Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-01-01

Governor Brogden has heen spend
ing his holidays in Wayi.e county.


ing his holidays in Wayi.e county.
Mr.. john r. Harrison, one OF Raj
eiyhs prom ;nent citizens, died in that
city last Saturday.
Morrisvile, on the North Carolina
Railroad, a few miles n bove Raleigh,
is to be made town.
Thu Raleigh Sentinel says Dur
ham is thriving place. We learn
that on Saturday a town lot, with
nothing on il, and 35x70, as sold
there for six hundred dollars.
The store Destroy in Weld, IL on
Thursday night last, by fire Was occ.-
pied By Mr.. VIM Hurts. Tie stock
was valued at 81. 600 and Was Insured
for $1,000. The building w&s not i'll
sured.
Deputy Grand Master John \ c. OILS
and Grand Secre ta1y Donald BAN
| were in Charlotte on Monday. foI tie
purpose Of dedicatipg the new Mason
&c Lodge in tLat city aud vi Ins,,,ii!u5
| the officers OF the said Lodge.
The Raleigh News says Capt. J.
| 0. Robertson, late of the Ch+rokt e
Herald, leaves here TO-DAY Tor New
York, whittier he goes with vi,w of
purchasing press and material to
establish new paper IN the mountains
in behalf Of Democracy.
The Raleigh Sentinel says We
hear that on Christmas eve II ght in
| Weldon q Jews stone was burned
down, costly building aud causing
great loss. There was IS, 900 in>uranc e
but it didn't by any means cover the
loss.
The Nowbern Times says: Tive
prisoners, all coiored, confined in the
Jail of this city, succeeded ii making
their escape on the night of Friday, the
25th inst. The escaped prisoners left
six others IN the cell from which the Y
escaped and these gave the alarm to
the jailor about O'Clock, a. n too
late, however, to arrest the fugitives.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: We
learn it IS very probable the MasOns
of the City will sell their lodge, corner
of Morgan and Dawson streets, and
will move down street, either to tie
hall above Briggs new building Or the
HollemAn building. This latter hall is
one of largest in the South. It is the
intention of the Masons to furnish and
tit 1t up elegantly.
The Raleigh News says: The store
of Messrs. Bell s Bro, Of Salisbury,
was entered at very early hour Sun
day evening, and robbed of large
lot of jewelry, embracing gold and
silver watches, rings, CHAINS, brace,
lets, thimbles. gold pens, and nicke
American lathe, besides a number Of
secondhand Watches
The Raleigh Sentinel SAYS: Alecl
Curtis, SO well known since the war fol
his staunch adherence to the Conser
vative party, died in HlllsborO OF the
day after Christmas, of consumption
= He was universally respected man
3 aud to some extent ostraclsed by his
: own color on account Of political indie
pence, yet the d m ,ustratlcn made by
: them a% his funeral showed hat l..
held strong hold upon their aft c
lions. The funeral Was really az i'm
p,'sing one The remains w-re IS
cor;ed by pail hearers, appro pslatell
arran grd, and were toke'i t:le Epis
$ copal church, of which the deceased
3 had long been Sexton, where Tn,
r solemn servic were performed by til,
: Rev. @. J. Curtis, assisted by til.
. Rev. Mr., Oerttl, aud thence escorted
e To the grave hy q large conconrs4 o
4 colored people, followed by almost IT,,
!, enti1e male population Of that place
q The young men Of the town bore til,
: expenses of the funeral, providing
: handsome coffin and hearsa, aud pro
posed to provide white pail bearers
but yielded tothe desire Of the col0reC
people to bestow that honor them
selves.
s A correspondent Of The Ra,ejg1
r News says: "Anut CARY" well know
g to the many friends of the late Gen
o S. F. Patterson, died at Palmyra, nea
l. Lenoir, in Caldwell county, n. c.
i on December ed, 1874 From
memorandum handed TO the writer b
Gen. Patterson, it appears that sh
was a well grown girl at the com
mencement Of the Revolutionary War
She was born ana raised near Frede
ricksburg, Va. When Gen. Patterson
moved to.Palmyra, January, 1916, 81
5 was found there among the superan
S nuated slaves of the late Gen. Ed
t mund Jones. Some pains were take
: to establish her exact age at that time
4 and from the age of her children anC
s other circumstances, it was fixed at 81
g This would fix the year 1853 as that O
t her birth, making her in her ont
hundred and seventeenth year at the
time of her death. She had lived il
: this State since her thirty -sixth year
/ She had distinct remembrance o
the raising of troops for the war witt
/ England IN 1916, and to within a few
3 years of her death could give an intel
[ ligent account of matters connectet
{ Herewith.