Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-27
STATE NEWS.

lion d. Nj. Barringer has contribu-
ted 800 to the Oxford Orphan Asy-
| iHm.
| The wheat crop in the Catawba sec
ton is turning ont much better than
was expected.
/ General Wade Hampton is to deliver
the Address at the next Fair of the
Carolliias, IN Charlotte, next Fall.
Smith & Woolford, of Ridgewnv,
are the contractors for drying meat for
the exhibition in search of tile Polaris.
The Linco!nton Progress regrets to
announce The death of Captain Thomas
Clifford, lately a conductor on the
Carolina Central Railway.
The stockholders of the Raleigh &
CASTOR Railroad Company will hold
their annual meeting i'll Raleigh, July
18th.
One of The Hicks burglars, whose
sentence was recently committed to
imprisonment for life in the Peniten-
tiary, refuses to work, saying he pre-
| fers the solitude of his cell
The Warrenton Gazette says: kinston
Hall, an aged colored man, fell from
the steps fronting John Hyman's store
on last Saturday evening fracturing
his skull, which resulted in his death.
The Warrenton Gazette says: From
all parts of the county, we hear cheer
| ing reports of the cotton, corn and
oats. In some sections the tobacco
is small, because of the late planting,
but the present favorable weather will
doubtless bring it up to the standard
The Statesville Tntelligencer says ::
Samuel Revis, in company with others,
while seining near Diffees Mills on
Rocky creek, in the northern part of
this county, was accidentally drowned
on last Thursday evening He leaves
a young wife and several small chill
dren.
The Fayetteville Eagle says The
dwelling of John G. Blocker, Esq, of
Cedar Greek, we learn, was burned
yesterday. Most of the furniture and
property were saved. The fire is sup
posed to have caught from the store
in the cook-room. We are not in
formed whether there was insurance
or not. This was one of the best
dwelling houses in the county. Mr..
Blocker was absent in Baltimore. His
loss is heavy.
The Laurinburg Scotchman and
Observer says : The farmers gene
rally from all sections Of the country
seem to speak i'll high terms of their
growing crops of both corn and cot
ton, and some complaint is made
about grass. In the section immedi-
ately surrounding this place we hear
but little complaint of grass, and
many of the farmers would boast of
their crops if not prevented by
modesty.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: The
Governor has appointed the following
gentlemen Directors of the Atlantic 4
North Carolina Railroad: e. r. STAN
ley, G. r. Thomas, r. F. Lehman, of
Craven, r. w. King and Anthony
Davis, of Lenoir, Isaac Ramsey aud
W. B. Duncan, Carteret, G.. H. Har-
per, of Greene, aud L. J. Moore,
States Proxy.
The meeting of the Stockholders of
this road will take place at Beaufort
Oh the Doth inst
The Lumberton RobesOnian says
The southern and western portions of
this county have suffered severely
from the heavy rains which have fallen
| for several weeks past, and some of our
! farmers are much discouraged at the
prospect Of the crops, owing chiefly to
the scarcity of labor. Our farmers
will have to organize a different system
of labor or there viii be no crops this
year. Large fields Of cotton ond corn
have been abandoned and left to the
mercy of the grass and weeds.
The Henderson Tribune is Justly
proud of young lad only ten years of
age that not only superintends the en-
tire operation of the telegraph office,
| but is his fathers Or. ". r. Cheat
ham's) book-keeper also.
We have Il boy i'll Raleigh, says the
News, quite youth, not more than
| fourteen years vi age we suppose, that
! is the sole proprietor of an ice store
or cellar, and doing a staving business
His name is Ruffin Litchford, son of
j. J. Litchfora, Esq.
The Statesville Intelligencer says
One of our enterprising farmers i'll the
lower part of Iredell, in the Spring of
| ID, received a pint of the White
! Shonan Oats through the Department
of Agriculture. They were planted
late, but with great care, i'll the best
| land, and actually produced three
| bushels, weighing 102 pounds. This
last Spring he sowed only /! bushels
of the oats-his stock being equally
divided with an enterprising brother,
and between them they calculate to
raise 300 bushels.
The Charlotte Southern Home says:
Col. Aiken said in his address to the
farmers of Mecklenburg that he had
visited twenty-ol-e States within the
last few months, Including the fine
grain region of the West, and that the
belt of up-country i'll North and South
Carolina and Georgia was superior to
all that he had seen. He said that we
could live cheaper and easier, and en-
Joy more of the comforts of life, than
any people in the United States. He
saw many who had moved from this
section, and hot one had Bothered his
condition.
The Monroe Enquirer says: Crops
in the southern part of Mecklenburg
and western part'Q Union, we are in
formed by u gentleman who has trav-
eled over those parts, are doing well,
much better than expected short
time ago. Wheat and oat are toler-
ably good, but will not make full
crop. Farmers are up with the grass.
In all parts of this county, so far rs
W. t'iii AiNs.4s tiol'o '4t ooiASS IhuC.I
better than the farmers could hope for
a few weeks ago. The warm days Of
the last two weeks have brought ont re-
tarded vegetation wonderfully.
The Raleigh News says The Su-
preme Council Friends OF Temperance
will meet i'll this city, at the Hall of
Oak City Council, at 8 O'Clock, this
evening. Delegates are already arriv-
ing. JAS. Cutrer, Esq, Secretary of
the State Council of Mississippi and J.
A. OFT, Esq, of Osyka, Mississippi,
are stopping at the Marlborough House.
Most of the delegates viii arrive to-
day.
The present session will be the most
important ever held. The question of
all the Temperance Or
ders of the South, upon the basis of
white mSlmberhip, will be decided. We
learn that the proposition meets with
much favor among the Friends.
Public addresses will be delivered