An unusual number of deaths gets Henderson some bad press [in Raleigh?] Dr. Cheatham meets some travelers en route to a funeral and gets to inform them that the guy isn’t dead “An Artist, Truly:” Lizzie Cheatham drew a portrait of her father (Dr. Cheatham) and also one of infant “Becky,” her niece
1887-02-17 | #Cheatham
Dunking on a guy named Sam Jones “Even Spain talks saucy to the United States, says the Decatur Review. If there is a country that does not, it must be deaf and dumb.” idk what this means. NC hasn’t had a State Geologist since Dr. Kerr’s retirement NY freight handlers’ strike over. Labor and capital need each other! Strikes hurt both sides. oh no Southern Troops - the best soldiers in the world.
1887-01-05 | #Bullock #Cheatham #starred
“Our foreman dont mean anything by being small he is happy now it is a girl and ways 12 lbs.” W. E. Renn’s grocery will take wood or any kind of country produce as payment Ad for Renn’s grocery featuring a respectably god-awful pun [TODO: clip this] “Xmas” already a common abbreviation Lula, dau. of former townsman Maj. B. F. Bullock Great guy Alex W. Rowland was in town spending the day with kinsman Isham J.
1886-08-12 | #Watkins
Blah blah Democratic Party We don’t want a war with Mexico Mr. W. N. [sic] Watkins (they mean Warner M.) is visiting from Milton Samuel Watkins tries his hand at growing (Concord and/or wine) grapes: he planted 1500 vines and made a net profit of $250.94, and plans to plant several thousand vines this fall. wtf, sam, between this, the bank, the railroad, the department store, the presbyterian church committee, etc, do you sleep?
1886-08-04 | #starred #Watkins
We’re very excited about the Prohibition cause Against Extravagant Funerals Editor spent the day at the “splendid” Watkins home (That’s Samuel2) Only Good Men For Office Home prayer with family: some recommendations, like have an altar at home and something about “the offering of the morning and evening sacrifice … for this branch of Christian education there is no substitute” and I went to Sunday school but I do not recall … this The cause of Temperance cannot be proved by cursing (by cursing the author means calling whisky a “devil”) Anyway, Prohibition is great By the way, we’re also super into prohibition in the sense of prohibiting foreign immigration.
1886-05-27 | #DrWT
State Medical Society had their annual meeting in New Bern. Dr. W. T. Cheatham read a paper on “Opium poison, artificial respiration, etc.” Obits: “Death, the Reaper, Still Is Reaping.” Mrs. Stamps, of Milton, mother of a Capt. E. R. Stamps An ad for either the Poisson Springs or the Poison Springs
1885-11-25 | #starred
Gooch & Smith Appeal Case re murder of John A. Cheatham, with some legal analysis Mrs. Pemberton caught on fire when a lamp exploded. she’s badly burned but expected to survive A guy in Stanly County grew some real weird lookin’ cotton P. L. Bridgers of Bridgers & Co. grocery has been made consul to Uruguay by Grover Cleveland Updates on the War in Europe (I guess the Serbo-Bulgarian War?
1885-10-21 | #crime #starred
How to create and maintain a fish pond. Do it wrong and the pests it will attract “cannot be kept away EXCEPT WITH THE GUN.” Trial of Gooch and Smith for murder of John A. Cheatham. His brother James will testify as a witness. UNC has a graduate school now Mr. Christmas, “who married Mrs. Gaines’ only daughter and was forced to kill her only son, has compromised the famous suit in which Mrs.
1885-07-23 | #Watkins
Mr. Samuel Watkins and family at Asheville Miss Fannie Mills of Sandusky, OH, 22 years old, 125 lbs, and wears a size 29 shoe There’s a reverend in Charlotte who wears a 35 – that’s 20 inches. (He’s 6'10") Jackasses killed by lightning. Or they could have been mules. Judge declares Mr. Haywood insane Henry Clay & John Quincy Adams, Treaty of Ghent, something something anecdote about how JQA was apparently always crying?
1885-06-17
Major Ragland’s tobacco seeds The Bull Durham “Thorns in the Flesh,” confederate sympathizer fiction sold Amway-style Julius Lewis & Co selling “Pratt’s Astral Oil” Madman on a Train A Horrible Possibility Suggested (eating canned cicada) Duty Before Affection Henry Ward Beecher in town giving a sermon on evolution
