The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-23
Curious Current Occurre noes.

Cupid is a cantankerous little cub, az
contrives to kick up old Capricornus alor
with his others capers. Here are son
samples from state papers. Wadesbol
InteHtgencer prints a card from a n
Meachum warning all men. and one pa
ticular man, that his daughter isn't mol
than ii years old, and being -''o'e
young 10 marry yef,"-is under III
Laws's protection, and that all men mus
take heed, and not take her, lest the legs
foot do execution where it will do tn
most COOL"
The same PAPER also lays that p. w
Melton, a young man who had BEEF
clerking Tor Mr. NJ. J.. Barnhart, ofNor
wood, sold all the goods, borrowed all h,
could, drew 81 800 from Salisbury Bank,
which belonged to Mr.. Barnhart, anc
then sloped to the Gulf States with
young girl of Salisbury This is a shock.
ing story but SO wags the world,
Another runaway match, but without
wrong-doing, is reported as follows by the
Lnteuigenoer.
John Murray, of Stanly, who has been
living at Whites Store came TO Wades
boro AMI obtained license to marry a
Young lady the daughter of one of the
most respectable citizens Of that Sec
ton.
"Wednesday was the time appointed
for the marriage. Every Arrangement
was made, In elegant dinner was prepar>
ed, the friends and relatives Of the fam
lily had assembled.
Late in the day, after the
has dispersed, information was received
that Murray, the night previous, had
taken a Union county girl who had been
stopping In the neighborhood and had
gone to South Carolina, where they
were married without license ; and that
he had just returned, chuckling over the
prank which he had played upon a trust
ing girl, and the disappointment and
modification which he had occasioned
her people.
He thinks, doubtless, that he has per-
petrated a practical joke, that it was
and funny, but in reality, if he
could be guilty of a more consummate
piece of inlquity we cannot imagine what
it would be.
Popular sentiment cannot be severe
enough to punish the miscreant. He
ought to be tarred and feathered, and
We will go out to Whites Store at any
time and become one of a half dozen to
execute the job"
The InteUigencer also says-.It is
enough to make parents tremblc when
the most respectable young men in a
community league themselves together
and deliberately plan the robbery of an
aged patriarch like Mr.. j. S. Eason.
Joel Horne decoyed the old gentle
man away from his home to Lowery's
store under p~retense of having some
thing important to communicate. At
the store they were joined by CASTOR
Ratlff, who aided in OBTAINING Mr.. Eason
while his house was entered by Ed.
Jones, who blandly prevailed upon his
daughter Lou to take a walk with him.
She acquiesced, and at a bend in the
road, not far from the honest mans
house, the two were met by Elijah Gull
ledge, in a buggy drawn by a big mule.
Miss Louisa was quickly driven away to
the residence of Esquire w. p. Webb,
where the ceremony was performed in
the presence of a few friends.
When the old gentleman learned how
he had been outwitted, he grinned drily
and remarked, We'll, young folks will
young folk /; let them have their own
way
"A young fellow calling himself J.
Leak, of Rockingham, swindled Jew
Ter John L. Butler, and others, of
Sharlotte, by buying goods and giving
orged checks, certified by NJ. II. Rus
ell, as cashier of Rockingham bank.
There is no such bank, and a little more
ler,pdper reading would have saved
'nough money to pay for 100 newspa-
oers ten years. The rogue escaped to
Washington. Rockingham South says:
The swindler formerly resided for a
While in this town, aud for a few days
lerked in Mr.. NJ. II. Russell's store.
lie is a rather good looking and plaus-
bic young man. and well calculated to
the unwary. When here he did
lot call himself Leak, but went by his
rue name. (What was it? The police
1ant to know He is a native of this
tate and is of respectable parentage,
ut was always a wild and bad boy"