The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09
All About Babies! Girls, You
Mustn't Read This.

Monroe ErpyesS The family Of Mr..
Joseph Williams, Of Goose Greek town
hip numbers forty three persons, eleven
children and thirty grand children. The
remarkable fact about this family Is that
up to asst week, there had never been a
a dea h III it
\ Little daughter of Capt. James Line
berger in CASTOR county fell into a soap
boiler, and was diowDed.
Laura Warrick, aged 3, spilled a kettle
of boiling pot liquor over herself, and
died next day.
The Messenger also says:-Mrs. John
Hood, mother Of our townsman + g..
Hood, Esq, in Grantham township, had
the misfortune to have her thigh Lroken
one day last week while trying to protect
a negro woman against q vicious dog.
The your gcst grandfather IN Kentucky
is only thir y SIX years old. He has a
grandson eighteen months old. His own
father and grandfather are still living.
A vagrant cur. who wandered into IT,,
Wabash freight yard at Carmi, H., has
secured a good living for life by dragging
a little b by out the way Of an approach
ing engine when the hands were too far
off to reach it
1t !. y btiiiI ~ BbhfiCD thdJ tJCiC IL Il
man in Eastern North Carolina who has
20 many children that when one leaye-
the table he marks his name so that the
child cannot come back to the same meal
without his knowing it. Strange to say.
this man is a good farmer and well off
Dorsey Battle, 10rLoro GuiIe.
One of subscribers. well known in and
out of the Stare, was recently attending
the baptism Q! his fourteenth olive bran h
"a good size chunk of a boy. When the
pastor ~propounded the usual question
What is the name of the child? The
~gcod-natured Judge seemed taken aback,
put on a puzzled air glanced from Bap-
tIzor to Baptizee, then with a bewilder
Ell sigh he said-"Well, Doctor, excuse
me,--Reaiiy l-you-see when a man
has SO many children-oh /, [ remember
now. That's San my's jacket, 50 this
must be james William Henry. Name
him that any howl L. The congregation
sailed out loud
Wade Harris Of Charlotte, tells the TO-
lowing =
Yesterday morning when the train
cane n from Atlanta a long sandy beard
ed man hoped down the steps OF the
second class car, and planting his f,tt
firmly on The ground he took ~ "a posi-
ton ! he j b4~t-ha catcher ana pr, pared
&, hep hi~ household down and our.
First the old laly with a ban ibox under
enc arm and a carpet bag und + lie
other. The rC~olute man caught bcrlp
MS arms, and dumped her 10 the erour.
with a thump that made her excl III az
her glasses dropped from the bridge 0
her hose 'Nolcy On me, JOhn-!0ok
out for the chillrtui and he looked.
They kept coming ont Of the car as ia
as BE could land them, and when at las.
three ittle flaxen ha red girls a, much
alike as three PEAS came out, the fond
parcrt bIeathed u sigh Of relief as h,
he pei them down aud turned to the old
woman with the remark Count EN-.
Molly, and see If they are all here, let's
march, The Old .sdy carefully scanned
the crowd and feeling satisfied that more
were missing -lgnIhed her WILLINGNESS
to move u. There were just thiuccU
children il the group. A few If teen.
had been born slug.e. but most O.
t EN- cqme in the worli by twos and
tnroes. The father gave MS name q,
George Hastings, AID stated that he was
on his way to his Oh hone in Brunswick
county, which he had lefr years 2 to
live in Texas. Since his sly in that
State his greatest success vas ii raisin.
children. His wife h.d wills twice az j
trlplets once while IN Texas, and tearing
that the next return might be worse he
sold out aud came back to old North
a g. ira, where he says he intends 70
-tay he ba ance Of his days ard toll for
meat and bread TOR his fauiy.'
" son !SJtlags tells about a colored
couple IN that town who came to the
Mayor to be married. After the cere-