Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-02-21
RATES OF ADvEkTnsxun.


A splrit1alist, by the name of Scho-.
field, is astounding the Raleighites.
J. J. Jones died in Edgecombe
county on the 9th instant, aged 80
years
Hon. Thomas j. McCaig and family,
of Maryland, are about to remove TO
Raleigh.
1t costs as much to feed prisoner
in the Forsyth jail as it does to board
at the best hotel in the county.
A buck, weighing 17s pounds, was
killed the latter part of last week in
the extreme southwestern part of Wake
county.
The Rocky Mount Mail says: There
are no new cases of smallpox in Nash
vile, and we learn that those having
business there are venturing in vii.
but little fear of danger.
The Winston Sentinel saws An ex-
tensive revival has been going on
among the Qualers at New Garden, i'll
Guilford county, for some time, and
about two hundred conversions are re-
ported.
Jolly Hagan, colored, was shot and
seriously, if not fatally wounded, OH
Friday last, near Rocky Mount by
Reddin Batchelor, Esq. The cause OF
the difficulty was unbecoming conduct
on the part of Jolly towards Mrs.
Bachelor.
The Hickory Tavern Press says:
Two rich and extensive beds of Mag
netic and Hemitite iron ore has been
| discovered within the corporate limits
of the town. This ore is pronounced
rich. After q little further examina-
ton, more extended notice of this
discovery will be made.
The Radical pow WOW of Tarboro',
last Saturday, threw over board the
| inevitable MADISON, and substituted
One--Cobb, white, as a candidate for
the Legislature in his place. Nab
| sons friends worked like beavers for
him, but the colored element was
| divided and he had to cave in.
The Greensboro Patriot says: Mrs.
Talbot preached last Wednesday even
ing in the Presbyterian Church; on
Saturday evening in the Baptist, and
on Sunday morning and evening, and
on Monday and Tuesday evenings i'll
the Methodist Church, where she is
| now conducting successful revival.
The Rocky Mount Mail says: We
learn from J. ". Powell, Esq, that a
little negro girl was burned to deatI,
on the night of the 7th instant near
| his house in Edgecombe county. Her
little brother pushed her into the fire,
| and before she could be rescued was
burned so badly that she died in few
hours.
The Durham Tobacco Plant says
Jim Guess, colored, was drowned at
Guess Mill, about seven miles from
this place, last Thursday. He at
tempted to cross the pond in boat
while the water was very high and was
carried over the dam by the current.
All search for him, up to the present,
has proven useless.
We learn from the Roanoke News
| that the Roanoke river, the first of the
| week, was higher than it has been
| for several years, and fears were at
| one time entertained that the new
embankment on the Petersburg road
| would be damaged. The waters have
receded, however, and no material in
| jury has been done to property of any
kind.
| The Winston Sentinel says: On
last Friday night Paul Love and Kirk
| Lash, both colored, got to sky-larking
in the house of Paul. During the
scuffie Paul pulled an old Enfield rife
from under his bed and snapped it at
| the floor two or three times, aud it did
notgo off, and thenhe pointed it at Kirk
| and pulled the trigger, and How Kirk
rests with his fathers, with a big hole
! through his head
The Washington Express says: H.
! E. Stilley, State Senator from this
| District, has been arraigned before the
Commissioners for embezzlement from
the Peabody fund. The substance of
| the facts elected from the witnesses
sum up as follows: That he failed to
| pay the several teachers of the county
| the amounts which he had drawn as
! being due them from the Peabody
| fund i'll the sum of 5000, or thereabo11ts,
and from the State and county i'll Il
sum very near as large.