The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-18

OF the marriage or his daughter that he
had allowed none of them except her tc
live in the hotel, and that he had allow.
ed none of them except her to entertain
his guests at Belmont or be of any party
visiting him there.
The case was then continued to July
IA.
....Mrs John Phifer, an estimablt
lady of Lincoln, is dead
....Geo. II. Krause e c.. wool deal
srs, New York. have failed for $5s, 600
Fire in Marion Sunday night des'
troyed a dwelling and the inmates had
narrow escape.
Mr.. Robert Stone. the assistant
railroad agent at Youngsville, was founC
dead in bed there on Wednesday morn
ing.
...Alamance county instructed fol-
A. NJ. Scales and Jno. w. Graham re.
spectiyely.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor gave 9
gold watch and 800 to each of her ser
wants as a thank offering for her recov.
cry.
....Sitting Bull has sold himself to a
circus for $50 week, and the pride
which once sat upon his brow is departed
forever.
Mr.. Corcoran asks Congress to
erect a monument to Pierre L'EnFant,
the engineer who laid out the city OF
Washington. That city, however, is in
itself tie proudest monument the man
can have.
....Dr. Reinsch, a German savant,
has discovered that minute bacteria in
fest the crust of dirt that accumulates on
old coins, and act as agents in the spread
of disease.
....John Lowell of Washington
Springs, OAK, was to be married on the
3Oth ult., but on that day he was com.
PEELED, unaided. to bury his afianced,
her whole family having the diphtheria
and the ~neighbors being too much alarm.
ed to assist.
....A Boston woman warns train
boys through the Globe that eff they
throw any of Colonel Ingersoll's lec-
lures in nv lap l shall certainly throw
them out of the Window
....The bridesmaids now give pres
ents to the bridegroom, instead of the
opposite, as formerly. This insures the
groom a full supply of ten-cent neckties
before starting.
....Stylish young ladies are wearing
little gold kangaroos on their watch
chains. Oh! the artless things. The
moment a nan sees a kangaroo he can't
help but remember that it is leap year.
....A Brooklyn woman wants a d.
vOrce because she found another wo-
mans false teeth in her husbands peck
ct. A female must love a mar dearly
when she will loan him her false teeth
to crack nuts with.
...."I would die for you,' she e1-
claimed, pillowing her head upon bis
shoulder. "Oh, no you needn't, darl-
ing" was the quick reply, Il like red
hair
...."Kiss Me as l Fall Asleep is
the title to the latest song. 1t is in
tended, we suppose, as a pointer for
young men who take their girls to
church Sunday evenings.
Among the eleven American girls
studying at Zurich are DR.. Lizzie Sar
gent, daughter of our Minister to Prus
STA, and Miss Flora Kelley, daughter of
Judge Kelley, member of Congress from
Pennsylvania.
....Judge Ruf6n tells us of a gentle
man he SoU nv tho no~n ~ yN,l.o-,
who lives in the dark corner Of Person
county. Last year he rented a farm for
$3.50. He sold the tobacco made on that
farm for upwards Of $, 600. He expend-
ed $500 in fertilizers, -Hillsboro OJser-
Ter.
-. Hickory CdroLnian: MrJFAber-
nethy, while driving out last Saturday
had a slight runaway in which he was
thrown from his buggy and got his arm
broken above the elbow. The same arm
that was only a few weeks recovered from
a break in the Comfy battle some months
since, but another place.--Since
Fowle's name has mentioned in
connection, first by a Wilkes Democrat,
then soon and n%umerously followed from
different points in the State, East and
West, his boom has been unprecedented.
VOORHEES, is rather a favorite with
some of the Southern people. Why, it
would be hard to say. The Star has
long ago given its impressions OF the
man. He voted with Conger, Dawes,
Ingalls,, Morrill,, Sherman and the
other Radical incorrigibles OH the motion
to lay Hoar's amendment to the Mexican
Pension bill on the table. VOORHEES,
to limit the Mexican pension to
hat class of Federal soldiers who fought
''in the late war for the impression or
he rebeuion." Voorhees, is = fraud 10