Wilmington journal., 1874-07-10
STATE NEWS.

There is an old lady in Cleaveland |
county by the name of Sanders, the
Banner says, who is 101 years old; she
walks two miles to church, and can
knit and sew as well as some of minor
age.
The corner stone of the new govern
ment building in Raleigh was laid on
the Fourth with the interesting cere-
monies of the Masonic order.
Aspecial to the Raleigh Crescent, from
Charlotte says: Martin Whitlook, for
merly of Raleigh, yesterday evening
took stono and crushed the skull of
one N Northry. Whitlock struck i'll self
defence. Northry will die. One thous-
and dollars bond for Whitlock's ap-
peorance at court.
The Weldon News says: There was
a severe hail storm i'll the neighbor-
hood of Bethel, Pitt county, on Mon
day afternoon. Great damage was
done to the cotton and corn. The
storm extended for several miles
through the country and the loss to
the farmers will be very great.
The Raleigh News says: The most
f1attering accounts of the crop pros
poets in this section reach us. The
season has thus far been favorable, the
| crops are well advanced, the farmers
are paying close attention, we hear but
little complaint of labor, and we hope
to see our people in better condition
| this Fall than they have been for many
years past.
AT the late Commencement of Ho-
bart College, Geneva, n. Y, Mr.. John
Cameron Buxton, of Asheville, n. c.,
delivered the Latin Salutatory, and
was awarded the prize gold medal for
the best Essay. This young gentle
man is the son of the Rev. Jarvis Bux-
ton, ID. D., one of the finest scholars
and most distinguished divines in
North Carolina.
The Raleigh Crescent says: On the
third inst. Mr.. W. III. Mills, at the re-
quest of the company in Salisbury, for
| warded to them from Gov. Caldwell 7C
guns with all the necessary equip
ments. This company at Salisbury is
officered by VIM. Brown, Captain
Claude E. Mills, 1st Lieutenant; Thos
Whitehead, Cd Lieutenant. It is said
to be splendid looking body of men
This Charlotte Democrat says: We
regret to learn of serious accident tc
young Mr.. Van Bell, son of Mr.. Chas
E. Bell, of this county. On Tuesday
last the young man was caught in {
wheat thresher and nangled so thai
one leg had to be amputated, which
DR.. Gibbon, of this city, did on Tues
day night. The unfortunate young
man (who is about Is years old) was
otherwise injured.
The Wadesboro Herald saws: We
are glad to be able at last to chronicle
the advent of Prof. Kerr, State Geolo
gist, into our county. He arrived OF
the Wilmington train Monday after
noon, visited Boggans Cut yesterday
and will return to-day. We have no
} been able to learn the result of his in
, vestigations, but they will doubtless
bring out some astonishing revelations
concerning the mineral resources O
J our county.
The Newbern Times says: We ar,
reliably informed that the outstanding
, debt, bonded and floating. of th
county of Craven is, in round mum
bers, two hundred thousand dollars
($20O,O0O,) and would require tw
hundred persons to pay one thousan'
dollars each, to wipe it out. Thi
, plan is feasible, and we ask are ther
enough men in the county able an,
; willing to come forward and do this
I We are authorized to head the lis
. with the name of D. n. kilburn fo
81, 600
2 The Charlotte Democrat says: Th
: first week in October has been fixe,
: for holding the fair in Charlotte thi
S Fall. The Company has been re-or
1 ganized by elooting A. b. Springs
ESD, President, J. L. Stenhouse
Vlce-President, and W. r. Myers, r
NJ. Miller, John L. Brown, l.. W
Sanders and Thomas Grier, Executiv
: Committee. We learn that the ney
: company is composed of twenty-si
stockholders, they having, we pre-
sumo, bought the property when i
was recently sold under mortgage.
/ The Hillsboro' Recorder Gays: 1t i
e more than probable that the presen
t term OF the Supreme Court of Nortl
Carolina will close the professiona
e career of Chief Justice Pearson. H
is now i'll at Raleigh with Bright's dis
ease of the kidneys, universally con
ceded by the Faculty to be incurable
and the bar and the State must pre-
pare Tor the final withdrawal from pro
fesslOnal life, Of one who though O
, late years marked with some striking
defects, ranks throughout the Union
with the most distinguished in lega
lore and legal aeumen.
The Raleigh News says The Asso
citation OF Mexican War Veterans met
in reunion in the Senate Chamber
on the 4th Of July. and in the absence
! of the President, Colonel J. A. Fagg.
Judge ". j. Clarke, Vice President,
took the Chair, and IN an appl opriate
and eloquent address entertained the
meeting for half an hour with incl
dents of the war, the object of the as
! sociation and its prospects. After
which the reading of the minutes of
tie last meeting and the business of
the ASSOCIATION was gone into gener-
ally. Several new members were en-
rolled and letters read from others. A
resolution was adopted assessing each
member one dollar per annum to de-
fray the expenses Of the association
After which the association adjourned
to meet in Raleigh on the first Thurs
day in November next.
The Monroe Enquirer says: We were
shown last Thursday, by Mr.. James
McCollum, nugget of gold found by
a negro man, on the side of cultivat-
ed hill, on his plsce, four miles east of
here, while hoeing cotton, q day or
two before, This specimen weighed
twelve penny-weight, and was most
beautiful gold. He also had smaller
piece, weighing four penny-weight,
found sometime ago. on the side of the
same hill. Gold has frequently been
found on this hill by persons at work
on 1t immediately after heavy rains.-
Two Years ago Mr.. -- Tomberlin
found nugget which weighed eleven
ounces. Curving round the hill is a
creek, the whole length of the bend of
which shows appearances OF gold
Running across the hill is ridge on
which most of the gold has been found
but this last piece was somewhat re-
moved from it. There is not now and
never has been any works of any kind
| carried on here, bnt if all the renre-