FOR PUBLICITY Advertise iu the fisbettttau & fanner J It Has The Iruracst Circulation. For The NEWS! Subscribe to the flsrman & Farmer Contain latest ami bct news featuic up ti date of issue. 1 f -A r atnier ONE DOLLAR per Year, in Advance. ELIZABETH -CITY N C, FRIDAY, JUNE 25 1897 Established 1886 r of First IDistrict Tiie Leadin in ngiT - saynrn Sail Maker AAM'aT'eatsadF !a g Old Sails Bought and Sold. Orders by mail will receive prompt attention, for Water and Matthew Sts. (Over W.J. Woodley's Store.) '. O. BOX j-'. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. Correspondence Solicited. Si' The Old Reliable Sail Maker, ELIZABETH CI'l V, A' C, , IU be found at his obi stand at the sh, t bruise, over James Spires store, Zimmerman Hall. Canvas Furnished I at Factor'' Prices. Avcn uirs. lentsana nag Specialty. 11 . l.ir nl U TlIlfllllJLlY r 1 . ! 'lftlfl I ed to. Old Canvass bought and so. d. j '. O. Box ijj, Elizabeth City, N. C. 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At Stouy Fork, Pennsylvania, an operation was performed 011 Mrs. John rlalliday for what was supposed to be cancer of the stomach. Instead, the surgeons found a live water snake nearly eight inches long, in her stom ach. The reptile was as active as though it were in a natural place. Mrs. Halliday thinks she swalloxfed the snake while drink ing from a mountain spring, af ter dark, last September. No-to-bai; for FiTty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco hab't cure, makes weak rueM atroiiK. blood pure. 50c, 41. All clruKfc'ists. Madeline Pollard in London. Miss Madeline Pollard, who was the plaintiff in the sensas tional suit against iormer Con gressman W. C P. Breckinridge, of Frankfoit, Ky , and who dis appeared after the trial, which resulted in a verdict iu her favor for $15,000 damages, has been living quietly in London She is apprently in good circum stances, and is understood to be studying with the view of engag ing in literary work. She intends to make England her home. 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SCOTT & BOVNE, New York For sl at 50c aad $.oo by all druggist PIRATES OF CAROLINA. The Freebooters Who Infested Our Shores Their Daring Deeds of Lawlessness. BLACKBEARD flYEETS MIS AVATCH. (By W. C. Allen.) Vessels come and go along the whole toast of America now with perfect security so far as molestation by pirates is con- cerned. To-day the sailor from New York to Havana does not ' anticipate any interference from robbers on the high seas; but makes provision, on setting out, to combat only the winds and waves, the common enemies of navigators. He is not on the lookout constantly for freeboot ers on his right hand or on his left. Teach 's hole on the coast of North Carolina, one time the terror of all coasting vessels, has no special interest to the navi gator now, more than the fact that, at one time, it was the try sting place of many marauders of the seas. There was a time when things were different. From 1690 to 1720 the entire coast from Maine to Cuba was infested by bold and blood-thirsty buccan neers. They roamed the seas as lords of the deep, and committed their despredations with im punity; for there was 110 force adequate to the task of coping with, them. The merchant ves sel that ran the gauntlet of these desperadoes was esteemed for tunate. Many were captured and plundered, and their crews either slaughtered or sent adrift to perish in the deep. The booty that they obtained was en- rr 1 11 a " ormous. ineir aanerents on land aided them materially :n hiding the treasury as it was brought into the place of ren dezvous. It is believed in some places that large quantities ot gold and silver, buried during those tunes, still remain con cealed along the coast ot the United States. About 17 10 a formidable band of these freebooters entered into a compact to act together for mutual profit and satety. Fd- wartl Teach, better known by the name of Blackbeard, was commander in-chief; and three noted pirates, namely, Henry Vane, Steed Bonnet, and Rich ard Worley were his chiet lieu tenants. Teach was the soul ot the band and the dictator of all their movements. His fleet con sisted at first of six heavily armed vessels of war, that of Teach himself carrying forty guns and manned by a hundred sturdy sea rovers, each mau ready at any lime to give his life in defense of his commander. There were no vessels iu American waters at that time that could match those terrors of the sea. With these iorbidable enemies of mankind scouring the seas and frequenting the coasts, the corns nierce of the New World was al most destroyed. They confined their depredations mostly to the southern colonies, though fre quently they made bold dashes into the northern seas and car ried off immense treasure almost in sight of Boston harbor. Their headquarters were established upon one of the small islands of the Bahamas, with places ot ren dezvous in the Cape Pear and Pamlico rivers in North Caro lina and others of less note on the coasts of South Carolina and (ieorgia. Here thev met at stated times and formulated their daring schemes of murder and plunder. It was a time favorably suit ed to the purpose of the pirates. the country was sparsely settled, Georgia being yet a vv ilderness with 110 white settler v.: hin her bordeis, and the mother country had her navy employed iu pro tecting her interests in other parts of the world. While the laws against piracy were strin gent, they could not be enforced, The temptations upon the seas were so great that many of the boldest in each colony forsook the peaceful haunts of their homes and sought ill-gotten for tunes upon the water. The northern colonies had been for a long time afflicted with the same trouble that then annoyed their southern sisters. Only a few years before that time, in 1695, Captain Kidd had become a pirate and a terror to the northern seas Before becoming a freebooter he was a sort of privateer, a kind of sea rove, neither fish, flesh, nor 'foul. It is a very short step from privateering to piracy, and Captain Kidd was not a man to strain at a gnat. When the depredations of the corsairs all along the Atlantic coast became unbearable, Kidd, with a strong fleet arrived with a royal commission, and stoutly supported by all the northern colonies, was sent against them, on the theory that it takes a rogue to catch other rogues. He went out with great gusto to chastise the lawbreakers, but be came dazzled by the opportunity thus thrust upon him, and be eame a freebooter himself, creat ing more terror among sailors than all previous corsairs had done. He roamed over the seas both along the shores of the Knglish colonies and among the Spani ards ot the far south. With canroes of rich spoil from the Spanish Main and the West In dies, he would sail into the port of Boston and dispose of them with the proverbial lavish ness of a freebooter. On board his vessels were the sumptutis lux uries of the tropics, the gaudy tappings of the Spanish nobles, and the precious gems from the Brazilian mines. In consequence of his liberality in handling stolen goods and bestowing them upon others, he was gladly re ceived by many New England people whenever he chose to dwell in their midst. The great outlaw was finally captured while walking along a street in Boston, and soon thereafter paid the penalty of his high handed deeds. His capture broke up to a large extent the bands of northern pirates, but those of the south still remained as a menace to all traffic by sea. At last something like an or ganized effort was made to break up the gang of desperadoes that prowled about the seas. Cap tain Wood Rogers, a brave and trusted officer of the king's navy, was sent against them with a fleet of sufficient size to strike terror into the hearts ot the reebooters. He came to the is and of Providence in the Baha mas, wuere Teach and his gang lad hxed their headquarters. As Rogers approached and was about to open fire upon them, the whole of the band except about ninety hoisted the white flag, claiming the royal pardon which had been extended shortly before to all who would return to their duties as law-abiding citizens. Blackbeard and his lieutenants with their crews were not present and thus es caped. The nest was not brok en up. It was merely shifted to North Carolina. The ninetv that refused amnesty and had escaped the clutches of Rogers soon joined their forces with Blackbeard, and coming to the coast of North Carolina, took up their headquarters in the Cape Fear river with other places ot rendezvous in the Pamlico river and sound. There were no peo- nle livinp- on the Cape Fear river at that time, for Sir John Yeamans colony that settled there years before had removed to South Carolina. .The re mains of their settlement fur nished shelter and temporary homes for the pirates. In their new quarters they seemed to put on new life and to follow their nefarious calling with more vindictiveness than ever. For some cause Captain Rogers had not followed them, but had hoisted sail and gone back to England leaving the pirates masters of the sea. Soon thereafter, Governor Robert lohnson, of South Carolina, took matters into his own hands and resolved to chastise the buc caneers. Accordingly he sent Jout Captain William Rhett with two sloops to watch their move raents and, if possible, to bring them to justice. Rhett had hardly crossed the Charleston bar when he espied Bonnet's vessel, which he chased into the Cape Fear and captured after a stout resistance. He took his prize to Charleston with thirty prisoners, who, with their com mander, paid the penalty on the rgallows. Governor Johnson himself soon after went in puiN suit of Worley and after a des perate engagement off the bar-, bor of Charleston captured him.! The entire crew of the pirate I vessel, with the exception of Worly and one other were killed' in the battle; and they were dangerously wounded. They were taken to the South Caros lina metropolis and immediately executed for fear that death would cheat the gallows. Vane was run down and slaiu soon afterwards; and the baud once so formidable was materially re duced. But piracy was not yet broken up, though it had received a signal reverse. Blackbeard, the boldest and most redoubtable of the gang, with fifty or sixty foK lowers, still hovered about Ocra coke and the Pamlico sounds. He defied capture and boasted that he was a match for the king's navy. In 17 18, while cruising off the coast of South Carolina, Teach captured a vessel having ou board Samuel Wragg, a member of the executive council of South Carolina, and a man of means and influence. Biackbeard robs bed Mr Wragg of 57,500 in specie and held him for ransom. The bold freebooter had the ef frontery to send four of his men to Charleston to demand of Gov ernor Johnson a chest of medi cine threatening that, if the drugs were not sent at once, Mr. Wiagg's Lead together with the heads of all other prisoners would be sent his majesty by early breakfast the next day. The energetic governor had no means at that time to resist the bravo and pirate; therefore to save the lives ot the unfortunate prisoners the medicine was sent. After reveling in blood for years and amassing a large for tune by his deeds of violence, Teach went to Edenton, N. C, then the eapital of the province, and applied for the king's par don which had been offered to all pirates who would return to their duties of citizenship. Govs ernor Eden granted Blackbeard and his followers the certificate of pardon, and they settled near Bath in the same state to enjoy their ill-gotten gaics. About this time Blackbeard married lis thirteenth wife. She was unquestionably a woman with out much feminine curiosity, or she would have become some what inquisitive as to what had become of her twelve predeces sors. Restless and roving in his dis position Blackbeard could not long remain contented upon land. Accordingly to the sea he went with his followers who were at all times under hisguid- ance. iNot long alter warus ne returned to Bath ostensibly as a trader bringing a French ship loaded with sugar and cocoa. He claimed that ho had found the vessel abandoned at sea, but there were no marks of violence bv storm tliat would occasion such a belief. No apparent rea son could be shown why a crew voluntarily should abandon vessel at sea in the excellent con dition in which it was said to have been found. Governor Eden ordered a court of admirality with Tobias Knight as judge to sit at Bath to decide upon the merits of the case. Evidence was taken from Blackbeard himself and some of his gang in support of the falses hood about finding the vessel adrift. The court, in face of the notorious past record of Teach and the witnesses, decided that the boat was a lawful prize and properiy of Edward Teach, the tinder. It seems strange that such a verdict could have been obtained from a court composed of men who must have known the real character of Blackbeard. It is true that he had outwardly reformed, had given up the pre tension to piracy, and was trad ing ostensibly as a law abiding citizen. Williamson, in his history of North Carolina, published short ly alter the events here described makes a statement, which, if true will help to clear up the mystery of such a verdict. He says that Continued on Fwrth Pg' DID THE ELOPING HERSELF Widow Berry Tied her Daughter up and became Mrs. Whitley In the WhiteOak neighborhood near Gieenup, Kentucky, Mrs. Martha Berry, aged about 40, and her pretty daughter Matilda, who has just entered her eighteenth year, have lived for several years. In the same neighborhood lived Johnson Whitley, a prosperous farmer of 30, and a widower. Whitley has been paying attention to Mrs. Berry's daughter lor six months, and it was supposed generally that they would be married soon. The mother would not give her consent, but she did not object to the vounir widower's calls. He pleaded with the widow for the hand of her daughter to no purpose, and the young people decided ou an elopement. All the arrangements were made for the elopement, but the watchful mother discovered what was on foot, and on Fri day night, the time set for the elopement, she went to her daughter's room, shortly after dark and bound the girl hand and foot. She also tied a gag in her mouth and took her to her own room and tied her to the bed. She then returned to the daughter's room, and vhen Whitley came to steal away his love the widow answered the summons, and without speak ing a word joined the young man in the yard. He assisted her into his buggy and drove with her to Grayson, the county seat of Car ter county where he had arraug- with Judge Morris to perform the ceremony. Whitley was surprised at the silence of his companion, but as she leaned confidingly on his arm and appeared to be sobbing all the time he could do nothing more than caress her now and then and cheer her up by telling her that her mother would for- give uer. 11 was not until auer the cereinouy was performed on the Judge's front porch and they had repaired to a hotel that the bridegroom saw that he had married the widow. He decided at once to make the best of the situation. He took his wedded wife home, and to a neighbor he said that although he thought he was dead in love with Matilda he always did think a great deal of her handsome mother. Matil da was discovered bound in her mother's room by a neighbor the next morning, and when she learned of the trick her mother had played her she said that al though she thought she loved Mr. Whitley she is now satisfied she did not She promises to be a dutiful daughter to him. Beautiful eyes grow dull and dim As tbe swift years steal awsy. 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