Diary notices from the old North Carolina papers
A roundup of local lore and rumors: Rev. Elias Dodson keeps a piece of Mrs Washingtons bridal dress and another dress. Isaac H. Smith touts second sight. a gin house fire near Heckstalls store. March 1857 snowstorm in western NC. a marriage license to two young enslaved people in Wilson. a jailing for a colored man after a stabbing at Laurel Hill. reports of houses built at Tolsonet. death of Benjamin H. Blount of Wilson. Camden girls endure harassment. Newbern Grays plan to march to Philadelphia on Independence Day. a 116-year-old Alamance poorhouse resident recalls Benton and others. a Lexington quill of a condor tied to Henry Clays political fate. Lincoln county snake tale. temperance exhortations. Newbern music ads. Tarboro visits and Moore's Creek centennial preparations in Wilmington.
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Dodson
Milton Chronicle
Elias Dodson
Washington
Isac H. Smith
Jones County
Windsor Times
John W. Heckstall
Statesville American
North Carolina
Weldon News
R. J. Lewis
Register of Deeds
Easen Johnson
Eleonora Williams
Rockingham
Laurel Hill
Carolina Central Railway
Camden County
Elizabeth City
Camden
Newbern Journal of Commerce
Newbern Grays
Philadelphia
Grays
Turner
the Sentinel
Alamance
Gen. Benton
Hillsboro
Tommy Clancy
Dr Webb
Clancys
Taylors
Lovey Smith
Fanny Childs
Clancy
Dr. Smith
Hickory Press
Lexington
Lincoln County
Fred Johnson
Slong
Fredrick
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Anson County
Wilmington
Anson
Ansonian
Lincolton
Tolsnot
Blount
Wilson
Benjamin H. Blount
Benjamin H. Blunt
Nash County
Norfolk
Mack Nickolson
Malin Street
Charles & Battle
Local Matters
Rocky Mount
Sovrugawer
Tarboro
Dossar Bartz
A. T. Stewart
Querry
Wheel of Time
R. C. Brown & Co
Liverpool
Battle & Son
Rocky Mount Mills
W. G. Starr
Murfreesboro
Halls of Congress
Brown & Co
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Battles Son
Best Mount
N. C
Tom and
Jerry
Adams
Temperance Society
New York
C. H. Doughty
A. McCabe
Cook
Wm. Cook
W. G. Lewis
Murrine
Jas H. & L. Co
Tarboro Hook & Ladder Co. No
J. Austin
Seoy
Ee Srama
Messrs Pender & Jenkins
Alge Landreth
Wesley Battie
W. B. Battle
Norfolk Navy Yard
Port Royal
Curgamme
Episcopal Church
Clinton Bradley
Littlebury Bradley
Whitakers
New Mestc
F. W. Helmick
West Sixth St
Cincinnati
America
J. M. Spraging
Best
Raleigh Sentinel
Wm. Myers
John A. Moore
Halifax
Wm. E. Thigpen
Myers
Tarboro Branch
Bob Watson
Beauport Court
Josephus
Col. Carter
Raleigh
Moore
James B. Sheppard
Geo. H. Brown
Sheppard
Beaufort
Pamlico Counties
Judge Rodman
Maj
Jno
G. Blount
Satchwell
Cheshire
Desdemona
Brabantio
Othello
Barrie
Moore's Creek
Ourself
Haywood Clark
Filyan
Star
Bernard
Harris
J. H. Muse
Journal
Col. Moore
Col. Saunders
C. H. Foster
The
New York Herald
Lane
W. A. Cumming
Battle Ground
Cape Fear
Edw
Highlanders
Moore’s Creek
Wilmington Light Infantry
Lillington
Pender
Sampson
Duplin
Cvinci
Board Or Co. Commissioners
Enarcomst County
Tarvono
Fes
Chamberlain & Rawls
East India
W.C. Stevens
Mennox Brock
Syracuse
Sepnerersorees
Windley—Duke
Pantego
Beaufort County
Augustus Latham
Daxster M. Worsprey
Exwa F. Doxz
Beufort County
Weeeee Caton
Durham's Creek
Jussz B. Caron
B. Alsop
Grocer
Main Street
N.C
Bacox
S. C
BaGavia
Patapsco Family
B.green
Baurixors
Norvonk
Cigars & Tobacco G . Ubt
Macnair Ee Wn
E. D. Barnes
Penist
BORO
Logsboro
P.C
Em Oan eNe “Organs
Laing
Baltimore, MD
Tarboro’ Female Academy
Gen'l
T. E. Lewis & Co
T.E. Lewis
M. Weddell
J. E. Simmons
Pitt ST
Whitaker's
Patapsco
Rio
Hostetter
C. J. Austin
Cunvenweis Crierprateo Eesay
Chas
J.C. Cline & CO
Bowery
P.O. Box
Privtae
RS. V. BE. Lipscomb
Bank and
Pitt Streets
Overcoats & Talmas
Hix
A. Whiplock
Hotel
Hess
A Mhds
Etaiso Bawc
Jordan
South Carolina
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