The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1872-06-20
WHOLE NO. 1926.
Facts and FancIes.
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Minnesota whisky sellers have been
fined $50 for selling liquor to habitual
drunkards.
A new bug has arrived in the Western
States. He bores into grape vines and
kills them.
An Indiana patriarch has lived to form
the acquaintance of his great-great-g
grandchild.
The British iron product is about
800, 900 tons a year, and the American
about 100000 tons.
England, last year, bought $1S4, ,0OO,-
600 of cotton from the United States,
and made it up into 1872, 900, 900 worth
of goods.
Texas papers report that ten indians,
who recently raided into Wise county,
were all killed by the sheriff and his
assistants.
Some jocose fellows in Newbern. Ind,
robbed friend in the night for joke,
and paid heavy fine the next day in
earnest. The friend had no sense Of
humor.
Judge Hoar once said of lawyer:
"He has reached the superlative life =; at
first he sought to get on, and then he
sought to get honor, and now he is try
ing to get honest"
Startling developments have come to
light in st. Paul. Mimi, exposing an at
tempt by Mrs. Robinson to bribe
members of the grand jury not to bring
in any Indictment against her.
An attorney in that delightful coun-
try, New Mexico, gave weight to his ar
gnn,ent before jury by threatening to
put bullet into the brain of any man
who should dare to intimate that his
client was guilty.
The figures in the absolutely latest
style of Dolly Warden are so delightfully."-
large that it takes two young ladies to
show one of them properly. They have.
to go arm in arm and keep step or else
the effect is spoiled.
The first Jewish ceremony ever wit
messed in Portland was performed lately.
A priest of the faith came on from New
York, and went to the slaughter house,
attired in his official robes, to kill an OK,
for the food of the faithful.
Walter, five-year old, was surprised
} at breakfast by the presence of a diminu-
} tive egg, served for his special delecta-
} ton. He thus accounted for the eggs
smallness Mamma, I think the
, chicken was learning to lay"
It is estimated that there ere 400
saloons and groceries in San Francisco,
which dispense annually 10000 barrels
of lager, $4,000 gallons of wine, and
100000 gallons of the more stimula-
ting fluids, the total value of which is
$4,000, 600.
hyoung lady in New Hampshire has
just secured position as school teacher
> upon the following certificate: "This
:, . is to certify that Tanner Noyes stands on
q medium with other girls of her age
Y and sex, and, Tor what know, is as good
!; as folks in general.
|. Billy Brennan, while playing cards in
e San Antonio, Texas, said, as the game
S turned against him, "May Christ para
S lyze me "a favorite expression of his.
n No sooner had the words escaped him
k than he fell down in a fit, from which at
i last accounts he had not recovered.
s. Little Johnny Moore, away out in
: Monroe, Mich, went to picnic, and
like foolish little boy that he was, tried
!. to smoke cigar. It made him sick, of
II course, and he threw himself on the wet
: grass and lay there long time. The
u result was he had congestive chills and
e died.
A physician was called te see a dying
. infant, in Mobile, and found that the
d parents had previously engaged the ser
n vices of Voudou woman, named Ellen
20 Drake, who scarifed the child's back,
h. hat a.,
\ ed, mixed with a quantity of the
a mothers milk.
in A Boston bride, whose groom remon
le strated with her at the wedding for in
ID dulging in rather indiscriminate be-
d. stowal of her maiden kisses on a number
s. of her male friends, remarked with natli
he raj naivete that the gentlemen in question
is had been in the habit of kissing her al
ed her life, and she didn't see why the.
be should stop now.
er, The last of the Marshals of France VIII
DIS have undergone a capital sentence wa
he the best known and most celebrated o
It them all, Marshal Ney, shot on the 7tl
rm of December, 1915, for fidelity to his oil
en and treachery to his new master. MAJ
or shall Bazaine is the first Marshal c
Ire France arraigned on charge of ba
tie conduct in face of the enemy.
,no The great pyramid weighs IL, 760,0 900
.ha 600 tons, if anybody wants to know
ts ~ According to Herodotus, it took the labo
Il of 100000 men twenty years to bull
~ =. it. To show the mechanical value {
ne modern improvements, DIR. Lardner a
firms that 4S0 tons of coal, with an el
l. CINE and hoisting machine, would hay
nd ~ raised every stone to its position.
his 1t is stated in the report of the prise
at association, lately issued, that of fourtee
tdy thousand five hundred and ninety-s
,ey prisoners confined inIthe penitentiaries
for thirty States, in 1860, seventy-seven p
but cent, or over ten thousand of the numbe
7ilI, had never learned trade. The fact co
ior, veys lesson of profound interest to tho
ght who have In charge the training of boy
any and girls, too, for the active duties
avel life.
and Here is good thing on the tat
the bugs" Three men comparing note
and One says: 'There are two bugs to eve
nor, stalk" A second says: "They have c
s. down my early crop, and are sitting
the fence waiting for the late crop
come up s'Pshaw = says the THU
Oh on "you don't know anything about it.
,om passed seed store recently, and
piS bugs were in there overlooking the boo
a a.la. to see who had purchased seed po
tha, toes"