Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-06-04

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- retailer of spirituous liquors, and pays tue
tsTGf 10 per cent. on the amount of his pur
chases Purchases So 900, tax $50. He also
deals IN groceries and provisions, and estImateS
The amount OF his purchases at only 81 ,5OO.-
Now Is he to pay the $40 imposed Oh all mef
chants or other dealers, by late revenue scI
under schedule b, section 10. or ls ne only 10 pay
the One-Efth OF one per cent. on Inc aihou!L o
his purcha ses when that amount ls less than
5000" 49,,
On his liquors he must pay the two per cent.
l;ou0r tax on his other merchandise he must
nav one-fitth or one Per cent. on estimated pur-
cbsses II this une-ff,h of one per cent. ia lest
than So he must nav SO anyhow. Liquors are
Lot counted az part df niGrchanf1se because they
ais taxed higher.
u. A. JENKINS,
Public Treasurer.
State OF NORTH CAROLINA,
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,
Raleigh May %, 1869.
4. Il. DESNIsoN, Sheriff,
New Berne, n. G.
DEAR SIR: IouTs Of the 18th Just received.
think merchants cannot be made to pay Oh
purchases from April lst, 1868, to April LIST, 1868.
/ gave different opinion once but corrected 1t in
i few days. You will notice that there is no law
requiring merchants to list to She1rtS purchases
from April Ist, 1868, to April LIST, 1869.
Tbs act of 1867 required them to give IN to list
takers, not 70 Sheriff. We must take it that the
new mode suptrcedes the old. 10 the case OF
liquor dealers aid others mentioned III schedule
T., you must collect on pufcnaSeS, &C, LIoLI aPLI
fst 1868 to april 1st, 1869, because no new mode
is substituted. section 2, schedule a, revenue
act OF 1867, 10 repealed by section 6, page Is Of
the present act as the subject is revised" In
This latter act If liquor costs 81 so Per gall n,
purchasers must pay on this cost
Very respectfully.
D. A. JENKINS,
Public Treasurer.
TRAGEDY IN JONES CoUNTY-DEATH OF
SHERIFF. CoLGRovE AND SEVERE WOUND
ING OF NEGRO MAN.-The city was
thrown into Il state Of excitement, yester
day afternoon, by the arrival of q messen-
ger from Jones county, with the intelli-
gence that Sheriff Colgrove had been killed
and negro man severely wounded, by
party or parties unknown. The particu-
lars, as far as they have transpired, are as
follows
Yesterday morning. about seven o'clock,
ColgroYe, accompanied by negro man,
left his residence for Trenton, three miles
distant When about half way to the vii
lage vOlIey is supposed to have been fired
into the wagon in which the two were ri
ding, killing the Sheriff instantly, and
dangerously wounding the negro. Shortly
after the tragic occurrence Colgrove was
found in the middle of the road, with a
bullet through his breast. The negro had
his arm broken by a ball and a gunshot
wound in his breast. He is in a preca-
rious condition.
We were afterwards shown a dispatch
from deputy Sheriff Shipp, announcing
the death of Sheriff without
giving any Of the particulars, and stating
that the r e. trooly loil y militia had been
turned out and were IN full pursuit Of his
slayers. Who they were was not stated.
Many conjectures were afoat in this city,
4lO,
mitted the deed but there was only one
opinion regarding the person killed, and
that was that bad man had gone to rem
der his account to his Maker. Sheriff Col
grove has committed many high-handed
acts and outrages since he began the ad
ministration of his Office, grinding the peo-
pie of Jones in the dnst by the aid of his
base minions. Time and again has he
been warned that such course, long per
sisted in, would lead to his destruction
but unheeding the remonatrances of even
his political friends he pressed onward IN
the obnoxious course he had market out,
and we now behold the result. That the
deed was q dastardly one We are frank to
admit ; bnt that it was unprovoked we en-
phatically deny. Even his political friends
his personal ones are hard to find-admit
this. and speak Of him as tyrannical and
Commerce.
VIZ ARR PANIED to learn that on Thurs
day last DR.. Jno. A. Walker, Of Orange
County, Oh returning home from visit to
his plantation and mill, was thrown from
his buggy and Instantly killed. His wife,
who accompanied him, was also thrown cut
and very seriously injured. This sad acct
dent was caused by the horse, attached to
the buggy, taking fright at some object III
the road and running away.
DR. Walker was an excellent physician, a
lind neighbOr and useful citizen, and his
nd and sudden death has cast q gloom
over the community in which he resided.
Raj. Standard.
The Editor Of the Sentinel has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address befor re
the Franklin County Agricultural Society,
~ Saturday the 9th Of June.
STORM. Raleigh and vicinity was visi-
ted on yesterday by severe storm of wind
and rain. 1Iany limbs were wrung from
trees, aud VIC fear considerable damage
was done TO the wheat crop. The rain was
very refreshing to vegetation, and mode
rated the temperature of the atmosphere.
Raj. Standard, Isl tnst
i friend informed us the other day that
the present Governor Of Tennessee, Hon.
John G. Senter, is a native of CASTOR
county, i. c., and removed from that
county to Tennessee when youth. He is
now the Conservative Republican candi
date for Governor in opposition to Stokes,
Radical Republican.
Charlotte Democrat
"LoYAL' MrLTTA.-About twenty five
Of the Jones county "loyal" militia, all
negroes and nnder the command of ne
gro, marched ont of the city, yesterday
morning, on their return to Jones county.
They had come here on Sunday for the
purpose of bringing prisoners accused of
the assassination of Colgrove. The "mili
TIA was armed in all the paraphanalia of
modern warfare, and looked every inch
the vlllairs they are.
Newbern Jo,r. Of Com.
FURTHER FROM JONES CoUNrYr-The
Ne"bern Times says that besides the house
OF MIR. Haswell, those of Calvin Koonce
and Shade Loftin were burned. Mr.. John
L. Wooten's Was also fired, but a son of
Mr.. WoOten's fired at the incendiaries and
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