Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-03-25


surer Dave whether French, the 'Bis
Ingin." has not left the Capitol for tn.
remainder of the session, having draw
his pay up to the day of adjournment p
Haven't several others gone home, having
done the same thing +?
We merely ask.-Raleigh Sentinel
SUGGESTION. members of the Legs.
lature would inquire, it might turn o1t
that one of their number, favorite with
the Governor, once demanded $4,000 of a
certain official of the Governors admins
| tration for his vote in favor of a certain
| measure which that official had at heart.
We say, inquire gentlemen.
Raleigh Sentinel
INJUNCTION learn that the Public
Treasurer has been enjoined against de-
livering to the Will, Char. & Ruth. Rail-
toad the $500, 600 of bonds which were
authorized to be surrendered to the Com.
pany by late Act of the Legislature to
enable it to prosecute work on the Road.
Those bonds had been placed in the Treas
ury as security that the Company would
pay the interest on bonds outstanding and
held by different parties. The Injunction
was sued out by some one who holds bonds
and who disputes the right of the Legisla-
ture to surrender the securities held by
the State. These are the facts, in brief,
as we learn them on the eve of going to
W Coo.-O1nI1OLG0 Loo"sens.<,r
ONE BY ONE.-Renfrow, a misrepresen-
tative in the Legislature, from Halifax
county, is also mail agent on the line from
Raleigh to Norfolk, and when he has to
come to Raleigh to help make laws, he
gets substitute to fill his place on his
mail line. This substitute of his was
lately detected in opening letters passing
over his route and stealing money out of
them. The last we heard of him he was
on his way to Richmond to be examined
before y. s. Commissioner and pro-
badly the next we hear of him, be will be
on his way to the Penitentiary. So they
go, one by one. RAJ. Sentinel.
House OF REPRESENTATIVES,, RALEIGH,
March 10, 187O.-Ho Josiah Turner, Jr.
Dear SIR: In the Sentinel of the 18th 1
find an extract from Washington CORES
pondent Of the New York Herald, in
mhich it is stated that lawlessness prevails
in Onslow county. AS representative of
that county and her interests, [ cannot al
low this grave cha ge to go undenied and
uncorrected. We're to do SO, [ should be
unworthy of the confidence the people
of Onslow have imposed in me. There is
not now, nor has there ever been, even a
shadow of cause for this libel upon the
people of law abiding and law loving
county. In Onslow the law is faithfully
executed and by all observed. There has
not been q murder committed in the
county for five years past, and the viola
tions of the criminal law is in the nature
of petty misdemeanors. Judge Thomas, a
Judge, usually tries all the
cases on the criminal docket" in two
days. I am certain he will cheerfully bear
testimony to the good order that prevails
in Ouslow among all classes Of society. L
have deemed it my duty to make this plain
denial of the statement made by the
Heralds correspondent, because such char
ges are well calculated to injure the best
interest of the county. I hope the Stand
ard will do the people of Onslow the JUS
tice to insert this card.
FRANKLIN THOMPSON,
Representative of Onslow Go.
Raleigh Sentinel.
DEATH OF AN ESTEEMED CITIZEN CT
We regret to learn of the
death on Thursday moring last of DIR. j.
B. Lewis, citizen of Edgecombe county,
in the 42nd year of his age. DIR. l.. was
taken sick with the pneumonia on the Mon
day morning previous to his death, being
thus almost suddenly cut of from a LIE OF
usefulness. He was native of Edgecombe,
in which county he has been for many
years engarged in the practice of medicine,
being man universally esteemed. He
was brother of Gen. VIM. Lewis, of Tar
boro', and of Major Exum Lewis, of this
place. DR.. Lewis served during the late
war as Assistant Surgeon of the 43d North
Carolina regiment, in which were several
companies from this county-he was aften
called "the fighting Doctor" going upon
the battlefield with his instruments.
Weldon Neacs.
We regret to learn that Meningitis pre-
walls in the upper part of our county, and
several deaths have resulted from it.
Rutherford Viedicat0r.
Rev. r. S. MORAN, D. D., OF NORTH
CAROLINA. excellent friend was with
us few days during the session of our
Conference. DR.. Moran is a member of
the Board of Trustees of Randolph Macon
College, which met in Baltimore last week.
We regretted that his duties as Presiding
Elder required his immediate return to
his District. He is always a welcome
visitor to Baltimore Metbo-