The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-15


nous Prima Dona can be CLEANED
from the fact that since PATHS mar
riage about 800 600 Of her property
have been administered BY her arristo-
cratic husband, who still holds S320.-
900 of her money in his investments.
If she loses her law suit he can claim
half of it, and this he is doing his best
to do.
" ou will observe that we haven't
hystericated over that Richmond excur-
sion. Our regular charge for advertising
we fought bled, and died to save her
from being undermined by Nc Clellan's
swanlp-ra.s, spoonified by Ben Butler,
oakum ballcd by Uric Dahlgren, and
finally squeezed into the everlasting
''give-i'-ups, by Grants Anaconda.
But charity begins at home-among
poor folks, and, twas rather long trip
for dinner any how.
We didn't give long account OF
the eclipse last week because we think
any man who is too poor to own a
piece of glass, or too lazy to smoke it
ought'nt to be encouraged. 1t was
well known that this was the last time
the celestial Bottom rail- would be
seen ION top, on this continent dur
the present century: and as very few of
us have made arrangements for living
on into the next century, any body who
wanted to see the pale Luna kiss
her cold SOL should have prepared a
sOOt-ible glass-ometer.
The wonderful Sutro tunnel which
for six or eight years has been slowly
creeping into the heart Of the noun
tain to intersect the bottom of the fa-
! nous Bonanza" and "California"
silver mines; is now completed and not
only drains the mines, but serves as a
draft or fiue through which the fresh
air sucks so strong as TO blow out the
lights. The tunnel is four miles long,
and so straight that the mouth can be
seen from the inner end: it looks like
small silver star. A railroad runs in
the tunnel to haul out the ore.
A young factory girl. who was re-
turning from the house of sick frien d
with whom she hal watched for sew
eral nights, was seized in one of tn e
best streets Of New York, by four
brutes who dragged her to an obscure
alley, aud kept her for half an hour, a
victim of their violence. Her screams
at length induced pantalooned COW
ard to run-not to her rescue-for the
police Finally the BlueCoats came,
and managed to arrest one men, who,
however, is thought not to be the right
one. All this on a bright moonlight
night, in the heart of the Metropolis
of y ankee DOM
About the most sensa tional. lying
tale, erected upon small foundation,
is the New York Herdlds telegram,
from Virginia White Sulphur, giving
account of the ''mysterious midnight
maraudings" of the Chapel Hill bur
glars Among the ''incidents'' So
called were the struggle Of one lady,
who seized the burglar and beat his
nose into Jelly. Another young lady
seized his beard, but her hold broke.
Names and circumstances are stated in
very false and annoying manner
p. S. But the Herdld's liar is not
much ahead of witless account i'll
the Washington Capital, of a scholar
lv female North Carolina acrobat who
is quite an Amazon in muscle. while
she might be regarded as We
nus in point of beauty, a Min
erva for mind and Diana for
modesty," who practiced on trapeze,
and became SO active that when the
robber@approached expecting her TO
howl.she vaulted over his head kicked
him on the nape of the neck, tied him
-''with pair of garters"-says the
narrator land was pummeling him
with the chair, while he yelled muir
der, when numerous professors IN
| night gowns rushed on the scene and
rescued the tar-heel Tarquin from his
proposed victim.
n,ry CTTv NINSTpEIC Prof Rak or Is