Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-05-09
LEXINGTON ANO DAVIDSON COUNTY.
Mrs. Purear Gets $8, 900. An interest
Ing Relic Of the Civil War.

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Lexington Dispatch, May End.
Twenty odd casses were cleaned
up at the civil term of court
! held last week, which leaves the
civil docket in excellent shape.
The most important case was that
of Mrs. NJ M. Puryear vs.. the
Southern railway, on account of
the killing of her husband, Engi-
neer r. O. Puryear, who was kill
ed between the Yadkin river and
Spencer i'll January, 1905, by be-
ing struck with mail crane.
The suit was for 100000. We
understand that the railroad offer.
ed to compromise for $4,000.
The jury awarded $4,000.
Senator S. E. Williams recently
came into possession of an inter-
esting old relic of what we think
must have been the civil war. It
is she'll of perhaps ten pounds in
weight, and has never been explod-
ed. 1t was found on the railroad
bridge over the Yadkin river, on
| the Davidson side. The double
tracking force discovered 1t while
scraping away the dirt from rock,
| and it was buried but few inches,
as the earth over the rock is NOT
more than a foot in depth. At
the same time mimic bal was
found. On inquiry, it was told
the Senator that there was bat
terry at the spot where the bal
was found just at the close of the
war in 1865. The Yankees ap-
peared on the Rowan side of the
Yadkln and there was some firing
done. That night Salisbury was
set on fire. Therefore 1t is
supposed that this old ''imple-
ment" of war was left where it
was found, something more than a
week ago. It is also thought
that, as Gen. Greene crossed the
Yadkin not great way from this
place, and as he fought the British
at every fording he made, that the
bomb has come down from Revo-
lutionary times. We do not know
if shells were in use at that time,
and the reference books at hand
fail to tell us when they were first
used.
J. E. Williamson paid a visit
to the scene of operations on the
Southbound railway near Winston
last Thursday, to see for himself
with his own eyes what was being
done. Friday he came into the
Office with large amount CT en-
thusiasm and big clod Of red
dirt, saying that all donb5ing
Thomases may go way back and
sit down. The Southbound was a
reality. He says that a large
number of men are busily engaged
making cut and fill at the Win
ston end of the line. There are
two forces, one on each side of Sa-
lem creek. Sixty mules are being
used. It was very evident to Mr..
Williamson that business is meant
by the men behind this work. He
himself is thoroughly convinced
that we shall soon be speeding
along Oh the Southbound cars.
One day last week Rowan
Woosley, citizen Of the Fried
burg community, disappeared
from his home and has not been
heard of.since. It was thought at
first that he might have commit
ted suicide, she complained some
before he went to his work. His
steps were followed to a pond
some distance from his home and
the pond dredged without result,
Later it seems generally supposed
that he left deliberately aud moth
ing has happened to him. He
took with him $3.50 in cash. Mr..
Woosley married daughter Of D.
G, Mock, Of this county. and he is
a son of Rev. Wooseley, of Fried.
burg.