Posted inDaily News

Fights Dozen Men

Drink Crazed Indian Even Then Succeeds in Kicking One Man Through Windshield of Auto

Lowville, N. Y., Dec. 27.—Bootleg whiskey was the indirect cause of four hours of darkness in this village last night.

Earlier in the evening a young Indian, Paul Arlette, who is alleged to have been In a frenzied condition because of holiday potations, entered an Ice cream store in the neighboring village of Naumberg and threatening to kill all the customers with a knife. He was subdued and bound with ropes only after 12 men had joined In the fray.

Posted inUS Civil War

December 27, 1861 – Wretched Charleston!

It will be remembered that at about the time that the secession movement began, many of the property owners in Charleston, as in other Southern cities, who had been in the habit of insuring against fire in the Northern insurance companies, withdrew their risks from these offices with much insolence and parade, and transferred them to local organizations. Most of the latter have suspended while all tho others now are bankrupted, so that utter ruin must fall on those whose property has by this calamity been destroyed.