The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21
Col. Polk is rapidly collecting spc

clinens Tor the Iarls EAposltion.
Seven negro from Edgecombe were
added TO the ~penitentiary guests on
Saturday John Dew Ed. GRAY and
lobe Walker, for 5 years 10. Biggs,
Willis Jones. Henry Atkinson and
Dawson Davis. 2 years. Also, from
Nash 4, and from Green /.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
visited Nash county last week and ad-
dressed 4 large crowd of its citizens.
He found the people generally very
anxious TO obtain all the information
| possible on the cost OF our present
fence system, and the keeping Of dogs
To the exclusion OF sheep. The supply
of corn and forage j. sufficient for the
county, but owing to the avages OF
cholera among the hogs the meat sup
ply is short. Tie people are sufficiently
encouraged to make a renewed effort
this wear and have seeded to wheat and
oats 30 per cent. more and than last
year.
Mrs. Jane Pitman (wife of the IN
ventor of Pitman's short hand method)
was, in accordance with her own will,
cremated IN the furnace of DIR. lie
Moyne at Washington, Pa. Husband
and wife were "free-thinkers," So
called. The cremation of the corpse
took an hour and fifty minutes. We
quote the New York suns report
AT $40 the sheet crumbled and
left the bones standing alone. The
spectacle was a terrible one, although
beautiful in it's coloring and intensity
of action. In the midst OF the bright
retort lay a skeleton of fire, the zones
swathed in purple and orange flame.
which shot upward in sharp, needle
hke-poInts, and bathed the whole form
III a halo OF fiery glory. The light was
80 intense that the eye could bear II
but for a moment. All OF the party
surveyed 1t In turn, including Mr.. Pit
man, who expressed much pleasure a.
the sight.
At $50 most of tho bones had dis
appeared. and at 3:45 those of the
pelvis, which were the last TO remain
standing, fell. Then nothing remained
but a white indistinguishable mass,
from which a few pale Jets Of dame
shot fitfully.
During the process the crowd out
side amused themselves by cracking
Jokes on DR.. lie Moyne, and endeavor-
ing to get a glimpse through the doors
and windows. A party of negroes
PLAYED quoits near the back door, and
one young darkey mounted the fence
and kept up an ~impromptu ccon
~ nIgnanf ON "A mir 9f home. zEXnII4aI
TO be those Of Baron de Palm. There
were no religious services or exercises
OF any kind.
The transactions Of the American
Medical Association for 1877, has Just
been published, and il forms a large
and valuable work. The next meeting
Will take place in June, At Buffalo.
One of Its most importan. laboTs Will
be the revision Of its organic law con
corning the representation, and also To
prescribe more definitely the character
Of the publications. The enormous al
tendance AZ the annual meeting II has
been found necessary to reduce. h
whole matter of reorganization was
referred at the Chicago meeting 10 a
select committee of five, 10 report TIN.
year, consisting Of Drs- y. >. DAVIS. OF
Illinois, II. j. Bowditch, 5. u. Gross,
OF Pennsylvania, ID. W. Yandell, Of
Kentucky and Eugene Grissom, Of
North Carolina.
When il Is observed that four OF
these gentlemen are ex-presidents OF
of this, the highest medical body in
America, the distinguished compli-
ment 10 a North Ca%rolinian and our fell
low citizen, can be appreciated. We
believe the facts have never appeared
IN any Of our State papers, and desire
10 make a record 10 the credit Of the
Old North State.