DROWNED - Mr. James E. Morris, mato of the Br. brig Barracouta, fell overboard from the brig on Tuesday last, (lying just inside Main Bar,) and was drowned. Mr. M. had been in the hold of the brig looking after the stowage of the spirits turpentine, and when he came on deck he staggered and fell overboard. He was a native of Hopewell Cape, N.B.
The New Brunswick papers are requested to notice.
(Source: The Wilmington Daily Journal, November 14, 1868)

DROWNED - A colored man named Richard Toomer fell from a flat, on Monday last, in the North East Branch of the Cape Fear about two miles from the mouth of Long Creek and was drowned. He was attacked with an epileptic fit at the time and during his sturggles fell overboard.
(Source: The Daily Journal, Wilmington, NC, July 30, 1868)