The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-05

/ Thompson troupe on the Sth and 9th
| OF December. The Coleman sisters
were there on Wednesday night.
The Washington PISS tells abau
the Gamer Pitt, striking sa2g aid
sinking partially. She has been re
pared and IS Oh tie river again.
In Statesyille thursday night Mr..
W. w Mott son of DR.. J. j. Mott.
was united IN marriage 70 Mis- Emina
{. Boyer, daughter OF the late VI 30
ger.
There was a snow storm in Watauga
county last Friday night. The Lemon
Topic learns that IN some places the
snow drlfted to the depth OF from
three to five feet, while the wind was
very severe.
The Reidsville IImeS says: Bishop
Pierce is reported as saying last sun
day that he would go further to see
good man than any other wonder OF
nature. This is a bit rough on the
brethren but it marks the bisho..
travelled man.
The negroeS-Sam Thompson, ia
cob Gatling and Ebert Gatling-way>
laid d Democratic negro named Marcus
Williams, IN Hertford county, Thurs
day night OF last week, beat him until
he became senseless, and then tried to
drown him IN pond. They are IN
jail.
Charlotte OjScrrer General Cling
man is not native of BuncOmbe: ne
was born III Yadkin. ...... hit Fer
rim, the negro who was captured here
few weeks ago with a stolen horse
in his possession. which was after
waI 5 recognized as the property Of
Mr. Nathan Neely. of Rowan county,
was taken to Salisbury by Coroner
Alexander, last week, where he was
tried by Judge Graves IN the Superior
Court and convicted.
Charlotte Will have tragedy and
old Mrs Januschek on the / til com
edv and kurnel John T. Raymond on
the 18th . Died in Franklin county,
Captain j. t. Lankford, aged 81
Sarah Settle, of Rutherford, has set
tied down as Penltentiary boarCer for
a term or two. . Rev. Dr.. Wilson, of
Greensboro, believes in keeping his
| trusts at any rate he won't give up
| that Trustee-ship of the North Caro-
| lima Railroad, because he can't see, or
! ccn-cede. the right of the Directory
| to displace him. On Thanksgiving
| Day, Charles Dewey. Esq, President
| of the Raleigh National Bank, cele-
| brated his eightieth birthday The
| SIN SAYS lone Of the best Railroad
| men in the South arrived in Whining
ton the other night, and his name
1t was Andrews, Captain y. b.. The
| Goldsboro Messenger mentions that an
old gentleman named Eubank was
found dead in his bed in Jones coun-
ty : that a child Of Everitt Hill living
near KinstOn, was scalded to death
by overturning dinner pot and that
| Governor Vance has commissioned w.
| b. Fort as county commissioner of
! Wayne, uice r. Edmondson. Prof
| Ladd will lecture before the Fayette-
vile Lyceum on the second Friday of
| December Mr.. Jesse Johnston, an
old citizen of Mecklenburg, is dead
A revival has begun at Calvary
VI. L. Church, in Charlotte. -.
| There We're sixteen convictS landed IN
| Raleigh from one train the other day.
Raleigh O5serrer :. The negro,
| CrUmel A kinson, who is supposed to
have committed rape upon Miss
| Melvina Atkinson, was captured on
| Mr. Modd's farm, near Raleigh, yes
terday morning, by policeman Mart
Thompson and Paul Lincke, under the
direction of Mr.. W. Richardson, from
Johnston county. The rape was COM
mitted in Boon Hill Township, John
ston county, last Thursday evening,
/ 21st inst. He was taken to Johnston
yesterday evening by Mr.. Richardson.
THE Governor has pardoned Tho
mas Laughter, convicted of larcency
at the fail term of Polk Superior Court
and sentenced 10 four years IN the
penitentiary He does 50 on the re
| comm endatiOn of the Solicitor and
the statement of the prosecutor that
Laughter is weak mir aed, and under
| tie circumstances the case was hardly
larcency. Mr. J. j. Powell died at
the residence OF his brother, II. H.
Powell. at midnight of the 26 inst.
No young man in North Carolina had
q larger circle Of friends, and his death
though long expected, causes pans
in many hearts outside the family.
His death was caused By a wound re-
ceived at the battle of Chancellors-
viKe, on the Sd OF May, 1853, which
| made him sufferer and an invalid 10
the time Of his death. When he was
| wounded he was a Lieut. nant III
Manly's Battery, and was univers lily
beloved and respected for his worthi-
! reSs.