The enquirer southerner., 1874-04-17
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APRIL II. 1874
stats NEWS

The colOreQ HreeDyVeflaH cnuTcn
near Louisburg is almost completed.
The Rowan people are jubilant
over the discovery Of new gold mines.
There 431 oonviets in the Peni-
tentiary. 4a..
The Nash County Conservative
Convention meet On the 18th prox-
Green peas have appeared in the
Wilmington market.
Temperance elections are now the
order Of the day all over the State.
Some sos, 900 have been subscrib-
ed toward the Wilmington cotton
mill.
The county seat of Pamlico comfy
is to be located at the head of Bay
River. -.-.
Herring fishing on the Albemarle
IS q failure this season. Shad were
never 80 numerous and fine. .-.
81. c. Moss, late representative
from Wilson county, declines to be o
candidate for reelection.
The Wilson County Conservatives
hold their County Convention on the
23d of May.
The Masonic Lodge at Oxford is
going to give the children of the Or
phan Asylum picnic on the 9th OF
May. ... .
Immigrants of variour nationalties
are focking into Charlotte. They
are procured by man there engaged
in that kind of business.
Theological discussions are in
vogue in the Asheyille section. They
have dropped universalism and gone
to talking about baptismal regenera-
ton. --
DR.. Geo. A. Graham has been
appointed by the Directors of the
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb and
Blind consulting surgeon for the
institution.
The Star says: A gentleman liv-
ing in a neighboring county has
hamed his child Monroe Morridey
Lucinda Pipten Evaline Caroline Jane
Wheeler-and yet that father is not
happy.
The Enfield Agricultural club met
at the residence ofW F. Parker Esq.
on Wednesday last. A good dinner
and good speeches &c., g., were the
order of the day.
Jas. s. Capps, Col, Clerk of the
Board of Trustees of Grant Town
ship, New Hanover county, has ab-
seconded with about 500. We should
have predicted as much from the
name of the township.
One of the charges brought against
Judge Thomas by the members of
his party opposing his return to Con-
gress is that he has done nothing
since he has been at Washington but
draw his salary and play dummy"
The number of Radical aspirants
for Congress in the 4th District, says
the NsUs, numbered twenty three up
to 8 o'clock Saturday, with one county
and seven townships in another to
hear from.
At the services at st. Johns
Catholic Church, Raleigh, on Sunday
last, the Bishop refused to permit
Father McNamara, the removed
priest, to make an explanation, telling
him that he had violated church rules.
Raleigh Crescent: On Wednesday
night during the lulls preceding and
succeeding the heavy rain storm,
showers of grasshoppers or locusts
fell in this city, oomming from a
great distance no doubt. We are
thankful that they did not alight
among US.
Plato Durham, the independent
candidate for Congress in the noun
tain district, made speech in Shelby
on Wednesday. He said that the
charge of his lack of fealty to the
Democratic party was false. How
about this Independent candidature,
Captain?
Woodson has killed the Seaboard
and Raleigh Railroad before it is
built. He says in Sundays Nescs
The Engineer Corpse arrived within
the city limit yesterday evening when
they were met by deputation of our
citizens and escorted to the Yarbor-
ough House.
The Roanoke Ne,cs says: The
regular meeting at Kehukee and
Deep Creek Churches, in this county,
for the past two months, have been
productive of great good. At each
meeting some have professed religion
and numbers have been baptized.
The Radicals of Wayne county
held another meeting on Saturday
last. 1t was turbulent and broke up
in row, after having elected two
chairmen, transacting no business
whatever. Messrs. W. T. Faircloth,
of Wayne, and A. M. Seymour, of
Craven, announced themselves as
candidates for the Judgeship of the
district, and L. W. Moore, of Craven,
for the Solicitor-ship. The proceed
ings of the meeting are characterized
as being disgraceful in the extreme.
The NssOs prints the full proceed
ings of the University Board at its
late session in Raleigh. The Crescent
says The action of the Board of
Trustees of University that met in
this city yesterday ean be boiled down
to this one item of importance: They
have appointed committee SO as to
arrange to have the question at vari-