Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-11
STATE NEWS.

More Canadians prospecting around
Greensboro.
The pea vines arc in blossom III the
Newbern section.
Tarboro' votes on the "wet or dry
question in May.
w. W. Holden has assumed charge
Of the Raleigh postofiice.
Magnolia wants Duplin county TO
inaugurate Fair at that place.
Several mad dogs have been killed
in Tarboro' during the past week
Raleigh has raised 5000 OF the
Grounds.
Fifty colored and twenty-five white
emigrants left Guiiord COUNTY, Mon
day, for Indiana.
Otey, colored barber at the far-
borough House, has contributed so
TO the State Fair Fund.
The census says there are 66l clergy
men, STA lawyers, 80 journalists and
1,143 physicians III North Carolina.
The annual meeting OF the stock
holders of the Western Railroad was
to have been held III Fayetteville yes
terday.
The Board of County Commissioners
Of Johnston county have determined
not to grant any retail liquor licenses
in that county.
During his stay Of two months IL
this State, Col Hickman initiated over
twelve hundred people into the order
Of Good Tenpiars.
The son of Mr.. William Maxwell.
who lives on the North Fork, in A5he
county, fell from barn loft, on Il rail ,
breaking his neck.
Mr.. W. C. Bullock, q prominent ap(!
most estimable citizen Of Granville
county, died a few days ago. He was
a leading member OF the Presbyterian
church.
The Magnolia Monitor says: The
Baptist Church IN this place was dod:
Gated on Sunday last. Rev. Or. Pritch-
ard, of Raleigh. preached the dcdica-
tory sermon.
United States Marshal CaIrow Las
received the pardons from the I'resi-
dent of the United States for james
SweeZy, W. G. DuDrco and Lawson
Teal, sentenced as Ku-kluZ TO Tho
Rutherford county jail.
Hon. Asa Diggs, President Of rne
Board OF Trustees Of the Wilson Col
le4iate Institute, has been invited to
deliver the Annual Addrcas al the T. 4:
Commencement, which takes u,are ~:
Friday, the 9th OF juno.
The Weldon News sag: We ,ccTu
4
Of our venerable friend, Captain .ial1,.,,
Simmons, OF this place, has been ~
pointed Commissioner 20 tie Expo
sition at Vienna, Au5tria, from II:3-is-
sippi.
The Hickory Press says Panl
Anthony, n highly respectable and
worthy citizen of this township. died
on the 4th of this month, aged So wears
and 2 months. He was an unfinciline
ocrat-alwaysready at the polls to
vote.
The Goldsboto Messenger aa.--:
Our friend, DR.. Daniel CogelolI, Icte
here on yesterday evening for Raleigh,
where he goes TO place himself under
treatment OF Dr.. Geo. v. Graham. for
the recovery Of his eyesicht, WHICH
HeceSSltalGS All CirStiitOtf-
The Petersburg Tnde3 says: Acasyoo f
sweet potato planting5 has just arrived
from Beaufort, n, c., after voyage
of eight days. They were CONSIGNED
to Messrs. Geo. Y. Scott 6 Co. The
yellow barks ere sold al Il p pcx
bushel and the vans at 81.
Tho Goldsboro' Messenger says ::
no
sioners have refused u grant RECON-
1nendations for l;qnor licenses any
where on East aDd West Center street.
and there is great commotion IN tic
ranks of liquor sellers Just now.
The Washington Express SAYS: Two
fires in the lower part of our coun!Y
on Saturday, the 22d OF March. III.
Warren Ruff, of Blount's Greek, lost
his house, and Old Nj. Sam. O,ien ilis,
house, furniture, Out-houses, and even
the clothing Of his family Thinking
to save the house, scarcely anything
was removed.
The Pee Dee Herald says: Two
coiored men, Thos. Nixon and LarsIi
Ingram, in the river country III tins
county, had difficulty last Sunday
night, in which tho latter had = deep
cash cut IN his head by an axe in the
hands Of the former. Ingram is nov
lying in critical condition. Mix0u's
wife was at the bottom OF the whole
affair
A dispatch to the Raleigh News from
Macon Depot, Warren county, under
date Of yesterday, says
1.-THE Educational Convention held
at Gardeners on Saturday and Sunday,
in behalf of the endowment fnnd for
Wake Forest College, was . complete
success. A large crowd was present
and much interest manifested, the sub
scriptions being Liberal.
The Greensboro Patriot says We
learn from Mr. W. A. Caldwell, who
has just completed the school census,
that there are within the corporate I'm
its, children over six and under twenty
one years of age, as follows white
males 1874, white females l23-tJtal
white 26O colored males GG, coloretl
females 102--tOtal cOlOred 1GS. Total
white and colored 42S.
The Greensboro Patriot SAYS: The
passenger cars on the Richmond !.
Danville Railroad have attached within
a patent apparatus showing the station
the train is approaching. It is very
simple continuance, and has attached
to it bell to attract the attention OF
passengers when the brakemen ragu-
lates it, as he does at every station.
1t is decided convenience to travellers,
and saves conductors the necessity OF
questions.
The Tarboro' Sonthernor says: 4
bright little boy, aged about seven
years, and bearing the historic and re-
vered name of Robert Lee, was the
first orphan received in the Asylum
recently opened at Oxford.
He Immediately became tic rscipi- |
ent of the most lavish attentions, the
Horner boys sending him many useful
articles to which the little fellow had,
no doubt, been a stranger all his life. .
The citizens also manifested the
greatest interest in the child bearing
the name of our dead hero.
The Raleigh News furnishes some !
STATISTICS concerning the troops OF this /
State HTripI he he Cf