The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-07

-COl- +. DOnan, the da5nlng, slash
in" newspaper yelocipede cant say
locomotive because it requires a beaten
track or groove, to run il, whereas
Donan doesn't las taken charge Of
the Bentonsville 4dr0nce; and now we
shall hear more of Bentonsviile than
ever We heard before.
The report that there was soon TO
be change in the management of the
Wilmington & Weldon r. r. is author
itatively denied. President Bridgers,
Sapt. Divine. and Gen Agent Pope
are al experienced railroad men and
we have no doubt give entire satisfac-
ton to the stockholders. Their road
is the only one in the State we believe.
whose stock is above par.
No wonder shirts are cheap :.
No wonder starvation stands open
ly menacing not few doors even
here in our goodly capital city. The
Ne,rs mentions that "a most worthy
young lady reluctantly applied for as
siGeance from the Y VI. {. a because
she had lost the employment which 70, :
merly kept off the wolf: viz: making
shirts at ? cents piece; and drawers
at the same, and mems pantaloon's at
4 cents pair, or ) cents when pressed.
Cit ems OF Charlotte interested in
gold mining have organized Gold
Board with R. NJ Miller. Prest.; Geo.
3. Hanna. Y. L. The Board has called
upon the Cows. Vance and Hampton
to join them in a memorial to Con-
gress for the appointment of Min
ing commissioner" whatever that may
be- cor the Carolinas.
"A servant girl IN Baltimore
boarding house jumped out of a third
S ory window to escape a man who
locked the door after she entered. Her
az was broken By s.led roof, and
sae Was no, badly hurt. This is put
ting into practice what Rebecca, in
''Ivalhoe' merely threatened TO do
Miss Bertha VanHillern is certainly
the "Queen Of Tramps" She walked
one hundred miles in one day and four
hours, or % consecutive hours This
is more than the best horse in America
could do in two DAYS Think of the
muscles That could travel mile in ten
minutes, and keep it up all day and all
night. No wonder the fair Bertha is
still a Miss. 1t would be brave lover
that dare risk bein. kicked by such
4 sweetheart
W. I'll. Vanderbilt the richest
man in Amsrica, and the central igure
of the biggest scandal (Beecher ex-
cepfed), last fall in driving his light
ming trOtter, ran over and badly in
jured, Mathew Riley, a poor laborer.
The matter was kept secret until the
o,her day Riley died of his injuries,
and now Vanderbilt is under bonds to
appear at an investigation. some
times called tria:.
Now all these stories going the
rounds about women's ways how
they always sit on the floor to put on
their stockings. and sleep curled up.
IN curve. like Adams house cat or
the sleeping Venus of Titan, they re all
fudge there ism t a word of truth in
them. Women sleep just like. Or, at
least-that is-you see-anyhow, We
should think they didn't Not that we
can speak from personal knowledge, of
course.
The Tart Field and Farm mentors
the purchase by W. Plumer Bachelor
(of the Weldon News, of Austral,
blooded horse by Australian. out of
Coral by Nandal. The Roanoke religion
bicS fair to have some fine stock ere
long. The same authority gives the
pedigree of Gen. Matt Ransom's MARY
Long" who it says was a good race
horse won six or eight races in 1875
and two in 1876" She was foaled in
1870 from Warminster, by Nav Day.
DR.. Jos. Graham. and D.. H. G.
Woodtin, have valuable articles in the
North Carolina Medical Journal the
latter treating of Milk Sickness. SO
common in North Carolina Dr. s. L.
Love has pamphlet nearly ready for
publication respecting the same sub
ject. He attributes the :. sickness :"
10 arsenic in the soil animals which
eat the earth from the fatal spots
(Which are usually fenced up TO keep
the cattle away. inyaria bly, die in short
order.