The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

gloating demons, for the past few weeks
The Northern papers have from ten tt
twenty murders per day; while in tn,
South the slaughter 10 aim ost as great,
in proportion TO the population.
On the eth ult., at Blount's Creek
Beaufort county, the Press says, VIM
Reditt, while in a drunken craze, began
firing his pistol recklessly in a crowd
around a travelling show. and killed q
ten months oil child, in the arms OF its
mother, who was sitting in a covered
wagon near by. Redltt Is in Jail, anG
vii he tried for murder. The afflicted
parents of the child received much sym
pat3y from the community. They have
gone North.
In Forsythe county, Adolph lido
stabbed A. Dillon in a f~racas, causing
his death.
La Robson county, the Patrio, says
VIM. Robertson, crazed by liquor, after
a days detauche, finding his wife-to
whom he had rot long been married
sitting up to await his return, split open
her head with his axe, and fed.
The man, Harris who forged the
$l66 check on Geo. Allen & Co., OIL
Newbern, and attempted to passed it,
was found to be j. NJ. Collier, formerly
of Newbern.
In Illinois, Lucius Edwards, a desper
ado, in resisting arrest by the Sheriff, &C.
cidently shot his own wife.
South Carolina. in addition to her pc
litical riots, reports the murder of "a ne
-ro woman and her baby by her bus.
band, near Grecnvillr; and the kill
ing Of Geo. Brigham by DIR. w. II
eide was committed with a double-bar-
relied shot gun and death was almest in
Simultaneous. After killing Brigham, DR.
Sykes went to W~innsboro' and delivered
himself to the sheriff. 1t is said tina
Sykes has been crazed hy taking NOR
ptiHe, and that when he was at Doko
shortly before the homicide occurred, b
did not seem to he rational. He ha,s nj
ways been considered a clever man, AM
it IS charitable to suppose that he wa
not in his right mind. Another account
is that some time g the Brigham
brothers levied on a piece OF Sykes's pro
perty, and that bad blood existed be
tween the parties.
Ats distillery in Stanly county
Sion Speight shot Frank Morgan in tn
hip. after the latter had attacked him
So says the ''Gleaner."-WadesbOr,
Times: A daughter of Jack Lilies
col, living at Lilesville. drank som,
concentrated I've last Saturday, from tn
effects of which she died almost imme
diately. -Dave Pratt and Charlie vii
loughby, both cOlored, got into a dis
pute while returning home in a wagon
as to which road they should take. Tn
dispute grew warm, and Pratt, taking
grass blade that was in the wagon. Gu
Willoughby a severe and dangers woun,
on the back of the neck.
The Chicago Herald thus describe
the suicide Of Thomas Houlihan, a mid
dle-aged man, who between poverty ant
grief tor his dead wife, saw no use o
living longer:-"The operation was per
formed in his bed room with admirable
neatness and dispatch. At the head o
his bed he placed a bucket to receive tn
gore, and when found his head projected
over the bucket, which was partially fill
ed with the %sanguinary fluid.
Lang and Lykins, rival tobacco dealer.
at Peterville, KY, agreed to settle thei
dispute in a duel with clubs. Th,
weapons were four feet long and i've
inches thick. The fight lasted twent.
minutes. The left arm of each man wa,
broken in warding of blows, and thei
heads and shoulders were frightfully
bruised. Lang won by a stroke that rem
dered Lykins insensible.
The fight between Gross and Hill. al
Jackson, Miss, was with new, heavy,
long lashed whips. Two lines were draw
eight feet apart, and these were toed by
the comba:ants, who were stripped to the
waist. The victor was to be the one who
stood longest at the scratch. A grea,
crowd witnessed the brutal exhibition
which lasted three hours, and resulted il
. draw. Both were terribly lacerated anC
exhausted. but neither would acknowl
edge himself beaten.
j. H. Oakley, who killed Cassidy or
the Atwater farm in Chatham, was con
victed and sentenced to ten years in pen
itentiary. -Newbern Nut Shell says
A colored woman living below this Cit
gave birth to triplets on Friday last
Fanny Williams, colored, was taken on
the stream yesterday at Bachelors Creel
bridge, where she had been thrown or
Saturday, after having been choked t.
death by some unknown person. Sus
piciOn points to a person whose name is
for judicious reasons, withheld.
An astonishing story comes from
New Orleans. An old man named Fack
Ter was employed on the plantation OF
man named McLuen, who en:iced away
Packers pretty young wife. Fackl,l
was interchangeable in his search for her
McLuen apparently doing all in his pow
er to assist him. Meantime McLueE
breathed to Fackler his suspicion that q
young creole named Ricalti, whom he
had incidentally met on the plantation,
was the seducer of his wife. Fackler,
crazed by jealousy, met Ricalf and as
saulted him. McLuen then told Rical6
to be on his guard, as Fackler had armed
himself and would kill him on sight.
Ricalf was greatly exercised In fear OF
a deadly attack, and armed himself with
a d ruble- barreled shot gun which he
carried with him, and was determined to
take the first shot and kill Fackler. Nc
Luen informed him that at a certain
hour Fack.er would he in a saloon at the
corner of Exchange alley and Custom'
house street. R!calfi was on hand with
his shotgun. McLuen meantime had
agreed to accompany the unsuspecting
Fackler in search for his fugitive wife