{"id":1186,"date":"2014-03-23T12:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T17:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2014-03-23T12:41:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T17:41:25","slug":"creswell-letter-july-15-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/creswell-letter-july-15-1889\/","title":{"rendered":"Creswell Letter (July 15, 1889)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Items excerpted from the Creswell Letter column:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mr. Wm. AUSLEY<\/strong> and <strong>Miss Mary E. PHELPS<\/strong> were not married last Sunday, 7th inst., as we heard and wrote you. \u00a0It seems the young lady has concluded to remain single a while longer.<\/li>\n<li>On Tuesday, the 9th last, at 10 o&#8217;clock pm, <strong>Justice HOWELL<\/strong> was called upon to marry a couple of the 15th amendments. They came to his office about the time he was ready to retire, and as they seemed to be in a hurry he went out in his shirt sleeves and in short order made them man and wife. \u00a0They immediately left for home on foot, and when about a mile from town they met the irate father of the bride who had started to look for his daughter. \u00a0He at once began to give the bride a threshing, and the groom of course, tried to protect her, and during the melee a pistol was fired, the bride and groom took to the bushes and the father came to town and called up said <strong>HOWELL<\/strong>, demanding a warrant fro the groom for an assault with deadly weapons, it was past midnight when the warrant was issued. \u00a0The next day at 10 o&#8217;clock <strong>Benj. HILL,<\/strong> the groom, was arraigned for trial; was found guilty, and required to give bail for his appearance at our next Superior court.<\/li>\n<li>The first watermelon of the season seen in our town was brought in on the 13th inst., by <strong>Messrs. E.R. SPRUILL<\/strong> and <strong>J.D. STILLMAN<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>Mr. SPRUILL<\/strong> informed us that he could cut over 100 ripe ones that day. \u00a0We did not sample them as the price was rather fancy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Source: Roanoke Beacon, 19 July 1889. \u00a0Available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Items excerpted from the Creswell Letter column: Mr. Wm. AUSLEY and Miss Mary E. PHELPS were not married last Sunday, 7th inst., as we heard and wrote you. \u00a0It seems the young lady has concluded to remain single a while longer. On Tuesday, the 9th last, at 10 o&#8217;clock pm, Justice HOWELL was called upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,77],"tags":[1144,1189,1188,1145,1190,1191],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roanoke-beacon","category-washington","tag-ausley-wm","tag-hill-benj","tag-howell-justice","tag-phelps-mary-e","tag-spruill-e-r","tag-stillman-j-d"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-j8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}