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...riot took place at Fayetteville, N. C., last evening, during which over 100 persons engaged in a fight, in which knives were freely used. Twenty of the combatants were wounded, some of them fatally. A man named Underwood was fatally shot. The riot was caused by a party of drunken men, who attacked several citizens in the street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 11/28/1882 | See Source »

...days I lodged in the first story, counting the ground-floor as one. Just beneath me, a man lived who one evening begged me to take some wine with him, as the night before 'he had been forced to get drunk all alone.' I lived in terror lest this drunken fool might set his room on fire. If he had, for me, I knew, there was no escape. I must be content with pointing out the peculiar dangers from fire that thus threaten our colleges. I noticed them when I was myself an undergraduate, but my attention has been again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCERNING FIRES IN ENGLISH COLLEGES. | 3/24/1882 | See Source »

ABOVE that drunken babbling brook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/2/1874 | See Source »

Smoking cigars, playing billiards, joining in the drunken brawl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

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