Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-16
STATE NEWS.
Strawberries and cherries Is ce

than at any time since 1874.
The railroad bridge over Silver
creek, ". n. G. r. r. has been washed
away.
There are now 4O3 convic.s in the
Penitentiary, and tho Spring crop
promises well.
Mr. J. H. Gatling, of Manney's
Neck, n. c., on last Friday caught
three young bears.
John Armstrong, Esq, and Col. J.
NJ. Heck will leave Raleigh in few
days for the Vienna exhibition.
The first Chinaman ever arrested in
San Francisco for drunkenness turned
up in the police court the other day.
General Clingman will deliver the
next annual address to the public at
Davidson College, on the 25th of June.
The dinner Eorn of the r. & G. r.
r. Shops is distinctly heard on the
other side of Walnut Creek-about
three miles of music.
Hon. A. S. Merrimon has consented
to deliver the annual address before
the Literary Societies of Wake Forest
College at commencement in June.
The Milton Chronicle says: Mr..
VIM. Nichols, while ploughing recently
on the farm of Mr. S. Yancy, near this
place, ploughed up Spanish coin
bearing date of 1862.
The crop prospect in Person is
promising. Whilst there is complaint
as to scarcity of tobacco plants, it is
thought there will be enough to meet
the wants of the farmers.
The Raleigh Sentinel learns by letter
from Oxford that the recent heavy
rains did serious damage in Granville,
washing away fences and tearing up
the crops planted in the low grounds.
The Raleigh News says: Governor
Caldv 9 / on yesterday respited George
Graham, convicted of murder and SEN
fenced at the late term OF Wilkes
Court to be hanged on the 23d day of
this month. The respite is until the
9th day Of June.
| The Fayetteville Statesman says -
| The Fayetteville Light infantry was
reorganized last night. Many old
members were present. For nearly a
| hundred years it was an honor to the
town; let it be, a hundred years from
now, its chief pride.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: Our
friend Peter Hines, Esq, showed us
| on yesterday some rich specimens of
iron ore recently found by him on his
plantation three miles from Castor, in
Halifax county, and about three miles
from the iron mine of Col. Heck, which
is now being worked.
The Durham Tobacco Plant thinks
| So, $50 will be raised in Granville foI
| the proposed Oxford Railroad, and
says Durham will subscribe literally,
| provided the proposed road is run
through the section of TallyHo, knal
and Reeds, and connecting with the
| Central Road at Durham.
The Charlotte Southern Home saws
We were shown at Dallas the beak OF
named Button, had killed on king's
and attempted to pick out his eyes
He fought it with rocks, and killed it.
The eagle measured 9 feet inches
from one tip of the wing to the other
A special to the Petersburg Index
dated Rocky Mount, 18th, says: i
heavy hail storm passed through this
section of the country, doing serious
damage to farmers and killing poultry
Twenty-eight window lights were bro
ken i'll one dwelling, eighty-five i'll an
other. The storm ranged eastward
gathering in fury and extending
doubtless, several miles.
The Charlotte Southern Home SAYS
The farmers in this section were SO
riously injured by the freshets anl
washing rains of last week. Fence.
were carried off and plowed lant
washed into gullies. Where hillside
bitches were in proper condition, ant
deep blowing had been done, the in
jury was much less. Nature teache.
farmers many instructive lessons.
The Concord Sun says: We see i
stated that the amount necessary t.
defray the expenses of Professor Kerr
az Commissioner from North Carolin;
to the Vienna Exposition, will be
about 5000 We offer to be one o
twenty who will advance $50, each. fol
the payment of his expenses, til.
money TO be forwarded to Raleigh Il.
soon as it can be ascertained that the
amount is raised.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: On Fri
day night one of the most terrific hal
storms and tOrnadoes ever witnesse,
|
and CASTOR Railroad, between Manson
and Henderson. tearing trees up b.
the roots and devastating all in it
course. The storm took sweep, it il
said, of some seven miles, and has lief
nothing in its track. We have no par
ticulars, but learn it spread terror an(
dismay as it passed along.
The Raleigh News says The Roa
noke river commenced rising Thurs
day night and is now forty-one fee
above the low water mark. 1t is rising
on an average of about six inches t,
the hour.
The effect of the freshet reported il
the Dan river is now being felt, an,
from present indications it is fearet
that much valuable property will b.
damaged, as the freshet III the abov
mentioned stream is the heavies
known for ten years, and has destroye,
over so, eco worth of property at las
accounts.
The Raleigh News says: Our. Nor
canton correspondent, under date o
the Sth OF May, says 'that all TIN
streams in Western North Carolina ar
reported far out beyond their banks
The Catawba at Morganton wa
twenty one feet above common water
and still rising. At 8! o'clock o,
Thursday morning, the bridge owe
the Catawba, two miles from Morgan
ton, was swept away. West of Nor
canton the damage to the Western
Railroad is very severe, and it viii
probably be two weeks before the
trains can run over the road. / hav,
heard nothing Of the road east of here
There is no doubt an immense amour
of damage to the bottom lands which
have recently been plowed up, ant
much fencing will be washed away ant
many mill dams destroyed.
The Robesonian says : During the
last week IN April man went to Mr.
Nathaniel McNair's house, in this
county, in his absence, and inquired o
his housekeeper if they had been mucl
troubled by the Lowrey gang during
their raids in the neighborhood On
being told that the Lowreys had never
troubled Mr. McNair or bis premises
the man remarked, 81 don't think YOU
will have to say 50 much longer