KING'S
WEEKLY
S-acoessor -to -tltxe Index
VOL-1 -NO, 41
GREEK VILLE, JV. C OCTOBER 2o, 1S9
25 CIS- A T2JL2
JOTTINGS.
The I xecutive Committee of
the Peoples' party huve decided
to contest the election of Major
Black, who re-defeated Tom
Watson, one of th'e committtee
declaring that the contest would
amount to nothing, but that
they were obliged to do it as "it
was a contest or death to the
party." Why not embalm it
which is cheaper than trying to
keep it alive i
In the little town of Acree,
(ia , there are forty voters, but
at rhe recent election only one
was qualified to vote, and his
ingle vote, with no opposition
eie-ted the entire town ticket.
It is needless to add that the
only voter was a candidate for
Mayor and was elected.
An Atlanta policeman shot at !
a thief ia a crowded street, but j
the ball missed the thief, and j
struck a white man in the cheek !
came out at the ear, went on,
struck a negro near, in the tern
pie kil ing him in a short time.
So much missi .g the mark is
what causes so much trouble.
Enormons Cost of the War.
Blood and Money Spent In Subju
gating the ISonth.
Tremendous Number of Men Kn-
0hai,Ul,in,etl 1,1 " "Dillon
r2.??.awwl,.,K A" th'r Conflict-
l2KS!.P,'W,5,fiV.,,h Encounter. From
tielpfcfc and Sedan.
BREVITIES.
Secretary Herbert has issued an
oruer detaching Kear Admiral Kirk
land from the command of the ; Eu
ropean station and assigning tn'that
command Hear .Admiral Selfridge,
at present head of the trial board
attheXavv Department, Admiral
rvirkland ig at present on his flag
fehip, the San Francisco, en rouU
from Gibraltar to Algiers
Ar the Democratic City Conven
tion in D-troit Samuel ColdwaVr, a
lator agitator. rri.iv. (l tt.
turn for Mayor oy-r Hon M Dicker -
PART III.
In another portion of this article
comparisons aredrawu between the
armies engaged in different cam
paigns of the civil war and those ot
European nations in the great
struggle of Xannl
tin - . i 1 - .. nui nun joi flavor OV-r nn f I
tue representation r i... i . ' 1 " 1 1
urea can nnlir im. "K i n, ex.rostmaster General, bv a
uits can only impress tho stronret I ofe of M , n ., i
named to estimate la ge masses of i
men. The populatiou Of H State ' Colorado boasts of a mammoth ih
may present a tangible idea to those ! tato Sowi, by .J It Swan, or Ixne
who have travefpd Kurnj i land. :iml thu Lu.. . u. ....
"ij"u r.ue iiiiiiis ; . .!! lit- "ihuh' is
Of their native tow n or country, 1 '"ches long by 1 I n, diamete-. and
If all the iiili:ilntuii o ! Wemba fi lum.i i
If all the inhabitMik r mnt.
men and children ot Kansas and
lrgima, orof Xorth Carolina and
Aew Jersey, should be transfoinied
Kito toltiiers and sent trooping toward-the
border in armies of 100 0o
or L'00,000 at a time, the spectacle
would bo. parallel of the muster of
.u uuiiiii' irom lNhl to
"criKiiO oJ IMUJMU8 rinil III nnmvc
which is t ijuis uK rit to the weight of
1 honest bushels of ordinary "potatoes.
Michael
ber of Co
Louisiana, and or elillM iir ltd i
tor of La I'atrie, at Moiuieab Cat,.
waB ioiind dead in hid bed Oct. '21.
Eight and three-tenths inches of
snow ieu in Osuh t.., . y. Sun.iav
.vlanv -ii ii n l ; n t r.., .'.
FROM RO.l.V TO ROANOKE.
Superintendent Lazer, of the pen
itentiary, iay the c rop of cotton is
about two-thirds a large, per acre,
an that lat year, but a tlere is an
increase of 300 he belieres it will
be an great in amount as last yesr'a.
As to its value he xpecu it to bo
north ?lV,,tKK more. The com crop
very laif?e and a .mivIm! ti,-..
f- - .... --HUIC
It is l'J.MKX buehels.
Fifteen bills for forgery, falso
pretenses and conspiracy were tent
to the grandjurv at 1 Wan fort in the
grave yard insurance ca.-s. Th
Mate and Insnraiue C,mpanies
prtbeated aflidaviu to remove thr
cae. Tlie defendants offer counter
affidavits It is uncertain whether
thecals will be trietl there.
Mr irobert H. rutnell, a merchant
and pnunment citizen of Weldoo,
was killed by a Seabord Air Lie
train under the railroad hed at that
place last Knday. Sue Hank, a
colored woman, wa al5o UM aear
the r.ulioad bridge at the jame
liare on atunlav.
.ael Vidal, at one time p mem- Il?jurym the Jeutirs murder
ongrs fijii tie State ol i C:J-1' lf ,,rhv returutif a verdict
ua. and fr ?o,ne ers edi- u Uul t,l,lV- It urill U rerneinber-
niht
were bmkt n dokvn
If is fast tlis.ppearing.
'i.
Col. Money, a candidate for
the U. S. Senator from Missis
sippi denies Jliat the silver
craze is dying out in his state.
The man atilicted with a Sena
torial and silver craze at the
same time can not be taken as
good authority
A Chicago co i pie are walking
to Atlanta and will be married
at the Lxposition. Provided
they sell a cer.ta;n quantity of
certain stuff on the way they
will set 500 to start life on.
That's the kind of a woman lo
stick to.
The prohibitionists of Chester
County, Pennsylvania, nomina
ted Elijah Pennypacker for sur
veyor, and the next day discov
ered that he had been dead
eight months. That's all right
as they don't need a live cam
paigner. It is reported that Mr Whit
ney, of Presidential aspirations
has rented three typewriters.
Well, Mr. Whitney can pay for
them
Washington City has a ty
phoid feyer epidemic- Lucky
f t it, that it is not a free silver
Congress.
105, and all the Kohli.: (,iHmi
in former conflicts of the UuiiPd
States, beginning with the Mexican
war, would not e(pi tl tue entire o
ulation of the smallest of those four
States by 250,000.
The COSt of the war in ir,...;,,
cunuot be stated with the same ex- i A KepuUicau cmdid ite for th.-
I . i : - i . ru.;,v i ... i .
.. vAjunfu in nniuan ' v"u ix'munire proHseH to gnp
lives. Oti the sitle of fhs..nri, norf S.te I In.-... .I n... II
. -.v ..-wtiiu i -- " it uic i 'i-iiKK i a. m
there was a vast amount of wealth State coniinit lt-e will fuii.i-!i lum
devo cd r the cause, yet the Con- Campaign funds.
federa(!y created a debt of f ,000.. , .
000,000. Had every elave in ihe I he ioreris of A. K Want, of
South been worth $.00 in cash, the I,,mPfl,a' amounts to .f:(0.(N)o: h..
Southern people would have been !i,ul )lia w,,e ,,re on l way t..
the gainers bv setting them all fite lir,tisn Hon.Iuras on the steamer
in 18;i. fhp north expeu Jed j Hrtak 'uter-
a out 400,000.000. ; The droilflf lu Northern Tex n
I "In v A MSsa5hue I severe ,n nmuv vear.. ' WVli'i a.e
I I i of Vr,Iei r!m0t drV water course, dned up
that of. New lork and California., '
Assuming that 1 tie wealth of the j A riucajjo embzzler who took
eieven urates in the Confederacv n
1 . . 1
v;is aojur rue same i 1S70. atr-r rew
i mat Jennys lired at iiin wife
painom a- they u,-re riding to
Kvrher one m-ht last Julv, killing
his wife. H
T ltnrish steamer IFaxhv. Cipt
'. tt.ia Seale I for' J.r, men
" '' J' tl. 3 ol oittoii.
n- ...Ml.4i:. j.MM.d.-, valne fr,u.
She wailoiel at the Uham
pion coujpress.
On .saiurijaJ nglt u rhjof brt)Jr
into the house of Or II 1) lUnr of
Kinston and Mole hit gold atch
10 in ch and his punts fiom tin
'.rr h s h.-ad. As he awoke the thief
I an, but kept hi booty.
Several Mormon elders h.:ve Uen
warned to e;,ve a ieihU,rii-vl in
Make count. North Uaiulma,
wl.-re the3 h.ve bivn Irving to
establish a church.
A n-groman from (;t,ilforJ coun
ty as P-Centl M-ntfi.iv.1 .1
yeais 111 the iniUntiirrv at AlbariT
hve years recuperation from the
effects of the war, as it had been in
1SG1, not counting slaves, then val
uing each slave ir toudage in 18G1
ut500 the North could have bought
out Confrderacy, slaves and all,
at its real value and saved monev in
1 1... . .4 . : . .
"jer.uon, ro say nornin of the
in Mexico.
The Episcopal Convention at
Minneapolis passed a resoluciou
cieiting a new missionary district
in North Carolina.
Two men in Birmingham, AI 1
11. ......
, " , : , : H4U a street uei nitt pnto s or e
Waste in lives ilni in. ncrri.l .. . . u,'c
Ilia was mortally anil the other filiiihflv
The F.orida Athletic club i pre-
uic.iu nnwzzicr wno M)k , jeuii ntl trrv at AlbariT
ly lo.OOO. and for whom a $...(KMi tending an obcene letter thruu h
ward was oflTeivd lias U-en caught ,ne m,d. 0
Mexico. 1 . ii-
THE END.
An incident which occurred at
the owning of the Chicamauga
Park, and which has not yet been
published, is too good to keep, gavs
paring to nutch Maher nainst Cor
bett and Choyn-iki against O'Don
Two editor in IIunt ille, AU ,
iu -- rvp, e8 lwoeuitor in lluntvi e, AU ,
the Macon News. A nuri,.n . . .
.... x- . t "- V.I.. uKiK nine or icn pistol sn.tj at each
zon ot the Norm who stood irazir.iz nttr wit .ot .ir,. i .r... .i a
at ine mjirrnitioont r.. ...., J
which had been raised t
----- VVIII1IIC ill-
orate the deeds of Northern tioops,
took occasion to remark in a rather
sarcastic manner, 'If a wonder
tht Sonth wouidn't raise some mon
uments here to the rebel soldiers'
Standing by him was a young South
erner, who promptly replied Oh,
thus is your funeral, not oars."
The fight between Corbett and
Fitzsin.monp has l-n dt elated ofT
by the Florida Atheletic Club
Negro da? at the A;lanla ExKi
tion wa-s the largest et 10 jioiot of
attendance.
The Georgia legislature will
meet in a few day.
A Win-toil ei-erinl tn tl, P .l
OWr-rblv,M,ke K.ger. a whfu,
man living r Jlural IU1, killed
himself ttus week by drinking t.ew
brand. r
Willum A -he. of Mie geological
urv-v. Iuj fuui.d in t he .uthe,trrn
w.uviie Kurai Mlei of onkg
wh.el, ,t tta.not k.ot, tx.ited in
Nortu warol.na.
Th.-re isa-H,,iiTe denial thut the
Nmtheru ra.U av ha4 an mt.-nti ;,
ol l;'-hn.,g the Caj-VVar ard
1 adkin i1Uv raiUar.
Th calet. of the Mt,, AgrcuU
tu.-a! and M-clunirJ odlei:. 75
strong, ate in AHantj ce.mptniI
bv President Ilollad4V atuj ura
of th" faculty.
JlicMVrof fined
$10 by a Justice or th Pe,ce fot n
alleged :uatilt, on HntMo Ibll't
day.
Fifty teac,fri mn, r,ntlla fjnfn
Kaleigb public chou; arc in Ai-