Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-15

Gen. Candy, certifying to the ratification
OF the Constitution by the people.
MIR. Cowles briefly stated the object of
the visit, and presented the document to
the President. who then invited the gen
tlemen to be seated, and entered into ia
m1llar conversation with them The re-
ception was, On the whole, cordial and
pleasant While speaking of the resources,
proposed railroad, &C., of Western North
Carolina, of which Mr.. Cowles is resi-
dent, and of Eastern Tennessee, the Presi-
dents own homo, embracing the mountain
district extending into both States, MIR.
Johnson manifested lively interest, and
showed warm attachment to that section,
owing IN part, perhaps, to his expectation
OF soon becoming again resident thereof.
MEDICAL COLLEGE CT VIRGINIA.
many readers in North Carolina will be
particularly gratifed to learn that Or. Otis
L. Manson, SO very popular in that State,
has been appointed by the Board of Visi-
tors of the Medical College of Virginia,
Professor of General Pathology and Patho-
logical Anatomy. DR.. Manson is a native
OF Richmond and graduate of this col
lege. He removed to North Carolina in
1871, settled and married in Granville
county, and soon achieved eminence in the
practice of his profession. During the war
he was appointed by Gov Vance Medical
Agent of the State for the relief of the sick
and wounded North Carolina troops in Vir-
glnia. The appointment is capital one,
and will give wide spread satisfaction.
Cor. of Petersburg Ecpress.
APPoINTMENT.-The Hon. W. W. Holden,
Governor elect of North Carolina, has
rendered the position of Private Secretary
on his staff to Robt. Douglas, the eldest son
OF the late Senator Stephen A. Douglas, of
Illinois.
HOMICIDE AT WASHINGTON, N. ca
party of colored men were out serenading
on Saturday night and, having considera-
BILE whiskey aboard, got into a quarrel
among themselves during the fracus one
Isaac Shaw stabbed James Fisher in the
tieshy part of the thigh, cutting the main
artery. Fisher attempted to walk to the
doctors, but had only got few steps when
ne fell, exhausted from loss of blood
Shaw, with the assistance of some of the
others, picked him up and carried him to
the office of DR.. Mcdonald. Shaw himself
waking the doctor up, who procured col
and, laying the wounded man upon it in
his back Office, dressed the wound. It bled
profusely, and Fisher died in the morning
! Shaw made his escape to the swamp to-
ward Plymouth. Deputy Sheriff Mason
and posse of colored men are out after
him. The chances are doubtful of his be.
ing captured.-Newbern Republican.
! CRABTREE AND HAL1sv111E.-At Crab.
tree, in Yancey county, sixty-three votes
were cast, in the late election, and not q
Radical vote among them. Our friend
of the Asheville News asks els there an.
other precinct in the State that can make
as aUhite a showing as Crabtree ?" Yes,
there's Hallsville, in Duplin, where, in g
vote of not quite one hundred and fifty,
there was not a scallawag. Hurrah fol-
Crabtree and Hallsville
RADICAL OFFICIALS. Radical Sheriff
elect of Buncombe is a fair specimen of the
competency of most of the newly-elected
Radical officials in this State. The follow.
ing is copy, oerbatina ct literatina, of q
''Notis' of sale written and posted up b.
that individual
"NoTIs. BY virtue of an execution Issue
and directed to me by the Clark, of the
Contey Corte of Buncomb Comfy aGanes
the estate of -- offer at publick
sale at Her one Hose one the 6 day Of Feb
1868 to the highest bidder the following
property of the said -- - to wit
one Mare Jain the % 1868
By ] Sumner D S"
We will venture a considerable amount
that the Radical sheriff of Edgecombe can.
not write correct .sNotis jour-