Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-09-27
STATE NEWS.
Fine tobacco crop in Iredell.
ErOSt in Ctofocvillo Loot xuoaLy


The Raleigh Banner of Temperance will
hereafter be called the Spirit of the age.
Craven Superior Court in session this
week.
Weldon has at last got baker; whe1eat
the Neaos rejoiceth.
Colored prisoners in the Raleigh Jail as
sault their keeper.
Crops in Northampton short by one
third.
Gambling is getting to be a popular Sun
day amusement on the suburbs of Raj
eigh.
A negro man, one Bill Bernard, out
raced white woman in Greenville re-
Gently. So says the Spectator.
The Tarboro' Enquirer. says Mr.. d. II.
Barlow obtained the silver cup for the best
colt exhibited at that place on 18th inst
There were seven contestants.
Mr.. Roach, the Deputy Marshal who
combated with Mr.. Smith, at Greenville,
has had his arm amputated, says the Will
son PlaindedleT.
A Raleigh Era correspondent writing
from Salisbury on the Goth states that
Mrs. Minor, of that town, in attempting to
drive a faVOrite dog from the railroad
track, was run into by train and killed
almost instantly.
The Wilson Ledger says: We learn from
several gentlemen of Joyners Depot, this
week, that the work of surveying the rail
road from JoynerS to Greenville is pro-
crossing finely, and that grading will COM
mence soon.
The Weldon Neecs says: A vagrant ne
gro who has been hanging around town for
some time, either unable or unwilling to
work, was found dead on the platform Of
the Petersburg warehouse, on Thursday
morning. Nothing of his history is known.
Two negroes, employed Oh the material
train Of the Petersburg and Weldon Rail-
road, became involved in difficulty near
| Pleasant Hill, on the line of the road, when
one Of them stabbed the other, in1licting a
dangerous wound. The party is now in
jail
On Monday last Henderson Adair and
his two surviving sons, Crayton and
Avery, We're removed from the jail at Hen
! Jacksonville to that in RutherforGtOn, in
which county they are to be arraigned for
the murder of the Weston family.-Ashe-
vile Pioneer.
There are so cases on the State docket
and 1G4 cases on the criminal docket
awaiting trial in Cumberland county. One
Of these, as we learn from the Eagle, is a
capital case, the murder of Bledsoe by T..
j. Billiard some time ago. Billiard has
not yet been captured.
The Winston Sentinel says The Char
! lOtte papers are Boosting over the fact that
DR.. Ashbury, near that place, will make
500 gallons of wine from five acres. That
may do for Mecklenburg, but S. T. Hicl-
ey, Of Salem, will make $500 gallons Oh
four acres, besides 1000 gallons of rasp-
berry and blackberry wine.
The corps Of engineers on the Raleigh
! and Augusta road, reached this place last
Friday, having surveyed two routes a part
of the way, crossing Pee Dee below the
mouth of Little River. They said they
were going to make a survey higher up
on their return. They speak hopefully of
making the rOad.-WadesbOrO Herald.
SERIOUS AFFAIR.-On Friday last a
difficulty occurred between two white boys
and negro of this place, in which one of
the boys, William Davis, of Beaver Dam,
was dangerously wounded by knife in
the hands of the negro, the artery in his
wrist being severed, from W nIch he bled
prOfusely. Davis is now lying in critical
condition at the house of Mrs. Whiteside,
and is attended by physicians from town.
| We have not heard of the arrest o. the col
ored boy.-Asheville Citizen.
MORE PERsECUTIoN.-A gentleman from
! Shelby tells us that a Marshal from Lin
colnton informed him that he had arrested
and bound over thirteen alleged Ku-Klux
in Cleaveland last week. The gentlemanly
Marshal boosted that he did not present his
warrant as the Scoggins gang did. Arrests
will be frequent before the November cleo
ton. These bayonet fellows have no idea
Of civil liberty and faith in free insttu-
tons. Southern Home.
We are Informed by letter that on Sa-
! turday last Capt. NimrOd Jarret, who lives
a short distance beyond Franklin, was
! found dead not far from his house. with a
bullet hole in the back part of his head,
| his watch gone and his pockets riflcd of
! their contents. II appears that stranger
hailing from Tennessee, stopped at the
| house of Mr.. Jarret. and in company they
started for Franklin. Shortly after the
body Of Mr.. Jarret was found lying in the
road. His supposed murderer was pur-
sued and captured and is now in the jail
at Fra nklin.-Asheville Pioneer.
We are panied to hear of the death Of
| Capt. Obadiah WoodSOn, which occurred
at his residence, in Salisbury, Oh the 18th
inst. He was for a number Of years G.. &.
Clerk of Rowan, and at the time Of his
death Was Register Of Deeds. He was
truly a good man and beloved by all, and
we do not believe he had a personal enemy
on earth. Capt, Woodson was elected to
! represent Rowan county III the Conven-
ton, i'll August, 1871. He was widely
known as an honest, conscientious and
upright Christian gentleman.-Statesvile
Intelligencer.
Henderson, FAIR.-Preparation are
in progress which justify the belief that the
Fair will be great success. The society
is building hall, 40 by 20 feet in dimen-
sion, to be called Floral Hall land to he used
for purposes of exhibition. 1t will be two
stories high and the ampitheatre will BE-
capable of seating 1000 people.
Capt. j. j. Davis, of ouisburg, will de-
liver the annual address.
The track is one of the hest in the
South, being three-quarters of mile in
length. Great interest in the Fair is man
Tested in all the adjoining counties, and if
the weather is good, the Fair will be the
finest ever held at Henderson,
FOOLISH GRANTITE.-Ont the 18th a ne
gro name Aleck, hailing from Newton,
threw cross tie on the track Of the W.,
Z. q x. X. Il. above LincolntOn, and then
took his stand to watch the effect. The
engineer saw the obstruction i'll time to
stop the train. Conductor Clifford and his
man Sam arrested Aleck and brought him
down to the road and found that his bare
foot exactly filled the track by the cross
tie. Aleck is now in Lincoln Jail medita-
ting on Grants chances for re election
Southern Home.
We learn from a gentleman just from
ancey county, that one day last week