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JOTTINGS.
DUEL OF IRONCLADS j w"r, wlioli prevented our
doing her anyMurther lujurv, we
1 ).-slm Breckinrid :
ix ctdlertor at Lexi.ig'on, Ky.,,
vivs ;i!l winnings on hors" races,
draw poker, lotteries or any
, ,r h-r form of gambling nr in
clines under the law and that
.Nijiise.pient losses cannot In de
ducted. He doesn't intend that
Kentucky shall escape with no j
inoines. j
A German, C C Hitter now has
divulged a thirty years secret,
that J. WilVes Booth escaped
to ihazil with him in 180."), and
i -rill living and prosperous,
tl-cv having met as late as 1884
m Hamburg. We have now to
l.ear from the man who says
Guitteau was nver hang.
A man who has just regained
his sanity in New York remem
bers once owning California
property now worth $14,000,000
which he never disposed of. It
to )k him twenty years to reco v
er his reason, and he now has a
worse case of recovery ahead.
income j ONE WHO 2AV7 THE FAMOUS
BATTLE D33C3I3Z3 IT-
Tm: Victoiiiks of hie Meuiii
M.f: St kick Ti:i:Koi to tiik
Lincoln- Camixkt A Gnuinc
STuKY ( THE HlSTOHlC FlGUT.
UtOM 1UI.N TO ItOAMIKIU
pro
Gon'iiiUftl from 1 it w. !;,
During this time thj M rima:
which Wiis b;x ir. g badly, hud
st rtetl in the diiection ol the Eliza
beth river, and on taking my station
in tlie pilot house and turnin-.' the
vessel in the dirtetion of the M-Tii-niac,
I saw that ohe ;as already mi
retreat.
A tew shots W' k! ti rt-U at the re
tr a'ing wssvl ami she continued on
to Norfolk.
Van Brunt, who was anxiously
watch ing I he du I, 0:1 iht isiie of
which his own hi,, as he thought,
depended, in his otlicial report the
next day, alter describing the
grounding of the Mernmac, says:!
"As soon as the Merrimae got of'
she stood down tho bay, the little
buttery chasing her wit h all speed,
when suddenly the Merrimac turned
around and ran full speed into her
antagon st.j. For a moment I was
Hsxious, but i(is'autl etw a shot
pinnae into the iron roof of the
Ao-rnirac, which surely inns have
damaged uer. For some time alter
i he rebels concentrated their whole
battery upon the tower and pilot
House of the Momtoi ami tjoon alter
th latter stood down for Koitivss
Mo roe and we thought it. piobable
site had exhausted her supply of
ammunition or sustained some inju
ry. Soon after the Merrimac and
the two other steamers headed tor
my ship and I then felt the fullest
extent of r.iV condition. I was hard
The conurbation of the Rev. j and immovably aground and t !.ev
Mr. Cleveland7 has asked for his could take pos-ticu under my stern
.4 ami rake me. 1 had expended most
resignation. He may have tiie 0f mv solitl shot and nn shin was
Deputy Sheriff Haw::, of Catawba
county, w.ii so kind to puim-i,
Henry Brink! v, that he allout-.
BrinkU to ride his horse while he
walked alou-!,!.. u,th the result
titat I'.rii.kly ndeiw.iv with Maun'
!u.f. and a pair u( iiandcntfs, ami
while the horie ha bren recovered
nothing Urn heard of Hrihkly
ami the bracelets.
Governor Carr has made rectus:
tion on the Governor of Georgia for
.John Tt.ui- who js dialed with
I'timing the Wayside. Inn at Iler.
dcrimil in l&HJ.
Governor Carr l;as apointed
thu-e Juetic3 ot the iVacr utidei
the recent act of the legislature,
tjz: one each in Kiankhu, i!aU
son and Wake count icy.
TheUnlyof Alfred Vincent, col.,
wiio disapjeard Uu inouthd go
ar Wilmingtor., d.s ieeeiitl found
flouting in the hurbor, I.e loving
beer, drowned.
It is rumored "that Hoke
Smith wid try to step from the
Capiuet into the Senate by way
f the next Georgia Legisla
t tire He doasn't propose to
iollow his chief into ''innocu
on; desuetude'
sticking qualities of his broth- j oadly crippled and my otlicers were j tJ-Mt;i -eutnelv disabled.
er, who failed to heed the cry of j worn out with atigue, out even m
' -iv i,i tins extreme dilemma 1 determined
his congregation last Aovemoei. nvr tQ gjve up the ship to thu Ie.
ceased tirim? .t' 1 "chek and
He says noth .. alouc the return
of the Monitor. either does Van
Itruut. If sue did r-turn, it was
after i treating lor twenty minutes
tuiing vrhieh time she w uhl tiaxtl
about two miles. :'cc Tiling to Cireen,
"wit hout direeti n, ' though he sas
th :t he had to tur: her in order to
get ner in the dir-"ion of the Mer
riniiic," according o Joi u, "into
shoal water," and :i-corling to Van
ltrunt, fownrtls Foifregs Monroe."
(irei has been criticiseo", but he
probably did all ti at could be done j
wrier tee cncumsta.ices. 1 fit M n
itor was in no o:.luion to renew
the tiL'ht. Mi" wa. directed ami
steered from I.e.- pilot house, and,
in a damaged cc nd it ion, another
shot lion, the Mernmac would
probildy have c.irried itawyv kill
ing or wounding (iieeii,ar.d leaving
th- :iip without a line otlieei
Voj b-n, .rr ho iiiight to be .he best
judije. ndorsed him as a gallant
ami excellent ollicer," an 1 recotn
mended, him earnestly for promo
tion. The day alter ihv light, how
ever, on account of is e.xireme
youth and the grent responsibility of
the oosision A Mit.-i n t. S.-ci.-t :lrv
Fo thought the cononand bhould "sked the bherilf for permission to
be given to an officer of more epc . itmas ttje liaiiging ot (Jeorge Mil.s
rie-.ce, and sent for Lieutenant :lt II;deigU on May :ird.
I Ijonia n. S Ihidge, who hud v i
. II.. I . I.eroe is coi.gidenng a proix)-
greatly oi iiguifhed l.lillMdl ISCX- ,: v- i S 1
m-Wuv ..-iee, Tof thf Cumberland in zPZunT" -SEa'S!'" ' 1Ut
t,e recent f.ght. , l "T " ' "jUOU
I io be built there.
Af rr telling biui how much !
d,p 4,tie.l Upon the MoliiU)!, ak- j
d Inm miiilvlv if he it I r capable of '
akiug i he ( omiiiaml. (
l can onlv say. sir," replied Self
i i' U'e, " bat if I command the Mom
lor I shall do my duty." "I behove
you will. Fir, ' said Fox, '(io ahead
an 1 take command at once." Jones,
"o, ha? been critici-ed for returning i Charlotte
to No. folk when he did, but . he I
could not follow the Monitor into1
lio.ii w;ur. He thought ihe Muf- ;
Kev K W Oakes, the Boston evan
gelist who leceinly conductetl a meet
ing at Kaleigh, id charged with get
ting on a big apite ainc.
Nearly a thousand people have
(ienei.d Cullcn P.attle of New
Kerne, will dehverthe meinori.nl ad
dres at Washington on May loth.
Kaleigh, Kli.aUlh City and other
places were visit d by bevere had
istorms on tlu i:Jt h.
Fire in the Ada Cotton nulls nt
I ait ucek did 75.(oO
v
damage.
The I'.lblical
IwIj iitil i l"r i- pitniii 1 : t ii u mv ntVi
III K tS T Al'i I ! ! V" 4 I " V 14 1 k4 f- t I i ill t 4 1
V V 1 .A. J k Vl ' v i Mil ui o 'II tv
President Cleveland
liis income tax return as a -'-en be made to destroy the ship after
t Vmaii at large " An honest all hope vv as gone to save h,r."
. , ii Both sides claim the victorv, but
confession, in at. last aclviiowi- from ti,oSe accounts it ee.ns that
edging himself a
political tramp.
mugwump: tfieMmitor was the fust to retire.
! The Confederates do not seem to
I have pursued her. Cjtesbv Jones
A young man jumped from j in his offich d report savs:" -At 8
J J 1 - j o clock we hail run to engage them,
Brooklyn bridge a few aays U.m .u the .MIline30ll j alu Ooca-
;ig. and into eternity. His im- sioiially at the iron buirery. Tne
mortal'ty
wnrh1.
will be in another I puots lnl not place us as near as
tliev expected. 1 lie great length i
and draught of the fhip rendered il
oxceediugl dillicult to work her.
We ran ashore about a mile from
the frigate and were backing fifteen
minutes before we got otf. Wt con
tinued to tire ai the Minnesota ami
blew up a steamer alongside of her
and we also engaged the Monitor,
: sometimes at very close quarters.
! We onoe succeeded in rannitig into
her aud twice sjienctu uer nre. ine
pilots de lariug that we could not
get nearer the M. nnefsota and le
lieviug ber to De entirely tlisabhd,
i.id t ie otii-or having ruu into
New York has comp'eted tak
ing another city census and
rinds only 1 8SS,7S0 people
r'lere. Chicago will soon be
heard from ai'ain.
Cuba neds lighting men to
L.-ip it in its struggle for inde
pendence. What a cance for
a job tor some of our tight spil
ing pops.
ami the
condition ot his own ship did not
allow him to take an ci ances of
gettijig aground again. She was
ic iking, the smokestack riddled., im
pairing the draft so that it was ditli
eult to keep hies going, and tilling
her gun deck with smoke; her
prow was gono and the plates of her
armor in some places hioken, though
no s..ot had penetrated her shield.
Iler officers claimed that the most
serious of her injuries were receiv
ed in the first day's light with the
Cumberland, and that had she met
the Monitor with her original
strength unimpaired, she would have
dest roved her.
That the United .States authori
ties were not willing for the Monitor
to have another encounter on eoual
t-rms with the .Mernmac, is evmeni
from the telegranv sent the day
after the tight by Secretary Wells,
dt is directed by the president that
the Monitor be not too much expos
ed, and that in no event shall any
attempt be made to proceed with her
unattended to Norfolk. If vessels
can te procured and loaded with
stone and sunk in the channel, it is
I important that it should be done."
To Be Continual.
ltecorder finds no
bill taxing church
lault of tin
property.
There was irost in many parts of
the Stat Monday morning.
There was sUtt and dtiow ia
In-aufoi t county Sunday night.
Waynesville fiaj a liquor dispen
sary in in active ojuratiou.
Mecklenburg county has seventy
five paupers in its jMor houae.
The Kaleigh Cotton Oil mills
have closed lor the season.
Uuthei fordton will build a laige
cotton null.
There is a big sensation at Golds
boro, due to the discovery that Geo.
T. Wassoni, a prominent colored re
publican, and his family have for a
number of night been throwing
ricka at th own house and then
informing the olice that white men
md boys were making these as
saults. Several white iersons were
arrested and tried. A secret watch
was kept by thejo!ice and by wb.ti
and colored citizens, and the Was
gous were caught in the act of
throwing the bricks, and asson
himself whs tn tiring a pistol in
the air. Atlanta Constitution.