The Newbern Gazette.

A slave ran away from his master, and got as far as Newbern.

A white man suspecting him to be a runaway, demanded his pass; as he had none he was seized and put in Newbern jail.

"Crawford co. Georgia" See the "Newbern (N.C.) Spectator," Jan. 5, 1838, for the following: "RANAWAY, from the subscriber, a negro man named SAMPSON.

" From the 'Newbern (N.C.) Spectator,' Dec 2. 1836.

" From the "Newbern (N.C.) Sentinel," March 17, 1837.

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A few months later (early in 1862) control of Pamlico and Albemarle sounds was secured by the capture of Roanoke Island, Elizabeth City, and Newbern, all in North Carolina, and of Fort Macon, which guarded the entrance to Beaufort harbor.

The monotony of garrison duty was broken first by a small fight at Batchelor's Creek, seven miles above Newbern, but only four companies were engaged.

Then came the order to drive the Confederates from a fort they were erecting on the Newbern Railroad about thirty miles inland.

New cars appeared in Newbern every day now, and many of them, developing ailments of a character more or less alarming to their purchasers, were brought to his distinguished notice with results almost uniformly gratifying.

It was a new Newbern through whose thoroughfares the new motor truck of Trimble Cushman was so expertly propelled.

There was already a Better Newbern club.

He had first been attracted to the coursea sweet course, said the golf-architect who had laid it out over the rolling land south of townby the personality of one John Knox McTavish, an earnest Scotchman of youngish middle age, procured from afar to tell the beginning golfers of Newbern to keep their heads down and follow through and not to press the ball.

By the end of Newbern's golfing season he was able to do almost unerringly what so many of Newbern's better sort did erratically and at intervals.

For the better sort of Newbern, despite conscientious warnings for which they paid John McTavish huge sums, would insist upon pressing the ball in the face of constant proof that thus treated it would slice into the rough to cuddle obscurely at the roots of tall grass.

Lyman Teaford, who for a dozen years had gone with Winona Penniman faithfully if not spectacularly; Lyman Teaford, dignified and genteel, who belonged to Newbern's better set, had one night appeared at an affair of the Friday Night Social Club.

At any rate, he came and danced with the lower element of Newbern, not oftener with Pearl than with others that first night.

On a Monday morning, in but moderate torment at Pearl's inconsistency, Wilbur Cowan sat at the linotype in the Advance office, swiftly causing type metal to become communicative about the week's doings in Newbern.

Of all Newbern's wise folk these two alone foresaw the malign dimensions of the inevitably approaching cataclysm.

But the French officera general now, perhaps with one arm offcame to Newbern to claim his bride.

Winona the first vice-president and recording secretary of Newbern's anti-tobacco league!

On North Carolina's coast, where our priceless blockade-runners plied, had Newbern, as so stubbornly rumored, and had Beaufort, already fallen, or had they really not?

Mary F. Newbern (C of A. M. Harding), Hazel P. Mullins (W) & John M. Mullins (C); 18Mar65; R357835. HARDING, BERTITA.

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