The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23
no.. Il

Polkton .irgts As an extra train
turned the curve at Boggan's Cut last
Sunday, man and WON IAN were dlS.
covered on the trestle just ahead. The
ma hearing the train ran aud succeed
Ell IN getting oil, leaving the woman.
who lay down on one OF the ''striu-
gers aud thus saved her life Ih.
parties were white.
Aiamance Cleaner: Capt. A. A
Mitchell died suddenly OF heart disea.,
on the evening OF the first OF tins
month, IN Cincinnati. Ohio. Caot.
Mitchell vas, We believe, a native ol
Caswell county, and lived III lancey-
Vile TIL some five or SIX years ago.
when he went TO the city where nc
died. lie Was slxty-two years old.
Landmark: A serious cuttiog aiTrav
Was participated III Friday night, AT
singing class, three miles east OF States
vile, on the Western North Carolina
raj road. The participants were re.
spectively Hodge krlder, of Rowan.
and III. r. Sep, OF this county. The
latter was badly laceTated 10y the
former, but 1t Is thought by physicians
that be Will recover.
James Turner died in Alamance Oh
the 18th, having enjoyed his sjth
birthday on Christmas. And John A.
Mebane, of the Mebane family. died at
News Ferry, on the 21th ult., aged
seventy. Ills remains were brought
to Alamance and buried from Haw-
fields Church. 81, 200 IN specie We're
stDlen from the house o. Daniel Foust:
IN Gullford, few nights ago. All of
which we CLEAN from the Cleaner.
Greensboro Ne,o North State, 10th:
An empioye OF the North Carolina
Railroad, nam / Rowe, was yesterday
killed short distance this side Of
Haw river bridge, as we learn by a
passenger who arrived here by last
nights train. The man was on a hand
car, passing on the road, and by some
means part of his clothing caught in
the crank of the turning gear Of tls
Car, AID dew his body 10 the machln-
cry, Causing HIM to fall of.
Concord Sun: \ peculiar circum-
stance occurred with the late w g..
Fowler, the night before he WAS
Knocked down and robbed in Moores-
vile. He was robbed on Tuesday
night, and on the Monday night pre-
vlous he dreamed that some men met
him at OF near the very spot he Wa,
afterwards robbed, and that they threw
rope around his neck, and choking
HIM, demanded money. lie asked
them how much they wanted, and
they asked for s., VIII ch he gave them.
The cause of the failure OF the Mis-
souri, Legislature to return Mr. Arm
strong to the United States Senate the
other day was the fact that as Senator
he had voted TO confirm the nomlna
tin of the notorious Jayhawker and
cut-throat, ONiel. had been re-
commended BY Hayes for the position
of Indian Agent. O'Niel was no,o--
rious cutthroat, who in cold blood,
murdered helpless, defenceless Con
federates during the war In Missouri
and the people of that State will ever
execrate his memory.
One of the most important and in
teresting events which as taken place
in this country for a long time occur
ct. in Ch .rlotte, \. c., on Wednesday
last. On that day representatives Of
Northern settlers in the South from
five States assembled in convention
and passed resolutions declaring that
they were entirely satlsfled with their
social treatment in their adopted
homes, and that in no section OF the
Union were citizens more thoroughly
protected in the enjoyment of all their
rights. (Ga.) NeuS.
Greensboro Neao North state We'd
nesday night of last week, about
half-past ] / o'clock. some one knocked
az the back door of the store of Balsley
Il Son. Young Jacob Balsley, who was
there alone, got up and opened the
door to admit him, when he was struck
on the head with a stick and Knocked
senseless. Fortunately, Dir. Balsley
saw the motion of the mans arm when
he struck the blow, and he gave the
deor violent push, which closed 1t and
kept the robber from entering. 1lr-
Basley lay in senseless condition Tor
some time and the back of his hea -
badly cut.