Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-18

james Barron Hope lectures in Raj
cigh on May Day.

james barron hope lectures III Hall
cigh on May Day.
The Temperance organizations of
GoldsDoro' propose to get up grand
picnic, Oh or about the End of May.
Simpson .Mordecai and Thomas
Griffin, both colored, who were con-
victed at the Superior Court of Wake
county of burglary, and sentenced to
be hanged, but who appealed to the
Supreme Court for new trial, are to
hang on the 3Oth of May
The Milton Chronicle says Harri-
son Donoho, on old colored man, met
his death prematurely on Saturday
evening last by fighting fire. The old
man was clearing up land with the
view of pitching cropwhen fire broke
out Ill the broom grass which he at
tempted to put out, and in the effort
it is thought he inhaled the flame that
killed him instantly.
The Fayetteville Statesman says: S.
A. Baldwin, J. F., yesterday committed
to await the requisition of the Gov
ernor of South Carolina, Calvin Fai-
son, charged with stealing a mule
from DIR. Jas. H. Powe, near Cheraw,
S. G. He was tracked all the way to
the Courthouse in Fayetteville, where
the trail was lost; but was afterwards
arrested by Deputy-Sheriff J. A.
Brown, with the property in his pos
session.
The Charlotte Observer says: For
day or two past there has been on ex-
hibitiOn here a perfect curiosity. 1t
is a young pigeon, with four perfectly
formed legs, the two unnatural ones
being just under the wings. Unfor-
tunate1y the pigeon was killed by
hen (whose neck has been wrung) i'm
mediately after being born, but it has
been preserved in alcohol. The GU
riosity is the property of Mr. John L.
Butler, and was born on his premises.
It can be seen at New Idea Saloon
The Raleigh News says: Yesterday,
about 8 a. ~, at Clayton, Johnston
county, fire broke out in pile of cot
ton, containing about Al bales, belong
ing to A. Horne. The fire ragged for
about thirty minutes when it was ex-
tinguished by the eXertions of the
citizens of the village. About six hun
dred dollars worth of cotton, at pres
| ent prices, was destroyed. The fire is
| supposed to have originated either
from sparks from passing locomotives
on the railroad, OF the steam saw mill
near by.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: Less
than year ago a vlrtuous young girl
was living i'll private family in this
county. She became enamored of a
young man of rich but respectable
parents. And in her confidence he be-
came her master.
Months having elapsed he became
enlmOred of another woman, and he
gave the other ten dollars, which but
conveyed her away from where he Was,
and when she arrived in R4leigh she
was destitute The chief of police
| was informed of her critical condition
when he had been notified
| Having ascertained where she was
! (having been conveyed there By kind
hand) he sought the nearest at hand
practitioner OF surgery and medicine
he could find, who was DIR. Mckee.
! She became a mother-twenty-two
years of age next July.
She is an orphan. Her father was
a Confederate soldier, and when he
had been killed during the late war,
| her mother returned from Tennessee
| to this State and soon afterwards died
She is now lying in a house, in the
! suburbs of the city, in IA critical cordi-
ton. The police authorities have fur
nished her money and have done eve
rything they could for her comfort
| 1t is expected that the Christian
! people of Raleigh (but this is no
| appeal, for all those who are true will
AID this suffering woman, will at once
respond to this call of humanity.
The Charlotte Democrat says: In
| this county. on the 9TH inst, Mrs
| Catharine Williams, died, aged l13
years. She died at the residence of
Mr.. John ID. Hunter in Mallard Creek
nejghborhood. Up to within two
weeks of her death she could walk
about yery well and converse 1luently.
and her oversight was not much i'm
| paired. She never took dose of doc
| tors medicine i'll her life In old times
| she was Il near neighbor to McNitt
| Alexander, one of the prominent ac-
! tors in the Mecklenhurg Declaration of
Independence i'll May, 1775, and re-
membered the transactions of that
! memorable OCCASION. Within the past
fifteen years of her life she never drank
coffee or tasted spurious liquors of
any kind. She was a commitment of
the Presbyterian Church up to the day
of hel death.
The Charlotte Southern Home says:
Col. Stephen Lee, of Asheville, sent
seven sons to the Confederate army,
three of whom gave their lives for the
cause of Constitutional liberty
Another son, Capt. w. T. Lee, lost an
arm at Charlottesville. The old gen
tleman, though over sixty at the out
break of the war, volunteered himself
and became colonel of a regi-
ment. He discharged his arduous
duties well and faithfully, until
his health broke down utterly,
when he became a member of the
Home Guards and remained in service
till Grantism was inaugurated at APP
pomattox Court House. The veteran
is the father of Col. Chas. Lee, whose
memory is precious in North Carolina,
and the uncle of Gen. Stephen d. Lee.
He is Christian gentleman of the
old school, "a cLevalier without fear
and without reproach"-a type of the
former civilization of the South. We
will never again have the same class of
noble men and women. We can only
hope that their memory viii be cher
ished
The Raleigh Sentinel says: The Fair
of the State Agricultural Society will
be held at Raleigh on the 18th. 18th,
18th, 10th, 18th and 18th October next
six days. The grounds are nearly
enclosed and are being cleared off
The contract for furnishing 100000
feet of lumber for the buildings, will
be awarded this week, and the erection
of the buildings will be commenced
within ten days. The work of con-
structing the buildings will be under !
taken by the Executive Committee,
their purpose being to employ com
petent practical builder to hire hands /
and to superintend the work By this |.
course the cor-mittee expect to save a
few Thousand. dollars. The buildings, |
it is expected, will be completed in
ninety days after their erection shall |
have been commenced.
The committee DrOpOSe if found ne