Wilmington journal., 1874-07-24
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t.at i. Mr.. .Mats"n, While Careless. J
! i.aldl ag At, pistol on Thursday last a
! l.aurln!.Grg, shot himself iii the ief
! hand, making painful wound.
The Witlesboro Herald says: Tn,
amount of tax on real and personal es
tale and polls, within the corporate
limits of the town OF Wadesboro. f6,
the present year. amount to nearly
! 81 700. .-....
The Raleigh Crescent says: We
are Informed that near Banks Post
Office in this county white child has
been recently born without palate tC
its throat It has to be fed. It stran
giles it to- suck. .
Gen. John B. Gordon having. de-
| clined to deliver the annual address
before the next State Fair, owing to
his inability to attend, Congressman
Lamar, of Mississippi, has been in
vited to deliver the same.
The Charlotte Democrat says: The
| new Opera House is about finished
and will soon be ready for use. It was
brilliantly illuminated with gas on
Wednesday night last and look ed
splendid. There is no finer building
of the kind in the State. 1t Will seat
| ahont 1000 persons. Thanks to the
enterprise Of Messrs. Sanders and
Carson.
The Fayetteville Gazette says Last
Saturday two negro women became
engaged in quarrel, near Rcck
Branch, on the Western Railroad, in
Harnett county, during which one got
| the other on the ground and stabbed
her in the breast, killing her instantly.
Two negro men and two negro women
were arrested, charged with compli-
city in the deed. -
Mr.. VIM. Cain, of Asheville, has been
appointed to fill the chair of Mathe-
mat1cs, Engineering and Astronomy
in the Carolina Military Institute
at Charlotte: He is the son of
DR.. VIM: Gain, decd, and grandson of
Hon. John l.. Bailey. He is young
man of rare excellence of character,
talented and accomplished and is an
example of what industry and energy,
guided by correct principles, can ac-
eomplish.
Tha Hillsboro Recorder says The
work of threshing out wheat is now
going On generally through the
country, and it is mostly turning out
badly. The last days of the growing
season did the mischief. Corn is not
looking as well as usual for the season,
there being a deficiency of rain,
though not actually a drought. There
is time enough yet to recover from
injury. Tobacco is decidedly a bad
crop this year, certainly not as much
as two thirds of a crop planted, and
the growth backward. There must
necessarily te a large advance in the
markets. 80 ...
The Asheville Citizen says Bishop
Lyman, of this Diocese, occupied the
Episcopal Church of this place last
Sunday, morning and evening. The
Church was crowded, and well did all
enjoy the, admirable sermons of the
new Bishop, 1t is his first visit, and
of course all felt a great desire to see
and hear him. The Church may well
congratulate itself ,Ipon the selection
of Bishop LYMAN. as the assistant of
its venerable and universally loved
Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thos.. Atkinson.
Bishop Lyman is of large statue,
most pleasant face, a nervous, vigor-
GUS delivery, a strong, comprehensive
intellect, and has plain, practical,
though elegant manner of construct
ing his sermons. We regard him in
deed most able and interesting
preacher. In the evening, the holy
rite of confirmation was administered
to General and Mrs. E. r. Hampton,
Mrs. Benson Jones, Mrs. Jarvis B.
Buxton and Mrs. Miller.
The Raleigh News says: We yester
day interviewed John Allen Blake,
now confined in the county Jail in this
place, under sentence to be hung on
Friday for the crime of committing
rape upon the person of Miss Haley, a
white girl, some months since, full
particulars of which atrocity were given
in these columns at the time. The
man seems inclined to talk
freely, but has changed somewhat
from the confession he made when
first arrested, when he confessed the
act and stated the manner in which he
his diabolical purpose.
He now claims that he is innocent OF
the crime, but for what purpose he
makes this claim it is hard to tell. as
the evidence against him was too
damning and conclusive to admit of
the shadow of doubt, and no effort
will be made to save his neck from the
yallows.
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