Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-12-03
STATE NEWS.

Ms. Metilda w, wife of o S
Dewey. E q, of Newbern, n. c.. dice
on the 23d INST after a long illness
The deceased was aged SO years.
81. A. Resms, propr etor of the Dur.
nam warehouse, sold three million two
hundred thousand pounds of tobacco
during the year 1874.
W. G. Monroe, Snow Hill, N. c.,
will be thankful for any information
concerning J. 81. Monroe, insane, who
left Snow Hill on the night of the Eth
of November and has not been hear d
from since.
The Grand Lodge of Masons OF
North Carolina will meet in Raleigh
on Monday, the 9th of December. We
understand that there is every pros
poet Of large attendance on thu oeca-
sion.
We Learn that Mrs. lane 4. Haw
kns. relic of the late Col. John D
Ha akins, led at the residence of her
grandson, Capt. A. B Andrews, in
Raleigh o.. Tuesday evening
Judge J ade, member of the Su-
prvme g. RI CT this State, has been
quite i'll f. sons time at his home m
Wsshinetcn county, with typhoid
pneutIouiy but We ara glad to learn
that his dition has much improved
within til. .ast few days
Judge s ?mour made most impor-
tant decisi re Wilson Court during
tue last y Eek. Says the AdUancc:
"rhe case f B. Bynum, of Craven,
against G.. W. Barefoot. Executor,
Involving the validity of a payment in
Confeders'a money, was decided uu-
der the CT 'ge Of his Honor in favor
of the plalntiff. It seems that thu
debt agall.eS Mr. Barefoots estate was
collected " the Sheriff IF this county
under exc, .,tiop, and the money (Con-
federate) laid into the Clerks office.
Mr.. Bynu'" was in the Federal lines
AID could not apply for the money.
After the .ar it was worthless and he
refused TO AXE it. The Judge charg-
ed that it vas 10 payment, and judg-
meut was gwen against MIR. Barefoot.
An appeal was taken"
Thirty, forty and fifty years ago
Fey ttt'v' was the Comm ercial
mart ri tie State. having ira with
Lincoln, NJ eck!enburg Csbarrns, Row,
an and several other Western counties
md also with the Central counties of
Granville; Franklin, and WAX, &c,
Duylng aod shipping down the Cape
Fear River t" Wilmington, nearly all
The Wheat, FIaxseed, fob acco, Cotton
Butter &c, raised aud made IN tAe
back country. But the bui ding f
Railroads liz the State has cut tie Town
1T from the highways, and now instead
Of seeing five or eight hundred wagons
each day in her streets in the Fall
months, we see hnt very few vehicles
Of any sort containing marketable pros
ince.
But the town Is by no means dead
ner citizens have more energy and con-
cert of action than any place we know
Of, and are now making de termIned |
stforts to build Railroads to Shoe
Heel in Robson county, to connect |
With the Carolina Central Railw and |
20 Goldsboro on the Viii. & Weldon |
Road. If efforts are successful! land |
se hope III y will be)the Town of Fay |
,ttevllie will yet be "a power III the !
and !
Since 1925, d. A. NICK than (1ow
NE Of the wealthiest men of the piace) |
AS been engaged in manufacturing
carriages, bnggies, wagons, &c. He
&c rked at the ''bench" himself and of
curse knows how to do business and
urD out go ID men who served nnder
i'm as apprentices. Within the past
Orty years several men who learned
trade with Mr.. McKethan have en-
cred the learned professions and been
minently successful, among the num-
er three ministers, three lawyers, two
hysicians and a number of merchants
I'D bank officers. SO much for hard
ork and good training. g. Charlotte
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