The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-03

lrvlr gton, \. y. on the 25th. in
his 9>nd year. He was once a
prominent lawyer III New York
city.
Tarboro S,uiLeruer: Col. II. G.
Williams has sold his excellent
weekly Wilson ~-i,icuure) to I.
Hob9ood and John +. Woodland.
Esqs., "a strong team. who viii
sustain the reputation and charac-
ter OF the paper in every particular.
Among the victims Of the yellow
fever j. Joseph 4. k%ittrell, form
erly of Oxford, y. c.. and a broth
er of Mrs. Judge Gillian. He
died at Winona, Mississippi, aged
As. One of the purest and trucst
OF men has fallen.
Prof. Wood has analyz.d the
seed of Sophora Spcciosa, "a native
plant Of Texas, and has detected a
new alkaloid, which he names So
phorla. Half o. one of the seeds is
SAID to be sufficient to produce de-
llclous eXhilaration, followed BIZ a
sleep lasting one or two days.
A Russian paper reports that
during the war with Turkey the
Russian soldiers fired, 10, 200, 900
cartridges, killing and wounding
100000 Turks. For every sixty
SIX shots fired, a man was hit.
This IS better than the Germans
did IN the Franco German war.
\ chapter Of orphans from the
Oxford Orphan Asylum will give
entertainments at the following
places Faison's Depot, Friday,
October 4th; Kenansville, October
9TH; Magnolia, 9TH; Wilmington,
Sth; Smithville, 9th; Burgaw, 18th;
Point Caswell, 18th; Warsaw, 18th;
Goldsboro, 18th.
The Marquis de Los Mantilia,
the Spanish ambassador at Wash
ington, and husband of Madame
Mantilla, whose costumes form a
ne~yer-ending theme for women cor
respondence, was sued for a bill by
a Saratoga livery stable keeper, but,
pleading his privilege as a foreign
minister, proceedings were drop
ped.
Some of the boys of Carrollville,
Wis, made a midnight parade,
wrapped in shoes, and starting from
the village graveyard. Their idea
was to scare whoever saw them.
They succeeded. Three women
went into commissions at the sight,
one sick man was thrown into re-
lapse, and a girl broke her arm by
a fall in climbing hastily over a
fence.
Last Saturday a little boy, son
Of Mr.. w. Cook, was bitten in five
places on his hand by a pilot snake.
He died Sunday morning from the
effects Of the bite. Rev. Il. L..
Abernethey preached the funeral
in the College Chapel, and the
child was buried in the Methodist
grave yard, Monday evening.-Hap-
Ply Home Reporter.
The English cotton mills strike
has been compromised. Supplies
have been ordered for the Indian
army. Petermann, German ge-
ographer, is dead. :. Fetes for the
benefit Of the yellow fever sufferers
are organizing in Paris under the
patronage of Madame Mcmahon.
....F. G.. Minor has been %convic-
ted at Cleveland, Ohio, for robbery
of graves.
An experienced railway mechan-
ic repeats and indorses the theory
that a locomotive must have ten
) hours rest in twenty-four, just like
a human being. Who knows but
what a locomotive or any Other
piece of fine machinery may have {
dim sort of individuality that feel:
and appreciates the difference be
: tween rest and motion 1t ism
many years since it was discovered
5 that plants were sensitive and sui
, fer.
J A correspondent of the Journa
: Of Agriculture writes Having haC
: some experience with mad itch il
, cattle, | want to soy to my fellow
! farmers, beware Of feeding you.
; swine on green corn stalks, as it i
; a common practice with some, anc
then letting your cattle have acces
to your feed grounds. The hog
will chew the substance from tn
: stalks and spit out the remainde
i'll punches; the cattle eat this re
: fuse, and it clogs the manifold
causing this dread disease.