Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mecklenburg” in article 3 of The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
...hooting scrape between a citizen of the town and a member of company "A." The person who was so unfortunate as to receive the contents of a shot gun was Adoniram Brummel.
The friends of Adoniram in Mecklenburg will learn with pleasure that he is now doing well, he having most miraculously escaped instant death.
Hereafter my nom de plume will be
"Occasional."
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