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ft- KING'S WE Successor -bo "tire Jxi VOL 1. NO- 20 GREENVILLE, X, a MAY 34, 1S95. 25 CTS A Y2AE EKLT, JOTTINGS. The white regimental baDds at Florida encampment at Tal lahassee refused to play in dress parade if the third regi. ment colored band was allowed to, and as a result some feeling was engendered and the colored band sent home. Negropho- lists will please take notice that there are proportionately more i ankees in Florida than in any Southern State. Admiral . Meade has been placed on the retired list and President Cleveland's indorse ment referred to a brilliant ca reer as 4 'tarnished." Another case of a glass house man, very careless in handling stones. J The income tax has been de clared unconstitutional, after 80,000 has been collected, and will have to be refunded, the experiment costing about $100, noo. Uncle Sam seems some rimes a poor judge of the whistle.- 9 ' - - - - - - Thirty years after the war some New York editors have discovered that there was some balor among the Southern sol dierry. It is safe to say those editors never went to the front, but fought at home. The defaulting paying teller of the New York Chemical National Bank having been de clared insane will be sent to an asylum. If he had made a clean sweep his mind might have been easier. An Atlanta negro eat thirty two bananas in so many sec oiids, and fifteen plates of ice cream in that many minutes. Ilow church festival girls must envy such appetite. President Clevelanl wants to go rishing down South in the Gulf of Mexico where he can hook some big tish. Judging from his cabiuet, he is louder ot small potatoes. Since the last dicision against dispensary in South Carolina, "Blind Tigers' are doing a big business. And they are not pro tected by any ga 1 e law. An Alabama Judge sentenced a man to hard labor for cursing in the presence of a lady. Of ' course that lady was not wife. TARHEELS THIN GRAY LINE. Campbell's -Highlanders Outdone By North Carolinians- An Incident of the Battle of Win chester that Surpasses the Sincty third Regiments Fdtnous Stand On the Mining of Balaclava. At tbe battle of Balaclava occur 0 Hf? ,llcideur' which Kingslake has painted in words and thus im morta hzed. The Highland brigade, nn47d' Bl&ck Watch "the Colds ream Guard, the Grenadier Guards and the 93d. Sir Coliu's old regiment were in position which threw the 93d just along the crest ota slight rise of the ground. The Russian artillery had become an noying, and the 93d lay down just behmd the crest, where they were better sheltered and concealed. A division of the Russian horse was moving towards the left of Sir (Jo hn's whole line, and its head of col uinn nearly even with the British, when at once foui squadrons of Ruesianp, 400 men, swung quickly out of column and struck a gallop toward the English position. In stantly the Highlander rose from the grounu and witn their call forma and towering black plumes looked like a line of giants. The 93d was not in touch with either ot the other battalions of the brigade, so they stood and took it, and when the Russians got with;n 300 wrds opened tire on them aud drove them back. They never repeated the charge. This scene has tnen cele brated in song and story as "Sir Colin Campbell's 'I bin lied Line." It was witnessed by the allied ar mies, English, French and Turkish, and simply astounded the Russians, for both sides saw it. EXCELLED BY JOIINson'.s MEN". But I myself, with thousands of others paw Johnston's North Caro lina brigade do a thing on Septem ber 19, 180-1, which far excelled in gallantry, in firmness and in hero ism this feat of the "thin red hue and I have never seen a description of it in print, and I do not think it was referred to iu the reports. 1 am sure Hob Johnson did not, Tor he was as modest as he was handsome aad brave. In beptemler. 1864, Early's armv was lying about Winchester. We had been through Maryland, had terrified Washington into tits and had gotten safely back to Virginia with thousands of horses aud cattle and hundred of wagon-loads f plunder ot every kind, mostly ata oles. 1 had a cavalry brigade of ild Southwestern Virginia horse men, as brave and aa nndiciphued ai the Virginia rangers. Col Wash ington surrendered at Fort Necessity or Andrew Lewis fought Corustalk with at Point Pleasant. I was bi vouacked --we had uo tenU that summer about three miles north of Winchester, on the valley pike, and Sicketed from the valley pike to the erryville pike, running east from Winchester. Gen Robert D Johnson, of North Carolina had a brigade of 800 to 1,000 muskeu on the Herryville pike He-Union At Hoiiklon Accounts of the gathring of Cou. lederate Veterans, at Houston, Tex as, dated 20th inst, says . The emcampment feature preee--ngthe Confederate re-union opvii ed this morning under unfavorable conditions. Tue twenty companies of Texas volunteer guard in camp aggregate 1,200 troops. A grand military street parade intended for 10 o'clock this mcJrniu' was post poned till the afternoon bv a heavy rain. Gov. Culberson and slatT ar rived last night. Other distin guished visitors now present are General Stewart, Commander of the Maryland divisions of Veterans ; Maj (ien Ed Reedy, Oklahoma divi sion, and Geu Lee, of Mississippi. Gov.Turney, of Tennessee, Mai. Gen. Schofield, Gen Gordon, a-,d Miss Winnie Davis are expected Wednesday, when the re-union .vill formally open. A large detachment of U. S. troops are also in camp. About 5,000 visitors, including Veterans and military, have so far been loca ted. The city is elaboratel) decora ted, and the streets are thronged with 8'rangers despite the rain. The drilling of the State troops comrneuced this afternoon at Camp Culbeison. Elaborate programmes have been prepared for each day at the camp grounds and entertain ments at the auditorium at night. A Call to Fre Coiner UtoM hoax Tt i:oaiki:, Te following call for a national conference of the friends of silver was promulgated by the Central Bi Metalic League, of Tennessee on the 17th: To the Friend of Silver Throughout th t"qitel State. The single gold standard ajvo cates have called a convention to meet hereon the 23d of this mnh in an attempt to lead the South to support their policy. The Central Hi-Metallic Leagued Memphis, re alizing the high importance of meet ing their arguments, exposing their falso accounts and counteracting their baneful influences, do hereby request the friends of the silver and gold money of the constitution to org'anize in eveiy State and county and to send delegates to a bi-metalic convention to be held at Memphis on the l'Jth and 13th days of June .next. The ablest champions of bi metallism will be present .and ad dress the convention. (Signed). J. S. Buchanan, Chairman. Jere Horn. Walter Webb, M. B. Norfleet, S. W. Hampton, executive committee. At Roanoke Va, a bold plot to seize the camp train of the Virginia troop there has been discovered. Detectives got on to the scheme and the cars were all found nnccn nled. Three men were aftprwarrlfc r. rested for tampering with the coupling and one man admitted this morning that he was offered $50 to s ize the engine which n kept attached to the camp cam for an emergency. Seven hundred and sixty meu are at work in the mines to day. The people at Rocky Mount are indignant at the action of Judge Co ble in setting .side the verdict of m",',der 1,1 tim dKree nd giviug Nilli tm Mitchell, col., thirtv vears in the ienitentiarf ior murdering Guillord Pittman. Policeman Vickers, of Winston who was shot bv Arthur Tuttle col Saturday night, died Mondav and luttle haa been taken to Greensboro tu prevent Jynckiii. Goiernor Evans and Gen Watts of South Carolina, visited Wilming ton and Wrightsville last week in the interest of an encampment for the South Carolina troop. Iu the game of ball at Greensbo ro, between the teams of the Uni versities of North Carolina and v lrgiuia, Virginia won bv a m-ore ot 7 to 0. Capt R B Peebles, "of Northamp ton county, nt-nt tuning with hook aud line a short time ago and caught a half bushel of of tish. The Peabody Fund ior the (Jreeni boro Noimal and Industrial School for this year is ?L'uoO, being 250 more than was promised. A negro child leing left alone at a house iu Wayne county waa burn ed to death by sparks igniting her clothing. Whit Fcrnm, who killtd deputy, sheriir of Rowan couuty has been sentenced to hang July 25th. The passenger dejHt building at at Chark tte was deatroved by fire last wee. " ' Rains have badly damaged the potato crops. Stanly couuty jail now has thirty inmates. IlllKVITini. The Floridrf House adopted a res olution providing fur a committee to investigate every State office. The resolution was introduced by a son of ex Governor Drew, who has claimed that gros irregularities haye been committed in the sale of Florida lands. The real ptiqvw- of the investigation is to bring out all the facta in connection with the transfer of -t.OOO.OuO acres of land to Hamilton Dillon and associate, of Philadelphia, W. I). Bloxham, now Comptroller, was Governor at the time, and hit opponent have t verely cnti-ised his coarse m tbe matter. Robert Tyler Jones, a grandson of President Tyler, and on who po tessed the uni'je distinction of being ineoniy maie cdhu ever bore in the White House, died in Wuhior ion v-uy oaturaay. Iu.heating a curling iron over a lamp, tbe lamp explodtd and started a fire which destroyed $?M,000 worth of probity at St Albani. Vl. on the ISth. Twelve negroei have been lynched in and near Lafayette county, Flor ida in the lajt six months for out raging white women. The U. S. Supreme Court has de clared the income tax usconitita-tion&L
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