Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-10-16

The Newton Virdicator says: The
cotton crop of this county, as well as
| everywhere else, has been sadly over
estimated. Not more than half a crop
| will be made, though there is much
larger acreage than last year.
The Newton Vindicator says: There
is one man in Catawba county who re-
| mains true to the Lost Cause. He is
holding on to his Treasury notes
| and rates them at 40 cents on the dol
lar. He don't take the papers.
The Wadesboro Herald says: While
cotton in New York was selling az from
15s to 49, cents, the enterprisiDe mer-
chants of Wadesboro--th best market
on the line of the Carolina Central
Railway were paying II ITO cash
The Lincoln Progress reports case
of infanticide in Catawba Springs
township, and the arrest and confne-
ment in jail of the parties, Mary Bal
lard, the mother. Maxy, her sister, and
a negro named Nat Hooper, the repu-
ted father.
| The Lincoln Progress warns the
public against a tall, neatly dressed
| deadbeat, M. l.. Babcock, of Virginia,
who has been doing the good people
of Lincolnton sundry and divers favors
in allowing them to contribute to his
wants without returning compensation.
i The Charlotte Southern Home says:
Rev. DR.. Lindley, the returned mis-
sionary, who is 73 years old, preached
four times in Charlotte on the 18th
inst, three times in the First Presby-
| terrain Church and once in the colored
Presbyterian Church. He spoke over
an hour each time to large audience.
The Newbern Times says : On Sun
| day evening last, at about s o'clock,
while the family were at church, the
residence of Geo. w. Simmons, COL,
| living near Bachelor Greek, took fire
! and with it's contents was entirely con-
sumed. The fire it is supposed orlglna-
ted from some defect i'll the chimney.
The Wadesboro Herald says: We
| learn that Thomas Swift, of Mont
gomery. well known miil-wright IN
that and adjoining counties, was found
dead few days since near Centre, in
Stanley county. He was {. worthy and
respected man, in the prime Of life; a
useful one, who will be missed; but
| died an unfortunate victim of intern
perance.
|
learn from a WAGNER that on last
Tuesday night two men. while en-
| deayoring to drive cattle out of the
mountains near Old Fort, were discov-
cred and pursued by the owners of the
same. The thieves fired on them,
when they returned the fire, killing
! one of them and seriously wOunding
| the other.
The Hickory Press says: Mr.. WIN.
| Puett, of Lenoir, laid on our table, last
week, beautiful specimen of asbestos
that came from O vein of this mineral
IN Caldwell county. This mineral can
be woven into cloth. The cloth is of
course incombustible, hence the an
clients usedsasbestos cloth to wrap up
the bodies of their dead when they
were burned SO the ashes could be
saved If cremation becomes popular,
an asbestos mine viii be fortune.
The Hickory Fress says: The ticket
agent Of the circus says there were
nearly six thousand under the canvass,
and we know at least one-third did
not see the inside of the show. Mum.
bers of men and womnn, of fifty and
sixty years of age, from the mountain
counties, saw the circus for the first
IL "OulIl lldfc paul ljlC
trated press to have had their artist
on hand. Every conceivable kind Of
vehicle, from modern buggy to al
old fashioned sled, could be found in
the conglomeratedm mass of conveya0ces.
Considering its size, the crowd was
unusually quiet and orderly. Little OF
no fighting, and not a Sreat dea. o.
drunkenness.
i Ii r.,
Thos. L. Shaw, now employed in the
Railroad shops at Laurinburg, has i'll
vented a bumper and coupling
for cars, which we think must come
into very general use. To our TN
no more men will be crushed to death
nor have arms and legs end bodie:
mangled in the now hazardous work O.
''coupling up" trains. Letters paten
have been applied for, and Mr.. II. G.
!, F1adger goes to Ralei gh this week t.
exhibit the model at tbs State Fair
He also carries the model of another
invention of Mr.. Shaw-a sash ant
, car-window fastening, which display
much ingenuity and skill. 1t differ
{ from, and seems to be better than, al
others we have seen.
Inc HICKORY 1reSS says Inc hef
: e. II. Moody, a Baptist minister o
Caldwell county, is a remarkable man
When Mr. Moody was 80 years old, ant
had wife and four children, he fel
called to study for the ministry. h
, left his family and spent two years a
the Baptist Theological Seminary a
Greenville, S. G. After leaving tn
institution he taught school till he ha'
raised money enough to pay ever.
: cent due for his course in the Semina
~. He now breaches i'll four countie
and Mai. Graham informs us that h
frequently walks twenty-seven mile
and breaches three sermons all tn
same day. Can the religion that &C
tuates this man be the same that pro
i claims the word of God before foot
lights, with a glittering chapdelie
, Ger bead, all paid for from the pre-
F., ceeds Of rented pews
Two scientific expeditions are to Sc
, out from Archangel, Russia, rext sun
| mer-one into Russian Lapland, t