The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-26
VOL. IL.
ano Roundabout
Index to New Advertisements.
CHEAP CLoTHING-RObert Orr.


-Deau Stanley of London is in Bos-
ton. and preached on Sunday ser
mon in which he argued that Gods
work and mans greatness were travel !
ing East.
Bilious fever prevails in Richmond
county.
Mr.. Luther Clegg. of Chatham, lost
a barn of tobacco recently.
Rev. DR.. Burkhead has moved his
residence from Wilmington to Magno-
liza.
The Milton Blues have been re-or-
ganized, with w. j. Farley, Il veteran,
as Captain.
The citizens of Gibson's Store, Rich
mond county, sent SO to the yellow
fever sufferers.
The Oranges of Mount Pleasant are
i'm favor of the Cabarrus county CO.
operative store.-Register.
Mr.. Richard Price. of Wilmington,
killed u veritable mad dog, with green
ewes. The dog attacked Mrs. Price and
seized the skirts of her dress.
The concert in Wilmington for the
benefit of the yellow fever sufferers
was very successful. Tie Star thinks
the receipts will amount to $500.
A Pitt county child died of drinking
concentrated lye, and it is now thought
that the nurse forced the child to
drink the solution.
The Recorder says that Miss Sally X.
Nash, of Hillsboro. on Tuesday last
while walking, caught her foot in some
obstruction and fell, sustaining serious
injury, it being found that her collar
bone was broken.
They had a concert N Greenvi!le,
Pitt county, some nights ago. The
ErpTess SAYS Miss Sallle Cherry was
unable to be present and Mrs. Cherry
kindly sang the last Rose of Summer
as substitute for her.
..Col. Young said that he had just
been sitting down thinking of the
anomalous condition of things gener-
allv in political way. Joe Turner
and Major Bledsoe running the Radi-
Gals uOWH HeIc, anu ICll. IohtItI
ming the Democrats in Massachu-
sets.
Kadu, the son of the Emperor of
Uganda. was one of the curiosities
which Stanley brought with him. He
visits civilization in the hope of taking
some back with him. He is a mild
and intelligent savage. but much i'm
pressed with his own royal impor-
tanCe.
Chapel Hill Ledger: Dignified Senior
to Fresh.-"Do YOU know why this
college is SO renowned for Knowledge
Fresh. .-'Yes. sir. The Fresh bring
it here. and as the Seniors do not carry
any of it away, it naturally accumu-
lateS.
Petersburg Ldrr appeal: Judge
Robert Ou.d has been elected presi-
dent of the Richmond. Fredcricks-
burg & Potomac Railroad Company
receiving 4.S11 votes as against 2.1S1
for Mr.. John NJ. Robinson. The stock
of Mr. MOncure Robinson wa voted to
turn his son out of Office.
The Ashville Pioneer says that Pro-
fessor Cain. of the Charlotte Military
Institute, has a Calculus" ready for
the press, and that his Manual on
VOnssoir Arches is used as pade
mecum by the engineers engaged on
the Eighth Wonder of the World''-
the East River briGge, between New
York and Brooklyn.
The newspapers state that eX Gov.
Sanford, of San Francisco, has recently
bought Rarus. the tieet-footed race
horse, for 500, 900. and again the state
ment is denied and it is said that Mr..
COnkling, his owner, recently refused
$50 900 for the horse. A very notable
instance of the meeting of two extra
ordinarily large-siZed fools.
Hendersonville Courier: Henderson
county so far has attributed $1lS to
the yellow fever sufferers. The con
tribution came from st. John Church
at Flat Rock \ collection is to he
taken up at the Presbyterian church
OH Sunday next, which, with the pro
ceeds of the COHrier Telephone Con-
cert and other contributions, will swell
the amount to 500.
Statesville american w. G.. Rash
of the upper part of this county, du-
ring the late food. attempted 20 cross
Hunting creek, on CoOpers bridge.
with two mules and a wagon, wlr II
the water was flowing over it TO the
depth of four feet; the consequence
was that the team and wagon We're
swept into the flood, mules drowne /,
and Rash narrowly escaped with his
life.