The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-02

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arrest, charged with the crime.
John Clapp, of Alamance, a vic
tim of epilepsy, fell in a branch and was
drowned.
....Wm. NcCaffrey, a prominent
ward politician of New Orleans, was
killed by a barkeeper on Christmas morn
ing at > o'clock.
John Moran. Of Boston who has
been sixteen years in the penitentiary tor
the murder of his sweethe art, has been
pardonei By Gov. Butler.
Co. Henry Rathbonc Of Albany, \.
Y, who was I, eling with his wife and
children in Europe, in a fit of melancholy
Monday in Hanover, shot his wife deld
and then fatally stabbed himself.
Col. II. b Stort informs us that the
name Of the own ofFlemington has been
changed to Lake Waccamaw. and the
name Of the p~ostoffice and railroad sta
ton has also been changed to correspond
to the name of the town. This We think
is right .-Rectetc.
....In 4 personal fracas at Yazoo
City, Miss on Monday night, between a
white man and a negro and their respec-
tive friends, two white men were killed.
In an attempt to arrest the leading negro
next day he resisted and fired three shots
at the posse. He was killed.
....Three alleged burglars we're lynch.
ed "a McDade, Texas, on Monday night.
The next day six of their friends went to
the town and picked a quarrel with the
lynchers Two of the SIX were killed and
one badly wounded. The three others
escaped. One citizen was killed.
MIR. John Renno, the veteran
bridge builder, fell from i high @trestle
over the Pee Dee river, on the Carolina
Central r r, and is dangerously in
jured.
Abrams, a New York c9unterfeiter,
aged 60 years, sentenced to eight years
Imprisonment. Two feet of snow on
a level in Long Island An escaped
convict at Malone, n. Y, stabbed two
men and a woman, bat was captured
after being shot through the thigh
\ shoe factory burned at Athol, Mass;
loss $50, O0.-Th firm of 4. d.
Smith & Co., operating five cotton mills
in Rhode Island, failed; liabilities over
81, 900, O00.
Chinese report the French loss at
Sontay as 50 officers and nearly 1000
men the black flags lost 6 200 men the
French found s., 200, 900 in Sontay.-
VIM. Behrman, 4 German, and JnD.
Palmer, negro, were arrested at Clnc.n
natl for the murder of Vim. Kirk both
confessed their guilt Kirk was killed for
his money - partial suspension of
work at the Washington Mills, Lawrence,
Mass, throws 80 workmen out of en-
%ployment.
NEAR the village OF Jackson, in
Northampton county, \. c., a murder
was committed on Christmas day that
has Just come to light. Jack Barnes
and his brother Tuck have been on bad
terms for several months past On
Christmas day Jack drank until he had
become intoxicated. He then managed
to fiud his way home, where he met his
brother. The quarrel was renewed, and
Jack, drawing his pistol, shot his brother
three times, killing him almost instant
".
Charlotte Observer, having had a
cali from Congressman Glenn. lowd,
saws Maj. D., defends his vote for
Randall, for Speaker and says if there Is
any one thing that North Carolina
representatives are committed to, it is to
the abolition of the present system Of
collecting the Internal Revenue. Ran
dali was committed to its abolition; Car
isle, aud his friends are committed to
the perpetation of the present system.
With what grace can u members who
voted for Carlisle appear before their
constituents
....Gen. Ulysse; S. Grant lives at 8
East Sixty sixth street, in a handsome
browpstone house. On Monday night
last, between 10 and III O'Clock he sent
for his coupe intending to make a call in
Madison avenue Ii was a cold night,
and the sidewalks were covered with a
coating of ice. His feet slipped from
under him, and he fell with very great
violence on his left side. Before the SER
wants could reach him he rose, but bis
left leg ga: way under him, and he sank
to the sidewalk in a ~faintiDg condition..
Harrison Terrell, his colored valet and
the c~oachman, carried him up the front
stoop slowly AMI carefully, as he seemed
to be suffering great agony. They placed
him in the elevator aud carried him to
his room and to his bed.
The cab hurried away for D.. Fordyce
Barker, who is the physician If the
family. He found the General suffering
great pain, and having no power over
mis- left leg, which seemed TO be quite
para'yZed. The pain in the limb Is so
great that thus far it has been impos-
Siblr to make a thorouph eyamination for