Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-01

were wholly submerged. This freshet will
we fear, do much damage to the low land
in process OF cultivation. Nears
THE RAINY SEAsoN.-The continuance O
the rainy season has been exceeding iniu
rious to early preparation and planting fo
the ensuing crop. Much of the seed alread,
planted must have rotted, yet we hope th
season will be sufficiently dry and forward
hereafter to enable the planters to memo
up. The scarcity and high price of pro
visions, it strikes us, ought to induce ever,
planter to have close eye to this matter
While all should make some cotton, VIII,
can do SO, yet the great object of ever,
farmer should be to make an ample supply
of provisions.-Ral Sentinel.
SAD CASUALTY. Last Saturday little
son, aged Is years, of Mr.. n. A. Stedmar
and one of J. A. Worth, of the same age
got into q leaky boat at " Robeson's" " mil
pond, and in bailing it out capsized it
when they were both precipitated into
water 12 to Is feet deep.
Our much valued, and now much lament
ed, little namesake, Henry Myrover, sunk
to rise no more, and Mr.. Worth's son
Steven was rescued by the noble efforts OF
Eddy Lutterloh. This is the second in
stance of Eddys saving the life Of com
panion. He is truly a little hero.
Henry's remains were buried yesterday
afternoon and followed to the grave by q
large concourse of sorrowing friends. His
parents have the sincere sympathy of the
community in their great atfiiction. The
writer of this knew this little boy we'll and
can say that he has never known one purer,
more artless and guileless than he was
No one could look in the child's face and
not be struck with the strong indications
of his excellent nature. In cases like this
parents may weep over the sad parting
with the assurance that there is no cause
for pang. Fayetteville NeoUs.
DEAD.-Died, on the night of the 9th
inst, at the residence of his father, Rev.
S. B. O. Wilson, Upton county, Tenn,
Rev. J. Davies Wilson, aged thirty-two
years This dear brother was q native of
South Carolina was raised mostly in North
Carolina graduated at Davidson College !;
studied theology at the Union Seminary !;
was licensed and ordained by Concord
Presbytery preached about ten years in
Wilkes, Ashe, Alexander, Catawba and Ire
dell counties. Being laid aside from his
work by wasting consumption, he and
family left Carolina for his fathers, in
Tennessee.
PASSING AwAY.-The number of slaves in
Rutherford county before the war was a
little over four thousand. They were as
obedient, Industrious and happy set of
people as any in the State. OF the four thou
sand, there are not fifteen hundred colored
men, women and children in the county.
Only about four hundred and sixty blacks
were registered, and as everybody knows,
all the negroes were registered who could
be found. Idleness, poverty and exposure
have been sweeping them away, until it
has become a settled conviction with most
negroes that when afflicted by disease,
death is sure to follow.
Rutherfordton Vindicator.
UNPRECEDENTED.-We have been in
formed by gentlemen of unquestioned ve-
racity, that Mr.. NJ. Henderson, living on
the Beatties Ford Road, three miles from
Charlotte, on Wednesday, 14th inst, cap
tured Ill a hollow gum ten rabbits, ,fue
foxes and one whip o'will. Who can beat
that ?-Charlotte Bulletin.
DEATH OF BISHOP HAWKs.-The Right
Rev. Cicero S. Hawks, ID. D., died in st.
Louis last Sunday, at the age of Sc years.
For more than twenty years he filed the
office of Bishop of the Episcopal Church
for the diocese Of Missouri. He was a
native of North Caroliua, and a brother of
the late DIR. Hawks, formerly pastor of
Christ Church in Baltimore.