The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-06
OUR SOUTH ATLANTIC oNEIaHBORs.
North Carolina.

korth Carolina.
The concert by the Wilmington Concordia
Society will be repeated.
Mr. p. NJ. Rieo hae IesiSned the position
ofchlef engineer OF the Wilmington FIRE DE-
partment.
"A bill to give R,legh cumulative suffrage
in municipal elections was introduced IN the
State Senate on Monday last.
The Grand Lodge Of the Knights OF
Pythias of fNorth Carolina will meet in Raleigh
next January.
-Ex-Governor Vance was to have lectured
in Wilmington last evening, on 1.-THE Noun.
tains and Scenery of Western North Carolina" !"
MIR. T. B. howell, q revenue officer, was
fatally stabbed by one Robinson, In Wllkes-
boro, last Saturday.
-on Wednesday night the dwelling Ct MIR.
Baewel, twelve miies from Enfield, was acci-
dentaly destroyed by fire. The family made a
narrow escape.
vile, Iredell County, was assaulted and robbed
of rwo hundred dollars, last week, while riding
IN the country near Columbia, s. O.
MIR. E. J. Hatcher has given up the posi-
tion of agent for the Southern Express Com
pany in Wilmington, and Mr.. q. N. Latham, OF
Augusta, is appointed to fill the vacancy:
VTbe county commissioners at Wilmington
are considering the proposition for appropria-
ing fifty thousand dollars in county bonds to
Charleston Railway.
A very disastrous fire occurred at Wades.
boro' about daylight on Monday morning, oy
which five stores aud the postof1ce were
burned. The dry goods and grocery store OF
MIR. T. s. Crowson, the postoftice aud store
Kent therein, Mr.. John BOylln's harness shop,
Mr. william Murrs tin shop and Messrs. Gale
& Hutchinson's confectionery store were all
destroyed.
DIR. Louis 81. Orme died in Atlanta on the
81. He was an able physician.
One hundred and seventy-hve more ne
eroes have left Macon for Arkansas.
Mr.. Chapman, of Cartersville, has taken q
contract to rebuild the burnt block in Forsyth.
Among the other buildings, there will be
commodious hotel. :.
The augusta Council has passed an ordi-
nance paying a commission OF three per cent.
10 any person or persons who will induce the
investment Of foreign capital in manufacturing
enterprises on the Augusta canal.
Mrs. W. W. Montgomery, at the Kjmbali
House, Atlanta, stepped through an open door
into what she believed was the elevator. The
latter had ascended, leaving an open space be.
low, into which she stepped and fell breaking
several bones.
"A Degree Lodge OF Good Templars has
been inaugurated In Jacksonville.
There are fourteen colored schools In sue
cessiul operation Ia Aachua County.
&C. B. Hustled, OF Jacksonville, has received
thirty thousand dollars worm Oh orders for
palmetto braids.
Quincy boasts that her enterprislng peo-
pie are erecting new stores and buildings des
bite the Texas fever.
The new Catholic Church, the first brick
building of which Fernandina can boast, is
approaching completion.
[General Robert Ransom, of North Carroll
ma, has been appointed superintendent Oh the
Florida Railroad.
-R. B. archibald, of Jacksonville, has been
appointed and confirmed Judge OF the circuit
court of the fourth iJacksonvlIle) circuit.
Kew West exported TO New YORK, 10 one
week, thirty-seven thousard dollars worm Oh
cigars and six thousand i've hundred collars
worth of sponge. ,,,oo
winter Home is the name of The place
about 10 90 up at the mouth OF Pottsoure
Creek. on the east side OF the st. Johns River,
two and half miles below Jacksonville. One
hundred houses are 70 be put up and scnooi
established; all of which Is to be under the gu
peryision of the Methodist Episcopal Cnnrcn.
The object of this new town is to iurnlsn q
religious retreat for invalids and others VINO
are opposed to hotel life. i,
The St. Augustine Press says: VII Is WIN
much satisfaction that We notice the rising
spirit CT enterprise in the Ancient Clly: II
tells well for its future prospects. The spacious
and elegant mansion oil Mr. AspInVall, one OF 81
the merchant princes OF New YORK, mas Just
been completed. Mr.. Howard, OF New VOTE,
ls also about 10 commence the erection Oh an
elegant residence on St George street, tne
Filth avenue of st. Augustine. Piles OF mas,
eiye stone, on the magnificent lot, intended
for the erection OF the convent for the Sisters
OF Mercy, on 81. George street, show that tals 1
great work is also about to commence. we
| also hear that these noble ladies are ABOUT 10
| erect an asylum or hospital for the indigent
and infrm whites OF the city aud county.
Great preparations, or at least great talk is
going on about the shell road outside the
CITY,"