Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-04-07
ST ATE NEWS.
From the Raleigh Sentinel:

| From the Raleigh Sentinel:
! Sunday morning before day, about
O'Clock. ali Italian attempted a
| double murder at q loose woman's
house named Price over in the sub
urbs OF the city. He drew a stiletto
and gashed a young mans neck back
and front, and leaving him for dead
made rush for the woman, as he
said, to finish up the testimony against
him, ana stabbed her in the breast.
and she fed from the House and was
| climbing a fence lie made another
rake at her and slashed a cut or two
into one Of her hands. He then YAM
oosed the city and the police are te!e-
| graphing in all directions after him.
| The young man stabbed was
saloonist and a billiard keeper i'll
this city. He was gashsd in about
ten places. He was sitting with his
| head stopped putting on his shoe
when the Italian without provocation
slashed away at him with his dirk.
The Italian is a new conner to Raleigh
and plays the harp sweet!y but his
touches on this occasion were More
striking than musical. He recently
arrived he<e from Ricl. mond and the
railroad men of the r. & d. road will
remember him as the sweet serenader
they took around with them one night
when the moon shined and the love
star danced in the sky. No one know
his name; he is O little dark skinned
fellow, with a vicious looking face, and
weighs about 10 pounds. The young
man is badly cut, but DR.. Hines thinks
he will recover unless erysipelas sets
in. The harp has been seized and will
go towards paying the expenses of the
wounded.
Col. John 81. Wheeler, the distin-
guished North Carolina historian, has
accepted an invitation to be present
and contribute to the congress of au-
thors, to be held at Philadelphia. in
Independence hall, July 2ud, 1876.
He will furnish q paper on Governor
Richard S. Speight, of North Caro-
lima.
There is to be big baptizing at
Mordecai's pond next Sunday. About
$50 Anglo A fricans are to go under in
the most approved style of baptizing
AS there are such large number to be
handled ceremonies will commence
about IL O'Clock and continue without
intermission until the last one of the
happy bands goes shouting under the
water of the pond.
Governor Brogden has been notified
by the police authorities of Ports
mouth, VT, of the arrest and deten-
ton in that city of George Wilkins,
fugitive from. Pasquotank county,
some time ago arrested for horse steal
ing and sent need to fifteen years in
the penitentiary. He is held subject
den.
From the Raleigh News:
The alarm bell rang out last night |
about one o'clock and the cry of fire,
fire, was heard from house to house. |
The fire comp anies were all promptly |
on the spot. The blazing element was |
found il the upper story of the Smith |
building, occupied as a job Office by |
soon unroofed and the Rescue aud the |
Victor poured streams of water into the |
burning building without regard to |
type and paper. But for the prompt
ntss of every company, and every |
member of every company, it might |
have been a serious fire, destroying |
much of the town. Let the fire COM
pnnies be encouraged. Were are the
two additional cisterns promised by |
the city fath ? Messrs. Nichols and
German were insured. Their loss must
have been considerable. Two engines
playing water into a printing office
would be equal almost to fire.
From the Greenville Beacon:
DR.. r. l.. Stanton has a thorough
bred colt now in training at Weldon
that will run in the Preakdess stakes
At Baltimore in May, in the Withers
stakes at jerome Park, at the Ocean
Hotel stake at Long Branch, and also
1T Saratoga in the Sequel stakes. We
predict a victory for Jenipper.
From the Raleigh Sentinel:
We learn nine tons a day of the
5piegel iron ore is turned ont by the
furnaces at Buckhorn, in Chatham
county, and this iron is shipped from
Deep River to Wilmington, Del,
where they make out of it heavy car
wheels. The Spiegel crystalized iron !
8 the only iron they make the Bessa-
ner steel from which is used on all
he railroads of the country. Most of
he Spiegel is shipped to this country {
rom Sweden and from place called
Essen in Germany. North Carolina {