The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-24
All Sorts.

habitants.
Rockingham Is erecting quite a mum
Der oi handsome and costly stores and
residences.
For the first time since the war Ia
Darius jail Is empty.
Mr. g l.. Gibson. Jr.. has executed
a map OF Cabarrus county.
Col. Waddell has been COMPELLED ~
stop his y temporarily in the
thlrd district on account OF III health.
Miles Reinhardt. colored. didn't
know 1t was loaded. Dr. Lawing got
the nall out. Lincolnton.
Col. Mallory says that the North
american Indian race. instead Of DIV
ing out, is steadily increasing.
Mr.. Alex. II. Stevens is said Il aspire
10 the Cni'ed States Senate. as the sue
cessor of General Gordon.
The ice machine is still running and
still sells pretty much ali the ice il
can make.
Two tobacco barns have been burned
IN Rockingham county within the
past week.
Intelligence is received here Of the
death, in Statesville, of Mr.. Hugh
Reynolds. an old and one Of the most
esteemed citizens of that town.
The people of Charlotte have
up to this time, contributed the rise
OF $4,000 to the relief of the people of
the yellow fever district.
Mr.. John w. Steele. of Scotel Irish
Township, Rowan county. had one
foot very nearly cut off by a moving
machine on the 14th.
Mr.. James A. Bennett of Rocking
ham. lost a barn of tobacco Saturday
evening by fire. 1t contained six hum
dred pounds of the very finest tobacco.
Judah ?. Benjamin has just for
warded $500 from London for the
benefit of the yellow fever sufferers at
New Orleans.
Mr.. Jacob Battle. of Rocky Mount,
will nov to Raleigh and associate
himself with Gen. w. r. Cox in the
practice of law.
The Spirit Of tie South says that Maj.
John D.. Shaw, of L~incolnton, has pur-
chased a house in Rockingham and
will sOOn return there to live.
The Raleigh Adrocate estimates the
membership OF the Methodist Church.
South. in North Carolina at 70. 900 all
branches of Methodism at 115, 900.
Mr.. II. H. Stoddard advises utilizing
small potatoes for poultry. Boil, mash,
thlcken with corn meal and then cover
the vessel SO that the meal gets we'll
steamed.
At Waynesville, Haywood county,
there is a poplar tree 80 feet 3 inches
in circumference, with bark 6 inches
thick. There is a chestnut tree even
larger.
Mr.. w. H. Farmers mill, located on
Tar river, about five miles from Will
son, was completely destroyed by fire
on last Sunday night.
1t cost Madame Theirs 500, 900 to
bury her husband. Shedding Theirs
is an expensive luxury in France
NeW York Herald.
Gambetta is said to be an orthodox
Jew by the Partisan Jewish papers.
They call Lord BeacOnsfield a hereto,
though born in the faith.
James Parton says that if there was
eve an honest man, Ben Butler is one.
Don't believe. then there was ever an
honest man.-Free Press.
The cost of the Billings trial to Sara
toga county, n. Y, is a trife over
$1,000 for everything excepting counsel
fees, which will amount to about 3d.
500.
Two Newark policemen (O'Toole
and Bock) are charged with stealing
fowls, and the worst Of it is that the
bodies and feathers of the chicken.
have been found upon their premises
and identified by the owner.
Charlotte Observer: MIR. Hugh T.
Rhyme, of Brevard Station, on the
Carolina Central Railroad. has Just
finished the digging of a well on his
place, the water of which IS SO strong
ly impr .gnated with sulphur as to
render it unfit for cooking purposes.
Much excitement prevailed in Nash
vile, Sunday, owe an attempt to open
d 2IdN6 III 4lOllIll o1ISeI SeIIlGIeI v.
The guard shot at and wounded the
parties, who got away and are I'M
known: blood tracks were discovered.
At Whitehead's saloon, on Whining
ton street, Saturday evening, a negro
named Jas. Allen was cut IN the neck,
ear and back by a man named Rogers,
who lives on the farm of Mr.. James
Harris. Rogers was arrested.
Special deputies have sen hither re
ports from Yadkin and Davie counties,
North Carolina, that they have cap
tured seven illicit stills and fixtures.
nearly eight thousand gallons of mash
and a quantity OF whiskey.
the Southern Stars with a handsome
-. locnrn thar Let e. rLo Co.