Wilmington journal., 1875-02-05
STATE NEWS.

SlALk N & " 5.
Edwin Adams drops in on the Char
lottese on the 10TH.
The Monroe Enquirer saws: Shelby.
the present terminus OF the Carolina
Central hallway, seems to be a grow
ing town. A sewing machine factory
aud new Methodist Church are to be
erected there; also telegraph line is
IN cOntem plation.
The Oxford Leader saws: Messrs.
Willis Daniel & Son, iiving three
rIiies from Oxford, sold this week
the:r crop of yellow tobacco to Messas.
j. c d ID. \ Cooper. OF Henderson.
Ior the handsome sum Of fifty dollars
per hundred pounds
The Wadesboro Herald says that
John Long, ''the blacksmith we'll
known in the Southern part Of Anson
county, who mystariously disappear
ed, was not murdered. as supposed,
bat has turned up" He was not
dead bat drunk, AID stayed out q Gay
or two.
The Charlotte Southern Home saws:
Az l. cs y. OIS, tS'dE Al5&i{QtiElPjjt J.
ralsed q cotton stalk - feet inch-;
/ III height, and over inches IN circn;.-
ference at the ground It was Will
! ii led with large. sound bOlis. It was
n hybrid between the Sea Island ai,d
tne Twin ana Triple varieties The
seed We're of the latter kind and the
/ texture was Sea Island of a very su-
perlor order. Mr.. Pope is Granger.
The Charlotte Democratic says It
is strange how travelling drummers
and agents for various things :t.,!
sch, mes, swindie and fool iute ll!gent
men in Charlotte Humbugging =
advertising sche as, show bills, charts.
maps, &c, will gul a merchant. it
seems, about as soon as the 40 acre
and mule" fooled the negro just about
the close OF the war.
Tbe Charlotts Observer says: For
the week ending last night, $50 bales
OF cotton We're sold in Charlotte,
against 1896 bales the week previous
The sales for the mouth of .TaIuary
we're few bales short of 4, $40 As
will be seen by the above statement,
the receipts last week were very light,
butthls is accounted for by the conf
ton OF the roads. The price through
out tbeweck was fair, but not SO good
as week before last.
The Hillsboro Recorder SAYS: Mr.. "
! T. Strond (of Chatham) made on 30
I acres, 27 bales OF 500 lbs HIr. jos.
Baldwin made on 20 acres 16 bales o;
500 lbs. Our representive, Mr.. NJ It
thew Atwater, first rate farmer, Who
has hitherto given his attention almost
exclusively to snail grains, made last
season test of the capacity OF his
lands for cotton. On hall an acre, he
made att he rate of 932 pounds lint
| cotton per acre.
The Monroe Enquirer says: Mr.
Theo. n Ramsey, State Lecturer for
the Independent Order of Good
Templurs, delivered a lecture in the
Presbyterian Church in this place, on
last Wednesday night, to large and
respectable sandience of ladies' and
gentlemen. The speech was an excel
lent one, and resulted in adding many
new names to the temperance roll in
Monroe, and we hope will be produ,-
tive of lasting results. After the au-
| dience was dismissed, a meeting was
held III the Church and The Lodge of
Good Templars re-organized with
about thirty five members, twenty-five
OF whom We're obtained that night.
The Oxford Leader says: A friend
has just told us of genuine maidstone
that is at present owned il Caswell
county. 1t seems that sometime ago
an Italian was travelling through that
county and stopped over night at the
residence Of DR.. Pointer. Ou leaving
III the morning he stated that he had
no money, but would pay whatever
WIS owing for he accommodations he
had received by giving tie doctor 6
genuine maidstone. The doctor, who
was, by the way, an unheiiever IN sut b
things accepted it. The stone wa
soon tested III the case Of a boy, who
was bitten by a mad dog. with satisfac
tory results.
The Raleigh News says: We learn
of q most brutal outrage at Neuse
Depot. on the line of the r. & G. r.
L some ten miles north of tins CITY,
on Saturday night last. A young ne
gro named Chayis,a a track hand on the
railroad and Ewing at Mouse, became
angered at bis wife because she had
Visited her grandmother, and that,
100, with his consent, btJt her over
the head ana shoulders with All iron
rod until life WAS almost extinct. and
yesterday 1T was considered almost
impossi BILE fer her to live through tha
day. The brutal Gend Lad lcft home,
not having been arrested, but iUfor-
maticp was yesterday lodged with the
Sheriff In this city, and steps will be
taken at once to place HIM in custody.
The Raleigh News says: Andrew
Johnson, seventeenth President of the
United States, and recently elected Z.
=. Senator from Tennessee, was boru
III ibis cit December 2O.h, 1903, and
frcm the age of ten until the autumn
Of 1924 was the apprentice of a aiior
IN Raleigh In 1926 he seitls Il in
Greenvllle, Tennessee, anG work, q al
his trade He was elected Alderman
in 1928. 1929 and 1880, Mayor 1881,
1882 and 1858, mem Der of the Legis-
Iature 1925 and 1889. and Presidential
elector in 1910. He was elected to the
State Senate in 1841. and sat in Con-
gress from 1878 to 1858. From 1853
see. and United States Senator from
1857 to 1868 He was nomirsted for
Vice President by tie Baltimore Con-
ton Of PresIdent Lincoln succeeded
him in the Presidential chair
Sothern said in speech at the ben
eft uf certain stage manager III
Birmingham. England: He and [
attacked the dramatic profession on
the same night some twenty yea
siuce. he was then the very worst
prompter / ever saw. After the per-
formance he gently and most kindly
intimated that was the most fearful