Wilmington journal., 1869-08-13
STATE NEWS

preached to n very large congregation in
the Methodist church, in this town, on
Sunday last. Gollsboro' Messenger.
ALMOST FIEE.-A daughter of Mr. Jno.
Wallace, residing on Metcalf street, acci-
dentally dropped lighted kerosene lamp,
on Sunday night and Immediately the
room was ablnze. Efforts to extingush it
with water proved vain, and had not Mr..
Chas. Fields seized the burning carpet and
carried it into the street, a large fire would
have resulted little son of Mr.. Wallace
had his hands burned, did Mr.. Fields
lint little other damage resulted.
| New Berne JOur. IF Com.
HAVE WE GARROTERs AMONG Us "A Wo-
MAN CHoKED AND kNookED Down IN HER
OWN DOORWAY AT about l. o'clock Mon
day morning q dog belonging to J. E.
! West, who resides on the corner Of East
Front and Change street, set up barking
IN the house and Mr.. West got up and let
him ont doors, and the dog Immediately
drove some person over the fence and
down Change street.
Hardly had Mr.. West retired when d fe-
male voice was heard crying, murder |!
Help Mr.. West and his brother, Walter
G. West, won't to the place from whence
tho sound came and found Miss
Hattie Freeze, (who resides just across the
street from Mr.. West,) in the street, bare
| footed and bare headed, and near her lay
a kerosene lamp. Her story is as follows:
Some person came under her window
and called her by name. She asked what
| &n1 ElNn
Uncle Charlie" IAN old colored man who
lives next door, ''come down with light. !"
She struck light and went down, bnt be-
fore opening the door, inquired again who
was there, and received the same answer.
On opening the door sOme one, not Uncle
Charlie. struck hat over tho lamp. She
darted by him, trying. to escape, and he
caught her by her throat and tried to
choke her to prevent her from calling for
help. She, however, cried murder! which
called Messrs. West to her assistance,
when he knocked her down. and made
good his escape before he was detected.
Newhern Times.
JONES COUNTY AGAlN.-It seems that the
people of Jones county are never to have
the "peace" that was promised to the en-
tire country in the event of the election of
the present incumbent of the White House.
| The county has been peculiarly cursed by
the rascality and vindictiveness of its car
pet-bag and scalawag officials, and the
hope that many of them entertained, that
O season of peace had dawned on them
when they had heard of the death of the
late sheriff, has vanished, for the radicals
have found tool ready to take his place
and trample upon the liberties of the peo
plc-M l.. Shepard, Colonel of the militia
or M Of fho af% hot fu
resident of Jones county informs us that
on Friday last this official, in his capacity
as magistrate, issued warrant against
Mr.. DuVal on the complaint of a negro
named Calvin Koonce, and placed it in the
hands of one of the deputy sherifls, to
place in the hands of the sheriff, telling
him at the time that there was no necessi-
ty for any hurry about serving it.
On Monday morning the Sheriff on his
way to Trenton met DuVal and Koonce on
the road, and hearing from them of their
difficulty, and anticipating that a warrant
would be issued, arranged with them 20
meet him in Trenton on Friday, and have
the affair settled before o magistrate. On
his arrival in Trenton he was informed by
Sheppard that he had sent his militia to
arrest DuVal and in short time the
''melish" came to the village with DuVal
| in their custody, III. Immediately demand
cd to know the cause of his arrest, and
was told by Sheppard that he had receiv
ed message from Koonce, through
| negro, that he Koonce, could not 60 home
but was forced to lie out in the woods for
fear that DuVal would shoot him. koonce
being present denied having sent any such
message, and the prisoner was released
Immediately after, the Sheriff re-arrested
DuVal in obedience to the warrant which
bod l,oop nlaaO1 in his rlossaSSiON. and
after hearing, the case was continued
until Friday. as the Sheriff had arranged
with the prisoner in the morning.
At the time of the arrest DuVaps wife
seeing the militia approach, and thinking
that they wore band of murderers,
hastened to where her husband was at
work. and being in very delicate state of
health. she seriously injured herself, and
is now i'll worry dangerous condition.
Newbern jour Of Conn.
Compulsory Education I'm Connecticut.
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