The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-13
lsa!eisb mo Roundabout.
VOL. IL.

The grading on the Narrow Guage
Railroad is completed to within a half
mile of Newton.
Married in Wilmington. June 9th
bv Dr. Watson. John l.. Mafitt and
Miss Sallie b. Ounce.
\ correspondent in another col
umn urges that contributions be sent
to oxford Orphan Asylum.
There will be "a called meeting of
Insurance company. June 18th.
Maj Shaws letter from Currituck
shows a bad state of things. We trust
the favorable turn has been reached
ere now.
The Democrats carried Oregon
last week by small majority thereby
securing another Democratic Senator.
The man arrested in Texas as the
murderer of Thompson i'll Orange
county proves to be not Loydd.
Life. in daylight. must be very
irving To the Rat family. Let even a
stray leaf drop and they scatter in
,tanter. nineteen ways for Sunday.
The Catholic Sunday School, and
invited friends, had pleasant picnic
at the farm of John G. Williams Esq,
five miles from Raleigh OH Tuesday
Total number bales of cotton re-
ceived in this city since Sept. fst, A.
1872: being an increase of 1,51S bales
over the receipts of last year, same
dates.
DIR. j. Francis King of Whining
ton has remanded to the government
the Marine Hospital property, because
Il. these hard times it wouldn't pay to
own such an elephant.
ON Sunday at Laurmburg, Miss
Annie f. Anderson, daughter of the
late w. $. Anderson of Wilmington,
was badly burned and shocked by
stroke of lightning.
w. P. Reinhart Esq, of Catawba
working friend of the Department.
sends some splendid specimens of oats
and also of ''rye-straw''-seven feet
tall.
VIM. Cullen Bryant, the poet
editor died at o'clock on Wednesday
morning. He was a noble specimen
Of intelligent manhood, and his works
will live after him.
DR.. A. K. Ledoux has gone to
CORNWALL ll-on-the- Hudson for a brlet
yacation-Mrs. Ledoux having been
quite Ill some time past. We trust
they will return entirely reinvigorated,
A negro made rush at the keeper
OF Pitt county Jail as the latter opened
the door to bring in supper, and run,
ming through Greenville, jumped oil
the.bridge into the swamp and escaped
though thrice fired at by excited citi-
zens.
For lack ofspace. we have to sum.
marize the most of our clippings OF
State news, and almost invariably we
md the items, condensed just as we
desire them, in the columns of the
Ddtiy Star. which is a great convent
ence.
Mr.. w. f. Trogdcn, a merchant OF
greensboro, was arrested, and carried
70 Richmond, upon a requisition from
The aovernor of Virginia, charged
with obtaining goods under false
pretense. He was examined on Sat
uruay, and remanded to jail, pending
further investigation Four firms ap
pear against him.
There are three divorce cases Oh
\ Ooeket of the Superior Court for Wax.
III ,ouhty which opens June oath, will
81 YuoSe Seymour upon the Bench
II ihey are Cole VS.. Cole, Jones VS.
II 1ohes, Leigh VS.. Leigh. '.Johl
n p'oWns soul is a marching along.
before the war North Carolina didn'
n"'e three divorce cases in the whole
state IN three years.
-lhe Temperance people have ap
p"'eh'ly lost much ground in Nortl
''iiha of late. Raleigh, Monroe
's''eNille. Charlotte, and other point
ave voted to license the insidlou
VINO makes the state pay TWEEN