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Newspaper
Wilmington Post
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1869
Page
4
The Wilmington market report shows spirits turpentine at 33 cents for country casks and 39 cents for New York casks, with rosin selling 165 barrels at 44 25 and 35 for sale. Crude turpentine moves 243 barrels at 150 dollars for hard, 250 for soft, and 3 for virgin. tar at 240 dollars per barrel.
A late bulletin reports the Suez Canal completed with opening set for December 17. Napoleon presided over a Paris Council of Ministers, Serrano named as a rising candidate for the Spanish throne, and Portland ground broken for the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad. Frost and ice form in Dutchess County, the Public Debt Statement shows a $5.6 million liquidation, Montreal shoemakers strike for higher wages, Turana Turkish revolt prompts troop deployment, Mount Washington ice and cold snap observed, Brown University conferred Bachelor of Arts on 33 graduates, Pearl diver Boynton freed for lack of evidence, United States Lodge Odd Fellows to meet in San Francisco with 16 New England delegates departing Boston.
The 1869 session approved building a state penitentiary near Raleigh Wake County with a stockade, granite walls, and five hundred cells, to be financed by up to fifty thousand dollars annually. Commissioners are appointed to select the site, arrange contracts, employ labor, and ensure safety and humane conditions. The act also provides for land acquisition, tax collection adjustments for Johnston County, and a governance framework for the project.
The document lists a series of North Carolina acts from 1869 amending local government powers, authorizing Polk County to levy a special tax for three years, protecting Carteret County fisheries and oyster beds, empowering Arthur Gaskins to reopen his Wiggin s Creek ferry to Newslean for twenty years, and granting county commissioners authority to exercise powers when Justices are in majority.
The act grants a railroad company rights to a five foot on each side right of way plus necessary turnouts depots and appurtenances. It details award of damages the appeal process the right to enter lands upon filing award and the de novo trial on appeal. It also grants crossing rights over navigable streams and road crossings and sets rates and penalties for obstruction. The act takes effect upon ratification April 13 1869 and grants exclusive rights for thirty years from full organization.
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