WEEKLY
S-aooessor -to -blxe Index:
VOL 1 NO 3 4
GREENVILLE, JY- a OCTOBER 11 , 1805.
25 CIS- A YEAS
KING'S
JOTTINGS.
The other day a distinguished
Cleveland Democrat in Ken
tucky, S D McCormick, "intro
duced Col. Bradley, Republi
ran candidate for Governor, to
a Henderson audience, and
made and enthusiastic speech,
indorsing Bradley for Governor
and' proclaiming unalterable
fidelity to the English gold
standard." Who says Cleve
land ism is Democracy?
Watson has again been de
feated for congress by J C C
Black in the Augusta, Ga. dis
trict, and by a proportionately
incieated majority, the election
being perfectly fair. Perhaps
Watson alluded to himself
when charging fraud at the last
ejection.
Enormous Cost of the War.
Blood and Money Spent In Subju
gating the- South-
Tremendous Number of Men En
caifMl and Killed In the Iletiellioit
Overshadowing All Other Conflict
Com iari tone With Kn counters From
L-iplc and Sdan.
Corbett and Fitzsimmon's
must now fight somewhere else
as the Texas Legislature passed
a strong an tiprize light law.
Gov Culbetstoji seems to have
knocked both out on the first
round.
In Indian Territory robbers
held up a train, and sot only
eighty five cents, which so dis
gusted them that they would'nt
have that. There is often little
reward for thi trouble in many
things.
"Another negr lynched ;n
Ohio" is the way the fate of a
negro who committed the usual
crime on a respectable white
woman, is told. But then
lynchings in Ohio don't count
A Washington City Grand
Jury has reported ia favor of
establishing a whipping post.
The District disfranchised itself
The American civil war was one
of the gto.tt, of the very, very few
great, wars of modern tinup.
Oa the battlefield enough men
were shot dead to .furnish tbe whole
male population of som of the
chief cities, and some of the old
populous States. The treasure ex
pended would buy tut two of the
lichest States in Ihe Union to day,
and the lives lost in the war, inclu
ding deaths from all causes, would
furnish the entire male populatiot
of the greatest city in ihe land to
day. France has been the one fmoU)
fighting nation of the century. Hei
wars have tilled the annals of Eu
ropean ptoples with themes for the
orightest pens, with pictures thai
challenge those of classic ages a
snhjeets for the artist to place an
enduring stone
Take Napoleon from the slag" ol"
the world betwteti 181K) and 18l.",
and what remains 'f In iho?e 11 1
teen years of war France lost 2,000,
000 men. The North alone hsi
equally in proportion from l.s(l to
1865. During her jvnods ol great
ef martial activity France never
put into the field at any one sage
more men than the North had under
arms the last twelve months ol the
vtr, and ihe average in each of th
yeai s from 862 to 1865, inclusive,
was about the tame as in France i.i
her years of warfare. But in order
to get a comprehensive view of the
magnitude of the conflict one must
go bevond the figure identifiej wth
any single nation lor parallel.
On the battlefield oT Borodino,
long considered one of che bloodiest
in modern times, there were 250,0IO
men engaged, representing the pow
erful nations of France and Russia.
At Gettysburg there were 168,000
men present, all of one nation, for a
civil war means the conflict of a di
vidt d household. At the very same
time there were 115,000 men con
tending at Vicksburg, and at Tort
Hudson and Helena, above and be
low Vicksburg, there were 50,000
more of these same brethren of one
BREVITIES.
An old lady just 104 landed
in New York, last week from
Ireland, and remarked that she
had come over to find another
husband. What a pity she's
not a man with a title.
In Kansas the Democrats,
Populists and Probitionists
have united or fused in an at
tempt to beat the Republicans
at the coming election. A bad
hand, but ought to win.
FROM ROAN' TO ROANOKE.
to cut rid of the netzro and is
now aim ins: other blows at him.. I H8?1! ff'trol of the
giettb in ia uirau:. men, liiuk
while Napoleon invading Russia
ami the Czar stemming the tide
mustered in all 250,000 men, the
American nation, m the masterly
struggles over Washington and th
great highway ol the Wtst, brought
into action 335,000 soldiers.
But there is a parallel more
startling still A year after Ikro
dino the allied people arose in their
might to wipe ont Napoleon and
France. There was tix of the great
est nations leaving out Austria
involved, and it wns, for France,
and also for her enemies, Uussia,
England, Prussia. Spain and Swe
den, a wat to the death They met
Continued on Fifth Paqt,
Neal Smith, a negro convict was
lyitohed at ColeOity. Tennessee, ou
the 4th for assaulting Maggie Hen
derson. An eye witne.se of the
lynching of theconyict Smith says
that when Smith was first taken to
tbe scene of his crime, W A Hen
UerMiu, far her of the outraged girl,
who htade(i the mob, cut oil Smith'a
rars for souvenirs and mutilated
him otherwise in a horrible manner
and ihen, while the negro's band
were helu ou a piece of railroad
iron, bis tiuger were mashed joint
by joint with a blacksmith's ham
mer until the hands were a 8hate
less mass of hsh and bone. The
screams ot the negro and the sight
of so much blood frenzied the mob
and they emptied their pistols and
Winchesters into Smith's bod.
They then threw his remains in a
brush heap, fired it and piled on
fuel until all were consumed, even
to the larger bones. The girl is in
a very cm ical condition. The ne
gro bit Otr one of her fingers and
almost k'lled her.
Five men armed and masked held
up an electric car on the Kvanston
line lKtwteii Edgewater and Argyle,
Chicago, and robbtd all the passen
gers. One of the passengers was
shot and dangerously wounded.
Eighteen persons had their pockets
gone through by the robbers, and a
panic en.ued. The loss is supoed
io be heavy. The highwavmen cut
the trolly to keep other cars from
coming upon them while they Were
a work.
Plan have been nearly completed
for a combination c.f all the large
mills ol the United States, in order
to control ihe price ot flour. The
consent of some of the principal
millers of wheat to the agreement
has not been obtained, however,
and this may cause the combination
to fail.
Counv Trepgurer B F Wood, of
Arcadia, Flu., was held up by fonr
masked men at l'J o'clock at night
on the .th, and whs made to open
the county Rafe and turn over the
contents, which amounted to about
$0,000. After; the robbery Mr
Wood wk forced to count crws
ties for twenty miles.
Benjamin Hudson wss shot and
instantly kill!, and his brother
William seriously wounded near
Cobb' island, Va., by men endeav
oring to capture a catboat which
wasoccnpiKl by the Hndsons. The
loat was stolen from near Camden
N J.
Buck Kindle and .lohn Kindle,
two brothers, got into a fight some
five miles from Hume, Va., last
Saturday evening. Buck Kindle
drew a knife on his brother, and
cut him so badly thtt he bled to
death to a short time.
November 14th has been set as
the dav for the marriage of Miss
Counelo Vanderbilt to tbe Duke of
Marlborough. Tke nuptials will
be solemnized bv Bishop Potter, in
Gnce church. New lork.
In thp M Mvav ille Kv . onnntrv.
f M w - - J " ' - - - -. J - J
1 owing to damage by frost, th to-
bacco crop win suner a iocs oi iuiiy
one-iuiru.
Ooe hundred and eighteen de
fendants and witnesses ' parted
through Winston Monday for the
Federal Court at Greensboro. Many
of them are to b tried for making
"moonshine" wbiskev and braudv
A small house at a distillery
twelve miles rrom Favetteyille was
burned Tuesday morning and two
drunk white men, George Knigbt
and James Sloan were cremated ia
it.
Hackney Jjee and Charles Uorton
both olored. at IUleigh quarreled
about Lee's wife, the rvsult being
that Ic received a blow ou his
head which proved fatal, last Sun
day. One of the mills and one dry
house of the Blade Lumber Compa
ny at New Berne, were burned last
week. The loss is $ 10,000 ; with
::o insurance.
W L Liudrum, of Durham, who
fell from a box car about three
weeks ago, seriously hurting him
self, will ne th Southern rail road
for $10000 damages.
Kitty Hawk, a Raleirrh nom
four years old, won the 2:30 race at
the Lynchburg. Va, fair last week,
her best time being 2:291.
u,iue llllijri wan IDUDd m SI
back lot in Greensboro Tuesday
morning. The owner is, however,
still unidentified.
A light draft steamer, to nnvirr.r.
MattirmiHkeet lake in Hvd mnntr
is being built by Capt A W Styroii,
of Washington.
Annie Wilson, an unknown -o.
man, threw herself in front of a
moving train ner Hizh Point ljt
Satnrday. and was killed.
The Unirersitr Uw cl nf iron
has presented ex-Chief .lostice Jm
r ui i . i i
& onepp; wun a nanuMme gold
headetl cane
Some of the exhibits of the VAiial
both City co io red fair will be taken
to tbe Atlanta Exposition.
Raleigh will vote Jannarr 14th on
the question of isnn in z 150000 worth
of city bond for improvement.
WilhOn fmlil rinrincr tVi mnnl nf
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Anrust and Sentmtwr r.on
O r - m. jr U,V
001 ounds of tobacco.
Wilson had a ?1.VX) fir Mt
week, the houe of .J. J. Barefoot
being damaged to that amount.
Percy Tomlinson of Johnston
county ba.been arrested for rob
bing tbe mails.
Fro it his greatl? damired th.
v
late tobacco in the western part of
me state.
Winston sold 13.110.050 nound
of leaf tobacco during tbe last Year.
There are now 50. students at
tending the University.
Washiugton is considering the
question or water works. O
The Governor Guards will go 16
Atlanta N'or. 3rd.