The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-12

stokes has IN eieven pound turnip.
! rabbit hunt il S:5kes uettci thirty
Or. Roam. IF Yanc-yvule. i .sill
very To-" tie Is 3 years of AZ.
Hog meat sells at fve cents a pound
at Reidsviile, Rockingham county.
Twenty three persons r~ecentlv uri
tel with the Presbyterian Church. Al
ReidsyIlle.
A mule threw Mr.. II Covan Il
lean, OF Rowan. the other dav. and
broke two OF his ribs.
Rev c VI. shepperson. d. u. of
Shoe Heel. goes To Arkansas. whence
he received a pastoral cali.
Maj 1eates will carry before Con-
gress his contest for a seat in that body
from the inst district Of this State.
j. srs. Mclaughlin 4 Clark have
A. LeaZer and Il. l.. Goodman. Our
best wishes 10 new aud old.
Mr.. John Simpson. a worthy citizen
of Oak Forest township. Iredeil coun-
". dropped dead in his cotton patch
while engaged II picking cotton. on
Friday last.
A negro. jim Withers, III Arson
county. attempted TO get on "A wagon
loaded with cotton While ii was III mo-
ton. His foot slipped, he fell under
the wheels, they ran over him and
killed him.
Pittsboro Record 4 mail route viii
soon be established between Pittsb1ro
and Chapel Hill. and p~ostotices To-
Gated at Bynum's Factory and Hack
ney StOre......At the last term of our
Superior Court nearly every overscer
of a public road in the county was
presented by the grand jury.
Macon county correspondence Ashe-
Vile citizen: Col. Hutchinson. of
Hutchinson City, Kansas, has arrived
at the Highlands with his family. and
is building a splendid residence. He
takes a h~alf-interest in the property
with 5. T. Kelsey. They have Just
published a splendid circular that cost
them some 5000 90.
Asheville CHizen: Four families of
Swiss emigrants have recently pur-
chased 400 acres of land in Buncombe
100 each. and located. This is the
most sensible move we have heard of
among emigrants. The great tronble
with people seeking homes, as we'll as
our land generally, Is attempt
ing to get, or possessing, large plantao
tons. One hundred acres of land, is
enough.
Salisbury Waterman On last Mon
dav evening a drunken nan in pass
ing a woman on the street threw his
arms around her in a familiar way.
when the woman jerked loose and
dealt him a blow on the back of the
neck with a large, black kerosene bot
tie. breaking it TO pieces. The man
who was a stranger here,fell, after
about ten feet of promiscuou5 stumb-
ling.
The legislature will meet on the Sth
of January. There are some questions
of Importance to the farming interests,
that the Patrons of Husbandry, and
the agriculturalists of the State, must
give their attention to secure the &C
ton of our Representatives. We here
indicate some Of them A general
stock law, giving special consideration
to the protection of sheep h~usbandry.
Improve the school law; make it re-
quisite that the previous years poll tax
has been paid before a man can exer-
else a right to vote. This poll tax is
the main stay of the school fund, and
the educational interests of the State
are absolutely necessary to the en-
lightenment and prosperity of the
State. The school law and sheep nus
bandry are subjects in which Patrons
are deeply interested; let the influence
of the order be brought to bear to sue
cessfully secure them Concord Regis
ten,