Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-01-21

ture of Pennsylvania
Recent difficulties in neighboring State have
suggested the existence Of deficiency in our State
laws in reference to the conveyance of persons held
to involuntary servtude from one State to another
The Pennsylvania statute of 1870 gave all persons
passing through or sojourning in the State for a
brief period the right hold their domestic slaves
The act of lS47 repealed this provision and the re-
pealng sections of last session did not reinstate it,
L. therefore, respectfully recommend that provision
be made for the transit of these domestics through
the limits of this Commonwealth. Such law seems
to be contemplated by the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, and to be suggested by those rules of
comfy which should exist between the States-by
the public peace and by individual convenience"
There is an army of at least fl, hundred shoema-
kers in Marlboro Mass, who manufacture six thou
sand pairs of chdren's shoes every working day
One iourneymar has worked the bench for thirty
years. without losing day in consequence of sick
ness and during that time has saved ten thousand
dollars. One firm during the last year. has manu-
featured 217000 PAIRS of shoes. Another of the
firms, doing an immense business, employing one
hundred men in Massachusetts,, and hundred
and fifty in their shoe village in New Hampshire
Last year they made two hundred thousand nine
hundred and sixty three pairs of shoes in this State
and at least as many more in New Hampshire.
raw Jonathan who had been gazing at garden
in New York, in which were several marble statues
exclamed-'' Just see what waste Here's no less
than six in this little ten foot patch and
any one on 'em would keep the crows from five
acre lot
! SINGULAR AND SAD AFrA1R.--A day or two after
! Judge Elmer sentenced Treadway, at Salem, ~ j.
to be hung for the murder Of his wife, little boz
aged about eight years. whose parents reside in the
neighborhood made enquiry of his parents respect
ing the manner in which condemned criminals are
executed The parents heedlessly explained tht
matter. and shortly afterwards left the lad alon,
with small child lying in the cradle asleep. Du
ring the absence of the mother, the boy procured
cord and carefully adj listed it around the neck o
the sleeping baby. and proceeded to experiment O,
the instructions he had received from his parents
| When the mother returned, she found. to her sur
prise, that her child was quite dead having beer
checked to death by the rope.
The Office Of executioner for the = free city, @
Hamburg, having become vacant on the lst Of No
vember the Senate advertised for successor. TIL
number of applicants was sir hundred and four
Demosthenes as Plutarch relates, once said tina
ii, at the commencement of his public career h
had known what lie afterwards learned of the mise
ries OF public life, and had been shown two roads
one OF them leading to early grave, and the othe
to political power, he would have chosen the forme,
IMPORTANT TO HEIRS An advertisement appeare
in our columns a short time ago. signed by Mr. F.
Gomez, spanish Consul at Key West. notifying the lie
gal heirs OF Governor White (under the Spanish Gov
ernment That they might learn something 10 their ad
vantage by applying 10 the said Consul II is gener
ally known we believe. that Governor White died i
st. Augustine: Fla IN the month of April 1911, an
although he intended the King of Spain as his he'll
according 10 MS testament, he afterwards, in codc
declared his relatives in Ireland his only legal heirs
AS IL Is likely that some of Governor Henry White
relations may be found among the Irish emgrants i
this country, our cotempeares throughout the Unto
would be dong service 10 destitute being VIII
may well need lew thousand dollars by giving pub
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