The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-28

RtLEiG Feb 81.
A negro named Jes.u. ..a4l xt...at
ted a RAPE in Al~mABco county lass Fr
day night, and was arrested Saeurda,
indicted Tuesday. tried " ednesday an
sentenced on FRIDAY, BY Judge Gilmel
who Is holding court at Graham. Mr.. j
A. Long, ESQ.,, Of Caswell, was ssigne
- counsel for the defense. Holt is
young negro man and has had tw
brothers hung for the same offense Tn
fellow acted like . madman. He wen
to the cabin of an old, inoffeDsive whit,
man, James Terrelps, near G~ibsonville
where the old man, aged 81 and his Wit,
aged SO, with their little boy were al
asleep In bed, and actually lifted tn.
woma out OF bed, the old man drivins
him away from her BY beating him ovel
the head with 4 gun. Alter beatins
the womans husband until he was nc
longer able to protect his wife, the brute
dragged her Into the yard 70 consume
ted his heIlish purpose 1t was then
that Terrell. having partially recovered,
assaulted him with his gun barrel and
disabled him. The little boy who Wa
so severely wounded in attempting to de-
fend his mother is critically ill.
Mr.. Long says that Holt, in
his statement to him, said that
he had been to a frolic near Gibson
vile and got drunk and knew of nothing
that he did until the next morning, when
he found his head bloody and 4 part OF
his clothes were brought fim That he
had left at the old white mans cabin. So
tally one more for the gallows from
drunkenness.
GEORGE W. SIMPSON.
Mr.. George w. Swepson lies parslyzed
At his residence in this city. He has
been In bed about four weeks. He can
not use his legs and lies mostly on his
back. Mr. Azariah Graves, an old friend
of his from Caswell, was up to see hin
this week. He says Mr.. Swepson's mind
seemed clear enough, and he even job ed
with him, but he noticed during a pause
in the conversation, that he would fall
asleep, his mouth half open and breathe
hard and heavy. Mr.. Swepson went
home from down town one morning last
November about halt past ten O'Clock
and his wife noticed hat he looked pale
and wearied, but he said nothing was
the matter. only he felt so sleepy that he
could hardly hold his eyes open, and ST.
be laid on the sofa and Immediately fell
into a deep sleep. and slept till she
aroused hlm. to late dinner. He said to
her, You'll have to help me up" and
extended his hand and she raised HUI
up. and he went to dinner as if nothing
more was the matter, but after dinner
went to steep again and slept eighteen
of the twenty.tour hours. The doc
for Cald than that
of paralysis.
LEGISLATURE.
The House has tfered near one thous-
and bills.
There is a bill before the House relat-
ing to a geography of North Carolina.
to be published by MIR. Peter NJ. Hale.
The bill provides that if the geography
when published is acceptable to the
State Board of Educ alton, aud the price
agreed on between them and Mr.. Hale,
that then the Board shall direct it to he
used in .he common schools of North
Carolina.
The Legislature will make eighr Dem
Ocratic Congressional districts, and the
county Of Mecklenburg will be placed in
the Sixth district, with the county Of
New Hanover. l give you the districts
as arranged:
First District-Beufort, Camden,
Chowan. Carteret, C%urrituck, Dare,
Herttord, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico,
Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell
and Washington.
Second BERTHE, Craven, Edgecombe,
Green. Halifax. Lenoir, Northampton,
Vance, Warren and Wilson.
Sampson, biaden, Wayne, Cumberland,
Harnett and Moore.
Fourth-Na.h, Franklin, Wake, Dur.
ham, Orange, Chatham, Alamance and
Johnston.
f;hh-Granville, Person, CaswsH.
Rockingham, Stokes, Guilford. Surry
and Forsyth.
Sixth-New Hanover. Brunswick,
Richmond. Arson, Union,
Stanly, Cabarrus, Robson and Meek
lenburg.
Seventh. NJ Randolph,
Rowan, Davie, 1redell, Ca
and Yadkin.
Eigth-Wilkes, Alexander, Ashe,
Allegheny, Caldwell, Burke, |
Cleaveland, CASTOR and Lincoln. |
Ninth-Cherokee, Clay Graham. Ma |
ION, Swain. jackson, Haywood. Tran
Henderson, Polk, Rutherford, |
Mcdowell, Madison, Yancey
and Mitchell,
The committee operated on the small
est Democratic majority for the last
eight years. Taking the following ma