The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-14
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L~ouisburg Times: Joshua Perry has
been bed-ridden with rheumatism for
several months......The MASQUERADE ut
Hawkins Hall on Tuesday night was a
fine atfalr......Thc County Court bc-
gan on Monday; Jessie Davis IS being
tried for attempted rape. Abe Mas
SenbOrO too unto himself Carrie
tawn, he aged 50. and she 50 49,. Wal
ter Young repeated his Magic Lantern
exhibition Monday night for the bene-
fit of the Baptist Church.. Rev J..
w. Primrose of Warrenton preached
IN the Presbyterian church on Sunday
before last.
Oxford Free LdHce:-The report OF
President Battle of the University is
full of encouragement to the friends Of
that lnStitution......The Preliminary
Railroad meeting decided that it would
be best to build the "a by taxation
rather than by subscriptIOn......Mr.
Lemuel Jordan of Petersburg, who
married Miss Fannie Lewis about three
months ago, is dead The county
county commissioners granted license
to Jordan Potter to retail liquor III OK
ford....The Free Lance publishes the
first, of a series of articles on the His
tory of Granville by Col. Geo. Worth
am......Capt. Briggs. editor of the
Lance was called to Norfolk by the
death of his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
North Stdte;-Miss Tabitha Ann Hor-
ton was sworn in as N attorney at law
/ by Judge McKoy on Tuesday last ...
Fresh shad IS cents a pair. Green's
boro is only - hours ride from Wash
ington by present shedule. Two lots
of land on Deep River, also on the
Salem r. r We're sold at the Court
House door in settlement of the Sylves-
ter Gardener estate. Lot No. l con
tanned $50 acres. and was bought by
ElwOod Morgan for $3.50. Lot No. 3,
contained 12I acres, and was bought by
j. f. Tucker for S250- one third cash
the balance in SIX and twelve
months. The above lands are all well
timbered, and in a good state of cult
walton, have quantity Of good bottom
on each tract. The ridiculOusly low
prices at which this property was sold
ought to open the eyes of our legisla-
tors to the necessity Of a law Compcll-
ing a more general advertising of such
property by administrators, executors,
commissioners, &c. The idea of print
ing a few hand bills and sticking n
or two of them up at the Court House
door, and at a blacksmith shop or two
III tllc COlllllly IholNIt VI az IAAoA45
property in all the county papers, IS
not a profitable n for orphan chill
dren, and heirs generally. Such prop
erty as the above should have brought
at least three times the price it sold
for, and would likely have done SO had
it been properly advertised. Gull
ford Superior court began on Mon
day Judge Mckoy presiding. The
docket is made up principally Of civil
cases, there being about 10 OF them,
and 50 criminal caSes-tWO OF winch
are for rape and p for bastardv.-
Henderson Dorset convicted OF rob
bing Thos. Regans store at jamestown,
was sentenced to ten years IN the
'.pen."-Rufus Roam, for stealing a
calf. ) years. .Morehead, Gllmer,
and jefferson townships of Guilford
have petitioned for the fence law.
The revenue officers visited seven
blockade diStilleries on Belew Creek,
on Thursday night, 9th February
They succeeded in destroying two
stills, thirty beer stands, and about
two thousand gallons of beer, arrested
four prisoners.....Th cases OF the
United States against John VI. Brewer.
r. Z. & NJ. c. Reeves. Winston Fulton.
J. r. Gilmer, John L. Worth and 9TH
ers. who submitted at the last term OF
of the L. S. Court, at this place have
been compromised on terms satisfac-
tory to all parties. The defendants.
through their counsel, and through
our delegation in Congress. pledged
themselves 10 future course which
will tend to create a sentiment friend
" to the enforcement of h internal
revenue laws and the officers execut-
ing the same.