The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30

Henry Barlow Beecher, Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher's oldest son, assaulted 8
Brooklyn man on Saturday because the
latter said You people would sell your
word and your souls Tor money The
Justice before whom Mr.. Beecher was
brought said the assault was justified.
1t is not safe to do anything these
days. A yonng man at HotSpring the
other night attempted to take a drink of
water from a pitcher, the mouth Of
which was broken. The pitcher fell.
and severed the ~fe,noral artery. The
young man bled to death. A more sin
gular accident could not be imagined. .
Barrett II. Van Auken, a New York
Millionaire, whose wife is a daughter Of
Commodore C. X. Garrison, has been
confined in the flushing Asylum for the
Insane for fifteen years. Elk Justice
Leonard, who lately encountered Mr.
Van Auken while visiting the inStitu-
tioD, became convinced that he is not in
sane. and application, for a writ of haIe.S
corpus has accordingly been made.
In a case pending before Judge AL
drich, of Boston, the other day, in which
the plaintiff was a Southerner. the couu-
sci for the defendant appealed to the
Jury to find for his side, on the groUn
that an opposite verdict would be sc-.,t-
ing Northern capital South. The judge
sharply rebuked the counsel Tor this
sentiment.
A SPECIAL from New Concord. Ohio.
to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
gives the following remarkable instance
of a husbands cruelty Mrs. 5. p.
Sales, wife OF a very prominent citizen
of this county, has just applied for a di-
vorce from her husband on the most
strange and singular grounds She al
leges that Mr.. Sales holds family wor-
ship three times zach day, and at every
sevice he selects from the Bible all such
passages as severely condemn ali man
ner of sinful acts. and then in the pres
ence Of ali her children the husband
hurls ~reproaches on his wife. making
application of the passages read to her
case. This manner of thus abusing her
BY the Scriptures is certainly the height
| OF refined cruelty, and Mrs. Sales, it is
said, asks for a divorce to escape such
treatment
Mr.. L. A. Bristol. who is Just from
| Marion. informs us that DR.. Bechtler,
who was here a few days ago trying to
sell a twelve hundred dollar check,
wen. from this place to Shelby, and
| sold the same to the bank, the bank
paving him nine hundred doll. rs cash
and a check on a New York house for
three hundred dollars. He then went
to Marion. and sold the nine hundred
dollar check to Mr.. Dale, taking up one
hundred dollars in goods. Mr.. Dale be-
came suspicious and telegraphed tC
know whether the check vas genuine OF
not, and found that the twelve hundred
dollar check was bogus. This. if true,
will be apt to give Mr.. Bechtler a sec
ond trip to the penitentiary.-Bmkt
Blade.
The National Republican. which ii
edited by Assistant Postmaster-Genera
Hatton and is supposed to voice thu
sentiments of the Administration. ha'
been surveying the Presidential out
look for 1884. 1t admits that no Re
publican President can be elected with
out the aid of the Southern States. an,
saws that Virginia and North CAROLYN;
must be carried by the Republicans o
else the Democrats will win. 1t doe
not unnnk IlaC ellner New OK NeN
Jersey. Indiana or California can b
counted on for the Republicans. Blu
with the twenty-three Electoral vote
Of Virginia and North Carolina secured
it SAYS. the election VII result in favo
of "the grand old party" The oni
plan suggested by which the Electora
vote Of Virginia and North Carolin
NAV be won is by a coalition betweel
Republicans and INDEPENDENTS an
the manipulation of the Federal patron
age for the benefit of any coalition {
faction that may oppose the organize
Democracy.
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