The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-02-05

Monroe is to have lock boxes IN the 30
office.
"A mad dog was killed on the Wadesie
| road some . or miles from Monroe a fe
, days ago.
Mr.. William Marcus, of Wataupa count,
! shot himself IN the breast last week. and
Is Ieared that the wound Will prove fatal.
he first steam engine ever put up i
Mitchell county, was started at the Clariss
NINE last Friday, by J. G. Heap.
Holmes Co, will commence with tn
manufacture of smoking tobacco, after
wards gong into that OF cigarettes.
Messrs. Miller and Fray have recent
erected d new steam saw mill on the line O
the Western North Carolina Railroad, with
III four miles of Hickory.
buckingham Bee Our Presbyteria,
brethren have employed the Rev. S. &
AieXan'ter AS their pastor for the presen
year, So We are informed. The Baptis
Church al Laurinpurg has heen completed
MIR. Wm. II. Vanderbilt has given s25,
900 to the University of Virginia, the gifl
belnS the result, says Hulerx Weehly, ol
Gen Geo. ID. Johnson's recent cal
upon MIR. Vanderbilt, and "a conversation
With hlm IN relation to MIR. Leanuer J.
McCormick gift OF telescope to the IN
stitution. Mr. Vanderbit's gift makes Mr..
Mccormick gift available.
Graham county correspondence AsheviIle
Citizen. Tie Rev DR. r. NJ Roberts and
Mrs. Nancy A. Nichols of Graham county
\. g., have left these parts together.
Roberts IS about forty-tive years OF age,
weighs about li5 pounds. He leaves wife
VIII" Is lady and made u consistent wife
Nancy \. Nichols is about - wears of age
She leaves Il husband and ope child about
two years old.
Horrible atrocities by the Moors upon
the jewish residents OF Fez, Morocco are
reported Terrible accounts of the Iav-
Ages OF fever in portions of Naples are given:
famine is impending. -Gen Beaureyard
5 to he invited before the House Committee
N Postal Affairs to tell what he knows
IbOut lotteries
Concord SIN Last Thursday little
10Y, the grandson of Mrs Davey Spears.
vas rlilng on a wagon, holding an axe in
is hands. lie was seated on the rear part
J tue wagon when tie axe handle struck
ne OF The wheels. causing the axe to re
nund and strike the little fellow in the
hr0at. The blade OF the axe cut entirely
cross the from OF the boys throat, sever
'g tie wind pipe and making a terrible
ash. messenger was dispatched to town
'r DR.. JOhd l.. Henderson. who seWed un |
'e wound ana left the lad in IA fair way Of |
.covery.
Greensboro Pttriot: The extensive sash |
ld bind factory of W. C. Petty at Rush
III, was destroyed 10y fire last night.
using Il loss of 5000 dollars worth
property on which there was an insur
ce OF s., OOo. ."Forty emigrants left this
ciion yesterday, via the Richmond and
inv'lie Railroad some going to Texas
hers to Indiana MIR. n. Ballew at IA.
ans Creek. Ashe county, has recently
"a one hundred acres OF Mineral lands.
company of Northern capitalists, for
J. UOo. last week. an old colored wo-
n named Holmes died, about four mile.
18th OF town. Mr.. j. A. Pritchett saws
It she was considerably over hundred
Irs of age. :
Jhar!otte Evening Press, 23th: The To- {
motive 'Swannanoa,' exploded her !.
Ter three miles beyond Statesville, yes /
lay afternoon, severely scalding the en-
ceE, Dir Ben. Marsh. Charles G ,rdon I
'ther engineer, was struck by some bro, ;
pieces of machinery or glass probably +
terribly cut over and about the eve :,
viii probably loose both The fireman :,
slightly scslded. Another fireman was =
'vn from the tender to the top of the b
box car. Parts of the iron blown ont =,
he engine cut the telegraph wire. The .,
ne was % years old and the boiler was II
ouhtedly defective from e--The in
Stern n c. K. r. has purchased the en- 4
1adkin" f.om the Il. c. r. r. d.
thousand dollars was the price paid Of