The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-24

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brother W, by breaking his head with
hoe handle. Cy had threatened 10 kill hin
for a long time, aud nnaiiy drove nun out q
the huuee- ami Was pursuing hun whel
stricken. Tom. who Is a cripple, came {,
town aud surrendered himself.- Mr. W IL
liam Haynes, au old gentleman IN \ adklI
county, Tell dead III the woods where he wa.
at wurk. -On the 9th Inst. whhe the ma
chlueIy was at work. raising ore from The
south shaft or the Ore kuoD copper Nine,
III Ashe county. the rope broke anu a buck
ct OF ore which was being drawn up tel
back three hundred feet into the shaft.
1wu men--Jonn Lane, aged about 80 YEAR
"a IL another, We're below at the tIme, and
the bucket IN It's descent tell upon Lane
head, crushing his skun and causing his
death he Ulner man was badly but not
fatally hurt. jas. r.. Boyd, OF Alanlance,
has been appointed United States District
Attorney for the estern district of North
Carolina, to succeed lrgll =. Lusk. Mr..
Boyd Is the party who, alJer joining the ku
kiuX klau aud being chosen cnlet VI the Khan
Tor AlaInauce county, came out and gave Ii
away, escaping nImselt but involving scores
OF his neighbours. He Is lust now being re-
Warded tor having taken the back track on
that Interesting OCCASION. The new district
attorney Is understood to DE the John
Buriesun' of Ioursee Fool Errand.'
". ). Ball Will continue to be assistant at
W. b. Mott, of this place,
has a little glrl of ten years who has mad a
bug Ill her ear IOr two years, irum which
she has suffered a great deal with ear-ache
and deafness. Inc doctor was washing it
out tue other day aud out came the bug and
the little girl says now she can hear.-In
September 1877, Wll,iam Taylor wayiald
uI.,< 90 <i<,,n ~, ~ -, t- n-...
Prltchard, on a mountain pathway above
Piedmont Springs, Burke county. All the
parties concerned In the transaction from
first TO last were poor, ignorant and Immoral
The murderer was not On.y the law
of the deceased, but by marriage the
nephew, Prltchard s wife being Iaylor's
sister. 1t appears that a warrant had been
issued for the arrest or the deceased ON the
charge OF tOrnlcatlOn ami adultery With one
Saran frltcharu, his COUSIN, aud the WIT
nesses tor the state not, appearing the
Justice promised that IL deceased would
leave the State PRESUMABLY tor lennessee)
the matter should not come lnLO court.
This deceased promised To- do that very
day (ounday), AMI accompanied by Qis har-
lot, mounted on an OK AMI carrying the
child OF his adultery III his arms, WAS on ms
way. to Tennessee, ACROSS the mountain,
WHCA AdsIOlt SoAluS q oAOA SAe1 hCdOCu
hun near the Big Chestnut KupD IN Burke,
look position on u 10y twenty steps tlOm the
pathway, trimmed out the pushes with his
knife So as to leave ms range unObStructed
and quietly waited till deceased came up,
Wnen he snOt nlul Utt MS ok, rose AMI ned
IN pialn sight or the woman, leaving MS
pocket. knife on the ground near the place
Ut ambush. Deceased mad just before
reaching the fatal spot hanLed tue infant to
his parainOur, It's mother.
Inc terror stricken woman fled to the
house, told the above tale and tell
exhausted to the door. The %nelghbors
went to the spot, tOund'the knlIe aud buried
the body ON the very top Ut the Big chest
nu. Knob, 4,5Uc feet ABOVE sea level.
FROM that day Till Sunday last, when
Taylor was cOmmlGted to MOrgantOn jail, he
not been seen, Dy his faulty, wnO sup
pied hlm with food from time To time, car
ryIng the same to his various hiding places
III the range OF mounCains bet weeu Hurke
and Mitcnsll. HIS wife, as We nave SHOWN,
was nls niece, aud his motner-In law was
MS sister. and these Two, despite the fact
ne had Kfited tue nusbAuI vi one aud
the father Ut the Dther, SEEN never TO have
DacK ON hlm Inc sod was. Z
good suIiler III the ,5SLh North Carolina |
negiuleut-the prisoner Was too young for
durlng me war. Their quarrel, |
strange u say, arose, not from a desire to
the wrong done the betrayed wife, |
about the cultivation ofl . kiece or
ground III cOrn-a mere tribe, IL Would Seem, I
Uut the end or which Was al oath on Lay |
Tor y part To Kill deceased II he planted said I
grUluu, and the DaLn WAS Kept according ~
lne Instincts OF MS rude auu savage nature.
Taylor 5 father Is worth nve or SIX thousand
1Uilars, put lives remote from the luduence
Df cnurcn or school. Inc prisoner Is leao
yellow and w~Ild-looklng. HIS hair Is
long AMI uukempt and the crows feet are
Lnlckiy sown III us face by that ureless hand
whicn mas So long watched to grip hun.
In the efforts of the authorities ~ admins
Ter the iaw, out one thing Was done with
Goy. Vance did offer a re-
ward uI 500 for the murderer, and this Az |
ton OF his resulted In The capture OF the
on Sunday, the 18th inst, at sun
rlse, wneu be WITH Two Or his brothers were !!
On the mOuntaln, teilng a bee tree, smoking
,nr n nan, and lavlur rouui offor nnnu.t |