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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-27

JoURNALIsTIC Notes.-The Frrmer
and Mechanic is an exchange we would not
be without for any consideration. Sub
! scribers will find it worth to them twice the
subscription price. Salisbury Deaocrat.
The Henderson 7oJIcooHist has begun
its 4th volume. Messrs. Thad K. Manning
and p. 3. Clark deserve great credit for the
decided improvements made IN the paper
during the past year. -Tarboro .Sou'herner.
You follow the fact, friend, and We join You
i'm wishing them success. The Elenton
ttor,on, edited by j. III. Garrett and Frank
ID. Winston. tlate of Chapel Hill, earnestly
labors for temperance. morality. and reform,
in public / ans.-Judge Clarke declares
he tiDds it much more difficult 10 edit the
.N,qpai now. than before Its reduction In
size. This is a truth we long ago realized.
The great ''pesterment with the editor OF
the Farmer and Mschdnic Is not 60 'hil
up but TO ind room for all the articles
which he thinks his readers ought To see.
Not a week passes, not a PAPER goes TO
press, without leaving large files of clip
pings, and communications, for which there
is not space. Moreover, perhaps, the Sc
verest trial TO an editor Is In resisting the
temptation to print spicy, or savage, articles
which he knows nine men In ten Will ENJOY,
but which may do harm TO the tenth man,
or work mischief In a moral, social. or point
ical phase. -Dossey Battle, Esq. is book
ed to deliver the address at Prot. A. ).
Moore school, iii Whitakers, Tomorrow
afternoon. Those youngsters will open their
eyes.-The Henderson Iobaccontst
(Messrs. Thad K. Manning aud +. Is. Clarke,
editorsl volunteers a paragraph about the
Turner and Nechuntc, as follows for
which we tender sincere thanks In these
dry and rather discouraging tunes. when
dollars look like cart wheels, and Debt turks
Just around the corner. seeking TO slip into
the sanctum by crack or c~revlce, 1t Is cheer
ing to have such assurances that our labor,
tho ill-paid, is not wholly lost. We quote:
This excellent paper comes TO us every
week full of choice. wholesome reading mat
ter of all kinds. from almost everywn ere.
There is not a more newsy paper comes TO
this office, and indeed we doubt if such an
one could be found IN the State. Capt.
Shotwell its accomplished editor. knows
how to make a good paper. and he is spar
ing neither time nor labor In giving the
readers of the rorner ard Mechanic one In
every sense of the word well worthy OF their
patronage. His "reminiscences OF the late
war, Three ears IN Battle aud Three IN
Prison. are more than worth the sutscrlp-
ton price, besides getting a vast amount OF
useful and interesting reading matter con-
corning the farm, garden and household,
and the news from all over the State. -
Mai. Hearne's Ecentng Post is bright and
newsy. showing the trained Journalist on
every page. He has leased the well known
Nichols printing establishment.
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-27

Rocky MOUNT PROGRESS ITEMS. Our
cornet band proposes to give a grand pic nlc
at the Falls. on the 9th Of June, for the
benefit of the band. The committee of ar
rangement, DIR. Il. B. Whitley. VIM.
Daughoridge and John kersey, were APP
pointed to make all the arrangemeuts.-
MIR. Augustus Bobbitt, aged %, an estima-
BILE lady, died in Franklin last week ln
Rocky Mount on Thursday. little Mamie
Ports, her mothers dartlng wa taken
also. --Mrs. ". II. pdom died ii Eige.
combe last week. Also, Mrs. DR.. ". II.
Whitehead of Battleboro.~
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-27

The FAIR FoLK.-Miss Sarah Green has
been visiting in Richmond for the past
fortnight Miss Lulu Tucker attended
the Charlotte centennial, and was given a
German and a Hop by the young people,
Miss Matte Fowle received the compliment
of a Hop by the young people ofGreensbOro
during her recent visit and a writer in the
Messenger seems to have been present -
Miss Lulu Fentress spent several days in
Durham last week.-The Rocky Mount
Progress says Miss Pattie Mann came near
TO fatal results by inhaling too much chioro-
form while suffering with severe headache.
The same paper says:-'The fair and
a s..inating Miss Annie Strudwick, who has
been spending some time among us, and
who, by her courteous demeanor and en-
gaging manners, won the esteem aad comb
dence OF all our people, left for her home in
Hillsboro last Saturday. The young
| people of Morganton have had SO much fun
| out of Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works that,
| upon invitation, they repeated the perfor-
nance in Cline's Hall, at Hickory, on the
It'll inst. The Press speaks of it as a very
| entertaining play. Mrs. Geo. 7. Irwin dis
guised herself as Mrs. farley; aud one
of our young friends acted the jolly little
wife. for whom the old Bachelor went to
| London. and finding the streets narrow,
| called with his wheelbarrow. If 'twere
scenes from real life, the woods around
| Morganton would be full Of wheelbarrows.
The Oxford Free Lunrc says:-On
Monday evening last while Mr.. J.. A. Da-
! Wis ana Miss Martha Lanier were out en-
loving a pleasant ride, the horse became
| frightened and ran against a tree, throw
| ing Miss Lanier violently to the ground,
bruising her up very baciy. The buggy
sufft red considerable damage.--The la
| Gies of Monroe have organized their Library
| Association. Mrs. u. A. Covington, Mrs.
II. B. Adams, and Mrs. J. F. Payne were
appointed te draft a constitution.-Col.
Frank Coke, of Char,otte, took a large par
" about 5O} in IA Specia! train to enjoy a
picnic at his other beautiful residence IN
Grecnville, :. {. By the Obsc,rey's az
count it was delightful affair: an Englisf
lawn partv.--Mrs. NJ. 7. Yates. Q
Shanghai, China. reached Raleigh on Sat
urdav last and IS the gnest OF Rev DR.. Skin
ner and lady.--Fhe ladies participating II
the Durham procession are named by tn
Obxerrcr as follows: North Carolina Mis-
Cox Virginia, Miss Mice Rawls Mary
land, Miss Emma Harden; Rhode Island
Miss Sue Harden New Jersey, Miss Mimi
Wilkinson New York, Miss W, Wilkinson
New Hampshire, Miss c. Reams; Georgia
Miss {. Barham; South Carolina, Miss Nv
Halllburton; Pennsylvania, Miss Dell
Reams: Massachusetts,. Miss Cnrnie Ray
Delaware, Miss May Turner. Miss DurhaI
typliied the | mon. being atured with tn
American cUlOrs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20
Demolition Of the Pyramids.

The news will be received with re-
greet that in Egypt the hand of the de-
stroyer is at work. A traveller who has
recently visited the Pyramids at
Gheezeh. and whose Investigations ex.
tended to Sakkarah, Dashoor and May
doom, reports that not only was the
work of destruction proceeding at re-
mote place like Dashoor, but at the
very scene Of NJ. Mariette's operations.
There have been removed from imme-
diately under the entrance to the Great
Pyramid some four or i've large stones,
and this traveller, correspondent al
the EgyptiGss GGsette, was informed, on
what he could not but regard Is trust
worthy authority, that this wanton act
had been committed by order Of the
Khedive, the stone being required for
the building Of the new mosque, which
80 greatly overshadows the beautiful
mosque OF Sultan Hassan. !.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20
WIT AND WISDOM.

The pupil of the eye has to be
dashed.
Forced politeness-Bowing to ne
cessity.
"A dime novel is of course in-ten-
centsation.
"A man may create a breeze if he is
good at blowing.
There is more fashion in the city,
but more stiles in the country.
Luck is the result of keeping q
careful eye on the main chance.
The man who wears paper collars
cannot even secure the respect of first
class washerwoman.
The young man who thinks he is too
good to work generally proves to be too
good for anything useful.
The latest fashionable comfort in
New York is an undertaken who can
shed real tears at a funeral. He is in
great demand.-M o. RcayH'se.
"A French physician has published a
pamphlet showing the terrible " effects
Of smoking on the heart But we
have known more terrible effects to be
produced on the heart in five minutes
by little maiden in a calico dress than
by twenty years of steady and untir-
ing devotion to the weed.
The man who can get as much pow
er out of quart of water and basket
of coal as any one else can out of fifty
times those amounts is called a genius;
but the boy who can get as much agony
out of willow whistle as brass band
can get out of its instruments is merely
called nuisance.
The farmer turns the furrow,
With careless uncOncern;
And
The fairness works the handle
OF the big old-fashioned churn.
Their son sorts out the Eaters,
For plantin', in the cellar;
While
Their daughter on the back porch
Is talkin' to her Teller.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20
A Race for q Bride.

A novel wedding occurred the other
day at Pollocksville, N. G. It seems
that Messrs. John Miller and Alexander
Bib, two well-to-do young farmers,
were in love with the same lady, Leo
nora Lloyd, beautiful girl of that
place. She was not able to decide as
to which she liked best. On Sunday
morning Bibb walked home from church
with her, and left under the impression
that she said she would marry him.
The same night lover No. 2, Miller,
went to see her, and understood her TO
say she would marry him. Both men
the next morning went to the Court
House to get out the marriage license,
and there met. Each one armed HIM
self with the necessary documents, and
each left with a license to marry Miss
Lloyd. After some talk they agreed
that the first man who reached the
lady's house should marry her. The
residence of Colonel Lloyd, the lady's
father, is one mile distant, and both
men started on the race for the bride.
Bibb soon left the main road and darted
into the woods, expecting to make
short cut and reach the house before
his rival, but Miller kept the road and
got in on the home stretch eight min
utes before his rival. Both men were.
in sight Of each other going up the lane
to the house, and Bibb's efforts to over
take his rival were almost superhuman.
When they reached the house Bibb,
from sheer exhaustion, tainted in the
porch, almost at the feet of his lady
love. When the matter was stated to
her she said she had come to the con-
clusion that she liked Mr.. Bibb the best
and therefore she would marry him.
Her sympathies were won over by see-
ing him faint. She stated that she be.
lieved that both loved her; but that he
who faints at the danger Of losing
bride must love her more than he who
is cool and unconcerned in the midst OF
it all. The affair caused intense excite
ment. That night Rev. Aaron Jasper,
the well-known Baptist minister, mar
ried Bibb and Miss Lloyd. So ended
one Of the most startling romances in
real life ever known in the history Of
North Carolina. Cor. 81. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist Church.
organized In 1869, has now $3.50
members and an annual income of &c.,
043.
The Virginia Bible Society is about
to make perfect canvass of the State
for the purpose of ascertaining how
many homes are without Bibles.
The Washington University, at st.
Louis, Mo-, has received in its history
gifts exceeding 81. 900. 600 besides more
than 800, 600 received for scholarship
endowments. The largest amount
credited to one name is $2O3, 900. and
The next is 3179,5OO.
The City of Rochester, N. Y, has
five public libraries, including that of
the Baptist theological Seminary there,
the aggregate contents of which are
something like $4,000 volumes. The
union of all these in one general build
ing is now urged as measure of public
convenience.
In the mountain counties of East
ern Kentucky the best known man is
George 0. Barnes, who for four years
had labored there with great zeal and
rich results as revivalist. He was
born tifty-four years ago in Garrard
County, was graduated at the Prince
ton Seminary, and in 1854 was ordained
Presbyterian minister. Soon after
this he was married, and in company
with his wife set out for India as
missionary. For seven years he taught
and preached in Hindostan, finally los
ing his health, which compelled a re-
turn home.
The late meeting of the American
Frebel Union in this city, says the New
York Independent, furnished proofs of
the hold that the Frebel idea has on
the civilized world. It is now more
than fifty years since Friedrich Frebel
published the book that gave the first
announcement of his system of educa-
ton, and nearly thirty years since the
Prussian Government prohibited all
kindergarten in which his method was
employed, on the ground of its COM
munistic tendencies. At the meeting
held here three weeks ago letters were
read from auxiliary societies in San
Francisco, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit,
Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Lon
don, Berlin, Dresden, Geneva and Ma
Piles. The Western world seems to in
dorse the system.
"A Methodist church in Massachu-
sets resolved to get along on the c. o.
D. plan in all departments of its finance.
A few Sundays ago the pastor reported
that the church was two hundred and
thirty dollars short, and asked for i'm
mediate cash to mAke this amount good.
There being no response, he announced
that there would be no services in the
evening. Thereupon some of the breth-
rem put their heads together and col
lected what was needed. AS result of
this the pastor gave notice that the serv-
ices would proceed in the evening as
usual. This was thought by some peo-
pie to be needlessly severe transac-
ton. But the pastor and tho leading
tinanciers say it is better to do thus
than to pursue reckless course of in
curing Indebtedness which will sooner
or later bring the church under the
hammer of the Sheriff's auctioneer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20
Heart Disease.

When an individual is reported to
have died of "disease of the heart"
we are in the habit of regarding it a.
an inevitable event, as something which
could not have been foreseen or pre-.
vented, and it is too much the habit,
when persons suddenly fall down dead,
to report the "heart'' as the cause; this
silences all inquiry and investigatioao
and saves the trouble and Inconvenience
of repulsive ''post- norton. A truer
report would have tendency to save
many lives. 1t is through report of
''disease of the heart that many an
opium cater is let off into the grave,
which covers at once his folly and his
crime; the brandy drinker, too, quietly
slides round the corner thus, and is
heard of no more; in short this ire
port of ''disease of the heart" is the
mantle of charity which the polite Cor
oner and the sympathetic physician
throw around the grave of ''genteel
people,"
At late scientific Congress at Stras-
burg, it was reported that of sixty-six
persons who had suddenly died an
immediate and faithful post-mortem
showed that only two persons had any
heart affection whatever; one sudden
death only, in thirty-three, from disease
of the heart. Nine out of the sixty
six died of apoplexy-one out of every
seven-while fo1ty-six-more than two
out of three-died of lung affections,
half of them of congestion of the
lungs" that is, the lungs were SO full
of blood they could not work, there
was not room for air enough to get in
to support life. 1t is then Of consider
able practical interest to know some
of the common, everyday causes Of
this congestion Of the lungs" dis
ease which, the figures above being
true. kills three times rs many persons
at short warning as apoplexy and heart
disease together. Cold feet; tight shoes;
tight clothing; costive bowels; sitting
still until chilled through and through
after having been warmed up by IL
Dor or q long, hasty walk; going too
suddenly from . close, heated room, -
. lounger, or listener, or speaker,
while the body is weakened by contin-
ued application. or abstinence, or heat
ed by the effort Of long address; these
are the fruitful, the very fruitful causes
Of sudden death in the form Of ICON
gestion Of the lungs;' but which being
falsely reported a disease Of the
heart" and regarded - an inevitable
event. throws people OF their guard.
instead Of pointing them plainly to the
true causes, all Of which are av0idable,
and very easily 20, - . general rule,
whom the mind has been once intelli-
gently drawn to the subject.-Halrs
Josss,sal Of Health.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20
Two Terrible Explosions.

BALT1NoRE, Nd, Nay IL
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred late
this afternoon just outside the nortl
wall of Fort McHenry, which resulted
in the instant killing Of six persons, and
the wounding of two others.
David p. Shannon 4 Co., junk dealers, pur-
shells at the fort, and took part Of them out
brother Of DAVID p, Herman Bust. John
engaged in tho work, and Robert Stein
known boy, and German man were
ersss on ONE II 'nI the me sseG he
the shells on It while another struck them
with q heavy eledge-hammer. Before the
poured upon them. a,ne or two shells had
been broken when policeman appeared and
warned them Of the danger. ShOr ~ after q
snsl1 , H VAST struck . and exploded when the boy
Robert Stcinman. the German who was pres
emit, and the other boy. were instantly killed,
and Francis Shannon and Henry Hsmlin se.
were badly mutt ated, and that of the UNI
known German who stood near was literally
blown TO atoms. Portions Of his body were
discovered was an arm. An oficia! investiga-
ton VIII take place. The report Of the expl0-
sion was heard . distance of i've miles.
DEAuwoop, D. T., May II.
An explosion OF 6ve boxes, nearly one hum
dred pounds, Of Giant powder occurred ct the
Central City, this morning, instantly Killing
Samuel Z. ktmbalL foreman Of the mine, and
Joseph Gilmore and L. Truedcll. Tho bodies
recognition. Pieces al flesh, bones. ETC.. wore
scattered over mil, square In all directions.
the laryelt piece found Icing y mans head.
n..rris ~ LIZ ers,s. es,ns ~ - ~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Tho Connecticut River Lumber
Company cut about $1,000, 900 feet Of
logs during the past winter.
Within the past fifty years about
NO, 900 miles of railroads have been
built in the world at . cost Of DIS, 0OO,-
10000
The fruit and vegetable business
nom Florida to Northern and Western
cities has grown from about $1,000
boxes in 1874 to $50. 900 in 1880.
Careful measurements of 800 boys
showed that in very few of them were
the legs of equal length, the difference
being as rule . small fraction of an
inch.
The Massachusetts, Bureau of Prac.
tical Statistics reports that while the
marriage rate has sensibly decreased
within the last twenty years, the d.
vorce rate has more than doubled.
The London Times estimates that
there are $1,000 blind persons in Great
Britain and Ireland. Nine tenths Of
these. it thinks, could have been saved
from their affection had the highest
special skill been called to their aid in
time.
On Saturday, April "a, the roll OF
Postmasters in the United States footed
up 1897, and, with the clerks, subor-
dinates and mail messengers, etc., the
total number of persons in this branch
of the Government reaches upward OF
10000.
in Germany deep hole was bored
by the diamond rock drill, 3,315 feet
being attained in six months. This is
not SO deep as one made by the Prus.
sian Government a few years ago,
which was 4,183 feet deep, but took
four years to bore.
I'm the month of March there was a
total of sixty-five railway accidents,
whereby nine persons were killed ard
thirty-three injured. Six accidents
caused the death of one or more per.
sans; 16 caused injury, but not death,
while in 43, or 66.2 per cent. of the
whole number, there was no injury
serious enough for record. The record
of casualties is unusually light. Al
compared with March, 1879, there was
an increase of four accidents, q de.
crease of five in the number killed, and
of II in those injured.
Prince Bismark has Just presented
to the Imperial Parliament a very in.
structive paper on emigration from
Germany during the year 1879. 1t ap.
pears that no fewer than 33,327 sub
jects of the Empire, nearly two-thirds
being males, took ship last year fol
foreign ports at Bremen, Hamburg,
stettin. or Antwerp. by far the greater
number going to the United States and
British North America. This emigra-
ton total is the largest since 1874,
when the figure was 43, 112; 1872 and
1873, Immediately after the war, show
ing the very formidable results of 1875,
$50 and 1O3,638 respectively. These
figures, it must be remembered, only
gauge the flow of German emigration
through few leading channels, and by
no means represent the entire loss in
subjects annually suffered by the EN-
pire.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20

Denver, Col, is to have . great
union railroad depot, in which al the
railroads going out from that city are
to be united. The building win be OF
stone, two stories high, with central
tower 24O feet high. It will be 500
feet long, sixty-five feet wide, and
cover an area of ten acres.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20
Foreign Intelligence.

Oh the 10th Emperor William adj
journed, without date, the sessions of the
German Reichs.ag. The difiiculty grew out
Of the defeat Of the Government ON the prop
osition to modify the privileges Of Hamburg
- free port
A LARGE number Of dock-laborers in
Liverpool struck on the 10th for increased
wages. Steamers were much Inconvenience.
BATANGA, on the Cameroons River,
on the west coast Of Africa, has been recent
y bombarded and burned by the British on
account Of the capture and flltreatment Of
British subjects by the natives.
ANGRY notes have been recently ex-
changed between the British Embassy At
Constantinople and the Porte relative to the
suppression Of the Lessmt Herald end the
editors Subsequent sentence TO seventeen
months imprisonment.
TIE British Admiralty on the 18th
gave mp q lost the training ship Atalanta,
which had been missing ovsr one hundred
days
On q the honorary commissioners
representing the United States ct the Sydney;
Ixpoeition stated on the 18th that exhibitors
from the United States had been vesy suc-
eessful h obt lining awards and that the
trade Of this country in Austssiis will 10
eysstly bsns6tsd
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20

Some idea may be formed Of the
rapid growth Of seaside resorts by the
fact that at Atlantic City, N. j., aboyt
500 new cottages have been bullt y. :. /.
building this spring.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20

FROM the London Truth: mo woman
ever yet achieved . reputation for
beauty without more or lass deserving
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20

PLUTARCH's LIVES contains q passage
which strongly indicates that petroleum
was known to, although not utilized
by, the ancients. It appears that one
Of Aexander's Macedonians, while
pitching the kings tent, struck quite .
considerable vein Of oily liquid. Its
description, as recorded by old Mr..
Plutarch, would apply very precisely to
the crude petroleum Of our own times.
The discovery occurred on the banks Of
the River Oxus.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20

A CELEBRATED philosopher used to
say '.The favors Of fortune are like
steep rocks only eagles and creeping
things mount to The SUNNI t."