The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
....Diphtheria IS a dangerous form
prevalent in Chicago.

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prevalent in Chicago
Boston claims to have had this
autumn tine finest chrYsanthemum show
ever made u this country
.Tae Arabs are closing about
Kh.rtoum. aud Gordon : Sanhoais were
repulsed some days APO by hrupp sdnS-
....Lawrence N5tl colorei Was com
nitsed 10 jail by E.-quIre VI Il 6Arbe,
Tor stealing a COW irvm Nj. 6arry "&si
....Ab1ut one hundred convists sent
from the p~enitcntl4.y 60 FTank}lpton TO
work on The Fr4akanton and louisbarg
Railroad.
The Davis House III Weldon has
been >oli TO the three railroads which
have d terminus at that point They
will manage it in the future.
lin the smuggling match between
sullivan and Greenville, IN New York.
the police arrested both men at the end
OF the second round. Sullivan was de-
clared the victor.
lin view of the Rev. DR.. Wood
rows peculiar notions on the evolution
question, the Abbeyille Medium thinks
that he should resign his chair III the
State University rs well IS the Perkins
professorship in the Theological Semin-
airy.
1--WE learn from the D4nyiile Regis
ter. that John l. Harrison, who lives
near Purley, in Caswell Go committed
suicide yesterday. b. shooting himself
through the brain with q pistol, Bad
health is thought TO be the cause.
I'VE regret to learn that Mr.. Dan
can Cameron was painfully though not
seriously hurt yesterday by being thrown
from his buggy caused by his horses run
nrng away. The accident occurred some
....A cynical old bachelor, who firm
" believes that all women have some
thing to say on all subjects, recently
asked a female friend: well. madame
what do you hold on this question OF
female suffrage - To him the lady re-
sponded calmly: ''Sir, l hold my
tongue"
....Honor O'Lochlen, the hostess OF
the Grid-iron, an old hotel which Irish
lawyers frequented. had a ready wit.
Happening to enter the barroom after
UIliilCl. 1uiIdH HIoiloStb Htl utdLtI- 4
give you, gentlemen he said, Honor
and honesty" Possibly the worthy
landlady did not fell complimented, for
she readily rejoined Your absent
friends, Mr.. Curran."
...."Labley." in his weekly news
paper, Truth, is making it very uncom-
Portable for the Queen and all her fam
lily. The sca.ndalous revelations q
katherine Bauer with regard to King
Leopold of Belgium. induce the remark
that he was n Of the most overrated
characters Of the century-weak, vain,
exceedingly capricious and rnprincipled,
and throughout his life p. ~petually in
volved in discreditable liasons. His
selection of Prince Albert as the Queens
husband is described as merely a happy
accident and principally due to Leopold's
desire to interfere in English affairs
Gable Corr, New York SIN.
....A mob took Joe Cook, a muir
derer, from Jail at Bluehill, Neb., and
hanged him to a derrick. The Sheriff
rescued the prisoner before he was dead.
At Pittsburg a Monnt Oliver in
cline car, containing nine passengers,
while midway Oh the track struck John
Danagh, a workman, fatally injuring
HIM and deraiiiug the car. The passen-
gers were all more or less bruised, but
no one was seriously hu~rt.Eight
houses at Patterson, Juniata county,
Pa, were burned. The property de
stroyed included the p~ostoffice and the
stores of G. W. Wilson, w. w. Cope
land, Joseph Pencil and w. G.. Ham
lin. Aggregate loss, $50, O00.--
Richard Harrington, a well-known Re-
publican politician of Wilmington, Del,
is dead.