The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-11

kinston .JouluaI: The crops in Jones
county were badly injured by the long
d:ought in the growing season. Some few,
however, made good crops. Lenoir county
crops are cut short by the same Cause
W. w. Russell and Captain Bloodgood kill
ed nineteen coons in one day on Bald Head
banks, at the mouth Of the Cape Fear
In Pamlico county the firm of Hadder 4
Go. dc an immense business in the lumber
trade. They saw about l., 900 feet of lum-
Der per day, the bulk of which is shipped
North.-A new and handsome hotel at
Morehead seems now to be assured. 1t is
be three stories high, go feet front by AS
back, with $50 rooms, with a ball room
similar ID the one in the old Atlantic. We
learn that our tOwnsman, j. f. Parrot,
will furnish the bill of lumber-about BOO
000.-Here's another big tale our reporter
gathered up Panlico court A rat gatt. en-
ed from one vine, in VIM. Hines potato
patch, 80 potatoes, aud stored them away
In his nest. He cut them off when about
the size of mans finger, and the vine kept
growing and bearing until digging time,
when the lat nest was found with about "A
peck of these potatoes, and only this one
vine had been disturbed.
Raleigh Observer: The Raleigh and Gas
ton railway has purchased two new and
powerful englnes.-1he Catholic Fair
was a success in all ways. the net receipts
being over S500.-A number of new cot
tages are going on up south OF the North
Carolina Railroad. At the meeting of
Wake Read Supervisors. !. {. 5. Lumsden
was signed to the Hillsboro road W. ID.
Haywood to the Louisburg road; c. d.
iIeartt 20 the Asylum road.-The Masonic
Hall is Of immense proportions, with dou-
Die rows Of chairs on raised platform skirt
ing the four sides. At a proper distance
above these seats are hung very creditahle
pictures of all the Grand Masters Of the
Grand Lodge of North Carolina. At the
east end of the bali is the seat of the Grand
Master; to his left is the desk of the Grand
Secretary, and to his right the chair Of the
Treasurer. On the sides and mt the other
end are the seats appropriated TO other EN-
inent officers of the lodge. The tloor is we'll
carpeted.
Five of New York's miIlionaires, esti-
mated to have been worth three hundred
and eight million dollars. dropped off close
together. seymour, " writing to the Hart
ford Times, says: John Jacob Astor went
first, and then in quick succession Commo-
dare Vanderbilt, A. +. Stewart and Will
liam t. Rhinelander, and now the money
worshipper Goelet. Astor's wealth was es-
h'tN ~ .co'pO' oOO, NouoCl III > DIT |
800, O0O, 900, and Stewards about the same
Rhinelander's property represented,
it supposed, $lO,O OO, 900, and Goelet's is
at $50, 600, 900.
The Zulu lady wears her wedding ring in
nose. A double purpose is thus served.
1t ~discourages promiscuous kissing, and she
is in little danger of losing her ring. She
nose where it is.
Mr.. c. NJ. Pendleton, probably the oldest
printer in the State, formerly one of the
owners of the Salisbury Wotchmon, and a
man a man of high christian character and
many virtues, died recently in ThOmasville,
aged IS.
The proprietor of the Warm Springs is
adding seventy-tive more rooms to his no.
tel, which runs the number of sleeping
in the building to three hundred.