Show JACKSON S BILL WAS victory at new orleans W ped out account of hotelkeeper in an address delivered at salisbury N C on jackson s day jan 8 mr J P caldwell the editor of the charlotte IN N C observer related a story of andrew jackson that has so far as we know never before been printed while he lived at salisbury says mr caldwell jackson once at tended court at rockford then the county seat of surry and left without paying his bill which was duly charged up against him on the hotel register which seems to have been the hotel ledger of that time and eo ro stood for many years when the news of the victory of the esth of january 1815 was received in this then remote section the old landlord turned bach back the leaves of the register took his pen and wrote under the account against andrew jackson settled in full by the battle of new orleans |