The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1866-11-07
HILLsBoRoUGH N C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER Z 1866

sequences have ensued from this grand
celestial display, and although there 10
some reason to believe that an event Of this
kind is possible, scientific men unite in the
opinion that such calamity is not within
the bounds Of probability.
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ONE STEP FROM THE ALTAR To THE GRAY.
|-DEATH OF NEWLY MARRIED CouPLE.
One week ago Mr.. Tony Lauloff was mar
ried to Miss Agnes Kriett, both of New
port. Kentucky. The young and happy
couple enjoyed their honey moon on FRI
day, Saturday and Sunday, determining
that on Monday morning they would
settle down to a commencement OF their
new life with all its business, response
bilities, trials. &c. On Monday morning
they rose At any early hour, and robing
themselves in their every day attire, went
to breakfast. Each complained of feeling
seriously ill, and neither could eat. The
husband was compelled almost Immediately
to retire to bed. aud in few minutes his
wife followed him A physician was sene
for, who, upon arriving 10 the sick cham
ber, and after examination of the patients,
pronounced their disease the cholera. In-
mediate attention was given to them, but
during the day they continued TO grow
worse, and al four and a-half o'clock the
husband died. His body was removed 10
adjoining room. His wife was also in
a collapsed condition, and eight and a-half
o'clock she too followed her husband intu
the dark valley and shadow ofdeath. The
bridegroom and bride were robed in their
wedding clothes, and on Tuesday both were
10 the same grave. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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An INSTANCE OF WAR's RAvAGEs In Ala
BAMA.-0ne of the editors of the Selma
Messenger, writing from Tuscaloosa on the
2sh ult., says: A little business in the
court house led me to inquire into The A.
nancisl condition Of this portion Of the
country. and learn that sheriff sales are
becoming so common that almost no pur-
chasers are found for the valuable land and
other property exposed for sale. A gentle
man informed me that some twenty far
mers had been sold out lately. their lands
bringing less than one dollar per acre
A sad instance Of the reverse of fortune
produced by the war was mentioned 10 the
case Of old Mr.. Prswett, Of this county.
whose estate was sold out on the first Mon
day in this month. At the breaking out
of the war he was the wealthiest citizen Of
Tuscaloosa county, He owned three hun-
dred and sixty negroes and large tracts Of
land. He had large sums Of money out at
interest, secured BY mortgage on negro pro-
perty and land. He was homespun, eco-
nomical countryman, who bought every
thing at the lowest price for cash. lie
paid his physicians bill before the doctor
left the house. When General croxton
rame TO Tuscaloosa he took from this old
man some forty head Of horses and mules.
all his money, provisions, &C., which was
his first calamity. Next came emancipa-
tion, which swept away his slave property.
Next came the breaking up OF all the men
to whom Prewett had loaned money or for
whom he stood security. Finally an execu-
tion was levied on his property for a few
thousand dollars, and all his real estate was
sold under the sherilfs. hammer for six
hundred dollars
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