Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-07-30

kept harping on it. Mr. Fennell said he was fighting
for himself and wanted to be elected and if elected,
would try to make good Sheriff. was fair field
and free fight and he would be much obliged for the
sufrages of the people.
Mr.. Hall replied. It had been charged that he had
committed an error in not returning the vote of New
Hanover county to the Governor in 1856. He admit
ted that be had made that error but he had done nno
Gently and without any thought of wrong He thought
that the very fact of only one official error being charg
ed against him in the six years he had held the Office
the strongest testimony that could be brought in his
favor. IF Mr. Vann or Mr.. Fennel should be
elected and no more be found against them in
six years, then, indeed, might the people be
well satisfied He commended that he had endeav-
ored to do all his duty without pursuing too rigid
course with the people That he had never permitted
the credit of the county to suffer, whether there
county money in his hands or not He referred to the
advertisement of taxes in 1856. Said that Mr.. Vann
who charged him with errors, had committed many
and as grave ones himself and if charges could be
made against Mr.. Fenne it simply due to the fact
that he had never been in public Office AS for extra
he had not asked for any. The small allow
and was not an EXTRA but very small compensation
for vcry large amount of service otherwise gratutous
ly rendered
Mr. Vann replied. Mr. Fennell had said that he had
held offices all his life He would say this that no man
could say that he had not discharged the duties of the
Offices he had held jam up, he would endeavor to do
those of Sheriff. should they elect him. he trusted they
would He went over the charges of official error on
the part of Mr.. Hall, and defended himself
Mr.. Fennell replied. He thought it time to
break through any custom that might be growing up to
grant lile-lease in lucrative offices. He would not
want to hold the Sheriff's Office than four six
years. He alluded to the fact that his belonging to the
profession of the law had been brought as charge a.
gainst him. queer charge, he thought. He then re-
erred briefly to points in the speeches of his competitors
The discussion lasted two hours
The gentlemen expressed the highest mutual respect for
each and the discussion unmarked By any bitterness
although there a good deal of sharp
shooting. They are all clever men-one has
certainly made good officer. The Others no doubt
would endeavour to do the same 1t is for the people
to judge and to decide They are all Democrats.
Daily Journal 28th inst.
That SANDER.
The Irede Express having started or at least given
currency to the report that in speech made to the
" Dutch of Rowan county in 1885, Judge Ellis wished
for "lungs of iron and throat of steel that he might
proclaim the evils of internal improvement, and finding
the thing thrown back upon it, instead of coming out
openly and acknowledging its error, still affects to be-
lieve the story Is of opinion that Mr.. j. E. Moose
highly respectable merchant of Salisbury" if called
upon, would state that the speech correctly report
ed, etc.
Now, of this there assurance but the reverse
Mr.. Moses name has been made use of without his
knowledge Judge Ellis speech in which he is said to
have used the expressions alluded to- not delivered
in the Dutch but in the ScotchIrish portion of
the county, had reference to the of internal i'm
generally but to the outrageous mismanage
ment of the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad. And finally,
although Mr.. Moose very young at the time,
twelve years SINCE the report is not correct
applied to the Encouragement of the Raleigh and Gas
ton Railroad. Such is in fact the substance of what
Mr.. Moose says verbally and in writing. Judge Ellis
has correctly stamped the SANDER.
Murder In Savannah.
On Friday morning, the 23d inst, about O'Clock,
negro boy in the employ of Mr.. OByrne, of Savannah
Ca discovered the door of grocery the lumber yard
of Mr. P. K Shiel quite open. Suspecting something
wrong, he with another negro and white man. enter
ed, and found the apparently lfeless body of J. d.
Schwicke, the proprietor of the store Mr.. Schwcke
was terribly beaten his pockets rfed bureaus broken
and contents taken, etc. He died on Friday about
o'clock in the afternoon.
On Saturday an inquest was held, and the Jury came
to the conclusion that Schwicke to his death from
sundry blows inflicted his head by Willis slave be-
longing to Mr.. w. B. Giles. Willis was detected by
Offering for sale Saturday morning clock which had
been carried off from the grocery.
Mr. Jachens, to whom he offered the clock for sale
had him promptly arrested 1t seems that Willis and
his accompices after beating Schwicke until they
thought he dead, carried off the clock and all the
money they could find They secreted the clock about
Giles IL Rradley's mill until Saturday morning; whtn
Willis tried to sell it and was detected and arrested
negro named Alfred also arrested and committed to
Jail suspicion Of being implicated in the murder
Besides these, foryone negroes belonging to the same
gentleman arrested suspicion Of being
ries before and after the fact.
ses~ The Daily Progress is the name of new
daily paper to be started at Newbern, N. Co. by J. G..
Pennington, Esq. Editor and Proprietor. Terms, in
advance, Sc year, or S. for months.
Mr. Pennington is practical printer gentleman of
energy and experience in the newspaper ne and every
way qualified to carry successfully the enterprise which
he has started The Progress will be devoted to the
Commercial interests of the State at large and of New
bern in particular. We wish Mr.. Pennington the ut
most success. Our Newbern friends ought to sustain
him literally Once they get daily fairly established,
it will sustain ITSELF for they will not be without it.
We had intended to notice friend Pennington sooner
but somehow our attention was called off to something