Wilmington journal., 1873-08-01
STATE NEWS.

Goldsboro' is to have another bank.
The Newbern Times is offered for
sale.
Raleigh is enjoying very good health
now.
The Stokes county jail doors are
wide open.
A new Baptist Church is to be built
in Raleigh It is to be located on
Martin street, in the Eastern ward
The crops between Charlottee and
Augusta are represented to be in ex
cellent condition, the season having
been, thus far, fine one.
Joseph G. Hester, one of the Ad-
ministration blood hounds in this State
during the late Holden-Kirk war, is
now selling soda water i'll Vienna.
DR.. z. Burke Haywood, of Raleigh,
has been elected corresponding mem
ber of the Chronological Society of
Boston. This is a high and a deserved
compliment to DIR. Haywood.
The Raleigh News says: The tenn
perance movement is still exciting
much interest. There are about TWEEN
| ty-five applications for membership
now on file in the lodge of the Friends
of Temperance, many of whom will be
initiated at the next regular meeting,
| Friday evening.
The Milton Chronicle says: A
threshing machine belonging to Mr..
| Sidney Lea, of this county, exploded
! last Saturday evening, while running
| at rapid rate, at Mr.. Thomas Lea S
| residence, and knocked down eight
men, wounding two colored men, it is
thought, mortally.
The Raleigh News says: Rev ". III.
Taylor of Richmond, has completed
| the chemical analysis of the liver and
contents of the stomach of the negro
Stainback, Of Warren county, who is
believed to have been poisoned with
strychnine administered by his wife
| some two months ago, and the result
has doubtless been forwarded to Sher-
iff Jones of that county. The fee of
DIR. Taylor in this case is $500. which,
however, is intended to cover his trav-
cling expenses, per die3n, &c, should
he be summoned to testify in the case.
The Newbern Times says We are
called upon to chronicle the sad deaths
| of the amiable wife and daughter of
DIR. NJ. G.. HOyt, of Onslow county,
| late of this city. On the 9TH inst.
| these ladies left this port on the steam
| ship Terry, in company with the Doc
| tors son. Liston L., of this city, for a
| visit to their friends in Massachusetts,
The daughter died in Winchester on
the 18th, and the wife, ut the same
place, on the 18th inst They were
both apparently we'll when leaving
| here, but were attacked with typhoid
! fever and now are no more.
The Raleigh Sentinel says Kia-
| cheon Meadlin, 30 years of age and q
soldier in the war of 1912, died in
| Mark s Greek Township, in this county,
few days ago He was member of
Capt. Elhannon Nuts company. the
first detachment from the Wake
county Regiment of Militia, which
was stationed during the war at Fort
Macon and Beaufort This company
was 96 strong, and it is thought Mr..
Meadlin was the last survivor. Free
man Broadwell, 4th corporal of the
same company, died about two months
ago.
The Charlotte Democrat says We
have been looking over some political
statistics, and gathered the following
information in regard to North Caro-
lima:
From 1879 (the year the National
Constitution first went into effect) to
1878, North Carolina has never had a
President or Vice President of the
United States elected from her borders,
nor head of any of the Departments
appointed, except in the Navy Depart
ment. In 1899 John Branch was Sec
retary of the Navy. in 1871 George E
Badger, in 1850 William A. Graham,
and i'll 1853 James G.. Dobbin.
Three of the Presidents were natives
of North Carolina, but we're elected
while citizens of Tennessee-Jackson,
Polk and johnson.
Two Of the Vice Presidents were
natives of North Carolina but were
elected, one from Alabama, VIM. r.
King, and one from Tennessee. An
drew Johnson.
During the same period (e4 years, }
North Caroina had two Associate
Justices on the U. S. Supreme Court
Bence-James Iredell in 1890 and
Alfred Moore in 1899.
She never had but one Speaker of
the House of Representatives.
thaniel Macon in 1S01-7.
While North Carolinians have been
the equals of the citizens of any other
State, they have never been great
office seekers or disposed to push
themselves forward into high places
at least that was their character
previous to 1866, the close of the late
war;