The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-24


neck bv DIR. Ralph Walsh. The way he
talked last week at "Gombroon, his
Black Mountain residence, showed that
the old fount Of eloquence has suffered no
curtamcut,
Cant. John A. Richardson, the old
railroad conductor, got the Newbern Col-
! lectorship, as we told him he would;
/ though two other strong names we're pre-
sented for the place And Capt. W. +.
| Rowland got the Beaufort toIieet"r'hlp'
Well, it begins to look Ike pretty con
siderable sprinkling.
1t is somewhat singular that so large
a number of changes should be taxing
place this summer i'll the faculty of the
COLLEGES. President Andrew White re-
signs from Cornell University. Gen
Custis Lee from Lexington President
Hepburn of Davidson College also. Rev.
DR.. A. VI. Shipp of Vanderbilt Unlver-
SitY also.
Hon. Z T Boykin was in town last
week, seeking convicts for the Raleigh,
Clinton. and Eastward Railroad. They
will be obtained this fall no doubt. Capt
Montgomery of the Wilson Shortcut
also came upon the same errand; but
the force is almost entirely engaged at
nresent. About 50 were sent west TO
AsheyIlle and to Mt. Airy this week.
Eugene Morehead, Esq, and a num-
ber of prominent gentlemen from the
! west, passed down the road to Morehead
: Yesterday to attend the stockholders
meeting. Lively proceeding are expect
ed, Col. J. w. Hinsdale went down,
e also, as counsel in the injunction cases.
t The iniuuctions.. were sued against Mr..
: Washington Bryan, and others, to pro-
= bibit what has been customary for
I many years, namely the splitting OF
:, stock, If man own three shares he
l. could cast only one vote, unless he
e split his stock and gave two other
= men share apiece.
e The usual fight about the lease OF the
- road is in progress. The track meas
he ures only 95 miles. but it has kept the
state ia hot water for twenty years; ant
70 filled the hot weather egion with enough
p. sulphurosity of language to keep th'
fires red hot as long TO come.
e Yesterday Governor Scales appointed
Thomas B. Womack, Esq OF Plttsbofo
h State proxy for the road. lie also ap
ID pointed the following eight gehtlemei
directors on the part of the State: {.
lt Now Rprnp
e Winfield Chadwick, Carteret county
30 John F. Wooten, Kinston; Dempse
Elk Wood. Falling Creek; w. IL. II. Cobt
Goldsboro; w. c. Stronach, Raleigh
Paul F. Faison, Raleigh.
OF The Lula Hurst talk has given rls
So to several new novels based upon mes
sh merism and animal magnetism. The he
ch roipes are pictured as being SO "fascln'
ted' by the ''cool designing william
&C. masked ia an handsome sneerlng lace
lis that they could not resist his Influence.
Hate him never so much as they NIGH
he forced submission to his will.
School girls and dime novels ought
;" maintain their monopoly Of trashy the
ei' ries like that: yet here come two reputat
doctors in the murder trial at Greenvlll
I'M, Tenn, gravely testifying to belHf
IN such things! DIR. Taylor testified to t
rec actual existence of animal magnetism,
mesmerism, and averred that Its pow
the depends not only on direct contact, b
the extended to distance reaching Its objt
gh- even when out Of sight.
The telegram adds that the effect
left the testimony was to ''cast the mantle
lson charity over the poor wlte's grave
NTH 1t will be remembered that Mrs. Jol
son. wife of an Illinois revenue agent,
,liza profession a telegrapher, became Grill
son nally intimate with Mai. Edwin Henry
the large portly old man of fine appearan
wealth, and social standing. Her t
ways at the hotel became subject
l. scandal, and finally reached her husbar
olls ears. He was in delicate health, and
H. couple wandered to various places II
;. YEAR or two. Then they returned; tn
,coy- was more scandal: the wife became
ness, pentant. or at any rate 'contesse
ames claiming that Maj. Henry 'fascinat
ID II. and s'magnetized" her; that she wis
Jobn to be a true wife but could not re
his will" etc etc. She had by this
- I'd lost her health, and being cast oft by
b,u husband cast herself into the grave.
here was sau CASE ou'
fin. and for that reason we make this art
,,orr We do not excuse Maj. Henry, hot
we knew HIM and considered hlnl
honorable man. But the chances
Dui that man of sixty SIX does not
av III low a married woman OF forty III
ually she drops the handkerchief IN his ?
COUNT Even the vilest rakes rarely purs
G has Il o,o, of strictly proper |
ooth ners. There may be exceptional c
and this may be one OF them: but
cided odds doubt.
anize Well, at length after the poor VOL
rters, suicide, after much talk. after the P
The cation of her idiotic letters by her
every hand (who was accused OF murd
Cap herr poor johnson began a cour
,nient drinking shotgun iD hand, and L
killed Mai. Henry. His trial tor the
= der will end to-day. SO tar as G.
was - -. iudged from the kilograms, public
:,. 'ie' ~ pathy at GreenvilIe leans toward nj
down
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