The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-27

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...Goyernar Cameron offers a reward
Of 81 900 for the detection Of the persons
who lynchcd young Terry at Liberty, Va.
....Goy. Scales ha. appointed Maj.
S. NJ. Finger and Col w. + Beasiey a.
additional delegates on the part of
North Carolina At the National Convex
ton Of Charities and Corrections.
....A tobacco warea ouse viii shortly
be built at Siler and viii be read> Tor
business by Fall. Mr.. +. Il. Mclean
formerly of this county, is one OF the
leaders in the enterprise aud It's success
IS assured.
....W eldon, y. g., May Is IoS5.-
An election was held here yesterday to
determine whether the Weldon district
should ssue bond, for $4,000 to AID in
building a railroad from here 10 ltlngwood
and the proposition was rejected 10y IA
vote OF $50 to O..
THE Central Falls Manufacturing
Company was recognized here week be-
fore last rs the Central Manufacturing
Company. j. II. Ferree was elected
President, G. l.. Frazier, Vlcc-l'rcsIdrnt
and Col. \. &. Me lister. Secretary AMI
Treasurer. T. II Fuller. a. III. john
son, John Dorset and Jesse Frazier
were elected directors. The officers OF
the company We're authorized To lease
the property.
....Thc prompt conviction OF Sergeant
Crowley, the New York policeman who
committed a horrible outrage on a young
girl, is gratifying. The ohensc was a
scoundrelly one III any case Its heInous
ness was increased tentold by the fact
that its perpctrator was an Official sworn
and salarled to protect peaceful and de-
fenseless citizens. Crowley was placed
upon the force and retained there through
political influence.
THE astonishing intelligence is tele-
graphed from Raleigh to the New York
IriIunc that upward of , 600 white vo-
tiers recently met in that town aud formed
a political league that will probably re
suit in the complete smashing of the
Democracy at the next election. The
specific cause Of this deadly wrath, which
found vent 10 the aforesaid meeting, was
alleged to be the enactment of no. fence
legislation for Wake county by the late
Legislature. - dlcon.
....Shclby Aurora. John Scates, a
carpenter aged thirty years, was tried
and sentenced to seven years in the
Penitentiary. Eleven years AGO he
married Eta Waters. Rev. W. NJ. Nc
Swain performing the ceremony. then
seven years AGO he married Rosaline
Owens and one month ago ne welded
Martha Earl. All of these three live
within ten miles of each other ana near
where he was born and reared. vet he
was foolish 1nnInh 70 tIg,ly 10 ,.r4,ll
not be arrested for his Norm on IDEAS.
...Charlotte. \. c.. MAY 22.-In a
fit OF dependency because Of illness and
the fact that he was becoming blind.
James NJ. Sharp, residing near States
vile, n. c., committed suicide to-day
by hanging.
ID. / Glover, agent at the Atlantic.
Tennessee & Ohio Railroad depot at
T~routman's, this State, was hunting
with Geo. Mask to-day and while both
were running after a squirrel Masks
gun struck against a tree and was dis
charged. the contents striking Glover ia
the abdomen. Glover only lived three
honrs but before his death exonerated
Mask.
....A Boston fellow named Michael
+. Wallace, got a very sound thrashiug
from a Wadesboro clerk because of iu-
sulting remarks about Southern ladies.
The intelligence says he asked WHO
are your Southern ladies' | would like
tn see one of them | have seen a good
many wome since | have been South,
tut | haven't seen any adde's The
clerk snatched his stick from his hands
and dealt his a dozen blows over the head
and shoulders. The flesh was laid open
to the skull and Michael +. Wallace was
kicked out into the street. lie picked
himself up and hobbled off to the depot,
a moving mount Of gore When be
gets back TO the Hub, he will possibly
tell how he was assaulted 10 North Caro-
lIua and beat without a cause, and thi.
affair may furnish material for Another
Southern Outrage
Sulliyau's printing establishmentat No.
10 Sixth street, this afternoon, caused
the death OF seventeen persons. II was
at first thought that only five women.
who jumped from the fifth story window.
were killed, but when the fire was sub
dued. SO hat tiremen could enter the
building, it was found that ten bodies lay
IN heaps on the fourth floor. SIX jumped
from a window and were killed. and one
man, after saving the lives of two wo-
men by letting down a rope from the
roof, was himself killed by the burning
in two Of the same rope before he reach
cd the ground. This man wa John
Sullivan, brother of the proprietor Of
the printing works. The tire originated
by the explosion Of a gasoline stove on
the second floor. The flames entered
the elevator chute. which is next to the
stairway, and al chance OF escape was
then CIT oil.
...CedartGwn, Ga, May lO-Mr.
J. \. Adams. a young man prominent
n business and society circles here. was
engaged to be married 10 a daughter Of
a successful planter ii Polk county. and
the date was fixed for 2 o'clock to-day.
Mss Minnie Terhune was to be the
bridesmaid. Both ladies spent Satur-
day here. and the groom and his best
man escorted them home to-day. Mr..
Adams taking the bridesmaid. while the
groomsman u the intended bride drove
ahead. At the brides residence the
guests and the munster were assembled.
and after the arrival Of the would.hp
bride they waited some time for the
coming Of the bridesmaid and Mr..
Adams. They did not arrive, however
and on investigation it was learned that
the tickle bridegroom had proposed to
Miss Ierhune on the way TO the house.
She had accepted him and he utilized
MS Old license TO marry her. Judge
Hampton. whose house they had To
pass. performed the ceremony. and they
returne1 home