KING B
VOLUME 1.
WEEKLY.
Successor t;o -blxe Index.
GREEJVVILLE0 .V- C FEBRUARYS. 1895.
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JOTTINGS.
FROM ROAN TO KOANOKK
isBiffi& war &
linstttt in; prev.ous unsuccessful attempts at
(;onsiaeiation of services ren- suicide, succeeded at Asheville N
iered in the destruction of the ; C, on the 2nd by throwing hims3f
Contederatf vvarhin Tno.U i iindr n
,,ov Carr has ordered an election
to be held in Warren county on the
12th inst., to elect a successor to
uepresentative Williams, deceased.
1 he Popnhsts havt nominated W J
a. n uiuiv
Mrs Joshua Honoycut o! Fox
ville recently gave birth to her sev
enteenth child. She i8 only thirty
three years old and has been mar
ried bat seventeen years.
A hie sized portrait of the laie
Associate Justire. William B Rod.
presented the Su-
liod-
i ensacoia in iui. Why not
Psion every yankee who was
horn north of Mason and Dix
on's line before or since the
war?
. Missourians object to Georgia j
w.... uaru lur uie iiew
public buildings for Kansas
City and the matter has been
carried into Congress. Missouri
may yet be glad to get many
things from Georgia, and should
remember Nebraska has long
ixvoi. i iitviu uns ueei presented th
Secretary Carlisle has asked'' lmMnn lis son W H
for the resignation of Ool Am..c I man ,,r
Webster who has been i ? the
office of the Controller of Cur
rency since the day of Grant
That is like interrupting a life
lease.
The Woman Suffrage conven
tion at Atlanta declared for the
equality of men and women.
Give them equalitytew days
workinon roada and most of
its advocates would cry
'enough."
Since the Breckinridge Hear I
-jjiimc in uiB nuuse, uongres
THE MIDSHIPMEN'S T)DKL.
sional reconciliation has been in i
i , i i i i
ordr and many old scores have !
t, Ill V .
neen cancelled. iow let them
A Kentucky u ry h as g i ve n a
verdict against a railroad in a
Jim crow carcase, and it is said
the law is unconstitutional.
Kentucky is making historical
fame.
People are suffering in Ne
bmska, and some have actually
dhd of starvation up in wealthy
Ohio. And yet this is a land 01
plenty, and foreign missions.
Strawberries aised in hot
houses are selling in New York
for p per quart. The north al
ways gets the first and best and
puy .r it too sometimes.
Ex-Queen "Lil,"' of Hawaii,
bas been arrested charged with
complicity in the recent at
temj ted revolt. Now her ad
mireis in the United States
sho.i d go to her rescue.
Some green burglars made a
raid on the Standard Oil Com
pany's safe in New Orleans and
only got $356. Retaliation
is not always a success.
There's another revolution in
Soufh America They are migh
ty dull that can't raise a revolu
tion down there.
The 400 are puzlled as to a
successor to the late Ward Mc
Allister. Well, better draw on
the South again.
Bob Ingeisoll says the report
that he is doad is untrue- Well,
Bob knows.
So rife wonder" hov Mr Self, of
Chatham could -jet a place for' hi
son, but nothing for his constitu
ents. There's sometimes sonittl in
in a name. . s
Frank Jones, of Onslor county
has been arrested for counterfeiting
quarters, and a lot of moulds uvie
found in his possession.
A white mule belonging to Secre
tar.v of State ke died a short time
ago after having reached the ae of
tf -.ee;ii years.
Ex-Chief Justipo .m,.r,i.-.i
locale in Haleij.',. for the prarnce of
lv itiiu will l)eronip n i.,. ..r
the firm of C M & lVrrin Uusbee
A 400-gallon illicit distillerv, the
was
largest ever found in the State.
lounu ami destroyed in Johnson
county last week.
Dr. Samuel 13. Williums, member
of the house from Wnrrtn. ,Knj
Raleigh on the 1st after a n ill.
uess with pntumonin.
Evangelist Pearson has just closed
a nieentm at Uhapel Hill, which
suited in the conversion and recla
mation of L'oO people
A company of sportsmen want to
buy 100.000 acres of Cumtnck
Sound, offering $50,000 for it, tor a
sportsman's park.
Twenty-three new lawyers were,
turned loose upon the comitrv by the
few Supreme court at IUleh.fi on
the 4th. 6
liev Dr Creasv, of Charlotte, has
inaugurated the undivided commu
nion cups in his church.
The National Farmers Alliance
atid Industrial Tnion met in IU1
eigh last Tuesday.
hat s the natter with Hreckin
ridge? Surely he has notoriety
enough.
The corner stone of the monu
ment oi Col L L Polk was laid yes
terday. '
Gen Kufus Bitrringer, of Char
lotte clied last Sunday
Sheriff Green
dJed last .vtek.
of Xash coui.ty.
Tlie New iierne Fair oiens on the
8th inst. 1
Gov Carr will open the New Pnie
Fair.
Worlry. Ilullet rrforad Hilly N.,n
Cot Tall.
To the Editor of the sUIUiay News ;
I have read with much interest
jc hicn ci tne late Capt Alex F
Warley, C S N., and 8end you at,
accouut given me by Capt John R
Hamilton, C S N., who wa-s a broth
eroffijer with Capt Warley audio
bwU.,lo .o uue more tllaix to
any other man the inveution ol the
ironclad, ins experience givin
practical bent ud direction to the
maiden efforts o! others at the be
ginning of the war.
Capt Hamilton will bo remember
by many of the citizens of diaries
'on as ttie brave young midshipman
who, it iih a boat's crew, demanded
Hie surrender of and brought to
terms the commander of u CeiiUul
American foit lor some violation of
inlernatioual law.s. a,i u,.. ......
one of iht eonhdential naval agents
ol iho LonieUeiaey in Liverpool tor
tlie KjuipiueiiL of our navy. j
Abiiriue, .. C, Jan. 'S3.
capt. Hamilton's stouy of the
In reference to the ucnonnt nf
Sunday NeWa tis to tne relations be
i .i ...... i.' i i
w"vC .v x nancy Jti,a Uen Win
' -oi., Uie wiioie Hung is a inac
curate as the wildest Ik-lion. 'J'hele
aUitlicultv beiucui Nel.sou a4.d
Uurley, both niiuftiiipmen serving
li. lhePao:icui Hie tinie. l.nt n,.
Aelbon ever pulled Warley s nose
never )cciu,ea ami U;,ley lieVr
.Uevv a pitol on him. H,s educa
lion at mat ,i,o would UaVe lor
0uL.en any ft.Kli ilemonsti atioti ou
the part of the ollicer agumt rh
other and the Code of Honor in the
navy rcgulaled the conduct of gen
ileuieu oue to the other just as it
diu at the same era m juUih turo
lina. Further, in the dud betvveeu
Warley and .Nelson neither party
was injured. J have been the coat
.eUon woie in that duel audtit was
perlora'ed thiougti the skirls abo.it
the hui. So lar Horn Nelson being
shot through tne lungs ul 1 dying
ol the wound, he live Lo commaa
a division in the United States ar
my at the time ot 1
of Kentucky. He was defeated and
stauipetled by the Con federates at
Richmond, Ky., and wounded in
foot, go Ui Ixingtuii atid thence to
Louisville. He was very Moient,
and will, the gout and pain
Iron the wound in ni8 foot, cursed
and accused every one of coward
ice and treason. He seems to have
cumin tied in this baine of mind on
reaching Louiavilk- aud jneetiug
Geu Jell C Davis, who Was in Fori
Sumpter with Andeihon at the time
of the bombardment and surrender
ct that fort, he Nelson, insulted Da
vis and his commaud and was shot
uown uy tne latter at the Gait
lii-use aud almost instantly. died. .
But to return to Warley and Net
son. Circumstances presented their
meetiug again until theV met at the
Naval Academy in 1845. There by
mutuaconbent MU'arniiitice was ar
ranged that neither the one or the
other should send a challenge until
after they haU.pasd their examina
tions for promotion. Pending the
coarse of studies they remained at
the Academy for seven months.
both honorably carrying out the
term? of the armistice, but when
they had passed their examinations
the Mexican war commenced and
tlie two men -agreed that in the
presence of war their lives belonged
wore itselr out
A Letter-From LJnrola.
War times are recalled by the (bl
owing copy of a letter of condo
k"e, senLas was taid in a Uutlalo
paper at the lime, "to Mrs Bixbv. a
a widow oCthis cjty mentioned in
the communication Adjt-C.en.
Schouler a fewdays since, as .hav
ing lost five sons i the War for tne
umon :
. Executive Mansion,
Washington, ll8t Noynber,
Hear Madam: 1 i.., C
... uaic ueen
hown in the tiles of the War De
partment a statement of 'the Adju
tant General of Massachusetts ' tlwit
you are the mother ot the so, s who
iave died gloriously on the held ot
battle.
"I feel how weak and fruitless
must beany words of mine winch
should 1 attempt to beguile you f.om
le griel of a loss so oVerwUlmicg.
Hut 1 cannot refrain from tendering
to you the conflation that may be
found in the thanks of the reiublic
they did to save,
"I pray that our Heavenly Father
J "bv fcuiJn.
South Carolina has just received
the thirty tilth and last bundle of
transcript if colonial records from
the British public record otlice, bt
Maryland has just publ,Bhed the
thirtieth volume of "Archives"
bringing the work down to vr'v
hear the close tf the seventeenth
century. 1 he task of compiling
these archives and putting them in
good shape is no eav nr., k ,
engaged in it are thoroughly inter
ested in the work and thoroughly
compe.e to perlolnj 1L roV
W illiam Hand Hrowe, the eiiiu.r, ha
uneu the utmost care in the prepara
tion of these rolunies, which have
b-en issuel under the general su
Iervisionol a committee of the Ma
ryland Historical Society, consisting
Irad'vT?? iSloc,k,brid Cien
n -r. Johfnso,, Clayton C
Hall: The Haltimore Ariier.ccn
ays: -i he State cn well aflbrd to
H.rnish all the funds needed lor the
continuance anu completion of this
vtnr uniHirUnt wvrk "
The Post is in receipt of the fol
lowing communication from a gen
tleman who has given considerable
time and attention to the financial
vue.stion;
"Editor Post Why not sugeat
aeake walk or an ice cream -parlor
social to help out the Treasury?."
Jekomk J. Wilber,
The eommunication of Mr W ilber
is re-sjiectfully rtlerred to Mr prine
ers committee. Wfiwhington Post,
The North Carolina AHxembJy'i
latest is.a resoUition pre hibi ting 111
persons under twenty-one- loonier
the hall Judging f-0m their acts
one would suppose minors were in
the majority in the membership
Kichinond Times.