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


A negro Shot and killed Mr.. Thomas
Wilson on his plantation liz CASTOR coun-
ty.
....$4.0 600 have been raised, and work
will be resumed on the new Methodist
church, at Raleigh, about April 1st.
1.-The ladies of Fayetteville are es-
tablishing a Home and Hospital for the
poor and sick. Mrs. Jennie E. Thomp
son, widow Of the Rev. j. W. Thompson,
of the y. c. Conference, is the matron.
...WadesbOro Times: The safe in
the express office at the depot. was rob-
bed of $500. which was sen here to
Mr.. L. c. Robinson by a factor in Char
lesion.
PROF. Simmons, of the Fayette-
vile School, goes to Durham Graded
School to take the place of Prof. McIver,
who becomes Assistant Principal of the
Winston Graded School.
....Rules of Practice in the Superior
Courts, as laid down at a recent meeting
of the Judges in Greensboro have been
printed in pamphlet form and can be had
for ten cents a copy or 81 a dozen, by
addressing j. S. Hampton & Co., Green's
boro, n. c.
....Masked men took a murderer from
jail at Waynesville. Mo, and hung him
to a bridge 1.-The book keeper of the
Comm ,rcial Bank, of Augusta, Ca, was
robbed Of $27, 900 by two unknown men
while making exchanges with the Ma
tional Bank of that City.
AT Huntersville, on the Charlotte
and Statesville Railroad, Capt. VIM.
Clarkson, the conductor, seeing that they
were about TO let a barrel fall, interposed
to save it, when it fell. partially on him,
fracturing his collar bone and inficting
injuries which have kept him confined to
his home in Charlotte ever since.
....Asheville Register J.. NJ. Da-
Wis, a merchant at Waynesville, died
last Saturday of pneumonia, and his
brother, Doc. Davis, who lived a short
distance III the country, died the same
day and of the same disease. They
were both inferred in the same grave.
...Charlotte Observer: 'Bill Arp"
is shortly to give us a lecture.-A
young lady was attacked by a muskrat in
broad daylight yesterday. pear the Meth
odist church. With remarkable presence
of mind, she screamed loud enough to
frighten the rat away, but not before her
ankles had suffered slightly.
Atlanta man has rented a house in Char
lotte and will open a female barber shop
here on April lst. Not a shop. where fe-
males get shaved, but where females
shave the customers.
....Lincoln Press items Col. Chas.
j. HammaSskold, formerly a well-known
citizen OF this county, died at his home
in Stockholm, Sweden. Feb. oath. Col.
Hammassskold and his father owned
and operated the Spring Hill Forge.
Both father and son were highly res
pected citizens, At the breaking out OF
the war, the latter Joined the Confederate
army.-A freight train on the Narrow
Gauge was thrown off the track about
two miles above town by the breaking
of a pair of box-car trucks. Two cars
were wrecked MIR. J C.. Hoover,
dealer in general merchandise, Friday
made an assignment to Mr.. b. c. Cobb.
I'VE have samples of very fine silk
raised by the family of w. j. Caldwell
of Castor cou~nty.Chas. Z. COBB.
now a member of the firm of Cobb "
Avery, Dallas. Texas, says: Il have
not seen any of the BOYS who left Lin
colnton, but have heard they are well,
happy and much pleased with the coun-
try and their prospects. "A the
residence of Mr. Robert Wright in Gas
ton county last week. During the dance
a fight took place between George Beam
and Van Sellers. Several of the by
ISLANDERS Joined in. Sellers was badly
beaten and seriously hurt, and Beam
was stabbed in the abdomen.