Knights at the tournament at
Swift Creek to-day.
There are 125 students at Trinity Col
| lage, and the prospects for great many
more are very 1attering.
Grand Concert and Dance at Rocky
Mount College, on Friday evening,
March 1st.
The Carolina IJTGchmGn learns that a
Convention Of Liberal Republicans will be
held sometime during the Spring.
The jewelry store of Mr.. Cowan, in
Ashcvilic, was broken into and robbed of
$3.50 worth Of goods, on Monday night, the
18th instant.
The Newbern Times asserts that Tommy
Settle has not resigned his position as Min
ster to Peru, but that he is home for his
bealth This is regular settler.
Gen. NJ. w. Ransom has been elected to
deliver the Literary Address before the
Hesperian and Columbian Societies, at
Trinity College, on 18th June next.
The Tjndicator vents its feelings thusly:
Muddy trcetS-brOken-down fences, Slip
perry side walks, bad whisky, dilapidated
houses, and Radicals rule in Rutherford.
Mr.. w. II. billiard, Jr., of y ash county,
received, some days since, a severe wound
in his leg by the accidental discharge of a
pistol which he was in the act of taking
from his pocket.
The Danbury Reporter says: Major
Meadows, respectable citizen of our
county, while cutting timber to burn d
plant-bed, last Friday, was instantly killed
by limb falling and striking him on the
. head.
| The Sentinel learns that Gov. Caldwell
has appointed Mr. William Brown, of the
Era, State Printer. We presume that Mr..
Ramsey, who was appointed by the Legis-
, laturc, will discuss that matter with Mr..
Brown.
= Or. {. T. Murphy has been. authorized
, and commissioned TO visit such Of the
Public Charitable and Penal Institutions
, of the State as may be convenient, and i'll
2 yeStigatc their arrangements and manage
:, mcnt and report the same 70 the Board OF
, Public Charities.
A steamboat is in course Of construct ion
in Norfolk, Va, which is to ply between
kinston and Newbern. The company
= conducting this enterprise are anxious that
e Congress may make an appropriation for
the cleansing out Ncus" river in order that
y they may run IN to Smithlield. Johnston
/ county.
;, The Warrcntom Gu-cttc, iii publishing
G "reminiscences Of Warren county, mentions
q the fact that Horace Greeley was married
, in the Episcopal Church in that town. Iii
u wife was teacher in the WarrentOn Fe
II male College. and is well remembered b,
Il many of her old pupils, residents i'll tina
9 county.
The Charlotte Southern Home says: SIR
Douglas. the student who fell dead a
Davidson, on the 18th inst, is the foITtl
SLtltlCIlL buried There klNO 1IOlIl tGiIn Oh
x cety,) since the organization Of the college
over 30 veaiS. We are gratified to Learn
/, that Professor Phillips i now able TO hea
7, his classes.
!, The Charlotte DGu,rcf,d is Informed l.,
+ a gentleman from Union county. that oI
Friday. the 9th instant negro man die
} most horribly and brlItally violate the per
> son OF 3. Young lady living in said county
After the wretch had committed his hcllsl
purpose he fled. but was captured the hex
day and lodged in jail.
u Iron IN NORTH CARoLINA.-In til
u mineral cabinet of the General Land Office
- at Washington, are some superior speci
mems Of iron from Cranberry Place nea
10 Tar river, Yancey county, North Carolina
= which were hammered from the bloom
IA without pudding. The ores are magnetic
y and embrace niuety-One per cent. of oXid
II of iron, siXty-six per cent. being pure iron
- These ores lie in two parallel beds, with
bed of coal between them, thus affordin
u two OF the master elements of iron-makin
II ore and fuel-in close juxtapositiOn. i
- the same region there are also beds of re
hematte ore from which tough iron ha
Is been made which is said to be superior t
"a even the famous Swedish iron.
~ The following IS an extract from n lette
- from New Orleans to the Raleigh Sentinel
# At present one Of North Carolina
st fairest daughters, Miss Laura Alexander
n is playing an engagement at the St Charlie
nj Theatre III this city, under the manage
ID ment OF that popular proprietor, Ben ID
o. Bar. Miss Alexander is daughter Of til
late VIM. Julius Alexander, of MeckleI
" burg county, and is a lady of great beauty
.r fine education and rare attainments. y
If though she has been before the public onl
an a short time, she already gives evidence
r. genius, and some OF her roles are rendere
he with exquisite grace, fine conception an
H. artistic power. Her rapid success justiti(
the belief that in ii short time she will be
r. come one Of the brightest ornaments of II
he American stage.
"' The Great Towns of Germany.
"a, The results of the late census, SO far
W, they are already known, seem to poll
'J even more than the preceding ones to IL
-; :, rapid growth Of great towns i'll German
.. During the War OF Liberation, Berlil
ny which had then $4,000 inhabitants w;