Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-31
STATE NEWS.

SOeliCy3 OA uCAG OluCldY.
Collections for the Memphis suffer
ers are to be taken up in the Green's
boro churches next Sunday.
The recently organized coiored mil
tary company, i'll Tarboro, have ap-
piled to the Adiutant General for arms
Maj. ". III. Bagley, Grand Master
of the [. o. o. T., of this State, is
daily receiving contributions from the
various Lodges in the State i'll aid oi
the Memphis sufferers.
The Salisbury Examiner says ::
Judge Boyden continues very Ill. :
There has been no such change III his
condition within the week as to afford
hope of speedy recovery.
The Greensboro Patriot says We
learn that VIM. Bridger, while hand
ling o pistol at High Point, on Friday
night, discharged the contents into his
left arm, inhicting painful wound.
The Greensboro Patriot says We
are informed that fifteen young men
have returned within the past week to
their homes in Alamance and David
son counties, having tried the West to
their entire satisfaction.
The Charlotte Observer says !: Mrs.
Turner, who lives on Morehead street,
between Church and Mint, raised in
- her garden this year q cabbage which
measures six and a half feet across
the head and which is about three feet
high.
The Hickory Press says: One Of or
prettiest young girls offers to kiss any
young man, under thirty, who will
climb to the top of the greasy pole Az
the Hickory Fair, provided he is white,
doesn't chew tobacco, eat onions, or
drink whiskey, and has "never loved
but one"
The Raleigh Era says: The Agent of
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
and Texas Short Line received appli-
cation last week, in Raleigh, for tickets
and transportation for one hundred
families, who are going to Texas to
unite their fortunes with their friends
in the Lone Star State.
The Tarboro' Southerner says
During the present hunting season
Messrs. John l.. Bridgers and J. S.
Barlow, with one pack of hounds,
have ''tailed' forty-one of the Reynard
tribe. This number does not include
many that the dogs caught, but which
the hunters were unable to get.
The Tar5orO' Southerner says Our
excellent Postmaster, Mr.. Fl. II. Shaw,
informs us that Tarboro' ranks second
in the State as Il money-Order office,
Wilmington alone being ahead. The
average weekly receipts and disburac-
ments amount to about 5000, and this
sum is sometimes much greater.
The Baltimore Gazette says: The
Business College Lecture Course viii
include one popular speaker not here
tofore noticed-the Hon. Il. 3. Vance,
OF North Carolina. He has been heard
and enjoyed in Baltimore frequently
in Off-hand speeches, and he will
doubtles be a great attraction in a we'll
prepared lecture.
The Raleigh News says: Intelli-
gence was yesterday received at the
Executive Office of the arrest, in
Northampton county, of Adam Knight,
who is indicted for the hOrrid crime Of
rape. The villain is now III jail ut
Jackson. A reward Of 500 was offered
by the Governor for his arrest, and
will be paid to the captors Of the
criminal.
The TarbOro' SOutherner says Col.
G. b. Killebrew succeeded in securing
this season one of the largest yields OF
corn ever reported in this county. On
one acre of lowlands, enriched by 81
worth of commercial fertilizers and 50
worth of homemade manures, he
eafftered eighteen and two-thirds bar
rels Of corn. The corn was planted
- inches by feet, one stalk III hill,
The Wilson Plaindealer says On
CHI Of Loot
man named Silas Edwards, about %
years of age, was killed in Greene
county near the residence of Colonel
Owen Jones, by another negro about
II OF IL years of age. The difficulty
originated from the latter being caught
stealing turnips. After the killing the
boy ran away and had not been az
rested at last accounts.
The Greensboro Patriot says: Mr.
Angel, resident OF Eorsytiie county,
bought ticket and started for Cali
fornia on the 18th Of September.
reached Sacramento, looked around
for week, saw the Heather Cllincc,
got Disguised, concluded the Old
North State was good enough to 1--we
III, packed his traps and reached Itcrs..
homeward bound, on the 10th instant,
III tho GLORIOUS West.
The Charlotte Observer says. i Il
meeting of the directors cf the North
Carolina Railroad, i'll Raleigh, Il lew
days ago, Il proposition was received
for The consolidation Of the North
Carolina and the Western North Caro-
lima Railroad, making of tho two ono
road and putting it under one man
.tCy l,.,u
we belive, been acted upon, aud We
are Ilnadvised as to the amount Of
favor with which il was received.
The Walcsboro Herald says: Mr.
Geo. ". Allen, living about i,v" miles
northeast of this place, informs us
that he grew corn on his farm this
year that bore ten ears to the stalk
He says eight of the ten were very
large upon some of the stalks, the |
other two being small, and gives. as |
his opinion, that if farmers would pay |
more attention to the raising of corn
nitely better Off He has taken the !
Herald ever since its commencement, |
and always viii, so he SAYS, and the |
man that does that is bound to prosper. |
The Raleigh News says : Tt is said,
with how much truth we know not, |
that there is q can or glass jar of |
tro-Glycerine, or some other cxpIo- |
sive compound, buried in the south
west corner of the Capitol Square, |
near the old Arsenal, which has been /
there many years, having been sccre-
ted there prior to the surrender, and !
The place OF its concealmcnt having
been lost. No one dares to dig for il
as the blow of pick might send the
digger to roost on the
Church steeple. And so
it viii sleep until happy chance or
some dreadful accident shall reveal its
resting place.
A ~?rcial to The Petersburg Index
ai..t \! ). r;:.trl at Greensboro, Oh
W,'i.r,:'' >, LAYS: Eight counterfeiters
We're bi. '...ht in to-day by the officers !
of Colonel Whitley, chief of the United
States Secret Service, and will be tried
tomorrow before the United States
Commissioner, p. r. Harden. They
are said to be men of character and
prominence, but / withhold their
names for the present by request of
l. IL