Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11
STATE NEWS.

Tarboro pays its policeman $40 per
month.
Considerable sickness in Raleigh
at this time.
A disastrous storm visited portions
of Granville county few days since.
Gov. Brogden will carry the matter
of the change of gauge 80 the Supreme
Court.
Gov. Vance is to lecture in Raleigh.
shortly, for the benefit of the wound
ed artil!eymen.
The Fayetteville Gazette says t'-at
nearly twenty miles OF the Florence
road is now graded.
The assessors OF Monday last re-
ported the value of the real estate Of
Tarboro to be SOLO,
The yearly income this year of
Nelson county Ky, farmers from two
hundred and fifty sheep was 81, 562.
The annual meeting OF the stock
holders Of the Atlantic Railroad vail
be held at Beaufort OF the 24rh inst.
DIR. w. j. Palmer, Principal of the
Ontario Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb at BelleVille. Ontario, Canada,
is in Raleigh.
Jos. Blcunt Cheshire, Jr., of Tar
boro, has been appointed Notary
Public for Edgecombe county, by
Gov. Brogden.
The Raleigh News hears i rumore d
on the street that the gauge of the \.
G. II. r. is to be changed to Colds
boro by the LIST of July.
The Raleigh News says: The Freen a
| building, corner OF Fayetteville and
Cabaria dis streets, was sold yesterday
to Mr. G.. Rosenthal. Tor the sum Of
S7,1CO.
| The Magnolia Record will begin Il e
publication, in its next issue, OF an
original story by L. L. Carroll, Of
| Columbus county. The story will
continue for several months.
The Wilson Advance says Mr..
! George Boddie, who removed from
Nash county to the South many years
ago, died recently III Mis- sis,ppl. He
was 6S Yeas OF age at the time Of his
| death.
The Raleigh Sentinel says We
|
would commence the change of gauge
from Greensboro to Company Shops
to-day, and get to Durham IN about
two days.
The Wilson Plaiudealer says: Rev.
Mr.. Willis, of tne Methodist Church,
is conducting Ii revival at Black Greek,
in this county, and Il number OF con-
verts will be baptized at that place on
Sunday next.
The Newbern Nutshell says We
learn that the valuable mill pr Dperty
of the Dean Lumber Company, which
originally cost the company about
SIT, 900, was sold yesterday to our en-
terprising wholesale grocer, Mr.. CT. +.
NJ. Dali, at less than 81 500
We learn from the Christian Adv0-
cate that the \. c.. Local Ministers
Conference for 1915, will meet IL Kin
ston on Thursday, the 10Th day OF
July, and continue until Sunday night
following. Rev Peter Fl. Jpyner. OF
Winston, will preside at the Confer
ence.
The Raleigh News says: We learn
that the crop prospects III this vicinity
are extremely good. The cotton crop
L
especially presents an extremely pros
porous appearance for this season.
Considering the unfavOrable weather
in the early Spring, this fact is pecu-
llarly gratifying.
The Magnolia Record says: Anthony
Davis, Esq, of Pink Hill, Lemon
county, clipped from two yearlipg
cotswola sheep. this Spring, twenty
six pounds and ten ounces of good
y Dol. Fifteen pounds and six ounc, $
were cut from the buck and eleven
pounds and four ounces from the eve.
The Raleigh News says: The Re
publican State Executive committee
Will meet in this city on the 10Th inst. =,
"to consider questions touching the
proposed constitutional convention"
and for other business. They will also
make arrangements for the burial of
! their party IN Angus next. Respecta-
| BILE pail bearers in demand.
The Winston Sentinel says Soil
/ citOr DObsOn las represented the
State with marked ability since he has
been Solicitor of this district, and we
! think his Spring circuit stands without
! a parallel. Out Of the SIX courts he
| has held, he has lost but one case !
/ Where is the Solicitor that can beat
| that ?
The Raleigh Sentinel says The
Watkins Brothers, manufacturers in
Milton, this State, have just sent by
express to Capt. A. B. Stronach, of the
Raleigh Artillery, two boxes of their
finest brand of chewing tobacco to be
sold and used for the benefit of the
unfortunate artillerymen who were
! disabled at Charlotte.
The Durham Plant says: James
Christopher, an aged gentleman, was
attending a sale few miles above Ce-
dar Grove, Orange county, some days
since. As night approached he mount
ed colt for the purpose of riding
him home, and had gone but a short
distance when the colt threw him,
| breaking his neck. He died instantly.
The Raleigh News says: The town
Of Beaufort has in it 36 men and SO la
! dies, with an average age of 70 years.
The town has only a population of
1850. And what's better, it is almost
fact that the inhabitants have to go
| elsewhere to die. Is there place IL
the country OF the same size that can
surpaSS this III longevity
The Raleigh News says: Bishop
Marvin will arrive in the city this
morning en- route to the Fayetteville
District Conference, which assemblies
at Carthage, Moore county, to-day, and
over which the Bishop will preside.
Next week he will preach the annual
sermon at Trinity College, and will
then return to Raleigh, dedicating the
| Person Street church on Sunday week.
Ike Magnolia Record says: Mr.. Ed
ward D. Pearsall. of Kenansville town
ship, reports having killed a monster
moccasin snake, on Big Marsh Swamp,
in KenansVille township. The snake
measured seven and one half feet in
length and was eighteen inches in cir
cumference. A whole rabbit and
half grown turtle were found in his
| stomach.
The Milton Chronicle says: Mrs.