Wilmington journal., 1873-07-04

70 cents IN New York Tor cotton q few
days ago. The cotton from no other
State sold as high
The Raleigh Sentinel says We re-
gret to learn that DIR. Jno. g. Moore,
at Company Shops, is dead, He at
one time represented A1amance in the
Legislature.
The Salem Press says: Mr.. Harri-
son Idol, of Davidson county, well
known as a singing master, we learn,
committed suicide on Friday last, by
taking laudanum.
The Alumni of Randolph Macon
College, Virginia, have just elected
Hon. w. nj. Robbins orator for the
reunion of the Association in June,
1874. Aa excellent appointment.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: We
learn from a gentleman of Warrenton
that the crops in Warren county are
most promiging. In fact he says he
never knew them looking SO well at
this season.
The Wilson Plaindealer says: 1t is
said that the railroad authorities speak
of moving the depot from Wilson to
some point across Homlny swamp,
near the Section House, whichis about
one mile from Wilson.
The Greensboro Patriot says: MIR:
kirkby, late of Canada. residing o
miles south of the city, sheared bus
fine improved sheep and realized from
the rams fourteen and one-half pounds
and from the ewes eleven pounds OF
wool.
The Hickory Press says: There are
two people living in this county whose
combined ages make up the pretty
little sum of 227; one, Mr.. John Barnes,
is ia years old, and an old negro wo-
man, formerly the property OF Gene
raj Patterson, 113.
The Wadesboro' Herald says Rev.
c. r. Bland, Rector of Calvary
Church in this town, will not, as an
nounced a week or 30 ago, leave
Wadesboro', but will shortly establish
a good school for girls in this place.
We are glad to know this, and do not
think our town could afford to dispense
with SO good and useful citizen as
Mr.. Bland has been.
Washington and Lee University, of
Virginia, has conferred the degree OF
Bachelor of Laws on A. T. Hamilton
and G. T. Warren, of North Carolina.
Mr.. Hamilton is from Granville. It
also conferred the degree of LII. d.
on Hon. Judah P. Benjamin, now OF
England, but formerly Secretary of
State under President Davis, during
the days of the Southern Confederacy.
The Goldsboro Messenger says: The
News Ga Radical paper published IN
this place. has changed proprietors.
Our friend, J. 3. Whitaker, Sr., has
hi fvfr DnOd
will to Messrs. J. l.. Garrett, r. M.
Johnson, J. v. Sherard, d. J. Ezzell,
W. A. Deans, & Co. AS all of the new
proprietors are holding each one or
more offices, we take it for granted
that the interests of office-loving Radi-
Gals Will be fully represented.
The Raleigh News says His E1.
cellency, Gov. Caldwell, has appointed
Col: S. Med. Tate, of Burke, an
Honorary Commissioner to the Vienna
Exposition. Col Tate sails from New
York ON the I'd proximo, on the
steamer Java. He takes with him 9
large number of specimens of North
Carolina agricultural and mineral pro-
ducts, also specimens of the timber
growth of the State, including white
pine, of which there is considerable
quantity in the West.
The Supreme Council Friends OF
Temperance, now In session at Raleigh,
have appointed the following gentle.
men as Commissioners to Chattanooga,
to confer with the United Friends OF
Temperance in regard to consoHda'
ton, viz: Rev. r. 81. Whitaker, OF
N. c.; Rev. W. B. Wellons, of Va;
Rev. T. A. Carruth, of Fla. with Maj
Chas. III. Allen, of Miss; Rev. J. w.
Wellons, of N. c.; Rev. j. d. Whitley,
Hpf Va, as Alternates.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: We
Iarn that Gov, Caldwell has COM
11ted the sentence Of George Graham,
FredeI county, to imprisonment for
in the Penitentiary. This was done
q solicitation of all the leading men
It part of the country, including
IS, ministers, county officers, &c
be remembered that Graham
/, convicted and sentenced to
the Fall Term of Wilkes
Court, for the murder of q
knan.
figh News says: A letter has
Ted by gentleman in this
Appleton Oaksmith, from
saying that the Midland
ina Railroad will be pushed
rom the aforesaid letter
IT the Midland Company
sly anxious to purchase
N. @. r. R., and gentle
over to this country to
the affairs of the last
|ad, but was lost on the
her Atlantic.
Tx journal saws. The
ce-President and Mama
New York, Norfolk Il
Railroad, are visiting Nor
view to an inspection tour
proposed route from Norfolk
ton. The engineers of this
have been at work for a
LIST running the line southwark
B city, and have just entered
Carolina at or about Somerton.
h1ef engineer will accompany the
rs to Charleston, where work will
begun OF once, proceeding north
rd.
y The Wadesboro' Herald says: A
negro boy, while 'fooling around" at
Lilesville, '''tother day." applied a
lighted match to hole on the bottom
side of an empty whiskey barrel which
-.N~>N DONa IL nAAC ouu q lew 1lOuIbe
An explosion, Like the sound of u
pounder, badly burned hand, three
terribly scared men, who were in the
act of taking a drink, (and one of
whom dropped his glass, and had to
pay for it, were among the results
1t Is supposed that the action of the
sun on the damp barrel, aided by such
combustible Ingredients as were there
IN left, caused the excitement.
From recent number of Appleton's
Journal we clip the following, which
must be of value to all who are inter-
ested In the ancient history of North
Carolina
Professor W. @. Kerr, State Geol-
ogls' for North Carolina, has discov-
cred that the supposed silver caves
IN Mitchell county are probably mica
mines worked by contemporaries of the
mound builders. This view is sub-
stantiated fby recent discoveries in the