{"id":3483,"date":"2015-03-14T23:22:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T04:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2015-03-14T23:22:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T04:22:52","slug":"lively-times-at-wilson-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/lively-times-at-wilson-1890\/","title":{"rendered":"Lively Times at Wilson (1890)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilson, NC, Jan. 22 &#8212; This morning between 10 and 11 o\u2019clock, <strong>Calvin BARNES<\/strong>, a prominent citizen of Wilson, went to the banking house of Branch &amp; Co. to consult with <strong>Mr. A. BRANCH<\/strong> regarding an account that he owed Branch, Biggs &amp; Co. The lie was passed between them, and Mr. BARNES knocked Mr. BRANCH through the window of the counting room and followed this up with a number of blows. <strong>Mr. J.C. HALES,<\/strong> cashier of the bank, hearing the noise ran to see what was the matter and tried to part the combatants, when <strong>Mr. Jas. STERRETT<\/strong>, a step-son of <strong>Mr. BARNES<\/strong> &#8211; not knowing<strong> Mr. HALES\u2019<\/strong> intention &#8211; knocked him down and commanded him to stay there.<\/p>\n<p>After <strong>Mr. BRANCH<\/strong> got up all three, <strong>BRANCH, BARNES and STERRETT<\/strong>, started out of the bank. At the front door <strong>Mr. STERRETT<\/strong> turned, after he and <strong>Mr. BARNES<\/strong> had started down the street, and gave <strong>Mr. BRANCH<\/strong> a stunning blow which came very near felling him to the floor. The parties were separated.<\/p>\n<p>Some fear was entertained that the difficulty would be renewed. So all the parties were placed under a peace bond. All went well until about 3 o\u2019clock p.m., when <strong>Mr. Jas. MARSHBURN<\/strong>, township constable, was sent to arrest <strong>Messrs. BARNES and STERRETT<\/strong> and take them before a magistrate, and while he with his prisoners was on the opposite side of the street, <strong>Mr. BRANCH<\/strong> ran out and began firing at <strong>Mr. BARNES.<\/strong> The balls went wide of them lodged in the left heel of the constable.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source: Davidson Times-Dispatch, 29 \u00a0January 1890.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=Itmi1h0dExoC&amp;dat=18900122&amp;b_mode=2&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Paper available at Google News Archive.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilson, NC, Jan. 22 &#8212; This morning between 10 and 11 o\u2019clock, Calvin BARNES, a prominent citizen of Wilson, went to the banking house of Branch &amp; Co. to consult with Mr. A. BRANCH regarding an account that he owed Branch, Biggs &amp; Co. The lie was passed between them, and Mr. BARNES knocked Mr. [&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":[3025,701],"tags":[3059,3060,3062,3063,3061],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-davidson-dispatch","category-wilson","tag-barnes-calvin","tag-branch-mr","tag-hales-mr","tag-marshburn-jas","tag-sterrett-jas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-Ub","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","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=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}