Wilmington journal., 1873-08-08
STATE NEWS.

.
The telegraph office at Franklin, n. !
c., was struck by lightning on Satur-
day night, and the battery burnt ur.
NeWbern is having a little excite
ment of its own i'll the way OF an at
tempt to supplant the present post
master.
Hardy Jones, colored, is to be hung
at Newbern on Friday next. Governor
Caldwell refuses to exercise Executive
clemency.
In flower garden in Raleigh is a
tanier plant which has a leaf four feet
nine inches long, by three feet eight
inches wide.
The first peaches received in the city
of New York this year were from the
North Carolina orchards, and sold
readily at So per crate.
The Attorney General has recon-
mended for pardon Capt. Il. A. Shot
well, of North Carolina, and VIM. NJ
Fulton, of South Carolina, both of
whom were convicted and imprisoned
for alleged crimes against the Kuklux
law.
From the correspondence of the
Goldsboro Messenger we learn that
the corps of engineers engaged III
surveying the route for the projected
Norfolk & Charleston road, reached
LaGrange, in Lenoir county, few
days ago, and Immediately began the
survey South.
The Charlotte Southern Home says
The wheat crop of this section was
very light. The oat crop was unusu-
ally good. Cotton bids fair to give a
splendid yield. Corn is rather below
the usual average. The season has
| not been favorable and it has not, as
general rule, been so well worked as
cotton.
The Weldon News says. We are sorry
to learn that little child some five
years old, of Mr. Joseph Branch, near
Enfield. was killed by lightning last
Saturday. A negro woman also was
killed at the same time, and several
persons slightly injured. The affair
is sad indeed, and the relations of the
unfortunate parties have our sympa-
thies.
The Newton Vindicator says: The
handsome sum of s., 200 was slbscrib-
ed at the District meeting at Lenoir
for the benefit of Davenport College.
Mr.. Edmond W. Jones gave the
munificent sum of 81 400 and Hon. J.
G. Harper $500, and through their
| Hberallty the trustees are relieved from
the burden of debt and enabled to refit
the college.
The Newbern Times says:-At the
store of Messrs J & ]. Patterson & Co.
on Craven street can be seen a great
curiosity in the shape of mammoth
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having upon it in process of growing,
IL ears of corn. This stalk was taken
from Mr. John Patterson's lot in real
of his store, where there are others
which will measure as high as II feet
and more.
The Raleigh News says F.: We learn,
through private source, that a man
by the name of Thomas Thurston, en-,
gagged in painting a store-house i'll
Durhams. on Friday last, fell from 6
scaffold thirty feet high and injured
himself very seriously, if not fatally
The attending physician thinks that the
condition of the unfortunate MAJ
justifies grave fears of his ultimate
recovery.
Henry E. Cotton, the Agricultural
Editor of the New York Times, ant
formerly a resident of Raleigh, was
seriously injured a few days ago by :
railroad accident near White Sulphur
Springs. Mr. Cotton was at one tim,
Editor of the Asheville Spectator, a
another, Clerk of House of Commons
and reporter for the old Raleigh Re
gister, and afterwards editor of one O
the Fayetteville papers.
The Charlotte Democrat says Du
ring the past week an Arbitration Com
mittee, consisting of Mr.. billiard O
+ Rockingham, Mr.. London of Whining
f ton, and Mr.. Thompson of South Car
: ohna, held n protracted meeting il
, this city to settle the accounts between
the Charlotte, Columbia & August;
, Road and the A. Z. Il 0. Road. Messrs
: Shipp and Guion appeared for TIL
, former road and Messrs Barringer an,
, Bynum for the latter. There has beer
a contest about the matter for som
: time past, and finally both partie
, agreed to submit to arbitration, w
y learned late Saturday afternoon tina
the Arbitrators failed to agree, and al
5 journed indefinitely. We presume tn
I | case will now go to the Courts
The Raleigh News says:-The Con
+ vention of 1885, memorable in our his
e tory as the ablest body that ever col
5 vened in this city, commenced its ses
a sion on the 4th of June in the Presbyte
: rian Church. In looking over the orig
: inal signatures of the one hundred an
4 twenty-eight members of that bod
S yesterday, affixed to the oath admins
e tered to them on the opening of th
: Convention. we counted only nine tbs
a are now living, viz: Burgess S. Ga
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8 then of Catawba, now of Wake, As
$ Biggs, then of Martin. now of Norfoll
n Va, John L. Baily, of Buncombe, A
: Edwards, of Warren, Calvin Graves
s of Caswell, Kenneth Rayner, then {
= Hertford, now of Mississippi, an
: Hezekiah Spruill, of Tyrrell.
The Charlotte Observer says I
: the Superior Court on yesterday, bt
:. fore Judge Moore, on motion Of NJ,
:. Corkle & Bailey, attorneys for plaintiff
; with the consent of the defendants,
8 was ''Ordered that, until the motto
, for receiver shall have been decided
= j. j. Gormley be appointed temporar
receiver, to take immediate possessio
and control of the Atlantic, Tennessee
G & Ohio Railroad Company in Mort
= Carolina, until the further order {
! this Court, to enter into bond, wit
W. r. Myers as surety, in the sum {
! S., 900 for the faithful discharge of h1
= duties as such. He is ordered to ru
;, the train by the last schedule, and a
: persons are forbidden to interfere wit
his management and control" Th
. order is signed IVA. Moore, J. S. c..
Il The injunction case has been set fe
: trial on Thursday. A decision wi
n then be reached which will, no doub
= show who is the legal President of til
:, road.
d The Charlotte Observer says:
G personal rencontre took place yeste
e day afternoon, in front of the Cou1
l. House, between Col. VIM. Johnsto
e and Mr.. r. I. Mcdowell. The caus
i leading to the difficulty was the lettt
l. from Mr.. Mcdowell, which appear
o in the Observer this morning, an
j. which was put upyn the streets in ci
= cu1ar form veStar3ov aftorpoo, ,lo,