The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-13

- = few wards towards kinbalFs
- where he was met by Mr.. Bur
well who commenced a violent attack
n,,o1 him with a stout stick. Mr..
Manson was badly beaten over the
bsa1 and shoulders. We did not learn
the cause OF this unfortunate affair.
The celebration of
rho FRANKLIN and Washington Literary
Sncietits- corrected with Randolph
Macon College, viii take place on the
10Th and 10th Of this month. The al
dress before the two societies VIII De
delivered bv the Rev. w. e.. Starr. OF
Y G The chosen orators are Ne>Srs.
II 4 Southall and b. VI. trlzze!l. OF
the Franklin: and Messrs }. v Car
roll and j. IL. Holt. OF the Washing
ton.
This card. which appears IL a New
York paper, Is evidently vlllainous IN
its object: A lawyer requires the
services temporarily, of an accom-
plished and beautiful society lady, for
an honorable but peculiar duty, she
must have the entree To best society,
be intimately acquainted With leading
society and CLUB men. and must be
very clever. prudent ana diplomatic.
Address in strictest confidence.
We learn tina; the farm of Mr.. II. i
Bonev. near Wallace. Dupln county,
was visited on Sunday last by a very
destructive hail storm. which com
pietelv DESTROYED his whole crop OF
every kind. breaking windows, killing
geese. &c. Some OF the stones We're
as large as goose eggs. and they Tell
thick and fast for fifteen minutes.
covering the ground for several inches
in depth.-Stdr.
Lorillard's Parole. that defeated Ten
Brock (when he was sick. was de-
feated last Tuesday in a two and a
quarter mile race at jerome Park for
the Westchester cup. Bets of o Il
| and five TO one We're freely offered that
he would win. The horse that beat
him was General Phillips, owned by
S. ID. Bruce. He beat bv four lengths.
lie is a Texas horse. He is by Gleneig
out of La Polka. and is a powerful,
well-framed horse, III years OF age.
In color he is chestnut.-UI. star.
At the Confederate Decoration IN
Frederick City, Md, on Thursday last,
an immense attendance ~thronged Mt.
Olivet. and licked the grave of the
$50 COnfederateS therein. An anthem,
play SAs Ill ~ ~ VIZ iSAi ~
honor, poem of MIR. &. &. Smith, me
mortal ode. and annual oration, was
the order of exercises. Gen. ~Fitzhugh
Lee pronounced the latter, which is
said to have been a nod of touching
pathos and thrilling eloquence.
Mrs. Christiana q. Morton, near
Franklinton, was burned SO terribly
from a kerosene explosion that her life
A.
the fire place to light it, and in apply
ing a torch it exploded, covering her
with a sheet of flame. The oxford
Free Lance says: Stunned ana Devil
dered she rushed out in the yard and
e~ndeavored to ~eXtinguish the flames
by rolling over on the ground, but to
no A cOlored man, hearing
her cries, rushed through the house to
her assistance, and succeeded in
smothering the flames by throwing
owe them a ~coverlet seized from u
bed.
Morganton Blade Mr.. r. L.. Tav-
Tor, who has just returned from Bald
Mountain, states that he visited the
immense assure recently made In the
side OF the mountain that the crack
ranges from a few inches up to ten
feet in width, and extends a distance
of from 200 to 300 yards, while all
efforts made TO ascertain the depth
failed. Mr.. TAYLOR also states that
there IS another vast depression IN the
same mountain, which appears to have
originated from a similar cause, the
canyon formed being about three
hundred yards long and three hundred
feet deep, with large trees and rocks
standing intact, the whole having the
a IN 70 80 of n IN o. - n. 800.
Henderson Echo: Mr.. Fielding
Knott, a planter, who lives about ten
miles from this place, in Granville,
tried u market today BY placing
thereon q. 74S pounds of bright tobacco.
which brought him 81, 292. 80, making
an average of S4S. %. 49,. Henderson
has 90 mechanics, 6 resident phvsi-
clans, 4 lawyers, | resident minister.
dentist, 3 drug stores, 2 printing
offices, T. churches, "A white and 2 col
ored), Z TIN shops, ] tannery, l foun-
dry, 3 tobacco Warehouses for the sale
OF leaf tobacco, 2 hotels, | restaurant
~ stores, 6tobacco factories, 4 schools,
| lumber yard, 2 livery stables, 2 to
5 bacco box manufacturers, 2 coacl
shops, l dealer in iron and steel, and {
Masonic lodge.
? Rev. DR.. John Miller. who was sew
| eral months since tried by his Presbv
terry at New Brunswick. New jersey
tor preaching certain heresies. anc
deposed from the ministry, appealed
to the Northern General Assembly
t Ihls body met recently at Pittsburg
Pa, and after a full hearing Of Tia.
5, case the Assembly declined to sustain
Mr.. Mlller's appeal by a vote of PA t.
l6. The case has excited great interes
Ia the Presbyterian Church through
I OF the United States. DIR. Miller wa.
/, for several years the pastor Of the Sec
+ ond Presbyterian Church at Peters
burg, Va. He married the divorce,
wife Of the late ex-Gov. Thomas q
t Maryland, and daughter OF the late ex