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WEEKLY Successor "to tOn-e T-n cLeisc VOL 1- NO- 34- Greenville, v. c. august 30, iso. 25 CTS A TZAS KING'S JOTTINGS. The Monks, of an Abbey in Pennsylvania, have decided that it is not right to make beer, and will discontinue brew ing as soon as they can sell their brewery. That sounds like the yankees who sold their slaves to the South,, and at church the next Sunday with the money in their pockets prayed that the sin of slavery might be rooted from our coun try. . A Wilkesborro, Pa., woman awakened at night, got out of bed, captured a burglar, waked up her husband, sent him for a policeman, and when they ar rived delivered the officer the most shame faed . fellow he ever saw. The new woman puts the blushes on all. Judge Saurley, of Kentucky, will trv a case where an old bachelor is suing the woman for breach of promise beiore a jury of six men and six women. It is an injustice to put a man an old bachelor at the mercy of his enemies the women. The hat and sword won by Napoleon at Waterloo, and the clothes and sword won by Wel lington at the same battle will be exhibited in tbis country for my. Is that way easier to get American money than marry ing its heiresses. Miss Lora Perkins, of Minne apolis, Mum., is under arrest lor burning her sister to death to secure $7,000 insurance mon m mt7 nn her life. Lookout t-T a j man in the case. A Soldier On the Stage. Six Tlirillintt War Stories 3y J. 8-Z- Beck, C S- A Gruesome Bex Striking Pen Picture op the Ravages at a Certain Hemiiterous Wing less Insect Before Which the Bravest of Both A rmie s Quailed Joe's Death Day. KKOM IIO A TO KOANOKfc. We were camped upon the Charles City road about eight miles from Richmond, when six or e'ght of us agreed that we would ro to the city and have some fun. Upon our ar rival there we put our horses up at the livery stable and then started for a lark. When nit'ht came o: we all agreed to go to the theatre. The Misses Weston were the stars that night. We had ootained good seats in the parquette just behind the orchestra. The piece was progressii g alf right, but between the aets iheie was too much lost time and the crowd was getting very impatient when Major Win Gary and Larry j Watts, two of our paity, urged upon me to jump on the stagi. ai.d sing i "The Bonny Blue Flag" No quicker said than dour. I managed to get uimjii the Mage and sing a oar or two umiM th mt deafening noise and hallooing tint was put up i.i a theatre. A "out this time my talent? for Ma,- m ig lngcame to an abrupt em!, for I had turned it into a toot rav. for Ho mager had come fr-m 4.r-hinl the scenes" for the express purpose ot putting me oil. I gave turn a 1 J lively heat or two around the si age when several policetn-n came uxn the stage and were taking me .tf. About this time there wa a yell given in the gallery, whieh was Cobb's brigade to the rescue. By this time the whole theatre was hi n f i 1 II: a penecc uproar. ine sowners tackled the police and swore that 1 should not be taken out of there. The police were glad enough to turn me loose. The yoang man in the who cave the order for gnde to the refoue, whom I hunted up, was the son of hx-Govrnor Broom, of Florida. Believing that 1 was not cut out for tas;e life I abandoned it upon that night, being my first and last experience, see? THE PESTS OP BOTH ARMIES. About twelve months atter the Thero was a neighborhood in Un ion county where the darkies were gambling a good deal. There were two boutes and a large spreading tree, each situated about one-fourth of a mile from the other. At thee the darkies met alternately and gambled on Sundays, iiii bright nights. The colored preacher was getting very tired of it, as many members of his congregation were taking part in it, one Sunday he prayed that the three places might le destroyed. Ooly a lew nights after that a thunder storm passed over and the tree and both houses wt-re struck by different bolts dur ing the same night. No one wa killed or hurt but the gambling has been broken up and the owners of lh." houses absolutely refuse to al low any gambling on their premises. nilKVITIIX. Three colored convie.ts made a dash lor liberty at the State farm on the Northampton side of Roanoke i ivr last week, and two of the men. Bob Kerns and Henry Haliy were shot and killed, the otiier man es caping, but is probably drowiud, as dogs weie m hoi pursuit last and c.hn?ed him to the river where all trace was lost. Kerns was in for liium years, ami Hally was sent no fiom Btrtie for ten ars for houe breaking. Henry Hulley waj at one time qure an ac tive Republican politician and was secretary of the Republican Con gre?8i':i;il convention at Weldoii in June ls'.U, hi:h it will be re membered bio-.e up in a row with both White anu Cheatham claiming the nomination. Reports to the. State Horticultur al Society jdiow that at Southern k Pines, the new fruit growing section torfy lour persons have 000,000 vines and frui' tree- on 1,043 acres. Last year they shipped K'5 tons of grapes and this year will ship 500 tons. Adrian Moore of Brunswick coun- At Yreka, Caln a 'r'0 went to the jail, and alter breaking in, tok out I-awrence Johon, wife murderer and hang him to an iron rail laid in the forks ot two tree. They re turned to the jail, and took Wm Null a murderer, and hang him by John sou. Lnui Moreno a third murder ed was then taken out and was soon swinginging by his companion!. Again they returntd to the jail, aud goi (Jar land Slmbler, another mur derer and hung him beside the other three. The nett day the cr onerhad the lodies taen down and held an inqt et. Chailey Rroadwey Rout, the dry good? merchant, said latt Friday night at bis residence, 032 Fifth ayenue New York, that he had du covered that he had been sjitemati rally robbed by a dozen of his em ployes, and that within the past mouth fully $0,(H0 worth of goods had been stolen from his Broadway store. He thinks that within the past year they have stoleu j00,WM from him. In Cincinnati, a German girl who couldn't speak a wwrd of English, and an American, who couldn't speak a word of German I ad so far progressed in lovemaking by signs as to need the services of a miniiter and when before him, the novelty of t lit situation so amused the girl that her laughter scared away the grom, and the girl had a hard tnneexplaining the matter to the astonished minister. The fifty-tiye year old wife of Joseph Lavdeu, aged seventy-four years, of Kanawha county. West Virginia, gave birth to a line toy, which, makes their twent-eightu child. In Knsm a man must marry be fore eight? years old, or the law will not allow him to marry at all, and the law also prohibit a man's mar rying more tnan tive time. t !stiri n ''field Kr a mnli nf n.. ty lost so many hogs by Alligators i look Hllotber negro Harrison in the i;a;e rear liver that he I f 1. .. ,.r -.i m- .iu i a l lis i am ni 1 i ai l i r n gallery Cobb s bl i j i The James G. Blaine club, of New York, blackballed E. S Flow, just because he was a ne- gro. l iiai is muse iivjui iroops wnu unu mc- ueiu, auu iim- ageU o ami ts vears, restectiveiy, bought him a Winchester n lie, and watching for th? alligators had sue ceeded in killing thirty-six at last rejorts. The Standard Oil Company has arranged to make Wilmington its distributing point for North Carolina, South Carolina aud Geor gia. The oil will be ahipi'd there in tank steamers. Hattie Outlaw, colored, of New Berne, killed her two little children ... . I . . L . I .1. x'. K,tt.r.n thinly tliV 1 li T atHl marciliug IlliU uruwuie oroer Ol ine uav. uoui arunt:" at tue ?ouui. Out-in California they lynch ed four men at once and noti tied the Sheriff that thv job was ;..;aiiiri The coroner also liULOli' v.- found it o'lt. And now it is said the Cor-bett-Fitzimtnons tight will not be allowed to take place in Texas- That's the way toad vertise it. . L ine had contracted a feeling tor a little an imalcule that was woudrous kind. This little fellow stuck closer to vou time a brother or a motbei -inlaw, lie obtained to various sizes, scarcely eyer exceeding a quarter of an inch in length, but as to breadth, that !prwndfMi entirely uiKn the manner he foraged upon your body. In color he partook of various hades, mostly a seal brown, silver grey or old gold. The only differ- pnt-H between the silver grey and i nld cold was very marked, for he v - w would stick to you while old Continued on Fifth Page. gold gin auu ooy, oy aununisieriug a dose of strychiue by mistake for quiniue. A nugget of gold weighing 1L' pounds, av oirdujois, was found at the Ingram mine, now known as the Crawford mine. Stanly county last week aud is worth abort $.'MjK). The first brick of Madisots new large cotton factory the "Marodan," was laid by President F H Friea. Mort than 200 men are at work. Joel D Whitaker. of Raleigh, bu bricks for the cotton factorj at ililla boro. for the bnital munlp-of Jo Brooks another negro a ftw days before. Libriarian Spofford has paid ot. and says thi-re no is short; in his oflice but that it ia simply be hind in making up accounts. The Hamburg American Line will estabhVh a monthly steamship jiTfioi letween Norfolk Va aod Hamburg, Germany. The merenry dropped to twen tjr eight on the 21st on Mount Wash ington, and the mountain was cov ered with tuow. Vice President Steeuioii and family who took a summer trip to Alaska, have return & At Cleveland, Ohio, Louis Grim mer rode miles in twenty.four hours on hu bicycle. Blackburn claims forty five yoUj oat of eighty in the Kentucky Sena to rial fight, Ther arc 500 milk in the South, with an inveited capital of ?l00,0oo 000. Gen Lew Wallace mtde 1 12,000 by his lecturei last year.
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