The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-25
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and Castor county, is assisting Tx Judge
Thomas J., " ckey, Of South Carolina
in the defence Of Gen. W. B. Hazen. OF
the Signal Service, who Is being cour
martiaied for having written a letter
rejecting on Secretary Of War Bob Ian
cola's management Of the Greeley Expe-
dition. i
Mackey Is a second Ben Butler: full OF
brains, impudence, eecentrclty, and
u~nscrupulosity. He makes things lively
at the trial.
-Rev. DR.. Chas. F. Deems arrived IN
Raleigh on Monday, and lectured IN
Tucker Hall last evening. We were not
able to be present: butt he kept up with
the eloquence which yet gives him fame
as the man who captivated even the
Rutherferford Red Strings" during the
last year Of the War, IS he plead with
them to stand by the South IN her hour
of distress and defeat was worth
listening to. Since that day the Doctor
must have changed greatly. Then ne
was a talker: to-day he is a worker.
Anv man who could build up a Church
of the Strangers and edita Magazine,
| Ieslie's ''Sunday') and publish books
| and deliver lectures, and get a SlO,oOo
bequest from old Cornelius Vanderbilt,
| and live among the Yankees tor TWEEN
ty years. yet retain his love tor ms ora
pcopIc,-is apt to have considerable hoTe
Of manhood in him.
As at least one Of our readers thinks
we did injustice to Prot " i Philips,
of Navassa, by our a~liusion to an alb
sconding college professor Of Raleigh last
week, we must do that gentleman the IL
Justice of explaining that 1t was not he,
nor his EN-. nent father, Prof. Chas. Phi
lips, of Chapel Hill; nor the talented
Prof. A. l.. Phillips, Of Crimson, nor the
esteemed Prof. II. Phillips Of Norwood,
nor either of the half dozen other well
known prof. Phillips OF \. {.
The name was in truth a m~lss-prlnt;
due to our being too i'll to read the proof,
But we confess we did not suppose any
body could suppose Prof W. b. Phil
| lips referred to. We foreborc to give de-
tails, because the circumstances indicated
that Prof. Mitceelsacted foolishly, rather
than criminally. He had been eXtrayi-
CANT, but he left all his purchases be-
hind him. And he was a Yankee a
Green tlounter.
"A young man named NJ. L. Barber.
formerly of Johnston county, but for
some time resident at Cheraw. :. c.. and
a frequent visitor to Charlotte,-was
killed near the Raleigh depot on We'd
nesday. He came down on the
Hamlet train and went to a bar
room, and remained until the GoldsborO
train was moving off. He then ran and
seized the car-rail, but slipped and was
thrown aside with one leg across the
rail. Policeman Strickland shouted to
the train men, and an instant check was
made but not until the unhappy nan
had been dragged and mangled by half
tine train wheels. 1t was an horrible
sight for those who saw the body rolling
under the savage wheels!
DR.. j. A. Griffin OF Clayton, and sew
eral city physicians, were soon OF the
spot: but Ceath came nearly as soon.
The body was taken back to Cheraw.
1t is sad but we suppose so long as
human nature remains the same, deaf
men will walk the railway track, tipsey
men will try to jump aboard the train.
vvuIun vii LindIo tltIr nres with kerO-
sene. and coffin-makers will have the
best of it.
Northern papels have harped upon
the row at the little town of Highlands,
in Macon county, "a village settled almost
entirely by Northern Immigrants. Two
Illicit Distillers'' had been arrested, and
confined in the hotel. 4 gang of their
friends attempted a rescue. The Reye-
nue. officers, aud citizens got word Of the
design, and took post on the hotel bal
comics, whence they opened fire, and shot
down several of the ''moonshiners, - kill
ing one. Two of the leaders, Avery X.
Henson and Jas. Qualls were captured.
Next day it came out that a young
lawyer, Henry Stewart, was implicated.
He is a Northerner, a graduate of Col
umbia Law School and son of the agri-
cultural editor of the \. Y. Times.
Waynesville NeUs says
He was licensed to practice law at the
last term of the Supreme Court Of North
Carolina and established an office ior the
practice of law and sale Of real estate at
Highlands, n. &. Owing to apparently
unfortunate alliances and expressions by
Mr.. S. with some of the parties engaged
in the attempt to rescue Reed and Tea
que it was alleged that he had counseled
and ahetted the mob in attempting the
rescue. Commissioner Davis being Of
opinion the evidence was not sufficient
to connect Mr.. Stewart with the conspi-
racy ordered his discharge. The prose
cution for the United States was con
Quoted by Gen. Z. Il. Hampton, of Web
ter, and the defense By X. Elias, OF
Franklin, for Mr.. Stewart.