Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-04-19

men, given at Chagres, on the Z3d OF March, 1901,
in the case of John Powers, accused of stealing
$1,000 in gold dust from Mr.. Bridge, at the Irwin
House in that place. The following is copy of the
verdict:
"CHAGREs, N G., March 3d. 1850.
"Our verdict is that John Powers is guilty of Ia
king the package containing one thousand dollars in
gold dust and that he be awarded fifty lashes per
day upon his bare back (twenty live in the morning
and twenty five in the evening" with cat-of-nine-
tails every other day, to be inflicted by the sheriff,
Mr.. Hughes, until he (the prisoner) confesses the
theft and produces the packages of gold dust.
IN. w Fisk, foreman; John McTurck, William
Sharp, F. A. Thompson, H. E. Gleason, R. Mason,
J. w. Demarest John Myers, L. IngersoI P. F.
Mencosos, T. B. Vance, w. E. Newcomb.
AZ. H. BARKER, Clerk of the Court
''To Hon. H. R. WooD Judge of the Court"
1t appears, as we understand it, that Mr.. Bridge,
his arrival at the Irwin House, entrusted pack
age of gold dust with Powers for safe-keepng, and
that Powers subsequently secreted the package, and
declared that it had been stolen from him.
In pursuance of the verdict, Powers taken into
the woods to undergo fogging, when he confessed
his guilt and showed where the gold was secreted.
He was then sentenced to receive fifty lashes,
bove-twenty- fve in the morning and twenty five in
the evening receiving which he was set at lib
erty.-N. O. Picayurae.
The Savannah Republican, in an article upon the
Turpentne business in Georgia, states that there
some fifteen or sixteen persons now engaged In its
manufacture, whose united product will amount to
not less than t1centg thousand and etght hundred bar
relS, during the present season. There are some
eight or ten others who have recently embarked in
the business whose labors will add very considera-
bly, to this amount. The dstillation of crude tur-
pentine is also rapidly increasing in ha State and
the time is thought not to be very distant when
Georgia will be able to vie with North Carolina in
the production of this article.
DRY GooDs-The following incident occurred, as
we learn from good authority, in of stores,
the other day:
< Buy any butter here ?' said country customer,
who walked into dry goods store in Market street,
and looked much like character who knew a vast
deal more about himself than he cared to tell
"No sir,n replied the merchant tive don't wish
to buy any"
"Want to buy any eggs %
"No sir; we keep dry goods store here.n
Shaw Wal, then, maybe you'd like to buy some
chickens-fat as pigs and a mighty sight nicer tu'
No. sir; tell you we don't deal in anything but
dry goods : -, >. -
81 tell you, sir, deal in dry goods exclusively
herc.n @s#
aWal, then, what win you give for dried peach
es 2" 1851
HARD SwEARING-A western paper in speaking
Of some mans profanity says - He ripped out such
4 string of oaths as would have split white oak
stump to the roots and turned the sky yellow"
A conundrum Ismitten correspondent asks " ny
is an absent preacher like the future g We cannot
imagine, uiless It Because he is not the Pastor
l1resent y 49, F-s.sssszza tS.S-