The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-28
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Moses Allen, . colorei murderer af
G.4~>cock county. Ga. who "a han
ett November 1t. had a decided eve To-
the main chance, and sold hiS bsiv -
a N deal student. who paid > debt 81
his t3r Si9a fottniEh, before the eve
cuti3n. All E4ye . aI.. Of sale y. his
caTe.-s.
The Pari, If America. winch H
Cincinnati. really thinks its tipping
should stop short Of IT. permanent ex-
poS>tlpH premises. AMI has refused the
offer OF the Civ Brewers Association
- give $1,000 for al exposition build
lnE On condition THAT beer 81 freely
sold there.
CtrloS Erie and Coco PelerIin ~4tls-
he'd their honor. and each got a bullet
~ the leg IN a regular duel. wlth sec
oHds anu doctors, near J~eaneretUe. Ia.
The nrluE began At fifteen PAGES. and
they advanced. firing a. they went.
until they were but six PAGES apart.
when they We're made To halt aaI ire
at the word Of command.
The latest meteor in the sp~irltuali~-
tic world i the daughter Of Prof.
Hutchlns. the lightning calculator.
She woke her surprised mother one
DAY Singing never 50 swcetIs. and
since then. though she j poorly eiu-
Gated, she uses the moiern. languages
like a linguist and recites poor ,peci-
mems OF poetry, said 10 b. bv Byron.
Poe and others.
Thomas Conrov. a shoemaker 81
Tanners Falls, Pa, hammers away at
his last rather than 10 return 10 Ireland
to accept the fortune of 80. 900 his ia
Their left him, bat which he refuses to
accept from his uucles. who falls IS ac-
cu9ed him OF being a Molly Mcguire,
because he would Mt marry the RIGA
young woman they picked out for
him. Conroy left ireland in disgust.
am to America and married. and
takes no notice Of the annual notilica-
ton Of his uncles lawyer To come and
get his money.
The outrageous method thirty
Scottsville (Ind.) men took 70 rid the
community of Letitia Brock. an old
crone of seventy-tiye. and M,ggle
Wilson. a younger widow with SIN
children. was To tear down a part of
their house one night and give the
two Women a terrible whipping with
hickory wltnes, after taking them
from bed IN their night clothes. The
wolne had made themselves obnox
ious by h~arboring ~State-pris0n birds.
but, inst al OF ~ciaring out, they have
set the grand jury al work inve,tiga-
ting the matter.
The yellow fever proved a swift and
sure retributlon TO II. &. Sexton. who
deserted q wife and five children 1T
Nashville, ind, To- eiope with Katie
BOBBY, a pretty servant-girl in his
family. Sections brother is Lieuten-
ant-Governor of Indiana. and ne was
formerly connected with his father-iu-
laws tobacco firm AT Cincinnati. but.
before e'oping, he was mean enough
to sell the pretty home hs wife's IA
Their gave her when she was married.
and took the money with him. Moth
ing was known OF Sex OF where
aboutS for some time. and the first
news came from New Orleans n
nouncing the girs deu h., quickly fol-
lowed by his own.
James Murray has taken MS family
from GlibertyIile, y. r.. 10 his South
African farm of 300 acres. which is
stocked with | 600 osrriches and 300
mares OF rare bloOd and pedigree.
Murray was a c'assmate OF the Prince
of Wales al Oxford, and now finds os-
trich raising so profitable that he re
Gently sold sixty birds at Cape Town
for 81, O0D and a pound of feathers for
$500, or s. a feather. The difficulty
encountered ha been that of Matching
the eggs, artificial i~ncubators proving
useless and the Old theory of Matching
the eggs in the sand falls. but this
was finally overcome by watching the
birds and separating macs from the
flock at pairing time, when they took
care Of their own eggs and young.