Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-10


tend the State Fair, left Raleigh yes
terday morning.
Edward Carswell, the Canada tenn
peraEce humorist, will visit North
Carolina during the month Of De-
cember.
Capt. Robt. NJ. Furman, editor of
the Asheviile Citizen, is making an
energetic effort for Fair in the far
West.
The Goldsboro' Messenger says
Our townsman, Col. L. w. Humphrey,
Senator from this county, is hard at
work preparing plan to be submitted
to the next General Assembly for adj
justing the debt of the State.
The Lincolnton Progress says. Our
townman, B. S. Johnston, has second
crop of apples from the same tree.
The first crop came i'll June, the second
in September. The apples are large
and fine.
On Wednesday, the 10Th September,
at the American Episcopal Church
(Temple Neuf de Ia Fustetie), Geneva,
Switzerland, by the Rev. Chaucny
Langdon. and in the presence of the
United States Consul, Benz. S. Kicks,
Jr., of Mississippi. to Fanny E. Jones,
of Charlotte, n. G..
The Raleigh Sentinel learns that up
to this time there have been one hun
dred conversions on Granville circuit,
which is in charge of Rev. J. T. Grit
fifth. There have been some twenty
additions to the Methodist Church in
Oxford.
IA Ach
informed by gentleman that on We'd
nesday night last, a lady named
Payne, the wife of a blacksmith, who
lives near Brevard, gave birth to trip
let's. How many got away, he did not
state. If that blacksmith has not
committed suicide; We'll bet he's nor
forging thunderbolts.
The Charlotte Southern Home SAYS:
Rev. j. NJ. Rose, who has been preach
ing with great acceptance in the Pres
byterlan Mission Chapel, has received
a call to Portsmouth, Va. North Car
oliEa is losing her most promising
young ministers through the financial
prudence OF the churches.
The Raleigh News says: At meet
ing of the Directors of the North Car
| DINA Railroad held at Company Shops
on Wednesday last, Col. Thomas NJ.
Holt offered his resignation as Presi-
dend of the North Carolina Railroad
Company, which was duly accepted
| and Maj. w A. Smith elected in his
stead.
The Raleigh News says: The Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction re
| ceived information, on yesterday, that
two persons of Dare county had trepas.
sed upon the States lands IL tina
| county, and were working one hundred
hands. They have gotten out large
amount of lumber, and if not restrained
from doing so will soon commence its
| removal.
| The Charlotte Democrat says: We
; publish, on the first page, a lettel
| from Professor Kerr to the y. {. 1tg
ricnltural Journal, in which it i:
stated that the ears of corn from
Mecklenbnrg county We're the bes
exhibited. The com was raised by
oar Sheriff, NJ. j. Alexander.
Tile Weldon News says: We have
received from Mr.. Jesse Powell, o
! Edgecombe, an open boil of cotton
which has seventeen cells or compart
ments for locks, all we'll marked an(
wide open. It is Il curiosity in its way
and will be examined with interest as
it will be on exhibition at the coming
Fair.
The Raleigh News says: Large an
diences attend the Edenton Stree
Methodist Church nightly. The le
ligious impression is extending. Th,
| scene that transpired at the CONVEX
sion of a blind girl on last Sundu
night was exceedingly affecting. The
| meetings give promise OF the accom-
| plishment of great good.
The Monroe Enquirer says: There
! is on exhibition at w. G. Ogburn 6
Bro several stalks of cotton, one o
which is six feet high and has over @
matured bolls, and another, which i,
Iine feet and three inches ugh, bI
has not so many hollis. The cotton
was raised by Mr.. n. S. Ogburn, in
! large patch that he has III town, ant
we think equals, if it does not sllrpass
any We ever before saw.
! The Charlotte Southern Home SAYS
! The widow of the late DR.. JOSEPH
j Ross committed suicide by drowning
! last Friday morning. She was quite
an old lady, and had for years beer
| subject to temporary fits of insanity
! in one of which sic committed the I'm
| fortunate act. At the time Of hel
| death she was living at Sharon Will
! +. 3. Hunter, Esq, who married hel
niece.
The Raleigh News says Major
Seaton Gales returned on Friday fror.
II Northern trip. He represented tn,
Grand Lodge of I. O. 0. F., Of thi.
! State, at the recent session OF the
Grand Lodge at Baltimore. He als>
| visited Newark, n. J., where lie deliv.
cred an address on the Both ult., by al
! invitation of Howard Lodge, No. 7,
the occasion being their 32nd anniycr,
sary.
The Wadesboro' Herald says: \
colored boy of II or IA years of age
was horribly mangled by cotton gin
on the premises of the widow Horne,
about s miles miles from Wadesboro'
day or SO ago. He was caught be
tween the trundIe-head and cog wheel,
and his face from his nose to his chin,
was mashed in, one of his jaw-bo ies
being broken, and the other dislocated,
and nearly all of his teteh gone.
The Wadesboro' Herald says: Rev.
S. c. Alexander, Evangelist of Neck
lenburg Presbytery, organized a Pres
byterian church at Monroe, last Friday
night, comm encing with fifteen men4-
bers. Col. Walkup, and Mr.. f'ltz-
gerald were ordained Elders. The
church and lot of the Methodists, who
are now building three thousand dol
lar one, has been purchased by the
Presbyterians.
The Washington Express says In
this county cotton has been damaged
to very great extent, both by the ex-
cessive rains in August, and by the
catapiller since September set H.
Most all of the large farmers are COM
planning of the caterpiller; some plan
tations have been literally swept, not
q cotton leaf left. This destructive
worm has never been known TO be so
general and destructive as the present
season,
The Newbern Times says: Reports
are received almost every day from
the lower part of Craven county of the
ravases of the boil worm. The worms
compIate1y strin the stalk onj nv