Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-10-30
STATE n Z S.
Raleigh has organized Tkespia


Association.
The Plaindealer brags or four we'd
dincs for Wilson in ore week.
One saloon in Raleigh sold eighty
kegs Of lager Per day during talr
weGL. ...--.e
There are 135 lodges Of Good lem
pIars in this State, with membership
Of 1900.
r. II. f'urman, ESQ. editor OF the
AshovilIe Citizen, delivered the ad-
dress at the Ashcville Fair this week.
An interesting revival is now going
on in the Methodist Church in Tarbo
no. which promises he most happy re-
suits. III
Rev. j. 3. HardwioIle, at one time
the pastor Of the BAPTIST church III
Golds5oro, has gone TO Atchison,
Kansas.
At the Jcrsey Meeting House, Da-
wilson county, Elder Jordan baptized
sixty-saven persons, of al ages from
ten to SKY.
The Weldon Fair IS il full blast.
There IS a large atteDdanc and the ex-
hihition is far superior to that OF any
previous year.
The Winston Sentinel says: Hardy
Il. Carroll, OF Stokes, lost q barn OF
.ine tobacco, valued at $3.50, by fire,
Oh the i2th inst.
A man from Patrick county, Va,
was in attendance at the United States
Court at Greensboro last week, wear
ing beard ffty-four inches long.
The Rocky Mount Mail says: On
lea A1la,, fEl1,T,,nr of
Nash, gave birth to her Dist child.
This good lady is still IN her prime.
Sandy Station, colored, was sen
fenced by Judge Hiliiard at Pitt
County Court last week; to five years
in the penitentiary, for stealing five
chickens.
The Charlotte Observer says: VIII
liam Harry, an old citizen and raer-
chant of Charlotte, and former agent
OF the W, G. & +. T. r., at this place,
died yesterday morning, in Austin,
Texas, st nine o'clock. BY ten O'Clock
his death was known in Charlotte.
The Kinston Gazette says: Mr..
Chauncey Gray informs us that he has
cotton growing on his place, just over
the bridge, with $50 bo.i5 to the stalk,
and that G8 bolis Oh it weighs one
pound. This is certainly the best yield
on record. 1e farmers who know how
10 calculate such things can tell how
| much that IS per acre.
The Charlotte Observer says: The
| uncompromising senior editor Of the
Southern Home, showed us yesterday
an old pair Of shears which have been
presented to him. They were the
property Of John McKnitt Alexander,
of Mecklenburg Declaration fame, the
great grandfather of our townsman,
Captain Sydneyham B. Alexander.
The Durham Tobacco Plant says:
Smith, boy in the employment of
Iessrs. Lipscomb & Dowd, was out
squirrel hunting last Saturday and re-
ceived quite a painful wound, acct
IDENTIFY, in his shoulder. He was on
one side of the tree and was to scare
the squirrel, when boy on the other
side was to shoot, and did shoot, missed
the mark and shot the negro.
The Goldsboro Messenger says: Mr..
James Worthington, Coroner for
Green county, held on Monday, the
19th, an inquest over Henrietta, the
little colored girl that was killed some
three weeks ago. The verdict of the
jury was that the cause of death was a
gun shot wound accidently fired while
i'll the hands of Isaac Taylor, colored
boy about ten years old.
The Washington Echo says: The
Second Annual Fair of the Albemarle
Society will be held in Elizabeth City
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
Oct. 2Sth, 29th and 30th. Senator
Ransom will deliver the address on
the second day. The AlbemarIe coun-
try is noted far and near for its fine
farms and its skillful and progressive
agriculturalists. There are no lands
in the State more productive, and I'M
der the very superior management of
the Intelligent and industriousp planters
holding them, they are made to do
their best.
The Fayetteville Eagle says To
show our young friends what sort of
rihe-shooting was done here in the old
times, We add the following statement
of the craftsmanship Of 1921, handed
us q few days ago: Rihe-shooting
took place at Davis's Bridge, on Big
Rockfsh, the county line of Robson
and Cumberland, on the LIST day of
January, 1921. Stake, barbecue; dis
lance 100 yards, of-hand; double-trig-
gered rifles; the best 5 shots IN
8 to take the prize. Marksmen
from Robson, MIR. j. Nein Shaw
and John Morrison, ESQ.,; from
Cumberland, Capt. David ellis and
Thomas Davis, ESQ. Inspector for
Robson, Daniel McPhail, Esq; fer
Cumberland, VIM. Wilkinson, Esq.
Cumberland 5 shots of 8, /! inch,
of which broke the cross. Robson
3 shots Of 8, q inches-2 in the cross.
Although the juice of the peach was
plenty, the above shots show that
thenerve was steady and the eye clear
Betters, Col. Rowland and MIR. j.
Little, of Robson, and Capt. VIM.
Lord and Capt. John Carney, of Cum
berland. Ia - z f-tsvl-f