Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-08-01
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At Kittres Springs, of dropsy, the 18th ult Mr.. D.
H. Whitley, of Johnston county aged 4s years. 10 months
and y days He leaves wife and several children and
many friends to mourn their loss.
At his late residence in the of Weldon Friday
evening the 9th instant, DR.. w. L. Long aged thirty
seven years, three months and twenty-three days.
saw that he was gentleman of warm and generous i'm
pulses high toned principles and scrupulous integrity
What be regarded right he would give the full weight
of his influence and what he believed TO be wrong he
scorned aud denounced True to all the instincts and at
tributes of gentleman he noted for his nice and dis
eliminating of honor, and his devotion to its laws
Two wears ago. much against his inclination, he was
brought out by his party candidate for the House OF
Commons and elected by the largest vote that has
hatterng testimonial of the esteem in which he was held
by his fellow citizens of the County shows at the
character of the and the attachment of his friends
He was renomnaed by accamaton this year. but declined
This sad intelligence will occasion deep regret among
the members of the last House of Commons with whom
Dr. Long served and between many OF whom and himset
attachment sprung up and has never abated but
will be received too with painful feelings by large circle
of his friends scattered from Texas perhaps Maine or
he graduated at PROJECTION and Philadelphia and each
place made many Northern friends but no where will it
fall heavily as it did upon this community in midst OF
which be has resided since he commenced the Gac-
tice of medicine Every heart SORROWS and every eye
yields affections iribute-a tear.
He leaves a widow, daughter of the late Hon. Hutehns
G. Burcn and five children and into the sacred circle of
domestic grief friendship pours swelling tide OF deepest
sympathy. ReQuieScGt an pace. s.
Departed this life near Marianne, Fla. Friday after
noon, The 9Th lnst- capt benjamin ynns,
year of age During his Sickness which lasted for sew
eral months he suffered much yet with the patience and
humble submission of the true Christian.
The deceased born the 18th day of March, 1870,
in the Island of Bermuda short time after bis birth,
his parents returned to North Carolina their native State
At an early age he became the Captain and owner of
vessel which sailed for many years between the ports OF
the Bahama Islands and North Carolina About twenty
years he removed to this Jackson county where he
soon became useful and prominent citizen. In the year
ls4 while absent from the State the people Of this coun-
ty elected him, BY large majority to represent them IN
the lower branch of the Legislative Assembly the duties
of which he discharged in manner highly gratifying to
his constituents
Honorable and upright in all his dealings truth and jus
tice marked bis intercourse with his and won
him many friends. He upright citizen, an ahsble
gentleman and truly devoted husband and parent His
feelings gentle and kind but always manly and can
did His ambition to do right and his only fear was
to do wrong He had met the trials and fulfilled the du
ties of three years and with ortitude and faith
funess and his tomb will be garlauded b the recollection
of characer-in its moral adornments pure and eevat-
ed-of simple modest and retiring and OF an In
terror nature, tender and affectionate as woman
widow and three children left to mourn the ire
parable loss of aectonae husband and doatng father
They should without hope but be consoled By
the reflections that he has gone to better land.