Wilmington journal., 1869-08-20
Our Fayetteville Letter.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. c., Aug. 10Th, 1865

Az u, aug. 1OLl, 1908.
Dear Journal 1t has been lon,
while since L have felt it worth my whil
or yours to ask for place in your columns
l So calm and nnruffied has been the cur
rent OF events-not Al angry bubble on it
surface, not motion from its uuie
depths-in this "good old town" Woul(
that my occupation were forever gone
rather than that it shonId become my duty
"a chronicler of local news, to inform
I yonr readers of the dreadful occurrence
which took place hero on Friday night last
. deprlVing the community of one of it,
prominent and most esteemed citizens, by
! an accident aa strange as it was sad anC
fatal.
The people living in that immediate
nelghborhOOd We're shocked and BtartleC
to learn. on Friday evening abont 90 clock
that Jas. G. Dobbin, Esq, residing on the
corner Of Green and Church streets, had
fallen from tho window of his drawing
room and been killed. MIR. Dobbiu's fam
iIy--a wife and two children-were not at
home at tho time, being on II visit to their
relatives i'll Sampson county. lie had been
sitting III his law otlice-Which IS on the
first floor of his residence, and next to the
IrOOm from which the disaster took place
c0nvcrsing with an acquaintance, and had
alaented himself for n few minutes Being
missed, finally, he was inquired for and
scarch made for him through the house,
and the singular fnct was remarked that
while he waa not in the bnilding his hat
was lying on the table in his office. On
descending to the basement and opeDing
the back entrance leading into the yard.
his friends found him lying there at tho
door, On u small wooden platform, dead.
His skull was fractured and his neck
broken, and it is almost certain TINT his
death WAS instantaneous None of his
lower limbs We're broken and his face Was
quiet and compose''. A jury Of inquest
was Immediately summoned, which ren-
dered verdict in accordance with all the
fncts that could DO brought before it, that
deceased came to his death by an acci-
dental fall from Il window.
JAS. T.. DObbin was about thirty years
of age, a young man of great promise in
his profession, the law, highly educated,
cultivated gentleman. A prominent mem
ber of this bar expressed tho opinion to
me some months ago that ho was n moro
finished orator, O moro elegant speaker,
than ever his father, the late james G..
DObbin, distinguished member of tho
North Carolina bar and Secretary of the
Navy during President Pierce's admins
tratlOn, whose reputation as public spea-
ker and able debater was national. His
admiral Qualities-his talents, his sterling
integrity, dignity of character and rare
affability, were transmitted to his son.
Few men of his age had won SO many ar
dent admirers and fast friends. Courteous
and kind in manner and disposition, he
was in the best sense of the word popular
III on, community, and his dreadful end
caused general grief and mourning. Few
men were ever SO devotedly and tenderly
loved, A loving and af1ectionate husband
and father, he leaves widow almost
crazed with tho burden of her great sor-
row, and two little girls bereft of his cher
ished care and protection. In the Ian
guage of Rev. Joseph Hooke, in tho car
most and thrilling sermon which he
preached over his remains on yesterday
morning. in st. Johns Church, "his
very name awakened in our hearts many
sweet and fond memories of the past" as
!
gone before, whom We claimed as one of
our most illustriOus citizens; and "he was,
rs it were, handed down to rs from tradi-
tiOn," to perpetuate tho name and con-
tinue the career of his father. The writer
of this, who has been intimate with the
family since childhood, has seen ono after
another of the Dobhins, taken away from
the cares and duties of this life, the old
family mansion pass into strange hands,
until now the last male representative of
the name leaves it behind him for the
marble of his tomb. His funeral was very
large and was attended by the members of
the bar in O body.
There is little transporting here of any
thing moro than mere local interest. We
arc again suffering for want of rain, the
crops need it, the river is very low, and
sickness is increasing A new banking
house is about to be established here, of
which. it is said Messrs. II. S. Lutterloh,
A. j. Jones president w. r. r. and ThOs.
j. Jones, arc the proprietOrs This will
make three banking or brokers' Offices
that of Messrs. p. A. Wiley Il Co., Messrs.
A. ". Steele & Co.,, and tho one above |
mentioned. However, as we used and en-
plOyed banking capital hero before tho !
war of noarly a million and quarter, even
these monetary facilities are certainly not
moro than sufficient.
The citizens of this county are frantical |
ly kicking against the goads," in the
shape of the enormous taxes which the
county commissioners are bringing against
them, and are resisting. by every legal
means in their power, the collection of
them. Certain parties recently applied for
and obtained an injunction to restrain tho
Sheriff from collecting tho taxes. The mat |
ter was tried before Judge Buxton on the
9TH inst, Alessrs. j. w. Baker, Jr., and }.
G. Macrae, counsel for the Commissioners.
and Hon. Il. @. Fuller. Measrs B. Fuller,
W. B, Wright and j. @. Dobbin for tho
petitioner. Judge Rnxton decided nd
verscly to the petition.
l see that your local editor hos been
castigating an impertinent carpet-bagger.
Let these newly imported gentry fully un-
stand that it is tho "code down in this
benighted country to put o stop to insults
and slander, not by q warrant and applica-
tion ut law for douccur of a few dollars,
bnt by the application of a muscular bunch
of digits. and they will, to use homely
phrase, "keep q civil tongue in their