Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-01-31
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Greensboro thinks a night school
would pay.
Tournament in Pikeville on Thurs
day, February 9Th.
The Rutherford College has opened
its exercises with about 80 students.
The contract for building the new
Court House at Tarboro' has been
awarded to Milton Harding, of Norfolk,
Va, for $4,000.
About fifty colored people met in the
colored Presbyterian Church at Greene
boro' last Monday night and organized
an order of Good Templars.
One day last week the cotton gin,
grist and Touring mills of Marmaduke
Williams, of Chatham county, were
destroyed by fire. Loss upwards OF
$1,000.
A colored man, named Jack Bel
lamy, has bought plantation i'll Nash
county for 200 bales of cotton, worth,
at the present prices, about $14, 900, as
we learn from the Battleboro AdUa'ace.
The Tarboro' Southerner says: On
Sunday last q young negro girl named
Fanny Jefferson, aged about I6 years,
and living upon the lot of Mrs. Robt.
Norfeet, was SO seriously burned that
death resulted in few days.
A farmer in Wake county, by the
name of Thomas r. Lawrence, beng
troubled in his mind, adopted novel
Af
cut down a tree and then got under 1t
so that it fell across him, killing him
instantly.
The Piedmont Press says : The
citizens of Icard and Caldwell are
making arrangements to build a bridge
across the Catawba and Johnson's ferry,
and to open out the Turnpike road,
which was run two years ago, from the
Yadkin Factory to Icard Station.
The Tarboro' Southerner says 1t is
with sincere regret that we have heard
of the sudden death of Col. T. G. Single
tary. This sad event took place at
Greenville on Saturday night last and
has caused universal regret among his
large circle of friends and acquaintance.
The Goldsboro' Messenger says ::
From all sides comes to us the cry
about the scarcity of farm laborers.
Our farmers are offering from $40 to
S12 a month, for good field hands, and
still the colored people are leaving
Eastern North Carolina by the hun
dreds.
The Magnolia Advertiser says: D.
S. Register, of Rockfsh township, in
this county, made the past year, on
30 acres of land, 545 bushels of corn,
5000 pounds of lint cotton, 500 bushels
of potatoes and 8, 300 pounds of pork.
He has done this, principally, with two
small boys.
The Magnolia Advertiser says Mr..
Everett Herring, of KeEansvllle town
ship, killed pair Of pigs two years
four months and eight days old, one of
which weighed $40 pounds and the
other 400 pounds, and at the same time
another, eighteen months old, which
weighed 26S pounds.
The Pee Dee Herald says : Mr.. T. J.
Ingram, of this town, made the last
season, on two acres of land, three
heavy bales of cotton. The land aver
aged 300 to the acre. He used no
fertilizers, only stable manure, and says
that the seed over-paid the cost of crl-
tivation. We call this good farming.
The Hillsboro' Recorder says The
citizens of the town and county will be
pleased to learn that cur venerable and
estimable neighbor and friend, DR..
Edmund Strudwick and lady are again
at home after long visit to relations
and friends in Alabama and New Or
po{l
and both are glad to be at home with
old friends.
The Salem Press says: At the risk OF
being called 'hoggish" we again no.
tice splendid lot n thirty-two hogs
slaughtered by Mr.. FOgle, averaging
361I. A picked lot of II out of the
above number averaged 400, the heav
lest in the whole lot weighing 575.
Mr.. Il. B. Douthit killed two fine
Chesters, thirteen months old, weigh
ing respectfully 4O44 and 355. This
beats several lots previously noticed.
The Piedmont Press says: Ann Lynn,
Il low, base white woman living in the
edge of town, gave birth to a negro
baby a short time ago; the child has
been remarkably healthy, but on Sun
day night died very suddenly. TIE
brute has threatened several times to
destroy the child-and has been ar
rested until an investigation can be
had. Ann has acquired some reputa-
ton as United States witness in the
Ku-Klux Court.
The Raleigh News learns from a cor
respondent at Thomasville that few
days since party of huntsmen from
New Haven, Connecticut, while going
through piece of woods, on the plan
tatiOn of DIR. Mepdenhall, near Thorn
asville, came upon dead body. Mott
fcation was at once given to the cltl-
Zens and a posse was sent to view the
body. The dead man was recognized
AS one DR.. Taylor, known in that sec
ton as a root or Indian doctor.
The body showed no marks of VIC
lence, and as the deceased was an inof-
fensive person, it is reasonably sup
posed that he died from the effects of
his own medicine.
The Salem Press says: On Sunday
morning last, about 1! o'clock, the
paper mill some three-quarters of a
mile west from this place, was discov-
cred to be on fire. At the time of its
discovery, the building was ablaze and
nothing could be done to save any of
the property. Upon the usual fire
alarm being given in town, number
of our citizens repaired to the scene of
destruction, but were unable to be of
any assistance, as the fire had gained
too much Roadway. Fortunately the
wind, which at one time threatened to
drive the sparks towards the dwelling
house occupied by Mr.. Samuel Thomas,
changed and thus saved it from de-
The loss is estimated at
50, 900. No insurance.
The main building of the mill had
been standing about 81 years, having
been completed in 1871 by Rev. G.
Shober, and was probably the first
paper mill established in the South,
and for many years the only one in the
State.
The old process of handmade paper
was proftably carried on for many
years by Mr.. Shober, who, when be-
coming aged and infrm, transferred
the property to his son, Emanuel