Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-20
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HILLsRoRo, March IS, 1874.

HILLsRoRo, March IS, 1874.
EdifO1's Daily Journal
The better weather of last weel
wound up yesterday with q cold, north
easterly rain which brought around us
again all the dismal associations anC
dlscomforts of mid winter. Even the
glowing bloom of the peach could not
delude us with the belief that it was
spring, and the piping notes of a few
hardy songsters in vain essayed tc
keep up the fraud.
Farmers say that the weather of last
| week was more damaging than any Oh
the winter. The cattle seemed to suf-
fer more. and looked more pinched and
starved than ever before. The wheat
and oats received a serious set back.
In the gardens there was nothing to
hurt, for there is nothing above the
ground.
1t remains to be seen whether the
peach crop is I'M ured or not. A loss
| OF that Is real calamity, not only in
| the drpr'vattnn of the luxury OF the
| fTHlt hnt In the destruction Of an i'm
| poltant source OF revenue from dried
| ,rHit. The shipments of dried fruit
in q favorable year from the EIillaboro
station amounts to >Omething over
hall million pounds, and tie high
! and increasing repHte Of North Carroll
IN drlcd friit in the northern and
western maketS always ensures high
prices.
This IS another of the items Of pro-
ductlon which SO eminently distinguish
the county OF Orange as q region of va
rled resources. Cotton, tobacco, the
cereals, grapes, fruits, a fair sprinkling
OF minerals, wafer power, readiness OF
access, and uneXampled healthfulncss,
all combined, must at some day, per
haps not distant, make her the empire
county Of the State
Major Robt. Bingham, of the Bing-
ham School, WIS in town on Saturday.
/ am glad to learn from him the very
tlourlshlng condition of the Institn-
ton. There are now eighty-one pupils
III attendance, striking proof that the
school retains the confidence which it
has so long enjoyed.
Major B., among other things sug-
Scsted III conversation, spoke of the
books prepared by his brother, the late
Col. William Bingham. 1t afforded
another instance of that want of appre-
citation of everything North Carolinian,
SO characteristic of our people. While
the widow of Col. Is. DRIVES a hand
some revenue from the copyright of
the Latin Grammar and other books
prepared by her husband, arising from
the use of those books by the common
schools Of Missouri, Kentucky and
other Western States, and, perhaps,
some of the Northern States, the Sc
ries is scarcely known and rarely used
in North Carolina.
If our school system is ever fixed
q ant h.,ciC 10 10 JNn
hoped that State pride, fortified by
the endorsement of other authority,
Will substitute Col. Bingham's series
as far as they go, for others now in use.
Some little signs of the growing
spirit OF improvement begin to mani
fest themselves. DIR. O. Hooker has
removed into a new drug store, just
finished. The building is of brick,
two stories in height and sixty feet
deep, with front of thirty-three feet.
The store room is handsomely finished
and fitted up, and is long stride in
the march of regeneration.
Z. II. Payne has also completed q
large plug tobacco factory. opposite
the site of the old Howerton hotel, SO
we'll known to former visitors of this
place, and began work on Monday
with Il large force.
The dry weather of last week was
bad one for the tobacco warehouse
men, and sales were small. Tobacco
was too dry to be handled with safety
or profit.
l am glad to say thai your towns
man, Capt. John L. Wooster has much
improved in health since his visit to
HilIsboro, and l hope will go back to
his home a thoroughly renovated man.
He furnishes another proof of the in
effects of our climate.
Yours, G.