Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-09-10
STATE NEWS

No BETTER. health of Ex- Cover
nor Worth is very feeble. His physicians
do not allow him to see much company
-Raleigh Sentinel -s#...
Mr.. A. Monroe, a young lawyer of Kins-
ton, has been arrested. charged with com
plicity in the bridge murders last winter
in which several persons were taken from
kinston Jail, brntally murdered and their
bodies thrown off the bridge into Neuse
river.-Ral. Standard.
FIRST CorToN FROM EDaKooMBE.-Gen'l
w. IL. Cox has the credit of having for
warded the first new cotton from this
| county. Two bales from his plantation
reached Petersburg on Friday last. con
signed to different commission houses Of
that city, and were sold at 35 cents per
pound. .-Tarboro' !Souherner.
THF N. @. II. d z. ESTATE AGENCY
AS Will be seen by an advertisement in
another column. Hon. Sion H. Rogers, has
been elected President Of this Company !;
and also that there has been an entire re-
modelling Of tho scheme for tho Grand
Drawing. advertised to como Oft on the
| 18th of November next-certa:n.
Mr. Hester resigned the Presidency Of
tho Company in order to give his undivi
ded attention to tho prosecution of an i'm
portant matter involving a large sum OF
money, and in which he is personally in
| terested, but not at all connected with the
Agency. This he did tho more readily,
too, that Col Rogers was willing to accept
the position and give his attention to tho
management of the affairs ofthe Company.
For any fntther particulars i'll regard 20
tho Agency and the drawing, persons in
terested are referred to Col. Rogers, or to
Mr.. Lewis. Counsellor and Treasurer OF
the Company. Raleigh !StnhsseL.
DnTICULIY AT WAKE ToREsT A pos
senger who camo up on the L. 4 G.. ltaiI
road yesterday afternoon, informs us that
a difficulty occurred at Wake Forest on
Saturday last. between a number Of stu
dents and some negroes, which had caused
considerable excitement. 1t seems ono of
the students had lost lis watch, and
thought certain negro woman had stolen
It, Assisted by some other students, he
attempted by threats and other demonstra-
, lions to frighten her into n confession.
Her cries and screams brought to her as
slstance some negro men, who were atten
ding meeting OF some sort close by, who,
on thelr approach, WtT0 fired ON The
negroes returned the charge with a shower
of brickbats and other like missiles, and
| for time the tight was warm. BY what
means stop was put to it, We did not
! learn. Several were hunt, but not seriously.
An examination into the affair before a
| Magistrate has been progressing since Mon
day, but had not closed yesterday after
noon when the tram passed
KaleIgL Sentinel.
DEATH OF DIR. MorT. We learn with
regret that Rev, T. S w. Mott, u. d.,
| died at his residence in Gatawba county,
on Monday last. DR. Mott had long been
a Minister of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and was distinguished for his
| learning and his piety.-Oid North State.
LOOKS NRw.-The Catholic Church in
this CITY, under the supervision of Father
McNamara has been thoroughly renovated
and Ie- painted and is now one of the pret-
test church edttices in Raleigh.
Raj. Standard
ANOTHER PRISONER. Jesse @. Kennedy,
charged with high crimes and misdemean-
Ors, came down from Kinston yesterday,
and delivered himself into the custody of
the Sheriff of this county. He will, proba-
bly,, be examined to day.
New Berne Jour Of Com.
PENITENTIARY.-W. J. Hicks, Assistant
Architect and superintendent is busy erect
ing the stockade around the site of the
Penitentiary. We learn that an extra num-
ber of hands will be set to work in day
or two in building log lails for the tempo
rary confinement of conYicts.
Raj. Standard
TIE DIFFICULTY AT WAKE FOREST -
The examination before the Magistrates
Court, of the students and negroes at
Wake Forest. engaged in the general fight
| on last Saturday night, resulted in the
binding over to Court of some five or six
students and fifteen or twenty OF the ne
groes Raleigh Sentinel.
JUMPED FROM THE TRAIN The down
mail train from Goldsboro last evening,
contained five military prisoners on their
way to Fort Macon to serve out their SEN
tence, for attempted murder and deser-
ton. They were in charge of q Captain,
Sergeant and four soldiers. When about
five miles above this city, two of the
prisoners sprang to the door and j1mped
from the train, which was going at about
twenty miles an hour. and made good their
escape to the woods. We did not learn
their names, or which Military Post they
were efrom.-NeWbern Times.
CHERAw AND SALISBURY RoAD. are
glad to inform the reador, on the assur-
ance of we'll informed gen tleman of Che
raw, that the work on this Road is COM
menced in earnest. He thinks there is no
doubt but that it will reach Wacesboro' in
due time.
We think. too, it would be to the inter-
est of the Greensboro Railroad Company
to push their road tn this point, and here
make intersection with onr Roads, striking
off to every point of the compass
Wadesboro' Argus.
The INSANE AsYLUM.-We mentioned,
yesterday, that this Institution was full to
its utmost capacity. On Wednesday pa
tient was brought from Caswel county,
and was refused admission for want of
room. Public notice has been repeatedly
gwen On this subject in the papers and
circulars sent to County officers of every
county IN the State, notifying them that it
is useless to send patients to the Asylum