The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-07-03

Charlotte O5sercer: The trial OF young
Stikeleather. in Statesyille, on a charge at
once the most repulsive and among the most
serious known to the law, resulted IN MS ac-
q%uittal. The jury were out only a shore
while, showing that there was no one OF
them who for a moment entertainer al iu1a
of his guilt. The verdict meets with the
approval of the community. y es'erday
morning Major J. 4. Sadler suffered a
slight shock of paralysis in one OF his eyes
and a Il part cf his face, running down ana
affecting his tongue.-At Llncointon, last
Monday morning, Sheriff Robinson went up
stairs in the Jail to give the five prisoners
their breakfast. As he opened the door OF
the room in which the five were confined,
having his pistol in his hand, one OF them;
a negro named Gillian, seized INN around
the arms and waist. The attack was alto
gether unexpected, the Sheriff having lett
the prisoners manacled the night before,
but he made a manful resistance. la at
temnting to close the door behind him, he
had it slammed too, and one Of his hands
badly lacerated, and at this J%uncture he was
Overpowered and the pistol wrested from his
hands. Three shots were fired at HIM, but
happily without effect, and four OF the
prisoners rushed down the stairs, and with a
piece of iron burst a panel out of the door.
Through this they escaped, while Sheriff
Robinson engaged the hindmost prisoner
and beat him back into the cell with the
handle OF a broom. One prisoner was cap
tured.
Gold9boro Nessohgey Hon. W. T. Dortch
left here Tuesday evening at the instance Of
represent the State of North Carolina in the
suit of the Western North Carolina Railroad
Company against the Florida Central and
jacksonville, Pensacola q Mobile Railroad
Companies, to come up IL the I. :. Circuit
Court at Jacksonville neXt week.-The
Sampson County Agricultural Society will
hold It's Annual Festival and Fruit Exhibi-
ton at the Clinton Female Institute on
Thursday, July 3lst.-The yield of the
rice crop III this section, the present year,
will not fall short Of 50, 900 bushels. Twenty
thousand bushels found market here last
year.-Somebody is laboring hard to
arouse a kansas craze" among the negroes
here, but the scheme, whatever its object,
will doubtless fall still born" We see that
another Kansas meeting is advertised for
Saturday next, and ex-Gov. Brogden, Col.
l.. W. Humphrey and others are announced
as speakers, but, we take it for granted,
without their consent.
Elizabeth City C~arolintan: Chowan
items: The Telegraph Company has given
the contract for building the line to Col.
Guirkin, Of Elizabeth City.-The steamer
Chowan was run into the wharf on last We'd
nesday evening, resulting in considerable
damage.-Currituck dots: On the 10Th
inst. a difficulty occurred on the steam
dredge Fitz Hugh, at work in Currituck
Sound, between two white men, John Muir
ray, employed in the L. S. Engineer ser
vice, and Stephen Rawley, a workman on
the dredge. The former drew a knife upon
the latter, inf1lctlng serious wounds. Muir
ray was arrested and taken to Currituck |
jail, and Rawley sent to the hospital at Nor
folk.-On the 9TH INST, at Williams
Store, near Reedy Branch, Joseph Lyon
and Nat. Chaddic, both colored, collided.
When the fight was over, Chaddic was minus
his entire under lip, bitten off clear down to
the chm. On sweeping the store it was
found. Lyon left.
We were informed on yesterday by Capt.
Jas. ). Lane that the crops in Pamlico
county are all that the heart of man can
wish, III TACT, that they are by far the finest
that he has ever seen In that section. Can't.
Lane IN such matters is good authority, as
he IS one OF the very best practical farmers
III this State; he does not treat with con
tempt all knowledge derived from agricul-
tural Journals or works, but has the good
Judgment to wlnnow the bad from the good.
and the foresight to turn to his profit the
experiences OF OtnerS.-Nelc
Bern Democrat.
Winston Leader:: A difficulty occurred
on Sunday morning, in the northern portion
OF town. between ID. Morgan and Newton
Petree, IN which three shots were fred.
Newt. shot himself through the thumb.
and one ball passed through the brim Of
Morgan hat.
Fielding, Knott, of Granville. sold one
two-horse load of fine leaf tobacco last weat
Tor 81 ,227.37. That cannot be beaten on
side OF Granville. A. j. Wright averaged
s5S.23 for one barn, all grades.
Plttsboro Record: Our community was
shocked and startled at hearing. last Satur-
day afternoon, that the residence Of Mr.
Nat. NJ. Hill, two miles west of here. was
destroyed by fire. vas
The editor of the Goldsboro Mail lost his
gold spectacles at Wake Forest COLLEGE, hnt