The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-26

morning induced her brother to start 10
town in search of her missing husband.
About three miles from the house he
came upon the body Of his brother-in-
law lying in the road, stiff and cold IN
death. His BRAN had been pierced by
rifle ball. Although his murderer
was never discovered, yet the commu-
nitv quietly accepted the belief that
Henry Johnstone, a son of Thomas, who
was slain by Rogers, was the perpetra-
tor ofthe deed. Some years afterwards
in drunken moment, in Elizabethtown.
this young man acknowledged he had
slain Rogers, and gave as his reason
that the latter had killed his brother
Johnstone was young man, and only
few months before the murder had
been married to young girl Ill the
neiohborhood. Again the chart of
time was unrolled and at least ten years
had been added to the past, when a
young lad, son of the murdered Rog-
ers, engaged i'll an alteration IN the
ward of the Court house at Elizabeth
town, with Johnstone, who was then
middleaged man, and inflicted such
wounds upon him with knife that he
died on the following morning.
Thus it went on for years, now
Johnstone falling by the hands of Rog-
ers, and then Rogers falling beneath
the avening hand of Johnstone, until
the war interviewed, and for time at
least, the terrible feud appeared to have
ended. The cessation of hostlltles
brought the survivors Of the warning
families back to Carter County. The
survivors consisted of Randall Rogers
and Robert Johnstone, both battlescar
red veterans, and both unmarried men.
On the evening of the 9Th instant these
two men met in grocery at Elizabeth
town, and soon became engaged i'll an al
tercation. Bystanders intertered and for
an hour or two a collision was averted.
They were separated by friends and
taken off i'll opposite directions. This
occurred about noon. About three O.
clock, rs Rogers was going up street
he saw Johnstone coming down. AS
they neared each other they drew their
revolvers and commenced Simultaneous
ly firing upon each other, continuing to
advance as they fired. Finally, and
when about four feet distant from
Johnstone, Rogers sank to the pavement
and, as he lay the last act OF his life
was to fire the last charge in his pistol
into the abdomen of Johnstone, whose
last bullet, fired at the same instant,
penetrated his antagonists brain caus
ing instant death. JohnStone reeled
and fell across the body Of his foe, and
when bystanders rushed to where they
lay, he, too, had passed beyond all
reach of mortal aid. Almost at the
same instant of time, their two blood
guilty souls had gone to join the CORY
ghosts OF their ancestors. THIS ended
a feud that has existed for twenty
wears, III the course of which fourteen
men have died violent deaths.
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS I,1PEACH-
MEST-President Johnson, we under
stand, is i'll nowise alarmed at the men
acing demonstrations made against
him in Congress. If impeachment be
determined upon in a constitutional
way, he will throw no bar in the way
of the fullest investigation of every
charge, personal and political, upon
which it may be founded. On the con
trary, he will do all in his power to
secure the most searching investiga-
ton into the facts of every accusation
contained in the articles drawn up. OF
course it canno! but be to the last de-
gree disagreeable and annoying to such
a man as Andrew Johnson to undergo
trial upon such grounds as those which |
have been put forth. But if the ordeal
must come, the more fully every Cir
cumstance is elected, and the more |
thoroughly each point is tested, the
more satisfactory must be the result to
himself while he remains President, as |
we'll as in the view Of his future posi-
ton in history. In fact, so far as re-
CARDS Mr.. johnson himself, there is
every reason, considering the length to
which the thing has now gone, why he
should earnestly desire that it be carried |
through. Better for him even that he
should be threatened with removal from |
office on account of some Of the charges
relied on to secure that result, than
that he should rest without inyestiga-
ton, under either of the imputations,
that have been brought against him.
Tile Ne1r York Times.