The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-17
Anticipating tho Archer.

The poem in last weeks Farmer ana
Mechanic written by = lady of Wake
county, entitled. "A Prayer for Faith
la ..strong unchansing Faith" that
trusts always and believes all things fol
| the Best.-expresses the aspiration ol
| the hour. There is no sort OF doubt
| that Infielity is rapidly incrca-nr. Itis
| not = dozen Years since m,n would re-
ted some immoral faint. No~-a-days
tie .u,.-jeliev.rs' almost equal in
! numlar tie Faithful.
One manifestation of the tendency
| of the times is tie alarinlii. INCREASE nj
suicides. You recollrct that during the
period of the French Revolution wleh
all churches were closed, and the Bible
"aboI:sheJ,' the unhappy people des-
troye.l themselves by regiments. And
with reason-in that age of 'Un-Rea.
son." If your house smoke, you can al
least leave it; if your life has be.
come irretrievably wretched, and you
see no reasonable hope of better things,
and if you have no fears of post NOR.
tenn consequences, why should any nj
drag through a few miserable years, in
stead of quietly dropping into the SLEEP
which knows no waking?
1t used to be said that no nan eyer
committed Jelo de se while in sano cor.
pore but this has been exploded. There
is . " proof that the suicidist may be
| not only in his right senses, but also
especially Gle II in intellect, warm q
heart, and sound in judgment. Take
| the case of Baron Wimpfen. in Paris
| arranging his business affairs. providing
| for his children, and going into the
street, so that they might not be fright
ened by his death. Take the case OF
! the man in Philadelphia who spent halt
| a day lacking up the door and window
| ~crevices to insure his suffOcatiOn by the
gas. Also in Raleigh, Mr.. Wilson's
preparation of his Last will and Tesla.
ment." carefully witnessed several day
before his death! Ycu recOllect the
two brothers at Trenton who carefully
bound their legs AMI arms and drowned
themselves. At Baltimore, Joseph
Michl was found with a ball through hi:
brow. In his right hand vas a revolver
and in the left a wine glass, and al
empty wine bottle was on the GROUND
near by. On his person was found
paper with the following written in Ger
man.: LAS 1 have lived, so 1 have diet
always merry. My last glass is ten
dered to my friends"
I'm Raleigh lust week u woman o
i.l-repute named Mary Jordan took NOR
phine to end a life which dissipation ant
vice had rendered intolerable.
On Saturday morning, Mr. r. Dor
Wilson, a lawyer, aged 60, well-knowr
in Yancy, Mcdowell, and Rutherford
counties, committed suicide at the resi-
dence of his sister, Mrs. Thos. D
Sledge, by shooting himself through TIN
head. He lived about All hour after h
was discovered by the family, who hat
not h, ard the shot. Mr.. Wilson was
graduate of the University, a classmat'
of judge Strong, and was a brother o
Frank I. Wilson, who published TIN
Raleigh Giraffe, a comic paper, and wa.
at one time a partner of Gov. Holden OF
the Standard. The deceased was ais,
addicted to Journalism !; and not Ions
ago edited the Marion Lamp-Post dur
ing the wedding-tour of it's editor,-win
ming compliments for his sprightl,
squibs. He soon afterward had a neu
ralgic attack which destroyed n eye
Causing the pupil to burst, it is said)-
and suffered so grievously that deatf
seemed to him 1.-The better part HI
therefore made his will, and had it pro
perly witnessed by a couple Of member:
of The Legislature. He then wrote !:
letter to his sister; and laid himsel
down, to take his exit in search of hap
pier spheres.
Mr.. Walter Norman. of the firm o
N D Norman & Co., of Plymouth. N c..
who recently married in Ricf m md, sho,
limself through the neck with a pisto
Monday morning, death resulting.
It has Smith, a %well-known painter
in Goldsboro, killed himself on Saturday
night. Says the Goldsboro Mrxsenger:-
"For a long time he bad suspected the
fidelity of his wife, aud he made the frs
attempt on his life when he found thos.
suspicious only too true. After bis re-
covery she promised to reform, and they
lived together up to a few days ago
when she eloped with her former sedu.
Ger, taking her three children with her
and causing her husband the above sac
ending. MIR Smith served in the Con
federate army and is spoken of IS
brave and dutiful soldier"
ITEMS From TIE RALEIGH Evening
VIsIToR.-At the residence Of Mrs. Ma
ry II. Whitaker, in Raleigh, by the Rev