From the Lumberton Robesonian: The body of Charles ALLEN, a well known colored man, was discovered in Lumber River, where Trade street ditch empties into the river.  He has been missing since last Tuesday, and as he was last seen in an intoxicated condition near the spot where his dead body was found this morning, it is supposed that he has been there ever since.

Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 16 September 1880. Page 2.