The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-10
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....Rev. DIR. Talmage, the Brooklyn
divine, passed Charlotte on the Cd on
hisway to Atlanta, where he will lecture
on ''Ingersollism.' On his return he
will lecture in Charlotte.
....From Clayton Bud: On Tuesday
night, about s o'clock. a shooting affair
occurred four miles below Polenta. We
have no particulars, but learn one man
and one horse were killed.-In O'Neil
township, this county, on Tuesday last, a
man by the name of Pulley shot and
killed a man by the name of O'Neil. We
have not the particulars of the difficulty,
and give it for what it is worth. 1t is
said Pulley started the story, to get mon-
ey from his daddy to escape witb.-ED.
Z. & NJ.
1.-THE Grant pension schemers are
about as persistent as was the widow who
troubled the unjust Judge, though
Grants cause, considering his extrava-
CANT habits and foolish speculations by
which he has squandered the gifts that
have been bestowed upon him, is not by
any means a worthy one. The President
was kind-hearted enough to mention the
matter to Congress, but he does not
seem disposed to 60 into the lobby to
r the passage of the measure. Per-
haps some big corporation will yet offer
the ex- President q thousand or two dol
lars per mouth for what is left of his
name and influence.
ID. J. Barker, q former clerk in
the Office of the First Comptrol
Ter of the Treasury, asserts that more
than one-half of the accounts presented
by officials Of the Federal Courts are
fraudulent aggregating an enormous
sum-; a committee of the House of Rep
resentatives will investigate the matter.
Stephen foung's house, at Straf-
ford, N. H., destroyed by an explosion of
dynamite; one man killed and several
persons seriously injured; stocks and
bonds of a large amount were burned; the
explosion resulted from the conclusion by
firing a pistol in the house. The
banking house of Rayner, Seagrove 81
Co., Toledo, Ohio, failed, liabilities
about half a million.
1.-THE New York Sun cable CORES
pendent says: Society has taken advan-
tage OF the political lull to discuss with
even greater eagerness than usual the
trouble in the household of the Queen and
ofthe distinguished personages who have
been dragged into the law Courts. The
recent visit of the Duke of Argyll to the
Queen is universally associated with the
strained relation between the Marquis of
Lorne and the Princess Louise. The
scandal of the ostentatious keeping apart
of the two young people has grown too
public. When Louise is in London the
Marquis is in the highlands, and when
he returns to the metropolis Louise flies to
Germany. Thus there was always a
minimum of a couple Of hundred miles
between them. The Queen has ordered
the Princess to report her self at Wind
sor, and some arrangement is contem-
plated under which the ill-mated pair
will make some concession to appearances
by occasionally stopping under the same
roof. The Queen is meantime unmerci-
fully dashed by means OF the savage pen
of Labouchere. Karoline Bauer's me
moir. continue to supply terrible maLeri-
ais by the descriI ton they afford of the
| family of the Queens sainted husband,
aud Labby doles out weekly extracts, each
worse than the other, from the unedify-
| ing pictures of brutal royalties.
....ssBill Arp" q Presbyterian elder,
has been struck with the revolution"
wave. He seems a little dazed at first,
but gets well on his feet before he ends
| his discourse. He regards the new doc
| trine as a happy solution of a puzzling
| problem:-''I think the new doctrine of
| evolution that has got into the Church
| is a right fair compromise, for it main
| tains that while old father Adam evolu-
| ted from a monkey, old mother Eve
| didn't. She was made all of a sudden
| and all at once, pure and beautiful and
lovely, and had no monkey ancestors,
and 1 reckon that is the reason why
woman is to this day so much better
| than man. There is no gorilla blood in
| ber-no faint of the brute or the beast
| to crop out like it does in a man. What
a pity that she was yoked or to such a
fellow as Adam? What q splendid
stock would have filled the world it
| Adam hadn't evoluted, and had been
created fresh like Eve. As it is, we
have got a sort of a graded stock that
is a sort of a cross between angels and
monkeys, and it keeps up a powerful
commotion. But the trouble about the
whole business is that we can't help it.
and what troubles mt more than all is
that I am one of 'em. l always knew
there was some devilment in me, some
original sin that made me meaner than
I want to be, and now l know just
where it comes from. That a~pple-eat-
ing business had nothing tn do with 1t,
hut it is in the stock-the babOon cross
and ever and anon it crops out. All
nv good desires and noble aspirations,
ali my amiability and tenderness came
from mother Eve, and my meaness from
Adam. The old rascal! l wish she
hadn't married him, and then maybe l
would have been q better man."