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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 5. (search)
political head of the community. Naturally, therefore the prominence the store gave the merchant attracted Lincoln. But there seemed no favorable opening for him — clerks in New Salem were not in demand just then. My cousins, Rowan and James Herndon, were at that time operating a store, and tiring of their investment and the confinement it necessitated, James sold his interest to an idle, shiftless fellow named William Berry. Soon after Rowan disposed of his to Lincoln. That the latterin possession of the only mercantile concern in New Salem. To effect these sales not a cent of money was required — the buyer giving the seller his note and the latter assigning it to someone else in another trade. Berry gave his note to James Herndon, Lincoln his to Rowan Herndon, while Lincoln & Berry as a firm, executed their obligation to Greene, Radford, and Rutledge in succession. Surely Wall Street at no time in its history has furnished a brace of speculators who in so brief a per
The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Home manufacture of percussion caps. (search)
ed from Mt. Vernon to Lexington, to prevent them from being desecrated by the hyena like Vandals of the North. Will Major Anderson inform us (says the Charleston Courier) whether the rules of Christian warfare permit a blockading fleet to turn off a neutral vessel on a long voyage, without water? Daniel Hagner, a member of the Salisbury (N. C.) Artillery, was killed last Monday by the accidental discharge of a pistol in his own hand. H. W. Thomas, Esq., addressed a meeting in Loudoun county Va., on Monday, in favor of unconditional secession. The North Carolina Legislature adjourned last Monday, after appropriating $5,000,000 for war purposes, passing a stay law, &c. Mr. James Herndon, a private in the Hornet's Nest Rifles, died in camp at Raleigh, N. C., on the 11th inst. Ice is selling in Charleston at one cent per pound. Wheat is ready for the sickle in the neighborhood of Montgomery, Ala. Charles Lever, the popular Irish novelist, is dead.