Wilmington journal., 1870-09-30

Scotland Neck, together with the stoc
was destroyed by an incendiary fire OF
Saturday night. Loss about $1,000 NJ
insurance.
AMONG the candidates TO the Naya
Academy, who recently passed at tn,
examination IN Annapolis. we notic'
the name of Thomas @. Whitehead, o.
North Carolina.
THE Standard says: We are Informed
that Hon. @. r. Thomas, member elect tC
Congre from the first district, has re
signed his position as Judge, and that Col
W. j. Clarke has been appointed by the
Governor to fill the vacancy
THE engineer corps, engaged in survey
ing the line of the Cheraw and Darlington
Railroad. have arrived within seven OF
eight mi4ea. of Salisbury, and will complete
$Ae survey by thefirst of next week. The
dfsAnce will be about 70 miles.
The Sentinel learns that Charles Fl.
Snead, of Johnston. one of Holden's Radi
cal pets, and 9a Justice of the Peace,
cAersad with horse stealing. was tried and
convicted, last week, at Smithfield. His
Honor. Judge Watts, presiding.
WHERE u 10 ?-Joseph William, the
Governors son.. left the city some two
weeks ago for parts unknown. He took no
carpet bag, but several large trunks, suf
ficient to pack up for a small family and
then leave room for State bonds It was
thought Joseph had gone with a letter
from Dad to ask President Grant for q
"p0st" or piace.-iSentineL
SPECIAL PREMIUMS, N. @. STATE FAIR
The Navaesa Guano Company at Whining
ten, n. G., Hon. r. r. Bridgers, Presi-
dent and -. Mackae, Esq, Secretary, has
authorized the offer of q special premium
of on ton OF their guano for the best pair
of mules raised in the State This is a
very valuable offer, as the guano readily
sells for $50 per ton at Wilmington and is
one Of The best artificial mannres manu-
faoturcd.
o. L. Bnreh. ESD, Offers special prcmi-
um Of s. on the best pair of gents boots
made III the State. -EcntineL
TIE Raleigh Sta1eda'd jumps Jim Crow
about as gracefully as The traditional COW
astounding discovery that there are I<u
Kiux in New York city that the head
centre OF the organization is located there,
ard that all Of the printing for the alleged
order is done there in the Office Of tho Re
U0Zuti0ya, a paper published aHd edited by
women, and advocating woman's rights. =
We shall look, in the next Issue of the
for call from the Governor for
several regiments of ''NCrth Carolina State
troops Iof INC PiI pose ol 9uouulh6 the
Ku KIux il New York city, especially
these in the Office Of the Re0oIu:ion.
A COMPLIMENTARY NOTICE. We clip the
following paragraph from the Daily B2tAe-
tin, a commercial and financial journal
published in Now York, complimentary to
one of the entcrplising Raleigh Dry Goods
houses. IL IS very rare thing for On es-
SO far OFF in the country to re-
oeiye So HAttering a notice from a journa!
in the great commercial emporium
Conc OF the haudsomest and most COM
modiou5 dry goods stores in the South is
that Of Messrs. ". i. & r. S. Tucker &
Co., OF Raleigh, n. G. The building is So
feet inches wide by 100 feet deep, three
stories high, with an iron front; and the
store proper is 40x120 feet, and 10 feet
high. The two upper stories comprise one
room, 'Tucker Hall, the finest exhibition
room in the State, and with few excep-
lions in the South. The entire establish
nent is the tangible evidence Of the sue
3essful working of a business conducted
on sound principles. The present owners
are the representatives, of a mercantile
lonse OF nrsy years standing, who, when
injured nearly to the point Of ruin by, the
late war, by great exertiOn kept their busi-
ness running and paid their creditors dol
lar for dollar"
day last week, as an item of news, taken
from an Asheville paper, the arrest of one
Joe Shelton for the murder of Joel Hol-
combe, in August, 1864. The facts in re,
gard to this murder, as we have them from
one who knows, are as follows
This Joe Shelton, with two of his cousins,
all members Of Kinks banditti that so an
noyed the people of East Tennessee and
Western North Carolina during the late
war. went to the home of Mr.. Holcombe,
on Walnut Greek, in Madison county, n.
c., some time in August, 1864. where they
found him moving hay in his meadow,
and for no other reason than that he was
@ Confederate, shot him down in the pres
ence of his wife and another woman, and
then, with Indian ferocity, scalped him.
At the same time they fired at the woman
who was with Holcombes wife,. wounding
her in the temple and cutting of part of
her ear.
One of the three scoundrels was after
wards killed by part Of the 18th n: G.
battalion of cavalry, after he had killed
Maj Roberts of that command. Another
of them was burned to death, refusing to
surrender. by the burning Of house un-
der which he had crept, the house having
been set on fire by the enraged soldiers,
after tho death of Maj Roberts.
This last of the trio, having volunteered
from Tennessee to come to North Carolina
with Kirk to exercise his savage and muir
derous prOpensities on our people, was re-
coguized as he passed through Buncombe,
was arrested, and now lies in Jail in Ashe-
vile to await his trial for murder.
And this is but sample of the class of
demons Governor Holden employed Kirk
to bring with him from Tennessee to over
awe, abuse and oppress the people of Ala
nance and Caswell What an attitude
such conduct places him in before the
world
The Ku-KIux Canards.
Governor Holden, Senator Abbott and
Judge Tourgee, Of North Carolina, still
keep on writing to the papers their accu-
recrimjnations and explanations
about who was responsible for the &C
knowlegcd fraud of saying that 4, 900 or
{, 900 houses in that State had been broken
open by the Ku-Klux-Kan. We have no
personal interest in the quarrel, and do
not care upon whom the lie sticks at last