Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-01-24
STATE NEWS.
lots of LOBBYISTS in Raleigh.

Lots of lobbyists In Raleigh.
Only five prisoners in Halifax jail.
Steamers now run between Tarboro'
and Washington.
The small pox in Franklin and Nash
is on the decline.
The young men of Tarboro' had a
grand dress ball at the Howard Hotel
last Friday night.
Many farmers along the Roanake
river lost numbers of cattle during
the recent freshet.
W. NJ. Blackwell, ESQ.,, of Granville,
owns mare that has given birth to SIX
colts in three years.
The colored people of Greensboro
are about to organize temperance So
ciety and savings bank.
A Kentucky drove of ninety-hve
mules was in Raleigh this week and
were sold very rapid at from Sl5O to
$175 per mule.
The Salem Press says Mr.. II. n.
Clinard killed two hogs, Ii months Old,
weighing respectively 392 and 36O IDS.
This is hard to beat.
We note that at Ridgeway there is
Brewery owned by G. Peters, an
Englishman, that is said to manutac-
ture..superior xxx Ale.
The Raleigh News says that the New
Years Ball given in that city ON Thurs
day evening was one of the grandest
affairs ever known there.
Mrs. Margaret E Ramey, for many
years resident of Rocky Mount, died
in Wilmington, Del. onthe 18th, III
the 55th year of her age.
The I.ouisburg Courier says DIR.
Pritchard, of Raleigh, baptised four
Young ladies of this place in the Tar
river on Tuesday the 14th inst.
The Salisbury Waterman says that
the hog cholera or some other equally
fatal malady is proving very destruc-
tive among the hogs of that immediate
section.
The Tarboro' Southerner says: Mr..
John A. Little, living i'll the Lower
Coneto District, with one assistant and
one horse. produced IA bales of cotton,
so barrels of corn and $50 bushels po-
ta5oes.
The Wadesboro' Argus says: We are
informed that an old colored man, Alb.
Ratliff. who lives with Mr.. C. Teal,
about 6 miles from town, fell from a
wagon last week and broke his thigh.
He is not expected to recover.
The Winston Republican learns that
the store of Messrs. Jones & Dobny,
ut Gap Civil, Allegheny county, was
DESTROYED by fire on the LIST instant
Loss from Sc, 900 to 81, 900. Insured in
the Liverpool, London & Globe Com
pany for $4,000.
The Raleigh Era says !: Adolphus
Strudwick, colored, near Hlllsboro',
went over to a neighbours house the
other night, and returning, laid down
to go to sleep and was dead before
morning. He had been working hard
that day and it is thought he rllptured
a blood vessel.
The Battleboro Advance is panied to
announce the sudden death OF Exum
F. Wick, Esq, which occurred on
Thursday, the 9th inst. MIR. Wick
left home in his usual health and was
taken i'll in his buggy on the road near
Whitakers Mill and died in few mo
The Greensboro Patriot says Mr.
Will Benbow is erecting handle fac
tor Mt Oak Ridge, in this county. The
handle business is becoming quite an
industry in this State, the factories
now numbering about eight, We be-
lieve, the two in this city being the
largest and doing the most extensive
business.
The Winston Sentinel says G. NJ.
Booker, charged with the murder of
Hampton Jeffrey at Madison, some two
months ago, sued out writ of habeas
corpus before Judge Tourgee, on the
2Sth of December, and asked to be adj
mitted ia bail. Judge Tourgee refused
to grant the writ The case will come
up at the Spring Term of Rockingham
Court.
The Goldsboro' Messenger says :
The meeting held in Smithfeld, ON
the 21st of December, to devise means |
for the erection of a cotton factory,
was all that could be desired. A tenn |
pOrary organization was effected, and |
another meeting is to be held ON the |
LIST Saturday in February, when |
stock company is to be formed. The |
indications are that the proposed en-
terprise will be made success.
The Greensboro Patriot says: We |
had the pleasure of meeting yesterday !
Messrs. Stewart and Thompson, of !
Canada West, who have been spend
ing some days looking around our sec
ton with view to selecting sites suit |
able for location. There are quite a |
number of people in the neighborhood !
they come from who are DESTROYS of |
moving to this State, if they can Sc
cure lands to suit them, which we
have no doubt they can.
The Greensboro Patriot says The |
dwelling and outhouses of Stephen G.. |
Hudson, of Randolph county, were
destroyed by fire on the 18th inst. |
His stock of wheat, oats, potatoes, &C.,
stored in one of the outhouses, was |
The fire originated from |
sparks falling on the roof, and was not |
by Mr.. H., who was work
ing in the adjoining woods, until it was
too late to save anything but portion
of his household furniture.
SUPREME COURT Jan.
15.-Court met at 10 o'clock, all the
Justices present.
The following cases from the 5th |
Judicial Circuit were taken up:
Thos. Robinson, executor, VS.. Henry
ct al, from Richmond. Put
off and collect costs of plaintiff. T. S.
Ashe for plaintiff; and Battle i Sons
and J. w. Hinsdale for defendants
John D. Williams, ct al, VS.. John T.
Council, from Moore. Continued by
John Manning and J. D. Nc
liver for plaintiffs, ank Nein Mckay,
Phillip l. Merrimon and B. & T. G.
Fuller for defendants.
The papers in the case of John Nc
Crumin VS.. Cyrus Bennett, ct al, from
Moore, were handed to the Court an
''advisari" being entered in the case at
the last term.
Sinclair, Owen & Brown VS. State of
North Carolina, from Cumberland.
Referred to the Clerk to find the facts.
J. w. Hinsdale for plaintiff and At
torney General for the State,
State VS. Samuel Mcmillan. ct al.