The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-04-15
tAPRIL 10

GENERAL. NEws.-Mrs. HAITI. F.
and her husband, now believed 10 X
Klans. They we're Northern peonls IN
in Dinwiddie county, Va. Mrs. F,'
walking out near White Oak Church ~
she was set upon by James BLACK sls
tent to outrage. The neighbors a, onna :
lied and after two days search 80
the scoundreI. Five other negroes We
rested, but discharged, before Black !
brought in He bore the marks ofbe,s
gers on his face. As soon as she j3ee.s
him, Mrs. Ferriss tainted away. and ,-
with difficulty be restored. AT last acoor..
Black was about to receive that justice -
ought to follow the crime as swift and -
as a lightning's stroke.-To ono
reads a large number of Northern pana,
is amazing to note the prevalence of don.
tic folly, crime, and u~nhappiness in i,
section. Ordinarily 1t Is considered -.
Southern countries and peoples are h.
liable to the ~frailties that flow from a roI,.
tuous climate, hot blood, and reckless rs-
pers. But we defy any one TO show, mai.
every allowance for lesser population
thing like the proportion of such, be,va.
the Potomac and the Rio Grande, tina, =,
daily occurring between Cape Cod and =.
Golden Horn, or San Francisco. This IaN.
ness and domestic misery We do not attrbr,
30 much to the natural characteristic Of \.
Northern women (fOr We have known n,,-
of the purest and best OF earth among then
as to the fast and fashionable, and "fra
living and free-lsmistic social customsth.
have sprung into existence, under the lst
of Shoddy and his wife, since the war. "
notable cases come this week in a SIM
copy of the Herald. Prot. VIM. +. Sawyc
the ~well-known electrician, who contests W.,
Edison for the credit of the electric Ian,
shot a ball through the nose of DR.. Theors
lus Steele, a prominent physician in an,
about their wives: and Geo. {. Random
a native of Washington married to N.s
York girl, shot VIM Simpson, a MIDI,
aged, grey haired, specialized pawn-brokc
for d~estroying(?) the virtue of his fair youl,
partner. Here is another case: a si1tee.
year old girl came to the police Office 4.
protection. She was a wife, and in her STATE
ment- said she had been induced to e0r
from her father's house at White Plains h
August last. She was deceived with amcA
marriage, but discovering this through SON.
friends, Cody was forced to marry her. 4
treated her SO brutally that she was forceit
fly from the house on Sunday, but returuet
with her husband, who went in pursuit az
companied by a police officer. On enterr,
the room they occupied Cody drew a reyg
yer upon her and said he intended to 1.
her. To escape from him she climbed urC
the roof and remained all night, hidden b
tween two chimneys. In the morning 81
managed to reach her friends, and tie bu.
was arrested. 1t is said Cody has anoths
wife living in Massachusetts,. The poor VIC
tim of his brutality is not yet s%eyenteel
years old.-A dispatch from Farmer City
Illinois. says this town has been in a state Of
excitement over the arrest and mobblns Of
a man of so years named Levi Coleman
charged with committing a criminal as%l.
on his sister In law, Mrs. Oleson. CoIeua.
was lodged in the calaboose, some men gag
him a coat of tar and feathers. During ,l
night he dug his way out throughth the bnA
we'll and escaped.--A special from Comstg.
Michigan, SAYS that Andrew Brown order-
his daughter-in-law, who had been deserta
by her husband, to leave his house. ie
father and some neighbors came and a,a-
that she be allowed to take some turn.tl-
with her; whereupon a fight eusue1 -
which Brown shot a man named John D-l
bar twice through the lungs, killing HIM.
mob gathered and threatened to F1-
Brown but he FABRICATED himself In Il.
house, and they feared to apIro4-
Subsequently the deputy sheriff e1
ted an entrance and found Brown lying
on the bed, having taken a dose OF nt.1
of silver