Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-05-08
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meet again OH thursday, May IN, at
o'clock F. NJ
District Court.
This body is still in session here at
the I. 5. District Court Room.
The only item of interest that We
could CLEAN there yesterday was the
I trial Of Haincs, the colored mail agent
on the Wilmington, Columbia and
| Augusta Railroad and brother to big
State official i'll South Carolina, who
was charged with the theft, some
months since, of small sum Of money
from the United States mail. He sub
mitted the case and was remanded to
Jail, but will be brought into Court
this morning at ten o'clock, when
sentence will be passed upon him by
His Honor. Judge Brooks.
The war in Spain is as atrocious in
its character as any of the former civil
conflicts in that most distracted
country. In the recent combats the
Republicans have lost not less than
1000 men killed and wounded The
war is conducted with such ferocity
that in some instances no quarter is
given In a recent action at San Pedro
a party of Carlists, finding escape inn
possible, fell on their knees and begged
for mercy ''for the love of God" But
the Infatuated troops of the Govern
ment massacred them on the spot with
the bayonet, in retaliation Of similar
acts of inhumanity on the part OF the
Carlists.
Insecure buildings seem to be some
what of an epidenlic, judging by the
intelligence We are receiving from
widely separated localities, of the I'M
fortunate results of the falling of I'M
stable structures. In Philadelphia
several badly constructed houses were
blown down by the recent high winds,
aud similar report comes from
Brooklyn, while on last Tuesday three
buildings fell in Newgate street, Lon
don, several person being crushed in
the ruins. Quite an excitement was
caused in New York last week by the
discovery that a spacious ediice on
Twenty eventh street, extending from
Broadway to Fifth avenue, known as
the ''Steyens Apartment Buildings
was so insecure as to be unsafe.
Seams in the ceilings and assures IN
the walls gave unmistakable signs of
weakness.
Sunset Cox, having been called
upon to respond to the toast "Heaven-
ly Mechanism" at a recent dinner IN
New York, said he thought it an ano-
maly for any one from Washington to
speak of heavenly affairs.
The latest and rather significant
novelty in Paris is the appearance OF
apparently genuine five franc pieces,
with the imprint of the head Of young
Napoleon, and the words, Napoleon
", Emperor" on the one side, and
the imperial arms on the other. The
word "Essai," engraved in small let
tiers on the coin, protects 1t against
government interference.
The Memphis appeal says: On
the morning eff the twenty-seventh OF
April Colonel w. B. A. Ramsey, for
two terms Secretary of State OF this
State, breathed his last at hisresidence
in Edgefeld. The deceased gentle
man was prominent in public life III
the golden age of the State, at time
wien her public men were the equals
of the best i'll any of the States OF the
Union, and held deservedly high
position among them, receiving the
sufrages of the Legislature of 1847 8
and 1852, for the position named
above, which he filled most acceptably.
He was member of family that has
given the State many able men, among
them DR.. J. G. nj. Ramsey, the his
torian of Tennessee, now nhis seventy
eighth year, who watched blythe death
bed of his aged brother to the last.
As an instance of the effect Of heat
and cold in expanding and contracting
the iron of the dome of the National
Capital, it is stated that the colossal
statue surmounting it inclines four and
a half inches to the west in the fore
noon, and the same distance to the
east in the afternoon. This fact has
been ascertained by fixing a plumb
line to the statue and dropping it to
the rotunda below. AS the morning
sun upon the east side of the dome
heated the iron and caused an expan-
sion on the side of the statue it was
thrown westward four and half