The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-06

C'liooloI .tHuIcil, OF Durnanl crOWueC
on Wednesday night, the Plant says, at wed
ding of Mr.. j. T. Pinnix and Miss Lulu
Walker. Eleven attendants The brides
maids were Miss Lulu Wood, Miss Willie
Wilkinson, Miss Bette Cox, Miss Moll
Day, Miss Bette Blackwell, Miss Pattie
Cozart, Misses jamie and Evie Halliburton
Miss Luru Roberts, Miss Sadie Blount, ano
Anna Walker.
Among the officers of Roanoke Agricul
tural Society for this year are President
Smith, Secretary Long; Presidents
r. III. Smith, DIR. J. c. Jacobs, Dr. William
Capeheart, Gen. w. r. Cox, Jas. Norwood
J. ". Phillips, ]. f. Woodward, T. A.
Granger, J. w. Grant, S. B. Alexander, Jas
5. Lane, DR.. s. S. Satchwell, +. A. Thorne
ID. H. Barlow, JAS. G.. Powell, L. Station
n w Boddie, Dr. J. E. Newsom, b. NJ
Collins, ct al.
Our physicians have all received blank
books from the Census Bureau for diagno-
sis, of all fatal cases of diseases treated by
them. The idea is to discover the character,
and degree of fatality of diseases in the sew
era States and sections. Thus, for exam
pie, if it be shown that on.the mountains OF
Western Carolina and the plains Of Central
Carolina consumption Is almost unknown,
consumptives the world over will know where
to come. But these reports will be of little
practical value ifconfned to a few months,
or a single year. Three or four years taken
together would show the real fact.
Mr. Theodore Hamilton, one of the
most talented of our native Baltimore actors,
is now managing a theatre in Australia and
Is gaining some fame as dramatic au-
thor Balttmoreon.
Hamilton came south at the outbreakine
of the War, and enlisted in the same com
pany with this writer. He was exceedingly
fond Of tea" and frequently managed to
circumvent military discipline by rushing to
the regimental 18th Virginia. surgeon with
terrible case of poisoning, or 'fits, F" OF
'chills; SO well STIMULATED that even the
physician would be deceived, or at any rate
furnish the liquid.
Our remarks last week about the duello
had an Illustration in Petersburg OH Satur-
day night George Hinton had talked very
Young, who armed himself, found Hinton
in billiard room, and after high words shot
him. The ball struck the heart, yet young
Hinton leaped over a railing, seized Young 5
pistol, struck him over the head, and fell
dead. 1t is a sad affair The victim is a
brothec OF Mayor w. f. Hinton The
same day. at Lexington, Va, College, too
students quarrelled Koiner hit Lewis John
son, of Texas, on the head with a croquet
malIct. Death.
Mrs. Mary Bayard Clarke writes to the
NetcJerniun respecting the late show: New
bern shows decidedly the handsomest At
CHAN, the work Of Mrs. J. w. Jones and
Mrs. C.. +. Slower; Miss Maggie Tucker ex-
hibits very handsome one and of more
original design than most Mr.. Leonidas j.
Jones, of Cary, shows some beautiful inlaid
work white wood set into dark in various
designs, such as birds, stays, dogs, etc. Mr.
James ". Hays, of Wilson, has some very
pretty crayon drawings and some copies from
antique drawings made, | believe, while he
was at the Cooper Institute; he Is now
studying in the Academy of Design In New
York, and bids fair to be credit to our
State rs an artist.
Poor Lady Gooch is dead,-heart bro
ken She it was whose husband dragged
her into police court recently on charge of
trying to palm off baby as one OF her own.
1t seems that after their only boy died, the
husband took a whimsical aversion to the
wife. She thought if she could have an
heir all would come around right once more.
In the absence Of the high-nosed Lord of
Domestic Littleness, she employed treach-
erous Sairy Camp to get for her small
chunk of humanity out OF the poor house:
Lady Gooch must have been half demented
already, for she tried to bribe halt dozen
parties to aid her in the cheat. 1t was in
stantly detected; the unhappy woman was
arraigned before gapelng crowd all her
physical weaknesses were described and
She was convicted. The husband paid the
fine: the wife has just died.