The enquirer southerner., 1874-05-01
STATE NEWS

4nfield Times lepurts fruits killed
that section.
Promise of golden wheat and oat
harvest in Alamance.
The peach crop is promising in the
New Berne section.
The Charlotte fair property is to
be sold on the 7th Of May.
Pitt county Republican convention
endorsed Cobb for Congress and Hill
lard for Judge.
Rev. c. NJ. Payne, of Madison, has
accepted the call to the Second Pres
bytelian church in Wilmington.
Fayetteville is getting jealous of
Raleigh and Wilmington and wants
a new postoffice building too.
The Evangelical Lutheran Synod
of North Carolina convened in Will
mington Wednesday at 10 q. m.
Rev. L. C. Vass delivers an origi-
mai poem on the occasion of the me-
mortal ceremonies in Newbern.
Wilson is making rapid strides.
New banks, stores, residences, &C.,
are going up rapidly.
Radical Convention in Raleigh
district to nominate Solicitor meets
in Warrenton next month.
Frost killed the peaches in Yancey
county. The wheat in Yancey county
is the finest ever known.
Prof. W. c. Kerr has accepted an
invitation to lecture on Geology at
the commencement of the Wilson
c, llegiate Institute, on the 24th Of
June.
A whale was captured on the coast
near Morehead City short time ago,
which yielded twenty-seven barrels
of oil and large lot of whalebone.
There will be a special meeting Of
the Stockholders of the Atlantic &
North Carolina Railroad in Newbern
on the 25th of May.
Judge Tourgee has been invited to
deliver the address on the occasion of
the Federal memorial ceremonies in
Wilmington on the Both prox.
J. H. Mills, Esq, superintendent
of the Orphan, Asylum at Oxford, will
address the people of Nashville, on
Saturday. May ID, in the interest of
that institution.
Of the $150.OOO needed for the
cotton factory at Newbern $25, 900
has been subscribed by citizens. The
Oranges and the city subscriptions it
is supposed will complete the amount.
Asheville EzpOsitOr We have no
disposition to impair the claims of
any other gentleman who may aspire,
but no doubt exists Of the fact that
Robert B. Vance is the choice of a
great majority of the district.
A volunteer infantry company has
been formed in Raleigh to serve for
three years in peace. Gen. r. Cox
was elected Captain, B. @. Manly Let
Lieutenant, J. G. Brewster, Sen, 2nd
Lieutenant, T. P. Devereux Jun.
2nd Lieutenant.
The Asheville Citizen says: Mr..
Smothers, at the Hotel in Waynes-
Vile, has lot of II acres, which he
expects to average from % to 25
bushels of wheat to the acre. He
put good coating IF stable manure
on the land this Spring. Without
the manure the yield would be about
10 bushels to the acre.
The Raleigh Crescent says: The
Secretary of State will commence on
on Monday distributing about twenty
seven hundred copies of the laws of
the last Legislature. They will be
sent first to the judges and clerks of
the Superior Cou'ts, and then to the
county officers and members of the
Legislature. Very few copies will
be left after the State is supplied.
The Raleigh Necs says: The
Board of City Commissioners yester-
dav voted to allow the grounds of the
State Agricultural Society to be
mortgaged for ar additional sum of
$4,000, in order to allow the man
ayers of t! affairs of the Society to
take up it's floating indebtedness. 1t
is thought this will relieve the Society
of every financial embarrassment
under which it may be laboring.
The officers of the Society are max
ing every endeavor to have the Fair
unsurpassed by any hitherto held in
the State, and the indications at
present are that they will meet with
even grearer success than obtained
last Fall. The grouds will be in
thorough condition, the buildings
will be thoroughly completed, and
the Society have Fair Ground cost
ing some $4,000, which will be
wholly aid for in five years, and
North Carolina can boast of grounds
unsurpassed by but few others in the
country.