Wilmington journal., 1876-03-31
STATE NEWS.
From the Raleigh Sentinel:
At the inGtanca Of T,,hn n GC

4 has issued from the Office of Superi.
$ Court Clerk Bunting citing Mayt
g Manly, tie members of the board ,
n aldermen. an the registrars and il
o specie rs of election appointed for tn
n ensuing municipal election, to appes
: before Judge Watts, at chambers, i
f this city, April 5. to show cause why
mand anus should not issue agains
, the acting city authorities to compe
I an election according to the charter c
: 1857. amended by acts of 1863 an,
. 1871, dividing the city into thre
wards, to-wit: Western, Eastern an,
Middle, and why an injunction
should not issue against said registt ar
and inspectors of election to RESTRAIN
them from taking action to hold an cleo
tion May 1, under tie charter a
amended by an act of the last Genera
Assembly. These poor Radicals hav,
been out in the cold so long that they
are about to freeze and starve, besides
the Radical State Executive COMMITTEES
have decided that Raleigh going Dem
orratic i'll May, as it assuredly will
will have a blighting effect upon Re
publican hopes. r. G. Badger, A. w
Fourgee, E. G. Haywood and T. r.
.Pnrnnll are the counsel of these poor
deluded office-hungry petitioners who
have engaged in this ridiculous at
tempt to subvert law and bring or
trouble and confusion. OF course
Greasy Sam will be the willing tool OF
these designing men and, as always,
lend the power and influence of his jul
dicial position to advance party ends
Sufficient counsel in the interest of law
and order have been secured. Their
names will be hereafter announced.
From the Hillsboro Recorder:
We are pleased to learn that the e2-
ercises at the approaching commence
meut will be of such a character as to
! induce a very large attendance at
Chapel Hill on the first Thursday in
Juue. During the week it is expected
that sermon will be delivered by the
Rev. DIR. Iritchard of Raleigh: that
an address will be delivered by the
Hon. Alfred Wa0dell, the member of
Congress from the Wilmington Dis
trict, before the two societies of the
University; and a memorial Grafton by
ex- Gov. Vance, on the life and
services of the late Governor David
L. Swain, at the request of the trus-
tees ofthe University. AS the University
will furnish no graduates for this COM
faculty will select from the students
| competitors aud declaimers-for the
evening entertainments. A good band
of music will be in attendance for the
exercises i'll the college chapel, and
again we may expect to see the fine
hall at tie college library filled with
the youth and beauty of the State
moving to the strains of joyous music
in the graceful cotillion and waltz.
The hotel is in the hands of those who
know how to make the visitors COM
Portable, and ample accommodations
will be furnished in the village to all
who may attend. We know that the
public are impatient to see this long
cherished institution well under
way in the education of the SOUS
of the State; and we are sure that
those who have it in charge will
fail in no duty. Public interest is
deeply excited in its behalf and the
reputation of the distinguished speak
ers will without doubt invite very
large attendance, and all will be
pleased to see how far the citizens of
the village have succeeded in 'setting
things in order"
From the Charlotte Observer:
We published in yesterdays paper,
d lengthy account of the suicide of the
negro, Marion Barnett, on the place
of Mr.. G. E Bell, last week. A good
deal OF evidence was taken upon the
Investigation of the corCner's 8 jury, and
from some of this coroner Alexander
judges that there was probably some
thing more serious than the theft of
the potatoes behind the scenes as the
cause of the suicide. It may be re-
membered that about a month ago a
young white man named John COwan
came to his death on Mr.. Boll's
premises, under circumstances little
singular, not to say suspicious. He was
found about bre, kfast time lying by
the side of the barn, with gashiu his
head and his skull fractured, but in
the absence of any proof of foul play,
it was concluded thai while in the
barn loft. he accldentIy lost his footing
and fell out, thus killing himself. The
Coroner's Jury found nothing to war
rant any other conclusion, and little
was said abOut the matter, although
there was whisperings of suspicion
that he had come to his end through
the agency of some individual. In the
examination Of witnesses in Barnett's
case, one testified that he had been
applied to by the deceased, some time
after the death af Cover, to move him
to South Carolina. He asked him
why he wanted to go, and he re-
piled that he was in trouble.
Witness asked if it was on account of
the potatoes, and he replied no, that it
was something greater than that He
said further tnat he might some time
tell witness why it was. but not then.
L,,r fn1A
ton with he fact that Barnett was for
several days, perhaps week, after
Cowans death, absent from home, it
is supposed in South Carolina-is well
calculated to excite suspicion that he
was the murderer OF Cowan, and that
the recollection of his foul deed SO
proved upon his mind as to render his
life N rerable; and that he preferred
to die rather than live with such a
weight of guilt upon his conscience.
When all the facts are taken together,
this conclusion seems almost ire
sistible.
From the Torchlight:
MIR. J. B. Hobgood, one of our
finest tobacco growers, has received
letter from Sir Antonio Brady, Presi-
dent of the Royal Agricultural Society
of England, requesting him to furnish
hrm with samples of the finest grades
of tobacco grown in Granville. Mr..
Hobgood will comply with the request
and we know that no such specimens
of the weed ever before crossed the
"big pond"
From the Roanode News:
Roanoke river continues to rise and
rain continues to fall. It has already
left the banks and is drifting through
the field. We learn some of the farm
ers below have lost some stock from
the recent freshet, but have not as yet
heard the extent of the damages.
Persons having stock in the lowgrounds
of the Roanoke had better look after
them.
From the Robesonian:
The Good Templar Lodge of this
place is now in a most aourishing con-
dition. There continue to be 1n1-
ool -ro,,onlkinnc of aUQrv