The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-07

The City Board % Trade VIII al
vertise the ginner Of every bale II cot
ton hereafter found To- contain mixed
varieties Right.
The Neuse River Navigation Con-
vention meets in Goldsboro to-day.
An influential, If not numerous. a.
semblage; it will certainly be.
The article on North Carolina.
on our ith page, i from the Wash
lnSton City GUIDE. but Is drawn
mainly from Prof. Kerrs reports.
Two men. named McGinn ana
Scott, from Swift Greek, were jailed
on Monday under charge OF robbing
Banks store on Saturday. y part OF
the stolen goods was recovered.
Colonel Bonnltz. of the Goldsboro
Hotel has frescoed his Dining room
and added an iron piazza TO the front
of his house-adding considerably to
both its appearance and comfort.
Died in Granville Mrs. Mary Lyon,
Feb. %: Mrs. b. l.. Hester, Feb. %: Mrs.
l.. Montagu, Feb. %: VIM Ball, Feb. %:
Radford Gooch, Feb. "a. also a three
years old child of J. F.. Burroughes.
Esq.
The y. c. Home Fire Insurance
Company. John G.. Williams Esq.
PRESIDENT, has removed TO its original
quarters, next door to the Raleigh
Bank, and has fitted up a snuS and
convenient office.
The recent discussion Of the sub
Ject which sex controls. in breeding
horses and cattle" has resulted in the
issuing Of a circular by the Pennsyl-
vania Board of Agriculture asking the
$50 dairy farmers of hat State to
closely observe their herds and report
the conclusions they may arrive at.
When was the first experiment in
curing pork in salt water, or brine, re
corded in history? Ans. When Beelze-
bub and his troops entered the swine
and skedaddled violently down hill into
the salt sea. This, by the way, is the
only recorded instance wherein the devil
was forced to take water and it is
to be hoped it did him good.
The tournament, for the benefit of
the Lincolnton Military Company.
g.T1,o I'LL -, = > $780, n -.
cess. Messrs. B. F. Seagle, Tom Cost
ner, John Motz, and Jas. Templeton
carried off the honors, which they be-
slowed upon Miss Mary Phifer, queen,
Minnie Young, Miss Annie Michal,
and Miss Clara Lander, maids of honor.
Sixteen knights entered the list. The
hop at night was brilliant.
Our North Carolina ~laurels. in the
family way. must be passed over to
Pennsylvania. Nicholas Stroll, of
Mauch Chunk, aged 76, is the father
of thirty children the youngest one
three years. thus far, and has two hun
dred grandchildren, besides precincts
yet to hear from. This, III poker
playing pdrldnce, may be said to see"
Granville Gordon's 81 sons, and raise
him three chips better" Thirty
children. What a nice family to set
up an orphan asylum. poor-house,
cemetery o I something
That indefatigable and intellec-
tual, little lady, Mrs. Carrie Aiken
Harris (nee Jenkins editor of the South
atlantic, has engaged to write a series
of sketches of distinguished citizens
of Granville. for the columns OF the
Torch Light. And by the way, we
presume it will not be telling tales out
of school to mention that the flick Of
Mr.. Cicero w. Harris pen has been
very noticeable upon the y. G. Pres
byterian of late. We hope ere long
to see him dying his own flag tho
perhaps in a more secular field.
A call has been made for a grand raj
" of the citizens of Granville in Oxford,
~ uCSudN III l~th W olo
measures looking to the building of a
branch road from the Raleigh & Gas
ton trunk to Oxford. We do sincere
ly hope the meeting will be large and
influential, and hat it nay accom-
plish the end for which it has been
called. AS Raleigh would reap bene-
fits from the opening of a new arm-let
to draw in the rich products of Gran
vile, we should like to see some of u
leading capitalists interested therein.
On the 10th day of January, 1882,
a youth Of 10, with little money and
less education, entered the law office of
Judge Pope, at kaskaskia, Missouri.
He wrote as follows to his mother
my education is limited, but with