Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-09
STATE NEWS.

There were 81 marriages IN Wake In
April.
Gov. Caldwell has "gone West"
er.n II.
Strawberries % cents per quart in
G ...s boro.
The temperance cause is hourishing
III Jones county.
The velocipede has reappeared in
Goldsboro.
Federal Court is in session at New |
bern for the Eastern District and at |
Statesviile for the Western.
w. S. Pearson, of Burke, has been |
commissioned, by the President, Con
sui at Palermo, the capital of Sicily.
The Wilson Plaindealer says The
Rev. F. H. Wood organized body of |
Good Templars at Joyner's Depot, on |
Friday last. Twenty-one members |
were installed. Jonas ". Crowell was
elected w. G.. T.
The Greensboro Patriot says: The
cold snap of Friday night was severe
enough to injure the fruit very much.
1t is said by some old farmers to be
their recollection.
Elder Howell writes the Raleigh Era
from Granville county that ''Piney
Grove Missionary Baptist Church was
organized September 9Th, 1872, with
sixty-eight, and the Churchis ina pros
porous condition
The Wilson Plaindealer says The
steam saw mill of Mr.. Peter Eastman
about eight miles from here III Old
Fields township, was destroyed by fire
last week There was cotton gin
attached to the mill also destroyed
Loss about 81, 900. No insurance.
The Winston Sentinel says: We
learn that gentleman from Philadel-
phia intends to erect this season in Our
town large fruit drying establishment
on the Alden process, which will fur
nish ready sale, at remuneratlve
prices to our citizens, of their green
fruit.
A special to the Raleigh News, dated
Salisbury, May LIST, says At a meet
ing of the Directors of the North Caro-
lima Railroad to-day, Col. Thomas NJ.
Holt, of Alamance, was elected Presi-
dent of the Company to fill the vacan-
cy occasioned by the resignation of
Hon. VIM. A. Smith.
The Goldsboro Messenger says: We
learn that colored boy named Aaron
Cogdell, aged about Is years, was
drowned in a canal on Haywood W.
McKinnie's plantation, in Brogden
township, on the 25th inst. He was
subject to fits, and being taken with
one while fishing, fell into the water
The Raleigh Sentinel says: Two
colored ladies ON yesterday caused
John Gatling, Esq, to enter into bond
to keep the peace tOacar1s their cO,Cs.
The cows have been depredating upon
Mr.. Gatling's lands near the Rock
Quarry-he has threatened them, we
suppose-and hence the bond.
The Raleigh News says We learn
that gin house, together with num-
Der of bales of cotton, upon the farm
of Col. Walter Clark. in Scotland Neck,
Halifax county, was destroyed by fire
on Monday night, occasioning q loss of
some $4,000. 1t is thought that some
thieves first entered the gin house and
then set fire to the building.
The Greensboro Patriot says: We
saw on Wednesday last 10 large sized
and perfectly shaped eggs which had
been taken from hen just killed. The
shell was soft, not quite matured.
Where this hen, which was rather
small, found room for all these 10 big
eggs is question. But they were
slowed away in her somewhere.
The Battleboro' Advance says A
little colored girl, five years old
was badly burned on the farm of Col.
Rowland last Saturday. The attention
of the mother, who was out at the time,
was attracted by the child screaming
and she reached the house just in time
to save her life. At last accounts the
sufferings of the child We're excrucia-
ting, and her condition very precarlous.
The Wilson Plaindealer says: The
side track, we understand, is being
built at the new town this side of
Joyners, but the people at Joyner's
are taking it quite easy, and don't think
OF deserving the place. They Will
probably have their goods hauled mile
rather than desert their property at
Joyners. If they stick up in the
matter they may yet get the best of
the railroad authorities.
The Goldsboro' Messenger SAYS A
new Guano Manufacturing Company is
to be opened in this State All the
stock Is to be owned in North Carolina,
and to consist of two hundred shares of
81 900 each. Col. VIM. r. Griffith, Of
Baltimore, is at the head Of this enter
prise. Our townsmen, Hon. W. Il.
Dortch and John H. Powell, Esq, are
among the stockholders.
A destructive fire is reported at
Stantonsburg, Wilson county, on the
night of the 9th The stores of Jo-
seph Peacock, DR.. Ward and Moye,
and several others, were burned to-
gether with most of their contents
The entire block was consumed. We
learn that Mr.. Peacock was insured,
but for what amount we know not, and
did not hear whether any of the re-
naming property was insured.
The Kinston Gazette says We saw
on exhition here last Monday, a cotton
planter, the invention of-two young
men of this county, named Mobiles and
Koonce, which is entirely different
from anything of thekind we ever saw,
and which, for practicability we think
superior to any ever brought before
the public.
With this planter and DIR. Bagby's
pillow for siding and chopping cotton,
the scarcity of labor will be but little
felt by our farmers.
The Newbern Times saws We learn
from MIR. b. Perry, agent ofthe Under
writer's, that the Spanish barque Lo-
reno Valerios, Captain Antonio Vore-
toes, from Bull River, S. c., bound for
London, sprung leak on the morning
of the Both ult., and was beached near
Cedar Inlet, about 90 miles north of
Beaufort harbor, and within 1Omiles of
Cape Lookout Light House. When
run ashore, the Valerios had abont
three feet of water in her hold. The
cargo consisted of phosphates. We
did not learn what amount of damage
was sustained.
The Raleigh News says: Messrs.
Gulley & Green are making arrange
ments for the commencement of a new
enterprise in this city. They are hav-
ing enclosed, with substantial y
foot fence, an eleven acre lot in the
southeastern portion of the city, for
the purpose of establishing "chicken
ranch, and will at once place therein
more than l ZOO hens, with view of
ST1rlrlIvIno in 1,orf tho <,c