deed registration, lurid trial updates, empress carlotta, fish ponds
1885-10-21 - Raleigh Register
- How to create and maintain a fish pond. Do it wrong and the pests it will attract “cannot be kept away EXCEPT WITH THE GUN.”
- Trial of Gooch and Smith for murder of John A. Cheatham. His brother James will testify as a witness.
- UNC has a graduate school now
- Mr. Christmas, “who married Mrs. Gaines’ only daughter and was forced to kill her only son, has compromised the famous suit in which Mrs. Gaines was so long engaged with citizens of New Orleans for $1,200,000.” – Wilmington Star.
- “The governor of Texas is determined that his descendants shall not be pushed into the Gulf of Mexico by a horde of immigrants.” (He rejected a proposal to bring in migrant farm labor)
- ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN. Grave and gay. - Lively and severe.
- Girl taken up by a cyclone later exhibits symptoms similar to Saint Vitus’ Dance
- New developments in the case of Empress Carlotta (she searches for Maximillian, who she thinks is still alive; “in her calmer moods she holds receptions”)
- The legislature voted and we have to register our deeds now. “No plea of neglect or forgetfulness will avail when you find your deeds not registered”
- This month in the Eclectic: “The Cholera Inoculation Fallacy.” Great.