WEEKLY
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vol i-;no 44
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W WM m A S It -
.JOTTINGS.
Two Virginia colored women
recently engaged in a violent
quarrel about some trival mat
Ter, during vthich one of them
was seen to fail to the ground,
and was found to be vomiting
-and very sick. A coroner's in
,j ist developed the fact that
Jim had died liom bursting a
Mood vessel. And yet quar
p ling goes steadily on.
Padrewski got .", no for one
n'ulit's performance in'arnegie
Hail, New York, recently,
which is said to be the greatest
amount ever received by one
performer for a single night,
flow about the Duke of Marl
bons Vanderbuilt f:',, 000,000
in a few minutes
GEN. W- H. C. WHITING.
!
of Madagascar is said to be her ,
unconventionally. She chews
tobacco, drinks champagne,
uses palm oil on her nair, wears
s5,000 Worth costumes, and, at
the same time, goes barefooted.
Great is the envy of the Ameri
can new woman.
The Kentucky Legislature
stands on joint ballot, sixty
eisht Democrats, sixty-eight
Republicans and two Populists.
Which way the Populists will
pop on the Senatorial question
is what makes it interesting.
A New York barber is sued
for $5)0 for shaving oil a cus
toniWs moustache by mistake.
We' ye seen many youths who
highly prized a downy growth
upon their upper lips.
The Indiana Populists think
of disbanding, as the result o!
recent election leaves them al
most without a future. What
have they to disband out there?
South Carolina has added an
anti-lynching clause to its pro
posed new constitution. That
is intended to even up the anti
voting clause.
Senator Butler seems very
anxious to form a fourth or sil
ver party The Senator has
heard from the pops out west.
New York State went Repub
limn but Tammany carried the
-ity. Money and corruption af
f "rd poor consolation.
A Division Ccnmnder, Bat Graded
as a Brigadier. Eecognuicn. But
No: Howards-
A witei to the Wilmiimton Me
sei.-er, from Charleston. S. C, on
tha paper's review of the uddress
of Capt D.misoii on Cen W 11 C
U tilling at LVileigh iri ves some very
lnn-iestm eathn relit' lve to hi
culver. lit- saws :
I feel sure you will pardon uie
tr asking h ave to comet on ex
pression in your review, which
wouhl eouve.v to your levels an
erroneous impression as to lien
W luting i s military position ami
services in the Army of Northern
ir'inia, prior to the '-Seven las'
P.att les arouml Uiehuion.l in w hich
b.c rtin.lei . il such dist ni-mht-l .ri -Alces.
The e-.pressiou 1 refer to is.
lint prior to that series of hat ties
his brigade had benaved most gal
lantly 011 s-veiai occasions. Tin?
would convey to man v of your rea
ders, unacquainted with Ceii Wt.it
:iis s.-rviee.s prior to those h.nle,
that he, up to that time, comm and
ed only a luia-le a. id miht tJe-re
lore easily ami unintentional! v have
heen overlooked or uuappr.-ci H; :
ly President ),ivi wli.-n piomoi h.n,
were U iu ,ade? aft r i .N.
1 h-s, and subsequent y, when mi,,,.,
lav-s ot his juniors in date ami infr
iors in eounnind wen in. -moted .
Uut.thecii.se was quite different.
cry shortly after muni's promo
Hon, on the battlerield of the "Kum
Manassas," from the rank of major
and assistant adjutant general to
that of brigadier .-iteial, to tak
command of (ten l)ers tin thud
brigade, after that otflier was killed
his command was mcUMsed to a
division by the addition of Wi ;!'.! US
(afterwards Hood's) brigade and
later the Hampton Legion which
together with the third brigade con
stituted the first division, first cm p.
of the Army of Northern Virginian
and was assigned In the riirht' win"
of Johnston's army at ! -imtrie?"
where, at Cockpit Point, he built
heavy batrei ies and almost whiv
obstructed the na igat ion of t he po
tomac liver by the enemy until lien.
Johnston wi.hdivw m the following
spring, and marched to meet Mc
Clelland on the Peninsula. luim
this time by his constant dull and
admirable discipline, he had made
that splendid first divisoi,, tirst corps
Army ot Northern Virginia, capa
ble of its achievement at Cains Mill
which excited the wondering almi
ation of all who saw if, an action
unsurpassed :n war. for cool, daring
;md resolute execution, ami for the
magnitude, ot its lesults, expieN-d
perfect I v by President Davis him
self, who, watching the tight from
lien Jones headquarters on the
soath side of the Cnicahnminy, ii'
uorani as to the commander w ins.
work he eulogized, said, closing up
his field tflass. that charge has savd
Richmond. Vet, Brig, Ge'. Whit
iifg, commanding that division that
had saved Richmond was mt pro
moted, while others, his juniors in
date and his inferiors in command
made major generals.
Continued on Tltird Pvy.
FROM ROAN TO ROANOKE.
The commissioners or Korv:h !
oiinty have parsed an ordrr lor tin
flection of a $:o,ooo court house to
h built in Winston, work to h- ;
ouimenced at an early 1hv. The!
authorities propose paving' for th
1'uildin by issuing ten notes of '
".l'oo ,-ach. p:iVabe u.s folhws . !
,0iK) May 1, IMG: f.Mi.om Mav 1. I
Ami fio.ouo Mav 1. 1 '.Miu, tKar !
mir interest at six jh "r cent.
The Uf-idsviHe people Jor f 1 ...on. 1 1
n the races, so it aid. Tin-' h'
tendance was remark iblv tnall. '
J - Pafchen, tlie zr.a racer, !
"W at .Mr P.mks Holt's Al.illUlar '
farin in company with Joan l !
Centry. It is sod ttiat Mr Holt '
wdl j)iir.dias.- Parol h ais.. !
a-s. rted tliat a- ithr-r h-.rse will . ver .
be pul on the track aain.
(iovernor Carr ha p.irdoti-d 1...
na Cline, an Is year old white j,r;
from H ivwooil cotintx, seivu.j
Veal S Seli( in f h e 1 1 1 1 1" 1 1 I 1 1 V tori
sli-iiliiii;. ihe paidoii biMUil condi
ftoii,-l upon h r bcini; imun-diafel
taken to a reform iti.rv . Tm- Kiuj".
I mhlers. of ;,ei-h. who . iij..! '
her pardon, have sent bet toai.
toruiatorv.
Morele-ad I'ltv 1 one ot tin f-u
places 011 t he A inern-an c. i-r win-r-tra.nei!)
1 a it on a w'aart wh-i
f,v :-- is d-cp water which i- j r
!'-ct lv "pure, and nen- than l.ot
llVe lish - e tanell in (a!, k C I! -
from there t the Atlanta exp,.,,
t ion.
The Roanoke Colonv Memorial
Aoci 1' i.n is to l.--!!. almost t
one.- tin woi k of restoring the V i'
which Sir Walter lliler-h r..l. -
hl.-ts erected UpOti Roanoke Nli'id.
Vice P-ei,ei,t St John, of tin
S-itoar l An C:ne, otl",-r- a Ire.
trip to At Ian t a to all em plover t h
have hc r. in the servi'.- ,,f tie road
t hrre months, together wi?n th-ir
.'amiiit s.
A 11 unsucc.-fo! atf m;.' to !, ir
lan.e the Heitioid post otVi e I t-'
week. Iut theilref could mr
in'o the main otljee and h ft a pipe
ami einpiv whiskey bottle.
Jmhre P.rowti adjourned Pock
irihaMi court to s,.,- he R.-nUvilb-races
and the LeMkville Herald
represents that sum of the j-op!e
did not like it.
The Western colonv recently -'
tablishrd near Chadbtirn in Coium
bus county by Mr Jos-ph Crown "
in a 'h-iviti con lit ion.
1
John K Bnrwelh owm r of a dairv
and truck farm near K h . and
formerly president of Va- e I ,
tilte, has assigned
Mr Henry H bso of I) i conn
ty. has ;i chi ken ,ich ha-a le-aw
coat of hail instead of feathers.
S k has ? e r 1 tKis n f.if t .
bull 1. n of a I ir- r unh a'
Spray. l n-k itiham co intv.
The Vance Ci!iaids, of Hend. r-e .
lef: Mcmd av m rnri for the A?l 1:5
ta Kp"sition.
There were 21 death an! :.
1 birttiS in Ashevilie li tmc. ..
BREVITIES.
I he ja:i at Pnrvi Mis. Ua
broken mto abnit Midnht Suioiav
and Will Purvis, eoiiicted w b.t
caper. un.Jer sentence! to W h t -ed
hK rated. Purvis w as om
strung ap by the sheriff at Colum
bus. Mis-., but wax s.i ed by t he
breaking of the Tn. 'pj,,. h-nf
was p. riiad.-d to Kir Kne further
a' tempt Jo eX.stite vllfellee of til-
'a.v until tie- e.-urts could : vi w
the case. Th S iprem- cur! l.t
-ek resenf.-ncel Purts to 1-hari-d
h.cemUr Ihh. kUs
douht 'he -.nif ur tj,.. fin-(in..r j
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to impru mniriit.
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