Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-03-12
STATE NEWS,

The Graham Gleaner.in speaking Of
tie heavy rains says: III our counts,
the bridge across Big Alamance at
G. Curtis has been much damaged;
and the one cross tho same stream al
Hollis factory wcs swept entirely
away, We lear Of damage to the fac
tories on Deep River, in Randolph.
The Newbern Journal of Commerce
learns that the Sheriff of Cartere',
John D Davis, Esq, and three of the
Comfy Commissioners have resigned
Ths reason assigned is unwillngnezs
TO levy aud collect the railroad tax for
which mandamuses have issued from
the L. s. District Court.
The Monroe Enquirer says: We un-
! derStand there was q negro woman
named tIolIie Allen killed at Cap
| Ellis works, on the c. &. Ry., about
! six miles from this place on last
! Thursday night. AT coroner's inqust
! held on Friday the following testlmo-
my wss shown, VIZ: That on the night
mentioned, MIR. Ii. H. Carter, the
section master, went into his shanty,
! and finding n dog there, ran him out
! and shot at him as he ran out of the
| door. just at this time the woman
| came q and wanted to see his pistol.
| He handed it to her and turned around
| to look out, and hearing the pistol
! fire, turned just in time to catch the
| woman who had shot herself, and vas
! in the act of falling. Mr.. Carter was
| the only witness present, and his face
| being from her, he conld not tell
whether tie shooting was accidental
or not.
In the days when rouge-et-noir
| fiouriahed at Baden Baden the Prus-
| sian officers were strictly forbidden to
! play. One Of them, however, dressed
/ az civilian, venture6 to place ten
! Napoleons on color. The color
came up twice and the officer was
about to take the money when his eye
fl upon the King of Prussia, who
| was watching the game with interest.
! In his fright the officer did not dare to
remove his Napoleons. The play con-
] tinued aud the same color came up a
/ third, fourth, a fifth me, aud 3, 2C0
! francs were added TO his pile, but the
| winner stood motion}ess, erect as if on
parade, expecting the next Instant to
/ see all his winnings wiped out. The
! Ming pun MI Gnu ~ HIS olopChoO ~
approaching and saying IN a kindly
mood: Il advise you to draw you"
winning and to be quick about it, be
I fore | notice you; your luck cannot
| continue so favorable.
; Il; his .'Sketchts of North Carolina"
! for the Norfolk Landmark, Gov.
Vance, abiding to the TRAGIC death of
DR. Mitchell on Black Mountain,
! quotes the following eloquent tribute
! to that marty of science from an adj
dress Of Professor Charles Phillips, of
Davidson College, ''There, says Pro
fessor Charles Phillips, once a beloved
pupil and long fellow teacher in the
University, "he shall rest till the
Judgment Day, in mausoleum such
! as no other man has ever had. Reared
by the hands OF Omnipotence, it was
assigned to him by TIL Sc to whom it
was given thus to express their esteem,
and 1t was onsecrated by the lips of
eloquence warmed by affection amidst
! the rights of our holy religion. Before
him lies the North Carroll he loved
so well and served so faithfully. From
his lofty couch its hills and valleys
melt into its plains as they stretch
away to the shores of the eastern
ocean. whence the dawn of the last
day, stealing quietly westward. as it
lights the mountain tops first shall
awake him earliest TO hear the greet
/ inc of well done good and faithful