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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-09-02
From the Raleigh Sentinel.
Bench Warrant Gases Before Judge Pears


From the Raleigh Sentinel.
Bench Warrant Gases Before Judge Pears
SON.
FOURTH DAY.
3 P. NJ, August Goth.
State vs.. f. A. Wiley. charged with the
murder of John W. Stephens.
EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES.
DR.. Roam was sworn and testified; gave
a deac1ip'i ion of the Court House building
of Caswell, position of the various rooms
and surroundings. Resides in Yanceyville,
is one of the County Commissioners, was
in YanceyvilIe on the day Stephens was
said to have been murdered went into
the room with the jury of inquest on Sun
day morning saw the body /; there was a
small grass rope, nine feet long, doubled,
drawn tightly round the neck with moose;
there were three stabs, one on each side OF
the windpipe and one in the breast. Saw
the knife said to have been found near the
body, it was nearly new, double bladed,
the largest blade about three inches long.
The body was drawn up, the knees toward
the breast, placed in a gap in pile OF
wood at the end of the room, as if it had
been pushed down there, head resting
back on the wood, the side toward the
wall. Has no doubt the murder was com
mitted in the room ; saw blood on the
wood and the wall as if it spirited on them.
Saw blood on the window sill and box
under the window, and one drop which ap.
peared brighter than the rest ON the gran.
tie foundation. There was no blood on the
floor except near where the body was
found
CROSS EXAMINED.
Am o County Commissioner, was applied
to about 8 or 10 O'Clock on Saturday night
by Thomas STEPHENS and O cOlored man
named Cook for permission to search the
Court House for Stephens. gave the per.
mission and went with them there we're q
large number of persons about the Court
House, especially near the room in which
the body was afterwards found, mostly in
side the iron fence, but some were outside.
In searching. thinks they went first to the
Court room, not certain as to that !; also
looked through the rooms below, except
the rooms of the Clerk and Master, and
two others occupied as law offices. Tom
and Henry Stephens and Mr.. Groom were
in the company. When they came to the
room where the body was found, one Of
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the Stephenses looked in at the windows
by standing on q box which. he had
brought and placed for the purpose =
looking in at both windows by aid OF can.
dies. Saw no. blood that night on the
window; the box was brought some 80 or
40 feet; heard no one speak of seeing any
blood left the box under one of the win
dows. Went back about 8 O'Clock next
morning, then saw blood on window sill
and on the box, and the drop on the
granite foundation; this was at the north
window where the box had been left. The
windows were down the night before, don't
know whether they were fast. they are
usually fastened by stick over them
Was not present when the room was fret
entered on Sunday morning, went in with
the Jury soon after; saw no key.
o. BY defence-Have you been arrested
about this affair Objected to.
TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE.
The blood on the window sill seemed to
have been left by the pressure OF some
bloody object, as hand or foot, and the
same of that on the box. Don't think the
body could have been seen from the win
dow.
DIRECT EXAMINATION RESUMED.
We made no examination at the South
window because of its height, some or
feet from the grounds was Thomas
stephens ana the negro OOOk VINO ASKSu
permission to search the Court House, and
went with them.
TO JUDGE DICK
The granite would not absorb the blood
so readily as the wood, which may account
for the fresh appearance OF the drop OF
blood on the stone, but feels certain that
| the blood fell there in an uncongealed
state F; il struck the edge of the stone aid
divided, part trickling down the face OF
the stone thinks the action of the at.
mosphere would change the color of the
blood more than anything else.
| Daniel Johnston, colored, called, and
cautioned by the @. J. as to the RESPONSE.
biities resting on him, at the request OF
defendants counsel.
lJohnston's evidence is unimportant.-
| Ed. JOURNAL.
Louis Hill was called and examined.
He testified positively to Wiley's touching
| Stephens on the arm. and their going Out
together, between 2 and O'Clock. He
saw nothing of either afterward, and die
| not hear of the murder until nexl day.
| The session was then adjourned to
| O'Clock to morrow morning.
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" A Word to Governor Holden and Sen
otor Abbott"


otor Abbott
Will Governor Holden aud Senator
Abbott answer the following question pro-
pounded by the New York Tribune (high
Radical authority, l0ud enough for the
people Of North Carolina to hear their
through the channels of the Loyal Leagues
or party caucuses. Come out boldly and
let us all know who did tho multiplication.
The original statements of Tourgee were
false enough, in oil conscience, to satiate
the malignity of ordinary men, but it
seems that it was only q 1.-THE of that which
ranked in the hearts of these two officials.
The Tribune says:
I'VE have a word for Governor Holden and
election we printed letter from Judge Tour
gee concerning the Ku-Klux outrages in that
State. Certain very startling statements were
made in it which, but for the respectable sigma
ture, would have been universally secuted.
Judge Tourgee promptly wrote US, complaining
that the figures he had given, in enumerating
cases of outrage, had been increased tenfold by
the addition OF cipher to each, converting ten
into hundred, etc. Now. printed the letter
precisely as Governor Holden in person delivered
it to our correspondent, and as the correapon-
dent understood that Governor Holden had had
received it from Senat Abbott, to whom it was
addressed. We submit to these gentlemen that
they have allowed too long time to elapse
without explaining to US how the disgraceful
garbling occurred. We should have expected
them to be indignant we're ourselves at
1be fraud practced upon Us, and to be prompt in
exposing the forger who abused their trust tin
copying the Lottery by putting into Judge Tour
gees mouth INDUSTRIOUS assertions which he
never dreamed OF utterlng. Governor Holden
who garblcd the letter which you gave cor
respondent?
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Rn-DIREcr.

Didn't hear anything about the box that
night nor on Monday; never heard of it
before here to-day.
TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE.
After told Kirk and Burger what /
saw. stayed with them for fear OF being
molested.
Adjourned to o'clock.
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acc,dent 20 BIsnop DAVIS.

We End the following in the Wfnnsboro'
IS. O. News of the goth instant@:-'sWe are
sincerely sorry to hear that the venerable
Bishop Davis is suffering from an accident
having fallen 'front.' his besE land 1t Is
feared has hurt his spine. The bishop IS
entirely blind and very feeble. His vista
ton to. Winnsboro'g is necessarily post
poned. He is at present at Cantiei1.
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Americans are said to be the greatest
wearers of kid gloves of any nation IN the
world.
Those jute-switch-insect death items are
becoming snspieiously numerous. VINO
has invented rival chignon ?s.sl....- s4-
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In Beaufort N. O., on the 22d inat. MIS- M >
Redmond, Of Tarboro', aged 70 years.
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:. qN@N &eAEFH
pany witt Mr. WilkalEon ,VNyfliclr was T.
think. about 5-o'eIockg AAhnhtla rf ie FROM : I
T Town we qEeI 91Ssf ~ y and
ter q nj mile, islflHhs Is tho B5Sts "
made that day. At the fork road they tool,
the Milton road we the Leasburg road. -
About three miles from town overlook a.
Jerry Smith and MIR. Disn1uk esq and tray
eled with them to Mt. lCovinetor' q miIes
from Yanceyville, whereE arrived about
sunset. Here Wilkerson turned off co.
ward home, Smith and myself went On tn ~.
my gate, within half a. annie afomy lhouse.
which was about dusk. gs sd5 ssaser.s -.
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Hubbard and Fowler followed Stephens
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For thu To,,,.

The Election Matters ia EAFr.a yc9tevIlf1 .fg
Magnificent Crops fsa Cum terItsrrs4 rTey. s.
nett, Moore and cIIflssisa.s, axyes.ey,,s e.
RniIrOad-The Prnpoaed ExtensInr -
, 1870-05-31
CROPS.


The Decatur Magnet says: "We have neyc.
known, during the last eighteen years, so fiat
tcriug a prospect for an abundant harvest in
Macon County as now.'
w1scoEs1N.
Tho Wausau Wisconsin, Says: "CropB in the
country arc looking splendld-nevcr betteE,-
and our farmers arc in good spirits over the
prospect Of big crop. This season il nearly
1 month earlier than usual, and tho indications
allied"
LA CnossE, May 27.-Weather clear and
Tery pleasant The recent rains have tie
effect Of doing much for crops.
Tho Indianapolis journal Of the 2Gth says
IA correspondent writing from Oregon, Inil-
ana, reports the wheat crop promising; corn
all planted, and much Of it up; oats and grass
ion the 20th) needed rain peaches and apples
promise an abundant yield. The gone1nlity of
the farmers in Jennings County have got their
corn planted, aud are now begging for rain
10 sprout it. The oat crop viii bo greatly
damaged by the dry weather, not promising
half crop in that county. With farge bee
tic and the potato bug, which arc working on
the early potato plants, tue probability is that
-ISD1ANAFoL1s, May Complaints OF
drought arc still prevalent in all sections Of
the State.
DUBUQUE. May 27.-Weather clear and
pleasant. The recent rains have been Of great
benefit to tho farmers in this vicinity. Pros
poets for crops are good.
-AfcGnEaoR, Mny 27.-Weather clear Tho
recent rains have given the farmerH just what
they wanted. The prospect for crops is very
good.
-LASs1Nu, May 27.-Tho weather is clear
and pleasant. Wheat crop favorable.
MINNESOTA.
ST. PAUL, May Weather clear and
pleasant.
-W1SoSA, May a. Weather cool and
cloudy. There WAS u heavy rain hero las
NIGHT
, 1870-05-31
RAILROADS.

The Des Moines Register aayB; "There are
Indications that John /. Blair does not intend
to complete the St. Paul Sioux City Road the
present Beason."
Tie Fox River Valley Railroad is being
completed, ready for the cars, at the rate Of
toward Ottawa, are ready for the rolling
stock.
1t is reported that locomotive will run
over the entire line from Decatur to East st.
Louis, in less than fortnight.
Work commenced on the new railroad
from Quincy to Warsaw, by way Of Carthage,
on the 23d, at Bear Creek, Hancock County.
The grading of tue Iowa Central hotween
Alba and Oskaloosa is nearly completed, and
track-laying begins on the 18Th Of June. The
NarehailtoNn & Oskaloosa Division will be
ready for iron on the list day Of August.
The Muscatine Western Railroad Company
was fairly organized on Monday of last week.
Tha capital stock is fixed at SO, 900, ,000,-to
be Increased to go, ,000, 900 il circumstances
should warrant it.
The Nebraska City Chronicle, Of the 25th,
hundred miles Of the State Line Road, which
makes its terminus at Nebraska City il let
from the town Of Pennington west. Some
two hundred men are now at that place, and
will commence work Immediately. Kun1or has
/ that the road has fallen into tho hands OF .
powerful corporation, who will push It through
20 speedy completion as last as A0of anu
money can do it,"
The Board Of Directors Of the New Al
.iauy l. St. Louis Airline Railway Company
net ut New Albany on Tucaday night, ana
unanimously resolved to put under contract
he ten miles Of the road from Princeton, thb-
on County, to the east bank Of the Wabash
liver, at hi. Carmel, nhnoia. Arrangements
re being made to have the line completed by
he 1st Of January.
, 1870-05-31


going to light ? Lead US agAias. s:as ea-
eny and we'll all turn out But wa7can't
bother 10 drill" He reports to head
quarters ore hundred men, ready formarch.
ing orders. After months Of the accumula,
ton Of these lies, force of 10000 men is
reported. The Canadian army is counted al
1000, and 10, in the Indignant Of these
half-deceived, hn1f-deceiving bedlamites,
tie conditions for the conquest of Canada
are supplied! When the fabric built on
lies is demolished, mutual recrimina-
;.tion follows. But the fault
is htout evenly distributed over
the whole organization. If they had in
teligence and skill enough to plan md o1e-
cute sensible invasion Of Canada, they
could not but have intelligence and con-
science enough to perceive that any in
rasiou Of Canada at all would be an unmiti-
gated outrage, morally and politically But
if the Americanized portion Of the Irish
race, after enjoying years Of opportunities
for Improvement and culture in this coun-
Try, and having brought themselves to
much better condition, in oil respects, than
that OF their brethren in Ireland, are in-
competent either to sec the propriety of
letting Canada alone, or to plan sensible
expedition for its conquest, what reason e1-
lists to hope that if British power we're
wholly withdrawn from Ireland to-day, the
Fenians would be found capable of govern
ing Ireland?
, 1870-05-31

We scarcely know whether to be pleasea
or angry with Mr. Lynch's bill to appropri-
ate money out OF the public Treasury to
private individuals, to the extent Of $780,
900 in gold, for every ocean steamship
costing $500, 900, which any company or
individual may choose to build. It is an act
of Glaring robbery, and mny we'll excite
public indignation, but, on the other hand.
the impudence and knavery Of the transac-
ton are so clear to the naked eye that its
passage would 60 further toward breaking
down the whole system, miscalled "pro-
lection to American industry" than any ar
gument which its opponents could possibly
use. Hence, while We shall resist it with
all the meana in our power, we shall endure
IT, II it passes, with much equnuimity,
When the money begins to flow from the
pockets Of the people into the TREASURY,
and thence to the ship-builder, and thence
to the iron-maler, 80 that the taxpayer can
see the track that it makes, and observe all
the interesting details of the process, there
will be the devil to pay and no pitch hot.
Nr. Lynch may cry British gold, but
there will CRY, relative to the American
gold, that his bill EFFORTS from American
laborers, compared with which his imperti-
nent noise will be like tho singing Of a
musquito to frst-class hurricane.
, 1870-05-31

There are number Of lawyers in this
city whose earnings exceed $4,000 pei
year at what is technically known as zisi
pyius business. Some, who combine with
the ordinary practice, the attorneyship Of
railways and other corporations, mako much
more than $40, 900 per annur. In New
York city We have heard Of law
yers receiving as much US 300, 1000
from one corporation in one year, but Us
the cases for which these fees we're paid,
were tried before Judge Barnard, it is un-
fair to take them as q criterion of the
value Of legal services, since at least eighty
thousand dollars must have been charged
as the measure Of the disgrace of appear
ing before Barnard in railway litigation.
= These remarks are intended to justify in
some measure the action of the Senate in
raising the salaries Of Associate Justices OF
the Supreme Court of the United States to
$s,0O0, and of Judges of the Circuit Court
to $500. II is unreasonable to expect to
get hrst-class legal ability in first-class posi-
tons on the bench at fourth or ffth-class
compensation. The ends Of justice are
never promoted by niggard1y policy In
the payment Of Judges.
, 1870-05-31
IIIH0fa


Galcsbu1g has a Swedish woman over 100
years old
Many Of the farmers Of Stark County are
plowlng up their winter wheat and planting
corn in it's place.
Mrs. Cossell. Of Charleston, diod in that
city, few days ago, aged 95. She went there
forty years ago. She leaves II children, sc
grandchildren, 70 great-grandchildron and
Il neutrality-suspicious..
IOWA.
The waiter girls Of the hotel st Sioux City
refused to serve Spotted Tail, White Bear,
Green Oak, and Yellow Hair, when those
dnsky warriors went to the table, the other
day and the bartender YVES ignobly pressed
into their service.
Recently cat YVES taken from Jackson
County. 1ndiana, to Cincinnati, and in six DAYS
found her way back to her old home.
WISCONSIN,.
Tbs Baraboo Herald says q man named
Quirk, who lived in Franklin, Was returning
from Spring Green Lust Thursday evening,
and, when driving on brisk trot, + vheei
went into deep rut-hole, throwing Mr. 0,
ont: He struck on hiu head, and broke his
neck-suderlng I dislocation Of the spinal
yertebrn, and 80 nearly Aeyering tho spinal cord
that al bis body below Was pasalyzed almost
entirely He Was fully conscious up to lthc
time of his death, which occurred on Sunday !:
could talk freely, and knew he must die.
MICHI0AN.
The April product Of the National Copper
mine waH 18 tons 1000 pounds. The April
product Of the Cliff mine Was about 60 tons,
and the May product will be about tho same.
, 1870-05-31

Tho Hon. John A. Griswo1d refuses renom-
nation for Governor Of Now York.
Nineteen men have signifed their willing
ness to bo Governor Of Pennsylvania.
- Mississippi paper says tho legislators Of
that state are making good thing Of it, Be-
sides drawing s8 day, ono follows the topso-
rial profession, while another, moro inte1lectu-
ally gifted. plays the fiddle for dancing parties
The State election in Oregon takes place
! on the 9Th Of june. s. F. Grover is the Damo-
cratic candidate for Governor, and General Joel
Palmer tho Republican. For Congrehs-J, G,
Wilson, Of Wasco, Republican James II. sla-
ter. Democrat At the Presidential electionin
1868 the Democrats carried the State by 1G4
majority, which tho Republicans claim they
can overcome this year.
A Washington telegram to tho Boston
-ddcertiser says that the Hon. S. ?. Morrill,,
Representative from the second Maine Dis
tEict, has just returned from a ten days' visit
to his home, and that he admits that tho
chances are against him for denomination,
and says Vim. 7. Frye, present Attorney Gen
cral OF tho State, will probably be the next
member from his district.
The Cleveland Pla1ndealcr latoly came ont
in long editorial in favor OF the nomination
VI William f. Ambush, a colored barber, for
Published letter, eaia to have boon aigued By
some 700 OF the Democracy, asking Mr. Am
busl to accept the nomination; to which that
gentleman responded aflirmatvely.
- uo ASGH lOIh ECen2H1 f'D4k SAYS: Not
only are the people to choose New House Of
Representatives next November, but tho Legis-
laturee Of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachu-
setis, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware,
West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Alabema, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Kentucky, Arkansas, Michigan, Minnesota and
Nebraska, are eaclt ochoose United Statesscn-
ator. In the present House Of Representatives,
seyenly-eiglt members hold their seats by ma
jort!es under $500 and forty-iiro By major
vote r as very close For inetance, the follow
ing Democrats in the present House had less
than GOO majority johnson, Of California, oS2
majority C1ebs, OF Illinois, sos; Voorhees,,
Of Indiana. 1s2: Adams, OF Keutucky, 1852;
uamill. OF Maryland, 586 Welle, Of Missouri,
Isl Griswold, OF Now York, 5O8; Strsder,
at Ohio oil; Reading, Of PENNSYLVANIA, H.
The following Republicans in the present
House hold by less than GO0 majority: Isoots,
Of Arkansas, ACT; Jul,sn, Of Indiana, llG:
Orth, Of Indiana 457; Hin, Of New Jcraey,
78; Ketchum, Of New York, 425; Schenck ot
Ohio, 245; Stevenson, Ohio, 497 Smith, Ohio,
333 Winans, Ohio, 105; Walker, Ohio, 462;
Bingham, Ohio; 4l6, Cake, Of Pcnn-
sylvania, 225; Mercur, Pennsylvania, 31l;
Cessna, Pennsylvania, 81 Paine, Of Wiscon-
tin, 49, It will be seen that slight change
in opinion may in an5 Of these districts, and
in many others as we'll, whore the vote was
nearly as close, change tho result; and the
people should take notice OF this fact, and
force the politicians to put forward able and
honest men, capable Of understanding and de-
Tending the rights OF the people, ia Congress,
against the attacks of seekers after moaopo-
Lies and special privileges
, 1870-05-31

The Nation objects to the detention Of
the steamer Chicora, at the Sault Ste, Marie,
on the broad ground that nations and gov
ernments ought not to make asses of them
selves unnecessarily. This objection is 30
general in its character, and is capable of
SO wide an application, that We hope it
| will not be insisted upon.
It might be applied, for instance, to the
policy Of acquiring "outposts" to
| strengthen the country in time Of war, it
being ~eal Anuwu t1.at uurposta gonera1Ey
contribute surplus Of military and
naval strength to defend the country
in time of war, in addition to defending
themselves.
It might have an unpleasant and inyid-
ious bearing upon the policy OF making do
nations Of public funds to steamship COM
panies to enable them to carry our freight
as cheaply as foreigners are carrying it.
It might reflect upon the policy of nego-
tiating loans at per cent interest, in
market where 6 per cent is freely offered on
the same security, without first improving
the credit Of the borrower.
In fact, the objection is of so homogeneous
nature that it is likely to loss its force
when confined to SO Heterogeneous SUBJ
ject as the detention Of the Chicora.