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

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Amos Wade. 0: New bern. shipped is
Durham. 6.CO0 pounds OF fine tobacco
raised by him. Goldfish arc being
| captured IN Albemarle and Pamlico
sounds, for the iirst time in the mem
DRY of the oldest inhabitant
meeting Of directors of the Western
| Division. W. y. {. r. r. will be held
III Ashevllle on Saturday T.. c.
Grier & Son, OF Providence. Neck
lenburg county, have started their
cotton factory with fine promise of
success. A bale Of cotton weighing
92l pounds was brought to Charlotte
from Gaffney City Kerosene oil is
only II cents per gallon in Charlotte
since the big tank began its opera
tions......N. Dumont Esq, delivered a
lecture in Charlotte on the influence
OF the Sun and Moon upon the tides
and weather.....Capt John L. Moore,
Surveyor of Mecklenburg. died last
-. .McEinch's cigar factory in Char
lotte employs 16 hands -. Or. John ID.
Mclean died at Brevard Station last
week 'Oliver Optic" gave readings
for the end. Presbyterian church.
Charlotte, in the parlor of Mrs. S. Y.
Young. Col. Steele las bill appro
priating $4,000 for expense Of inves-
tigating the army worm Gen
Scales, a bill to have the Federal
Court hold one term at Charlotte.
Van Amburgh's circus will gather up
the sabie-son-o of-aguns scented shin
plasters at Charlotte on Wednesday.
......Capt. A. w. Moore, of the
schooner Katie, on Friday last,
killed real live seal in New River,
near the inlet. 1t was a female, meas
uring seven feet in length, and Is
inches thick, weighing $50 pounds.
Capt. Moore was out hunting, in a
yawl, when he saw what, at first, he
supposed to be a negro swimming
towards the boat. Discovering that
it wasn't darkey he shot it with both
barre.s of his gun. 1t produced u
gallons of oil. i. Mecklenburg Presbv-
terry will meet in Monroe, April 10 at
noon......Judge Cloud has appointed
Isaac III. Nestal to be Clerk of Yadkin
county. IA large German barque was
wrecked at Hatteras inlet on Thursday
night last. No assistance could be rem
dered and she soon became a total
wreck. The bodies of the captain and
two or three men washed ashore w
Old negro named Jerry, found dead in
the road by the side of his cart, near
Enfield THE negroes have been ex-
amining into the Worley murder, in
Wayne, and report as the result of
their investigations that Noah Cherry
and Bob Thompson are the guilty par
s.....Col. c. w. Alexander has APP
pointed DR.. j. w. Neil and T. b. Full
Ter, of Fayetteville, to be Surgeon and
Sergeant Major of the 2nd Mr.
James w. Smith of Richmond county,
was struck on the head By negro a
few days ago. and almost fatally
wounded 49,. There will be more tur-
pentine produced in Moore county this
year than any preceding year.
Goldsboro, which had a population at
the date Of incorporation in lS47, of 200,
contains according to a late census
3, 700 inhabitants. . Rev. DIR. Deems
has made sacrifice that is well worthy
of mention in such times as these. He
rufused TO accept one dollar of the
SEQ. 900 legacy bequeathed him by the
late Cornelius Vanderbilt, but gave il
to the Church Of the Strangers, Of
which he Is the pastor. He did this
quite privately and it IS but recently
known.