Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-01
CITY AND A NEWS.

WAKE COUNTY CoURT.-The case of the
State against Elias and Talbot Lyon and a.
young man named Fort, for committing an
assault on G. Won Brison, sometime last
at Wake Forest, was tried at our
County Court last week. The Ligons were
lined SO each and imprisoned for twenty
days, and Fort was fined 5000.
Commemorative learn that we were mis-
informed in regard to the name of the gen.
tleman who accidentally shot Mr.. Thomas
Thompson in this county some two or three
weeks ago while turkey hunting. Tt was Mr..
Ruffin CaStleburry instead Of Mr.. Verbin
Castlebery, a brother of the latter gentle
man, who fired the fatal shot. We learn
that Mr.. Thompson was about 25 years of
age, and leaves a young wife and one child.
INsANE.-Mr. Plunkett, the Sheriff of Ca
barrus county, was brought to this city on
Friday last and placed in the Insane Asylum.
The duties of his office, it is said, were pro-
badly the chief cause of his arrangement.
ARREsTED.-A boy named John Claunch
was arrested in Wilkes county on the 18th
ult., on his own confession of having stab
bed his brother in Davie County. He was
making his escape when arrested.
KILLED.-While a man named VIM. Wal
lace was engaged in covering a cabin in
Wilkes county on the 10Th ult., a weight
poll fell on his head, knocking him to the
ground and killing him instantly.
Recommendations G. Lumsden. ESQ
for many years agent Of Adams Express Co
at Wilmington, N. c., has been appointed
general agent for the great Southern mail
route, e:eween Baltimore and Wilmington,
n. G.
SAD ACCIDENT.-On Tuesday, the 26th
ult., Mr.. Pleasant Haithcock. of Chatham
county, was with a friend at his own resi-
dence, preparing to 60 out on a wild-turkev
hunt. While his wife and a daughter four
or five years old continued at the dinner ia
bic, Haithcock arose and occupied a chair
with a rife across his lap and while he
was looking into the lock, the rifle was ac-
cidentllay discharged, the.bullet slightly woun-
ding his wife on the collar bone, and passing
through the brain of the child, producing in
slant death.
N. @. CONFERENCE This ecclesiastical
body will convene in Newbern on the 9Th Of
December inst. A very large attendance is
expected.
Return tickets will be issued at all the sta
tons on the several Railroads, to ministers
and others attending the Conference.
COUNTERFEIT Hall DoLLARs.-Our readers
are cautioned to be on their guard as coun-
terfeit half dollars are being put in ~circula-
ton. We saw three that had been passed on
persons in Cabarrus county, by a person said
to be from Yadkin county.
VOLUNTEER CoMPANIEs.-Offcers and mem
bers of the Volunteer Companies of our State
will remember that a movement of some i'm
p~crtance to their immediate interests is at
present in contemplation, and will soon be
put into execution. We refer to an adjourn
ed meeting CT the Officers of all the Uniform
ed Volunteer Companies of our State. to be
held in Raleigh on the first Monday in De-
cember, to consult and advise on the best
means and most proper form of petition1ng
the present Legislature to grant such privil.
eyes and immunitles to persons belonging to
Uniform Volunteer Companies as shall in
duce our citizens, and especially our young
men, to give more of their time and attention
to military affairs than they are at present
willing to do.
A meeting of this sort was called at our
State Fair, but owing to proper notice not
having been given, the attendance, although
good, was not so large as those present were
desirious should be represented we hope,
therefore, that all our officers will make an
effort to attend this convention, as the move
ment is fraught with interest to all. and will
no Doubt e productive of good to the State
at large.
Officers are desired to bring their uniforms.