thanks-giving, gun culture, rosenwig

1871-10-29 - Daily Carolinian

  • Nov. 23 has been declared a Day of Thanks-Giving
  • also, NC thanksgiving is a week before federal thanksgiving?
  • Rich guy’s son accidentally shot himself in the hand while “out gunning”
  • different shooting match entirely: pigeon shooting at the county fair. Dr. Cheatham won a gun, and since W. F. Davis had just given him the gun that he had won elsewhere at the fair, Dr. Cheatham gave this one to one Mr. Bradley, confectioner
  • In Asheville, the Old Fort Colonization Co. is building houses. “Nothing of the Old Fogy about them.”
  • Salt Lake City. Brigham Young drama?
  • Rosenwig, the abortionist, gets 7 years hard labor