Wilmington journal., 1876-02-18
STATE NEWS.

The Fayetteville Wide Awake re-
grets to learn that Mr.. Patterson, at
Swann's station, the gentleman whom
that paper alluded TO in its last issue
as having been severely hurt by falling
from a wagon, died on Saturday last
from the I'M uries he received.
They have a social club Of gentle
men in Salisbury that they call the
''Pie Eaters"
The Salisbury Watchman says that
MIR. 2. Fla inch cought fox in that
county which gave his dogs q run of
thirty miles. He must have been an
"old red"
That paper also says that MIR. VIM.
Murdock, who has been ira yeling IN
Florida with his grand sou. Willie
Wiley, for the benefit of the latter's
health has returned home. Mr.. Al.
states that there are not as many visit
ors in Florida this winter as were last,
owing, as it is supposed, to the com
parative mildness of the winter North,
and to the stress in money matters.
There was one frost in Florida this
winter which nipped the orange bios
SONS, but did no serious harm The
State is filling up. many of tho ,e who
which, Just now, is regarded as the
most profitable business a man can
enter on. jacksonville, and other
fourishing, and bid fair to become
large cities.
The Courier says: On Saturday last
a negro boy called at the residence of
Peter ,Charrington in Sandy Greek
Township. while Mr. Harrington was
away from home, and demanded of
Mrs. Harrington the money in the
house, she refused, the scamp then
began the search of the house, telling
Mrs. T. that if she made any alarm he
would kill her. He broke open their
chests, and found four dollars, which
he appropriated to his own use.
The Raleigh Sentinel informs us that
thh roster OF North Carolina soldiers
in the revolutionary war, lost for m my
years, has been discovered among the
archives of the auditors office.
From the Fayetteville Gazette:
There was quite a lively exhibit ion
of interest ou the subject of the Fay
etteyille & Florence Railroad last
Monday and Tuesday. Several citizens
of RobesOn county, who have entered
heartily into the work of constructing z
this road, were on II visit to Fayete
vile. There was a meeting of the di-
rcctors, which, SO far as we have
learned, was harmonious and satisfac-
tory, and the work bids fair to go Wig
orously on. Capt. A. P. Hurt was
chosen director in place of Col. Kc-
Kay, resigned.
The Western ExposItor says that the
negro who broke into Peter Eply's
house in Mcdowell county and stole
from bureau the sum of 500. to-
gether with pocket-book, papers &c,
having been arrested in Salisbury, was
taken back to Mcdowell, and, after a
full examination of the testimony, was
committed to Jail to answer the charge
! as Robert Austin, though he had
called himself Randall Caldwell.
The Pee Dee Courier saws that Col.
Leak detected this son of the Rev.
Frank Cov:nton, coiorsd in the act of
FobEing the money drawer IN the store
Of Leik, Everist & Go. in Rocking
ham. The thief was committed 10
jail
| Inc .S6WDSEh JOuIHdi Vi SOtAufCEce
says:
The Board of Aldermen on Monday
night last gave the Atlantic Railroad
the right of way down East Trout or
South Front streets to Union Point.
The company now proposes to lease
the city property on the point for a
term of years and construct the' con
such warehouses, tracks, wharves,
ETC., as may be neces AIRY to enable
the trains to take freight directly from
vessels lying in the docks to be built.
The estimated cost of this work is
$4,000. 1t will be of great advantage
to the road, for it can then command
certain heavy freights which now &C
by way of Wilmington and Norfolk
The mercantile interests of the city
will also be benefited by the change
The Franklin Courier states tha
Congressman J. /. Davis arrived at biz
home in Louisburg on Friday. the 4th
and remained on visit to his family
until Wednesday, the 9th. He was il
excellent health AID spirits.