Wilmington journal., 1875-02-05

STATE II Il WI 3.
Gas is to be reduced, in Charlotte,
TO 81 per M.
Raleigh is feasting on its first shad
of the season.
The new Baptist Church at Cataw-
ba will soon be completed.
Governor Vance was to have lectured
in Columbia, last night, for the benefit
of the N. E. Church in that city.
Gen. Cockrell, just elected to the
United States Senate from Missouri, is
graduate Of Chapel Hill.
The Tarboro Branch of the w. & W.
r. r. has been given q new outfit in
the wsy of frst-class engine, new
cars, new conductors and new agents.
One 8. P. Dyp, vender of specta-
cles, il running hotel keepers on
the line of the w. 4 W. Railroad.-
The Rocky Mount Mail desires that he
be "psssed.
The Duplin Record sayc: Mr.. B. J.
Carr, residing near DupIn Roads, has
a collard with ruffie edge leaves, one
of which measures Is feet and inches
in circumference.
The Duplin Record says: Mr..
Nathan Herring. of Lisbon township,
SIMPSON county, has killed 3,4OO
pounds of pork, all raised from one
SOW within one year-the oldest hog
killed being only two years old and
the youngest, one.
The Salem Press says: Mr.. Philip
Reid, of this county, slaughtered his
monster hog on the 18th, which re-
suited N 661 pounds of pork. This
msnmoth measured, while hanging,
from tip of tail to end of nose, feet
7 inches; sroond the body, feet s
inches.
The Wilson Advance says: Mr.. Wiley
Dildy brought to market on Wednes-
day the premium pig of the season.
His net weight was $50 pounds. At
10 cents per pound this one hog
brought S58 60, half enough to buy a
good mule and the greatest plenty to
last a new married couple a whole
year.
The Tarboro Southerner says: Col.
John L. Bridgers' cotton crop this
season is I'll bales in the aggregate,
$50 of which were raised on his
Strabane farm, 191 on the Middle
Place and 19l on the Osk Spring farm.
This is the heaviest crop We have Yet
heard of in the State for one individ-
| ual.
The Greeneville Register says We
are informed that four negroes, two
men. woman and boy, have been
arrested and lodged III jail at Washing
ton, Beaufort county, charged with
robbipg and numbering Mr. Charles
Gherkins. on Thursday, the 2lst lust.
MIR. Gherkius was an Old man living at
Long Acre, Beaufort county.
The Salisbury Watchman says: A
sweet potato nosed mulatto, halling
from South Carolina, registered at the
National Hotel few nights since,
and demanded accom- mmodations.- =
Great was his ire when informed that
the house WAS not run upon that line
| His mulattoship, we have been in
formed. represents himself as Post
master at Chester, s. G..
The Goldsboro Messenger SAYS: We
hear 1t whispered that The Humphrey
Hotel in this place Is about to go into
the hands of new management, and
are pleased to hear that our popular
hotelist of old, Rich. J. Gregory, Esq.
in partnership with Mr.. ". W. Free
man. are likely to become the new
proprietors.
The Hillsboro Recorder says: Col
G. II. Latimer died at his residence il
this town on Saturday morning. after
snf = e II
Latimer was native of Connecticut
we believe, but has been a resident Of
the South, for the most part, of North
Carolina, since early in life, having
lived in Cheraw, Wadesboro and
Louisburg from which place he came
to Hillsboro about 1882. At the time
of his death he was upwards of sc
years Of age.
The Newbern Times says: On Sat
| urday last an accident occurred on the
north side of Neuse river, a few miles
from this city, which resulted in The
almost Immediate death of Duffy
Fulcher, young mau about 16 years
of age. Duffy and his father, Enoch
Fulcher, went into the woods to get
some timber for making slaves, and III
telling large tree one of the branches
of a tree close by was dielodged and
hurled with such force on the head of
the young man that he was knocked
senseless to the ground. A faint fut-
ter of the heart could be felt for about
two hours, when the wounded man
expired.
The Raleigh News says: In view OF
the exigencies of the cases, State on
relations of Cloud against Wilson,
from the 9Th judicial District, and
State on relation of the Attorney Gen
eral against Hilliard from the I'd Judi
cial District; the first Court in the 2d
District, commencing in Hersford
county on Monday next; we are au-
thorized to publish the decisions of
the Supreme Court. In the first named
case, the Court find that Wilson is not
entitled to the office of Judge, and
that Cloud is. 1u the second case, the
| Court decides that Hilliard is not en-
titled to the Office of Judge of the I'd
! Judicial District
The Newbern Times says: On last
| Tuesday morning, about 2 o'clock, at
our informant thinks, the gin house
and grist mill belonging to Messrs.
John n. and Hardy Whitford, situa-
ted on Island Greek, seven miles from
this city, were entirely destroyed by
fire. The building contained twenty
bales of cotton, ginnsd and unginned,
which was also consumed, entailing
loss of g., 600 on the proprietors, who
had DO insurance. The fire is known
to be of incendiary organ, as the mill
was situated remote from any other
building, and neither fire nor artificial
light was allowed therein. Suspicion,
strengthened by circumstantial evi-
dence, points strongly to a certain col
ored man as the author of the devil
lsh work whom we hope may, if guilty,
| be convicted.
For the Journal
Destruction of the New County.
The Radicals are preparing to hold