The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-05

.uo.aerman was dying. As Mr.. HOWE
t.r-. over the supposed sickman he was
-sz.Ibv the throat, and held until the
.a. men robbed him of 300. half
.# which was church money. OF course
....e was Il sensation. Two DAYS later
N- uoyle received 4 postal card saving
tia. uj, watch and private papers could
be ..uad under a rock behind a barn Of
The residence where he was stopping,
This was very co~usidcrate on the part Of
t.e robbers to take all the risk of detec-
tom simply to return his private papers.
Aai now the Landmark reports that one
night after church Mr.. IIoylc found in
Dis over-coat pocket a p~en-knife which
rsI been one Of the articles stolen. The
rogue had returned it during a crowd at
.he church door. y truly mild-manner-
l-lwayman!
Found HIDDEN IN STACK or STRAW
An Attica Ind. Dispatch says The
correspondent of the Sun had an inter
view with Miss LIZZIE Purviance, a
school teacher, who on Tuesday evening
disappeared from the porch Of the house
where she boarded. Not returning az
rG4 end Of five minutes Mr.. Huff told his
vife to - aud call her, which she did
Mr. HUFF and his son lighted a lantern
mil were out in the yard in less than ten
minutes after the missing girl stepped
from the porch. They searched all night
and until 10 a. m. yesterday. While
searching a straw stack 400 yards east Of
Huff house Tom Harvey discovered a
foot protruding. He pushed the straw
70 one side, and there found the missing
rIr, wing on her back with a skirt wrap
pei around her head. As Harvey at
tempted to raise her up the girl cried:
Don't, don't She was assured that
only her friends were there, and was
r'acai 10 a buggy and driven to Huff ;
tausa Her eyes wace bloodshot and her
hair filed with burs Hundreds Of stur-
II men. who had come 10 from a four
teen hours search were vIsibly affected.
Miss Purviance was 0 0 able to give
account OF her mysterious disappearance.
She said: When | stepped around the
corner of the house, two men grabbed
LL. us tllC LAlttli. dul iCd 1T ONCi
front fence. They said that If | scream
Il they would kill me. With one on
either side Of me. they dragged me
through a pond toward the SchoolhouSe.
Iucutuey turned east through the woods,
put ne over the the fence, and took me
through a cornfeld, aud there Is the last
I remember. They were very rough IN
their treatment, and cursed me at almost
every step. Going toward the school
house they asked my name, and | told
them. Then they wanted to know where
my brother kept his money. | told them
] didn't know. fhey asked if | had U
money. aud | told them to take what |
bali | saw the men, and think could
recognize them. Both we're we'll dressed
to dark clothes, with overcoatS and black
hats. and wore their trousers stuffed III
their boots"
Mis- Puryiance is now able to sit up.
and oa Monday will assume her school
duties. She i, p years old
DR.. George W. Bagby. the we'll
aulan humorist aud journalist, of Rich
m11i. Va, died at his home in that city
Nov, %. at the aye o: % years.
Clinton Caucasian: Mr.. W. L.
Johnson. Of T~aylor's Bridge township.
ha, sold his plantation and contem-
plates leaving the cCunty.--A Du-
pin man has recently worked Il cypress
Tree Scventy-two feet from the stump
and made from ii 1000 heart shingles.
AT Sampson Superior court Judge
Phillips sentenced to death Pleasant
Holmes. a cOlored woman, who was
convicted of numbering her own child by
>motLering it and then burning it. The
evidence was chiefly given by her sister.
UlcnL her confinement IN jail she again
became a mother, and the judge and the
solicitor. ut the recommendation OF the
5lrv. agreed to recommend that he SEN
fence should be committed to impriSon-
ucut for lifc.-Obserrer.
1.-The GreenviIle Reflector tells of a
difficulty between Constable J. .. Cox,
aethat town. and Mr. Jesse Wilson, OF
N.n-ton. Wilson fired at Cox, when the
latter closed on him, took the pistol
away from him aud beat bin severely,
with it, giving him several very painful
wounds. Ga Thursday morning Mr..
Wilson was carried to his home IN hlns
ton. aud on Thursday night the barn and
stables of Mr.. Cox were burned to the
ground, with about 100 barrels OF corn,
! bales ofcotton a valuable horse. a con.
Siderable amount Of fodder. and nearly
a. af his farming uten,ils. The tire was
doubtless the work of an incendlary.
IA locomotive boiler exploded at
Montgomery. Ala one man killed anc
two men hajlv urt.-The %annlhIla.
lion Of the Egyptian army | confirmed
-Samon, the murder Of Mrs. Ford,
.li The Ruddy family, at Tacoma; y
d.. confessed the crime. ~ Don
BELL, the murderer CT Care. IS to h'
hanged Monday. the 18th inst. -fl
ley stove foundry, at 1t Louis, Mo-
closed on account of duh trade 1t em.
p.oyed 40 hands. -Seyerai ware
rag-cs burned at Liverpool, Eng. with
.srou. hemp and sugar loss 500 900
Il Roman Catholic church burned a
lah9es, \. Y; loss 500 coo " z
a.t1a mill at Wcstport, Conn, burned
hess : 81. 900.
..Favetteville SIM says: Mr.. JOS
barnes had his trunk robbed of 500
on the night Of the 23rd. {. /
Byrd was arrested. being charged Wit
s.aoting ID. :. Truelove. f Harnett, il
.ar town. Byrd was brought befor'
..~t.ce X. NJ {. Williamson. and boun'
over TO court. Trueleve had a palniu
.-- not dangerous wound.--N
.u by private letter, that on the -
a-t.. a Young lady, Miss Martha Moten
Ia Fender. near Point Caswell, tried I
Drown herself. but was rescued by tW.
-autlemen. Mr.. Blizzard and Mr.. Moore
She said she was tired Of living, an
wanted TO lea. c this world. These gen
.emeu had to get to her by means
.%at,.su. and when they reached the spo