Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-04-02
STATE NEWS.

Mr. John j. Lowe. the Foreman OF
the Wadesboro Herald office. was mar
ried at Parnassus, Marlboro county.
South Car ina. on Tuesday last, the
25th ult to Miss Bette Lucas.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: TIL:
talk is on the streets that the State
Ayr cultural Society will invite Andy
Johnson to deliver the address at the
next Agriculture! Fair IL October.
/ The HilIsboro Recorder says: The
wheat crop mp tt date, promises ret
Ter than foe years before. The frnlt
too is as a general thing uninjured,
though like the spribg. both peaches
aud apples are decidedly backward IL
coming to a showing.
The Raleigh News says: The rev
Churches AID at the Person street
progressing with undated inters 81. -
There were some 100 mourners at the
three churches Oh Sunday.
The Raleigh News says Thirty FIVE
persons were haptised at the Sa!is-
bury Baptist Church Sunday after
noon, having connected themselves
| with the Second Church At night
| three persons were baptisad at the
Salisbury Street Church ard becama
members of that congregation.
| The Wadesboro Herald says: We
| are informed that negro child was
! bnrned TO death at the house of Owen
! Sheppard, coiDred. on last Thursday E.
/ The following are the pat culars 4,
+ near a. we can learn: The mother Of
! the child went of in the field TO work
/ ard left her children IN the house
, Que of them was playing with q straw
! broom. the broom caught on fTr hv
s,.me me.!Is, and the clothes If one o!
/ the children took fire. The a'a''a
was given, Int before the moth. +
cnnld reach the house the child wae
! burnt so badly 1t Iii Il i'll Il few hours.
TIE Chati,1 Southern H"" t say
D. G., rus Ale xan,t..r, Of taharfn4. Is
a grand >6n ii AhTa,n Ale xaij1vr,
rr.sld. ut If the NJ, ck!Cnhurg Con
vtutIou He is about - years old. Il
/ stout, vigorous old man, generous,
GENIAL, kind hearted, patrlOt't:-a
worthy de~cendunt Of an iliustriors
sire The childr, OF Robt. l Nc
Dowell, Esq. arr more intimate
" identified with the Ne ok lcnburg
Declaration than any other persons -
They are cunrccttd with that great
event through the Brtvarls, David
sons Jacks and Ir@iuS. Iha d, C. I'd
ants of DIR. Wiuelow Alexander are
identified with it through tbs. Al~zan
,irra, David SOns and Gran ms.
The Statesville Landmark says: On
the 10th instant, Amos Church, wht
lives 5 miles west OF WIikerbOrO, was
burning coal half n mile distant fr0u
his house HIS wife, about dark, pui
her children to bed. being three Il.
number the Oldest of whom was five
years of age, ard went to carry Mr.
Church his supper. She renamed
with her husband until ABOUT
O'Clock, and on her return home,
her horror, found house, children aud
ali burned up. The bones OF the eldest
which seemed to have made all { for
to get ont of the house, We're found
near the door.
The Norfolk Virginian says: The
stind fisheries Of the Carolina sounds
aud adjacent waters this season have
lost money heavily on account of The
pTOIfdcbStI HpOlS. All INC Hciueo III. (
been taken out OF Roanoke river. an,
unless the herring catches turn on
prutitab!y those direi tly engaged IL
the business VIII experience great loss
In the Sounds the OILERS are doing
fair, and about all tue shad coming K
market are taken tins way. The re
suit is shad are high, though the run
is nearly over, and will continue Sc
hn of
The Roheaonian says We learn thai
Miss Malinda Stephens, an invalid
Young girl, about Is years old, living
with her mother, Mrs. Ann Stephens
in BIRTHS township. WAS burned t.
death Oh Tuesday of last week. The
facts i'll the case, so far ~; We comic
gather them, are as fotiows: tie
mother had left home, leaving this
girl alone Ill the house, and in some
way the building caught fire and was
burned down. Ali that MIS-. Stephens
owned was in the house and was lost.
The girl was subject to fits, and II j.
not known whether she fell in the fl
or whether it Was accidental.
The Gold ,boro Messenger says: One
day last week two young co!ored men,
one OF them residing in Goidshoro,
the other IL Wilmington, walked d.
family up to the bar counter cf The
! Merchants Club House in this place
ana demanded n "coup!e Of drinks vel
knowing that colored people had in
every instance been refused accOmm0-
dation there. They were told that til e
price of drinks ranged from Is to 30
cents. They chose the IS cent drinks
aud were promptly served. 1t SO hap
pened that the barrel containing this
quality of whiskey" was about cx-
hausted, and oniy with difficulty could
two glasses of ''inky liquor" dregs
&c. be collected for the sable Civil
Rig hters, who, apparently, felt disai5-
pointed and chagrined. 1t was evi-
den ly a ''pnt up job" but failed to
work. The sooner the colored people
get Civil Rights" oft their brain, the
/ better for them
The Raleigh News says: Solomon
Pool, late President @ OF the Univer-
! sity, has brought suit against the
! Trustees for salary since the institn-
! ton broke down under his manage
ment up 10 the time Of the decision al
! the Supreme Court dctermioing ills
existence. This is as cooi piece If
! impudeEc- as eau we'll be conceive
of. He has, during the years for
which be claimed his pay, sat like
nightmare upon the i'll t,tntion nutil
he stlfis d the very life out Of it IL
the meantime he was iudustrionsly
engaged III buying ali the real estate
he could lay hIs lands uron at the
deprecated prices. reduced to then
low rates by his very presence. watch
ing for this time when the revival of
the Institution would make him a mil
IIonnirr. III thi> suit Solomon will go
after wool and come home stiorn.
Mes~rs Moody aud Sankey. the re