Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-02-14
STATE NEWS.
Gov. Caldwell is sick.


Rev. Charles Phillips, D. d., lee
lures in Charlotte next Friday evening
Mrs. Camden F. McRae, of Warren
ton, niece of Hon. ". III. Battle, is
dead.
DIR. d. A. Robertson and family,
have removed from Hillsboro' to
Greensboro.
Asheville is two thousand two hun
dred and thirteen feet above the level
of the sea, says the Expositor.
Capt. James r. Thigpen of Edge
Penny Hill farm for 800 per acre.
A 800 Rutherford county bond sold
at auction last Monday at the Court
House, on six months credit, for only
$50.
L. G. Miller, Representative from
BERTHE, won three hundred dollar horse
at a rattle in Raleigh, on Saturday
night.
Shad 81 pair, eggs 20 cents per
dozen, oysters 40 to 80 cents per gal
lon and thermometer 81 in the shade in
Newbern.
Two entertainments for the benefit
of the Parsonage Aid Society of the
Methodist Church of Goldsboro'
netted $130.
At a sale of lots in the old Fair
Ground, Raleigh, eight of the forty
three lots, 52x210, were sold, bringing
about $500 each.
Mrs. Mary F. Jones, consort of Col.
P. E. A. Jones, deceased, of Granville,
died on the 7th at the residence of her
mother, Mrs. J. D. Hawkins.
The wife of Judge Boyden, of Sails
bury is quite sick, and Mrs. Treasurer
jenkins is lying at the poiot of death
at her home in CASTOR county.
The Charlotte Observer says: We
understand from Captain Brain that
about $1,000 of the $1,000 needed to
put the ice machine in operation, has
been subscribed.
The Magnolia Monitor says: On
| Saturday morning, about sunrise, the
youngest child of Mr.. Chas. NJ. Cowles,
named Emma, fell into the fire and
was SO badly burned as to cause her
death IN less than twenty-four hours.
The Board of Commissioners of
Mecklenburg proprose to sell the pres
ent jail and premises, and purchase
grounds elsewhere for the erection of
a new Jail. They ask the Legislature
for authority to do SO, and levy a
special tax for that purpose.
I The Hillsboro' Recorder says: Hon.
! ". 4. Graham returned from Wash
ington City last week, where he has
been in attendance upon the Supreme
Court of the United States. Weregret
to hear that since his return he has
been confined to his residence by an
attack of chills.
Gen. Gusts Lee, President of the
Lee University in Virginia, has written
to Prof Kerr, of this city, saws the
! Raleigh Era, and Major York, of
Chatham County, requesting colIec-
ton OF North Carolina minerals to be
forwarded to that university. We
saw a piece of marble from Stokes
county to be sent on there to-day.
The Weldon News says: The freshet in
the upper portion of the county car
ried away several bridges ON Fishing
Greek. Ransom's bridge, on big
Fishing Greek, and KimbalPs and Gull
peppers bridges, on little Fishing
Greek, were carried away on Satur-
day. The damages to fences, washing
away OF lumber, &C., wasvery great.
We are informed saws the Raleigh
Era of Monday afternoon, that Messrs.
Walters, Newcomer and Bridgers came
from Charlotte this morning by special
car to Durham, looking after the
Chapel Hill Railroad, which is con.
templated to tap either at that point OF
a'few miles above at University Station.
These gentlemen will spend all the
morning about Durham, and are ex.
pected in this city this evening. Prob
ably they will visit the Hoke iron mine
at Chapel Hill.
The elk horns presented to Judge
Cloud while in Halifax, by Billy vii
Hams, of Halifax, who killed the buck
weighing over 800 pounds. and pre-
scented the Judge with the horns, are
on exhibition and can be seen by the
lovers of the curious at the Secretary
of States office in this city It is 6
singular horn, being bent down in front
The deer was a notable one in Halifax
county from this fact, and was known
of by all old hunters as the chuck that
ran with his head to the earth. RAJ
Ne,rs.
The Newborn Times says: We were
pleased to observe yesterday that the
wOrkmen had recommended operations
upon Chris.'s Church, and upon en-
curing of member of the Vestry, to
hear that it was not probable that the
work would be again discontinued
until the building was so far finished
las to permit the congregation to
Worship therein. The members of the
Church have already donated the
funds for, and will put in at once all
the windows. It is now only necessary
to raise sufficient money to finish some
of the inside work, and to put in the
pews, which will cost $12 each. The
building when finished will contain Se
pews, 81 of which have already been
subscribed for
We learn that Mr. Rufus Johnston,
the young man who accidentally shot
himself, near Davidson College, is not
likely to recover. He is the son of
Mr.. James Johnston, living near the
College, and a nephew of Col. VIM
Johnston, of our city. The father of
the unfortunate young man has been
greatly afflicted. A few years ago, a
fine little son was burned to death
from his clothes catching on fire. We
sympathize truly with Mr.. Johnston in
his sore affection. So says the Char
lotte Home.
By private letter from CASTOR. says
the Charlotte Home, we learn the par
ticulars of a terrible accident which oc-
CURED on the farm of Mr.. J. w.
Moore, on the LIST instant Harvey
| Moore was driving wagon. loaded
! with saw-log, to the mill. A tenant,
l Nv, William killian and his little boy
an the log. They came to
! We're rIt,,IIs, and Young
a sliding place i'll the roa>,,
! Moore told them to jump off. The boy
succeeded in getting off, but Mr.. Kill
ian's leg caught in the fore-wheel and
was broken. The wagon turned over
| and ne was so crushed as to die i'll half
| an hour.
| Mr.. killian was an Industrious man
and good citizen. He leaves a very
| dependent family.
Capt John G. Brain, late of the G. S
Nayy (hetter known as the last nrieo-