Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-08-29

Charlotte sold 473 bales of cotton
last week.
There IS n colony of wild dogs in
swamp near Raleigh.
The soldiers Of Johnston countyDro-
pose to meet III Smithtield on the 9th
OF September, 10 get up their war rec
ord.
L. n. Ramsay, ESD, who has recent
ly been sOJournlng Ill Paris, has re-
turned to London.
The Goldsboro Standard says: A re-
port is current here that the caterpillar
has made its appearance on some of the
plantations near this place.
We regret to learn that Capt Plato
Durham has been very nnwcil for the
past two weeks. He Is thrt atencd
with paralysis i'll his hands and arms,
the left one especially.
Gov. Graham is steadily improving
in health. He is now on Il visit to the
Catawha White Sulphur Springs the
waters of which viii, we hope, speedily
restore him to his wCntGd health.
The Baptists are erecting a Church
- 10y :i6 on the Lincolnton and Tuck
a,egce road, a few miles from Goshen
Church. 1t is called Hickory Grove,
and VIII be under the charge of Rev.
Mr.. David.
The Raleigh Sentinel says From
the LIST of September, 1872, to the Odd
of August, 1873, there have been
81 ,SO2 bales OF cotton received and
sold i'll this city. During the prece-
ding year only about l., 500 bales were
sold.
The Lincoln Progress extends the
following cordial welcome: We notice
the arrival OF q new sewing machine
man IN our town with his wagon. Our
opinion is, that we have lad enough of
this thing lately, and that hostilities
ought to cease for while
\ correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch, writing from Greenbricr
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia,
speaks of Miss Mamie Wilson, OF
Charlotte, n. c., as among the most
accomplished and attractive OF the
lady visitors at the Springs
The Charlotte Southern Home says:
In 1868. the old king carr ed CASTOR
county by several hundred majority.
This year only 74 OF his most devoted
the Amendments. Two Radical mag
school-committce men. With these ex-
ceptions, all the county officers als
Conservatives.
+ The Monroe Enquirer says: A little
over two months ago Mr.. b. f. Hous-
ton ;laid OFT thirty-One building lots III
this place, and offered them for sale at
prices ranging from $50 TO STE, and
last week we were Informed that the
last one of them had been sold. This
item gives some idea OF the rapidity of
thu growth of Monroe, and show that
it is destined to become, at no distant
day, a place OF Importance.
The StatesvilIe Intelligencer says:
On the 18th instant II very distressing
accident occurred by fire in Wilkes
county, about ten miles below Wilkes
boro. colored man by the name of
! Parks and his wife were absent from
| home. engaged III gathering blackber-
ries, ana during their absence their
house caught fire. They had three lit
tie children whom they had left alone
to care for each other, and being too
youN" to have sufficient discretion to
save themselves by leaving the house,
remained and were completely con-
sumcd.
The Raleigh NcaCs says eve under
stand that Mr.. Zacharias w. Haynes,
OF ladkln county, one of the teachers
of the North Carolina Institution for
the Deaf Dumb and the Blind, is to he
married to Miss Lanra j. Bunker, the
daughter Of one Of the Siamcse twins,
on the first week of September next.
Rev. Mr.. Lewellyn, we understand will
otficiate through the signs Of Prof
ID. G. Dudley, Jr., one of the teschers
OF the SAID institution. They are both
deaf mutes.
The Newton Vindicator says: Two
miles east of this place, on David Bar
ringers land, is the ore bank from
which was taken the first iron ore ever
used i'll the State. The first forge was
at Horse Ford Creek, two miles from
Hickory. Under Il grant from the
King, for every TWEEN y tons made, the
producer of iron received three thuu
sand acres Of land, and after securing
Il grant for one tract of three thousand
acres tho proprietor abandoned the
work.
The Go!dsboro Messenger SAYS ::
There resides within Il hundred miles
OF Gnlaabnro II Radical officc-holder.
who IS even somewhat below the aver
age calibre OF most of our white Rad
is only necessary to relate that during
the war the man S wife was in IL diving
condition and unable to partake OF
food. The doctor ordered that some
chicken soup be given her. When the
husband twho, by the way, had an
abundance of chickens on the prem
ises) heard the doctors prescription, he
exclaimed in astOniShment: what. a
chicken ! Why, I can get four
dollars apiece for evC.F chicken I've
got. Won't some fried collards do
just as well?" The wife died.
The religions press have now taken
in hand Pool, the President, or as
much OF him us has been left since lie
passed through the mills of the secu-
lar press. The North Carolina Pres
bytcrian thus concludes 4 notice of the
little fellow
The lady III question is a regular
correspondent Of the Presbyterian, and
for intelligence, culture and true re-
tTnoment, has no superior i'll the State.
r The attack upon her was most lmmanly
and low, and had the object OF it been
a gentleman instead of lady, we risk
nothing in saying that the braggart's
courage would have oozed out of his
finger ends before he had permitted
them to hold for an instant the pen
that wrote the scUrrilOus production
The idea Of &"ch Il person sitting in
the chair once honortd by such qen-
Hcl'ojs as Gov. Swain 1t may be the
end is not vet.
The Ncwbcrn Rrl35tbtjc- Courier
gives very amusing account of two
men in Il s!oop in Pamlico Sound,
bound for Newborn, who went on a
whaling expedition on their own ac-
count and got well whalel out They
were sailing along very well when they
discovered 4 whale near the boat,
whereat one of them attached the har-
poon line to the anchor chain and sent
the harpoon out to the whale. 1t.
struck fairly and his whalcship started
off, towing the sloop at the rate of
about 20 miles an hour. He made for