Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-05
STATE NEWS.

II LUCK-Our respected townsman, W
II. Pierce, Esq, was fortunate enough 2;
wears ago TO rescue from drowning, al
Bridgeport, Conn, q HOllander named
Yondz YOnchsien. For more than % years
nethe: rescuer or rescued has heard ot
each other. Last night Mr.. Pierce learned
that he whom he had saved was dead ant
had bequeathed to him a large estate o1
real and personal property in Brazil
Verify is truth stranger than fiction
NeWbern Jour- Of Conn.,
MoRTAIITT.-The Superintendent of oul
City Cemetery, reported to the Board OF
Commissioners, on Monday night last, that
tn, re had been 53 interments since the 1st
of JANUARY last, of whom 13 we're white
persons and 40 cOlOred. This accOrds with
the accounts generally receive from
other parts of the State. The mortality
among tn blacks is as three 10 one to the
whites.-Ral. Sentinel
AIUT1NY AT THE WORK HoUsE.-We have
Just learned that the convicts at our Coun-
ty Work House became intractable and
mutuous on yesterday, and escaped in de-
fiance of the guard. The guard was in pur-
suit at last accounts and the Sheriff was
raising a posse TO arrest the prisoners.
The following are the names of the pris-
oners that escaped: Willis Hartsfeld, John
Burnett, L Morgan, Payton Montgomery,
VIM. Black, Duncan, Matthews, Marcelus
Lane, Nathan High, Lucius Woods.
Raleigh Sentinel.
RE~PTTED. II Gov. Worth. we learn, upon
presentation of the fact that new evi-
dence has been elected changing the com
plexiUn of the case, has respited Jacob
Lovrjoy. cOlOred man, in kinstOn Jail
condemned to be hung in few days, un
til after the next Superior Court for thai
County.-Ral. Sentinel.
NEGRO Man DRowNED.-On Saturday
last as the fishermen were engaged in their
duties in the river below this place, a lie
gro man named Daniel Hardy, from Nor
Hampton, while standing in boat, was,
from some cause, suddenly thrown back
wards into the stream, sinking at once,
and before the boat conld be stopped anG
aid given him, though the utmost exer
tions were made by those who witnessed
IT, he had sunk to rise no more. His body
has not yet been recovered.
Weldon Ne,ps.
THE CRoPs A correspondent of the
Raleigh Sentinel writing from Stokes coun-
ty, says
cool. Everything is backward. The fre
qaent freshets have delayed many of our
farmers in planting corn, SO that we are not
yet done. 4 few of Us have planted out
some tobacco, but the complaint of many
is the scarcity of PLANTS. Wheat has been
looking unusually well, but on bottom
lands it begins to show the effects of too
much water. Rust is on the blackberry
vines in some places, which Is considered
fore-runner of the effect the season will
have on the wheat crop.
Having passed through portion of Per
son, Halifax, Va, Caswell, and Rocking
ham counties, within the last four days,
would remark that the clover and wheat
crops were looking unusually we'll. There
was great complaint in the two first named
counties about the flies destroying the to-
bacco plants and general scarcity-none
planted out. But in Caswell the planters
were generally brsy last Monday in setting
out their tobacco plants, which were gen
orally very small.
TIE UNIvERsTTY-The commencement
which comes off next week at the Uniyer-
sity Will most probably terminate, at least
for a time, the intense interest which has
been felt for that venerable institute by so
many. VIII not the Alumni of the Instl-
tuition at least, attend in large numbers
and give it decent burial ? It will be a
melancholy duty, but it should be per-
formed. Rivers of tears might be shed
over its fate, if it would do any good, but
tits toe late, if the new regime is to be tried.
Rev Mr.. Moran, of the Methodist Church,
Will no doubt preach tine sermon on the
occasion, and Gov. Seymour Will make ar
able address. The vaiedictory will nt
doubt be touching and affecting. Let tbs
clans gather to It's funeral.
Raleigh Sentinel.
SUPPOSED MURDER-MYsTERI0U DI,AP'
PEARANCE-We learn from the Weldon
News that on Saturday night last, Wade
Ditcher, an upright negro, born and raised
IN that place, disappeared under very sus
plclOuS circumstances, and has not been
heard of since. At late hour on Satu1
day night, Ditcher was gambling with JAS
Thomas and Gus Baker, in the room of tbs
latter. Thomas and Baker was winning
D1tcher's money. Ditcher was seen after
wards under the depot shed with a candle
On Tuesday traces of blood were discov-
cred In the street near the depot, and from
that point drops OF blood could be seen fol
q distance Of some two hundred wards IL
the direction of the river. Marks of blooo
We're also traced from point near the
room OF Baker to the boat wharf st tn,
river LIZ an Out-of-the-way closet in the
same building IN which is Bakers room
was found marks Of blood with portion o
pack of cards with blood upon them
These are all the facts thus far developed
RELEASED FROM Fort MAooN.-As W,
were returning from NeWbern yesterday W.
met Will MIR. J. A. Devane, formerly .
wilmington, aud who has been confuec
n Fort Macon for some three months, b.
naVlnS neen sentenced to serve O term O
tnree years by military mob, so-called
commission. Through the influence O
tne PRESIDENT OF the Pacific Railroad Com