Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-01-17
STATE NEWS.

Wilson Is building guard mouse.
Enfield has three steam cotton gins
Enfield has a colored citizen lib
years old.
Smallpox reported at Friendship, in
Guilford county.
Norfolk oysters sell at 81 80 per
gallon in Raleigh.
Edgecombe wants two more terms OF
Court during the year.
Edward Caswell, the great temper
ance orator, is shortly to lecture in this
State.
Tar river is now overhowing and IN
Il few feet of the high water mark OF
June 1867.
The Raleigh city Treasurer is author
lied to issue sc, 900, three year, per
cent. bonds.
The Raleigh Young Mems Christian
Association are to open reading room
III that city.
The expenses of the city of Raleigh,
to 22,435 O9.
Pritchett Temple No. 2, I. 0. q. T.,
was established in Newbern on We'd
nesday evening.
T. G.. Riding, of Polk, killed a pig
nine months old weighing three hun
bred and ten pounds.
Eggs 80 cents per dozen, oysters 70
cents per gallon, and wood 81 % to
81 so per cord in Newbern.
Chas. Edgar Mills has been appoint
ed Commissioner of Deeds Tor North
IN,
A negro was shot at Crowell's Y
Roads, Halifax county, the other day
while attempting to commit hnrgiary-
On Tuesday a gentleman from Teu-
nessee carried from Granville thirty
five negroes, men, women and chi
.lren
The Intirmary of Drs. J. Miles Hun
ter Il lew, at Goldsboro'. has II pa
tients undergoing treatment Tor
cancers.
No new cases of small pox in Wei
don. 1t is reported that several cases
have appeared in the neighborhood OF
LittletOn.
Nathan T. Toler, Esq, of Johnston
county, filed his petition in bankruptcy
in the office of the Register in Raleigh
on Thursday.
4 Mrs McAbee. in her usual health,
while engaged in some domestic duties,
fell dead at her home III Polk county
on the 26th llt.
Four white women, from Waugh
Town. i'll Forsythe county, were lodged
i'll Jail on last Monday week for living
with negro men.
Mr.. f.. c. Smith, of Taylur'S Bridge
Sampson county, made tins year, GA
four acres of measured land. ] .92t1
pounds lint cotton.
The special term OF Superior Court.
for Craven, to have convened on last
Monday, WAS postponed until ti,t.
fourth Monday in January.
The Hickory Eagle says that Conp,"-
Yer is the name of new town spring.
ing up ut the Y, known as the june
finn- three miles from Newton
Mr.. Benjamin Scott, a worthy citi-
zen Of Jones comfy. and IL soldier of
the war of 1872, died ut his residence
,,ear Deep Gully OH Jan. 81, aged 81
wears.
The Washington Star has report
from Jacksonville, Fla, that 1.-The great
absorber, Milton Sublime Littletield,
is about to absorb all the railroad in
terests of Florida
E. r. Stanly, Esq. having sufficient
" recovered from his late severe i'll
ness, will resume his duties AS Presl-
dent of the Atlantic & North Carolina
Railroad i'll few days.
The Durham Tobacco Plant regrets
to note the departure of Mr.. j. I.
Farthing, very worthy young man
of this place who left this morning to
seek his fortune in Mississippi.
The Raleigh Sentinel says We are
pleased to learn that the smallpox is
abating in Franklin. The number re-
ported in the county since its discovery
is twenty-one. OF these ten proved
fatal
The Magnolia Advertiser says Mr..
Lewis Peterson, of Rocktish Township,
killed on the End instant, five hogs, ali
of the same brood, and each Is months
old, whose aggregate weight was l $40
pounds.
A colored woman, the wife of Tom
Jones, former slave of Maj. ". d.
Jones, of Raleigh, is already the
mother of IL children, and last Tues
day night she threw doublets, which
makes 90
The TarborO' Enquirer says The
two boys of the Enquirer office. aged
respectively Ii and IA years. say that
one week during the absence of the
Foreman, they set eighteen columns of
reading matter.
The Greensboro Patriot says: Mr..
\ Boren, of this county. killed last
Friday one hog that weighed GO
pounds net. He also killed two more,
the aggregate weight of the three pull
ling down over 1450 pounds.
The Hillsboro' Recorder says Forty
negroes left this county within the last
few days for some new Ell Dorado in
the South or West, and it is said that
:, hundred or more have gone from
Caswell in the same direction.
On Monday morning last, a negro
man, Richard Draughan, about 81
years of age, while cunning near Mer
ritt's Bridge, about 10 miles from Fin
field, was almost instantly killed b,
the accidental discharge of his gun.
The Goldsboro' Journal says Oul
planters are actively engaged making
preparations for the crop of IS. w
regret to learn that there is great diff
Guilty in hiring labor. Prices for goo.
field hands range from $40 10 SD pei
month.
The Wadesboro' Argus says: The
Pee Dee River froze over on Thursday
of Christmas week half foot thick
and on Tuesday our Young friend, Mr.
G. NJ. COvingtOn, was enabled to cross
it at Dumas Ferry with a horse ant
buggy.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: JOIN
Sinclair Leary, of Cumberland, late I
member of the General Assembly o
this State, was examined yesterday be
fore the Supreme Court and received
license to practice law in the Stat
courts.
The Weldon News says !: Eighty
five negroes from Granville count,
passed through here few days ago el
route to Memphis, Tennessee, and
day later hundred or more came NJ
the Seaboard Road, bound for the trlr
pentine woods of South Carolina.
The Raleigh Era saws: A Negro