The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-03

The Da ~ Neacs reports t77o en-
tries OF stores, by upper windows, anC
attempts to bore into the ron safes
The %afe Of Mr.. 7. S. Love was dsillet
in several places, TWO inches deep
That OF NJ. w. G. Upchurch not 81
| deep.
The filthy suit between the tive
old granaies MIS- Simony Cameron.
and Colonel Mary Oliver, has gone t.
tire jury. BsasS Butler, after extract.
ing al the SC .ndaI possible from it,
moved to non-suit, but the Court, for
| OAce, showed some sense.
-Thera are few cheaper things
than newspapers. The FARMER AND
MECHANIC for one month contains as
much reading, g, mucl paper, ink,
y: q typ setjnG as b0 K which sells
for s2.00. Yet tw-lye mon: h are fur
nished for only that amount
Eighty (ard upwalds) quires of
thick white paper make a prsty sight
to look upon when counted down for
the lressnlan;, bu1, Goodness Gracious.
what an ugly ! cta,la they present
when counted up Oh the paper makers
BIZ :. Nevertheless it i5 a sight we have
TO f~ce every Saturday.
Oar friends who have written us
words Of commend alton IN respect to
recent changes ia the management Of
TINS paper, and It's Gt neral appearance,
Ia
heir KINDNESS. We va ue the good
viii OF all eur friends, and we shall
certainly net soon forget the eff rts
that some of them are making to ex-
t. cd the influence and Usefulness of
our paper.
A comet, said TO be half & million
of miles long, is within sight Of the
astronom ers), and coming like creased
ligh ming directly towards tho Earth.
But we dent care continental. II
there is to be a collision, in tha Ian
guage of Pat Henry, we say-'Lat it
come" May be the cid thing thinks
1t can frighten somebody. Nary
time - can't comet.
-WEsTtRN FEDERAL COURT-sTsets
in Ashyille SO (says the CitiZen) on the
1st Tuesday IN May. Among those
drawn as jui ors are John Y. McEatyro
j. ID. McCluce, J. W. Metcalf aud
Thos. Wilson of Rutherford. county:
w. Ii. Higdcn, Marshal Davis. F. J.
Herhit, II. erica. X. G.. Pace, Leander
Lyttle, B. K. Dickey, L. c. Hall, L. j.
Gambler, N, 3. Hampton, j. NJ. Hamil-
ton and others.
With regret we learn Of the af-
ion that has befallen one of our
patrons, Mr.. Geo. w. Branch, of En-,
field, whose infant daughter WAS, it is
deliberately poisoned by the
negress nurse. The mo i've is supposed
to have been that the nurse was pre-
vented from attending some religious
at night by the wakefulness
of the child. The nurse was taken to
Halifax Jail, and will be tried for
murder at the next court.
The Vanderbilt, (S.) will suit has
collapsed. Cornelius, the young scape
grace, has crawled out of the small
end of the horn eating humble-pie
towards his Eighty millionaire brother,
who is so glat;fiel with the result that
ne purposes giving "Corueil' some-
thing to live on. The ''results" are
the blackening of the dead father and
mother, the dissemination of no end Of
scandal, and the advertising of the
family scheming and triclSery.
There was an astonished citizen |
up at Alexandria Va, he other day. |
The United States Marshals boarded !
he train, and seized the b9ggags of |
IS. b. Stewart. The dispatch says
IS Stewart, who will be remembered as
recusant witness in the Credit Mo-
oilier investig CATION, is accused OF hav-
ug, as q member of the firm of |
Swepson & Co., Of Raleigh, n. c..
some improper come cti0n with bonds
to a million or two Of OIL
ars, belonging to the West m North
railroad, the Florida Central
and the Jacksonville Pensa@
;@la and Mobile railroad, and JudS-
nent has been obtained against HIM.
II the U. s. District Court of Florida.