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Newspaper
Wilmington Post
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1882
Page
4
A wind swept Friday with four alarms, town records show. Includes births marriages licenses and prison sentences, library society plans, property deeds and mortgages, and a Pender County colored convention urging equal rights and political reforms.
Durham manufacturers paid taxes of $20 000 last year. The Asheville Citizen is now printed weekly and semi weekly. Judge Gilmer ruled the railroad tax cases for the state. Judge Bennett to preside at the Roanoke River term. Rail shipments of gun via this route continue with little abatement. A Republican paper is to start at Wilson with a colored editor. State Life Insurance will wind up affairs in solvency. County vote on stock law: 659 for, 883 against. majority against 229. Seaboard and Rail Railroad pledged with a million and a half capital. Iron bought to complete Chester and Lenoir railroad to Newton. Wake Forest College June commencement sermon by Rev. J. G. Graves. Five negroes arrested in Little’s Mills for Dowd’s fire. Mouse killed by music case in Greensboro. Prof. Fearns to move school to this place from Longwood Academy. Guilford Shoe Factory moves to High Point. Tobacco interest declining here with potential new factories. County case against Raleigh and Gaston Railroad discussed. Judge Bennett reserving decision. J. H. Thompson named postmaster at Mt. Mourne. Mrs Doggett dies in Richmond. Laurel Springs murder confession declined. Laurel Springs wife innocent. W. F. Loftin dies. Rev. William Snipes dies. W. H. Snow builds new factory. Davis killed near Tarleton by freight train. Winston and Fayetteville railroad touted by The Pioneer. Enterprise Manufacturing Company rebuilds. ready for roof next week. Fayetteville to have a furniture store. James Blackburn arrested for murder in Sampson County. Allen Merrick charged with murder in Fayetteville. violent crime details. Fire destroys stables and property near Fayetteville with $700 loss, no insurance. All subscribers to the Sun report time.
A Virginia resident in Washington writes to W P Canaday urging North Carolina Republicans to unite against the Bourbons. He recalls battles over disenfranchisement and school funds, calls for a new free ballot and fair count, and offers wartime support while appealing for a united fight and vengeance against Democrats. He names James H Harris and James O’Hara as Virginia figures and invites juror rights comparisons at a convention.
A fragmented 19th century notice touts Dr William H Moore's Tree of Life Liniment Indian Powders and Liver Pills for catarrh fever and digestive ailments. Testimonials from patients in towns like Golpstone Tarnoro Dawson Laxprne and New Fours praise relief and urge others to use the remedies, with dates and witnesses cited.
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