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KING'S WEEKLY Successor -bo "tle JjrxciezK: VOL 1 N0 43. GREENVILLE, JT- C NOVEMBER, S- 1S05 25 CIS- A TSAS. JOTTINGS. In an address at Ann Harbor Michigan, Senator David B Hill of New York, advocated mak ing the Presidential, ttrm six years, and the President inelig ible for a second term. The Senator lias, evidently, been studying the Confederate Con stitution. The members of the Perry 0. T. local school board barely es eaped the penitentiary for re fusing to admit negro children to the white schools. Why didn't the board send their children to the negro schools ? Woman suffrage in Massa chusetts is evidently not popu lar among the fair sex, only one in ten of the entire number having registered. Most are those who would rather posses a yoter. AT FORTRESS MONROE. Extracts Frcn the Diary cf Lieu tenant Cravens. BREVITIES. President Jefferson Davis as a Prisoner Protested Against the Indignity of Being Ironed-Talks on Slavery, PAIiT II. There ar now 970,524, an in crease last year ot 980, names on the Federal pension roil More pensioners thirty years after the war than the South had soldiers. Georgia1 s Legislature, after legislating against the co uch ee-couchee" dance, took a day off to see the Exposition. They couldn't wait till their law went into effect. Miss Vanderbilts parents, wi.l give her $15,000,000 as a mar riage portion and $3,000,000 to the Duke. That looks like a boom in degenerated titled nob ity. A colored man plowed up $1, 200 in silver dollars last week in Giles county, Tenn. Fall plowing is said to be bSst for farmers. At these words the blacksmith advanced with the snackles, and, seeing that the. prisoner had one foot upoQ the chair near his bed side and his right hand resting up on the back of the chair, the braw uy mechanic attempted to slip out of the shackles over the foot so raised; bat as if with the veiie mence and strength of freuzy, Mr Davis suddenly seized the iron worker and hurled him halfway acro88 the room. Oapt. Titlow turned, and, seeing that the. prisoner had backed against the wall for further resist ance, began to remonstrate with bhn. The officer tried to convince him that his course was madness and that orders had to be enforced at any cost. "Why compel me," he said, "to add tht further indig nity of personal violence to the necessity ot your being ironed?" "I am a prisoner of war,' fiercely retorted Mr Davis. ul haw been a soldier in the armies of America, and know how to die. Onl kill me and my last breath shall be a blessing on your head, but while I have life and strength to resist for myself and my people, this thing shalLnot be done." Senator Teller, of Colorado, says he will not vote for any gold bug candidate for Presi dent. The Senator has big sil ver interests. Bill Nye was rotten egged up in New Jersey while deliv ering one of his lectures. A good sauce to his socalled jokes. Its costs $1,000,000 a day to run the United States Govern ment. There is little Jackson ianism in that. Capt Titlow now fully recognized the character of the man with whom he had to deal was such as could not be turned from what he regarded as cardinal principles of honor by a few soft words ; as the wind moves the leaves on the tree.?, and, determined to end the inter view and put the orders which had been giveq him into effect as soon as IMKMibK he calUd in a sergeant and file of soldiers from the next room. The sergeaut advanced to seize the prisoner. Immediately Mr Datis tlew at him, seize! his musket, and attempted to wrench it from his grasp. Of course, snch a scene could have but one issue. There was a short, determined struggle. In a moment Mr Davis was thrown on his bed, and before the soldiers removed their hands Hie black smith had done bis work. This done. Air Davis lay for a moment as if in a stupor. Then slowly raising himself and turning around he dropped his shackled f'uat t r tUa fli"kM rTK Manlr rf 'ha , chains seemed to recall him to his situation, and, hiding bis lace in his hands he sobbed passiouately and cried: "Oh! the shame! the shame! With his feet bouud by the heavy and rudely constructed shackles, Mr Davis lay on bis conch for 82veral days. The tray bearing food simllai to that which was fur nished to tbe hearty soldiers of the fort, a tin plate, and a spoon, were placed beside him at regular lntcr- Continued on Third Paqe Orville Smith and bride formerly Miss Annie Day, met a horrible death in less than a week after they were married. Last week they eloed to Jefferson yille, Iudn nad ere married, a3 the girl's father opposed the match on account ot Smith's poverty. Returning to their home in Kentucky, not lar from Fraukibrt, they moved into a small house built by Smith before their wedding. The bride's father, who was wealthy,; had refused even to speak to them at hrst, but, becoming reooneiltd turough his wife'a plead ing, went to the humble cottage to take them home with him. He opened the doorto enter and to his honor louua both Smith and his wife lying cead in the room, their oodles parti) decayed. The room was literally alive with snakes, which were crawling over the bod id hissing and fighting each nine, showing now the unfortunate couple met their death. It was found the house, which Smith had secretly ount, was erected over a bed o. snakes, where the reptiles collected lor the winter. The "old Temple laruf at York town, Va., has been sold to a gentle man from Columbus, Ohio. It is the farm on which Iord Cornwallis surrendered to the combined armi of Wasnington and Lafayette, Octo ber 1'Jin, l7ll. The farm contain ab jut ."U0 acres ami toUi lor l.",ooo The pi sent owner protases to make his peiuameni residence there. John I) Rockefeller has nmde another magnificent gift to the Uni versity of Chicago, ills latest act of munificence is the unconditional presentation of $l,0KlN.H)f available January 1st, neit, ujd the rift of FROM ROAN TO ROANOKE. Superintendent Scarborough says that Greensboro State Normal School will get from the Peally Fund this year $300 more than last year. The whole amount 'going to this school will b Then of the remaining f 2,500 to come from the lVabody Fund. rf 1.000 WN K lo the six coloivd no-Mini schools; also certain amounts will go to the Clin ton graded schools and the Durham -colored graded schools. According to ait of the last legislature, the $ 650 raised by the Winstnn Normal school for the col red has ben met by a check of equal amount from the superintendent. Ten Chinamen etnplojed or the British steamship Gloucester City, mutinied and went ashore at Wil mington. I hey compUiued of the foinl given them and said tLey were beaten. As soon as they got on shore they were arrested for violat ing the Chintz exclusion act They had. a hear ng before a United Stales commissioner and were committed lo jail to await the sailing of the steamer, when they will be turned over to ttie captain of the vessel. . The North Carolina Confederate Veterans' Association at llaleigh elected I'eter K 1 1 lues, president; Graham Pavs, vice president : C B Penson, secretary. YY C Stronach and Dr-nsoii made reort" on the ddier' Home, at w'm li lojareou the iol.. t'.j pre-nt, all led and clothed out of the N5 (K) appropn atiou, which is intiiflicietii! The condition of tb home is better than ever before. Twenty six applica tions are on tile. Henry V Wenzell, a German painter, years old, while painting the interior il a syiiKht in t dry ol tne same sources. amount from other $000,00 conditional ou the raising j goods store in Wilmington Fridav morning. Tell to the floor and wg instantly killed. He has own warn ed that (he scaffolding wa iniecui . His trt'ck, arms, le and jaw were broken. The Lincolu monument at Spring field, 111., completed in 17-1 at a cost of OG,i00, will have to be torn dowu. The commission ap pointed by the Illinois legislature to repair it found that it lias crum bled awav too much to be repaired. The day prior to the general earthquake shocks over the United States, streams in Indiana which had been dry for many weeks buddenly tilled with clear, cold water from some mysterious-source. It is' rumore' that the American Railway Union is ou the eve of a great strike compared to which the strike of IS'J-i will be a mere skinn'sb It involves the Great Northern Railway. On Corbett and Fitxsimmous making pledges that they would not tight in Arl ausas, the cases against them exo-pting the iniuction were dismissed, bat there is ulk of a fight at El I'aso. Governor Altgeld has pardoned all of the 105 inmates of the Girls Industrial Home at Evanston. III. An investigation showed that the waifs had been staryed and neglect ed Yale foot ball team is coming South to play teams '.f Southern universities. Gov Carr has ordered fw-cial term of Jones county Superior Court to try the "grave wrd Intoir ance" rases, renioved from CaMeret county. Jud?e Graham will pre side. The term will begin Decem ber liuh. Three osf masters were Dr J W Sanders ol Ocean, K F Prinze of IVIetier s mill, and Johu E Wil cox of DeT.ru his, have been bouud over to Federal court charged with making false return of stamps enn Celled. A R-ky Mount negro who has served eigtt terms in the eniten tiaryj got back Uel week and in fix hours, waa sgain under arrest for larcenv. Dr E A Covington of U adcloro, has given f 1000 to the Habtist F -male I'nmrnty, now building at lUleigh, A renter ou a Randolph farm has made 1!,000 builieU of corn triu year. State Treasurer Worth has p Jd $697 interest on C p-r cent bouds. 'I htr, aj aprlnkle of mow Wadeloro lt weeL. at
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