KING'S WEEKLY
Successor -to "tQiLe InxcLe:x:
VOL 1- NO. 29.
GREEjYVILLE, jY. a JULY 26, 1895.
23 CIS
JOTTINGS.
Up in Ohio, an effort is being
made to secure the pardon of
a man who has served seven
teen years of a life sentence for
murder, the principal evi
dence in the trial being that of
a ghost through the medium of
the mother of the dead man.
Ohio! Ohio! We always
thought it a civilized country.
A Texas girl helped her father
lynch her best fellow to get rid
of him, although she wanted to
marry him, and would not
accept the choice of her father,
and now father and daughter
will be held for murder. From
its roughness, it must have
been true love.
Horr and Harvey are quar
reling over the silver ques
Hon up in Chicago, and the
country looks on deeply in
terested. Their heads are level
on the monev Question so far as
they are concerned themselves.
There was a regular knock
down and drag out row in the
Ohio Populist State convention,
and Coxey standing on a chair
aw the whole thing, but took
no part. Coxey is keeping off
the grass nowadays.
The Populist claim to have
cast over 60,000 votes in North
Carolina last year, while the
Republicans concede them but
about 30,000. A case of doctors
disagreeing, but wl.at's the
difference?
The Hhv. Tom Dixon says
'that if the Angel Gabriel
came to New York he would be
panning his rings for a drink
of whiskey within a week " Is
the Rev. Thomas jewelless
THE SEIGE OF PLYMOUTH.
Rev J A Christian of Rich
mond Va, recently preached on
the subject, 4 'marriage7 7 ana
took strong grounds in favor of
taximrold bachelors. Revenge
would be sweet to many.
HOW THIS NORTH C ABO LIN A
TOWN WAS CAPTTOED.
A Richmond Va, police jus
tice lined a man $10 for beat
his hoise and let off a wife
beater with a penny and cos's.
Was it an old horse and a "new
woman V
Fitzsiinmonshas been dream
ing and in one of them knocked
Corbett so completely out that
he thought he had killed him.
Corbett does his work wide
awake.
A Very Interesting AddrrsA Before
Pickett Camp. C, V.. by Cpt, Chariot T.
Ix)ehr.
part hi.
One of the first shots brought
down the large garrison flag (which
was afterwards cut up by our nun),
tlun the enemy hoisted the white
flag, and the town, with all it con
tained were ours. Then there was
heara one of those indescribable
Confederate veil, and the regiments
were ordered to stack arms, after
which the men were ordered to
stach arms, after which the men
were informed by General Hoke
that they might help themselves to
whatever might please their fancy
except the horses and wagons.
While the men rushed into town, I
was left with a detail to guard the
main road running into the town,
and prevent outsiders to enter. It
only took about ten minutes, and
tne crown l held grew in such pro
lortiun, that I sent wori that I was
unable with ray few men to hoid
my position, whereupon instruction
came calling my guard in, and per
mitting the crowds that had gather
ed to rush into the town,
HAD THE BEST OF THE INFANTRY.
The mounted men aud artillery
had decidedly the best of us infautry
here; they loaded their horses, wa
gons aud cuisous with all muds of
plunder. The army supplies we
tound in the towu were simply im
mense ; the stores and warehouses
were filled from top to bottom with
just such things as we could wish
for, besides -,197 well prisoners,
twenty-five guns, and a large num
ber ot horses aud wagons were sent
to General Lee's army as the 3poils
of Plymouth.
The scenes that occurred among
men while the pillaging whs going
on, was highly amusing. 1 saw one
of the North Carolina boys have a
box cf chocolate, who thought it
was soap, The men went into the
tine residences (from which its in
mates had departed but two days
previous), cut oieu the beddiug,
broke the costly minors to get a
piece of looking glas3, ripped the
strings out of the pianos to laug
their tin cups on ; loaded them
selves with female wearing apparel
it was a high old time generally
Twenty thousaud new Colt rifle
muskets were also found, which
were distributed among the men.
aud a large amount of rations, such
as flour aud bacon, soon became part
of the depleted Confederate Com
missary Department.
Late in the evening we marched
to encamp in a strip of woods about
a mile from town, where we Uy
down tired and worn out, but hap
py to sleep under the green pioe
tree.
THK EJf D.
FROM KOA1 TO K'tAXOKC
In Pamlico county last Thursday
trening a Mr Wethtrington and Mr
Johnson Hill were cutting lumber
near together when Mr Wethermc
ton's axe came off the handle and
struck Mr Hill in the groin. Mr
Hill liyed only a few minutes after
wards. George Hathaway, of Jones Hay,
Beaufort county, took his wife and
children filling. One of the chil
dren fell overboard, he jumped in
to rescue it and both were drowned.
The last time became up he had the
child iu his arms.
Duncan McKachern, col., who
murdeied his cousin Anderson
McKachern, in Cumbeiland county
in 18S3, has beeu arrested at WiU
mingtou, where he has been hying
since committing the crime.
A Itichtnond countj negro girl
was troubled with pains in her ear,
ami upon examination it was fomd
to contain commou house flies, 164
of which 1-ave oeen pottm out and
there are more yet.
. Two barrels uf moonshine whis
key were found near Goldsboro htst
week by negroes and they had a
Till I V (rrwu limn until f I. o,
jv,,j. ft' w v. until i iic uiiiv.no '
stopped it by seizing one of the bar- I
reis oi wmskev.
A f .
i'w nanover county has appro
priated 250, conditionally that
Wilmington appropriate a like
amount to advertise itself at the
AtlauU Exposition.
Fjui tramps who were stealing a
ride, weie killed in a freight wreck
which occurred on the Atlantic
Coast Lire at Pleasant Hill late
last Saturday night.
Six cutpeiilers, at work on the
building of the Normal aud Indus
trial school at (Jreensboro, struck
for an increase of wages from $1.25
to $1.50 jer Jay.
The total assessment of railroid
steamboat and Ulegraph lines for
1895 are $25,088,878,00, being an
increase over 1894 by $523,5C7,0C.
A Greensboro man took a nap on
his back porch and awoke minus his
shoes, which some One else appro
priated to their own use.
Governor Carr has accepted the
company of Infantry at Franklin
ton and it has U-n assigned to the
PVit Regiment:
S P Satterfield, one of the clerks
of the late Legislature, has surd
the News aud Observer for i20.000
damages.
The Chatham county coal mines
are now supplying the Seaboard
Air Line road with 300 tons of coal
daily.
Winston bad a $25,000 fire last
Saturday, the tobacco factory of
Jones and Cox being completely des
ed. The Chester and Luioir Narrow
Guage railroad earned oyer $S6,000
last year.
For the proposed Alumni Hall at
the .University, $21,500 ha been
subscribed.
Goldsboro want some warehouses
and to become a tobacco market.
Jones & Co., taw mill men, at
Klixabeth City has assigned.
nitEVITIKH.
At Callahan, Fla., eighteen mile
northwest of Jacksonville, a deadly
dnel wa fought on l2nd between
Deputy Sheriff Higginbotham, of
Nasau county, aud a negro outlaw.
The negro some time ago shot three
men, and Higginbotham had a war
rant for his arrest. The oflir
found the negro this morning in the
hoa&e of a negro woman and ordered
him to surrender. The negro re-
fused aud iben both began firing,
empting their pistols. When the
smoke cleared way both aere found
on the floor dying. Kfery bullet
had taken effect.
A monument is to be erected at
Fort Mill, S. C, to the Southern
slave, to commemorate hi faithful
ness aud devotion during the war.
The monuments is to bo made of
rough granite, with an appropriate
inscription, aud will stand near two
others, one to the Confederate sol
diers, and the other to the worrfen
of the South, for their heroism and
selfsacrifice during the war.
In Brunswick county, N. C, an
afflicted man longed longingly for
loggorhead turtle. Now the crea
tures never leave water but a few
fret and the aforesaid invalid had
no one to procure the turtle for him.
But one morning a fine one went
all the way through half mile of
sand and presented itself at the in
valid's house. The invalii had log
gerhead turtle.
It is estimated that 100.000 peo
ple visited Coney Island last Sam.
mcrand they drank 525,000 glasca
of beer, 100,000 glasses or whiskey
or gin, and about 20,000 glase of
soda, ale, milk and other soft drinks,
beiug a total of 825,00081 glasea
for each person.
The school census of Richmond,
Va., shows 23,933 names enrolled
white 14,821; colored 9,112; a
gain of 42 whites, and a loe of
1.0S3 colored since 1890.
At Chicago, Cant. Anson and hi
National League Baseball player
were fined $3 and cosU each on the
20th for violation ot the Sunday
law in pitying ball oti Sunday.
The Western Packing Company
of Portland, Oregon, baUgin can
ning horsemcat, and will ship it
East to be used for food:
The trial of Theodore Do rant for
the murder of Blanche Lamont in
Kmmannel Baptist Church, Sao
Frauciseo, ha began in thit city.
John Gill and son, of Cleveland,
Ohio, have been a wan led the con
tract to build Baltimore's new court
bouse for f 1,849,000.
In a prize fight at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, a pugilist named Scxnidt
was killed and It is not known who
was bis oppontnL
At Mnncie, Indiana, an applica
tion for divorce wa filed, an i we ted
and the divorce granted in fifteen
minntes.
The Southern railway ha seen red
facilities at Norfolk, Vjl, which
will make that place itfVdeep water
term ion.
Secretary Hoke Smith is stomping
Georgia for the gold. bug.
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