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Show Settling a Bill. When Andrew Jackson lived nt Salisbury, N. O., ho onco nttended court nt Itockford, then tho county seat of Surry, nnd left w.lthout paying his bill, which was duly charged up against him on the hotel register, which seems to have been tbe hotel ledger nt that time, and so stood for many years. When tho news of the victory of tho 8th of January, 1815. was received In this then remote section sec-tion the old landlord turned back the leaves of the register, took his pen and wrote under the account ngalnst Andrew Jackson. "Settled In full by the battlo of New Orleans." |