The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-08
VOL VINO. t
GENER AL NEWS.


The Wilmington mail bag robbers
have been committed t. hi.
Johnston county has Just sent two
c nvicts and Cherokee two Tn ,b,
penitentlary.
The Swepson case has been remand
ed back To Wake on account of Il. far,
in transcript.
The address of Col. Staples at tho
BeDbow Hall last Saturday night -
we'll spoken Of.
Col. j. |. Scales of this city will da.
liver the memorial address at Wiostna
on the 10th of May.
Central Protestant. In the couptr,.
around rs corn is coming up nicely
and the wheat is growing off finely.
James McCrary, father of Secretary
George w. McCrary, writes the Sta-
tesvllle american shat he was born in
lredeil county, November 22i. 1,o-
HIS son was born in Indiana.
Wilmington Star: 4 gentleman of
" Wilmington, who Is necessarily we'll
informed on the subject stated yester.
day that he expected to walk drv-shod
across New Inlet by the Ist of july
next.
A party Of negroes were in Monroe
one day last week, with guns and
things, hunting, the Express saws for
negro man, who had eutered the
house of one of the party the day be-
fore. and stolen therefrom a suit of
clothes, watch, a pistol. and some
meat and meal. The negro whose
house had been eutered was named
Will Hunt, and lived on the plantation
of Mr.. Calvin Reed, in Mecklenburg
county, 20 miles from Monroe.
Milton Chronicle: George Cary
colored, was committed to Jail last
week on the charge of robbing Boss
wells store of some $40 This is bad
on young man who had just compile
ted his "edica'io in a Raleigh
school.--The Standard Sewing Ma
chine advertised in this paper some
time ago is a fraud and the Company
set OF base rascals and thiaves-esps-
cially lis so-called Agents in New
York, who can't be found bv the
police.
A Hilsboro special to the DanviIle
(Na.) Ners says the respite of the
Chapel Hill burglars will certainly not
be extended beyond the 1G.h inst The
Governor, in notifying the sheriff to
postpone the execution, instructed
him to say to the prisoners that they
need no: expect further leDiencv al
his hands that they must prepare TO
meet their God, as they cert .inly have
only two weeks to live" The prisons
er5 are represented as being very de
pressed having abandoned all hope OF
cOmmutation of their sen ences.
Rlleigh Neus NJ. Nettleton Craiy
a well known citizen of Orange county
died on Thursday THE Gongrega-
tional churches of this State are now
no ding their first State Conference in
this city, at the church here, on South
street. There are five churches Of thIs
denOmlnat'O 'On in North Carolina Of
which four are colored. They are un-
der the auspices of the Am eriran Mis-
sl'nary Association. The Governor
OF Virginia has m ade "A requi5i.ion on
the Governor of this 5 are for John
Branch, who is now in Halifax jail and
thief There have thus IA been 40
conversions at the Edenton Street
Methodist church.
Charlotte Obserc8r The meeting of
the directors of the Western North
Carolina Railroad, which was to have
been held at Asheville on the 18th Of
the present mouth, will occur at Hen
rvs formerly the head of the road ......
The shipments Of bullion TO this city
from the mountain counties show that
greater attention has been given to
placer mining than heretofore. .....A
new body of good gra lie are is report
ed to have been recently opened in the
adkln mine at Salisbury. y......Several
parties of inv stOrs are inthe Stare three
Of them are from Bostln, each having
its own report. Several properties are
under examination. North Carolina
mines are excitinga full share Of a.
tention 80. Dir. w. NJ. Russ, Of the
Department, came to the
city yesterday morning with go, 900
young fish, which We're designed for
dlstr bu ion in streams and ponds
along the Air Line Railroad. On ar
irving at the depot here, the water III
the cans in which the fish were trans
ported was changed. and a few hours
after wards an examination showed
hat every fish IN the cans was dead.
-. ....Mecklenburg Presbytery is in ses-
ion at Castauea Grove church. in
lincoln cDunty. The delegates from
he churches ia this city left day be-
ore yesterday TO attend. .Dr Thomas
;. Johnston, brother of Col. William
/. Johnston. o. this city, died at his
in R,cly Hill x-a-tard