The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-05
Clippings and Clippings.

Goldsboro has shipped g., coo quart.
Of strawberries this season, and snip
pers are satisfied with the returns.
The Albemarle Enquirer report.
Northampton's crops, especially WheaI
and oats. as looking well but needing
rain. The small grain crops are OF
large acreage.
Greensboro is the largest fur market
in Western North Carolina. The Pat-
riot saws that Messrs. Houston 4 Bro.
bought this season 1j6. 204 rabbit
skins. 9,11a opossums, $3.50 musk rats,
1,O02 minks. 1,249 coons, 204 fox, >
offers, 50 skunks, % house cats, -
Wild cats, afor which they paid about
IS, 900.
St. Louis RepuJltcoa: 1T is a no
ticeable and very suggestive fact that
those who know the least about the
management and construction OF news
papers are most disposed to criticise.
When we consider the extent and varl
ETY. of the information, and the labor
required to produce a first class daily
journal, there is no institution in the
world that gives as much good with as
little of the bad or the Indifferent"
The price of spirits Of turpentine at
Fayetteville has ranged during the
week from 22l5 to %, closing at %;
scrape So; yellow $40; virgin $1.S5;
G and d rosin so. The usual cotton
quotations are not In the Gdzette.
The wife of Rev. David S. Williams,
formerly of Cumberland county, died
near Arkadelphia, Arkansas, on the
2lst of May. She was the daughter OF
the late Philemon Hawkins, Esq, Of
Franklin county.
-Gleanings from the Charlotte %
serrer.: j. p. CASTOR shot and killed
Church Williford at Rock Hill, because
of a quarrel at a picnic about a young
lady. 1t appears to have been a very
cowardly affair.-Col. III. c. Jones
and Luke Blackmer, Esq, of Salisbury
lawyers, were abou: to hitch in court,
but were prevented by the judge and
sherif.-In Steel Creek a young
man by the name Of Bales got into &
fight with a negro, when the latter used
a knife with terrible and fatal effect.
Having stabbed the youth repeatedly
in the face, neck and breast, inflicting
upon him wounds necessarily fatal, the
savage negro turned him over on his
face and stabbed him a number of
times in the back. The negro then
left him dead upon the ground and
made good bis escape. -The naviga-
ton of the South Yalkin, by steam,
will soon be an accomplished fact.
DR.. John Ellis, Of Iredell, is building
a steamboat, with an engine Of sixteen
horse power, to ply between his mills
at the mouth of Hunting Creek, in
Iredell, and Hairston's Mills, in Davie
county, a distance OF fifteen or twenty
miles, making connection at the latter
point with the Mooresville s. Winston
Railroad. DIR. Ellis is a public spirited
citizen, a man of means, and will make
the enterprise a success.-During the
present term of Rowan Superior Court,
Judge Schenck sentenced Nat. Boyden,
of Surry, to twenty days imprisonment
and 500 fine forcontempt Of court.-
Captain Fred Bush, formerly connect
ed with the Airline Railroad, had his
collar bone broken by being caught
between two cars on the Georgia road
a few days ago. He escaped death
very narrowly.--Ninety is the high
point the mercury has reached here
this season.--The Western North
Carolina merchants excursion to Rich
mond, about which there has been a
good deal of inquiry recently, occurred
on the 2d inst.-A telegram received
in this city the death, in
Winston, night before last, of Mrs.
Elizabeth Garter Brown. mother Of
Col. John K. Brown, of Charlotte
Alexander has held four in
quests in the last three weeks-some-
unusual in Mecklenburg. In no
case, however, was a verdicI of death
rom personal violence returned.-
United States Deputy Marshal E. Il.
F%enton, Of Wadesboro, brought TO the
,ity% Saturday W. G. Kennedy, Of Beay-
II Dam. on the Carolina Central Rail
way, charged with making counterfeit
liver money. Kennedy is an uncle of :
(. W. Walden, who was arrested IN
fadesboro q few days since for passing c
ounterfeit silver money, and is now !
cid in Jail there in default of bail to !
he mount Of -, geo. :