The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-12

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Northampton county commissioners A.
J. Harrell, j.. Gay, Jas. w. Grant, IL. G.
Edwards, w. H.. Williams.
-Iredell elects A. P. Sharpe, j. NJ. Pat
terson and j. II. Scroggs, her Inferior
court, with B. f. Long, Solicitor.
Jones county elects Col. J. n. Whit
ford. c. Hay, c. Koonce, G. &. Fordham,
and L. II. Haskins, county commissioners.
Granville elects J. G. Cooper, n. E.
Cannady, f. G. Brodie, j. H. Webb, and
j. w. Stovall as county commissioners.
Tax 25 cents on the 500; 1O3 poll.
Union county commissioners: B. T.
Houston, B. F. Richardson, and John c.
Sykes. Tax 80 cents; poll Sl:50. The Ec-
press says this is a reduction of 10, and 800,
on the two taxes, since last year.
Young DeJarnette, who killed his sis
ter, has been indicted for murder. Last
week he got an old negress to bring him "a
vial of laudanum. If he intended suicide
it was a failure.
Halifax elected Sterling johnson, II.
J. Hervey, w. H. Shields, T. VI. Parker,
and j. III. Whitaker, county commiss; oners.
The last named received one vote more than
Maj. Aaron Prescott, who had Is.
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these interior pages.
In the matter of taxes, it makes a good
deal of difference where you vote, and have
your washing done. For example, in John
ston or Wayne, county you would pay 225
cents on the 800, and 6S cents poll tax
whereas in Pamlico you would pay $40 on
the 800; and 81 poll. In Robson you
would pay 1925 pol. and - real.
A queer story comes from Georgia.
Mrs. Rose, of Red Clay, who clearly is no
kin to the Forget Me-Not's," went to the
mill, laid her baby in a box to sleep, forgot
it when she started home, and forgot to tell
her husband to fetch it when he returned.
He arose equal to the occasion and poured
a bag of meal into the box on top of the
baby. 1t was dug out several hours later.
The parents feel badly.
The exposure of the bogus medical
colleges at Philadelphia has produced a
wide spread sensation. 1t appears they
have issued above SIX thousand diplomas
during the past ten years; charging from
five to fifteen dollars for the shameful sheep
skin; and turning loose that many thousands
OF quacks to prey upon the public. Worse
still we find the names of sixteen North Car.
olinians among these fraudulent Doctors
One or two have well known names. One
gives his post office as 'Goldsboro," and
another as Greensboro )" though both re-
sides elsewhere. Were it not for the fear
of injuring innocent parties we should give
the names:
A story comes from London, which, i
true, will add another disgraceful chapter
to the chronicles Of American ''tuft-hunt
ing" 1t is announced in the papers ofthat
city that the Baroness Burdett-C outts, tn,
richest Englishwoman, is on the eve o.
marriage with her private secretary,
young Philadelphia, named Bartlett,
brother of Ashmead-Bartlett member O
Parliament. The Baroness is aged &c
her pretended lover less than 80. To MARI,
him she M lay down half a million of dol
lars a year that being the income of the in
heritance she must surrender if she marry
foreigner. How contemplate the man VIII,
could permit such an exhibition by one VIII
might have been his great-great-grand
mother.