The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-28
Domestic Unhappiness.

The past fortnight has been notable
for the number and tragic character OF
its domestic difficulties. In Onslow
county, DR.. Chas. Lesesne and county
court clerk A. &. Higgins, were promi-
nent citizens and doutly-brothers-in-
law, the Doctor having married Mr..
Huygin's sister, and after her death,
married a sister Of Mrs. Higgins. They
lived heal neichbors, and SEN their
children TO the same school in Whining
ton. They quarreled one day last week
as DR.. l.. was passing Mr.. HIS house.
The former having armed himself re-
turned. Higgins ordered him not to
advance; there was a struggle, several
shots, and DIR. L. received a wound
which has proved fatal! Higgins has
been acGuitted.-Buford Dean kill
ed Daniel Dean, his brother,a Savannah,
for seduction of his daughter. The
jury pronounced it-"justifiable homi-
eide" 1t is a curious world when
daughters and neices are not safe.
At Buffalo, y. Y, VIM. Green was
examining a pistol. His two-weeks
bride playfully jerked his arm, and bull
leted herself.-Rev. Or. r. II. Will
hanson of Chillecothe First Baptist
church, was found to have two wives.
The deacons demanded his resignation.
He asked an hour to reflect and then
killed himself with prusslc acid which
he had carried for a long time in antici-
patton of the expose.
My sisters Kate and Ellen" eX-
claimed Peter Van Iderstein, a gray
haired old man, as he stood up in the
witness stand at the Orphans Court of
Jersey City, ''have brought shame and
disgrace upon me and mine. There
yonder,' he continued, pointing TO a
well-dressed woman who sat near him,
lis Ellen, and she can't deny what l
say. | can prove that she is a murder
ess and a disgrace"
The lawyers soothed the OLD gentle
man, and the case, which was brought
to set aside Kate Van Iderstein's will,
involving $4,000, went on calmly. The
woman had willed her property to the
man she lived with, instead of to her
brothers and sisters.-N. Y. Sun.
-Cereland, GA society sensation
has been created by tie answer to the
petition for divorce of Charlotte Yates
from Walter Yates. He states that the
plaintiff has been guilty of extreme
cruelty, that she struck him III the face
with one of her boots !; that she repeat
edly threatened him with a carving
knife, and threatened to kill him by
poison, and melted her two sons to as
sault their father. Upon one occasion
they tied his hands and feet with a
clOthes-line.
....New Orleans correspondence New
York Times: Eleven months & the So
clal sensation of this city was the brilliant
wedding at the cathedral Of the beautiful
daughter of Chief Justice Edward Der.
mudez, of the Supreme Court Of Louis.
lana, to Henry Fargas. a lieutenant Of
artillery in the army OF France. The
ceremony was performed by the late
Archbishop Perche, assisted by Bishop
Leroy, and accompanied by the most i'm
p~ressive religious ard social accessories.
The groom was young and handsome, and
the bride Of noble ancestry, the acknowl-
edged queen OF our creole Delles, while
the acquaintance and courtship were the
poetry of romance. After the wedding
the happy couple left for Chicago and
New York, and then for Europe. Now
the sad sequel comes in the latest news
from Paris, whispered with dismay from
lip to lip. The story is that while the
lieutenant was engrossed at a distant
point the colonel ofhis regiment, at Paris
lay siege to the heart Of the young wife,
and when the lieutenant returned he
found a state of affairs existing that to
his mind justified his taking the life of
his commanding officer. He cabled a
message to the family of his wife to come
and get their daughter, and then fed the
country to AVOID the penalty of his crime.
Mrs. Bermudez has already left for
Europe to bring home her unhappy child.