State Normal Magazine, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from State Normal Magazine, Vol. 5 The stirring times through which our country passed (1858-1876) make the work of Dr. Cobb of peculiar interest, and we shall go somewhat into details. There was not then (1858) another stenographer in North Carolina who could help him in his studies; but by constant practice, through many discouragements, he succeeded in mastering the system so that he could use it in copying from books and newspapers whatever he wished to retain for future use. He also used it in making notes of evidence in the courts, conversation, etc. The earliest pieces copied in phonography in his Common-Place Book are dated "Greenville, September, 1858," probably the oldest specimens of shorthand in existence written by a native North Carolinian. Dr. Cobb has in his possession now the Psalms, all the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament; the Acts, Epistles, and Revelation of the New, all of which he wrote out as reading lessons for his wife and children. He also prepared a shorthand primer for the instruction of his oldest son, Prof. Collier Cobb, then a little boy. In 1859 he entered the Baptist ministry, and ever since has used phonography in preparing his sermons, making memoranda, recording church proceedings, etc.; but his first work as a reporter was in 1865, when he reported the trial of Major Gee, by U. S. Court-Martial, for alleged cruelty to Union prisoners at Salisbury. These proceedings were reported for the Daily Sentinel, in Raleigh, then edited by the Rev. W. E. Pell, the compensation being five dollars a day. This took place while the state was still under military rule. The Judge-Advocate of the court, after the trial had proceeded a few days, offered to pay Dr. Cobb ten dollars a day, the government´s price for stenographers, and to swear him in as recorder of the court; but says Dr. Cobb, "I did not care to place my life in the hands of a set of men who were then trying an innocent Confederate officer for his life on false charges, and I declined." (A reporter had afterwards to be sent out from Washington or New York to report the trial.) At this time Dr. Cobb was living in Raleigh. He had been a chaplain in the Confederate service, afterwards General Superintendent of Army Colportage for the North Carolina troops, and soon after Johnson´s surrender, editor, with Dr. J. D. Huffham, of the Daily Record, published in Raleigh. Efforts had been made more than once to suppress the Daily Record as a treasonable sheet, and Dr. Cobb did not care to give the Court-Martial a chance to trump up any charges against him. These were further reasons for his declining to report the trial referred to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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