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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-12

HALIFAX, Dec. l1.-Bya an explosion of dy-
Mantle at Tangled yesterday, Geo. Ferguson,
his son James and nephew Joseph Ferguson
were instantly killed.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-12

OFFICE OF OBSERVATION, SIGNAL CoRPs, q. g.
INaERsoLL BLOCK. THIRD STREET,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

RAILROAD SPIKES. - The Greensboro
State says the grading forces at each end of
the c. F. 4 \. Y. Il. r. are within %
miles Of each other, and going right ahead.
The Patriot says: The Richmond and
Danville Railroad authorities are SO we'll
pleased with the two ten wheeled engines
just ordered six more of the same make
and size. They will reduce the number of
freight trains running daily, by carrying
longer ones, as is done on the Pennsylva-
MIA railroads. Nh. George Troxler, of
Gibsonville, had his left hand badly torn in
his cotton gin.-George Witherspoon, the
engineer on Capt. Spraggins' train going
South, Monday morning, was severely
scalded in the face by hot talIow. at High
Point. He had picked up his tallow box
and was unscrewing the top, when the hot
fluid sputtered into his face.-Thc Wades-
boro UcruH says: The track LAYING or
the CheraW & Wadesboro Railroad has been
completed 10 within about eight miles of
this place. and is being steadily pushed for
ward. We learn that freight Will now be
received at Sneedsboro. a station establish
ed on the road.--The Charlotte OJsaqe.
says: Tn {. {. S \. Railroad for the year
ending September 30th, 1872. makes the
following exhibit Gross earnings S47S.-
491.6l. expenditures S431, q64. Il. net earn
ings S47>,49l.6l, expenditures S437. q64.U
net earnings S40,526.S 50. The business Of
the present year has nctted $S4. go. 81 over
that of 1>7>.--Ihe New Bcrue MT SLeV
barkS: The Atlantic & North Carolina Rail
road Is now doing an immense business in
the freight line.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

We are in receipt Of the Catalogue Of
Bingham School for 1879. The number for
the current session (the list is 81 per
cent. ahead Of the Inst and p per cent.
ahead of oay former Session. Every South
ern State. we believe IS represented and al
50 New York and Wisconsin. Brazil and
Siam. The catalogue claims that the cul-
ture Of the faculty is broader, the discip-
line and instruction better, the satisfaction
given to pupil ana patron greater. than
ever before. The Prize and Scholarship
features are new, and so is a Leipzig Ph. y
among the teachers of u Southern School
The increase from l02 in 1S76. l22 in ISL
IN 1873 TO lG5 in 1870, is very significant,
Hoard i SD per month Tuition. $50 per
Session. See Advertisement.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

A~GR1cULTURAL INVENTIONS. Our towns
man, Joseph I. Prairie, has taken out a pa
tent for an improved machine for chopping
and cultiyating cotton. 1t is so CONSTRUCTED
that it may be used for ~chopping, for chop
ping and cultivating, or for cultivating
alone. -Chas. I. Crook and Logan HUFF
man who IS a CASTOR county man, we be
lieve) Of Fort Mill, have patented a pillow
with a bifurcated foot, OF plowshare, that
will allow Of the raising and lowering the
share at VIII, and is said to prevent the
~clogging of both foot and plowshare from
grass, litter, etc.
Go in to win. We young Southern inven-
tors There isn't anybody holding you
And there Is no way IN which big money
can be made in so little time.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

At lccllUg. q . a'Ns'
Miss Mary Anderson was pitched out. man
caught her lust as she was tumbling over a
precipice. Big advertisement, and per
haps not down on the bills.
Treasurer Worth, Capt. c. NJ Cooke.
Capt. f. r. Stamps. Col. Holt, Paul {.
Cameron. Col. John D.. Cameron, Dossey
Battle. p. A.. Wiley. and Others went TO
Mud Cut by special coach Tuesday even
ing.
-Whe it was asserted during oar con
troversv last year that Jeffrey $ Bond,
whose very name is Synonymous with judi
cial prostitution and foul p~artizan malice,
had received social attentions from the best
people of Raleigh, we fatty denied the
charge. We now learn that Bond was quite
eratitied at the attentions paid him at what
is termed 1.-The Bar Supper. given by one or
more prominent members OF the City Bar, one
night last week. at the saloon Of Thee. JOS
eph's, an active Republican, who accompo-
MED the party which dragged the writer OF
these lines. and seven others. manacled to-
gether, like wild beasts. through the streets
of Raleigh. and afar to the Northward. in
the BEGINNING of a terrible winter, with
brutal injustice III every attendant circum-
stance. Two of that small number was muir
dered by inches, and died. and were tossed
into felOn's graves, Another. Il grey-haired
old man. with u whittier soul than Bond has
had since he reached mans estate. escaped
the grave, Tut LETT his gloomy cell with his
mind a cruel wreck. And a score Of SINH
lar cases could be given. if necessary. to
illustrate the ''Jetfreys Assizc,' and the
character Of the man selected to harrow
the true citizens Of North Carolina. and Of
South Carolina. As he had narrowed and
oppressed the true citizens of Baltimore at
an earlier period.
,E@t was United States Senator Thomas
+. Bayard, who on the floors of Congress,
Nav u, 1872. shook off the shadow Of des-
potism and the prompting of self interest,
in these manly words:
x = x = Shooting to death BY muskctrv
IS sharp. severe, but it is merciful itself
compared to trial before an unjust Judge.
OF a. sad sights, Mr.. President, of all sights
to make men sicken and despair. it is when
the man who sits on the high place of JUS
tice. between his fellowmen, or between
the community and his fellowmen. shall
turn trials into m0ckcrics and turn Justice
into vindictive persecution. There is no
more stirring or finer passage in our ian
guage than that which sprang from the lips
of Paul when the high priest babe
the soldiers strike him on the mouth for
declaring that his conscience had been free
Of offence toward God. The answer came,
God stall sntitc thee, thor uhitcd rail: for
stttest HOu to .judgc me after the lar, and
c~Ommondest me tn BE SnttttcR c0ntnIY to tie
tar" Sir, there are men who have
been tried before Judge Bond who
may we'll echo the words of Paul. : <
: : Idcc{orc that I hace rs lief run ma rtshs
as ua innocent man bcforc tie buI,ts of Mr.
rtWs carohy as l mo"hlbctoye Bonds jud1-
ments IN hS o,cn court.'
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

4 FEW MORE OF II APPOINTMENTS BY
CoNFERENCE.-J. f. Mann, presiding Elder.
Warrenton and Macon. \. X. Raven: War
rem circuit, W. &. Cannon: Weldon and
Halifax, J.. NJ. Rhodes; Halifax circuit. J.
D. Buie; East Halifax. &. Cook; Edge
combe, j. y. Andrews: Tarboro, j. Oar
mold Norganton and Marion, 5. W Wheel
er; Hickory. &. NJ. Anderson.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

DEATHs.-ln Raleigh. on Friday infant
child Of Western r and Mrs. Annie Gales.
Funeral services from Christ Church on Satur
dav.-In Charlotte. James, infant son of
Capt. ArmStcad Burwell-Near States
vile, VIM. Stevenson aged S5.-At Fort
Mill, infant son Of Prof. \. r. Banks
In Statesville. Mr.. Robert Howell. aged
27--In Raleigh, ut midnight on Satur-
day. Mrs. Laura, wife of Maj. W. Guliek,
aged 81. The funeral services were conduc-
ted at Christ church on Monday afternoon.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18
Gro BE

You missed il, Bro. Josephus. We
meant to say, and as first written, did say.
that it ''sounds famiIiar-caou9h for one Of
Vdr. o,rH;' but the latter words were stricken
out as being rather egotistical. However
t doesn't matter. Give Us more of the
same manly tenor and you may name one of
your handsome twins after Us.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

PERsONAL.-Rev. DR.. Burkhead gave us
an agreeable call last week. 50 did DR..
Alex. Wilson, Of Alamance, son of the dis
tinguished Rev. DR.. Alexander Wilson. a
name well known within the limits of the
State. A member OF DR.. Wilson's family IS
Miss Betsy Sweet, a native of Ulster, now in
her Goth year. She is a lady of excellent in
formation, and when the other day the Doc
tor received a birthday gift of a pair of
gloves from a little nephew, Miss Betsy, i'm
promptu, proposed the answer to be return
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18
Prom your nice Gloves
Subtract the letter G.,
And this will leave our loves.

Yesterday was Maj. Jas. W. Wilson
birthday, and as the big locomotive burst
through the big bore in the Blue Ridge,
whereat a full generation of men have been
aiming, it was admissible in him to feel at
least twenty years older, and six feet taller.
than common tolks.-Col. Chas. X. Jones
address before the Carolina Fair i printed
in his paper. Farmers will do we'll to send
for a copy."The Star learns that the life
of DR.. J. Francis King was insured for
about $50. 600.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

BETTER STILL.-It was Col. Hot Z
not Osnaburgs, which took the ptI/.
Cincinnati Industrial eXpo,lt'9n
medal card is on table at this momen.
curse plaids are an higher c:as~ 81 I
and the credit TO Haw River man"r
is proportiOrately greater.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

IN AID OF II DESERVING Ma. Rob
ert Bingham, of the celebrated school which
bears his father and grand fathers honor
eel name. seems to unite to scholastic ability.
qualities of practical utility and energetic
personal usefulness in rare degree. From
his pamphlet we learn that his proposal to
wealthy gentlemen to lend tie sum Of SG5.
at = per cent interest, TO deserving Young
men (oI the lenders selection) to be paid
from the first money which the recipient of
the favor shall earn. has been accepted
by the following, viz. w. I. Blackwell.
VIM. Grimes, John Nichols, GOV. Jarvis.
Judge McKoy, Rev. DR.. Wilson, u. G..
Worth, and Maj. c. NJ. Stcadman, of Viii
mington, DR.. u. T. Savage of Scotland
Neck, DIR. \. J.. ritman, Tarboro. Jesse
IL. Lindsay. of Greensboro, Maj. ". A..
Smith, Princeton. and Geo. W. Swepson.
The 800 will pay 81 per month for quarters.
and furnish board in a successful messing
club for a school year. Under the cir
cumstances and conditions set forth, the
plan must do great good. The student gets
the aid without losing his self-respect, and
If he be of the right timber he will be spur
red Will a proud desire to show his bcne-
factor how quickly he can discharge the
debt.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

New HOTEL.-We are glad u
Mrs. Caleb Osborne will take c.a.-
Cook Hotel, on the Ist of January.
Mr.. {. ID. Osborn will mana. u
ness. Many wishes for TINS -uco.--
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

South Carolina Supreme court, Harvey
McIver, chief. and Gen. Sam MCGOWAN,
associate.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

Oh DEAR.-Bishop Weightman has been
advising the young preachers not to marry
too soon. ''Wait," said be, my young
brethren, until you established yourself.
Wait until You complete your four years
course in the conference. Shut down all
the gates, bar up the door of your heart
against Cupid golden darts that lie in the
dimples of the beautiful, blushing and
charming young ladies that you are sure to
find in any circuit or station in North Car
dina"
Oh Dear. What will the young ladies
say: Suppose they don't choose to wait ?
Leap year is coming you know.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

FOR BETTER and WORSE
the Preacher.
" You Pays your MOney A. ,
Takes Your Choice :
Snowman.

Herein Re true>t houes thA, =. yrt..1
llay prove s. Joyous A. This ya.--
ming. saith thu Es.-.-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

1t was decided to postpone the re-Union
ofthe Branch-L&ne Veterans until spring in
order that Ger. Lane might be present.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

- per cent. advance on the above rates
will be charged for double-column advertise
m"ntS.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-18

More young ministers applied for Ii
cense at the last VI. +. Conference than
could be located. Eighteen were accept
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-18

the murderer under the gsllows pro-
claiming his innocence and defiance
OF punishment aud death and his cool
assertion that it sigGIfed nothing since
God hal forgive him, even If man
had BOt-All these-facts tend to pro-
mote the very evils aud Grim naiity
which the la~ proposes 20 punish and
remedy, Thc truth is executions
should occur within the iii yard.
Public spsc;scleI Of this sort are even
lore brutsliZing than San An onio bull
and lion ii ghts, or those of the New
York prizs ring at Saratoga. The
sheriff. convention aud the excellent
and learned gentleman who Addressed
it forgot to discuss these questions; the
law giving these potent officers wide
discretionary power. Very many
blooty-minded Adventures and GRIM
inals produced and reared in the East
are to be hanged in Texas at an early
day. Our jAils are luckily well sup
Piled with them, aud juries never suf-
fer an opportunity - escspe to average
properly the laws violation, and sher-
IFS should see that good results rather
than evil follIw the execution of the
laws DEGREES.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-18
GEN. HOOD MEMORIAL.

Hon. John II. Reagan, at the me-
moral service for Gen. II BOD at Hous-
ton, reviewed the acts of his life from
an hist orial point of view. In conclud-
ing his beautiful Grafton he said:
80 far | have only spoken of the
military services of Gen. Hood. The
greatest of generals in point of ability
and success In arms, if their services
are rendered In wrong cause, or if
they are guided by improper motives,
may be curse to the age and country
in which they are rendered; and how
ever brilliant and splendid; should not
be examples for imitation, but should
rather be warnings against the evils of
ambition and the dangers of wicked
ness But the services of Gen. Hood
were rendered in cause which he be-
lieved to be righteous and holy, and
which was sanctioned by his sincere
convictions of right. II was the cause
OF civil liberty and constitutional gov
ernment; it was the protection of the
rights of the States under the Federal
Constitution aud the preservation of
the rights of person and property to
our people, as they descended to us
from MagIa Charta, and as they are in
corpoIased in our Federal and State
Constitutions; which meant that life,
liteSty and property should be secure
against aIb.t airy power; that private
proper y should only be taken by
pubnc authority for public use, and
not then without just compensation !;
which meant that tho citizens should
De Tree from arrestexcept upon affidavit
81 indictment charging violation OF
the law, and then only by q lawful
warrant; which meant that the citizen
shou d then be en.ltied to be heard by
himself and counsel, and should have
fair public trial by jury Of his
equals before the law. These he, along
with mill ons of his count. ymen, be-
lieved TO be mensced and endangered
by the policy and purposes of sec
tionAL dominant and lIcentious major
ity. And substq aent events, known
10 you all have snown that this belief
was we'll Ioanded. He was. no mere
soldier of fortune bis course was not
gaided By selfishness or ambition; but
De drew MS sword IN the Cause Of civil
liberty; not on tue side OF power, but
in defense Of the weak and welded
it as = true patriot and as one Of the
grandest heroes Of q great war. In
which armies were usrshaled, whose
tread shook the continent and
whose terrible conflicts arrested the
attention Of the civilized world.
Though man Of military education
and life, after the close Of the war hix
civic aud social virtues were as sdmir-
able Is hls military career had been In
war. he accepted the necessary re-
suits Of the war, MANNED and in poYer-
u and without probes ion Is be was,
with = cheerful, manly foEfitnde, and
At once applied hlrasell diligently and
earnestly 20 commercial and other pur-
suits 20 earn an Independent livelihood
b honorable mesniL
He neYeE despalied in the darkest
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-18
The CITY GOVERNMENTS DIRE
kICTIONS OF Duly.

The Boston Transcript discusses the
very facts affecting the suburbs of
Boston, 10 which the STATESMAN has
often sdverted when deplering local
follies of municipal administration. Ia
the suburbs of Boston the water sup
ply is perfect; but uuthiDklng alder
men failed TO provide means of drain
age. Horses stand forever in cutters,
forever depositing foreign matter.
From streets, payements and houses
filth is constantly swept into the gut
tiers, and water and sunshine do the
rest. Rapid decomposition of focal
and other substances progresses and
disgusting odors arise. There Is little
absorbent capacity in soil deposited
thinly on a bed of limestone. Houses
are built and furnished throughout
with water pipes and baths and drains
for refuse of the kitchen. The citlz N
based his building contracts and action
on that of the city by which he is fur.
nished with water. 10 other words,
the city induces the citizen to In.
cur heavy cost In supplying his
house with water, and then declared,
last year, that he should not use it. In
fact the Transcript says:
sour systems are wrong from begin
ming to end. The water pipes and the
sewer pipes should go side by side. A
slightly wider trench will accommo-
date both. The city virtually says
that there was no compulsion upon the
owner to build his house and deluge it
with water without the means of get
gipg rid of it, but if he does and the
result is IN any way nuisance, the
board of health STEPS in and o5liges
thu nuisance to be suppressed if FOasi-
BILE, and if not possible then its dictum
works the ruinatIon of the mans prop
erty. Would it not be better to begin
at the other end, by some special ordi-
nance, IN provide agalI st the pos VI
occurrences of any nuisance or chance
OF injury to health by specifying what
may or may not be put into a house
where there is no sufficient drain fol
all the waste of modern conveniences n
In other words the water works are
not sustained by taxpayers that tax
payers may use water as comfort, de-
cency, cleanliness and health require
The truth is, as stated by the Transcript
the citizen is protected by implied
contract with the city and can use the
water as was contemplated when thu
water company was created, and Al
contemplated when the ordinary pIpei
and drains were constructed by him
II nuisances supervene, the water take
who deluges the gutter is no more liza
BILE for damages than the man whost
horses stand hitched to befoul the gut
ter. The law discovers TO guilt in thu
owner of the horse or in the waite
consumer. But the city itself may b.
mulctei in damages if citizen suffe
from a nuisance created by these horse
and these water drains from houses
10 fact, the courts, if appealed to
would compel the city, in behalf o
public health and decency, to put dow
glazed pipes everywhere. No intelli
gent court would fine citizen for tn
use of heslth-giving water, whicl
must be disposed o. when used.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-18
"Three wears AGO the sher,(Y of the

Three years ago the Sheriff of the
county was Republican. A number
Of the gamblers of Yszoo were iudict-
ed, among them Dixon. all of the in
dicted parties but Dixon went into an
other county. A Deputy Sheriff named
Mitchell went after the gamblers and
arrested some OF them. The Sheriff of
the county and Deputy Mitchell became
very obnoxious to Dixon and others,
ana they determined to drive the eff
GERS out of the county or put them out
Of the way. At political meeting
held at that time Mitchell was present.
The meeting was hot one, and Dixon
WAS the most prominent actor in it.
During the excitement Deputy Sheriff
Mitchell was shot dead. Tne circum-
staDo' under which he was killed led
to Dixon being credited with the mur-
der. u xon never denied it, and no
one in YsZlo believed that any one else
killed Mitchell. At the beginning of
the campaign it was James RIrksdale's
intention to try for the Democratic
nomination for Sheriff of the county.
Dixon went to him. Jimmy, he -aid,
You don't want to be candidate
against me go for something else, aud
let me get Sheriff il can Bark sdale
consented to Withdraw his name as a
candidate for Sheriff and accepted the
nomination for ChanceFy clerk. This
office is almost as good as Sheriff. The
canvass opened, and everything went
peaceably for time. Finally il trans-
PRED that the presence OF BTksdale on
the Democratic ticket was streagthen-
ing that ticket throughout. Then d V
on began his tactics II weaken Barks-
dale. He set sfloat many damaging
stories, and capped them 10y charging
BArksdale with maintaining illicit rela-
tons with his own sister. This 80 EN-
ragged Barksdale that he sent word Ia
Dixon that he must look on. for himself
when they met. Ga the day of tie
shooting Rsrksdale was standing
in the rFir cipal street of va
zoo. There is only one business street,
and it runs clear through the place.
Barksdale had shotgun, for he was
likely to meet Dixon at any time. He
was ia king to some friends when Dix
on came down the street. When B .rks
dale saw him he cried out, Henry, de
fend yourself. Henry immediately
drew his revolver from bis pocket.
Bnksdsle fired. Dixon ran to hal :
way on the opposite side of the street
Rarksdale fired his other barrel, Dixon
return the fire five times with his revolt
yer. Barksdale's first shot had been
the fatal one. n.x4n fell In the hlll-
way. From this same hallway about
three years ago Henry NJ. Dixon shot
and killed Samuel Harrison, an amateur
detective. The county rreasurera c flee
had been robbed, and Dixon was geu-
orally believed to have been the rug
leader in the. crime. Harrison took
upon himself the dangerous task OF
shadowing Dixon for the purpose OF
procuring evidence againat him. Dixon
saw him coming one day, stepped int
the hallway, and as he passed shot him
! doyn."