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Monster Meeting of Sympathizers With
Irelaud's WronEe,

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 8.-The mass meeting to
consider the condition of Ireland and devise
means to extend aid to the suffering peasantry
of that country was an immense affair, attend
ed by citizens of all nationallties. The Irish
turned out in great numbers, and sew
ersl Of their civic societies were present in
regalia, and with music and banners. Peter
L. Foy presided, assisted by about 300 vice
presidents, selected from among the most
prominent and influential citizens of the city,
without respect to creed or nationality. The
speakers were President Foy, Col. Don Nor
rison, ex-Lieutenant-Go7e Charles P.
Johnson. Father O'ReilIey, James Pulitezer,
Col. A. O. Dryback. William l.. Darcy, J. a.
Macadam and Samuel Erskine.
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MUSTERED OUT.
C nsrsssman Lay, of Missouri. Answers the
Last Roll Cali.

" ASAosS1AaA Lay, VI "1SsOUIAs Answers the
Last Roll Cali.
WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-Congressman Lay, of
Missouri, died in this city this morning. He
has been in feeble health for some time. The
immediate cause of his death was paralysis.
Alfred Morrison Lay, of Jefferson City, was
born in Lewis county, Missouri, May 20, 1886.
In 1842 he moved with his parents to Benton
county, Missouri. He was educated at private
schools in Missouri and at Bethany college,
Virginia, from whence he graduated in 1856.
He studied law in the Office of the attorney
general of the State at Jefferson City,
and was admitted to the bar in
1857. He was appointed United
States attorney for the western district of Mis-
souri, by President Buchanan; resigned in
1861: enlisted as a private in Gen. John 3.
Oiark's division of the Missouri State Guard,
and was promoted to the rank of major. After
this command disbanded he returned to Mis-
souri,; was made a prisoner and confined In
prison at Alton, ILL.,. being exchanged in 1862
he entered the Confederate army and served to
the close of the war, when he resumed the
practice of law at Jefferson City, and was
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as Demo
crat, defeating A. Underwood, Republican, and
James Boyd, Greenbacker.
JOHN 8. CUTTINGS.
BALTIMORE, Dec. S.--John 8. Cuttings died
this morning, aged 50, and worth several mil
lions. ..--e
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
Senator Bayard's Views of the Legal Ten
der Quality of Greenbacks.

New YORK, Dec.S In connection with the
memorial of the business men of New York
in favor of withdrawing the legal tender quail
ity from the greenback, the World publishes
the following extract from letter recently
received from Senator Bayard:
ut is not hostility to the South that makes
the North solid. 1t is apprehension lest an
unwise and ridiculous administration of
finance should injure Northern property and
investments. No instrument is so dangerous
not care half so much for party success in this
connection (although I value it most highly
as do for the great service it would be to our
whole country and the generations to sue
coed u.s."
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CABLE CHRONICLES
GENERAL AND POLITICAL OLD
WORLD EWS. -.

The Historic Wesleyan Chapel at London
Cremated--Panio In Austria Over the APP
pointment of Ignatieff to the Italian
Misslon--Heroes In the Zulu War Deco
rated by Queen victoria--Thd Spanish
Ministerial Crisis---The War Between
Abyssinia and observation-disclosures.
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BRIDGE OR TUNNEL,

REPORT OF THE DETROIT RIVER COMMISSION.
WASHINGTON, Dec. SIN their report to Gen.
eral Sherman the board appointed to report as
to the advisability Of bridge or tunnel at De-
troit, Mich, to accommodate the commerce 1T
that point, mention the fact that they were di-
rectsd by Gen. Sherman to inquire into and
report whether for railroad purposes the Detroit
river can be bridged or tunnelled at Detroit, or
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NATIONAL NOTES.
THE SUDDEN DEATH OF REPRE-.
SENTATIVE LAY.

No Executive Session of the Houso-Joint
Committee from Both Houses Appointed
TO Attend tho Funeral-Dllls of All
Shades aud Subjects Introduced In tho
Senate-Reporto Of the Yellow Fever Com
mission-Postal Matters. Trade Marks and
General Miscellany.
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DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN,

OFFICE OF OBSERVATION, SIGNAL CoRPs, q. s. A.
INaERsoLL BLOCK. THIRD STREET, ~
ST.. PAUL, MINI.
Observations taken at the same moment OF
time at all stations. .
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DAILY LOCAL MEANS.

Bar. Their. Bel. hum. Wind. Weather.
30.204 1877 SAT- Sc. Fair.
Amount of melted snow, =; maximum
thermometer, Is; minimum thermometer, II.
*Too small to measure.
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Sergeant Signal Corps, q. 8. A.
WEATHER TO-DAY.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, Ia. M.-Indications for
the lake region, falling, preceded in eastern
portion by rising barometer, increasing easter
ly winds, slowly rising temperature, cloudy
followed by rainy weather, partly "a snow in
northern portions. For upper Mississippi and
lower Missouri valleys falling and low barom-
eter, brisk to high southeasterlY winds, warm
er, rainy weather, partly a. snow in northern
portions, followed in latter by rising barome-
ter and cold northerly winds.
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Everyone is delighted with the bargains they
get at the B. l. s. Co.'s, 81 East Third street.
It 10 the Great Christmas Bazaar.
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The House,

WAsuINGTos, Dec. S.--The chaplain alluded
in feeling manner to the death of Representa-
tive Lay. immediately after the reading of
the Journal, MIR. Clark announced tho death of
Representative Lay stating it was not his in
tontion nov TO speak of the love he bore his
COLLEAGUE, as it would no. profit him. but at
some future tim. he would. He then offered
res,'',:i ,ns of regret, which were adopted, and
the spcakAc appointed Clark, Morrison, Hill,
nit,ee 80 arrange for the funeral Adjourned
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JOHN 8. CUTTINGS.

BALTIMORE, Dec. S.-John 8. Cuttings died
this morning, aged 50, and worth several mil
lions. 49, =. ~
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
Queer Case of Love at First S;,ht.

Yesterday morning., while a widow lady
of some forty-fve summers was quietly sit
ting in the ladies' reception room at the
car shed, waiting for the outward-b bound
Macon train to back down, a short beavr.
set gentleman, with shaggy whiskers. de-
liberately walked up to her, and without
the slightest warning or the shadow of an
introduction, began making a proposal of
marriage in the most earnest manner imao-
Unable. After expressing in un~mistakable
and ardent language the fervor of his i'm
the owner of one thousand acres of land in
the western portion of the State. and had
the honor to be the fond parent of two in
teresting children, aged respectively seven
and eight years, and who were at that mo-
ment enjoying the privilege of excellent
schooling.
He then proceeded to beg her to marry
him at once, and if she could not make il
convenient to do so then and there. please
to register a promise that she would. under
no circumstances, put the wedding off Ion
ger than the ensuing Saturday. The off
hand lover spoke in such a rapid and i'm
FASHIONED strain that it was impossible to
check him until the tale had been told
Whereupon the elderly lady, having recoy-
cred from the confusion and amazement in
separable from a courtship SO startling in
character, b~lushingly. but firmly inforraol
him that he was a frank" stranger to he,.
having never laid eyes on him before. that
she was taken completely aback by his of.
hand though warm proposal, that she had
not even the pleasure Of knowing his name
and while she appreciated his kindly senti-
ment for her, she could not consent to be-
come his wife on such exceedingly short
notice. Upon this he granted her a brief
hour for reflection and walked away. re
turning promptly before the departure of
the Macon train, and taking a seat beside
her in the ladies' car, was again pressing
his suit in the most urgent manner as the
reporter passed out Of the shed.-41anta
Constitution.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

TROOPS ATTACKED BY LOCUSTS.-A de-
tachment of Russian troops, bound for
General Lazeref's expedition against the
Turcomans. met with a curious misadven-
ture near the Georgian town ElisabethpoI.
At a few versts from the town the soldiers
encountered the wing of an army of locusts
reputed to be twenty miles in length and
broad in proportion. The officer in charge
did not like to turn back, repealed by mere
insects, and. pushing on, soon became sur
rounded by the locusts. These appear to
have mistaken the soldiers for trees, and
swarmed by thousands around them,
"crawling over their bodies, lodging
themselves inside their helmets, penetrating
their clothes and their knap-sacks, filling
the barrels of their rifles, and striving to
force themselves into the unfortunate mems
ears and noses" The commander gave or
ders for the troops to push oh double quick
for Elisabethpol, but the road was so block
ed with lOcusts that the soldiers grow
frightened, and, after wavering a few min
utes, a regular stampede took pace. Led
by a non-commissioned officer Of keen
vision, who had observed a few huts a short
distance from the road, the troops dashed
across the fields, 'slipping about over the
crushed and greasy bodies of the locusts
as though they had been on ice" The
nuts were soon reached, and the officers
rushed inside, but the refuge proved to be
of little value, as the premises were already
in the possession of the enemy. The peas
ants told the correspondent of the Kdckas
that for days they had been besieged by the
vermin, the insects filling the wells and
~taintiug the water, crowding into the ovens
and spelling the bread, and preventing any
food being cooked or stored. At intervals
the villagert issued from their houses and
made onslaughts on the ~locusts, killing
them by thousands, and carting them away
afterward to the fields for manurs. The
soldiers were detained prisoners by the in
sects for forty-eight hours, and on their
march Elisabethpol, IN the rear of the To-
Gust army, they found every blade Of grass
aud green leaf destroyed, and the peasants
reduced to beggary.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

The surely profitable policy of bringing
the factories to the cotton, IS the Charles
ton Ne1cs and Courier expresses it, has long
and often been insisted upon in these col
umns, and in fact, in the columns Of all
intelligent Southern journals.
Says Mr.. Cockrill, of Arkansas, a Vice
President of the Mississippi Valley Cotton
Planters Association, "a bale Of cotton
standing in the field in October or Novem-
Der, in the morning, may be putinto thread
by night, and sold for a hundred dollars :
Three or four years ago our enterprising
friends, Messrs. George Allen q Co., of
Newbern, n. c., established a factory IN
recognition of this important fact, and sent
us samples Of unexceptionable thread IN
proof of their success in spinning yarn from
cotton as it comes from the field.
The costs of ginning, baling and trans
gortation are thus all saved and the profits
about doubled. And now it appears to be
possible to save much Of the cost OF pick
ing. In almost any condition of the mar
ket cotton culture must become profitable
under such circumstances.-N. l. So"h.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
Historical Sun Darkenings.

In $50. 567 and 626 we find mention of
Iono periods Of diminished sunlight.
Schnurrer records that in 1873, a year after
the Saracens had been driven back beyond
the Pvrenees, consequent on their defeat at
Tours, 1.-THE sun darkened in an alarming
manner on August 10; there appeared to be
no eclipse bv the moon, but rather an in
rerruption from some meteOrlc substance"
There was an eclipse of the sun, a%nnular,
but nearly total, on the morning OF August
II: it is mentioned in the Saxon Chron-
icle.n which tells us that the suns disc
was like a black shield" The near coinci-
dence of date suggests, in this case, a con-
~nection between the darkness and the
eclipse. In 934, according to a Portuguese
historian, the sun lost its ordinary light for
severa: months; and this is followed by the
doubtful statement that an opening In the
skv seemed to take place. with many flash
Is of lightning, and the full blaze OF sun
shine was suddenly restored. In 1O9l on
September 29-not 21. as given IN some OF
the translations of Humboldt's Cosmos
Schnurrer relates that there was a darken-
mo of the sun which lasted three hours,
after which it had a peculiar color, which
0ccasioned great alarm. a century later
lor in June, 1191, according to S%chnurrer)
the sun was again darkened, with certain
attendant effects upon nature. Here the
cause is easily found-on June 70 there was
a total eclipse, in which the moons shadow
traverscd the continent OF Europe from
Holland to the Crimea; the eclipse was to-
tai in this country between tue coasts OF
Cumberland and Yorkshire. Erman refers
to a sun darkening on February IL, HOG,
which was accompanied by meteors, and we
read in the cometographics that on the 4th
or, according to others, on the 5th-ot
February, in this year, a star was seen from
the third to the ninth hour of the day,
which was distant from the sun "Only a
foot and a half Matthew Paris and Mat
thew of Westminster term this star q comet,
and we may take it to have been the same
which, later in the same month, was OBJ
served in China under the sign Pisces, and
which, at one time, was supposed 10 nave
been identical with the great comet OF 1850;
this body, however, would not appear to
nave been sufficiently near the earth, as,
even on the assumption of a denscr constr
tuition than usual with comets, to account
Tor a dlminution of the solar rays by Its IN
tervention. On the last day of February,
I2O6, according to a Spanish writer, there
was complete darkness for SIX hours. In
TAI, live months after the MonSol battle
OF Leignitz," the sun was SO obscured and
peCdilC 50 great lhd1 u
were seen at the ninth hour about Michael
mas IN this case, again, the darkness re-
Ierred to was undoubtedly due to the total
eclipse of October 6, of which Professor
ochiaparelli has collected a full account
rom the Italian writer's. Lastly, in 1S47,
rom April 1895, Kepler relates, on the
minority OF Comma, 1.-the sun appeared as
though sutfused with blood, and many stars
we're visible at n%OOndav." Schnurrer
thought this phenomenon was what the |
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

Persimmon Bill is known on the plains
as one Of the daring outlaws of the age.
His real name is VIM. T. Chambers. He is
about So years Of age, weighs about 40
pounds, has dark brown hair, bright blue
eyes and projecting eyebrows. He was
born at Murphy, Cherokee county, North
Carolina. Having served throughout the
war, first under one flag and then the other,
he turned up in Cheyenne in 1867. High
way robberies were traced to him, but not
until 1870 did he add murder to hio crimes.
Thereafter followed a half dozen assassina-
lions and desperate acts, and soon Persim-
mon Bill was in the Sioux City Jail. He
escaped from Jail, went to the nearest sa-
loon, and, with the handouts yet clinging
to his wrists, ordered drink. The sheriff
soon put in an appearance. ill smiled at
the sheriff, and explained that he only
wanted a little fun, and would go back if
the "cussed bracelets didn't hurt 500
The sheriff, pleased at the easy capture,
unlocked the irons. No sooner did the out
law feel the wristbands off than he struck
the sheriff d death-blow, leaped through a
window, mounted a horse and escaped. He
has been at large since that time, though a
s., 5000 reward is offered for him.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

orr1cERs OF THE NATICyAL GRANGE.
,1oster.-S. E. Adams, Monticello,
O1,,erseer.-J. J. Woodman, Paw Paw,
Mich.
%cinnatl. -
Iae;etont SteUard.-Wm. Sims, of Kan
81" T1reasurer.-F. M. Mcdowell, Wayne,
sac,,etaru.-O. H. Kelley, Louisville, KY.
cate keeper.-O. Dinwiddie, Orchard
Grove, Ind.
Ceres.-Mrs. Adams.
Pomond.-Mrs. Woodman.
FIora.-Mrs. Moore.
IIdu Asst. SteUard.-Miss G. A. Hall,
louisville. KY.
COMMITTEE.
D. Wyatt Aiken, Cokesbury, s. G.
Henley James, Marion, Ind.
s Fl. Ellis, SpringsbOTo, Ohio.
Officers Of North Carolina State
Grange, P. Of II.
Naster-W II Cheek, of Warren.
Overseer-D A Montgomery, of Ala
Tecturer-D E Sampson, of Gui,ford.
Steward-J A Harris, of Iredell.
Assistant Ste ward-H E King, of Ons-
Cbaplain-Rev VIM Grant, of North
ampton.
Secretary--Jos E Porter. of Edgecombe.
Cate Keeper-L w Reasons, Edges
combe.
Ceres-Mrs A NJ Cheek. of Warren.
Pomona-Mrs ] E Somers. Of Guilford.
Flora-Miss Eugenia Robinson, of Ca
barrus. :
Lady Asst. Steward-Mrs II E King, Of
Onslow.
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Col. William H. Cheek, Chairman, CT
Warrenton.
Cant. J. E. Porter, Secretary, Tarboro.
Cant 6. 3. Alexander, Charlotte.
John King. Falkland. Pitt county.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

Durham Plant: DIR. E. r. Williamson
was tried before Judge Dick at Greensboro,
and ordered to give bono in $1,000 tor his
appearance at next term OF court, out hao
not lone SO at last accounts. 1--WE are
glad to sec that considerable prominence is
to be given to tobacco at our next State
Fair. We hope to see on exhibition OF to-
bacco from Wake, Granville, Orange yer
son, Caswell, Alamance and Chatham that
the people from all parts of the State may
learn what Middle Carolina il deing. "
Thursday evening, a box containing a bot
tie of water, was sent from Goldsooro TO
Prof. Ledoux at Chapel Hill to be analyzeu'
A negro, named Mitchenor, has been ar
rested and lodged in Jail at Goldsooro
charged with poisoning the water IN tie
we'll of Mr.. Geo. J. Yelverton, and TINS wa
ter was taken from said we'll ana Is 10 De
analvzed to ascertain if there IS poison IN
the water and what it is. Several persons
were poisoned by the use of this water but
none we learn have died.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

4 SINGING CURE FOR GOUT.-German
papers have lately lauded the busy bee for
curing that luxurious torment, the gout.
A writey in the Augsburg Erening Gazette
says:
Il was lying in bed suffering from a
heavy attack of govt, accompanied with
violent paias in my left foot, when l
CHANGED to read in a newspaper an article
describing how govt may be cured by the
sting of bees. l at once determined to try
the remedy, and soon contrived a small box
by means of which a captured bee could be
applied to the afflicted part. | then let my
foo be stung by three bees in succession,
each bee leaving his sting behind in my flesh.
After a few minute these stings were ex.
tracted; and when the pain caused by them
had subsidized, found that the equity pain
had at last left me. On the same day l left
my bed, and on the morrow was able to
walk about. For some little time my foot
was slightly infamed, and l experienced
some burning sensation; but in four or five
days this completely left me, and | was
completely recovered
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

\ number Of excellent dyes can be OBJ
tanned from the berries of common plants,
bv boiling them in water SO as to produce
q strong dccoction. The w~hortleberry and
the blueberry. when boiled down, with an
addition Of a little alum and copperas, will
make n fine shade of dark blue. The same
treatment. with a solution of nut gals
added to it. will make a handsome brown;
while, by adding alum, verdigris and sal
ammoniac to the berries, seve al shades Of
bright purple and red can be obtained.
The Juice of elderberries boiled in water
with a little alum will also produce a shade
of blue. The berries of the privet, when
over-ripe, will yield, by a mixture OF a little
salt, a scarlet red, and the seeds OF the
burning bush. when treated with sal am
moniac, make q beautiful reddIsh-purple.
The mice of the currant, with a little
alum' will dye a bright shade Of red and
the bark of the bush, treated In the same
wa~. makes IA rood brown. Yellow can be
obtained from the bark of the elm, the
nonIar. the ash, and the apple tree, boiled
down strong and mixed with alum water.
tassels of broom corn, treated III the
vav. produce a good shade of green.
y.
no,Ly.-Mould is indispensable in every
soil. and a healthy supply can alone be pre-
served through the cultivation OF clover
and grasses by the tusning in Of green
crops, or by the application OF compests
rich in the elements OF mould.
StocI. Pemedtes.-Half a pint OF lard
ooI+ed in q pint of new milk, given warm,
vii remove costiveness. For bruless or
cores boil smartweed in chambe.-lye, add
q little soft soap, and wash twice a Gay.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
Iron and Brass Founders.

Cotton Gins, Power Presses, Saw and Grist Mills,
Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Boxes. Plans and Esti-
mates furnished on all classes of Machinery. We call
special attention of the following goods, manufactured
by the TAYLOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
which we are offering at Manufacturers prices.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

Germans cal! a "Hohenrauch," notwithstan-
ding the visibility of stars. From the
above brief summary of what have been
considered sun darkehings, we see that in
several cases the diminution of light has
been due to the ordinary effects of a total
eclipse, while it is clear that there are no
grounds in the historical evidence for any
prediction of a period of darkness. The
nervous in these matters, and it would real
ly appear that such exist, may take conso-
lation therefrom.-J. II. Hind, IN Na-
ture.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
SEPTEMBER Is, 1891
Vbe 6ranoe.

15,der this head aeiU be found the cDtcial Pa
ners of the Grand Master, and also. all
Communications from members Of the North
CoroTna Patrons of Husbdndru.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

its simplicity of construction and strength OF material.
Absolutely safe as regards fire. Cheap TO suit tae
times. Price of Eight Horse Power only S415.
Large Screw, with Back and Forward Gear, 70 b
driven by one belt, for packing cotton, 800.
Mr.. j. ID. Wells, OF ToisnOt, y. G., says: The engine
I bought Of you / use with ORDINARY FARM
LABOR
W. NJ. Benton, Boykins, says; " / easily ginned : to <
bales a day. A colOred man with no previous experience
operates il. i feel safe as regards SPARKS
We could multiply testimony If necessary. Send for
circulars as regards Engines and our celebrated Cotton
Presses for Hand or Power. TAPPEI * STEEL,
may29-tf. Petersburg, Va.