Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-09-19
STATE NEWS.

the following appointment j. &.
HOLSTER, of New Haven, Conn, Com
missioner of Deeds for North Caro-
lima.
The Lincolnton Progress says: Sher-
if Robinson has grown beet i'll his
garden that measures 8 inches in di-
ameter and 26 inches in circumference.
Who can beat it?
The Statesville Intelligencer says {:
A saw mill belonging to DIR. ]. j. Mott;
in the southern part of this county,
caugh. fire Wednesday night, and was
entirely consumed.
The Raleigh Sentinel says We
learn that Prof. Chas. Phillips, of
Davidson College, is dangerously i'll ut
Washington City. He is there on a
visit to the family of his brother,
Hon. S. f. Phillips.
The Monroe Enquirer says We
learn that negro man was drowned III
Rev. G. A. Plyler's mill pond. fourteen
miles below here, about two weeks ago.
He was supposed to have had a spas
modic fit at the time.
The Fayetteville Eagle says Mar
tine lot, next to the old Observer build
ing, has been bought by j. d. Will
liams, Esq, for the Fayetteville Ma
tional Bank. and new building for
that Bank is soon to be erected there.
Statesville has a peach tree which,
says the Intelligencer, having keen
disappointed last summer, in not being
able to ''bring forth abundant fruit
because of the late frost, has conclud-
ed to make another effort, and is now
i'll full bloom.
The Raleigh News says At re-
cent meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Good Templars, at Greensboro, u res
oluGion was introduced requesting
Brother Ramsay to make a tri p to
Africa i'll the interest of his great re-
construction movement.
The Charlotte Observer says: Messrs
Sanders q Blackwood sent us yester-
day cotton stalk which had been sent
them by Mr.. Baxter III. Moore. The
stalk had on it, when pulled up, nine
ty-six bolls, or twenty mo1e than the
stalk mentioned by us yesterday.
The Fayetteville Eagle says: A few
days ago we saw 4 corn stralk 15l feet
| high, with two good ears, which was
grown in the garden OF A. A. Nc
Kethan. Esq, of this town. We also
| saw on the farm of w. II. Carver,
miles west of town, some corn stalks
1G to II feet high.
One of the officers row of buildings,
at Camp Russell, in Raleigh, was
burned last Saturday night. Loss
about $1,000. During the progress OF
the fire q row occurred and two col
ored companies left the ground and
returned to their engine houses in de
tiance of the orders of the Chief En-
gineer.
The Rurherfordton Record says
We learn that the Clerk of the U. S.
District Court, at Asheville, has issued
an order t. the officers of the Superior
Court for Mcdowell comfy, requiring
them to turn over tie bodies of w. H.
Deaver and Lieut.. Mast to that Court,
together with transcript of the re-
| cord of the proceedings IN the case.
Tie Monroe Enquirer says There
is q tive-acre lot of cotton near Lilies
vile, on the plantation of Chas. e.
Linds y, run" by Jesse NJ. Smith,
more than half of which will average
six feet high-much of it being seven
and eight feet. There are many bolls,
| from the ground, and the lower
branches are Tapped and interwoven
and loaded down with fruit. This
is some cotton.
The Monroe Enquirer says While
working on the NJ. E. Church last
Saturday, Mr.. Sam. Shaffer received a
very severe cut on the right side of
his head, Immediately back of the ear.
Mr.. Robinson was working on scat
| fold above him, when he accidentally
dropped a hand-ax he was using, which
struck Mr.. Shaffer, producing the
wound which was about two inches
long and into the bone. The necessa-
| ~ surgical operation of sewing it up
was performed by Dr. T. W. Beckett.
| This was narrow escape of a fatal
| accident.
The Raleigh News says A Mr..
Lashley, living in the neighborhood
of Lashley's X Roads, on the Raleigh
Il Augusta Air Line Railroad, in this
county, while sinking well on his
premises, few days ago, at the dis
lance Of twenty feet from the surface,
struck a large stratum of copper ore,
and on yesterday brought to the CITY
specimens for scientific inspection.
Every indication shows that the stra-
tllm IS lnexhaustible, and should the
ore prove o. X, the neighborhood of
Lashley's will be good field for we'll
diggers in search of job.
The Weldon News says We regret
to learn of an accident which befel two
ladies, last Saturday, iniuri,g both.
The ladies-Mrs. Summerell and
daughter--who had been to this place,
were returning to their home in the
country, and i'll passing the fair
grounds the horse became frightened
and turned the ladies out of the buggy,
bruising Mrs. Summerell very painful
ly and dlslocating the lower Jaw of
Miss Tommie. Drs. Gee and Green
We're called in, who administered to
the wants of the ladies. At last ac-
counts they were doing well.
The Goldsboro Messengersa says The
Hartford Comm Daily Courant, of
September 9th, speaks of Printers
pic mic which was wellattended, and at
which the prize in thetype-setting con-
test was won by Mr.. III. W. Dennis.
his competitor being Mr.. Chris. Wall.
Wash Dennis is a young man, we'll
known in Goldsboro. He is a native
of WadesborO, but completed his ap-
premiership on the Messenger. Since
he left this office he has been in most
of the leading cities of almost every
State in the Union, and is ut present
working in Hartford. He is a Young
man of sober habits, and of obliging
and industrious disposition.
The Charlotta Observer says: There
is young gentleman. Mr.. F. b. Wood.
connected with the Office of the Singer
Sewing Machine in this place, Who
possesses the power of magnetism in a
very large degree. He has the most
entire control of many persons on
whom he has practiced his power, and
can make them dance, hold out their
arms for anylength of time, make them
shut their eyes and be unable to open
them, &c. Indeed, his power of fas-
cination is wonderful, and can be ex-
erted over some persons to such an
extent that they are entirely in his
power and utterly without self control.
He can make them believe that there
are nails in their flesh, glue in their