The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-08
JANUARY s, 1880.
Agricultural.
CHRISTS' BIRTH DAY.
anniversary Of the Advent of the
Religion Of Peace and Good Will
to all men!
HOW THE ''CHRIsT"-IANs OF MODERN
CIVILIZATION" SPENT THE DAY

A gang of Rough" seize a train on the
train hands, burst into the ladies car, ours
ing, shooting, stabbing, and insulting wo-
men. One passenger had his head cut a
negro woman was shot, and several were
injured. The car floor was slippery with
blood.-1n Wayne county, Indiana, two
school girls beat another girl until she died.
At Batavia, Ohio, a stone-mason poun-
ded a comrade with a hammer, breaking
every bone in his body.-At Delphos,
Ohio, three men called on Bernard Pickens,
and shot him through the head. They next
stripped his aged wife, and put her feet in
the fire. When they were badly burned she
told the Williams where her money. 81. @
was hidden. A great many murders and
outrages occurred in New York, Chicago,
and other large cities, but they need not be
counted"An Indian got on a spree near
1reka, Col, Friday, seriously stabbed 2. H.
Scott and killed James Osburn, who went
to Scott assistance. A party of miners
captured the Indian, tied him to a tree and
riddled him with bullets The Bismarck
coach which left Deadwood, ID. T., Thurs
day, was stopped by road agents near, Ante
IIope station. They fired into the coach,
made their escape. Mrs. Helen Josephine
Ward, livinging in Boston with her daugh-
a girl OF nineteen years, was mysteriously
shot Monday night while asleep, and died
yesterday morning. The daughter was ar
rested. Conflicting statements are attribu-
ted to her, one being that she saw an object
moving about the room and fired at it sup
posing it be a burglar. On the other hand,
1T IS stated that she confesses to having shot
her mother while lying in bed beside her,
under the impression there was a burglar
IN the room, and the pistol was accidently
discharged in the excitement Of the moment.
Washington City, Miss NJ: R. Horton,
met John H. Morgan, a son Ex-senator Nor
gan, of Alabama, and shot him through the
shoulder with a pistol. Miss Horton began
a suit against Morgan, last July, for breach
OF promise of marriage. Since then she has
lost her position in the Treasury Department
and has been generally unfortunate, and she
claims that she has been prosecuted. Miss |
Horton maintains that her assault on Nor
gan was unprecedented and that their |
meeting was unexpected, although she ex- |
presses regret that she did not succeed in |
killing him. The correspondent of the
New York San says: ''She is the daughter |
of Senator Morgan's former law partner |
and after her fathers death was under the
charge of Senator Morgan. When young
Morgan came here to be clerk of his faith
er's committee, the girl followed, and soon
after brought the suit for damages. She
now says that Morgan has been vlndictive-
ly pursuing her, and yesterday had her |
turned out of her boarding house.-Rob- |
ert and Dennis Patrick, colored uuarrelled |
in Madison county, Ala, while killing hogs,
and in the scufhe the brothers grappled, |
rolled into a caldron of boiling water and
were scalded to death.-Nhile Fred. /
Jaynes was personating Santa Claus in
Paris, KY, he was was so badly burned by
his costume catching fire that he died the
morning in great agony.-R. E.
Little, a prominent lawyer of Richmond, |
KY, was shot and killed by his brother-in-
law, James A. Arnold; the result of bitter
was caused by the settlement of the
estate of their wives mother.-Two ne
groes arrested for tho murder of Edward
Harvey and James McGeever, young Irish
peddlsrs, at Jernigan, Ala, made a %confes-
sion duplicating two other negroes in the
crime. A large crowd of white and color.
ed persons assembled the next day took the
two prisoners and hanged them.