The enquirer southerner., 1874-05-15
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STATE NEWS.

Green peas are plentiful in the
Newbern market at 90 cents per peck.
The Observer says that evideces OF
Improvement are to be seen on every
hand in Charlotte.
Warrenton elected a Democratic
Mayor, and divides equally with the
RAIDS for town Commissioners.
Hurrah for Waddell! is the cry
that comes from the Wilmington
district
Sohn Patterson, Esq, has been
elected President of the Newbern
Chamber of Commerce.
The Society of Friends intend
building fine College at High Point.
The structure is to cost $75, 600.
The Messenger thinks, though
present shipments of peas a.e large,
that the crop will fall very short.
Rev. E. NJ. Green will beinstalled
Pastor Of the Presbyterian church at
Washington on the 18th inst.
The peaches in the Asheville sec
ton, through materially injured,
have not been entirely destroyed.
Lon Moore, of Craven county, says
the Newbern papers, is assured of
the Republican nominatson for Soil
citor.
Connubial felicity does not seem to
be very abundant in Cumberland
county There are five divorce cases
before the Court.
Mrs. Gen. T. J. Jackson spent a
day at the hospitable Mansion of
Gov. Graham in Hillsborough last
week.
Raleigh liquor dealers have en-
ployed counsel, and will contest the
recent prohibition election which
resulted against them.
Ten thousand persons, two thirds
of whom we're colored, witnessed the
hanging of Bill Kelly, at Nashville,
Tenn, on Friday.
The Pennsylvania Legislature
have passed joint resolution asking
the President to reopen the case Of
Fitz John Porter.
But little corn has been planted in
the neighborhood of Madison, Rock
inham county, owing to the contin-
nous wet weather.
The Newbern Times says three
gentlemen sailing in boat in Pam
leo river last week had their boat
upset and one Eugene Clark was
drowned.
Ed. J. Jones, of Boston, has sent
in his oath of qualification as COM
missioner of afidavits for North
Carolina for the State of Massachu-
sets
Craven county proposes to send to
the next Legislature the following
Republicans; to the Senate, Richard
Tucker; to the House, John r. Goode
and Edward II. Hill.
The city of Raleigh has an Acade-
my Of Medicine that meets the first
Wednesday in every month at their
rooms in the Club House, says the
Crescent.
A negro by the name of Edward
Graham, 1O2 years of age, died on
the 29th ult, at Magnolia. He was
a native of African, and was sold in
Norfolk about 80 years ago.
Hon. Kemp ?. Battle, of Raleigh,
has a cepted an invitation to deliver
the annual address to the Wilson
Collegiate Institute on Friday the
9TH Of June.
In the municipal election in New
bern on Monday, the Democrats
made very heavy and unexpected
again upon the large Republican
majority there.
The Register says that notwith-
standing a Radical majority in regis
tration the Conservatives elected two
Commissioners in the Greenville
municipal election.
The North Carolina Agricultural
Society is endeavoring, with good
prospects of success, to secure the
next meeting Of the National Agri-
cultural Congress in Raleigh.
The Confederate memorial cere-
monies took place in Newbern Satur-
day. Rev. L. c. Vass read an
original poem, and Maj. Thomas
Sparrow, of Washington, delivered
the address.
DIR. Walsh, of Newbern, is engag-
ed in giving illustrated temperance
lectures in the Eastern portion of the
State. These lectures are illustrated
by anatomical diagrams, larger than
life, showing the pathological effects
of alcoholic stimulants on the human
stomach.
The question Of prohibition is mud
died in Statesville. The liquor men
carried the town, but many of them
voted "No Prohibition" when the
ticket should have been "No Lii
cense." AS a consequence the Pro-
hitionists have the town under a
strict construction of the law.
The Warrenton Gazette is respon-
sible for the following:
Master Simon Peter, son Of B. P.
Cavis, of Pound, has most re-
markable chicken. It has four legs,
two tails and is living. One Of the
tails is very short, while the other is
about the length, shape and size of
flying squirrel. In other words
1t looks like one chicken tail dove
tailed into another. If it dies it will
be preserved in alcohol, and ifit lives
it will be shown at tho the next State
Fair.