The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

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our criminal courts in many quarters is
fatally defective, and needs reforming.
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1.-THE Asheboro Courier says Mr..
Dennis Curtis bought Mr.. j. A. Odelrs
interest in Cedar Falls Factory.
Misses Hattie and Addie Avery
and Miss Chambers, of Morganton, are
the guests Of Miss Isabella Irwin ofChar-
lotte.
The annual convention of the Episco-
pal church this year is officially cllled TO
meet in st. Stephens church at Oxford,
Wednesday, May 18th.
THE House Of Representatives re-
Jected the bill to grant a pension to the
surviving grand daughter of Thomas
Jefferson.
-Four men were buried under a
caving earth bank in Washington. Two
extricated themselves, but the other two
were killed.
....A negro boy, claiming to be a sur
vivor of the Rockingham cyclone. has
been getting money from sympathetic
citizens on a forged paper.
...Adolphus Pressly and Ernest Viii
liams, burglars, were sentenced to be
hanged in Charlotte on May 3Oth. They
took an appeal. and the double hanging
will be delayed.
....About 40 Davidson College stu
dents are to join the church as the result
of DR.. Mack meeting.
....Col. Frank Coxe's coach is illus
trated in the Philadelphia Times. 1t cost
1000.
1.-The Wilson AdUance states that
Mr.. May Cone, near Stanhope, Nash
county, jumped IN his we'll and tried to
drowned himself. However he was res
cued.
....P. p. Maxwell, wife and two
daughters, of Davidson College, were all
down with ergsipelas at the same time.
Mrs. Maxwell died aud her husband and
daughters are still sick.
1.-THE lease question of the Atlantic
& n. {. road may be said to be at an
end. There is no prospect OF any lease
during the present year. -Goldsboro Mes
Senger.
....Miss Ella Wheeler Is to be mar
ried in early spring to a Mr.. Yorke of
New York City. Miss Wheeler is &c
years old, and with her pen has earned
and paid for a lovely little home, 10
which she resides, with her mother and
a younger sister, whom she has educated.
THE directors of the Asheville &
~Spartanburg Railroad, met last Wednes
day in Spartanburg. Another meeting
is appointed for the 10th of April, when
it is believed that this road will be CONSOLE
dated with the Western North Carolina,
and that work will be commenced be-
tween Hendersonville and Asheville at
once.
Fayetteville Observer: Col. Pryor,
while inspecting the depot building as
Ore Hill, fell and broke two of his ribs.
On Tuesday the old Sundy house.
near the half way bridge, burned to the
ground. a short while ago this resi-
dence was brought by Mr.. Jno. ID.
Brown and nicely repaired.
....Newbern Journal. Mr.. w. A.
Skidmore, of Jamaica. Long Island, has
bought a place on the sound between
Portsmouth and Beaufort to be used as
a residence during the shooting season,
and has laid off an oyster farm.-Mr
j. A. Pierce, of Troy, and NJ. L. Rock
well, of Canton, Pa who came out with
Mr.. j. T. Scatterlee, have purchased a
tract of 6,000 acres from Capt. S. II.
Gray. This is known as the Judge
CASTOR land" and was owned by that
distinguished gentleman.
....A ten months old child of CAPT.
d. n. Bennett, of Norwood, was given a
dose of Rough on Rats" by its nurse, a
young negro girl, and died from the eff
iects. Capt. Bennett and his wife left
the house for an evenings stroll, after
placing their child in the care ofthe nurse,
whose name is SalIie Crump. On their
return they found the child very sick.
The physician on arriving, saw signs of
foul play and instituted an examination
when lie found that the child's stomach
contained poison, an analysis showing it
to be Rough on Rats The nurse was
arrested and confessed that she had given
the child a big dose of Rough on Rats
and that she knew it to be poison when
she gave it. The girl, who is only Is
years old, was sent to Jail to await trial.
Capt. Bennett is a prominent citizen
of Stanly and was a member of the last
legislature. He is a brother to Congress-
man r.. I. Bennett. Charlotte Observer.
....A Chicago Irishman house stands
within two feet ofthe Northwestern rail.
road track, and the other day a proiec-
ting timber on a freight train knocked
one of the walls down Burns wanted
pay for the damage, but the company
would give him nothing. Then he set
a ladder half way across the track, climb
ed up and began to brush. Pretty soon
a passenger train came up, stopped, and
after an exchange of profanity, Burns
declared that he had a right to paint his
house, and pulled out a pistol and prom
lscd to shoot the engineer if he opened a
valve. Seven trains were soon blocked,
officers came and argued aud threatened,
but all to no purpose. The Celt was on
his own ground, and it was not safe to
disturb him, and a round sum in bank
bills had to be counted out before he
would leave the ladder.
....A Gaiesburg, H., man went to
Eureka Springs, Ark, for his health,
and, when its disease became aggravated
and death approached, called IN a law
yer and made a will. He gave $4,000
to a woman in Missouri, large sums to
others, and made r. D. Montgomery of
Eureka Springs the executor. And on
the strength of his representations he got
Montgomery to advance 1927 for the ex-
penses of the sickness and to buy a
burial casket, and after House died the
victim took the body to Galesburg with
all the honors. There he found that