The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-24
Curious Occurrences.

'AsASf
news of yesterday by telegraph
from Rherring Straits 20 Patagonia
one IN sore tempted To believe that
Jack i. q gentleman. as the caro-
PLAYERS say, and ''Oid Nick uacllaln
ed TO take his little gallop Of nous
and wears M aud down creation pre-
Urinary to the fual collapse aud com
bu.tisn Do you doubt i Well,
then. now cast your eye over these out
line. collected from our exchanges
brought by a single mai.
At Providence, Rhode leland, Miss
Elsie Chace, q pretty blonde, fell N
love with her mothers hired nan,
q Suede PANIED Neil Nelson, who
couldu'c speak English, but wen
through ths motlons OF courtshIp
20 stfectuslly that they became
married stcrs;iv Before Mrs. Chase,
Who Il. a widow, aud Quaker,
hsd sny suspicious. Sue played he
nypocTite for while but soon aoddc-
Id the bride .nl drove the husband
of the farm. lie tued 10 ind her but
va. not able to make much headway.
Nhen nc a. length POUNDS her, she
h-d jast died Of Arsenic given 10y
her moiter aud her physician.
Both cf the latter are IN jail.
Near Easton, lsnna, 3 young man
went sleigh riding christmas. night
Henevcr returned, and the family APP
pear 10 have given themselves little
worry about it. Last week, the father,
loolin. from the window saw . bit OF
blue clothing out OF asnow drift which
was melting, near the barn 1t was
John Who had fallen, numbcd with
cold. and lay thus fortwo months with
in sight ofhisown door! Al York, Pa,
three lads. watching the swollen river,
saw . beautiful root that looked like
sweet myIrh. Two Of them ate OF II,
aud we're dead within half an hour
beng swollen, and distorted With ter
ride ~conyulsions resembling n!dropho-
bis. The third youth merel. tasted
the root. and spat it out; but came
very nearly deaths door, also. -ln
New York man named Cummings
whipped and maltreatcd his feeble lit
tie daughter until she admitted all
sorts Of lies and thefts of which she
was innocent. Finally, the brutal
father, taking the idea that the child
wascrazv. fitted a band around her waist
and chained her, with a ~dog-chsln,
to the vall,-where She was kept night
aud Gsy. There vsa q step-mothsr In
the case: but she Is not mentioned As
having i~nstisatcd TIL. course. Indeed
the family doctor agreed with Cum
ming= that The child ought To be res
trained IN some way. At length a de
|tective was called IN, and after several
month ) succeeded in arrrestIng the
chanber-maid, in whose trunks were
found all the stolen articles, and who
confessed she was guilty; though
daily witnessing the whipping OF the
child. and he terrified sell accusations!
nation in New York. Cummings
changed hi. residence; but was arres
ted and inc lc;sd fer cruelty TO his own
child. The affair Will do good by
teaching parents TO bc aware how they
try to bully and beat a timid child
into "confession.' Whole lives have
been poisoned and embittered by recol-
o. injustice in childhood and
we doubt not that many a child has
''ccufessed' to 4 lie to avoid the scteyer
which tbs truth would in
Brocyille, Canada, =
WAS jailed FOR ~"contempt OF
court NOBODY seemed to have sense
enough 10 recognise that he was "out
OF his head, untll he fell Il Il coms-
tose state, aud remained for eighty
hours in deep sleep. Then, the sur
eeous tried to arouse him but IN bis
S4th hour OF sleep (three days and
uights) he dropped out OF DEATH cOun-
~terfeit into death, tic deeper sleep
that knows no wakingi-At Chicago,
Miss Dora Runge. daughter Of The
proprietor OF the Lake House, bein. Is
years old, and il love with the noodle
headed clerk with middie-parted locks,
cold pison aud walked over the
of poetic sui
recalls q very sad event at Eliza
beth City, North Carolina, last week.
Here is the Cdr0hHtun account Of it:
ION Friday night a man apparently
much afflicted with paralysis, stopped
at the Peadleton House. He said he
had come overland, on foot frcm Eden
ton. On Saturday he made All uusuc
effort to secure subscribers for
u book be wa. canvassing for. AT
before retiring to his rootA,
he paid his bill, lacking a few cests,
which be said he would arrange on
Monday. On Sunday morning he wa,
lying dead on the floor, his throat
cut and the o covered with his
blood de had just shaved himself,
taken eff his worn stockings and put
clean ones, and his feet were tied
together with one Of the towel. in the
room. The following, written Cd "a
piece Of paper, was found
q. w. Lamb was BORN Feb'y 22d
1871 died Feb. 18th 1881.
| died for the want Of support. | am
so paralyzed that | am not able to
work, and u die this night. Feb.
18th 1881. G. W. LAME.
Bury me is all.
] have sister in Newbern, y. c.,
Mrs. Shrewsbury. Her husband il A
L. Shrewsbury, Policeman.
q. w. LAMB,
Newbern, n. G..
Lord ! | lay me down to die.
| pray my soul to Heaven may hy.
He left another paper bequeathinx
Mr.. Pendleton AL | leave behind me
to pay the expense | have been aud may
be to him" a C~oronor's inquest was
held and the body was inferred i u the
burying ground. - son Of
+. j. Aston was slightly stabbed by a
mate at Asheville, last week.
The Goldsboro Messenger men-
the death Of the infant daughters
Of NJ. b T. humphrey. It seems that
sirs. Murphrey had put the baby in 4