The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-30

FAYETTEVILLE Gazette: Col. VIM. John
ston, of Charlotte, has been invited to de-
liver the annual address at our Fair, and
has accepted the invitation.-The chuta
crop in this county, Sampson and Bladen,
so far as We have heard, is very fine this
season. The general opinion seems to
be that it is the crop for pineywoods wire
grass land.-The Oldest Baptist Church
now in existence in North Carolina IS the
church at Shiloh, in Camden county, which
was organized in 1927, with Elder Paul Pal
mer as pastor. -Collicr Cobb, a student
at Wake Forest College, from Fayetteville,
has been awarded by the North Carolina
State Agricultural Society a gold medal, a
silver medal, and s. in cash, for preparing
the best school map Of North Carolina fur
nished by any teacher or pupil in the State.
We regret very much to learn that Mr.. W.
III. Tomlinson, ST., met with a painful accl-
dent on Monday afternoon. He was adjust
ing the needle cotton gin of Mr.. David Jones,
when his hand was caught in the machinery
and ~fearfully mangled and torn. The phys
icians state, however, we are glad to say.
that he will not lose the member, and at last
who has taken the trouble to collect the facts,
hands us in a list of the old men of Fayette-
vile, from which it appears that We have
in our town eiget men whose combined ages
reaches the sum of 68l years, an average
age of $50. We are tempted to give their
names and ages separately, but one of them,
Sc years old, suggested to our friend that it
might offend some of them, as they might
wish to get married again. The Oldest on
the list is 90 years of age, and the youngest
is so.
Charlotte Observer: The Reidsville Times,
referring to the recent interview of the 10
serrer with ex-State Treasurer Jenkins, on
the subject of the Governorship, remarks
that 1.-The ex-Treasurer is a clever and excel
lent gentlemen, but is evidently too much
at home with himself on the subject which
we take to indicate that the Times consid-
ers Mr.. Jones too previous. -General
Johnstone Jones goes to a hospital in Phil
adelphia for the treatment of his injured leg.
Capt. W.. l.. Tate, of Haywood, had a
leg broken a few days ago by being thrown
from his horse. THE frost which fell yes
t,rday morning amounted to what is known
as ''black FROST and seems to have been
very general. This is really the first of the
season. Three students of Davidson Col
lege were suspended last week. The faculty
of this institution are quick to enforce dis
cipline. The cotton compress has done a
big thing since the opening OF the cotton
season. Up to date it compressed 10000
pdlCS. llO AO " WIN Vial ~ uNt
throughout the whole of last season.
Cato Bryan, a high toned barber of this city,
sentenced to the penitentiary for high way
robbery, and released some time ago, mad,
his hime in Raleigh, and was committed to
jail in that city, Thursday, for a matter con-
corning a woman.
The New Garden Fair, says the Greens
boro Beacon was a marked success. David
T. Caldwell, Esq, talked in favor of no
fence, and Prof. Kerr talked about grass,
sheep, dogs, &C., &c. The crowd was
large and the display of stock, fancy work,
vegetables, fruits, grains, &C., very good.
There were two hundred and sixty-five
entries. The Beacon saw a specimen of a
new forage crop-Teonisite-grown by Mr..
Joyce, which produced fifty stalks from one
seed. 1t resembles corn and is said to be
something extra. 1t is certainly prolific"
Carthage, its Mder says, is rapidly i'm
proving. Several handsome residences.
tastefully environed, have been built. Old
dilapidated stores have been pulled down,
and replaced by handsome, weIl-arranged
and neatly painted buildings. Other bull
dings, both stores and dwellings, have been
renovated and newly painted, and the
work of building and repairing still goes
on. The population has more than doub
led since 1868. Every house fit for occu-
pancy is already occupied and there is an
urgent demand for more.
Washington Press: The appropriation
for Tar River improvement is being used to
an advantage under the supervision of Cap
tain James. We learn that logs, snags
and every obstruction to navigation is being
rapidly removed, and that a free and unob-
structed run will soon he had up to Green
vile and Tarboro, which will add much to
the advantage of the boats on the line
Mr.. VIM. Burgess, who has been running
a small vessel on the river for SON time
past, was found drowned somewhere near
Bath last week.