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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10
A Most Horrible Murder-A Negro
Man Murdered on the SUPPOSE
lion That He was n Witch

From the last number of the CherO
kee Herald we copy the following &C
count of q most atrOciOus crime result
ting from the superstition of the ne
gro race:
Murph Harshaw, colored man who
ed in the vicinity OF Persimmon
creek, Cherokee county, mystersously
disappeared about the Oath inst. From
the talk aud conduct of the negr Q esin
the neighborhood, it was soon believe
ed that foul play had been used aud
Harshaw, probably had been muir
deed ;accordingl y several persons were
arrested and confessed the murder
and one of the prisoners took three or
four white men and pointed out where
the body had been buried in a muddy
branch.
The body was in decaying condi
ton, and presented q most horrible
appearances.
From this man Terrell Young they
obtained the following statement:
That he, Terrell Young, Dick Hyatt.
Ham Hyatt, Albert Jerrett, and Sam
Hyatt, took Harshaw from his house
on Saturday night the 18th inst, by
force, for the purpose of murde ring
him, that they intended to take him
to deep shaft, across the Georgia
line. in the Notil neighdorhood, but
OF their way, near the Rsper old gro
Gerry place, they Knocked him down
with g rock, beat him with clubs and
to make sure CT their work cut hia
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10
STATE NEWS.

WAKE MIR. W. Ill. Lyon, of Raj
eigh, recently drew in the Texas lot
cry valuable lot in Kaufman, Texas,
said to be worth several thousand dol
lars. He has received the deed to the
same. Mr.. Lyon ~ q ''single man."
A man answering the description of
Scott Partin, the Wake county wife
murderer, was seen near Peach Tree,
Nash county, on last Tuesday.
GaANvILLE.-The Radical sheriff of
Granville, has prove II to be defaulter
to large amount.
WILsoN-LAst Sunday negro
named Boon robbed the house of MIR.
J. l.. Horn. of Wilson county, of a
small mount of money and clothes.
In Wil~on county, on the day of
election, a negro was sent to the saw
mill for some lumber and went to
the voting precinct from the mill
When he returned, his employer ask
ed for the bill of the lumber bought.
when Cuffee produced a Radical ticket
He had mixed his papers, his lumb her
bill and tick ct, and voted the lumber
bill. When tina votes were counted
out the lumber was there.
GU1LroRD.-The Board of Educa-
ton for duilford County has made a
partial distribution of the school fund
for 1875, amounting to one dollar per
head. 1t is thought st cond distribu-
ton will be made i'll the Spring.
NAsH.-We hear that at a negro
preaching in Nash county seven
of the mourners fell into trance.
At the conclusion of the meeting six
ont of seven remained perfectly still
as if dead, just as they had fallen
four days previous. In all this time
they did not even stir. Their friends
sat up with them at night, but every
body left them when the meeting broke
up. We have good authority for this
statement.
FoRsYrHE. new Masonic Lodge
was organised at High Point on the
25th inst, under the title of Numa F.
Reid Lodge named in honor of the
late Rev. N. F. Reid, D. D. of the N.
G. Conference,
Judge Key the Unithd States Sena-
tor from Tennessee, has two daught-
ers at the Salem Academy.
CArAwBA.-Says the Charlotte o.
serOe''' "A youug man named Bollck
committed suicide a few days ago,
near Hickory. He was missing from
home last Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, but his absence caused no sus-
picion from the fact that he had been
III the habit of going from home and
staying for several days at a time.
On Sunday last his father, while at
church, made inquiries for hum, and
seal oh was instituted. Day before
yesterday, Monday, he was found sus-
pended by the neck and dead, in an
old pine field belonging to his fat her,
not far from the house.
The young man was about "a years
of age, and son OF David Bolick.
No cause is assigned for the act of
self-destruction. The coroner sum-
moned jury and held an inquest
over the remains.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10

s'-.upg Girl DruggeG yak Ell Ase
fore u o. rEynisra aud VI tr-
ried 10 a scamp,
NV suu Oowe,ro SDeisal.1

my, Sun Oowe.,o Speisal,1
Last Spring Mrs. Gulmaraez widow
of a wealthy Spaniard, who bcqueath-
ed her an estate of over million
dollars and all almost prince!y income
from royalties on all the mahogany
and other valuable timber exported
from certain districts OF Brazil. came
to this city from Rio Janeiro. Her
family con sisted OF her adopted daught-
ar, Jessie, a girl of great personal
beauty, whom Mrs. ,Gulmaraez adopt
ed at the age of four years, and Il
South Amer can girl whom she
brought wish her to educate. Mrs
Guimuraez was native of Oswego
county, aud adopted Jessie, who also
is her niece, during the life of her first
husband, with whom, as we'll as her
self. the child Was a pet. For several
years Jessie has been sent North, and
visited her mothers relatives in the
town of New Haven, Oswrgo. county,
where lives a family named Summons.
aud another named C.lkins, whom she
also visited.
On Monday the Simmonses visited
Mrs. GuimaraeZ, and Jessie was per-
mitted to go with them. jefferson
Simmons 10 statiOn-kceper at Sand
EIil, Il SuaIlOuo Oh GIt lSOu0 duu O5"6-
go railroad. CaIkins, whose wife is Il
cousin of Mrs. GujrnaraeZ, keeps Il
petty grocery at the same place. Ga
Tuesday afternoon, It is said that Jes-
sic was in Calkin's Store and
ne asked her to drink some
pop. She drank one gIassful. after
whloh she claims to have become un-
| conscious, in which condition she was
| h1,E ronIy Gall
son OF the storekeeper, who drove to
| bonneville, three miles distant, and
| there a Baptis minister married him
| to the girl, after which he drove back
| to Sand Hill and left her at Simmons
house. Jessie says that the first thing
she recollects afCer drinking the pop
is being IL Mrs. Simmons house, and
b. airing young Calkins telling Mira. ..
that they were married. She has al
indlstinct recollection of riding along
Il road in the interval of unconsciO u.s.
ness The evening of the marriage
young Calkins went to Oswego, told
Mrs. Guimaraez that Jessie had mar
RED him, and tried to reconcile her tC
the match. On Wednesday morning
Jessie returned. accompanied by her
friends, and told her story alleging
that she had been drugged. On the
the afternoon of the same day Mrs
Guimlraez started with Jessie to Hi
nols, Intending for the present to leave
her with her parents, who live some,
where IN that State, and to procure
| divorce at once.
The friends Of the girl allege that il
was job put up by the Ca k:nses, who
knew Mrs. GuImuraez' s affection fol
Jessie, and she would be the sole heir
ess of her wealth. Caklns is dIsso
lutte fellow; aud has been employed a.
a track hnnG on the Rome and OswegC
railroad. The Calkiuses will proOabl,
be proceeded against crlminally TO
abduction.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10
A DIVORCE AT LAST.
DcE@Ii Of the chicago t:OacMsa,a 1,
isO married his Masters
Daughter.
r. hiCacO COuriCr.1

The end Of romance in real life!
Lyndon IS dead. Lyndon, the gay
festive conchman, who won immortal
fame by marrying his-master's daugh-
ter: Lyndon, usSand of the tickle FL
la, amt -in-law of the savage Han
cock; Lyndon who almost exchanged
ms seat on the top Of the grand fami-
ly conah for one inside. and his cot in
the stable loft for the crack bed-cham-
Der OF a palace; Lyndon the hero of
the divorce courts and the sensation
of the city two years ago-Lyndon is
dead. The wealthy pork packers
daughter has her divorce a. last,
Something over two years ago the
comm unity was startled by the an
nouncrm, ut that a clandestine mar
riage had taken place between Lyn-
don, Il c"achman in the emp oy of Col.
John Hancock, one of the weAlthiest
pIovls ion dealers in the city, and the
daugl ter Of the last named important
perso2iage. The'atfair created great
deal OF scandal and provoked extern
sive comment. The bride, Ella Han
cock, was something less than IS
Years Of oge and very attractive per-
son. Lyndon had no attraction what
ever. He was low born illiterate
Englisnman. The marriage was
secretly celebrated, and the p>r-
ties separated Immediately af-
forwards, taking their old respective
places IN the household. The parents
did not hear of the event for several
days afterwards, and by that time the
young lady-the bride who was not
yet wife-had gained her senses suf-
tic entity to be willing and anxious to
assist Eer parents In aeverving the tie.
Suit for divorce was at once COM
menced, but decree was refused
An appeal WIS taken to the supreme
court ~hlch remanded the case to the
lower courts, where it still remains
undecided.
About three months after the marriage
Lyndon had the young lady brought into
court on writ of habcas corpus. The
judge then gave her a free choice be-
tween joining her husband and re-
naming with her pareuts Che at
once chosed the latter course, and
since that time Lyndon has made no
further attempt to interfere with her.
Mr.. Trude, Lyndon's lawyer, lately
abandoned his client, owing to his
gross dissipation. He found the coach
man some months ago at police sta
ton, under an assumed name, filled
with bad rum, and covered with filth.
He gave him money to pay his fine,
and ''shook" the fellow, satisfied, the
lawyer says, that Lyndon's sole motive
of late seemed to be to blackmail his
rich fatherin-law, and this the attor-
ney was unwilling to countenance.
Lyndon died yesterday afternoon at
3 o'clock at the residence of AJax
ander, corner of State and Twenty
seventh streets. He has been confined
two weeks with Inflammation of the
bowels. His funeral will take place
this afternoon at o'clock.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10
throat with a knife, then hid his body

throat with knife, then hid his body
as auove stated.
All the above named parties Were
Immediately arrested, together with
Peter HArsnaw, Margaret Harshaw,
wife Of the deceased, Sides Hyatt,
john Harshaw and 3 ok Moore, and
on an investigation before d. Craig,
Justice of the peace, were ali commit
tel to j Ill. but on further examlna-
ton before d. Weeks, Esq, it appear
ing that tho murder had been commit
ted on the Georgia side of the State
line, prisoners were accordingly turn
ed over to the Georgia authorities to
be dealt with according to law.
The prisoners by way OF mitigation,
say that Harshaw was wit h, that he
had bewitched Pie. Harshaw and
others of their friends, aud that they
We're advised by Tennessee negro
doctor. that in order to be relieved
from his witchery they must cnt bis
throat and bury him in the mud.
This is the most cruel and outrageous
murder that has ever occurred III our
country; Ii man at home quietly at
tending to his own business, Is forci-
BILE dragged from his home and family
and brutaliy murdered by mob who
nllege he VS. witch.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10

4 <hcs; with $4,000 ia DOuHinons
Found,
GNnw Orleans Bulletin.

W" oIleAhs lcllh.
There have always been for many
wears past yauge rumors floating about
that along the Louisiana and Mississ-
ippi coast the men of Latitte had bu-
rie.i treasure. Every now and then
we hear Of expeditions starting on a
search for the hidden booty, but what
may be their success is never known.
1t will be remembered, doubtless,
that some years ago certain family
here received from the dying lips Of
one of I.atitte's men the description of
a spot where chest OF dOublOons was
to be found. The two sons started
but never returned. A third of the
family started but was drowned IN Il
storm TINS fatality has, III meas
IRE, dampened the ardor of many.
and We now hear of fewer such trips.
Fhe quiet of the coast has, how
ever, Just been serlOusl Y disturbed,
and as We earn from Mr.. Holly, OF
the Unite i States Circuit Court, inst
returned from Bayou La Battre thirty
miles this side of Mobile, on the New
Orleans Railroad, there is money fe
V raging
Il ppears that five days ago, Mt De
wills ilut", a curious craft OF schooner
rig put III. She was very small, but
had the appearance OF having come
some distance, her buIld being unlike
anything seen hcreubUuts for years. -
Her crew consisted of two men and IL
dog. I;,e men cOnveretd we'll III Eng
llsh, nnd from their appearance wer"
, evidently connected with the sea.
Coming 10 anchor at shutdown, just
on side, 3smau came ashore and row
ing mp to ii fisherman at the mouth of
the bayou, asked him if he would pilot
them up to this Devils Hol. They
rave hInI at once forty dollars in gold,
CA tins agreement, and accordingl,
th,. other man on board the schooner
Vas Siynniied. He rowed in with spades
iauterlIS. etc, i'll the boat aud all got
III. pIIotcd by the fisherman they
vent up the bayo i four miles and
commenced work.
! Thew selected a spot from diagram
! they consulted. aud after digging un-
! til 1915 that night the spade touched
/ metal box. They became very ex-
! cited, dug taste, and at last lifted out
of the hole, some seven feet in depth,
d strong iron chest, corrOdcd and rus
/ ty. breaking it open with an iron
bar, they We're rewarded by sight Of
| $50, OGO III gold coin. The fisherman
was excited, and hardly knew what to
do.
He heard them count the money,
and imagine d they were of some band
of robbers. He assisted them with
/ the ch>st down to the boat. They
rUwed IF to the schooner. When the
1isher,uau looked out over the waters
next morning no sail was in sight.
VIC were these mysterious visitors
Is the question low agitating the den
liens OF D4you La Battrc.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10
act q her curreLcv without any re-

tract d her curreLcy without any re-
gard whatever to gold. Her enormous
trade aud expenditures were all paper
and only paper, resting on credit and
nothing else We had similar pros
parity during the war aud after, on the
same terms. In 1920 England, yield
lg to theorists and dreamers, tried to
put this new wine into old bottles, and
dragged her business back to methods
a century o.d-to specie. Bankruptcy,
the very history OF which makes the
blood cold to-day, blighted the En-
pire. 1t took half a generation to re-
cover fro the mistake. No man eau
to-day begin to show that such suffer,
ing was necessary; that it achieved
any good or that itet1ected any changes
when could not have been as well
made without it. We entered tnat
same valley of the shadow Of death
when, in 1865, McCnlloch began
contraction. We are hurrying fast to
England's 1920; property sunk to hall
It's former value; the streets crow led
with unem ployed men fast rottlng INTO
criminals; grass growing on tlie
wiarves, machinery rusting. wealth
alarmed, poverty starving. woe 70
the political party which the nation
shall finally pronounce responsible for
this fatal mistake. No previous mer-
it's viii avail for It's pardon. Its iead-
prs will be buried in curses, as me- Ii
whom "either history nor their own
exper ence could make wise.
We lament, as well as we may, the
Widespread corruption of business
men and office-hoiders. But where
such corruption in high places stea:s q
do lar. contraction-this well-meanlnG
ignorance of bullionists-robs the
people # thousands. If this genera,
ton is ever bankrupt, its bankruptcy
will be not the work of knaves, but OF
honest men following jack-o'lantern
and dragging us to ruln. Yours,
Y GNDELL PHILLIPS.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10
tho Result of Judge Settles
Visit.

As soon as Judge Settle had granted
aheariug to the petitioners for man
ddnaats against the Robson county
commissioners, he took the train for
Washington City. 1t is supposed that
the administration gave him little en-
couragement and held out no promise
of military support. since he returns
and forthwith decides that ne has no
jurisdiction in The case. Every sane
man knows that Judge Settle knew
that he had no jurisdiction in the mat
ter, just as we'll when he granted the
petition as he did after hearing the
case. just as we'll before he went to
Warrington as afterwards. OF course.
he had heard all the circumstances.
Why then die he not so decide at fast
Simply because he proposed to go to
Washington and ascertain how far the
administration would support him in
his arbitrary and revolutionary de-
signs. The administration "bacSed.
II m N
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10
The two NIuon TsUu.I.

The two moon month hath left MS
alter a warm and protracted stay
Tins Is an unusual occurrence, not
having occurred before since about
1853. Certain old women have a
tradition that sickness and mortality
prevail in an unusual degree when
the event occurs, which story we have
as much faith III as one to the effect
that by looking at the new moon
over your right shoulder and wishing.
three things, they will be granted.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10

IT has become evident that when
San Francisco, according to Bayard
Taylor. "Oped to the sunset her gate
way of gold" she left the gateway
ajar considerably too long.
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks
that in making lying assertions that
the Democrats and Roman Catholics
have formed coalition against the COM
mon school system the Republicans
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10
The ComvenIionInC Court

Yesterday in Court, the question of
taking up the civil docket was touched
upon. When Gen. Baringer asked the
Court what arrangements could be
made whereby his cases could be dis
posed of this week. He said that he
would. necessarily be absent next week
in attendance upon the Constitutional
Convention, which assemblies at Raj
eigh on Monday, and he had infor-
nation. as he thought, that the Con
UentiOn ,UOuld not adjOuyn in1n1ediatc-
Y
This shows which way the cat hops.
Charlotte ObSCrrcr
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10

LoUIsANA's last orange crop
amounted to 16, $50, 900, and realized q
net profit of $4,000. The custom
there is to sell the frdit on the trees at
ten dollars a thousand and let the
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10

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va .r.g cd there is no special fea-
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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10
Cotton Trade OF WtiIniMyt ton.

The JOURNAL of the End inst., gives
a comparative table of the receipts of
cotton at that port for the year ending
Sept. LIST, 1874 and Sept. LIST, 1875
The comparison shows very graft
flying increase, the amount for former
year being Al, 900 and for the last,
rs, OO7, an increase of $4,000.
This increase is dine to seversl
fine geographical position of Whining
ton. now made available by its rail
road connections, and still farther
utilized by the energy of the mer-
chants of Wilmington who have now
taken into their own hands what they
have heretofore permitted to pass by
them. They have become buyers and
exporters, they have erected COM
presses and warehouses, and they o.
fer advantages possessed by few other
points in the country.
There is little reason why Whining
ton should not rank ia few eprs
as one of the first cotton ports in the
couutry-lttle reason why she should
fall behind Norfolk, and none at all
why she should not equal Norfolk in
the amount handled on her own
account.
Che same energies which have with
in the last few years developed them
so much will not flag until they have
accomplished all that is before them.
-Rakeigh NelOs.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10

r. E. TREvRLL1CK, President of the
National Labor, Union, is now canvass
ing Ohio in favor of the Democratic
State ticket.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10
4 POallotOg zeal Curiosity.

A gentleman living on Wrlghtville
Sound has an apple tree two or three
years old, which he trauspianted in
the early part of the year. The tree
apparently, died. Late in the spring,
after some good rams had fall en-, the
tree bu1ded afresh and bloomed, and
again presented every indication of
vigorous life. About a score of apple
formed on it and grew to good size.
The drought came on, and to all apper-
ances, the tree again died. The
leaves all withered and fell off, and all
the apples except one fell off also.
Since the rains of tue early part of
last month, the tree had again RETURN
ed to life, and now it has not only a
full supply of luxuriant foliage, but
that one apple is still on it, aud the
tree il in full bloom. This is rather
IN unusual vegetable phenomenon.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10

There are we'll attested facts of this
apparently mysterious and evanescent
representation of materia! life imme-
diately upon opening the long closed
cases of the dead.
The mOdus Operandi must be left to
the student of Natural Science; but
perhaps We may venture to suggest,
that the geological nature of the soil,
combined with long excluded gasses
may, upon suddenly escaping, have
photographed an aerial identity of the
dead. and vanish away as suddenly as
it appeared.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-10
For the JOURNAL
KEVOlU xARV HNCaDE IN OF
1881.


"slowly AID :dly we hi him down,
From the field of his fame. fresh and CORY;
We carved not line, we tised not stone,
But left him alone with his glory"