Spirit of the age., 1861-04-17
NORTH CAROLINA ITEMS.

tB- We understand that the Sunday
Schools of this City have concluded to hold
their May day celebration on the Fair Grounds
near this city, this year, instead of taking
pleasure excursion onthe Cars, as for the two
years previous.
~ We learn that the case Of May George
of this County, for kidnapping, was CON-
promised at the late term Of Franklin Su.
perior Court. George received twenty lashes
and paid 800 ofthe cost, the State paying
the balance.
HORSE STEALNG.-We learn that man
named Baldwin, of Orange, was lodged in Jail
in this City few days since, charged with
having stolen horse from E. B. Lyon, ESQ.,,
of Granville
~" We learn that the storehouse of DR..
w. d. Hayes of this county, was consumed
by fire on Saturday night with stock of
goods, valuable papers, &c. Loss some $10,-
600. A negro man has confessed that the
set fire to the store, and has implicated
Several white men and negroes in the crime.
Two ofthe negroes are in Jail in this place.
The store was first robbed and then burnt.
The loss is heavy one on an enterprising
man.
~ James I. Littlejohn, Esq, of Oxford,
is announced as "a candidate for Congress from
this District He is, we believe, Union
man.
CHATnAM-RAnRoAD.-At a meeting Of the
Commissioners appointed in the Chatham
Railroad Company held in Raleigh on the
3rd Of April, 1861, it was .
Resolved. That George w Mordecai Dr. Thomas
D. Hogg, Daniel c. Fowle, Kemp P. Battle $. Burns,
+ Page James E. Allen, Williamson Page, A. j.
Morris, A.Leslie Thomas J. Utley, Geo.W. Norwood,
| W H. Harrison, DR. w j. Hawkins, r. S. Tucker, S.
Ii, Rogers, d. NJ. Yeates, 4. NJ Brown Milton John
son X Patton n Seegg " u Sloan n Wnggc yegg
III. H. Burke, Brooks Harris, r. G. Frazier, j. H. Las
sitter, Nathan Clark DR.. r. J; Fooshee rhos Wom-
Committee to open books and solicit subscriptions,
for the purpose of surveying the nearest and most
practicable routes from Raleigh some point west OF
Raleigh not exceeding twelve miles, for building and
constructing a Railroad with one or more tracks TO
the Coal Fields in the county OF chatham aha pay
mentS made for that purpose shall be in part pay
mcnt Of any stock hereafter taken IN inc Chathanl
Railroad Company. -
Resolved That when the sum of 5000 shall be sub,
scribed by solvent individuals the Commissioners OF
said Company shall proceed to elect an engineer to
make the survey and plas of the different routes un
Resolved That one fourth of the sums subscribed
shall be payable on the 1st June, fourth on Isl
july one fourth on 1st August, and one fourth Isl
September. 1861, to DR.. Thomas D. Hogg, President
of the Board of Commissioners.
The Committee above named are to report
on or before the 3rd Monday of May, 1861
to DIR. Thomas d. Hogg at Raleigh, where
upon it shall be his duty, as soon thereafter as
may be, to call meeting of the Commits
sioners
psg- We find the following very brief par
agraph in the Baltimore Sun of the 9th:
"Dr. Norwood of Henderson county, KY, va
murdered few days ago by fugitive slave"
DIR. Walter Avis Norwood, brother .
John W. Norwood, Esq, of Hillsboro', n
c., removed from that place some years ag
{ to Henderson, KY, and we fear that he ma
= be the person ruae's--.s----E1--"r-s----.- hi
! physician and would be, If alive, we thin1
# about SO years of age.
Z AcourTTEp.-J. w. Laguire, LATELY eps ~
r :. aaar on the Wilmington and Weluom
t. which occurred ror rr6a 6brgio fRE the nn mutup Ra
at on the 9Th of October last at EverittSvI
e, about seven miles below Goldsboro', was tr;,
IN last week in Wayne Superior Court ~
Jury rendered a verdict of acquittal witho,
-e leaving the box.
~ Loss OF LIFE BY FTRE-The house Of n
n John Kinyoun at East Bend, Yadkin coust,
: was burned on the night ofthe 9th ult. Fl
y negroes belonging to DR.. Kinyoun and OF
!, belonging to Mrs. Stephenson of Forsy
20 county, perished in the flames Two of i
70 negroes were women, and two small childre
!, The fire originated in the back kitchen, ar
: bad made such progress when discovered tn
:, it was impossible to arrest it. Two neg
- children escaped with life, by being throw
n from window by the negro man belongir
+ to Mrs Stephenson, who was himself afte
9 wards suffocated in the flames. There W
y no insurance upon any of the property.