The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-08
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LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Read Prof Kerr's interesting ar
rfCIe on mica.
BY dozens, daily-new subscribers
are coming in.
A New Yorker has castor-oil
bean stalk ten feet tall.
DR. T. ID. Hogg has been chosen
Alderman for the 1st Ward, this city.
Judge Merimon spent couple of
days in town-Sunday and Monday.
Gov. Williams appointed Dan w.
Vorhees. U. S. Senator rice o. p. Nor
ton.
The city council has offered a re-
ward of $3.50 for the arrest and convic-
ton of incendiaries.
Congress is busy-very! But all
the items of interest connected there
with are as follows-OO0 900!
Only Is stoppages in 90 months,
speaks well for the Concord Sun. Peo-
pie can't do without Sunshine.
Since the Fair, five new companies
lave applied to the Adjutant General
,r the customary organization.
Mrs. Judge Brevard has removed
N Cleaveland Springs to Shelby,
= aere she will open school in january.
Senator Merrimon writes to Col.
Clark that new mail route from Lit
ION to Brinkleyville will shortly be
ened
Gen. Orville E. Babcock. Grants
private Snc~o+a-- visited Ne strli
IS .t-a sn tito Iiehfhon Tender
taf
The notorious Tillmau Crawford
H. hghwavman and robber, escaped from
the penitentiary, through carelessness
on Thursday last.
One hundred and seventy-fve tons
of butter, freighting II cars, were re
ceived in Boston from Canada last
week, in one day.
One advantage of a farm journa
is that the farmer can file it, and FIND
it useful at the same season next wear
or ten years later.
-Goldsmith's Maid. the Queen o
the Turf, has been retired from the
track-her owners having made for
tune by her time-214
Bro. Battle wonders why Raleigh
permits Rose and Harry you know tn,
rest to monopoiize Tucker Hall dur
ing Fair week, year after year
Nebraska laws forbid the killing
capturing ''of any bird whatever
me feathered denizens of the grov,
being needed to eat up ''hoppers.'
Married in Warren, Oct. 81, Mis-
Mamie and Miss Fannie Henderson
and Junius Clemmons, and l.. B
White, the Revs. Pettigrew and Eborl
officiating.
-Four miles Northwest of Mebanes
vile, in Alamance Is valuahl bed O
soap-stone. There is also small be-
of porcelain in the westel4- part Q
.hat county.
North Carolina Conference, NJ. T
church South, will convene in Sail.
bury, Nov. 2S-Bishop Doggett pres
ding. Railroad fare for delegates 3 ct.
per mile each way.
The late freshet in the Cape Feal
writes VIM. Alderman. Esq. of Fay
etteyille. was not so destructive as wa
first anticipated; the water fell rapid
and most of the corn was gathered.
Mt. Olive Grange sends a cash sui
scrlption and a crop report Alamanc
grange orders specimen copies. an
endorses the paper. Are there NJ
other iue oranges in our State?
-Minott A. Osborn, editor of til
Haven Register, the leadin
,ocratic paper of Connecticut, die
= 1- '.Ily, aged 66. Gov Hubbard. an
II Ex-'fovernors English and Ingerso
.t were among his pall-bearers. He ha
IN relatives IN this State.
IN DR.. j. I'll. Meers has located mi
vi for the reduction of gold pyrites,
4 Esulphurets,' in Cabarrus, mil
& Sst. concord. If he shall succes
Veo ng these refractory ores by
Il Up process, he can make mont
than ever it was made before