State News

• Tarboro Southener: Herbert PENDER, son of J.J.B. PENDER, has been appointed by the Commissioners to Chapel Hill from this county.
• We learn that two men were killed at Snow Hill on Monday. One a Mr. PITTMAN, of Lenoir county, was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the handle of a negro. The other was a negro hand on the steamer Contestness, who fell in the creek and was drowned – Greenville Express

Source: Roanoke News, 16 January 1879. Available online at digitalnc.org.