Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-04-30
interests, and we trust we may hear favor
able news of Misunderstanding Ladec. s

1ut6TcSGS, anu we trust we may near 1dYOr
able news of Misunderstanding Lader.
New LAw-RUYERs LOOK OUT!-CAvEA
EMPToR!-We try to keep our reader
posted in these latter days. so fruitful
| in changes, some good (very few some
bad (quite numerous.]
1t has always been the law that taxes art
| lien upon real estate, SO that the buyer o
land must see that the seller has paid hi
| public dues. This was not the case with
personal property, we presume, because
| was though inexpedient TO trammel buy
| ing and selling articles Of Uoyeable ma
ture.
The law has been changed.
Hereafter, when the assessor, Tor list
taker) completes his list OF taxable pro
perty and retrras it to the County Com
missioners, The Clerk shall endorse on
the copies given TO the Sheriff, an order
to collect the taxes therein mentioned,
and such order shall hare the force and ct:
feet Of a judgment and execution against Me
property OF the persons charged in such
lists"
This makes the tax list lien on both
real and personal property, and as the
taxes will be seven or eight times higher
than l4st year, after the Clerk shall en-
dorse the tax lists as above mentioned, it
will not be safe to buy any property with
out enquiring whether the seller has paid
his taxes.-Kal. Sentinel.
A HAPPY THoUeHr-ONE OF OUR LADIES
APPOINTED LIFE INSURANCE AGENT. I've
announced last week the arrival of Col.
Thomas 81. Ellis in our city as the General
Agent of the Piedmont Life Insuran ce
Company of Virginia for that portion of
North Carolina west of Raleigb In doing
so, we took occasion to refer to him as a
gentleman, personally known to US, of
high social position in the city of Rich
mond, and also, as of well established re-
putation, from his having been for a
number of years President of the James
River and Kanawha Company. A gentle
man SO experienced and esteemed could
scarcely fail to be other than an efficient
General Agent.
The happy thought as we conceive it to
be, has occurred to him, of appointing
Mrs. Fanny Downing General Soliciting
Agent for this Company in the field en-
trusted to his care.
Why may not lady occupy this posi-
ton? And if SO, who are more admirably
suited to it than Mrs. Downing? A Vir-
ginian by birth; adopted by Florida; COM
ing to Carolina as a refugee during the
war, and since then making her home in
this pleasant and rapidly advancing city of
ours; highly gifted as the whole South
now knows her to be; commanding the
sympathy and applause of all who appre-
ciate her efforts to support herself and
children by her pen, yet very delicate In
health and consequently struggling against
its depressing effect upon literary labors,
she is not less peculiarly endowed by na-
ture, than f,ted by circumstances for the
place; and we should think that this ap-
pointmeut, to represent q Southern Life
Insurance Company, conducted upon hon
orable principles by gentlemen of high
character. would not only be acceptable
to her, but would be approved as fortu-
nate by all interested in the Company.
For. recognizing as we do, that she pos
sesses every quality requisite in faithfnI,
intelligent and Jealous agent, she need
not even resort to personal solicitation in
respect to business details, we learn that
our estimable fellow-citiZen, Col. William
A. Williams, the local agent of the Pied
mont in Charlotte. mas offered to attend to
them as far as practicable at his banking
house and we can readily understand that
almost any gentleman, desiring 10 take q
Life Policy. would prefer to give such a
lady as Mrs. Downing the benefit of the
commission Usually allowed, we believe in
such a case.-Charlotte Times.