WEEKLY
Successor -to "tlxe Index
VOL 1- NO- 23.
GREENVILLE, X. C- JULY 19, 1895.
25 C7S A Y2A2
KING'S
.JOTTINGS.
Cashier Butler of Rainy
Like, Minn, Bank didn't like
!'!! rhe dejiositors to run around
.i cusing him of being a party
tj the robbery of that bank, and
proceeded to vindicate himself
with his rustol and at last ac-
.iints twenty of the said de
positors, after looking down
tinit pistol's barrell most em
phatically denied taking any
part in circulating such reports.
This is a little out of regular
order, but doubtless very effective.
THE SEIGE OF PLYMOYTH.
HOW THIS NORTH CAROLINA
TOWN WAS CAPTURED-
A Very Interesting AiliireM 1 1 fore
I'ickt-t t Camp, c, v., by I apt. Oiarlej, T.
Loehr.
Judge Wilson, of Cincinnati,
a I ter patiently hearing an ali
in ny case announced from the
h-'nrli that "a'nvman who gives
FKOM KOAX TO 1COANOKE.
PART II.
After the repulse of Hoke's men.
in which Col. Mercer, of the Twen
ty first Georgia Regiment, was killed
our brigade was thrown forward
and deployed as skimiskers, com
pletely encircling the fort, then the
Kichmond Fayette Artillery was
brought up, and what then occurred
1 copy trom a letter by Sergeant A
Harrison .lones, of the U F A, one
of the most gallant men of thai fa
moms artillery company. Sergeant
I A n 1.. chUAj i a fj 1 1 ...... t.T . - 1 I . .
all his salary to his wite is a j .. . . t.
. ,i - nA ru tli wif ! distinctly tne slate uf my nerves.
li Mil. xiuu n vn im. - a a v.
rhrowsitallawavhaven tagood 1 whcM 1 ,,eurd Col Jim Hearing tell
his orderly to ask l)r Shackel
ford to 'bring all the ambulance
in the battalion along with the
Fayette Artillery, a he thoinevi
out to me, 'Come on boys, Hoke
has a little job icr you around
yonder. and we withdrew from the
banks of the( river above the town,
marched around through heavily
timbered woods until reaching a
swamp, rendered passable only bv
the efforts of an engineer corps,
which had preceded us. After get
ting through, and drawing the guns
up jlose under a hillside, tin offi
cers of the battery, Lieuts. liobiuson
and' Booker, accompanied by Ser
ireants McCurdv, .Tone?. Byron.
tleileman, and (iauies, crawled up
iiiiKvrrira.
air gotten together i
Senator Blackburn has been
filled off the stump by the
Kentucky Democratic State
Central Committee as he would
srve his farty better by si-
lience What a good thing if
I its more could be shut up un
til they learn something.
An Alabama Judge has deci
drd t iat when a man puts his
arm around a girl it is prima
lacie evidence of a marriage
proposal. If hugging is pro
losing, is the man who doesn't I to tne brow of the niil to see wiui
stick to it, liable for breach of i kind of a'b" the gallant Hoke
promise i
The latest Haiwaiian snap is
said to be a scheme to marry
ex Queen Lil to a Jap Count,
restore the. monarchy, and an-n-x
it to Japan. If the "ex"
had for them, and beheld, but a few
hundred yards in front of them, a
huge fort, with several cannon,
bearing directlv upon them, and
surmounted by "Old Glory." Hear
ing, turning to Lieut. Winston
Jones, who (in absence of the gal
lant Win. I. Clopton, who did not
arrive until the next morning), was
vas not in ironi or mai tune j in command, says : "Hoy, we must
niie American might object. i UtYe tnat fort to night ; 'KciutK-r is
on the lefl yonder; trv to bitter
Kx-Secretary of State, John
W. PiwtPr. has returned to
.1- ... I.'. ioon ,uu , wrd. on the right into battery
hv assisting
in arranging the
1 m.:... .....1 In
e:iee netweeu Vlllliu aim ud-
down the stockade," In a lew min
utes the command rang out" For-
ac-
the Old Favettt
found herself almost tinder canistei
range of the fort, which ojened
pan. erilv, oiessea are iue i simuu.iciusi nu up. hcs
peacemakers I ,nt,i'. after enduriiing a terrible tire,
1 I the enemv pummelling them with
.1 K Vard-man, the Populist j I'and-grenade fell back beyond ,
... i our ciins, but heimter s men now
dash upon the left; Hoke's nu n rally
and come again the fort is sur
rounded; the enemy's sharp-shooters
and caunrtniets are almost silenced
by our own. although we are under
a heay enfilade from the batteries
in the main works and the gun
lwats fn the rivt-r. the latter drop
ping their huge 4ieer-kegs" with
fearful precision, one landiug and
exploding square uuuer our caison,
upon which tvo of our wounded
, had beed placed, blowing them
f iiniidnte for Governor of Mis
sissippi has withdrawn from
the race saying k that he sees
he can not "win." Perhaps
t here's money in it.
, Fp i Pennsylvania a much
married woman is causing trou
ble between two of her late litis
bands. Husband No. 8, is after
' usband No. with a gun
From this it looks as if she may
m aid a No. lo
The following is the text of the
presentment by the Wake grand
jury in the "assignment act" case:
The grand jury present that J N
Brown, enrolling clerk of the Legis
lature of 1805, and S P Satterfidd.
principal clerk ot the House of
Representative of the legislature
of lS'.Ki, unlawfully violated the du
ties of their respective offices by
permitting a certain act known as
the assignment act (the same being
chapter -ICC of the laws of 1805), to
be enrolled as a public law of said
Assembly when in truth and fact
said act had neer passed the three
readings required by the Constitu
tion in either house of said Assem
bly. The following witnesses are named
on the part ot the State: J V Dob
son, (ioldsboro; K i) Stanford. Kox
lxro; William M Smith, Concord; A
F Heilman, Concord: Sheriff (irant,
Concord; U L Smith, Norwood,
Stanly county.
The case will come up at the Oc
toler term of the court.
The Kockv Mount Argonant
says Mr Mepheu Bennett Moore was
killed w hile remrning to his home
in Edgecombe countv Ywt Saturday
afternoon by his 'mule running away
with a w a iron loai.ed with tines. M r '
CD
Mwre became entangled between
the ehaitrf in some way and was
dragged to death.
Editor Bryan and City Editor
Meacham, ol the Wilmington Dis
patch, have been put under i,K)
bonds each for their appearance at
Circuit Court. They re charged
with bUbng Mayor r 'ishblate.
The Wilson Mirror rejorts the
death of W F Mercer. F'sq., long a
prominent citizen of Edgecombe
county, but for the past twenty
years a resident of Wilson, aged 75
years.
At Charlotte last Wednesday
man named John D Arnold raided
his Winchester anil shot David
Hives, steward of the Central hotel.
Mrs 1 D B Arringtou of Criiniiutl
l)u(kt fame, and the firm of Barnes
Bros, who published it for her. have
been indicted for criminal libel.
Th Hatteras Light Houe will
probably not be built owing to the
Jithculty in finding a safe founda
tiou.
Ex-Congressman S B Alexander
has been elected president ot the
North Carolina Ktiltoad.
Work on the C C railroad exten
sion from Ellenboroto Henrietta haj
commenced.
The (ioldsloro Argus is in hands
of a receiver and will bt sold Au
gust 0th.
Ieaufort county people cIhiui that
tliey have lost $lOU,t00 this year on
tiuek.
The iury in the Shemwcll cae
brought in a verdict of "not guilty."
Charlotte has a brtecbe factory
that is preparing to make bloomers.
Sampson county pells this year
10,000 orth of hucklebernei.
A few day i ago the State authori
ties at Columbia, S. C, began to ap
ply to ex-liquor dealers, a section of
the dUpensary lam, which provices
that a Circuit Judge can enjoin any
man from selling liquor, and in caw
he violates it, permuting him to be
jerkel up for contempt of conn;
that the judge then, on almost any
kind of a showing, can declare him
guilty and sentence him to the peni
tentiary, doing away with the con
stitutional right of a trial by jury,
which is guaranteed to every man.
In accordance with this policy,
William Sheppard, an ex-liquor
dealer was jerked up there yc.sterday
lie fore Circuit Judge Townsend.
His attorney made a brilliant tight
for the preservation of the cotutitu
tionil right; The Judge rendered
his opinion overruling tne objections
of Sheppard't attorney, adjudging
Sheppard guilty of contempt, and
sentencing him to eight month im
prisonment in the State penitentiary
ami to pay a fine of $200.
The warrant lor his arrest and
commitment placed in the handf ol
Liquor Police Speed for eervice. He
Sot his force of men out, and they
finally sunounded Sheppard's plac
of business. No one wad in there
but Sheppard. Ciyiliau and city
police witnessed that l'olic-man
Jenkins started the fusilade, firing
i n to the store upon Sheppard thrif
times before another snot was
heard.
The constable tay that they call
ed on Sheppard to surrender, bnt he
refused and w hipping out two pis
tols began to fire at Constable
Spevd. Chief Daly finally got in
side ami Sheppard shot him before
he saw who he was.
He was taken out in the itre,
placed in a waon and carried to the
State penitentiary, here bis wound
were dressed. Considerable excite-
meut was occasioned by the shoot
in .
A gang of dt-tperadoe galloped
into a Florida town and robbed the
safe in A M Chandleis store, looted
the tickvt ofhev at the dejot, ahot
at a night watchman, wounded a
negro and then nnle out of town
wirh their plunder, firing off their
pistols. This gnng in four weeks
bus raided the towns of Jajjnrr.
Lie Oaf, While Springs, Hunt-
itigton. Hawthorne and Like City, se
curing fHHJty valued at several thou
sand dollars.
It is a subject of common rtort
that the Southern railway has -cured
contract of the Seabord Air
Line s stem. The ScaWd system
reaches from Portsmouth to Atlan
ta, with tcamship lines from Ports
mouth t Baltimore, Ne" York,
Providence and Boston. Tie rait
way miU-age is about S.V) mile.
Secretary Carlisle and his son
Igan, has just rt turned from Ion
don, where he ajfliu-d in the com.
pletion aud delivery to the Ilotb
childs' of $31v(iUv0on of the rtct-nt
tK.UU lsU3S.
At fiivenville, S, C Ira JohiiKjn,
Colore!, who Kiluxl a yoang man in
Cfiititiuf'l on Third Page.
r .1 . .
a rmarrei wi uiicen iroai me coaniy
A ruby tniue is being developed 1" wang to
near Frankin.
tree and riddled