The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-12

hieting thirteen wounds, one in the al
domen and the others in the back.
Jones is still alive but cannot ecover
Mr.. w. f. Hand. of Charlotte, is
dead. tie was a young druggist.
Mrs. n. NJ. Hill, of Pittsboro, was Sc
verely hurt by a fall from a buggy.
The Pittsboro Record says the rumor
concerning MIR. Knights losing six chill
dren is without foundation.
j. B Harris. Esq, of ~Springsville,
has gone to Boston. He will probably
swing around and take in louisville
Concord Register.
Maj. A. M. Lewis, probably the
bar, is here on a visit to his relations
his son, MI. w. G.. Lewis, and his
brother, Col. W. A. Lewis. Statewide
Landmark.
Two negro grave robbers at Edwards.
Miss, were quickly disposed of. One
was shot and killed as he attempted to
escape and the other was hanged.
Long Shoals paper mills, VIM. s. r.
Tiddy, located heal Lincolnton, were
totally destroyed by fire on the night of
the 5th inst.
The Count de Paris will be ordered
to quit France unless he repudiates a
recent alleged expression that he was
King of France.
Smithfield Herald says: We hear that
another cotton buyer will soon locate at
| S%mithfield: Smithtield has cheaper
freights North than Raleigh and should
give more for cotton. We can get 90
900 bales of cotton if we pay Raleigh
prices.
Lumbetton RObesonian: j. ID. McIE-
tyre, formerly of this county, but for the
last two or three years of Georgia, where
he was engaged in the turpentine BUSH
ness, was killed in that State about ten
days ago.
A man by the name of Williams, from
Durham county, was pardoned out OF
the penitentiary on Saturday evening
last hy acting Governor Robinson.-W.
j. Sutton, Sheriff of Bladen county,
brought ole Minerva Blue. colored to
the penitentiary this morning. She is
sentenced to five years confinement in
that institution for infanticide.- Eisitor.
htuDtlI htCl, d "lIl Iliu u lCdI
Old Sparta attempted to obtain poisonous
drugs for the purpose of suiciding. DIR.
NJ. b. Pitt. suspectlng his motive, gave
him quinine. The next morning, much
to his susprise, he was not dead. Dis
gusted he started out by day break.
His son inmped up and attempted tc
follow but the briars and underground
were SO thick he could not follow. 1t is
xlot 10 I-@u-nl hir,1f =,
Town Creek.-Tarbo ro Guide.
Wednesday afternoon, Kinchen Cher
nv white. Charles knite and three Other
colOred men and a colored oma were
working on the farm of Station Cum
minos. near Old Sparta, in EdgecOmbe
county. when a sudden storm barely
I cave them time to seek owe under al
old cart shelter IN the field. a deafen'
ing crash of lightning struck the shelter,
Immediately killing Cherry and Knight
stunning the others, and OF them per
haps fatally. The woman, the mothe
of Chas. knight, was the only person
8 unframed. Cherry lived in Richmon,
a county and was visiting his brother VIII,
lived in the county.-Tarboro GUIDE.
r The Johnston County Historical Socie
r ty was organized in the Court Hous'
Smithfeld Sept. lst by electing +. :,
Holt. Esq, temporary President. Tn
; object of the Society is to gather fact
y and incidents connected with the par
e Johnston county soldiers took in tn
late civil war, and put them on record
The President appointed the ~followin;
persons correspondents to aid in carry
q inc out the object of this Society: j. L
Ellington, John Stephenson, Rufus \
= Johnson, Y. j. Lawhon, DR.. f. u
Snead. w. n. Rose, Haywood Stanley
9 VIM. Richardson, Berry Richardson. Z
/" : Moore, d. L. Barnes, G. S. Powell
and G.. r. Harper. The next meetin
will be held in Smithfield the 22d Of Sept
-Herdld.
r The Rev. DR.. John NJ. p. Atkin,,r
g late President of Hampden Sidney Co
lepe died Tuesday of last week. He WI
a q yery able and devout divine and
d dieniicd gentleman of the highest order
!. His declining health necessltated a rel
l. ;gnation from the Presidency of the Han
nden Sidney about a year ago. the to
lowing from. the Richmond Dispatc
viii give an idea ofhis life and characteI
sDr. Atkinson was the son of Robel
r. Atkinson. Esq. of Mansfield, Dinwiddi
county, Va, and was born about the yes
IL 1915. HIS mothers maiden name vi
'g Mary Mayo, and he was one OF a lars
ell family-six sons and five daughter
of Three of his brothers also embraced I'll
t. ministry Bishop Thomas \ kirson
in the Episcopal church, aud Rev. DR.. Wi
IL. liam 81. Atkinson, d. D., Of tho Presbyt'
ne Ran Church. The latter is still aliv
in and is a highly esteemed pastor in Raleigl
ri Nor,b Carolina.