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

REV. j. H. Quinn died of cholera
morbus. He was made sick by cabbage
The Rockingham Spirit says: But he
bore his affection without a murmer and
expressed his entire willingness to die,
being fully prepared for the awful change.
buckingham Spirit: Mr.. Nc
Kethan, the railroad and express agent
Wadesboro had an express package con-
tanning $500 taken from his office, and at
last has discovered the thief, as we are
Informed. and has recovered 5 40.
.....AHanta, Ga .June l4.-Mrs. W.
Fairchild, once a beautiful and accom-
plished Of Savannah, has just
died a miserable death in one of Atlanta's
haunts of sin. The story which attaches
itself this IN is peculiarly sad.
1.-THE Duke of Westminster's resi-
dence in Chester, England, is guarded in
consequence of threats of dynamiters.
WIN. Haick, a wealthy Ohio far
mer, wa tori to pieces by a vicious stal
lion.....A heavy frost Saturday night in
New Eng AMI caused considerable dam
age. -M Manly b Jones confirmed as
postmaster a. Oxford, n. G..
....Miss P%rettyman. daughter ofCol
Prettyman. of England, jumped from a
window in the Grand Hotel, Paris, and
fell a distance of forty feet without be
ing seriously injured. \ dispatch to
the HerdLd says;
THE window was forty feet above the
pavement of the courtyard and ten feet
beneath the window in a wide ground
glass projection. The young lady crash
ed through the glas, cutting, cutting her
painfully, but not dangerously, and in
stead of being dashed to pieces on the
pavement, as seemed to the spectators to
be inevitable, she by an extraordinary
chance landed on the neck of one of the
ex-khedive horses that happened to be
standing in the courtyard, and almost
m~iraculously was saved from death"
...,Wm. Dawson 4 Co.. fertilizer
manufacturers at Baltimore, have made
an assignment to Chas. J. Baker, who
gives bond for 800, 600.
Charlestown, w. Va, June 12.-The
doors of the State Bank of West Vir-
ginia, were closed this morning. The
liabilities are $4,000. The principal
losers are poor people. There are many
ugly stories afloat on the streets.
Cleveland o., June l2.-Isaac A.
Stanley, paying teller Of the National
Bank of Commerce. was arrested last
evening for embezzling 100000 from
the bank. Stanley confessed that a
year ago he was troubled abou; a debt
of $500 on his house and thought he
could take that sum from the reserve
sum, invest 1t in grain, realize a profit.
pay Off the mortgage and return the
money. tn investment was unfortu-
nate. and So on until he had taken
100000,
I'VE see in the Baltimore Sun of
the Dist INST. an account of the sinking
of the steamer GdzeUe. at the mouth of
the Mayothy river. The steamer was
! on her return from Annapolis with thir-
ty-three eXcursionists, q band of SIX mu-
sicians and the boats crew OF five men.
Soon after the steamer left Annapolis
harbor it was a~scertained that she was
leaking. Matters were serious. The
captain ran in to the mouth of the Ma
gothy river along side of a large dredge,
against the windward side, the heavy
humping making leaks in the stern and
bow. The eXcursionists disembarket!
to the dredge. where some of the ladies
passed a disagreeable night. In the
list we notice Misses Annie and Hennie
Blackwell, step-daughters of j. w. Car.
mer, Esq, and nieces to Mrs w + ROM.
tree and the late Mrs j w Walker, and
have numerous relatives and friends
who are glad to hear of theic fortunate
escape. -Newbern Journal.