One of the most beautiful spots in the city of New Berne is Cedar Grove Cemetery. A visit to that hallowed spot on yesterday showed that considerable improvement has been lately added. Two shell roads, running at right angels, have been made, the work of cleaning up generally is still going on.
Source: New Berne Weekly Journal , 13 April 1882, page 3.
Extracted from the New Berne Items column:
Maria ROBINSON, colored, was before the Mayor yesterday for using boisterous and obscene language on the public streets at Five Points. This being the second offence recently his honor ruled that she should pay the costs and leave the city within ten days.
Source: New Berne Weekly Journal , 6 April 1882, page 3.
Dr. BURKEHEAD, the popular pastor of the Methodist church in this city, is having the parsonage thoroughly repaired and repainted. A new dining room, pantry, kitchen, bedroom and an office have been added; the “old bonnet” has been removed from the front and handsome porch erected in its stead, and everything around has an appearance of neatness and tidiness. We always admired the zeal which the Methodist display in anything they undertake. So far as we have learned Dr. BURKEHEAD is quite popular with his congregation, and is capable of doing a great deal in New Berne.
Source: New Berne Weekly Journal , 30 March 1882, page 3.
Little Neta LEE of Vanceboro went up to the Oxford Orphan Asylum this morning. She is a bright little girl, and it locks heart rending for her to be taken from a kind mother and carried among strangers; but knowledge is power, and she may yet be a power in literary circles. This excellent institution for orphans is doing a work that should be embalmed in the affections of every lover of humanity.
Source: New Berne Weekly Journal , 30 March 1882, page 3.
On Monday morning between 12 and 1 o’clock the fire alarm was given, fire having been discovered at Mr. Charles SLOVER’s wood shed near the Foster wharf. Both fire companies were out with their usual promptness, the New Bern company putting on the first stream and conquering the flames. This fire was the work of some incendiary or crank who will yet turn up in the right place. By the time the companies had stored away their engines the alarm again sounded. This time it was on the cotton platform in the midst of about 200 bales of cotton. The New Bern company, though a block and a half further from the fire than the Atlantics, dashed down the street and had on the first stream. So quick did both companies turn on the water that only sixteen bales caught and were damaged probably one-third or one-half. It was held by the National Bank.
Source: New Berne Weekly Journal , 20 December 1883, page 3.
Misses Lena and Laurie HUDGINGS, of the Oxford Orphan Asylum, are in the city on a visit to their aunt, Mrs. C.C. TAYLOR, for the holidays. These girls were sent to the Asylum three years ago, and their deportment, knowledge of books and work and general information show that they have been under good care. What a noble institution is the Oxford Orphan Asylum! And who can guide its affairs with more fatherly care than J.H. MILLS.
Source: New Berne Weekly Journal , 20 December 1883, page 3.
We again direct attention to the opening, on Monday next, the 19th inst. Prof. FETTER is a good instructor, has grown old in educational service in our State, and deserves the support and patronage of our people. The fortunes of war, and the wreck and ruin which followed, left him like many another, stranded upon the shores of adversity, but he labors as cheerfully in the cause to which he has devoted his life at the head of an academy as when occupying the proud position of professor at the University at Chapel Hill in the parliament days of that grand and noble institution.
Source: Daily Commercial News, 18 September 1881, page 1.
George BROOKS, a small colored boy, employed at the plate factory, had his thumb split open yesterday while working the stamper.
Source: Daily Commercial News, 18 September 1881, page 1.
Richard TUCKER, col, a former Senator from this county, and a trusted servant of Judge GASTON, died in this city last night.
Source: Daily Commercial News, 13 August 1881, page 4.
DIED – In Newbern, NC., on Saturday night, August 6th, 1881, of Continued Fever, Miss Addie HENRY, in the 21st year of her age. The funeral took place from the Presbyterian Church, Monday afternoon, August 8th, when a large concourse of sympathising friends assembled and followed her remains to Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Thus has the stern Reaper Death, again plucked a beautiful flower, shining amid the bearded grain. Grey headed manhood and tender girlhood are together hasting from our city to the great white-robed multitude above; and breaking hearts and tear-dimmed eyes are watching their receeding flight. Suddenly has Addie HENRY been summoned to join that army over the river. Gentle, amiable, unobtrusive, adorned with the ornaments of a Christian spirit, above all price – and possessed of fine and highly cultured musical abilities, she was indeed the light of her home. Always cheerful- full of sympathy and kindness, she was day by day developing into a beautiful womanhood, with promise of much usefulness, under the admiring eyes of loving parents and hopeful friends.
But this opening flower has been suddenly transplanted to the heavenly garden by the Great Husbandman. This sad providence is very cloudy to our eyes but we shall soon cease to look through a glass darkly, and shall know clearly the wisdom and love of earthly sorrows. Even now light shines; for death found Addie with her lamp trimmed and burning through sovereign free grace. Almost in the act of repeating to her Pastor the 23rd Pslam, and 14th chapter of the Gospel of John, she passed on to give herself to the Good Shepherd of her trust and love. Blessed are they, who remember their Creator in the days of their youth, for when the Lord calls them, they are taken from the evil to the perfect rest and bliss of the eternal and heavenly inheritance of His chosen ones, with whom He has made a covenant. “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” – L.C.V.
Source: Daily Commercial News, 13 August 1881, page 1.