The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-17
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The Signal Office in Charlotte i, at
work
Charlotte received >, $40 bales of cot
ton last week
Eggs are worth Is cents oxen in
New Berne.
Oysters sell in New Berne at fl ON
30 to 30 cents bushel
Capt. j. w. Lippit. of Wilmington,
has gone to Savannah to live.
A Polkton revival resulted in the
conversion of ftwenty-eight.
The Baptist State Convention meets
at Charlotte, November 5th.
The growing peanut crop in this
State Is put down Ut 30, 600 bushels.
There are three murder cases to be
trleG at Wayne court now in session.
Mr.. w. p. Holland. a worthy citizen
of Wayne county, died on Tuesday
night.
Balls, germans, hops and plays will
mark the progress Of fair week III
Raleigh.
There are seven children down with
diphtheria in one fImily in Winning
ton.
There are only seven prisoners in
Jail at Goldsboro, and six of these are
colored.
John Morgan, manager of the Great
Falls cotton mills in Richmond county,
is dead.
Eugene Morehead, of Durham, has
been appointed deputy United States
collector by Col. /. j. Young.
DIR. Babcock, inventor Of the fire ex-
tinguisher bearing his name, is an out
cast and victim of drink in Oakland,
Cal.
Gen. Grant has contributed $500 to
the New York fund for the relief of
the yellow-fevers sufferers of the South
| west.
Gen Ransom, who is in charge of
the improvement of the channel of the
Neuse river from New Berne to Smith
field, has begun work.
The grading of the site for the col
ored insane asylum at Goldsboro has
been awarded to Capt. L. \. Granger,
who will begin the work shortly.
The revival at Rockingham which
continued four weeks. closed last Sun
day night, resulting in about go pro
fessions and 81 accessions.
Smith, Fleming & Co., East India
merchants, have iailed for $1,000, 600,
on account of the suspension of the
Glasgow bank.
There is man living in Cooke
county. Texas, who boasts of a set of
furniture made from a tree on which
his father was hung ten years ago.
-Goldsboro Messenger: : We learn
from Pitt county that Mr.. Elisha Nc
Keels gin house, situated half a mile
| from Greenville, was destroyed by fire
on Wednesday night. There was in
the house at the time of the fire about
| twenty-five bales of cotton, all of
which were destroyed.
4 census of the town of Greenville,
Miss furnishes a sad chronicle of the
awful ravages Of the yellow fever.
| The figures show originally popuIa-
| ton of $50, of whom 260 are dead,
| 112 sick. 657 convalescent, leaving 323
who are vet to be attacked unless the
reign of the scourge shall be cut by
frost.
Dispat tches were received in Will
mington last Monday announcing the
death at Memphis, on Thursday last,
from yellow fever, of Mr.. j. A. Nc
| Callum, who was one of three young
men who left Wilmington on or about
| the 10th of September last to 20 to
| Memphis as volunteer nurses.
A thief went through the store of j.
| A. Cheatham, of Raleigh. last Friday
night, taking, however, only few
dollars in currency, which he found
in the till, and a side of sole leather.
| The Ners says the thief entered
through second story window, by
means of ladder, and got out by a
| side door.
The Rockingham Spirit has this ::
We learn that on Friday morning of
| last week four small colored children
were burned to death on the planta-
ton. of Mr.. E. n. Ingram, about II
miles from this place. As is too COM
mon with the colored people, the old
ones had all gone off and left the little
child, en- in the house. to return and
| find their house consumed and the
| charred remainstrf their little ones.
! Of course it is St known how the
! house took fire.