The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-26

No4AA al the tiftle anu money HEr.-~-
sary, - prevent II. Those Who cant
afford VIE netting should get a piece
OF mosquito net. an if YOU can't cet
frames for both windows and doors.
sure sam viii be kind enough to
make frames for the doors or ct them
made. one can sleep. eat and rest
better in a room where there are no
tiles and plenty Of sunlight ! think
any one who uses them once viii not
think OF getting along without them
again.
Lincoln has sent sl75 and Norton
500 TO the yellow fever sick.
Hill-boro has done well. 1t has sent
S1il > 10 the yellow fever sufferers.
\ colored woman in WAYNE county
last week fell upon a nest of rattle
snakes and killed fourteen-three OF
them old and large, the others Young.
Henry y. Brown, OF Orange, is s,ill
on the track for Congress in the fourth
district. lie IS an independent Repub-
lican.
GREENE CoUNTY.-Grccne Superior
Court c%onvenes on Monday. the Both.
INST, and not the 23rd, as is stated on
the court chart published al Raleigh.
Pitt court holds two weeks.-Goii>b0Io
Messenger.
A NEW FACToRY-Mcssrs. +. II.
Pogue, of Hillsboro, and j. +. Pogue,
of Henderson, were prospecting in our
town Thursday of last week, and rl-
NOR hath it that they will move to
Durham and engage in the manufac
ture of plug tobacco on a large scale.
Durham Plant.
On the night of The Bis, ult.. some
brute in human form entered the sta
BILE of David Turner, Esq, who resides
about one mile from here. and cut and
mutilated his fine stall on III a manner
too horrible to mention.
The Charlotte Observer says: Mess.s.
II. G. Williams and ID. w. Waters
yesterday offered through Mayor
Smith to 80 to Memphis to nurse the
yellow fever patients, provided they
could get transportation. They X
pected to have left last night. but the
arrangements for their transportation
could not be made in time. 1t seems
that the rilrOads now require not
only the certificate of the Mayor of
the cities from which persons who
propose to act as nurses come, but also
a letter or telegram from the president
of the Howard Association accepting
the tender of their s~etvies.
Saturday evening Hiram Norton and
Godfrey Norton, distant relatives, got
into a difficulty near Old Hundred, in
Richmond county. which resulted in
the death of the latter. When they
met, Godfrey accused Hiram of telling
lies on him. Hiram made the same
charge against him. when Godfrey
drew a pistol and started towards him,
Hiram ordered him to stop, and on his
refusing to do so, shot him with a gun.
which he had on his shoulder when
the two met, and he died instantly.
Hiram Norton escaped, and when the
Carolina Central train passed Old Hun
dred yesterday afternoon, he had not
been captured Charlotte OOseTcer.
The possibilities of the yield of wheat
have not yet been ascertained. The
production of 40 or 46 bushels per acre
looks like a pretty large story to most
Of our farmers. What, then, will they
say to yield of 4S bushels, as reported
in England? The wheat was cultivated
like corn, with a hoe. The seed was
planted in drills, one foot apart, and
four inches apart in the rows. The
spaces between the drill rows were
carefully cultivated until the plants
had attained sufficient growth 10 in
terfere with the work. The result
was, eighty-four bushels per acre.
Another experiment with rows six
inches apart, and four inches apart In
the rows, resulted in a yield of sixty
nine bushels per acre. Those who
| thin b 10 n bind of hum, Il ~ -,
occupation with no chance for intellec-
tual effort will do well to try their in
tellects in devising means to secure
these results in wheat growing.
1t is the time Of trial that sits the
gold from the dross, but in such days
and nights Of anguish as the plague
stricken cities now endure the gold
itself is tried as by fire. Human na-
the qualities that survive are grand
and noble indeed. The Memphis Aoa-
lanche, describing the scenes of misery
and trial, says parents have desert
ed children, and children parents,
husbands their wives, bit not n rife
q husband" The italics are ours.
There is the answer to many a cruel
sheer at woman IN hat testimony;
there is the offset to many a frailty
and folly with which woman is Justly
charged. 1t renews our faith in hui
mainly to see its nobility once more
established, and, enshrined with the
highest of its ideals, the wife's devo-
ton. undismayed and unshaken, COM
mands our worshipful applause.
Saturday morning, Maj. Wilson and
family started up the Western North
Carolina Railroad, on a special car.
Arriving at Statesville, he telegraphed
to Hickory, asking if the down train
had passed that point. Receiving an
answer that it had not, he sent an or
der for it TO wait there till his train ar
rived. After he had left S~tatesville a
message was received from the opera
tor, saying that he had made a mis-
take; the train had passed Hickory.
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