Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-17

1t will be seen from the telegram
printed elsewhere in this mornings
JOURNAL that the State Executive
Committee, at it's meeting in Raleigh
on yesterday, designated Raleigh as
the place and Wednesday. the 18th of
June, as the time for holding the next
Convention of the Democratic I,arty
i'll the State of North Carolina.
We are more than content with both
the time and the place. So far as the
place was concern ed we had no prefer
ence beyond that involved in the de-
sire to meet the greatest convenience
OF the greatest number of the dele
gates. The tine of holding the Con
vention we regarded as a matter of the
very highest Importance. for if not
held at an early day the campaign /
would necessarily be a short one, and
| a short campaign We looked upon as
full of promise of evil while long one
IS full of the greatest encouragement.
Matters are now beginning to take |
shape. Ere long it will be necessary
to fix the time for our county conven-
tons to select delegates to the State
Convention to nominate the various
county candidates; district Conventions
must also be held to nominate candidates
for Congress; so that from this on
politics in one shape or another will be
the constant subject of thought and
conversation. The 9TH of July ought
and doubtless will find rs with all our
candidates in the field and ready for
work.
But what is before us between now
and November will be no child's play;
it Will be work for full grown men aud I
We may as well make up our minds to
the fact first as last. We can win if we
will, but not by supiness and iu- {
action and, too, we must work
ourselves and not leave 1t all to
our neighbors. There be too many
among us we fear who hold themselve
to be too dainty and nice to do the
hard, rough work of the campaign,
but who do not hold themselves either
too dainty or too nice to share either
the hOuors or the emoluments that
follow victory. To all such we beg
leave to say this is not a good year
for you to flourish in. Go to work.
The action of the Committee on /
yesterday we look upon as of hopeful n
augury and inspires us with renewed t
ardor. Men never before entered a l
: I'M align with so many and such :
effective weapons in their hands as do n
The Democrats to-day. Il
NIischtef-D a tn by L
burning the consequence.
We learn that on Monday last ne
gro boy, through wanton mischief, set :
ire to the immense fields of grass K
known as the White Marsh near the q
illage of Whitevilie. The fire spread
.apidly over an immense area of terri ~
,ory and still continues to rage through n
;he woods on both sides of the marsh,
burning everything in its path which t
IAN be ignited, the dry condition of .
,he forest al fields greatly facilitating -
is ravages. {,
AS the young cul prit was returning a
rom the scene of devastation which Il
le had set on foot, he passed the house r
n which family Of negroes lived, and C
eeing that there was no one present b
0 hinder him in his evil purposes, set ts
he house on fire also, burning it to the
round, destroying the life of an infant ~
nd burning an older brother TO such b
n extent that it is thought he cannot p
urvive. The mother and father were o.
10Th from home, the father having W
one to Whiteville in at 'endance on d
Jourt, and the mother having gone out lo
q the neighborhood visiting. The OF
ay being pleasant the mother placed a,
Ter children on eide Of the house in n G.,
,um as q prevention to suoh 9alami II
y to her little household as followed, Of
nut they were near enough to be burnt 81
rom the flames of the burning build ~
ng. When she returned in the even I,
ng she found her home reduced to p
shes. hsr infants corpse crisped to al
hastily coal, and her older child suf-
ering almost the last agon1es of death. :,
Che youthful incendiary has been "
rrested and is now confined in Jail at O
VhiteviIle. He has confessed his crime "
nut gives no reason therefor. -