The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-13

The Grand Lodge Of Free AMI Accepted
Mason> meets n Raleigh on December 81
d t. +. Arlington. Of Goldshoro. va
thrown from his buggy and scycrcly bruised,
Contrary II hope Or expectation. C,l u.
t. Martin, Of Elizabeth City. i improving,
The Baptist meeting =, Goll>boro i
closed. Result: some SIX Or eight additions.
Y the last c)mmencencats = College,
conferred : titles # y y. s. Of IL d,
AM - Of Ph. II.
Henry Fries, young colored man. fel!
dead i his fathers yard in Winston. Thurs
day noon.
Tn Statesville -fa5eIeal announces that
It has secured the services If Hon. Lewis
Hanes as lis political editor.
The wife Of Rev. ]. II. Wheeler. pastor
Of the Methodist church j. Iiillsbora. died
last Sunday after ! lingering Illness.
Rev. II. \. Long has returned from Yale
College and resumed his duties as PRINCIPAL
Of the Graham High School.
The engine Of a freight train on tie Raj
eigh & Castor Railroad was diteaed Thurs.
day and the engineer hurt.
The County Commissioners have Issued
an order for $500 10 Z. J. WaIQell. for the
apprehension Of \. B. Taylor. SAYS the U,3rr
Idsc.
The jailor of lancey county has been ar.
rested for completely in the recsn. es4p- Of
the two murdererS. the Boones. from Barns
willie Jail.
john Davis, colorcd, was convicted in
the Federal Court in Wilmington Thurs
Of rob5ing the mail on the Atlantic 4
North Carolina Railroad.
Diphtheria Is raging IN Pitt county. With
in the space of / miles square. l6 persons
have died with this dreadful disease. 3
says the kinston ,Jooppot.
Reidsville Times: As Monroe Hudson
was driving an old SOW out of his field the
| other day. she ran past him and seized his
leo Il. she ran giving him a very severe bite.
He is now laid up with his leg.
Miss Emma G. Thursby, the prima don
ma, is to marry Henry G. Gilleg, Of the
American Exchange, London. The we'd
ding If IS expected, will take place at the
termination Of Thursbys American con
certs, under the Strakosch management.
At Murfreessboro twenty professions IN
Methodist church. On Pasquotank circuit
one hundred and fifteen conversions. Are
vival is progressing at Woodyillc.
In bertle court last week, UOpl. AltG-
bridge, colored, was convicted Of the muir
der of another negro named Freeman, some
time ago, and was sentenced by Judge
Avery 70 be hanged on the 2Sth Of Noyem-
Der. Thus saith the BERTHE correspondent
of the Raleigh OJserte,'
Warrenton Guzette: The farm OF the
late Judge Hall was sold at public auction
last Monday by Capt. White, trustee. Mr..
-. nm No. III .,rnI..a. o. 81 7 N q ~
acre.--The protracted meeting at the
Methodist Church closed Sunday night; ten
converts.-Dr. r. D. Flemming returned
from Kentucky las Saturday, and
viii hereafter make North Carolina
bis permanent home. He returned to Ken
lucky many years ago.-ln passing
through several of the Eastern counties last
Saturday, Sunday and Monday, we noticed
that there were thousands Of compost
heaps. loads Of cotton seed and other man
ures hauled and put in the fields ready
for the crop of 1880. Nearly every fence
corner has been scrapcd up and made to
furnish its quota towards the next crop.
The Morganton Blade represents the PEG
ple near Newton greatly excited over a mon
ster snake-supposed to be thirty feet long.
At any rate last week, AZ Mr.. John Seize
was walking alone through ! fed III that
vicinity, he came upon a snake which must
be a son or grandson Of the first named. II
was a horrible looking serpent full eight
feet long, and eight inches across the head.
Mr.. Seizer got a fence rail and with several
we'll directed blows managed to dispatch it.
The snake will be stuffed and put on exhibi-
ton in Newton. The patriarch of this tribe
has not been seen for some time.
Lumberton RoJesoaiaa The Wilmington
STIR is one of the very best aecspapers that
comes to this oaice.-A colored man in
the employment Of ". Durham Lewis, had
his hand badly crushed in the steam cotton
gin last TuesIay. Mr.. b. u. Floyd tells
of a new kind of rattlesnake which was kill
ed in his neigLb5rhool a feg days ago. NJ
snake Of he kind was eve. seen b. the old
est Nimr3d among them. H. cit Of the
rattIes-ave in number send e Us, but
ha11lel BIZ him--St. PauIs items: \
turnentino still here belonging to l. Shaw,
ESD. caught fire spontaneously last week
lust after q charge Of rosia was turned out.
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