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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29

never | trust my child, and he
knows it."
on must watch your children.
If you don't, be sure the devil is do
ing It for you. You can and ought
TO do 1t without their being awfTe
Of it.
Sometimes parents feel satisfied
# they know their children have
been IN the company of their elders:
In Mr.. 50 and Sos shop or
store-ridine in old Mr.. Such a
ones wagon"-and SO forth. The
talk OF old folks is not always suit
ed for young folks ears especially
OF ungodly and profane old men. A
lad can be led to wicked ways By
hearing jolly, dissolute talk from a
gray-halred man v more quickly
than by his own young comrades
And the same thing is true of
young girls. Look to YOUR daugh-
tiers, We mothers, and be sure who
they converse with, that their young
minds are not poisoned with lewd
conversation even before they are
OLD enough to comprehend all they
hear. Such tares take root and
grow while you are sleeping. Evil
communications are the last things
that die out of the memory-and
the devil generally gets his crop in
early, taking possession of the mind
before any other influence; SO that
the girl who sits in the Sunday
school IN her white dress and blue
ribbon looking like purity itself
may have already been corrupted in
mind, and be revolving some i'm
pure discourse, while the teacher in
vain strives to put good seed in that
preoccupied soil.-C. p. $. in
Chapel Hill Ledger.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29
Drowned by a Fish.

\ strange story comes to us from
down the river. Mr.. Frank Bill
lings, an old fisherman near the
upper lock on the river, while rum
ming his trotline a few days since,
found that he had hung a monster
catfish. In order to make sure Of
his game, he wrapped the line
around his wrist. The fish making
a desperate effort for liberty upset
the skiff, and the fisherman being
unable to disentangle himself from
the line, was dragged under the
water and drowned before assis-
lance could reach him. Some
neighbors on the bank witnessed
the catastrophe and FASTENED to the
scene, but too late. They recovered
the dead body of the drowned man,
and then secured the fish, which
was found to weigh 225 pounds.
This statement comes to us so we'll
authenticated that we cannot doubt
its truth.-Hart County Democrat.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29

Capt. Kennedy, of Nueces coun-
ty, Texas, owns a tract Of land
there containing $50 square miles,
on which are pastured $1,000 cattle,
$1,000 horses and mules, and 700
hogs.
A tramp outraged an old lady,
aged eighty, and then partially be-
headed her, with a hatchet, near
Steubenyille, Ohio. Nearly the
whole town are in search of the vii
lain.
The Salisbury Waterman SAYS
hat last Sunday James Wood, son
Of the late JOS. Henderson, of
Rowan county, a very promising
.hild of about s years, met a horrl-
lie death from kindling a fire with
erosene oil.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29
Homicide in Watauga.

We are indebted to a prominent
Watauga merchant for the infor-
nation that on the night of the
18th John Stout and Columbus
Mandring went to the house Of
Elkanah South and, with threats,
dared him to come out. South,
with pistol in hand, went ont Oh
the steps, when Stout struck him
with a rock. South instantly fired
on Stout, but missed his ann; he
then fired a second time-the ball
lodged in the abdomen, and death
followed at 3 o'clock 7. NJ, on the
10Th inst. South and Stout were
brothers-ln-law. One year and
eight days ago, in the same yard
and by the same party, Abram
Stout, brother to the murdered
man, was fatally stabbed in the at
domen.--Lenoir Iopic.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29
Our Sea Coast.

y Northern man named BlShOp
made the tour of the Atlantic
coast from Maine to Key West, in
a paper boat, during the past
spring. We make a few extracts
from his book describing his trip
From Norfolk he padded up
Elizabeth river, six miles up which
is the entrance of the Dismal
Swamp canal.
The great cypress and juniper
timber is penetrated by this canal,
and shallow bottomed vessels are
towed into the swamp up to land
ings where they load up with their
cargoes of rough. timber. In the
interior of the swamp is Diamond
lake, named after its discoverer.
This sheet of water is seven miles
long and five broad, and feeds the
canal through a cutting made for
that purpose. During heavy gales
a terrible sea IS set in motion IN
this short sheet of water.
Bears are found in the Businesses
Of the swamp. The canal was
dug IN the days of the wheel bar
row and spade. The Albemarle
and Chesapeake canal is next
reached, sixteen miles up Elizabeth
river. 1t is eight miles long, and
connects the Elizabeth and North
Landing rivers. 1t was dug by
dredging machines. The Swamp
caEal is gong to decay and vessels
now take a circuitous route to get
from Elizabeth to Chesapeake
lay.
The traveller ~traverses a wooded
wilderness soon after leaving Nor
folk, and passes eight miles Of for
est and canal with sight Of only
one log cabin. The residents of
the uplands are anxious for North
ri emigrants and offer their lands
at low rates to induce settlers. At
Pongo Ferry the canoeist stopped
for tie Sunday, and meeting an
ancient colored dame there who
signs for a cup of yuupon, takes
occasion to describe that fayorlte
Southern beverage.
YAUPON.
As the reader is about entering
a country where the laboring
classes draw largely upon nature
for their supply of "the cup that
cheers but not inebriates,' | will
describe the shrub which produces
1t.
This substitute for the tea of
China is a holly (ilex), and is call
ed by the natives "yaupon" (lcas-
sine Simir). 1t is a handsome
shrub, growing few feet in height,
with alternate perennial shining
leaves and bearing small scarlet
berries. 1t is found IN the vicinity
of salt water, in the light soils Of
Virginia and the Carolinas. The
leaves and twigs are dried by the
women, and when ready for market
are sold TO, one dollar per bushel.
1t is not to be compared III excel
lence with the tea of China, nor
does it approach in taste or good
quality the yerbi matt, another spe-
cies of holly, which is found IN
Paraguay, and is the common drink
of the people of South America.
WHAT V~IRGINIANS WANT.
Two days stay in the house of a
wealthy landowner near Pungo
Perry, enables Mr.. Bishop to state
that Southerners will be glad to
receive Northern settlers and well
come them as neighbors, provided
that they are not politicians.
Mr.. Bishops course now ran
from North Landing river into
Currituck sound, a region abound.
! ing with hocks of wild swan, ducks
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29

to send a tile Of men after him and
bring him Jack The did not return
to tie stunt, as I uished him eSDe-
cidHy to hear whdt 1 had to sag. |
spoke to him in rude and rough
language in order hat the rude
and rough negro might understand
1T, and that was my objective point.
This was what killed the spirit Of
the negro, to see the Governor Ct
the State and the chosen leader of
their party abused in such unmeas-
ured terms. They would not stay
to hear the speaking over, but left
in great disgust. He afterwards
spoke at Newberry, where he re-
ceived similar treatment at the
hands of Col. Lipscomb, Col. Aiken
and others: also at Abbeyille, when
again Coils. Aiken and Cothran
poured hot shot into him. He
again spoke at Midway, Barnwell
county, and was there confronted
by the Hon. g.. d.. Tillman, who
gave him such a severe tongue
Iashing that he never spoke again
during the campaign.
The State Convention met on
the 10Th, and we there met opposi-
ton to Hampton's nomination.
The fusionists in the Convention,
led by Generals Cooner, Hagood
and others, wanted Chamberlain
nominated, or no nomination for
for Governor. General Kennedy,
Colonel Rion and others thought
General Hampton was too ultra a
Democrat, and had been too con-
spicuous ii soldier in the war, that
Governor Tilden desired a more
moderate man. Colonel Caigle, of
Washington, was there as
THE AMBASSADOR OF TILDEN.
lie was for a more moderate man
than Hampton. In a discussion
with him. | had occasion to say
to him that we all were for Tilden
and Hendricks, but we denied their
right and questioned the taste of
their attempting to dictate who
should be our candidate for Gov
ernor; that we believed in the doc
trine of local self-goverrment and
intended to exercise it; that Gen.
Hampton had been elected Govern
or when not a candidate against
Governor Orr: that Orr had been
declared elected, Governor Orr
told me this fact himself; and that
such popularity as that | intended
to try and avail ourselves Of in the
coming race. Gen. Hampton was
mortified at the opposition, and
spoke to Butler and myself of with
drawing from the race. Pelton was
| t~elegraphed to in order to reach
Mr., Tilden's views, and he tele-
graphed that Gen. John ID. Ken
nedy was in possession of them.
Butler and those acting with him
determined to place the name of
Hampton before the Convention,
and he was unanimously nominated.
Edgefield declined to run for any
nomination on the State ticket.
Governor Hampton began the
campaign at Anderson on the ID
of September, but during his en-
tire campaign he did not encounter
Chamberlain Or any of his political
associates. He had Il walk over the
track. Chamberlain had been
whipped out here on the 18th of
August. When the election was
over and | went to Columbia | went
to the State Executive Committee
rooms. | was received with a per-
feet ovation of thanks for what
Edgefield had done. Governor
Hampton said that but for our ire
mendous majority, the action of
the rest of the State would not
have awaited anything: that Edqe-
feM had sarea tie Sfafe. | mod
estly replied than we had done
our level best.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29
A Mystery Revealed After
Forty-Five Years Standing
The Murder Of Col. James
Barber-The Fate of His
MurdererS.


Barber-The Fate of His
Murderers.
Many Of the old citizens of Ian
caster viii no doubt recollect the
finding Of the dead body of Col.
James Barber, near IS years ago,
in the ford Of Bear creek, near
where now stands the mill Of Mr.
L. q. Cureton. Some Of Il G cir
cumstances connected with his
death have recently come to light.
and which explain the mystery -
long e~nshroudcd IN darkness. \
few DAYS ago the sheriff Of this
county was in Columbia, where he
met a former citizen Of Lancaster.
who impaired 10 HIM the following
information \ gentleman upon u
visit in Texas had learned from his
brother the facts Of Col. BARRIERS
death as told 10 him BY a negro
man, who WAS an eve witness 10 the
brutal scene and who had been run
Oft by the parties who committed
the deed.
Col. James Barber was an lntlu-
entail and public spirited citizen OF
Lancaster, and AT one time repre-
sented this county IN the Leglsla-
ture. He had come to the village
upon business, and being = man
who sometimes INDUCED freely IN
liquor, he left here upon the vel
ing he was murdered very much
intoxicated, carrying with him a
bolt of cloth and riding horseback.
Soon after he left the village Sren-
cor Gayden, who also appeared in
toxicated, left for home, going III
the same direction, and arrived a,
Col. BARRIERS house carrying the
identical bolt of cloth. Gayden
said he picked up the cloth on the
road. Some uneasIness being felt
by Col. BARRIERS unusual absence,
a man named Michael Johnston,
who vas attending TO business for
Col. b, IN company with others
went IN search of Barber. He
found BARRIERS horse hitched nea
the public road, and when they got
in sight of the creek they saw Col.
B, lying in the ford where the wa
ter was quite shallOw-only "A few
inches deep. Suspicion rested upon
Hiram Allan and Spencer Gayden,
but upon the inquest no marks OF
violence was found upon his person
except a small piece of skin torn III
one of his ears, perhaps lot SO
large as a persons finger nail, which
it was supposed had been done III
the fall from the horse. The negro
spoken of above makes this state
ment ale was Il runaway and was
secrcted near the public road about
100 yards from the creek on the
south side. He saw Hiram Allan
and Spencer Gayden come on Col.
Barber, who was very drunk they
took him from his horse and ran i
spike like wheel spindle into his
ear, turned the point upward 'and
drove it into his brain and killed
him, and then carried him to the
creek and threw him into the wa9
ter. Hiram Allan inherited Bar
ber's property. Allan, it is well
known, was IA bad man and was
suspicioned Of belonging to the
robber band Of the notorious Muir
rell. lie moved from this place TO
Texas, where he was hunted down
and shot, for some of his bad deeds,
but managed to escape into q woods,
where his purified body was after
ward found in "a hollow log. Gay
den, we believe, died here. The
negro who witnessed this inhuman
deed is still living, and suspicion
also rests upon him as one OF the
party Lnncasfer Ledger.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29

Edwin Forrest, a trotting horse
now MISUNDERSTANDING speed,
was sold in Cincinnati last week for
SIG, 900. Cincinnati horsemen want
to wager SO, 900 that Edwin For
rest will beat the best time of Rarus
and that he Will trot a mile in 30.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29

The Empress Eugene is so well
pleased with the attention shown
her in Vienna that she will prolong
her stay. A court dinner has been
given in her honor, and the Empe-
ror and state dignitaries have hon
orel her with visits.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29
Execution Of the Three Muir
derers Of Bryce, the Irish
Peddler.
BENNETTSyILLE, S. c.,


Aug. %, 1873.
The execution of John Locklear,
alias Revels, and his brother Neill,
and Pompy Easterling, for the
murder of Frank Bryce, an Irish
peddler on the 18th of February
last, took place to-day at | o'clock
in the jail yard here. All three
swung on n gallows. They made
no confessions but engaged about
two and a half hours IN rawlings
about their hopes of salvation.
They exhibited considerable calm
ness at times. There were about
three thousand persons n town.
The military we're out in full force
as a guard. Charlotte Observer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-02-13
The Returning Beard cases-a new Trial
Wanted fer anderson.

New ORLEANS, Feb. l0.-In the
superior Criminal Court Saturday the
rule ofcentempt against DEPUTY Collec-
tor Tomlrson, United States Commits
sioner n. G. Lane and Deputy Marsh
ais E. S. Wurzberger and Charles
Steele was continued until Monday al
10 o'clock.
On melton Of Messrs. Cullen and
Castellanos, of council Tor Thomas C..
Anderson. convicted of complicity in
the forgery OF election returns, it is or
dered that the attorney general show
cause OH Wednesday, the 18th instant.
why new trial should not be granted
upon the ground first, that the verdict il
against the evidence aud, second, con-
trary to law as more specifically set
forth in the bills Of exceptions taken
during the trial, now on record and
made part of this matter.
Louis Montplaisir and James Prince,
the colored jurors in the Anderson trial.
state 10 responsible parties that their
verdict-.guilty, but recommended to
the mercy Of the court"-was given I'M
der the impression that that was tanta-
mount to an acquittal, and that they
were so informed by the other jurors.
Both are extremely young men. neither
being over %, and it is claimed that
Prince is disqualified as juror, having
been born in 1858.
Anderson has a dispatch signed by
John Sherman, Stanley Matthews, Gar
field, Hale and Ditty, earnestly protest
ing Anderson innocent of any fraud.
and denouncins his trial and conviction
az the exhibition Of bitter sectional
partishIp.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-02-13
News Items.

The wife offs French Canadian labour-
or has given birth to twins joined
together like the Siamese twins.
Senate bill for the lease of the peniten-
tiary came up and was passed-Ayes,
80; noes 8.
Capt. Peter Smith. on whose honor
able record was. inscribed l8l2,a masis-
trate and a sheriff, died in Pittsylvania
county Va. last week.
There is not a pauper in the poor
house, nor a prisoner in the Jail ofGreen
county, Virginia.
The Board of Education has appoint
ed the following superintendent of
shoots u. p, Tallaferro, for Orange;
K. E. Wolfe. for Scott; W. F. Davis,
Westmoreland; Robt. Hall, for Rich
mond county.
The Governor has accepted the rcsig-
nation OF Mr.. Alexander Moseley, Fish
Commissioner, and appointed Col.
Marshall Mcdonald in his place.
In the Ohio Senate resolution has
been introduced requiring travelling
statesmen representing nonresident
houses to take out State license.
Total returns Of the Moaet. Register
in Petersburg, for the month Of January
were a53O.63.
The returns Of the Moftett register in
Alexandria for January were s63l.O3,
against $57O.23 for December.
Mr., W. w. Corceran has given $500
to the Virginia Historical Society.
The first shad Of the season is an
nounced at Petersburg. 1t was caught
in North Carolina.
J.H. Miller, charged with forgery al
Atlanta, Ca, has been committed to
ia!l at st. Johns n. B., to await sur
render to United States authorities.
NJ. H. Humble, a stock dealer in
Worthington, Ind, was robbed OF $4,000
by highwaymen while returning to his
home Monday evening.
The Staunton returns Of the MotleI
register for January were only 1866, 6
considerable falling of on the Christ
mas month previous.
Mr.. Philip Dandride, Of Winchester
has been appointed chiefengineer ofcon'
solidated Baltimore, Hampden and
Towsontown railroad and the Baltimor,
and Delta railrocd,
A special to the New York Journal o
Commerce saws that the Motfett Puncl
/ Bill was defeated in the South Carolina
Legislature by vote OF 81 to %.
Mr. George H. Norman, Of Newport,
has been awarded huge contract, in
volying sl6, 900, 900, to supply the city
of San Francisco with pure water-tO
be conveyed from the Blue Lakes, q
distance Of l25 miles.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-02-13

New YORK, Feb. 6.-Wm. Dowd.
president of the Bank of North AnIeTi
ca, states that on the I'd Of Feb. upon
the commencement OF the examination
by the bank department, Paying Tellsg
Augustus M. Turney confessed that he
was defaulter to the amount of 400.
600. He has been in the service Of the
bank twenty five years and was much
respected. Since the discovery the
bank has been thoroughly examined by
the official State examiner OF the bank
department. They find the unimpaircd
capital of the bank after the defalcation.
ever all debts and liabilities, s7l6,-
Ss5.
The bank has recovered since the dis
covery of the defalcation slG.029, rpduc.
my the amount Of loss TO sS4, $40, and
increasing the sound cash capital. ac-
cording to examiners estimate, tos732,-
324. Turney was arrested tonight by
detectives and was locked up in the
;ells in tie central Office, where he was
pot allowed 70 see any one.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-02-13
principles and the Republican organiza.

principles and the Republican organiza-
ton.
The briefest possible summary Of the
points OF the letters is one that Presi-
dent Hayes was chosen President by
the Republican party on Il Radical plat
form, pledg:ng Federal power to protect
human rights and lawful governments
at the South, South Carolina and Lou
isiana giving him their Indispensable
votes, and also electing Republican State
governments. True, that after his
actual installation, secured by a prior
secret bargain that he should do 50, he
actively aud personally tore down the
lawful State governments oil South Caro-
lima and Louisiana, and established rebel
mob governments in their stead, viola
ted the Republican pledges TO protect
human right and maintain the suprc-
macy of the law, released negro MUIR
derers whom he was elected TO prosecute
and punish, gave Federal power at the
South to rebel Democrats, glOrified the
rebel soldiers at the expense OF Union
soldiers, tainted the black race with its
hrlplessness. and shamelully boosted OF
his betrayal oft,
That this degradation Of himself and
his betrayal of his party has annihilated
It's organization at the South, making
Republican ascendancy there lmpossi-
Bile, aud has almost destroyed the party
at the North, SO that the only way to
prevent Democratic victory in 1880 by
reason of a solid South and a divided
North is to promptly repudiate an adj
mlnistratration and policy which is
dIshonoring. paralyzing. and destroying
the Republican party. If to utter these
facts aud conclusions be treason. let the
most be made of it.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-02-13
The Presidents Title.

WASHINGTON, February l0.-A new
edition OF Hon. ". u. Chandeliers recent
letters about the Southern Pacific and
alleged Louisiana bargain, has just
been published together with Wn.
Lloyd GarrisOn's letter. and an intro.
luctory note from Mr.. Chandler in
which he says that notwithstanding the
criticisms and denuuciatiOns which the
letters have elected none OF the state
ments oil facts therein have been eAec
lively denied or disapproved ; no per-
son named has made denial over his
own signature. and the various reported
interviews have contained only evaslOns
or denials OF facts not charged The
substantial correctness of all the facts
stated IN the letter IS hereby reaflirmed.
Persistent attempts have been made by
hostile newspapers to create the i'm
preston that letter assals the title of
President Hayes. and proposes to rec
pen tke presidential electoral cOntro.
versy. This Misrepresentation was pro-
NOTED by the,iact that the Geographic
reports of the letter gave in full tile
pomt, numbered tour. relative to the
fullillment Of the louisiana bargain,
but only brief summary Of the rcmaln-
der. An entire perusal OF the letters
will correct all misapprchension on this
point.
They costain expressions like the
following: "Unquestlonably he should
have asserted in every possible way the
moral and legal validity ofhis own title.
Wisdom aud honor, therefore. it seems
to re-, clearly required that President
HAYES should maintain his own right
iu ness Of title Had he done so, in
my belief, the Democratic cry OF fraud
would have been the merest Jolly"
In fact, instead of assaIling The Pres
idcntlal title, one complaint in the let
tiers Is that President Hayes has himssl
effected taint upon his own title by
his betrayed and destruction Of the
lawful Governments of South Carolina
AID LOUISIANA and his abandonment OF
the principles OF the Republican party
and adoption Of the principles OF the
Democratic party; which 1t is lncon-
celvable that he would have done ii he
mad believed in his own rightlulness OF
title, and desire TO stand by and vindi-
cate it. Therefore, iol whatever reagi-
tatiOn or reinycstlgatiOn of tic Prcslden-
tial question there may take place the
President aud his advisers. the Louis
lana bargainrrs who sold their Repub-
liean blrthright for "A mess OF pottage,
are responsible, and not those Republic
cans who denounce and repudate the
trade aud the treason. 1t may also be
added that it cannot BE- possible tnat the
true interests OF the Republican party
are to DO subservcd by denying or con-
cealiug any fact connected with the
presidential canvass or countings. III
any such exist dishonoring TO the party
or to the President, TO Secretary Sher-
man, or Senator matthews, or Mr..
Chandler, or any other members Of the
party. the sooner they are exposed, re-
aud srepudlated, the better
and safer for the future of Republican