Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-31
STATE NEWS.


Some little snow in Asheville last |
week.
The Legislature reassembles on the !
18th of next month.
The Fair Grounds at Goldsboro are
to be sold November oath.
Fayetteville has an Opera House,
and 1t is to be finished this week.
The Goldsboro Standard comes to
us this week with patent outside.
The Baptist State Convention meets
in Warrenton on the 9Th of November.
Col. S. A. Sharp, of Statesville, has
been appointed and accepted the posi-
ton Of Chief Marshal at the Hickory
Fair
Raleigh is gobbling oysters on the
half shell; quite n luxury for 4 country
town.
Woodson, of the Raleigh News. de-
clines the present of bull purp Evi-
IDENTIFY he is not fond of sausage.
If street rnmors are to be relied on,
November, 1873, will be noted in the
future history of Raleigh rs the month
of many weddings.
There are Only nine prisoners in
Wake county Jail. Two of this num-
Der are from Johnston county, sent
there for safe keeping.
The Raleigh Sentinel SAYS: Mr..
Gibson Martin, of this county, raised
fifty busheles of sweet potatoes on
| one-fourth of an acre of land.
The belted cattle of Delaware,
which were bought by the State Agri-
cultural Society, have been sent to the
Weldon Fair Tor exhibition.
John Bragg, Esq, of the Raleigh
telegraph office, has gone to Augusta
/ To assume the position OF General
! Manager of the Southern & Atlantic
| Telegraph Office, at that place.
The Statesville Intelligencer is in
| formed that Mr.. Sidney Yount, of Ca
tawba county, gathered from one acre
of ground. mp land) ninety three
bushels and three pecks of corn.
| The Charlotte Democrat says: Gov.
| Vance will deliver the address at the
! Agricultural Fair, at Hickory Tavern.
on the 30th inst. He was compelled
to decline the invitation to address the
people at the Greenville Is. c. Fair
The Raleigh News says: Hon. A. s.
Merrimon has been employed as an
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suit case, which is to be argued be-
fore the coming term Of the United
States Supreme Court at Washington
City.
Tie Warrenton Gazette says: Tie
friends of the Rev. Mr.. Marshall will
be glad to learn hat he will not go to
Maryland, as he at one time intended
doing, but viii remain here, the Church
at Ridgeway refusing to accept his re-
signation. Mr.. Marshall resigns lis
charge of the church at Ringwood.
The Munroe Enquirer says Mr.. J.
". Eason, from Pleasant Grove neigh
borhood, brought to orr Office last Fri
day, the limb of Ii cotton stalk, with
six bolls all branching oft from tie end
of the limb, and opened in "a mass
| Several persons who have seen this say
they never before Jaw ans thing Ike
| it.
The Statesvilie Inttlligencer Saws
We are panied to announce that j. ".
BIawley, OF Shepherds Y Roads, and
Jno. f. Moore, of MoorsviIle, both of
this county, were crested on Wednes-
day last ON charge of attempting to
pass counterfeit money. While We
know nothing of the circumstances,
we arc convinced that both of these
gentlemen will be able TO establish
their innocence.
The Norfolk Nirginian says Lieu
tenant Gibson, of the United States
Signal Service, arrived in the city on
Saturday from Washington, for .he
pupose of experimenting the cree
non of the new line of telegraph and
life saving stations on the coast be-
tween the capes of Virginia aud Cape
Hatteras He will enter upon his
duties at once.
The Goldsboro Messenger says: We
are requested to caution the public to
beware Of an impostor, sailing under
the Eame of ST. Clair. and claiming to
sell s team engines for cotton gins on
credit. The individual was Oh the
south side OF Neuse river n week or
two ago. He stayed one night at Mr.
John A. KEGS residence and appro-
priated quantity Of wearing apparel.
We learn also that he stole Il horse
from the stables Of Mr. John Ever;tt
Parker. in Sampson county.
The Raleigh News saws: Robert c.
Miller. Esq, of Caldwell county, died
at the Insane Asylum on Thursday
last, and was buried in the cemetery
of that institution yesterday morning
| Rev DIR. Mason, OF Christ's Episcopal
Church of this city, performed the
last sad rites of the church over his
| grave. Mr.. Miller eft one time repre-
! scented the counties of Burke and
Caldwell i'll the State Legislature. and
was quite n prOmiro'1t man of his sec
ton. His mind ;. ;,ird to the shock
i of financial .mharf:; .sGnent, ard for
! fUn IN 40 Ne
the Asylum. !'ca"" 10 his ashes.
: The Raleigh News SAYS \ letter
! from Appleton Oak Smi l., dated Lon
! don. Oct. lit Il. 1879. t" u gentleman
! in this city says y had ma,l,. az
! ranGemcnts fey lie c..'l~0it7 Il len Of
! the w, stern road with the 'lii.i!and'
/ and expected Il have been on lay way
! home ere this with sufficient credits TO
have taken over the whole concern
| under fair arrangements with the
! stockholders.
The "Midland' Company had fully
arranged for the sum of 600, 600
| pounds, over $4,000, coo, when this
dreadful American crash came There
is no doing anything Mt the present
moment in the American Railway
schemes and there is no other way but
The ''Midland' Company will guar
antee to finish their road within three
years from the 1sr of January next,
and will take it subject to all incum-
brances, and pay n fair sum in full
paid Midland stock to the private
shareholders if they VIII pass a bill
transferring it with all its assets, fran
chises and equities TO the Midland.
81 shall probably be instructed be-
fore [ leave as 10 how the present: in
cumbrances are to be arranged. < < =
1 trust that some arr tngement will be
made to secure the western iii the
interests of your own people for our
Grand Trunk Lne, the midland"
The Lincoln Progress says: We lad
a call last week from tie Rev. P. A.
Strobel, district snpcr;; .tendent OF the
American Bible Society for North Car
DINA. Mr. s. has filed this position
for nearly two wears. When he COM