The enquirer southerner., 1875-01-08
STATE NEWS

Enfield will have grand ball on
the 7th inst.
A reading room is the latest thing
cut in Elizabeth City.
The total debt of the city of WiI~
mington is s4S0,OO0
Curituck court convenes on the
second Monday.
Whitaker's Mill, Nash coun ty, is
to be incorporated as a town.
The mortuary statistics of Colds
boro for 1874 barely show one per
cent of deaths.
The Nag's Head Hotel has been
sold at public auction to Mr., Wilson
Hallowell for S., 900.
The Milton Chronicle has Just clos
cd the second year of its third series.
o King live forever.
Mr.. w. 7. Manning becomes asso-
ciated with the Naming Bros in the
editorial management of the Weldon
Netcs.
A young boy by the name of
Spates had his hand blown off by the
bursting of gun on Christmas, in
Elizabeth City.
Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, formerly
an old and highly esteemed citizen of
Elizaboth City, died in Brownsville,
Tom, Dec 10Th.
A grey fox, an o'possum and
Coons paw, was the achievement of a
Milton sportsman in two hour hunt
on Christmasdny.
The next annual meeting of the
State Grange, to take place in Rails
eigh, has been postponed from the
18th of FEBRUARY to the 3rd of March.
Halifax Lodge No. 81, I. O. 0. F.,
at Halifax, was organized on the 18th
of December by A. J. Burton, D. D.
G. NJ, assisted by members from
Weldon Lodge No.
Mr.. Waugh, of Ashe, informs the
Southern Home that the working of
the copper mines is grand success.
About 800 hands are at work and
the profits are said to be $1,000 a
day.
At the Masonic dinner in Will
mingtou on Monday, Major J. A. En-
gelhard responded to the toast: The
Press-The mighty engine for the
dissemination of thought. May it
never be prostituted to base and ig-
noble purposes.
Gen. Leventhorpe, who has long
labored in behalf of the claimants to
the EIwood estate in England, says
he has got decision in their favor
in the Vice Chancellor Court. The
contest, therefore; is virtually closed,
says the Home. The estate is worth
about s145,000, out of which, how~
ever, is to be deducted the costs up
to this time.
Says the Rocky Mount Mail: ''Dr.
J. n. Tucker shot at Mr.. Robert
Hamlin three times on Christmas
dav, on the streets of Henderson,
One bal! passed through Hamlin's
hat, the second missed him, the third
struck knife in his vest pocket and
glanced. Both parties were bound
over in the sum of $4,000 Hamiin
had a pistol, but did not fire."
We republish the call for meet
ing of the Conservative Central Com
mittee issued by Gov. Cox, the Chair
man, last month The State Execu.
tive Committe of the Conservative
party-Rhich is composed of the vari-
Gus Congressional Executive Commit
ties-will please meet in Raleigh on
Wednesday, January Goth, 1875, to
consult in regard to important mat
ters. Members of the Conservative
press are invited to attend.
The Reidsville Enterprise says: App
plication will be made to the present
Legislature of North Carolina, for a
charter of railway from some point
on the Raleigh & CASTOR Railroad, at
or near Henderson or Ridgway, or
from some intermediate point, to the
Western or North Western boundary
Of tho State. Said railway to pass
Oxford, Roxboro, Yanceyville and
Reidsville to Wentworth and thence
by the most practicable route to its
terminus as hereinbefore indicated
The Raleigh Sentinel says A Cen
tloman just arrived from tour into
the northeastern section of the State
reports Currituck county carrying on
quite business with Norfolk, and
the Chesapeake Canal doing we'll, the
Dismal Swamp Canal being short of
water Christmas was enjoyed in a
maner characteristic of that hospita,
Bile people. In Pasuatank county
there is some complaint of hard times
though the wharves Of Elizabeth City
are three deep with large vessels
loading with corn for Wilmington,
Not much interest is taken in poll
tics.