The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-08-02
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION.

NRw York, August la Wilmington
N. C., dispatch to the Herald says thai
some local disturbances 9mong the Re
publicans there will add a number o.
votes to the Democratic Gubernatorisi
candidate. No trouble is anticipated to.
day, The liquor stores are all closed.
Later advlces from Wilmington say the
election Is proceeding quietly there.
RALEIGH, August 1.-The voting Is
proceeding quietly. The Democratic vote
will be increased. There are no disturb,
auCes and none apprehended.
RALEIGH, N. o., August is p. M
Dispatches from all parts OF the State
show that the election has been quiet
one, though the vote everywhere is very
large on both sides. No returns have
yet come to hand.
WILMINGTON, August 1.-The election
was one Of the most quiet that has been
held In this city for years. Business was
generally suspended. A large vote was
polled, and the utmost exertions were
made by both sides. The city returns are
not yet in. Abbottsburg township, Bla.
den county, was the first received, and
gives Mcrrlman majority, q gain oi
about 40 votes over 1870, when the con.
servatives carried the State by nearly
5000 majority. The vote Tor Attorney
General In 1870 will be adopted as the
basis for comparing gains and losses in
the present election.
In Weldon, Halifax county, Merriman
gains 100. This Is a favorable indication
Tor the Conservatives. The northwest
townships of Brunswick county gives
Merriman gain of S4.
The Conservatives in this city are
offering bets TO any amount on Merri.
mans election, with no takers.
The Second Ward in this city gives
Merriman 2O6; Caldwell, 227; Conserva.
tive gain, 159..
Warsaw, Duplin county, gives Merri.
man 1874; Caldwell, 14S; small Conserva.
tive gain.
Merriman gains 200 in Raleigh.
RALEIGH, August 1.-Returns from
eleven towns and precints give Conserva.
tive gains of OF about $50. Raleigh town.
ship gives a Conservative gain of 2lS;
Wake Forest gives Merriman 100 of q
gain. There is nothing as yet decisive,
though the chances are in favor of the
election Of Merriman.
New YORK, August IA special to
the Tribune from Wilmington, signed by
VIM. H. Bernard, chairman Of the Con
Gervative Executive Committee, says the
indications all point to the election OF
Merriman by decisive majority.
WILMINGTON, August 1.-Liberty gives
Conservative gain of 80; Rocky Mount,
81; Enfield, 3S; two precincts in Edge.
comb give 125. Wilson gives gains, but
the amounts are not stated.
Returns from Columbus indicate con.
siderable Conservative gain.
Magnolia gives 19 Conservative gain.
Goldsboro gives 125 gain.
WILMINGTON, N. O., August Ia Re.
publican gain is reported to us from
Bogue Swamps, of fifty voters. Holden
township in Wayne cOurty gives very
small Radical gain; Wilson county gives
200 majority for Merriman. But few ad.
ditional returns have been received, but
1t is conceded here by nearly all leading
men Of both parties that Merriman has
carried the State.
The latest just received from Concord
says that in twelve townships ia Cabarrus
county, Merriman has gain Of 200. Few
Republicans here say the result is doubt.
full. The Star estimates Merriman's ma.
jority at about 5000. The Journals esti.
mate is little higher. The Post (Rep)
comedies Merriman's election by small
majority.
WASHINGTON, August 2, 2:3O A. MA
dispatch received here tonight from Sen.
ator Ransom, OF North Carolina, address
ed to the editor of the Patriot, saying that
the State OF North Carolina had certainly
gone largely Democratic.
Another special dispatch says that
Leach has defeated Judge Settle in the
Fifth District.
New York, August 2.-3 A. M.-The
HeraldS special says the Congressional
vote at Greensboro, gives Republican
gain Of Al; Company Shops, in Alamance
county, gives 81 Conservative majority;
Davidson county, Conservative gain 40;
Rowan county, 450 Conservative major.
ity, a loss of 1856; Mecklenburg county,
1876, Conservative gain; Craven county
286, Republican gain; Halifax county 70,
Conservative gain; Edgecombe county
1S6, Conservative gain; Nash county o.
Conservative majority; Northampton
county 1875, Conservative gain.