Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-12-20
STATE NEWS.

No loafers in Asheviue
They are getting out ice in Raleigh. |
Eccs 35 cents per dozen in Wadesboro'.
Came yerv plentiful in Buncombe county.
town lot sold in Mt. Airy for S4,41O |
per acre.
3enbow wants to sell his big hotel Ill
Greensboro.
Charlotte has had but one death from
the horse disease.
Thermometer only above zero in
Rslaga Oh Friday.
The horse malady has sp-ead through
all the mountain counties.
Mr.. Seth NJ. Carpenter has gone to Wojk
on the Newbern Times as local editor.
Mr.. Wash Branch, of LouisVli!e, R!l-o
a hog, a few days ago. thaI "e'sr0' ~
pounds. 80, A.
,,-arad at the door for ST per cord is out
rageous.
Thss. d. Tnogh has bought The residence
ofC. NJ. Me doc, III Greensboro, Tor the
sum Of $40 0
Some body stole from the Sentinel office,
nm THURSDAY morning, nearly 500 copies !
of that days paper
little son Of Mr.. J. A. Ford, residing |
mar Smithfeld was seriously bitten by
bull d)g few days age.
A post-office has been established at
Rose Hill, in Duplin county, with MT
Alsa Switzerland as postmaster.
According to the Advertiser, the Ma5no-
liza guard house is SO much out OF repair
that the prisoners go and come at their
own convenience.
A tournament is to take place at Mount
Olive on the oath inst. Four handsome
nrizes are to be awarded to the four mos
successful Knights.
The Charlotte Observer says that six
new Gardiner Fire EZtinguishers recently
ordered for the Hook and Ladder company
of that city, arrived on Monday.
The Wilson Plaindealer says: The small
pox has made its appearance at Sharrs-
burg, in Nash county, near Rocky Mount,
and we know several have died Of it in
Nashville.
The Weldon News says We regret to
learn that on Monday night the gin house
Of MIR. James Hancock, at the Caledonia
farm, was burned; it contained forty OF
fifty bales of cotton, q gin and cotton press,
four mules and u fine buggy horse, and
also Is barrels of corn, which were all en-
tireiy consumed. The loss is about 5000.
Messrs. Stephenson brothers were also
losars to the amount Of four bales OF
The fire is supposed to have been the
result Of All accident. No Insurance.
Miss Jeanie Patterson.
A lady friend, resident at Oxford, sends
the Raleigh Sentinel the following sketch
which we take pleasure ii publishing. Size
writes US
"As much curiosity has been expressed
in relation TO the history Cf Miss Jeanie
Patterson, and her reasons for appearing in
public, / think il would DC acceptable to
the readers Of the Sentinel for you to rcpub
lish in it the enclosed reliable statement"
A TOUCHING sToEY-THE TWO DEBU-
TANTEe.
About the close Of Piercc5 adminiotra-
ton, or the beginning Of Buchanan's, a
gifted son CT Claiborne county, Mississippi,
graduate Of Oakland College, was ap-
POINTED, Chiefly Though the instrument
Atty of Gov. a. &. Brown, ana the .ate
Gov. McRae, then our Senator and Repre-
sentative in Congress-, Consul at Genoa
This appointment as made to eEcouras &c
and aid our friend in the culture Of his
rare talent as an artist-a talent lie had
early developed, and which, it was be-
lieved, only required culture to make
him eminent as painter and draught-
man. Some specimens of miniatures from
his pencil are perfect gems Of beauty. His
portraits are life like, and the colorng adj
and caricatures have the bold stroke and
sardonic grin of Hogarth. Uniting with
this special talent highly cultivated taste
and poetic imagination, this accomplished
man established his studio in the 'City CT
Palaces tie Queen Of fair Italy, and
solemllly dedicated his life to art. But
while lettering himself with his brilliant
prospects, studying tie old masterpieces in
that peerless city, and communicating with
6iStiur,Iicfnd J,rCfaSG0rG qtiiirti0!l fell
upon his household. For months Lis
Children lay i'll with the slow aud fatal
typhus, and at length his wife perished-a
woman of Southern type, feminine, shrink
ing like the sensitive plant, from the rude
touch ur gaze of the world, but armed with
Ruperhuman courage to endure great and
ulay oidable misfOrtunes. Her only brother
citizen of New Orleans, Adjutant Of Crit
tenden's battalion in the fatal Lopez eX-
pedtsion for the liberation Of Cuba, persisted
with him, and with fifty gallant young men
Of New Orleans in the massacre Of Ateres
logged by The ferociOus Tabble and muir
dered by the Spanish Infantry. Whel
ordered to kneel, Crittendon replied
"Americans kneel Only to God" ere
verse your positions" NO said Victor
Ker, eve look death in the face Cow
ards,'' exc aimed Lieut.. James, a native
of Win N, in this State, ''ouc coun
try will ge US "Libcry forever,
shouted djutant Stanford, and lis voice
mingled win the crash of musketry ana
the groans of dying patriots.
The sister Of this heroic man died il
Genoa, leaving her husband and house
hold of children. One or more died and
the father himself was stricken with blind
ness, thus cut Off forever from the pursuit
OF art, and any other means Of earning 6
support. Our civil war soon supervened
depriving him Of his consular office, and Of
the little means he had left in Mississippi
He had widowed sister in this State
woman of rare talent-once mistress of 8
splendid fortune, left by reverses and by
the war without a cent. But she, with
the unvarying affection and fn1titude Of
true woman. by teaching a school by day.
time and sewing by night, after nearly two
years hard work, was able to bring hel
blind brother and his children back to the
United States, where she has supported
them ever since. Iu this labor OF love she
has been aided by his eldest daughter, a
lovely girl, distinguished for her amiable
traits, her mOdesty and reserve, as we'll as
for her superior talents. Her pecu.
liar gift is in recitation or declama
ton. These have occasionally been ex.
hibted for charitable purposes, and now
she has been prevailed on by her friends
70 exhibit them in public for the sup.
port of her blind father and little broth-
crs. The dumb son of Croesus spoke tC
save his fathers life; and this young
difident and maidenly daughter Of Mis-
SaRippi now comes before the public fol
purpose no less sacred. With no oppor.
tunity for culture, without ever taking a
tession in elocution, having never even
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