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VOL 1. NO. 16.
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Judge Goff, of the United
States Circuir Court has decided
tlie South Carolina registration
iict of 1882 unconstitutional,
and issued an injunction against
rlie State officers forbidding the
ordering of the election for del
egates to the State Constitu
tional convention, aeclaring a
conspiracy exists between Gov
ernor Evans. Senator Tilman
and others to commit fraud If
that is ad Judge Goff can dis
cover he must take a back seat.
Dr. Nan sen, a Norwegian.
who smarted in the summer of
1893, has found the North pole
in a chain of Arctic mountains
and planted the Norwegian Mag
upon it. As a place for plant
ing Hags we suppose it is unex
celled. A divorced wife acted as
bridesmaid at her husband's
second marriage up in the
northwest. It is said she was
visibly affected but whether
from malice, envy or joy was
not stated.
It is said that the minister
who tied the Castellane Gould
knot received a $3,000 fee for
his services. Judging from
some other such alliances, law
yers may get larger ones.
DUEL OF IRONCLADS I
ONE WHO SAW THE FAMOUS
BATTLE DESCRIBES IT-
The Victories of the Meri:i
mac Sthuck Terror to the
Lincoln Cabinet A Graphic
Story 'or the Historic Fight.
At Youngstown, Ohio, on
Easter Sunday, members of the
Orthodox Greek Church hung
Judas Iscariot in effigy, an im
mense crowd witnessing the
performance. Alas, poor Judas!
Rumor has it that Mrs. Van
derbilt, the divorced wife of V.
K. Vanderbilt, is to marry mil
lionaire O- H. P. Belmont, of
New York. And perhaps
thereby hangs a tale.
An Alabama cyclone broke
one negroe's leg, wounded sev
eral others, and blew the feath.
ers off a chicken. It is not re
ported as stiiking Kolb.
Huntington, the railroad mag
nate has been arrested for giv
ing one G. M. Stone a free pass.
Evidently he gave it to the
wrong man.
Richmond tiuds it cannot at
ford electric lights and will try
gas again. There's nothing like
a native element for a town.
Continual fr-m lit w-ek,
REAPPEARANCE OP THE MONITOR
After her return to Norfolk, the
M err i mac was placed in dock to re
pair her injuries and on the 1 It li ot
April she again appeared in Hamp
ton roads, accompanied by the
Yorktown and Jamestown, and
challenged the whole Inderal fleet.
The monitor had been reinforced by
the Naugatu.uk, another iron-clad,
and half a dozen otKr ships, but
the federal leet remained under the
guns of Fortress Monroe, while the
Yorktown steamed across to Hamp
ton and cut out three fedtral trans
ports. Mr. Fulton, of the Balti
more American, was present, and
writes to his paper that day: flic
eTeiits of this morning are much
commented on, and have caused
considerable feeling, and some hu
miliation. Beyond the capture of
three transports, the demonstration
of the rebel fleet has been little
more than a reconnaissance. It can
not, but be concluded, however, that
the rebels have had the best of the
affair. The capture was effected al
most under the bows ot the French
and English cruisers, and we may
be sure that our national prestige
was not increased in their eyes by
what they saw."
It is but jus to the federal naval
officers to say that it was not their
fault that the challenge was not ac
cepted. The order. from Washington were
peremptory that the Monitor was
not to engage. with the Merrimac,
unless she could be drawn down -into
the lower roads, wheie the whole
federal fleet could combiue in at
tack upon her, under the guns of
Fortress Monroe.
Ag.in, on the 8th of May, when
the federal flet had commenced a
bombardment on Sew el 18 Point, the
Merrimac went dowu to take part in
the ac ion, and upon hei appearance
the fleet withdrew to Fortress Mon
Two days after that the movement
I of McClellan on the peuinsular com-
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peueu i ue evacuation 01 murium,
and the Merrimac as ordered up
James river to protect Richmond.
Tne pilots declared thatif the ship
was lightened fonr or five feet she
could be carried up that river.
Commodore Tatuali, who then com
manded her, ordered this to be do e,
but after her guns had been thrown
overboard and her daught reduced
to e;ght-en feet the pilots decided
that owing to the westerly winds
that had produced a low tide iu the
river, it would le impossible to take
her up.
Her wooilen hull was now above
the water, and she was no longer an
iron-clad, and without guns she was
entirely defenseless.
In this dilemma there wag but
one course for Tatnall to pursue, and
that was to destroy his ship to pre
yent her falling into the hand- of
the enemy.
Accordingly, she was blown up by
her own crew on the morning of
May lit!.. The officers and C re w
were transferred to Drewry's Bluff,
where a few days afterwards thev de
fended that place successfully
against the (lule .a, Niugatuck aud
their old antagonist, the Monitor.
'Hie Euil.
Where the Fourteenth Fought. ,
KOM HOAN TO KOANOKK.
I read with much interest the
sketch of the Fourth North Caroli
n a Kegitneiit in your last Sunday's
issue.
I was a member of Company A
Fourteenth North Carolina Kegi
meut, and as we were in the same
brigade from the time Col. Geo li
Anderson was promoted to the close
of the war, many of the incidents
related were familiar, and as I re
member them very correctly, with
the exception of tht position the
Fourth and Fourteenth Regiment
occupied in the battle of Sharpsburg
September 17th, 1862.
The Fourth occupied th right
centre and the Fourteenth the left
centre in that memorable battle, and
not the reverse, as stated. I was in
command or Company A, Fourtetnth
North Carolina Kegiment; hence mv
position was on the extreme right of
the Fourteenth aud on the left of
the Fourth. Consequently I was a
close eye-witness to the valor dis
played by the Fourth on that occa
sion. It occupied the crest of the
hill, with little or no protection,
and unwaveringly wpulsed charge
alter chargo by largely superior
numbers, and were besides exposed
to an enfilade fire from the left un
der a heavy fire of shot and shell
from the enemy's batteries. N. E.
Jenkins in Charlotte Observer.
It U Historic.
Hon Andrew J. Cobb, of Atlanta,
but formerly of this city, has in his
possession one of the moat interest
ing relics of the Confederacy. He
has carefully preserved it, not only
for its yalue and its interesting na
ture, but from the fact that it be
longed to his father. General Howell
Cobb.
General Cobb was president o
the provisional Congress of the Con
federacy that met iu Montgomery,
Ala., to lrame the constitution of the
Confederacy, and, when all the bus
iness had been finished.it became bis
nuty to sign the constitution as pres
ident of the assembly. Thin be did
with an elegant gold pen, which m
oped only for that purjose and then
laid back in its case.
Professor Cobb has that pen now.
It has never been disturbed since
the hand of General Cobb laid it in
its case, and the ink used then can
be seen now where it has dried ujku
the pen. Athens, Ga., correspond
ent Constitution.
Charles Branch, cf Charlotte,
w ho given a drink of hartshorn
h year or so ago, a a joke, died !t
week from its eAVcs, having suffered
terribly and having to keep a till
in his tiiroat through whicW he took
his food.
Mayor Gentry, of Waltm: Cove,
assisting the lol.(v in arresting a
negro, struck the negro atrial
blows from which the negro died,
ami the Mayor was jailed, charged
with murder.
The New Hanover Superior
Cuirt, decided that Hon. O. I'.
Meares was the Judge of the crim
inal courc and would-be Judge
Cook appealed to the Supreme
Court.
All the military companies in the
State will be invited to attend the
unveiling of the Confederate monu
ment at lUleigh,on May 20th.
Two brother, Alber and Little
ton Single, of Salisbury, disagreed
about politics, which led to both
being put under ieac bouds of
$200 each.
Three prisoners came very near
escaping from Fayetteville jail last
week, their plans being discovered
just in time to b prevented.
Gvorge F Shaffer, from wme part
of New York, woo has been running
the KeriiersviUe News, has myste
riously disappeared.
A letter from Wilmington reached
San Francisco in six days, and the
answer got back to Wilmington in
the same time.
It is reported that ex Judge Arm
held will get $2,000 fee for defend
ing Shemwell, who killed Dr Payne.
Parties from Colorado have
bought the McAuulty mine in Ca
banus county, paying 25.0O0 for it
L II Smith, of Davie county, has
a common guard which he claims
has been in use ninety-four years.
It is reported that 1700 shad and
4.000 herrings were caught at one
haul at Cape heart fishery.
A negro boy was killed at li lades'
mill, New Jlerne, by being caught
by a revolving shaft.
Treasurer Worth refuses to pay
Judge Jones his salary, saying it is
claimed by EwarL
Tarboro has a new bank with
$30,000 capital which may be in
creased te $250,000.
A white convict under a life fven
tence, escaid from the peniteutiary
last week.
The Durham Drug Company, a
colored firm, have opened business at
Durham.
Ex-Judge W. N. Mebane died at
his home in Madison on the 22d.
Crops on the Roanoke have been
damaged by freshets.
Burglars are making raids on
Wild on stores.
The lloxboro bank was robbed
Saturday night.
A State IU Hall League is tote
formed.
NS in i to a is to have a 25,0u0 Conr
mill.
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