Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-07-28
SPIRIT III AGE-.D Devoted to Temperance,

DEATH FROM LIGHTNING.-The Bridgeport
Farmer gives additional particulars respect
ing the death Of Miss Godfrey, at Redding
Ct, on the 18th inst.
Miss Nancy Godfrey was sitting in her
chamber, by an open window, reading. 1t
is supposed that the fluid was attracted by
the metal about her person. Her artificial
teeth were found at some distance from her,
and the hoops in her dress were partially
melted.
The current pierced the bottom of her foot
and gaiter, and thence passed to a post against
which Mr.. William Curtis was leaning. in
the room below, shocking him so severely as
to render him insensible. By the timely APP
plication Of cold water he was resuscitated.
In Middletown, Conn, Horace Cole died
very suddenly on Thursday, aged 60 years.
He was sitting in his chair reading a letter
from his sister. IL. which was an account of
the sudden death of three persons by light
ming, when he made the remark, 'in the
midst of life we are in DEATH" which was
no sooner finished than his foot dropped to
the floor, his head fell back, and he was a
corpse.
INFORMATION WANTED.-Some time in Sep
tember last, a man by the name of John B.
Wilson, aged so, six feet high, who married.
and for some time resided in the neighbour.
hood Of Loves Mills, in the upper end of
Washington county, left home to attend to
some business in North Carolina, since which
he has not been heard from He is supposed
to have been a native of Fayetteville or neigh
borhood, and often spoke of a sister who had
married a man by the name of John Nelson
in Wake, or one Of the adjoining counties.
Any information will be thankfully receiv-
ed by Captain Leonidas Love, P. NJ, Loves
Mills, Washington county, Va.
BLOODY AFFRAY IN FLoRlDA-Thrce men
Killed IN % fracas.-The Savannah Republi-
can publishes a letter from Wacahoote, Flnr-
ida, dated July II, from which we gather the
following information
There has, it seems, been some difficulty
brewing between Lafayette Gay ana VIM.
Standby for some time, and they appointed to
meet at Wacahoote, on the preceding Friday,
to settle it. Accordingly they met, attended
by ten or fifteen friends on either side, prob
ably most Of them armed for deadly STRIFE
Gay brought a double barrel shot gun. After
having some few words, blows enSued pis-
tolls were drawn Gay caught up his gun,
fired in quick succession at Mr.. James Glib
bons and at VIM. Gibbons, both friends of
Standby, and both fell dead. He then club
bed his gun, and struck such n violent blow
at Standby he severed the brich, locks, and
barrels upon him. Standby is vet alive but
there is little expectation Of his surviving
Three were left as dead on the ground within
a few feet Of each other, and one of Gays
brothers, hobbling off, shot through the leg.
In the general melee of dirks, knives, pistols
and sticks, it is a wonder others were not
) killed.
=. ~ Gen. W. +. Jones, wing, has with
drawn from the contest for Congress in the
4 Mountain District. The contest is now be-
4 tween W. w. Avery, Esq, dem, and z. B..
. Vance, Esq, wing.
NORMAL CoLLEGE.-The Trustees desire to
I enlarge the facilities for education, so as fully
I to meet the increasing demand Of the patron
! age which is offered. With this view it has
: become necessary to put up additional build
I ings. TO do this will require money. The
Conference, at its last session, recommended
: that fifty thousand dollars be collected. And
. the Trustees have appointed Rev. John n.
u Andrews their Agent to collect the amount.
". e. AdcOcate.
: e1g" We learn from the Norfolk Herald,
[ that two Bank Of Wilmington, n. G. notes OF
n genuine plates but counterfeit signatures have
$ recently been detected in that city. These
r notes are undoubtedly a part of the package
of blank notes that were scattered by an &C
!, cidenton the Seaboard Railroad, some months
ago, in which some of the freight cars were
is broken to pieces, ore of them, the express car
ID in which was a bundle of flank notes, in sheets
,e of the Bank of Wilmington, n. c., en- route
to their destination in this town. This bun
* die was supposed to have been among the ar
es ticles destroyed by the accident, but to pre-
20 clude the possibility Of any of the notes be
ing found and feloniously appropriated, eff
20 Gent steps were taken by the bank here. TIL
Herald says that no one can be deceived VIII
aS will examine the signatures, which are clum
silly executed but the plates being perfec
ed and genuine may deceive many who are no
w so careful.
,G, RIVER JoRDAN.-A correspondent of tn
vi Utica Herald, gives this description of 'Jol
Oh dams stormy banks"
no A line of green, low forest betrayed tn
course Of the sacred river through the plail
ny So deep is its channel, and so thick is tn
Is forest that skirts it's banks, that | rode will
IS, in twenty yards of it before | caught the fr'
ny CLEAN of its waters. | was agreeably disal
as pointed. I had heard the Jordan describe
III as an insipid, muddy, treacherous stream.
III Whether it was the contrast with the desol
ton around, or my own fancy that made Il
PIE Jordan and its green banks so beautiful,
j d know not but it did seem, in that momel
of its first revelation to my longing eyes, tt
lie perfection of calm and holy loneliness. 1t
The hardly as wide as the Mohawk, at Utica, b.
en- far more rapid and impassioned in its hoV
'ed Indeed, of all rivers | have ever seen, the Jo
ton dan has the herceSt current. Its water is /
lis no means clear, but it as little deserves tt
in name muddy" At the place where fir
vas saw it, tradition assigns the baptism Of o
not Saviour, and also the miraculous crossing
ur- the children of Israel on their entrance in
la the promised land. Like a true pilgrim,
'ho bathed in its waters, and picked a few pc
bles from its banks, as tokens of remel
brance of the most famous river in the worl
by Three miles below the spot where | nc
md stand, the noble river-itselfth the very emble
Of ife-suddenly throws itself on the putt
in bosom Of the Dead Sea.
ted