The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-09

A>heyille Female College has more than
eighty pupils.
Sixty converts at Salem Methodist Church.
lredell county.
DR.. JOS. Masters died or the Goth ulr.. #
Iiookerton, Greene county.
William Rankin, an old and respee,c1 cit
lzen OF Asheville, Is dead.
We note with pleasure that the Wilson
1draDce Is daily going ahead.
There is a probability of the starting Of
tobacco factory 1T Goldsboro.
There were - death in Raleigh in Sem
tembcr-6 white and IS colorcd.
\ wagon and train of ears collij n #
Charlotte. The train was not hurt.
One hundred and sixty-two students have
entered at the University this session.
Mr.. }. u. Barnes and Miss Fannie Smith
We're married in Reidsville last week.
Mr.. Walter Mcdonald. of Raleigh. j, inst
recovering from yellow fever at Memphis.
The Mr.. Brogden who was killed last week
IN a cotton Gin III Wayne county, was a broth
er OF the Ex-Governor.
The farley wax.work entertainment bv
the young ladies of the Presbyterian church
of Statesville yielded $64.
H.. 'iCIlLilil1. VI liz StillIiTllln there
leased the Eagle Hotel, at Asheville, for the
next twelve months.
At Mcdowell court Emanuel Rose was
found guilty Of m~anslaugh.er for disembow-
cling VIM. Rogers.
:Oxford Free Lance. Mrs. Lucy Ann VIII
liams, wife of Mr.. \. ID. Williams, ole in
Franklin county on Wednesday, September
18th.
Up to Thursday, Mss Painter, who has
been preaching at Morresviile since last Sat
urday night, had effected forty-two ccnveI-
- a-ete.
Kinston .JouuuI: There is an old gentle
man and his wife in Jones county with a
good lengthy family record-Mr. John
Heath was born in 1900, his wife in l44S.
They raised II children have had IS grand
children, Is of whom are married. They
have lived all their lives in Tuckahoe upper
partof Jones' and have never taken any
medicine.
Mr.. }. b. Warren, the lost drowned, muir
dered, or robbed, North Carolina merchant
for whose unknown fate all Baltimore was In
the most intense state Of anxiety for two
days has turned W again. 1t seems in a
state Of mental alteration he got in the ears
for Washington with 81. 800 in his pocket.
and going asleep awoke in Pittsburg. His
return was a great relief to his friends.
Wilson .11rouce: We regret to learn that
Mr.. 4. T. Gardner, who lives near Battle
boro. had bis cotton gin and saw mill dcs-
troyed by fire a few daysago. The loss was
about 50, 000; no insurance.-Wilson has
"A young man who has walked two miles in
eighteen minutes. We also have an cid
gentleman who used to walk twentyonc miles
and do a days work and return the same
evcning.--A few days ago a coiored man
asked US if cotton was raised in Kansas, and
whether or not it was cold out there. He
said. and the practical colored people en-
terrain the same opinion, that unless cot
could he raised in that Slate. that the he
gro he'd better stay in North Carolina.
Winston LeaIer: Young man loaing
about the streets. if you cannot find other
employment, dig wild onions. If there are
not dollars in the operation, there are
scents at least.-Ten new buildings
are now in course Of erection in our town.
a difficulty occurred yesterday morn
ing between Mr.. W. c. u. Curtis and Mr.
II. Pitts, in which Nr. Curtis was struck on
the head with a breast-tree. making a bloody
wound.-The Kinston .J0urual man brings
forward a pumpkin vine 100 yards long.
That runs all over ours. But we beat him
on pumkins. Ours of 30 yards has As to his
IA Winston woman has been in the
habit Of looking under her bed, as most
ladies generally do. to find a man. She
found one the other night. 1t was her hus-
band. She dreamed he was a rat and kick