Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-03-28

Hail in Raleigh on Friday.
! dollar store in Charlotte.


Lenoir is to have tobacco factory.
Herrings 80 cents per hundred in
Newbern.
II. T. Clawson has been elected |
Chief OF the Raleigh Fire Department
&. N. Douglas, the new q. S. Mar !
fhai Tor this State, viii establish his |
office IN Greensboro instead OF Raleigh. |
Mr. Alex. Tillman, sn aged citizen |
OF Lenoir county, few days ago killed T!
Of one shot nine wild turkeys ont of a
group Of twelve.
On Sunday, 5th inst, while the
family were at Church, the house OF
Samuel kconts, OF Surry county, was
destroyed by FIRE. Loss about s., 600.
The Sal, n Press says: 4 little son
OF Riley Ho brooks committed SUI
eide, near Trap Hill, Wilkes county,
on the 10Th OF February last, by hang
ing himself.
Col. Walter Clark, OF Halifax, and
Eugene Morehead, ESQ, of Greens
boro', will sail for Europe about the
first of May, to attend the great Exhl-
bition at Vienna.
The Winston Sentinel says : Thos.
Sullivan, ESQ. one of the Oldest and
most respectable citizens Of the county,
after q long illness, died at his resi-
dence on Wednesday, 18th inst, aged
g years.
The Greensboro Patriot says
party OF fifty-nine enigrants leave tins
week for the West. The discontented
people must have somewhere TO go to
and they might as well go West as any
where else.
The Hickory Press says: From q
friend at Dry Ponds, Lincoln county,
we learn that the storeh0ase and
contents or Michael Willlerson, ut that
place, was destroyed by fire few
nights since.
The largest man on record, III mod
ern times, WAS Miles Darden, native
of North Carolina, born IL 1893 He
was seven feet SIX inches high. At his
death, in 1857 he weighed little o70r
1000 pounds O.
Rev. DIR. Pendleton, Chief Of ArtI-
Iery Of the Army of Northern Virginia,
was to have read his Memorial Address
in Raleigh yesterday evening. He IS
travelling South in the interest OF the
Lee Episcopal Church, at Lexington.
The Goldsboro' Messenger saws !:
The Presbyterian Church, III this
place, Is to have q new pastor. The
charge has been rendered the Rev. FIR.
Johnson, OF Louisiana, and efforts are
now being made to secure the req;Ii-
site salary.
The rev York Evening Post OF
Tuesday, says Hinton Rowan Hell
per, autlIor Of THE Impending Crisis
II the South aud other works, takes
passage for London to-day upon the
-teaner Italy. IN the course OF a few
.:erks he proposes to visit Bucnos
Ayros.
The Raleigh News says : The meet
.ngs atthe Baptist Church are progress
*ing finely. we learn. the congregations
Icing good, and mitch interest mani
tested III tie services. Several per
-ons have presented themselves as
seekers OF religion. Rev. J. y. Hut
nam Is aiding the pastor in the l.lect-
-uG.
Newborn Tins says: We learn
"a J. j. s5tanly. ESD, VIII resume
he duties Of President Of the Atiant. C
. <orti. Carolina Railroad on the first
81 tprii. l. viii ba remembered .isat
tdCe iioinaa Was 2upOlntea Pr@S!-
.inI.t })yD t|n., q few J1ouths since. III
consequence Of the Illness OF IL.
.>ta2Iy.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: The
Governor received Information y"stcr-
day, officially. that ". &. Caad!er, ap-
a0in>cd Solicitor Of the Eleventh. Ju-
di"iai District, vice MaEcHs Erwin, 70
Fg,Ic.l, had accepted. NJ Z. resign, L
II consequence Of holding the Office Of
assistant U. 5. Solicitor for the Fast
cln District OF North Carolina.
The Charlotte Observer says l.
.aant.ty Of orc from the Kings
Mountain Go'd Mine was asse,.ed At
the United States Branch Mint in this
r.irv Yesterday The poid brick we: gncd
II ounces. and WAS valued a. 81, I'LL
Il was forwarded last 7ight by express,
~ Philadelphia for coinagc. The vein
from which II was taken IS yielding,
s.DIIndnIltiy.
The Charlotte Observer says: VIZ
are Informed that there il an old gen
tlcInan i'll this county who has kept
ono fire burning in his horsc fer the
past twenty-five years. The ire Nas
kindleI on the night Of his marriage,
and has been kept burning, winter
and summer, ever since. He says Il
shall never be permitted t. de out
until lie does.
\ meeting Of tie "Corporators and
II others Interested, y to take STEPS 10
organize the Halifax and Scotland
week railroad Company, viii be held
Il the town Of Halifax on Tuesday, the
9TH OF March. The corporators nanlott
n the charter are N. ". Ransom,
Edward Couigiand, Walter Clark, z.
H. Smith. Il. ). Heryey, ". II. Smith,
! Il. Tiilery, p e. Smith. v. Il.
Day, Il. l.. I'itlery, John c. Randolph
and y. z. Bond.
The Raleigh Sentinel Gays: From
Terty to fifty thousand barrels of rosin
are obtained within an area OF rom
5orty to fifty mics around here, ali
nnaliy. The price has ranged, within.
the last four years. from 81 80 TO - -
z barrel, for common strained; within
the last year, from 81 to So q barrel.
Finer resins range as high as IS OF 81
L barrel. They are used for making
soaps and IN wines.
The Enfield correspondent Of the
Petersburg Appeal regrets to learn
that b. L. Arlington, of Ringwood, III
that county, was painfully wounded IL
the hand last Saturday, by the acci-
ueuIal ulScuafgc OF SuOt-gnn III the
hands OF a friend. These gentlemen
We're both n a canoe fishing, and the
gun getting wet, his friend raised II
up, and III 80 doing the hammer struck
one of the seats and went Oft, cutting
off entirely one finger, and badly IN
Juring the hand otherwise.
The Raleigh News says Since the
abolition of the nOiety system III the
revenue service, the libel docket OF
this Court has grown slim. Hereto
fore at each term Of the Court there
would be from seventy-five to one hun
dred cases docKeted but now, since the
abolition Of the molety system, the
cases are few and far between. At the
last November term of this Court
only ore case of this character was re
tnrned and not single one has bee,
retnrned to the coming June term. L
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