Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-06
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HILLsBoKo, March /, 1874.
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Yuu- covrcsp ondent has been rcnliss
in lis duties 10 you ia the last fort
night. Absence from home, aud the
pressure Of accumulated business must
be his excuse.
To-day is genuine Spring day, mild,
balry aud charming IN every feature.
TIE flowers begin to peep out in the
woods, and the air is vocal with the
! music uf birds, among which is my
special favoritc, the little indigo BIRD,
who. If one could endure to consiSn to
captivity, might rival the petted
/ canary.
/ Last week, which We may hope was
! the las! Of viuter, was one to be re-
membered. ! 10 hot think ever wit
! messed a more wiDtry scene than the
! landscai,e presented on Wednesday.
TIE haet already s,lbdued by the pre-
! yiut,5 s!ett. s1ibmissively bent to the
! new burden imposed upon them, and
! hung their Respondent heads in mel
anctloly woe. Tic sun withheld his
reye, and the sombre gray OF the I'M
/ natural foliage of ice gave q peculiar
! t,nce Of sadness to the face of Nature.
! It is all gone. we hope, and now we
! begin to speculate upon what winter
| mas fH'iit 1OC tlic ticfs, VIZ
| future prospect may be. Ii Is salts
+ factory to tind that wheat and oats
come through the ordeal unscathed,
and that the promise of good crop is
| bright. With regard to wheat, it is a
crop of too much uncertainty to waste
prophecy upon, and [ shall say no
more about 1t.
| Orr tobacco business, which opened
50 fry :, f,w weeks aGp, E@~ bod a
set back, prices having receded. 10th
| in Richmond and Danville. There are
two or three good reasons for this,
chief among which there is not money
enough vet afoat to meet the wants of
| business. Another reason for the de-
cline is that the crop of last year is in
ferior, beyond doubt, and there is
not enough of old to maintain q scale
of high prices.
Very good sales were made at the
Hills6oro warehouse on Friday last,
some tobacco bringing forty-two dol
lars per hundred. Our manufacturers
are the buyers, and they are getting
ready to go to work, as soon as the
weather becomes steadily warmer.
A red fox was killed on the south
side of the mountain on Monday night.
Tol are enough of sportsman to ap-
preciate such an event. 1 do not re-
member when one was before killed IN
tins section as 1t Is rare to ilnd them
much father south than the Virginia
line, or very little way within the
borders Of North Carolina. This fell
low was shot pursuing his traditional
carcer--robbing hen roosts.
Hillsboro is specially dull just now.
There are TO strangers here, and some
of our young ladies, indispensable to
the happiness of many, are absent Il
is lent, too, and that might possibly
add an additional shade of gravity to
the situation. We look forward, how
ever, to pleasant, if not a gay sum
ner, for many of our previous pleasant
soioufnels viii wend their way hlthe1
, again.
As to the appropriateness of Hills
boro as summer resort, ! will have
something to say at length on afutuft
} occasion.
Yours &c, =.