The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1837-06-09
intelligence from s. f. Atres
DEATH OF MRS. WILSON.

II becomes our painful duty (says The Rich
mond Religious Telegraph TO record the death %
one; whose early removal has caused the hearts
OF many friends 10 bleed afresh, and which must
have been felt most affecting bereavement in
little band OF NJ issionarIes, several hundred miles
from Capetown, in the interior Of Africa, among d
people who had never heard the tidings of saliva
tIon. Mrs. Mary Jane Wilson, wife Of Rev.
Alexf 10 wilson, and daughter Of Mrs. Smhy,
OF tins city, lkiehmond] has been called to her f.
nal rest She died at the Mission station, Moisks,
on the 18th September 1896. Ms Wilson left
this city, to embark on the Mission to the Zoo-
lahs in November 1891 She reached Mosika in
company with DR.. Wilson and Rev. Nessrs, Lind.
lev and Venable and their wives. only about two
months before she was taken from them. The
prospects of the infant Mission were brjJbt with
hopes of extensive usefulness. Suddenly one Of
their number-one whose Christian cbarsc,er
made her blessing to the church, and an orna-
ment to her sex--ls taken 10 her reward in hea.
ven. and the hopes of the feeble hand far removed
from the sbodes Of civilized men. are blight d -
Truly, Gods ways are not as our ways. nor his
thoughts as our thoughts" Those bereavec broth
rem in the pagan wilds of Africa, and bersycd
4 friends here, and the church. must conhde in the
truth, and wisdom and goodness of God and pa
tently wait for Him 10 deyelope the purposes u
infinite love, which are TO be promoted BY tins az
fiicting bereavement.
Bank of Cape Fedr.-This Institution
has also suspended Specie Payments. We
were confident that "to this compleyloE."
it would come as last. The fac, is, that it
IS impossible, in the midst of general
suspension, for any one Institution 10 per-
ssf IN the redemption Gifts paper in Specie.
They may hold out while, but they viii
eventually be forced to succumb TO the ext
gency, after being harassed by demands
which they would have avoided by prompt
actlo1.-Rat. Reg.
North Carolina Bank Notes.-Upou en-.
curry We learn that the reason which ndu-
ced the Directors Of the Bank of the State,
at the time of suspendng the payment Of
/ lis liabilities in Specie, to restrict the re.
ceIpis Of Deposites and payments 10 the
Notes of that Bank and lis Branches, was
1 this: Ii the other Banks IN this State
should not suspend specie payments, they
could not, 10 justice 10 themselves, reeve
the Notes Of the Bank of the State, because
of lis having suspended paying Specie and,
in such a state OF things, therefore, the
Bank of the State ought not 10 increase the
difficulties of the Banks continuing to pay
specie, by taking their Notes, and asking
Of them payment IN what ii had declined il.
self to make.-ib.
Appointments By the Gorernor. P.
Hall, Of Wilmington, James Cassidy, Of
Duphn, Richard Washington, OF Wayne,
and james S. Battle, of Nash, 10 be Dlrec.
tors on the part of the State in the VIII
ming,on and Raleigh Rail Road Company.
Andrew Joyner, of Halifax, is constituted
Proxy to represent the interests OF the State,
IN all General Meetings Of the Company.