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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30
ElOpemeBt of a Long Island iIIsiress
with her Fathers COaChman.

About six months ago a man named
Corson, learning that Mr.. Jackson, of
Glen Cove, needed coachman, presented
Himself at the gentleman's door. John
was soon installed. He was greatly liked
by all the family, but most OF all 10y one
of the daughters, about twenty-five years
of age, who by degrees Came to look upon
him with ardent affection. Corson, on his
side had fallen deeply in love with the
young woman, and they soon came to a
secret understanding, which eliminated
on Saturday in their secret marriage in
the Episcopal church in the village.
They returned home and assumed their
daily duties as though nothing had hap
pened, until Tuesday last, when they de-
parted with ali their personal property to
some region where parents cannot annoy
them. All efforts to discover their where
abouts have SO far proven futile. Mrs
Corson that is. is said to be an heiress in
her own night, having inherited a large
fortune by the death of relative and, as
she is beyond the age of parental inter-
ference, her lucky husband may snap his
fingers at the old folks
New York San, 23rd
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STILL HEADING CAPT. TYLER We learn
that His Excellency, Governor Holden,
sued out an injunction before Judge Watts
last night to keep Cebe from interfering
in the stockholders meeting of the W.. G..
& r. r. r. Company, to come off in Will
mington on the 29th. Poor Cebe The
Governor is hedging him in On every side.
Raleigh Sentinel.
In ERROR AGAIN. The Sentinel's ''learn-
ing" leads it astray again. An injunction
was sued out by stakeholder in the W.,
G. & r. r. r. Company to restrain @. L.
Harris Superintendent of Public Works,
from interference in the stockholders
meeting OF Wilmington on the Goth inst.
The statement that His Excellency Gov.
Holden sued out the Injunction was erro-
neous.- Raleigh Standard.
ARRIVAL OF IMMIGRANTS. Tho Norfolk
papers chronicle the arrival there on Sat-
turday of number of immigrants of both
sexes, from the interior of Germany, bound
for Western North Carolina. They landed
in Norfolk from the New York steamer.
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LAWSON COUNCIL No. 81, F. OF T..
LUMRERToN, N. O., July ~, 18t

%
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased Almighty God, in the
lntents whereof are by man unfathomable, to re-
move from among us, in the prime of life of
usefulness, brother John L. Ounce, a member of
this Council And
WHEREAS, While yielding in all due submission
and humility to the decree of Him who ia Lord
alike of life and death, it stu behooves to tes-
tify our appreciation Of the great worth of our
deceased brother. Therefore, be it
ResolUed, That in the death of John L. Ounce
this Council has lost one of its most Jealous and
truest friends, as we'll as one fits most esteemed
members.
RESOLVED. That we, in common with the nu-
merous friends of the deceased, who were at
life, of all those virtues which serve to ennoble
the character of man do mourn his early DEATH
feeling that this Council has lost one of its wor.
thiest members. A man not less noted for his
enterprise than his iberality, for his business
talent than his private virtue.
ResoEoed. That we tender to the family Of the
deceased our deepest sympathy, knowing that
their LOGS is indeed irreparable.
Resolued, That these resolutions be inscribed
upon the Secretary's book Of this Council, and
that opposite thereto blank page be left upon
which shall be written the name Of the deceased,
with his age and the date of his death.
ResolUed, That we in token of our respect for
badges of mourning for the space of thirty days.
Resolued, That q copy of these resolutions be
sent to the family of the deceased, and q CODY to
the Daily Wilmington Journal, Morning Star pub
ished in the city of Wilmington, and to the
Friend of Temperance, published in the city of
Raleigh, for publication.
FRENCH MCQUEEN,
GILES LEITCH,
W. A. DICK,
fyommittee
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30
The Homestead Exemption

The following is the provision OF the
Constitution of this State, which has lately
been decided by the Supreme Court not to
he in conflict with the Constitution of the
United States.
We have heretofore published the opin-
ION of the Court, delivered by Justice
READ. To-day We give the dissenting
opinion of Chief Justice Pearson:
ART. X.-sEc. l. The personal property of any
resident of this State to the value Of five hundred
dollars to be selected by such resident, shall be
and is hereby exempted from sale under execu-
ton or other final process OF any court issued
for the collection of any debt.
SEC. 2. Every homestead and the dwelling and
buildings used Herewith, not exceeding IN value
one thousand dollars, to be selected by the owner
thereof: &C., shall be also exempted.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30
building Association Taxes.

The Deputy Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, in reply to a letter from the As
sistant Assessor of Junction City, Kan, re-
lative to the liability of building associa,
ton to special tax of the broker or auction
Ger, whose President or Secretary, by vir-
tue of the provision of the constitution
and bylaws thereof sell at public auction
the loans of the association, says: "No
special tax, is in my opinion, imposed I'M
der the Internal Revenue law in respect to
the specified business of selling at auction
as is stated, the loans of the asso-
citation. 1t is not, properly speaking,
the money Which is sold, but the use of the
ramn''
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30
A. Proper Order.

Brevet Maj. Gen'l o. o. Howard, Com
missioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freed
men and Abandoned Lands, has given no.
tice to railroads no longer to receive trans
portation orders issued by his Bureau. We
believe this to be good order, as we have
no doubt our railroads have been greatly
imposed upon by persons travelling on
these transportation orders at reduced
rates who should have paid full fare
Hereafter We presume persons holding
transportation issued by the Freedmen's
Bureau, will be compelled to pay their
fare.
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For the Journal.
"Pencilings by the Way"

Jordan is hard road to tzayel = YET
not harder than the meandering to and
back from SmithvilIe. Still, if you are on
the alert. you may find the way to the vii
lage by the sea- What pity-shame is
the word-that there is no reliable convey
ance to this charming ocean washed town.
What are our task-masters doing that
they-the aforesaid arpet-baggers-haye
not built hotel and established a daily
communication to SmithyiIle. This 'by
the way"
Having occasion to go to Smithville, the
kindness of Capt. Harper, of the swift and
powerful Oldham, furnished us the oppor-
tunity. Nothing CT note occurred until
some two OF three miles had been made.
All at once Man overheard !! " startled
every one Sure enough there was In
the middle of the hawser, that connected
the tug with the brig she lowed, was a
negro clinging for life. How he got there
was the mystery. But there was the
negro-hatless- shirtless-possibly trower-
less All was CONSERVATION The first
thought was to save the life of human
being. The tug was "shut down." This
put the Negroes head under water, by the
Stacking of the hawser. "Go on was
shouted from the deck The rope was
frightened and Mr.. Negro popped above
the water, whirling over and over the
hawser, with all the agility of an acrobat.
Still the darkey held on and snorted. He
even had the temerity to let go one hand and
wipe his face He is dead niger, -
certain, every one thought. But no.
Grim death and the "man and brother
were not to shake hands yet. But the way
to cheat death of his own was not yet at
hand. The thing would have been laugha-
BILE had it not been SO serious. He was
still in the middle of the hawser After a
seeming age--some ten minutes-tbe boat
from the brig reached the frightened
humanity and he crawled in, more scared
than drowned. It was afterwards learned
that he had made arrangements with some
of his sable brethren, on the brig, to have
a tow; and the fool attempted to paddle
his canoe between the tug and brig for
that purpose. When the writer last saw
him he was dressed up in sailor clothes, a
wiser POSSIBLY J if not better negro
We reached Smithville in safety and in
good time-for just as the land was
touched - ting a-ling ting a-ling-ting- al
ling sounded the dinner bell Of the hospita
BILE Mrs. Stewart. After most welcome
greeting from the good hostess and her in
teresting family, We sat down-but had
most remarkably, lost on appetite Yes,
lost our oaUn and had got some ravenous
animals! Gracious how the yiands dis
appeared The good hostess opened her
eyes-we opened our mouth
Now just let it be said to the sweltering-
melting citizens of Wilmington-go to
Smithville, and when you get there, go to
Mrs. Stewards. There you will find every
thing desirable for the weary sojourner.
Good living-good attention--quiet-
bedrooms, and all clean as a new pin !!
And lastly, the charming sea-breezo to fan
you to sleep, as it did the writer. u.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30

r. Blanchard, Lyndonville, cures the
BLACK knot on plum trees in this way
Take" paint brush, dip it in spirits of
tnrpentine, and thoroughly saturate the
knot, being careful not to touch the tree
except in the diseased part. It stops the
knot and the tree puts out healthy branch
es below it. I am careful to burn all
branches removed in pruning. AS the
summer is the time the mischief is DONE
every fresh excrescence should be pared
off and the turpentine applied, and it will
harden in a week
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30
TuIaltO Babfes-Jutlge Reade,

Appended to tho opinion of the Court
delivered by Judge READE in the case Of
the State rs. Hairston, recently published
i'll the &nnduTd, We find the following -
NOTE. 1t is worthy of remark, and the
fact indicates the moral improvement of
both races, that since emancipation mu-
latto births have almost entirely ceased"
1t has been heretofore, we believe, moro
customary for the Reporters, than the
Judges, to append notes to the opinions
of the Court. Notwithstanding this, how
ever. we do not hesitate to ascribe this
"note to His HONOR, for the reason that
if it had been appended by Mr.. PHILLIPS
it would have had some law in it,
1t is curious, too, if not profitable, to
mark the change in the substance of notes
to recent and early judicial opinions. On
page 252 of first volume of PLowDEN's
Reports, selected at random from a shelf
full of Reports. We find the following
"noto' appended to the case of Wilton
IS. Berkeley, decided in the fourth year of
the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
"Note in M. 81 Ed. 3.45-a Formedon
aUas brought of lands gicere to the father and
mother of the Denaandant and to The heirs Of
their tUO bodies tDhich acre aliened before the
Statute de donis conditionalitus And
THORPE said that tie Demaaadant could not
hare Cui in vita but eohere he can make
title in has arrit qu8 clamat esse jus haered=
itatem suam, achich lie cannot do unless he
claims a fee simple. And it seems by him
that the Heir cannot hare a0rit quse clamat
tenere sibi ct heredibus de corpore sus OK
euntibus, eUAich agrees aOith the opinion Of
A. BROWN ante ia GAG, and aCih the said
book in Ed. g"
The reader will easily see the difference
between what THORPE said and what
READE said. We venture to say there are
not more than three Judges, to- wit PEAR.
SON and RoDMAN, of the Supreme Court,
and MITCHELL, of the Superior Court, who
understand or can now explain what
THORPE said" If We are in error, We
hope Chief Justice PEARSON will correct MS
and give us the names of the Judges whose
legal lore we underrate. Everybody I'M
derstands what READE said. We do not
think the change is for the better, or that
excepting pace with the progress of the
age has been productive of good results.
As a general rule we think the cobbler
ought to stick to his last, the farmer to his
fields, the Judge to the law and leave to
Doctors and census-takers to report upon
the number and color of babies. We feel
sure, that for his life, THORPE could not
have told whether babies in his vicinage
were on the increase or not. We
venture to say his head and his heart were
| both too full of law to think or know much
| about babies. We feel sure that had his
head been running upon babies, there
would have been less law in it. Out of the
fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh.
But is it fact that "since emancipation
mulatto births have almost entirely ceas
ed" If it be a fact which, indeed, we
neither deny or affirm, we desire to know
how it has been ascertained. SO far Oh we
know there has been no census taken in
the State since emancipation nor is there
any organization Of midwives capable Of
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30

NOMINATIONS IN CAsWELL TOWNSHIP. -
The good citizens Of Casweii township,
who are not specially interested ono way
or the other in the progressing Lagi 1iatiye
contest, met recently and nominutcd the
following ticket for township officers, ON
which will be found the names Of some of
the best citizens of the township.
Justices-Dr. Jas. T.. Simpson, George
Corbctt.
Clerk of Township JAS Thompson.
Constable--C. T. Costin.
School Committee B. i. Keith, r. O..
Larkins (colored), Jno. Newkirk (colored).
Another meeting WAS held Monday,
which was addressed by Galloway and
other speakers in the interest of Eagles,
and the following ticket nominated, which
embraces, as will be seen, some of the
names contained IN the above ticket:
Justices J.. Simpson, Henry Hall
(colored).
Clerk of Township-Jas. Thompson.
Constablc--C. z. Costin.
School Committee-Tully Orr, T. O.
Larkins (colored), Richard Lewis (colored).
We are led to hope by these nominations
that our Caswell friends will do better than
some of their neighbors in the election of
township officers.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30

The language of nature and experience demon
strates that whoever would enjoy the pleasures
of food, the beauties of landscape. the joys of
conepdnionship, the riches of literature. or the
honors of station and renown must preserve hei,.
health. The effect of foul, injurious food, enter.
ing the stomach, is to derange the digestive or.
gsns and produce headache, loss of appetite, un-
refreshing sleep, low spirits, feverish burnings,
disease, Dyspepsia. which assumes thousand
shapes. and points toward q miserable life and
premature decay. PLANTATION BITTERs win pre-
vent, overcome and counteract all of these effects.
They act with unerring power, and are taken
With the pleasure Of beverage.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30

HOLDEN TowNsH1P.-At a meeting of
the citizens Of Holden township, irrespec-
tive of party or color, at Rocky Point de-
pot yesterday, the following nominations
for township officers were made:
(colored).
Clerk OF Township-Robert Blood
worth
Constable-Isaac H. Brown.
School Committee-Joseph Davis, John
Ellington. James Mcclure (all colored)
Daily Journal 29h
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR APPOINTED. This
morning J. N. Bunting, Probate Judge,
rendered the Office of Public Administrator
for Wake county to s. d. Harrison, Esq,
a merchant of our city, who accepts the
same. and gave his bond and entered upon
the duties of his Office. RAJ. Sentinel.
TRoops COMING. understand that
Company B, 8th regiment U. S. troops will
leave Goldsborough for Raleigh on We'd
nesday next.-Ral. Sent
DEATH OF A PROMINENT CITIZEN OF
BEAUFORT regret to learn that Ben
jamin l.. Perry, Esq, died at his residence
in Beaufort yesterday morning. Mr.. Perry
was a prominent, influential and useful
citizen, highly respected and esteemed,
Newbern Jour. of Com,
The STATE CREDT.-It is quite q mys-
terry why the Standard is so jubilant over
the little 100000 thrown overheard by
the late decision of the Supreme Court !;
and why it certificates that our State debt
is now only $50, 900, 600. Only thirty.fve
million dollars Widows and orphans,l
young men and maidens especially tax.
payers, think of it.
Only thirty-fve million dollars But it
is really more, as can be shown while it
is almost automatically demonstrable
that the tax levied this year, heavy as it
is, will barely pay the interest on the old
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL
WILMINGTON. N. G.
FRIDAY JULY so, 1869.
Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruthefiofo
Railroad.

sIt is believed that citizen OF TINS place VIII
he made President. For one, we trust 1t may be
40, If Radical is to be President, no better
man in the party can be selected to press forward
This great work. Charlotte Times.
We desire to ask friend Warning il he re-
fers in the above to DIR. William Sloan
If he does, will he tell us whether the Dr.
was or was not implicated in stealing cot
Ion from the State, in connection with MIR.
A. J. Jones, while Treasurer of the State !?
If he was, can there be mo better man
in the party" selected to handle millions OF
dollars and control the destinies OF great
work ?
We pause for O reply.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30

FINE POTATOES. MIR. D. P. Shaw has
laid upon our table beautiful specimens of
the pink eye pototoes raised upon his
place at Horse Shoe, Bladen county. They
are fine, healthy and large, yielding, Mr..
Shaw informs us, over ten barrels to the
acre.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30

TOWNSHIP NOMINATIONS the meeting OF the
City Executive Committee of the Price-LarknS
faction OF the Republican party last night the i0l'
lowing nominations for officers OF WilmlDS'OD
township were made;
Justices-City at large, Geo. Il. French jan
Fl. Chadbourn fret ward, Jacob Wise tcoloreu,'
second ward, Jas. Logrey (colored); third Wai"'
Jno. G. Bulcken fourth ward, henry 'oh0'
(colored).
Clerk OF Township-G. Washington "Fe'"
(colored).
Oonstable-Wm. II. Moore (colored)
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30

State debt and meet the current exner..
OF the State government, and the licenses penses
and July interest on the State debt, w;th
slight exception, yet unpaid. WIN
Raj. Se,,t;no,
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Important to Farmers

Tar may be applied to hard, dry and
cracked hoofs with good success. It CD
pears to penetrate and soften the hoof,
and gives it bright and clean look also
closes the cracks. Would apply once or
twica a month
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-07-30

DeGraffenreid, who killed young MI
3anock at franklin, Tennessee, not lonS
,ince. was captured by consta 1 O.
Uentreville, Hickman county, on Iuu''
day last.
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Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
Railroad

In commencing DR.. William Sloan for
the Presidency Of the Wilmington, Char
lotte and Rutherford Railroad, the Char
lotto Democrat says: The headquarters
of the road have been at Wilmington (the
extreme end) since its first organization,
and no one can rightfully complain if they
are now transferred to Charlotte, central
point on the line"
We were given to understand. at the
time that Mayor Neff and Alderman French
telegraphod to Governor Holden, basing
the vote of the Wilmington stock in favor
of the amendment to the Charter upon the
condition that the headquarters of the
road should not be moved from this oity.
Wilmington held the balance of power in
that meeting, and we supposed that our city
authorities obtained the assurance of Gov
ernor Holden or DR.. Sloan that such re-
moval would not take place. If the head
quarters are moved, and by the vote of
Wilmington, these officials were untrue to
the interests of tho city. at q time when
they had it in their power to control this
matter
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| furnishing information upon the subject
We arc not aware of any newspaper publ
cation upon which, IN accordance with the
ldecision in the late Contempt case, the
Court would be authorized to act. 1t ID
true the Court is presumed to know some
things, but whether a baby is black
or white, or mixed. is, we think, not one Of
those things which the Court is presumed
to know "iu icially." That His HONOR
has devoted his personal attention to the
investigation of this matter, to 50 trial by
inspection" as it were, III legal language
would scarcely be "decent to suppose. -
But admitting thai His HoNo1 is correct
in saying that "since emancipation mulat-
to births have almost entirely ceased, !"
does it follow that the fact indicates the
moral improvement of both races?" We
submit that before His HONOR can legiti-
mately draw this conclusion he must show
that the crime of procuring an abortion is
not of more frequent occurrence than for
merly, an further, that while the number
of mulatto births is smaller, the number Of
illegitimate births, both black end white. is
not larger in other and plain words, that
the crime of fornication and adultery has
occurred less frequently since emancipa-
ton. We think there is no evidence to
show this We think there is evidence to
say that never before in North Carolina
has lewdness been SO common or profigacy
SO brazen among those from whom, be-
cause of their official stations, the people
have d right to expect decency of deport-
ment in public, if not virtuous conduct in
private.
We deeply regret this attempt of Judge
READE to give the sanction of the Court to
a statement, the truth of which he could
have only surmised. We regret it none
the less because it imposes upon US the
disagreeable necessity of speaking in man
ner incompatible with that Difference and
respect for the Judiciary of our State we
so earnestly desire to cherish and inculcate.
The act of Judge READE, however, in
travelling out of the record to make state
ment rejecting upon the morality of our
people in the past, and thereby to give
urged against them by the Radicals ana
fanatics of the North as to constitute the
main staple Of their party slang, is Of such
an undisguised partisan character, that we
cannot allow it to pass unDoticed, consis-
tently with our duty as public journalists.