Garth was prepared to be helpful in what he referred to with fastidious distaste as this unfortunate Johnston affair, which would not, he said more than once, have ever come about if Mrs. Meeker had only seen fit to consult Mr. Hohlbein or him about it.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.

John Pezza, 69, of 734 Hartford Avenue, Providence, complained of shoulder pains after an accident in which a car he was driving collided with a car driven by Antonio Giorgio, 25, of 12 DeSoto St., Providence, on Greenville Avenue and Cherry Hill Road in Johnston yesterday.

Mr. Pezza was taken to a nearby Johnston physician, Dr. Allan A. DiSimone, who treated him.

Mr. Parrillo was given first aid at Johnston Hose 1.

Thomas Lincoln's new wife was the widow Sarah Bush Johnston, the mother of three children.

Davis believed the loss of Johnston " was the turning point of our fate ".

Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, the youngest son of Dr. John and Abigail Harris Johnston.

Although Albert Johnston was born in Kentucky, he lived much of his life in Texas, which he considered his home.

Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.

One month later, Johnston was promoted to major and the position of aide-de-camp to General Sam Houston.

Gen. Felix Huston, challenging each other for the command of the Texas Army ; Johnston refused to fire on Huston and lost the position after he was wounded in the pelvis.

Johnston was to provide the defense of the Texas border against Mexican invasion, and in 1839 conducted a campaign against Indians in northern Texas.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Johnston was the commander of the U. S. Army Department of the Pacific in California.

On September 10, 1861, Johnston was assigned to command the huge area of the Confederacy west of the Allegheny Mountains, except for coastal areas.

Johnston's initial call upon the governors for more men did not result in many immediate recruits but Johnston had another, even bigger, problem since his force was seriously short of arms and ammunition even for the troops he had.

Beauregard, who was supposed to attract recruits because of his victories early in the war and give Johnston a competent subordinate.

Within a few minutes, Johnston was observed by his staff to be nearly fainting off his horse.

Johnston was the highest-ranking casualty of the war on either side, and his death was a strong blow to the morale of the Confederacy.

He was finally appointed to the bench in June, but withdrew days later to be appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia ( former Conservative Premier James W. Johnston initially received this appointment, but had to withdraw due to ill health ).

McClellan was initially successful against the equally cautious General Joseph E. Johnston, but the emergence of the aggressive General Robert E. Lee turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a humiliating Union defeat.

Foster initially seemed to favor Duke's run for the Senate seat being vacated in 1996 by J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., but under pressure from the Republican Party, he did not officially endorse Duke.

The two Confederate armies were consolidated into a single army following the battle, retaining the name " Army of the Potomac " and with Johnston in command ; Beauregard was initially posted as its second-in-command but he was soon transferred to the Western Theater.

Johnston was initially declared the winner.

Sue Johnston claimed, on The One Show, that the special had been postponed rather than scrapped, and that the reason behind the delay was due to Ralf Little and Craig Cash's work on The Cafe proving more time consuming than initially thought.

Ballard wasn't initially named to the committee when it was unveiled in March 1957, but took the place of Ian Johnston nine months later.

Johnston initially taught his students an uncial hand using a flat pen angle, but later taught his “ foundational hand ” using a slanted pen angle.

After initially claiming he would never return to Scotland, Johnston reconsidered and appeared at a press conference to announce that he would sign for Celtic at the end of his contract with Nantes.

Getting the first boot off the ground took Johnston 5 years and was initially refused by Adidas, as well as Nike and Reebok.

Sherman's 1864 campaign against Atlanta, Georgia, was initially characterized by a series of flanking maneuvers against Johnston, each of which compelling the Confederate army to withdraw from heavily fortified positions with minimal casualties on either side.

Three of the Ekurhuleni metro police involved in removing McBride from the accident scene, Patrick Johnston, Stanley Segathevan and Ithumeleng Koko initially supported McBride but subsequently gave " damning statements " to the South African Police.

Richard Johnston, an Irish architect, was initially commissioned and completed the design of the basement.

Johnston was initially declared the winner, and an official recount in a several contested towns preserved Johnston's victory, though by a narrower margin.

It was initially hosted by Stewart MacPherson but in 1950 Richard Dimbleby took over its presentation until 1955, then Franklin Engelmann until his death in 1972 when Brian Johnston took over until 1987.

Notables buried there include former Oklahoma governors William H. Murray and Johnston Murray.

The Johnston home and the remains of the Tom Quick cabin were buried in 1847 with the construction of the Erie Railroad.

He died in Edenton and is buried there in the Johnston Burial Ground.

Samuel Johnston died at his home, Hayes Plantation, near Edenton in Chowan County, in 1816 and is buried in the Johnston Burial Ground there.

He died in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1971 and was buried with full military honours in Highland Memorial Park, Johnston, Rhode Island.