The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-27
State Nevs.

The Newbern Theatre has been
greatly Improved.
Newbern lad a ma-q nerade ball
\ Thursday night las.
Revenue collections in Fourth Dis
trict last week, S6,959 l8
| Newbern has just formed drama
CLUB. Now Tor the theatricals
I Professor Mangum has been ap-
pointed Univers ~ Librarian.
Lhe Newbern fire companies parad-
| ed on Washington's Birthday
Orange county is not to have a new
III, but the present one Is to be re-
paired.
y negro was found dead sitting bolt
upright in a second class coach OF C.
{. & A. r. r.
w. 2. Williams has | cen elected
Mayor of the town of Davidso1 Col
lege, lately incorporated.
The Inferior court OF Alecklenburg
antenced ten negroes TO work on the
railroads, and all for larceny
CASTOR coun y is agitated over The
sock law, and petitions on both sides
have gone up to the Legislature.
A free paper. for ADVERT ing chiefly
is to be lssu1d semi weekly III Char
lote Mr.. John Bragg will conduct it.
The authorities of Greensboro have
offered a reward of $3.50 for the ar
rest of j. w. S. Parker, and proof to
convict.
AIr, Claude b. Townsend has been
appointed clerk of the Superior Court
of r beson county to fill avacancy
caused by death.
Mary Cromwell, the Concord pump
woman, fell from the tank window
last Saturday morning and broke her
neck. She was drunk.
Rev. ". NJ. Winga.e. president of
Wake Forest College, IS represented
as so dangerously i'll that his life is de-
SPARED OF.
The Wilmington city bill has passed
both houses of the General Assembly,
and for the next two years the CITY
government will remain II its present
hands.
The farmers throughout this section
are lily three weeks late in their
farming preparations, owing to the
unfavOrable weather. r.-GOldsbOro Mes
serger.
Mem orial services of the laIe David
NJ. Carter were held by the Raleigh
bar. Captain s. A. Ashe aud +. II.
Busbee made elaborate and i'm .)ressiye
speect es on the occasion.
The large number of escapes from
the stockades at the head of the Spart
anburg and Asheville Railroad is GER
tainly matter deserving the att"n-
ton of the auth critics.
Mrs. Collins the mother of Capt. B.
NJ. Collins of Warren county died at
Ridgeway on the nth inst at an adj
vanced age. She was a devOut mems
Der Of the Methodist church.
Washington special to the Richmond
Dispatch Senator Vance, OF North
Carolina, was On the floor of the House
to-day, and also spent some time In
the Senate No State has finer-lOoking
Senators than North Carolina.
Col. Wharton J. Green, who recent
ly purchased Tokay, the Fayetteville
Gazette says, intends cultvating the
bunch and early table grapes very
largely, and will shortly put in 1. 600
additional vines.
E@The Statesviile Landmark says that |
while Marshal Overcash, who resides |
near Amity Hill, 1redell county, was
engaged n chopping wood on Sa ur-
day 19 h ultimo, he fell from log re-
ceiving S riOus injuries, from which |
he die d soon afterward.
w. D. Mints, of RutherfordtOD, Ruth
erford county Forney Willis, Lyons
Landing, Bladen county ami Walter
Beves. Fayetteville, Cumberland coun-
". ali inmates of the deaf and DUMB
and the blind institute. Raleigh, are
studying law under Judge Strong.
North Carolina Presbyterian 1t IS
WI h pain We nOce the death OF Mrs.
McDoi aid. the moUber of two OF our
most esteemed Enthusiastically h.
of Wilmington Presoytery.
and Angu, Mcdonald, of Pre-oytery
Of Loulsvll G.