The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-22
a New Version Of Part of the Old
Testament.

Inc treas Ire now IN London consists q
various small ani dirty scraps Of par,h
nient " Ut leather. o. some Of hen
fhH iclan lettr> a. vi, ibi" to III. NAKED
eye. otner seas reveal Pho ician let
ters al r be ~ washe over with -pirit,
., Wine. The writing -aii j BE- j.
oid a,the ,abite -tpn when i iItcd
ABOUT 800 ye rs Def re Chr { O.. c arse
a manu- Crypt OF deuteronomy written
9oo year, before hrt>t would silence In,
higher Criticism WIN She assigns I.
deuteronomy a very much later date
Apart rom this rltlcalln.ercSt the man.
a'clpt Would be probably the Oldest. not
HSyptlan, which We possess on any .Jit
material HerodJtus says that ih ancient
tiine> tie Indians wrote on skins, but
D , Ut the skins have descended t. IL.
which i fortunate for the theories u
hr Ialey. Skins, of course are very
peri>hable objects, and 50 tout Of the
Try climate of Egypt are manuscripts
written on papyrus. We have Egyptian
papyrl OF extreme antiquity, bur the old
est alphabetIc Semetlc writings hitherto
known are in~cripti ms on stones aud
rocks, and occasionally ON silver bowls
and other materials. The new c0,fe.c of
Deuteronomy, therefore would be prac
tN'Hy uhhlit. II NOuIu C-idDli>' lnF
tact that the Jews could write a cnnSecu
u:e ntrrauve on soft and portable mate
rial 200 years ago, about the date COM
monty assigned To Homer aud Hesiod
Aud II the Jews could do it, the Greeks.
a clever people. would MT be long behind
them. The story OF the recovery of the
IN aent rc!lc is peculiarly romantic Five
ears ago Mr.. Shapiro, Of Jerusalem,
beard that the Arabs Of Diban. in Moab.
possessed some ancient tlibll rali>man
Mr Shapiro perceived that. if really an
lieut., these tl!i>maus might have inter
1t and yaiue They might, of course
be mer. relics OF saints on the othe
hand. they might be chips OF the broken
one, table of The law" They dld
IRA "ut To be something almost a. re-
mIrk able. Mr. Shapiro enliste In the
tu,e of Bib cal archie ,logy some Arabs
people who would steal their owr
mother n-law for a few plastres.' The
oriental races. hen once embarked IN Il
career of crime, stick al nothing L,
steal oues own mother-in law is a turtiv,
act at which the stoutest Western fancy
stands aghasr. nor is IL easy To imagine
the state of mind Of the capitalist who
would suborn men to commit such a theft.
by the aid OF these Arabs the talisman
was carried off, and proved 10 be no tai
Isman. but the Book of Deuteronomy
The various readings" of this singular
text are almost startling, and Dir Sha
pira is said to value his find ("tindine
is keeping in the East at 81. 900, 900.
DIR W \ Lodge has gone to Waynes-
vile To Slend a few weeks.
Five shops # the T.. 5. Rolling Stock
Company, al Chicago, burned; the loss
: placed at half a million dollars.
5 NJ Parish has been appointed Aus
tice of the Peace in Raleigh Township.
vice Jesse T Taylor resigned
Mr. l. A King little daughter was very
badly burned on Saturday last at the res
idence of her grandfather near Cary.
Charlotte's new enterprise, and cotton
seed oil mill. located on the line of the
Richmcnd & Danville Railroad is about
ready to commence operations, most Of
the machinery having arrived and been
put in place.
The Methodlsts are raising money to
erect a 50, 600 monument to DIR. Craven.
They expect to erect it In Trinity Col
Iegc campus BY the next commencement.
Mr. j S Carr Is chairman of the commit
tee.
Two young ladies of Tottenham. ii is
said. tried to take Il big dog home n
their buggy the other day. He tried to
Jump out. one young lady caught him
by the tail and he. mad with pam.
caught the other young lady by the most.
A little Danbury girl wa. playing with
a tea bell, the clapper OF which was hung
b. a steel wire, hooked at the end. The
hook caught in her tongue so far back as
to hold the bell tightly over her face. She
was too young to aid in relieving herself,
but a doctor finally worked IN a pair of
nippers add cut the wire.
Potecasi Patron Mr.. r. VI. Dukes,
while fishing in Livcrmon's Mill Pond,
near Poteca,i, on Friday last, had a fit
and fell out of the boat and was drowned.
He has been subject to spasms from
childhood and fears of some such results
as the above have long been apprehend-
ed.
a Michigan cyclone swept through a
streak of timber, gathered up several
cords of wood, carried it six miles across
a prairie and deposited it on the premises
of a poor widow who was too poor to buy
Il SlICh dliI uuapiI w NallJ ~ " IL
timber. There were at least ten cords de-
posted within easy reach of her house.
Mrs Cimmel, of Washington, Iowa,
was surprised the other day by "receivir z
a call from a former husband who had
| coolly gone off and left her Is years ago.
She told him she had another and a bet
ter husband now. He retorted in kind
by saving he had another and a better
wife. They agreed to call it square and
parted.
1t is painfully evident, says b other
Bailey in the Biblical Recorder, that
some preachers do not believe the Bib e.
Their manner of life in their homes a.
we'll as the character OF their sermons
and their manner of delivering them,
prove that to them preaching is a pro
f~ession. and the ministry a mere mode OF
making a living.
W II Che>ebro, of Stonington, Coln
went fishing out side of Shefields Re f..
but caught ouly i small chub mackerel
I'm a spasm the fish vomited IA glit'erIng
substance, which Oh examination proved
to be a diamond which experts estimate
to be worth $500.
A Halletsville (Tex.) boy shot ut a
rat that was crawling along a ioice,
near the cornice ola house. The bullet
struck the loist killed the rat. struck a
knot. Glanced, and, passing almost at
an angle of ninety degrees and down
ward. struck the boys father. who was
walking some fifty yards distant. The
gentleman's thumbs were in the arm
holes of his vest. and the bullet entered
his arm at IA point directly over the
heart. penetrating to some depth but
drOnpinU out.