The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-06

n w HITE OlRL ELOPING WITH COL
oRED MAN.-Port Jefferson, L. l., has
been thrown into a state of great excite
ment by the elopement on Thursday
night Of Miss Fanny Reeves, prepossess
ing aud we)l-educated young woman, the
daughter of Alexander Reeves, farmer
living near Comac. with Charles Jackson,
a colored man. Miss Reeves is about
tv enty years of age and returned home
from boarding school a month ago to
spend her vacation. Jackson is twenty
eight years of age and has for nearly ten
years been employed by Reeves as farm
hand. jackson is a fine looking man
The parents of the runaway girl had no
ticed that she seemed to find many op-
portunities of talking t. him, but paid no
attention to it until on Friday morning
they discovered their daughter absence
and a ladder-rope beneath her bedroom
window, indicating her mode Of escape.
The whereabouts of the couple has not
yet been discovered, but it is thought
they are 10 New York. Miss Reeves left
a note announcing her flight with Jack
son.
She will end like Ada Deyo, whose sad
fate we mentioned last week. But it is a
good thing the Yankees are getting some
lessons in social equality. Even the De-
groes who go North get spoiled. Read
this
"A few days ago the coroner was noti6t
to hold an inquest on the body of a child
living with its parents near Seventh and
Lombard streets. The case was inyesti-
gated by coroner's messenger, and at
the inquest a verdict was rendered attri-
butiDg death to natural causes. A burial
certificate was then given to the parents,
and armed with this they begged from
door to door obtaining several times tie
amount necessary to defray the burial ex
penses. After this they placed the corpse
IN package and threw it into the street
up town. 1t was found by patrolman,
and the coroner was notified a second
time to hold an InQuest, and verdict of
found dead' was rendered. The infant
was recognized by very peculiar mark
on its body, and when the messenger went
to the house where the parents had for
merly lived he found that they had
moved away. Another case, where col
Ored parents made better investment, is
also known. After receiving the certifi-
cate and collecting a large sum of money
the mother sold the infant corpse to a
medical college for dissection. By this
means over 500 was raised and with
this the parents went on prolonged
drunk. ."--Ph,la. Record
ELoPED WITH A CoNvIcT. A sen.
sational elopement took place to night,
the details of which were managed with
unusual adroitness. Miss Addie Wilson,
the heroine, is pretty girl of seventeen
summers, aud daughter of prosperous
real estate man, Ben. A. Wilson. The
lover with whom she has eloped is AR
thur Robertson, who father is president
OF the Franklin Fire Insurance Company,
and man of high commercial standing,
but the young man is sclpegrace. hav-
Ing only recently been released from
term of Imprisonment for grand larceny.
Miss Addie played the trick on her rela-
tives and friends of informing twenty or
thirty people that she desired to give her
parents surprise this evening, telling
them to he at the house at given time
Then she managed to have her father out
to one friend house and her mo.her al
another neighbor's, thus leaving the
coast clear. Before her friends arrived
she had her trunk removed from the
house aud had gone off with young Rob-
crtsOn, no one knows where \ warrant
is out for the arrest of young Robertson,
and the girls friends are greatly distre.-
ed. Cincinnati Commercial