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8 KINGSLEY other Stories;" Old Margaret " (1871); and " Reginald Hetheridge" (1874). He was for a time editor of the "Daily Review," and its correspondent in the Franco-German war. KINGSLEY, James Luce, an American scholar, born in Windham, Conn., Aug. 28, 1778, died in New Haven, Aug. 31, 1852. He graduated at Yale college in 1799, and engaged in teach- ing, first in Wethersfield, and afterward in his native town. In 1801 he was appointed a tu- tor in Yale college, and in 1805 received the newly established professorship of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages in the same insti- tution. He was relieved of a portion of his duties in 1831, when a separate professorship of Greek was instituted, and of another por- tion in 1835, when a professorship of sacred literature was founded. In Latin he continued to instruct until his resignation in 1851. He published a few Latin text books, a discourse on the 200th anniversary of the founding of New Haven, a history of Yale college in the "American Quarterly Register," and a life of Ezra Stiles in Sparks's " American Biography." KING'S MOUNTAIN, a post village in'Gaston co., N. 0., in the vicinity of which is an emi- nence jof the same name, situated in York co., S. 0., about 80 m. N. by W. of Columbia, which was the scene of a memorable conflict in the revolutionary war, Oct. 7, 1780. Im- mediately after the battle of Camden (August, 1780), Lord Cornwallis despatched Major Pat- rick Ferguson to scour the western part of South Carolina, and rejoin him at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg co., N. C. Ferguson's force was gradually increased by enlistments to 1,200 men, and the new recruits, mostly tory despe- radoes of the worst stamp, committed frightful excesses upon the inhabitants of the country. In the latter part of September, when within a few days' march of Charlotte, he turned aside toward the mountains to disperse a small American force under Col. Clarke ; but upon arriving at Gilbert Town, in what is now Ruth- erford co., N. 0., he learned that a large body of "mountain men," as the frontiersmen of Georgia and the Carolinas were called, had as- sembled to oppose his progress. Breaking up his quarters, he pushed forward to join Corn- wallis, sending expresses to inform the latter of his danger, all of whom, however, were in- tercepted. The patriot forces started immedi- ately in pursuit. The main body, about 900 mounted men, marching all night, came up with Ferguson at 3 P. M. on the 7th, posted on King's mountain, a narrow stony ridge eleva- ted about 100 ft. from the neighboring ravines, and upward of a mile in length. The Amer- icans were formed into three bodies, the cen- tre commanded by Cols. Campbell and Shelby, the right by Cols. Sevier and McDowell, and the left by Cols. Cleveland and Williams, which moved simultaneously from different points upon the enemy. Ferguson immediately charged Sevier and McDowell, and pushed them down the hill with the bayonet, the tories using rifles KINGSTON and fowling pieces armed at the end with large knives. A flank fire from Cleveland and Wil- liams caused him to turn against his new as- sailants; but the latter had scarcely been re- pulsed when he was confronted by the centre under Campbell and Shelby and the rallied troops of Sevier. In this manner the fight continued for upward of an hour, until the en- emy, harassed on all sides by the fire of the riflemen, which was rapidly thinning their ranks, were thrown into confusion, and began to retreat along the ridge. Ferguson prepared for one final charge, and fell at the head of his regulars pierced by seven bullets, dying, ac- cording to tradition, by the hand of Col. Wil- liams, who was also slain. His men, disheart- ened by his fall, surrendered to the number of nearly 800, 240 having fallen. Only 200 es- caped. The Americans lost only 20 men killed, although a large number were wounded. This action did much to precipitate the downfall of British power in the south. KINGSTON, a city and the county seat of Ul- ster co., New York, on the W. bank of the Hud- son river, about 90 m. N. of New York and 55 m. S. of Albany, and on the N. bank of Ron- dout creek, which is navigable for 3 m. and is its harbor; pop. in 1874, about 22,000. It is the terminus of the Delaware and Hud- son canal, and of the New York, Kingston, and Syracuse, and the Wallkill Valley rail- roads, which communicate by ferry with Rhine- beck, a station on the Hudson River railroad on the opposite bank of the river. Steamboats connect it with New York, Albany, and inter- mediate places. It has a wharfage front of 4 m. Forty-three steamboats owned in the city are employed in transporting freight and pas- sengers, and in towing. The shipment of coal, blue stone, brick, ice, cement, lime, lumber, &c., exceed 2,500,000 tons per annum. Kingston is the centre of the blue-stone or flagging trade. The quarries are scattered through a region nearly 100 m. in length, reaching from the Delaware river to the Hudson, and the stone is brought to the city by wagon, rail, and ca- nal. Hydraulic cement, for which Ulster co. is celebrated, is mainly shipped from Kingston, amounting to a yearly aggregate of 1,500,000 barrels. The largest cement manufactory in the country, that of the Newark lime and ce- ment manufacturing company, situated in the city, turns out 225,000 barrels yearly. The stone is obtained by tunnelling the hills which face the creek and river, and by running gal- leries in the layers of rock. These galleries are nearly two miles in length, and are often sunk to a depth of 200 ft. The average thick- ness of the layers is 30 ft., and they incline at all angles from vertical to horizontal. The city also contains four founder! es and machine shops, a planing mill, a manufactory of malt, four of cigars, one of glue, a tanning and cur- rying establishment, nine breweries, 13 car- riage factories, several boat and ship-building establishments, five brick yards, five national