The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-03

FROM THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER

FROM THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
The cotton receipts this year IN Char
lotte to date foot up SIS. 600 bales which
IS a very large falling of. IL Is likely
that a party of ladies will accompany
the Hornets Nest Rifemen to Column
bia on the 10th Of May, TO be present at
the unwilling of the Confederate monu-
ment there. Five or six months ago
a man named Hiram Norton committed
a murder III Richmond county and fed
the State. and his whereabouts has been
from that time until recently concealed.
Some weeks q he was captured near
W ~ashington. Ga. and night before last
was brought to Wadesboro on a re-
QUESTION from the Governor. and com
mitted TO jail. He went to Washington
0 % after the deed was committed and
settled IN a farm, where he was at work
when arrested. \ reward of $500 had
been offered for his capture. 1t IS I'M
derstood that Norton does not deny the
killing but maintains that he did it in
charlottesville revenue officers
have OF late been very active IN this dis
trict, Col. Chapman and his raiders,
on Monday last. 9th, captured at Cool
Springs. lredell county. a wagon and
team and nineteen boxes OF manutac-
tured tobacco, presumed TO be the prop
erty Of Mr.. Il. c. Bailey, Of Davie
county. Bailey was hotly chased during
the night by the raiders, but managed
to effect his eScape.-Iesterday morn
ing before daylight fire consumed the |
stores of Mr.. f. b. Dickson and Capt.
Mcmahon, of Greenville S. &. The |
buildings We're the property Of MAJOR
Nauldin, We're connected with each
other, and were new and very hand
store houses. Mr.. Dickson car
RED a stock Of general merchan-
lise which was insured for $1,000.
The funeral: Of Mr.. Thomas II.
Tiddy took place from the First Presby-
-erian Church Sunday afternoon. The
pastor preached a sermon of unusual
power and eloquence. The remains
we're escorted from the residence to the
-hurch and thence to Elmwood GENE
cry by the firemen, forming a process
,ion composed of fully one hundred
Dung men. The pail bearers were
members OF the three companies. The
unelal was one of the largest seen in
he city III many days.-F. kuester
tarted to his home, corner College and
streets, about $50 clock Sat
lrday night. and when within a few
ards of his gate was met by two negro
len who passed HIM, ami then turning
ollowed close upon him. He did not
lotice anything peculiar about their
onduct, but when he was IN the act of
pening his gate one of them seized
i'm by the neck and began choking him
,hile the other rit1ed his pockets.
When he fully realized his condition, he
matched a stick from the hands Of one
f the men and began to defend him
elf. He had hardly struck more than
ne blow when one of the robbers fed
nd soon the other followed, and before
e could summon assistance both were
ut of reach. Our friend Kuester was
hurt in the struggle, and the thieves
0 t no money, although he had S25 on
is person they rifed the wrong :
ocket - telegram was received in
his city yesterday announcing the death !
f Rev. j. Nj. Anderson, pastor of the I
Presbyterian church at Mebaneville, ard
a professor in Davidson Col
zee. He died at Mebaneville Sunday
and his remains will be Inferred
lere. Mr.. Anderson has been in feeble
ealth for some years, having been
)n1pelleu TO resign MS pfOfeSSOrShlp III
davidson College on this account. Mr.. 4
anderson was a native OF South Caro- |
where he spent most of his life III
and preaching. He adopted
le law as a profession, but after a short
1perience at the bar, he abandoned ii
II the ministry, and became a pupil of
he lamented DR.. Thornwell, of whom
e was an ardent admirer and devoted .
lend. He married a sister of Capt. =
!. e.. Neal. OF this county, and was the
Ither OF a large family. He held the 7.
lair Of Logic and BeIie-Lettres in Da- :
College for seven or eight years, Z
nd after leaving that institution moved
the mountains on account of i'll
cath, remaining in charge of several
lurches there until he was called about
70 years AGO t. Mebaneville.
A DETERMINED PAIR.-For some .
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