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NG'S WEEKLY S-aoces8or -bo -tire Index yol l-aro. 7 GREEK VILLE, JV- C DECEMBER. 6- 1895 25 CTS- A YSAS JOTTINGS. Representative Bell, Popu list member from Colorado, says that his State has not suf fered from the repeal of the .silver purchase act ; but, on the contrary, has been largely ben efited thereby, and that, thanks to the timely discovery of gold there is not an idle man in the State. the only plank in its platform ? CONFEDERATE NAYAL PL01TS. EX- CRUISE OF THE CLARENCE. TACONY-ARCHER. In his Atlanta Exposition speech alluding to the man he made Governor of South Caro lina, John Gary Evans, Sena tor Tillman said. t4I did not come over here to brag. I will leave that to our young Govern or. He is young and green, you know." The Senator is hasty in his words. Remember y the proverb. A Jersey City preacher, who his congregation valued at $700 a year, has moved to Ho boken and opend a bar because he thinks there is more money in selling liquor than in preach ing. Earthly rewards, in cash, are what most want and do their best to get ciety of Cleveland, Ohio, offer ed fervent prayers on Thanks giving day for the convension of Robert G Insrersoll to Chris- overhaul tbem, on tianity. Another case of look- inferior Railing qualities of in aiter foreign heathen, and PART I. r Richmond Dispatch, On the 6th day May, 1863, the the Ameican brig, Clarence, bound from Kio de Janeiro to Baltimore, with a cargo of coffee, was caDtnred Is the party to split ?ff. the of Bratil b tl,e u' .wU.ubj uwics ikcnmer r lorioa, Captain John John N Maffit, Con federate States navj, commanding. Lieutenant Charles V Read, Con federate States navy, an officer of the Florida, a young Mirsissippian of scarce 23 vers, filled with a pa triotic devotion to the cause of the 'Jonfederacy, immediately proposed to take the" Clarence, with a crew ot twenty men, and proceed to Hamp ton Roads, Va., and there cut out a gunboat or steamer, with which it was bis intention to go on a raid against the Federal commerce. Captaiu maffitt granted his request, gave him a howitzer, with ammuni tion and equipments, and the neces sary small Arras for a crew of twen ty tneu, nnd bade him god-Hpeed Read was accompanied by Second-A-ssistJiit-Engineer E 11 Brown, so that, altogether, be had twentv-oue men besides himself. lie immediately shaped his omits for the cape of the Cbesaicake la J 1 a arming nis crew, ana preparm; tnem lor the arduous service wiucu was expected of them. He aLo kept the men busy making wooden guu8. a3 he sailed northward, to sapply in appearance what he lack ed in reality. Off the Windward Islands he chased them weeks, but failed to account of the the Clarence. On the 0th of June, in neglecting those at the door. ia"ae . w.fuH "unui? O I nrtrth Inn mriiil 71 ricrrpa 4Q minutes wrst, he captured and United States Circuit Judge, burned the bark Wuistlikg Wind, of Charles H. Simonton at Charles Philadelphia, bound to .New Or- 0 1 4. cf.a I ans wiirc coal xor near AUtnirai ton,S. C,,has given the State p , sauadron. Thi vsel Dispensary another blow from had been insured by the United the bench, decidinsr in tavor of States Goyernmant for $U.800. On r..mHJnh it nr. thfl T)is- the 7th of June he captured the pensary continues business at the same old stands. A man at McArthur, O., who srxke disresDectiullv ot a wo- BREVITIES. A Flint, Mich., correspondent writes to the Chicago Tribune Passengers on the Flint River di vision of the Fliut & Pere Marquette Railroad who came to the city to dsy report oDHervlne a strange phe nomenon in large, level fields not far from the city. Hundreds of snowballs, some of them of colossal size, have been rolled together, it is thought, by the action of the wind. The fields are covered with them, and nature Accomplished in one night what it would take a large force of several days to do. The historic Yorkshire estate, the first battle field of the late war, has been sold at auction, about 600 acres in all, situated on both sides of Bull Rnu. in Prince William and Fairfax conntifs. Va. The laud lyiug on the Prince William side brought on an average six dollars an acre, the other about three dollars. A graduate of Yale College, by uam. L W Perdue, aed .51 and a school teacher, was lynched by a mob in Montgomery county, Ueor gia, for ruining Miss Mattie Grady He had oeen indicted aud was in jail. He w.ts married aud leaves a wife and foar children. In round fizures, the deficit for November will be $1,000,000, the receipts pooling up to $26,000,000, in ! the i-x'vinlitt.r $iv,000, 0. The postofSce at Suggiville, Ala., was broken open Saturday night and robbed ot six registered pack ages, eighr dollars in stamps and $65 in money. One of the registered kickajes contained a fii.e watch and a let of jewelry. Mrs Ada B Hollon, ex postmis trrs at North Grand Rapids, Mich, has been sentenced iu tbe United States Court to two years imprison ment at the Detroit House of Cor rection, lor embezzling money order funds. Governor Stone of Mississippi, . ii s ouemi jou rewttni vaun ior inc I liberators of the doomed wbitecap- per. Will I'urvrn, and $500 a head lor members ot a lyuching lee at Crystal Spring. The Tribune, a weekly paper de voted to Judaism, baa been issued at Atlanta. It is a handsome eight FROM KOA.V TO ROAXOKK. Miles Darden, probably the larg est man on record, born in North Carolina, died in Henderson county, Tennessee, January 23, 1857. 1U was 7 feet 9 inches high, and in 1845 weighed 871 pounds. At bis death bis weight waj a little over 1000 pounds. Until 1843 be was active and livelv and ablt to labor, but from that time was obliged to stay at home, or be hauled arouna in a two horse wagon. In 1839 his coat wss buttoned around three men, each ot them weighing more than 200 ' pounds, who who walked together in it across the pnblic aqnart at Lexington In 1850 it required 13 yards of cloth, one yard wido, to make him a coat. His coffin was 8 feet long, 38 inches deep, 32 inches across the breast, 18 inches across the head, and 14 across the feet, and 25 yards of black velvet was requisite to cover the sides and lid. A short time after the administra tor, had sold the personal effects of the late Mrs Cynthia McCauley, in Chapel Hill township, a bed was thrown out of a window, sod Mrs Lloyd noticed a strange sonnd when tie bed fell on tbe ground. She examined the bed and found a small bag containing $140.71 iu gold and silver. Tie State PoperinteP.lent of poh- ' . J vU U' C)lu. . i li. .J Franklinton, Goldsboro, Plymouth and Elizabeth City so as to make tbe amount they receive frora all source equal, making tbe total sum each gets about $1,800. William Cobb, the champion chicken eater, died rrceutly at King's Mountain at the age of 91 years. He was a clever old man. He frequently boasted of the gas tronomic feat of eating a chicken every day for forty yean, or a total of 14.600 chicken. C C Smoot, Sons A Co., of Alexan dria, Va , bs closed a contract lor the establishment of a 1100.000 tan nery plant at North Wtlkesboro, which will cover twenty acres of schooner Alfred H Partridge, of New York, bound to Mattamoras, Mex. As this vessel was loaded with arms and clothing for citizens i as a guarantee for , .JT "l... man, was ridden on a rail and the delivery of the cargo to loyal . baekintf then tarred and feathered for citizens of the Confederate State, ! J 1 f' of his man and ehe was allowea to proceetl on j 11. u. uoimes lue mucn meu her journey, un tne ytn ot June j muuerer nas ieen oonvicieu oi mur the orig Mary Alvina, from Boston , de" in the 6rst degrte for having to New Orleanr. loaded with com- ' caused the death in Philadelphia of missary stores, was capinrea ana i ienjamin r. i ruci, aau ppqikdwu burned. Fftom the prisoners and (apers of the Whistling Wind and Mary Al vina Besd be gainea information which cooviuced him that it would the irapiovement ners. Ohio is a very sive State. progres- Dr Sampson Pope, a Tillman- it who failed to get the Guber natorial nlnm in South Caro lina last vear has Kone over to the Republicans. The way of impossible for hira to carry out the trangressor is hard. Thomas B Heed, che man fn.m Mninft. is Srfaker of the House of Representatives asain. hia original intention, as no vessels were allowed to go ntr. Hampton RoadA unless they baa supplies for the United States Government; and even then they were closely watched. lying at the wuarf to be bung. A K Ward, alleged embexxler from Memphis, Tenn., has been arrested on board a gUauier at LivingVon, Guatemala, by tbe chief of Mem phis police force. A boy of U and a girl of 11 were recently married in Johnson county Ga., with the fnll consent of their parents. Six men are constantly on dutv U-Zc ::x thousand e;r&3 of The veweis lying at Look out Mr Crisp, tne izar i above rortre&s Monroe were guaru- guarding tbe tvesioeai oi me im. has returned to power. continue on Third rtt ted States. chestnut oak bark annually and em ploy a large force of bands. North Carolina postmasters were appointed Monday as follows: East Lake, J B Pinntr, vice T M Sander lin resigned; Heilig, Tobtaa Miller, vice Paul Uarringer resigned. George W Blount, a lawyer and editor of the Wilson Minor, is dead. He was past grand master of Masons and a truUe ol Wae Forreat College. Governor Carr has ordered a spe cial term of Bertie Superior Coart, for civil casta to begin January 20th next, Jndgt Boy kin to preside. Winston shipped 3,043,896 pounds of leaf ubacco dnnng November. an increase of 1809 ponnds oyer the same month last year. Rev E W Oaken is stlmng up Winston with another religious re vival. The Plymouth military company has been added to the State UuaniA.
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