The enquirer southerner., 1874-06-19
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enquirer s
FRIDAY. JUNE 10, 1874
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srArE NEWS

removed to Raleigh.
Green corn has made its appear
ance in the Wilmington market.
Tomatoes are getting abundant in
the New Bern market.
Near y every steamer that leaves
New-Befne for the North is loaded
With garden truck.
A colored man in Wilmington
beat his sister nearly to death, on the
10Th inst.
The Hotels in Asheville are being
repainted and repaired for the sum-
mer season.
A wolm resemb ing the army
worm is doing immense damage in
the West
Hon, w. N. Robbins has be en-
unanimously nominated for Congress
from the Seventh District
Jesse FL. Hurbert, Esq has been
elected Mayor of Battleboro, in the
place of Taylor, resigned.
Allen G. Rogers, son of Hon. s. Il.
Rogers, has passed successful ex.
animation at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis and is regularly installed
rs cadet.
The Goldsboro Messenger tells of
turkey hen that stored away nine
1y-six eggs without setting then
laid down and died
Crop reports from the Goldsboro
section are favorably. The corn and
,otton have improved considerably in
the past few days.
A new Republican Campaign pa
per is to be started in Wilmington.
it is to be issued either tri-weekly or
daily.
A man named R. P. Shaw, 20,
wears old, in Guilford county, has de-
serted his wife and family and eloped
with a widow aged 35.
The Wilmington butchers, for the
week ending the 11th inst, siaugh-
tered so beeves, ia sheep, ! calves
and 4 hogs.
A fifteen year old boy in Cleave-
land county, fell in love with young
girl 18 years old and shot her be-
cause she discarded him for another
lover.
Gen. ]. B. Gordon, of Georgia,
has been invited to deliver the an
nual address at the next State Fair,
which commences in Raleigh Oct. 10th
and closes Oct. 18th, 1874.
The Charlotte Democrat reports the
first new -four of the season, which
was brought to Charlotte on Saturday
last by Mr.. E. S. Teeter, of Cabarrus
county.
Newton, Catawba county, will vote
on the 9th of July on the PROPOSE
ton whether or not the town will
subscribe $4,000 to the Chester &
lIenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad.
A negro who thought the Civil
Rights bill was law, deliberately
walked into the Methodist Church
in Salisbury and took seat with the
whites. He was prevailed upon to
60 out, but did so very reluctantly.
The Directors of the Wilmington
Coast Railway Company have de-
termined to contract at once for the
construction of a Narrow Gange
Railroad from Wilmington to the
Seacoast. 1t is expected that the
road can be completed for about
$500 per mile, and that it can be
n running order about the middle o,
July. / a
The kinston Gazette says We
are not given to over-boasting, bu
we cannot refrain from mentioning
with true parental pride, that the
pet of our household our little Laura
not yet ) years old, has a bed quilt
every stitch in which was placed
there by her own tiny fingers. How
many little girls Of her age in the
State can say as much
he Goldsboro Messenger says
The Stockholders meeting of the A
Il n. G. Railroad takes place on the
10Th instant. In this connection W.
learn that the Board Of Director
have agreed that private stockho' der
and their immediate families may
enjoy free ride over the road t.
Morehead City and return an any
time during the week commencing
Monday, the 22d inst.
The Raleigh News says w
learn that a number of the penitenti
ary convicts were stricken down witt
sunstroke while at wolk in the quarry
on Tuesday, but as yet, have no
learned how many proved fatal. w
learn also that two of the hands O
Mr.. ]. P. Wier, working on the wal!
Of the National Cemetery, also re
ceived sunstrokes on the same day
Eleven cases in all were reported 0
Tuesday. Yesterday the weather wa
not so warm, and as yet, we hav
heard Of no additiCna cases.
A terrific rain storm was exper
enced in Greene county on laI
Thursday, and great damage dom
We learn of several mills being brol
en- in various parts of the county an
great. damage done to the crops, fence
and timber. Many small bridge
were washed away, and other injurit
done. The Oldest inhabitants pr
nounce it the severest storm al
rain that has visited that county
fifty years, and the rain only Taste
four hours, says the Kinston Gaze tt
The Charlotte Observer says: Nj
John Smith, whose postoffice is Hic
ory Grove, York county, S. c., W
IN Charlotte yesterday, and he tells
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