Newspapers / King’s Weekly (Greenville, N.C.) / Oct. 4, 1895, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of King’s Weekly (Greenville, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
WEEK c X S-accessor -bo -blxe IzclcLoix: w4 i :to. 33. GREEXVILLE, X- C OCTOBER 4, lS9t 25C7S- AT2A2 KIN mf aSr" fcAjr' 1 JOTTINGS Trenton, N .1- 111:1:1 is now i;i -i 1 1 u 'death from bl d poison ing caused by a pah of heavy hoes being so heated by a boot Mark's brush in purring on a diiti that liis feet were badly blistered, lesulting in blood poi - .11. Anothei excuse now for unpolished shoes. l"p in Illinois a train loaded with whisky caught tire and rhere was an explosion of wins kv which wrecked a car and probably fatally injured the roiidwtor and a brakeinan. Whisky explosions are com !i; ui in too many partsand i.ii n wreck whole families. The farmers of Oklahoma organized themselves and are endeavoring to kill out the cat tle thieves who have give.i so 111 ch trouble. If they are as hot after the thieves as some are after free silver, those thieves stand a slim chance. Xear Huntington, Pa , Jesse Moiningstar was holding his bride of an hour in his lap and fooling with a pistol. The pis tol went oil accidentally and the gioom was killed instantly. A brave man, but two were too much for him. Uncle Josey Field, of Mid- Ueton. X. Y., is lo: J years old, has drank liquor 82 years, but never smoked nor saw George Washington. The old gentle man is in independent circum stances, so dime museums need not apply. Exploits On The Seas. Capt. Sonars Eoocrd In the War Betwesn The State:- A California youth who left ! a home of luxurv to see the world, is stranded in New York, j and he can't be run away again with a club. A small club! properly applied might have I prevented this. j j A Chicago woman turned her i baby over to the court officers as vecurity for a fine imposed upon her husband who was tin Me to.pav it. We don't want 'hat kind of business down ; here. 1 It is said the boot, blacks of 1 Xhw York will organize. It ,vdl be a shining concern. Operations of Two Xayiks What thk I'mox axd rx fed erate esi:i.s ACCOMPLISHED. PART 11. On the nex morning 1 could plainly reooni.oiuv u blockadin g Ves.-els itt both passe?'. To my astonishment I learned that the two light houses hal been burning. Oi course, this could only he for the conviei.ce m' the 'tieiny. and there fore ordered them again extinguish ed, I rejnaii ipg at my anchorage at the passes for ,,lne d.v oecasiomdv shift mo n,y anchorage, patiently watching tlx- e!-emv and seeking an opportunity to escape. Hut this t;ni was hy no means lot, as I need all of it for drilling the crew. DRILLING THE CHEW. "The men were exercised at the guns day ami night, and as the nights grew dark tor tin want of the moon I called guard or -scout boat. to he s-nt out o.ie in each of the passes to pu v.-nt being Mirpns-d bv 'he boats of tin- enemy. Finally, on Sunday morning. th-:jHh of June, it having been rejected to me that the Brooklyn was absent trom her station, 1 caused steam to bo gener attd, ad. getfing nder headway, tan down toward . ie pass. As we approcheu t tit month of the nv.-r we discoud the Brooklyn with our glasses standing back under steam and sail to r-ga n her station, and it was tor some Lone a htile doubt ful whetner we coulii pass the ba be fun.- she came up. To a id to my perplexity the pilot protested that he knew only the bar of the Suith west Puss, and eon Id not undertake to run me out ol the Pass a L'Outtc. 1 continued on, however, hooting a signal tor a pilot at the fure. As luck would haye it. a pilot happen ed to ne present at the pilot's station a little above the light house, und at, we ran by it the gallant fellow pusiiedof in his boat and was ooti on board, ard in tiftuen minutes wo wen outside the bar. The text few hours were, of course, very anxious ones for me, as the Uroo'klvn had the reputation id' great speed and our relative powers were to bo test ed. Cwir.g to tin- frothing of our hollers the enemy at one time gained on us. but this having subsided, we soon began to drop him gradual ly under the joint influence of at earn and sail, and bv -h'M) o'clock Capt Poor gave up tiie chaae. As he bore up I sent nig men in tht rigging, and gare three hearty cheers for the flag of the Confederate States thus for the first time thrown to the breeze on the high seas bv a ship of war." WOKK IN THE WEST INDIES. Capt Semmes's destruction ol' Uni ted States merchant ships was chiefly in and aronnd the West In dies, and late in the autuniu of the year he proceeded to Fiance and thence to Gibraltar Farlv in the winter the Sumter was eurveyri, aud in a report to the Confederate Sc Coniinucd on Fifth Pcuje. IUUIVITIKS. In Savannah Georgia as Demar Cunningham was about to le mar ried bis landsmen turned him oyer to otlicers and he was placed in jail where he was kept four hours. U fore new bondsmen could be had, thereby delaying hij wedding four hours. But the bride waited and became Mrs Cunningham. The Farmers and Citizens' Hank, liUVnee' kla., fails for oTer "0.000. The money in bank found by the officers was s?2.". L T Perry, eashier ami president has been compelled to leaye town, as an in furiated mob is after him with the intention to lynch him. The highest price ever paid for land in the United State. .-SMI H-r square foot, was given last week tor a lot .'SnxSO leer comer Pino and i Nassau streets. New York, near Wall I street. This was $10,45.,44n per j acre. , i A Richmond. Va., girl became so mail with her escort, because he flirted a little with another girl while at the p;.rk, that she treated a car full of passengers to - an ear boxinc and hair pulling on their re i turn trip, A terrific explosion of giant mw ; der occurred in the lb lium mine, ; l-advillc, ('(dorado, kilbng prota- ; bly twenty men. Nven dead Iwidies nave already "been taken out. Thir itei. ar- kuoitn to have been killed. Near PHsi( City, Va., Lawrence : Crawford, colored, was .arrested for eiimiiially assault a -olored s irl nine year of ge. There in considerable talk of lynching. ; The snowfall in Denver, Col., last Saturday nigiit measured 114 iiM'hes. The heayiest previous fall in September was two ami one half inches in is,s."i. I wo young girls of St Joseph Mo, last Sunday in a Catholic church have mysteriously disappeared, and violence against the Catholic priests is feared. Leut.d'en. Scofield, havingjeach ed the age of sixty-four years, was retired from command of the United States arn.y, last Sunday. The New Oilcans co-operative' Hanking Association has suspended. It was a small concern, with an au thorized capital ot $100t'HH). Hon John Russell Young, gave a dinner in honor of (leiieial Ixng srreet at Philadelphia Saturday. Fifty guests were present. The Governor of Texas, has called and extra session of the legislature which is now trying to make some effective ante prize law. Mississippi' capitol is in ery bad condition and the State ofTn-eiN who occupy it fear that it may col lapse at any time. Secretary Herbert has awarded the contract for building two tor pedo boats to the Hereschoffj at f 14 4,000 each. In Brooklyn, N. Y., 250 recruit hare beeu enligted to go to Cuba to Qght the Spanish. ' KKOM KOAX TO IU1AM1K11 The grandjury of Wake Sufw-rior Court returned "true bills againt S P Sattertiel J, principil clerk of the lower hoiife of the last legislature, and J VY Krown. engrossing clerk, for fraud in connection with the much talked of assignment act. There are seven counts in the in dictment against Sattertleld. One charges that. he wilfully, knowing h corruptly and fraudulently de livered to Hrown the alignment act, the same never having been passed by either house, but having Uen talded prior to the date when thus delivered. Anotuer count charges that attrl!d yidated the true intent Ut.J J.ie...,i;ig of i. oath, by bliyering for enndlment an act which had neer pa.eil and that the fact was Weil kt.own to Hrown, the other count st foitb the oflonce in d liferent fornix The bill against Uroun has .several counts, ami timls that he corruptly fraudulently, and knowingly enioj ed the bill which neter pass.d. Fifty one applicants p.tPed ,-iic cessful examinatioiiB and w,-re li censed to pi act ice 1 .w , tje .snjn rior court Monday. Among t!.ee Were a Baptist pi-acber. Kev Bay ins Cade, a Mtlodil preacher. Kev hi las K Wib-or and Babbi. a Jen i.-h On less than .-ix cni of land lde the corjtorv 'i in- M .rt- ar ton Mr J..I n U ratted l,:io , toes, which he sola at a net profit of over ?nlH. It is said that (Jen W P Poberte, consul to Victoria, B. C., and W M Little, consul to Tegucigalpa, are included in the President's consular civil service order. A brjck kiln in UutbeiforJ coun ty contains 1,.m,00 bricks, which are for finishing a big cotton mill which will contain 3U,inn, .spindles and SOU looms. Johu I! Harder, of Big Falls, Ai amane ouuty, hm a Holstein cow which gives te'u gallons of milk r r day, requiring to U- milktd three tunes a day. A piece of mica, 4 feet 4 mchea thick and J feet 7 inches wide, haj been mined in Yancy County. It u estimated to W worth p oo. Stephen T Crowder, A Kid gewav. and H T Joyce, of Mount AirV, have tn-en apioinUnl Sate Ban'k Examiner by Treasurer Wort. A civil service examination for revenue clerk?, storekivieri and guagera will be held at IUleigh, Nov 9th. Cumberland county hia a bicycle road from Ho Milli. t6 Fayttte ville a distance of about ten mi lei. It is estimated that the mtton crop in the State haj ben damaged, or cut oS, one third by dry weather. Fire at Jackson Sunday night destroyed ths Kpiscojx' church mini ; many other buildings. I Fire at Jackjon Sunday night ; destroyed the Episcopal church and ; many otler baildmgs. J T TimberUke, after forty years serrice ascondnctor on the Seaboard Air Line, hj retired.
King’s Weekly (Greenville, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 4, 1895, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75