The enquirer southerner., 1874-04-24
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STATE NEWS

Judge Manly, of NeWbern, is re
covering from his recent illness.
The State. Council Friends o
Temperance meets in Winston Jun'
10Th.
It is said that Chief Justice Pear.
son has bought Judge Tourgee's resi-
dence in Greensboro.
The wheat crop in Person is bet
ter than it has been known for many
years, says the Nel0s.
A big demonstration was made il
Clinton on Saturday before last il
behalf of the Oxford Orphan Asylum
The Raleigh Ness asserteth thai
the dairy farms in that vicinity have
done a good business the past year.
The Milton Chronicle understands
that Gen. A. M. Scales will receive
the nomination for Congress in his
district.
Many citizens propose to run DR..
Blackrall, of the Marlborough House,
for Commissioner or Alderman of
Raleigh. s..
The present term of Wake Superior
court, Just closed, has sentenced eight
persons to the penitentiary, seven ne
groes and one white man.
On Tuesday morning kitchen and
barn on the premises of the late Gov
ernor Branch, Enfield, were destroyed
by fire. The loss amounts to about
$500.
Freshets are spoken of in all parts
of the State, and great damage to
property. Farming operations are
much retarded by the general and
heavy rains.
NeWbern has memorial ceremonies
on Saturday, May 9th. Col. Jordan
has been selected as Chief Marshal,
and Rev. Mr.. Cannon Chaplain.
The orator has not yet been chosen.
A Thomas" meeting was held in
Newbern the other night, gotten up
by few of his adherents. It was
a rowdgish affair.
The Wilmington Star of Saturday
says there is drought in Columbus
county, no rain having fallen there
in the past four weeks.
Raleigh Sentinel: Prof Kerr,
State Geologist, to-day sent by a
gentleman proceeding to Liverpool
specimens of native marsh, beau and
wire grass to paper mill in England,
which is using grass in the manufac-
ture of paper.
The Sentinel says the Church of
the "Good Shepherd" in Raleigh was
the recipient of the handsome sum of
four thousand and fifty dollars, as an
Easter Offering, towards the purchase
of property on which to erect new
Episcopal church.
Charlotte Democrat The Hon. J.
L. Robinson, late Speaker of the
House of Representatives of our
Legislature, has been recommended
by meeting in Graham county as
the Conservative candidate for Con-
gress in the District now represented
by Gen. r. B. Vance.
The late decapitated State Directors
of the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad Company have abandoned
their injunction suit to resist the
unceremonious dismissal from office
which Governor Caldwell recently
gave them.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the North Carolina Rail Road, held
at Salisbury on the 10th inst, the
amended charter as passed by the
last General Assembly was adopted.
The vote, including the State proxies,
stood "a, 245 for, and 3,247 against
the amendment.
Clinton, Sampson county, has l 900
Inhabitants, six churches, six preach
ers, four lawyers, five doctors, twenty
one stores, two buggy and carriage
shops, two boot and shoe shops, two
brass bands; one female college, one
male academy, one drug store, one
newspaper, one mattress factory,
one gun and blacksmith shop, one
barber shop and one bank.
Raj. Sentinel: The stockholders
and directors should have remem-
bered that only fifteen in the House
and nine in the Senate, were found
to vote against the proposition to
exclude dishonest men from the board
of directors. We hold they cannot
accept a part of the charter or con-
solidation bill, which puts the peoples
money and bonds in the corporation,
witho ut accepting also that clause
which excludes Billy Smith.
Asheville Pioneer In Polk county,
one dav last week, Deputy Marshal
W. II. Deaver, with squad Of men,
succeeding in arresting eleven of the
Illicit diztillers charged with destroy
ing the dwelling of Jake Centrell, an
account of which appeared in our
issue of last week While conveying
his prisoners to Jail at Ruthfordton
an attempt at rescue was made by
their friends, which was frustrated BY
the vigilance and determination o
the officer and his posse.
In the case of Hiram Sibley ant
Henry Clews against the Western
North Carolina Railroad Compan,
pending in the q. S. Circuit Court a
Greensboro, Judge Dick has signed
decree ordering the railroad, rolling
stock, franchises, &C., to be sold a
public auction on forty days motto
to satisfy mortgage for S1,2O0,OO
Thos. B. Keogh. of Greensboro
e II:11Al M.