Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-08-28
STATE NEWS.

The Intelligencer. formerly printed
at Statesgille, il now published at Sal
The Fab term of the Superior Courts
for both Alamance and Warren, COM
menced yesterday. Jud ge Kerr preesissl
ing in Alamance and Judge Henry IN
Warren.
The democratic candidates for Goa
gressmen in Alabama are B. B. Lew
is, ". Ii. Forney, Paul Bradford, JAS.
L. Jones, john Ii. Caldwell and Geo.
W. Hewitt.
The Rocky Mount Mail leans that
the farmers in the Cool Spring section
OF Eigecomhe county have been
visited with millions of grasshoppers
which are doing much injury to fod-
der aud cotton. ...
A travelling correspondent of the
Richmond Wing says: The corn and
cotton crop between Boydton, Va.
and Weldon, N. c., looks well, and
does not appear to have suffered much
IN consequence of dry weather.
The Raleigh Crescent of yesterday
has complimentary editorial upon
Mr.. John D. Cameron, editor of the
Hillsboro Recorder, in connection with
the Chief Clerkship of the House of
Representatives. There is not more
competent gentleman in the State.
The Charlotte Democrat says: A
friend in Statesville has sent us the
official vote of the 7th Congressional
District as counted by the Sheriffs of
the several counter. The count shows
that Robbins received II, 1872 votes, and
Cooke, 999-leaving a majority of A.
373 for Robbins. If we are not mis-
taken this is gain Of over $500 for
Major Robbins.
Under the recent postal law, post
masters whose salaries are graded ac-
cordlng to the number of postage
stamps sold, are taking advantage of
the law by paying all their debts and
making all their purchases with post
age stamps whenever they can. They
get credit under the law for the clamps
sold, as 1t Is reckcned in with the
amount of business done, and their
salaries are increased accordingly.
Says the Charlotte Home, speaking
of General r. f. Hoke "We were
favored by visit last week from this
gallant son of North Carolina, who
fought his way up from Lieutenancy
i to Generally. He has travelled
OhiotAc5h LEANS lilo bOouLuW GSt anu
prefers North Carolina to them all.
He gives it as his deliberate opinion
that our farmers can make more than
those in the most favored portions of
! Texas. Louisiana and Arkansas"
The Raleigh News says: Mrs. Skin
ner, wife of the Rev. Thomas T.. Skin
ner, formerly Pastor of the Baptist
Church in this city. has just come into
fIa ,f H. Al
| sum of $40, 900 by the decision of a
suit i'll her favor When her husband
went into bankruptcy, the house now
occupied by Geo. W: Swepson, corner
of Hillsboro and Salisbury streets. was
claimed as her property The credit
ors sued for it, the place was sold for
$40, 900 and the money invested in
| United States bonds. The suit has
been decided in Mrs. SINNERS favor.
Some idea Of the amazing number of
| the locusts ont West is formed by the
fact that on the limo Of Tie ST Josenh
and Denver l. abroad, between Ax::,n
and Beattie, they covered the TRACK
two inches deep; and, although the
engine ers put Oh ii powerful head of
steam and tricl - drive through
them, the train vas nine hours going
Il,
! train pulled out of Seneca on time, but,
encountering the locTlsts, was driven
back, aDt had to wait until the mvr-
! lads of insects had crossed the Hne.
As this was IN Kansas, the grain crops
! there are threatened as well as in Min
nesota and iowa O. tle extent Of the
luvaSes, 40 present c Ijecture can be
/ formed; but ii lie Regions occupied
! by homestead settlers, the suffering is
| severe.
The Raleigh News says: \ geutle-
/ man who yesterday passed through
the upper portion of Johnston county
and the Neuse section of Wake, east
Of Raleigh, reports the alarming intel
! hgcnce that the rust has within the
/ last few days made its appearance, and
crops that i've days ago had the most
! promising prospects are already seri-
Ously damaged, with I'll e exception OF
the boils already fully formed This
! devastation has rca he'd within few
miles of Raleigh, extending across the
sandy belt of country down through
Wayne, Lenoir and other sections
We learn from a gentleman who came
| up yesterday over the Atlantic road.
| that the estimated damage in LeIoir
during the last five days was some
| 800, 900. The rust is attributed to
the late cool spell followed by the Sc
we're warm weather of last week.
| The Charlotte Democrat says An
unfortunate and lamentabIe tragedy
occurred in CASTOR county, near Cher
ryville, on Wednesday last, the 18th
instant. In self-defence Mr.. James
Moore shot and killed his son-in-law,
benjamin G. McGinnis. A gentleman
at Cherryville sends us an account of
the affair. the substance of which is as
| follows: Mr.. McGinnis, when intoxi-
Gated, had been unkind to his wife
She left him, and, going to her fathers
home. refused to live with him again.
McGinnis, armed with pistol, few
days alter his wife left him, went to
Moore's house and difficulty ensued
about the child. Moore, DESTROYS OF
avoiding personal encounter, had
barricaded the doors and ordered his
son-in-law to leave. McGinnis shot at
Moore twice but missed him. He then
attempted to cut down the door with
an axe, when Moore opened the VIM
dow and shot him in the breast. Nc
Ginnis fell dead with an axe in one
hand and pistol in the other.
We like to give the devil his dues,
and when we publish tie following
denial from Henry Ward Beecher, We
approach as near the devil as possible.
In o letter from the Louisville Courie,
Journal, Beecher pronounces the re-
puted sermon of his advising the hang
ing of Jefferson Davis. in 1865, an un-
blushing forgery. He says "Not
only did [ never utter or make such
miserable stuff but the whole world
knows that while many were clamor-
ing for some sacrifice or victim, I ev-
erywhere and always opposed with in
tense earnestness the shedding of
drop of blood, and resisted with all |
my might the influence which sought
the execution of Jefferson Davis. 1t
is not the first shameful forgery upon
me which has been circulated in the |
South and West. / am so heartily de-
sirous of the re-establIshment of good |
will between all who have been aliena- /
ted. and so much value the good will |
of my fellow citizens of the South, that |
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