Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-04-25

| agA The Democratic Convention, for
Metropolitan District, was held at Franks
ton on the 18th, to nominate a candidate f i.
| Congress. The names of Cad. Jones, ir., {
Orange A. W. Venable, of Granville;
Fl. Arlington, Of Nash; DR.. Pritchard :
Warren ; and Geo. W. Thompson, of Wax
were in nomination and IN the 4th balloS.
the latter gentleman received two-thirds
the votes cast, and was thereafter declare
the nominee by reclamation.
A Convention of the Wings of the Sixt
Congressional District, was held at Winston
on the 18th inst. The Hon. r. G. PURYEA
was nominated for re election by reclamation
A democratic Convention, for a simila
purpose, was held in the same place, on til
same day. Geo. D. BOYD, ESQ, is the nom
inee the Salem Gazette says he de
clines the honor.
ia The Wabash Gnd.) Gazette, extra
contains an account of the discovery of tn
bodies of a family ofseven persons, near tina
place, of the name of French, who had beeI
brutality murdered. 1t appears the famil,
consisted of French, his wife, and five child
rem. They were very poor, and lived in
cabin, and in September last, another famil
of the name of Hubbard, went to live witt
them. During October, a neighbor proceed
ed to the cabin to see French, and was toll
by the Hubbards, that the family had move6
away, and that they had purchased all thei
corn, garden produce and furniture, valued
in the aggregate at not over $50. No suspi
cion of foul play was aroused, until recently,
when the Hubbards were arrested on suspi-
cion of numbering aman named Boyles. The
house was then Searched, and a portion OF
the ground floor dug up, which resulted in
the finding of the dead body of an infant,
very much decayed. The Gazette then, after
referring to the summoning of a coroner's
a inquest, says:
In the presence ola large company they
proceeded to examine the place where the
e infant had been discovered and, horrible to
/, relate, found seven bodies, consisting of the
entire French family. Their skulls were all
broken in, and the legs of the old man French
and his wife were broken, so they could be
doubled up and forced into the hole, which
$ was three or four feet deep. They were laid
in a heap-the father and the mother at the
v bottom, and the children at the top. The
babe was about fifteen months old and the
oldest child about fifteen years old. There
+ were three girls and two BOYS. The children
were much decayed, but the parents were
# still sound, and we're easily recognized by
j those who had known them.
There is not the least doubt that the Hub
bards are guilty Of this wholesale and damn
ing murder. 1t is almost too horrible fol-
le belief, bat facts are as above stated, and the
D. conclusion is irresistible. There seems tC
u have been no other motive than the obtain
W ing what few worldly goods this poor family
r possessed, which were not worth over fifty
al dollars
SUICIDE.-On Thursday of last week, Mrs
Nancy Smith, wife Of Mr.. Hosea Smith, o
re this county, committed suicide by hanging
10 herself. It seems that she dressed herself 70
at the purpose and having adjusted a silk hand
kerchief about her neck, she elevated herseI
on a chair and attached one end of the hand
20 kerchef to a hank of yarn which she had pre-
viously placed over one of the r~afters of th
Ic house, and by throwing herself from the char
ii, accomplished her end. Mrs. S. was about 5
years of age, and was a stout hearty woman
20 It is supposed that domestic troubles led he
to perpetrate the act.
nr A jury of inquest having examined into tn
he facts, returned as their verdict, that she cam
er to her death by her own hands.
ns HzlSboro' Recorder.
We na The Goldsboro' Telegraph says Il
es hope of doing something TO stay the tide {
as intemperance>a conference Of gentlemen wa
ms held in the Old Academy, and it was resolve
to resuscitate North State Division, No. II
as Sons of Temperance. The proper authority
nd books, &C., were procured, and on last Tues
IS. day night the Rev. DR.. Deems, the P. G. "
ne P. of the Order in North Carolina, after az
'as ministering the obligation to several ne
we members, installed the following officers ft
hs, the present term, viz: Rev. J. H. Brent, "
nd P; c.. J. Nelson, W. A.; w. S. Barclif, /
cd s.; N. D. Fennell, A. R. S.; W. A. William
ing F. s.; Ed. Pitman, T.; S. D. Phillips, c
the Robt. Kinton, A. c.; Matthew Albritton,
ter S.; E. W. Decord, O. S.
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