The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-14

Current News Notes.

The American Woman Suffrage As
atior met at indianapolis Tuesday.
A clergyman Canon Simpson. has
been elected IN yor Of Applrby. Eng
land.
Letters from persons DESTROYS of
adopting orphans are pouring INTO
Memphis.
According to a salesman of expert
once, the average New York woman
wears a s. shoe.
Winter has set in very early III Eng
land. There was a snow Storm III Lon
don on October 3Osli.
A bill to abolish capital punishment
has been killed in the Vermont house
by a vote of 157 to 90.
TIE present depression i i The tobac-
co maraet l. greatly due TO The $4,000
hogsheads now in foreign markets.
All the foreign ministers resident at
the Capital are back at Washington,
except the Italian, Mexican and Japa-
nese.
Anarchist, /" replied a Socialist
Zea'ot, when asked three weeks = in
a Paris court wat he was by profess
sion.
There are 4, $50 men in France en-
gagged in the manufacture Of lamps,
and the annual product is worth 30,
O0O, 900 francs.
DIR. Hollands summer residet ce
must be a very picturesque affair It is
painted o~llve-gteen and Cardinal reds
Quite a nobby house.
Joaquin Miller has come home and
cut off his hair. He may be seen on
the streets of New York is now in an
ulster and a SLOUGH hat.
Vicksburg, Miss. went pretty solil-
ly Democratic-1. 90l woes for the reg.
ular nominee, 8 for the Rel ublican can
didate and / for the Independent.
The Philadelphia Times considers
Gov. Hendricks 'as likely a man as any
now named to be at the iron when the
next Democratic convention meets"
The once greatly-praised tempered
glass has 10 fallen into disfavor. It's
liability to explode is fatal to the flu
ture magnitude of the indu stry of which
this is 4 basis.
Influential men belonging to the ma
tioual greenback- labor party, among
them Gen. B. f. Butler, have decided
to call a meeting of the national COM
mittee of the new party az Washington
the 30th.
A resident of Macon, Ca, is said to
have invented a phonograph which pos
sesSeS a mOle even o than the Edl-
son instrument, and does away entirely
with the diaphragm.
General William B. Hazeu, of our
army, WI was ordered to Wen ma about
q year aud a half ago, with Instructions
- observe the organization of the Aus
triau army, has returned to New York.
In Switzerland, whose population is
less than 5000, 600, there were l0S per
Sol murdered last year. There is a
loud demand among the Swiss for the
restoration Of capital punishment.
A skunk GIT into the basement of
Grace Church at ~1anauoQue, Out, one
evening last week while a prayer-mett-
ing was in progress, aud the congrega-
ton was dismissed without waiting for
the benedictiOn.
The life-saving service is crippled in
its funds and rendered unable TO es-
tab ish the additional stations needed
on the Atlantic coast. by the way in
which its appropriations are squander-
ed by its Chi +.
There are enough spindlos within
twenty miles of Atlanta, Ga. to con-
sumo ten thousand ba'es of cotton an
nually, the city proper having one fac
tory alone employing six hundred
hands.
Paris correspondents of the London
] Q rspapers So y that the %soluleriy APP
y, and fine marching Of the
American marines excited general az
N irat;on then they marched before
Marshal MacMahon tn oeher day.
A man at Anglers. in Fran ce, wlo
Was turned away by a woman WI b
whom he had been living, because 9
had ill-used her, ~Ieyenged himself by
taking her little skye az Old girl from
school and hanging heI IN a neie h bor-
ing wood.
While on his way to Jackson. MissiSs-
ippi, recently, during the yellow fever
scare, Governor Stone. OF that State,
was arrested at Meridian, and made to
show a clean bill of health before he
was permitted to enter a hotel or pro-
coed on his journey.
Two parties Of med cal Students in
Vermont went out after the same
corpse. The first to arrive on the
ground ambushed themselves and let
the second party exhume the corpse,
then rushed upon them with wild
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