The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-11-18


TO come to 1t sooner or later
TO BE CONTINUED
The Dooms1ay Book Of Irelanl creli;s
Mr.. Charles Stewart Parnell with 1862
acres, valued at el, 4S0 a year
Winston Sentinel: Fine beef cattle have
been selling upon our streets at to
cents per pound. gross. There are more
barnes filled with tobacco in this section of
North Carolina this season than ever be
fore in our tobacco era. Tile protracted
meeting at the Methodist p. church under
the supervision of Miss Painter. Rev. Mr..
Page and Others divines, still continues with
undated interest.
Hillsboro Observer The case Of r l.. d.
Henry against W. G. Baldwin. which took
up three and a half days Of our Superior
court, in which was involved the title to six
acres of land, valued at s.. 80 per acre. was
decided on Friday night in favor Of Henry.
he being represented IN court by Graham &
Rufin, JAS. A. Graham and A. w. Ora
ham. Baldwin was represented By {. r..
Parish, John NJ. Moring and James Il.
Mason. The cost in this case amounted to
S325.oO, to say nothing aboI 1t the fees OF
lawyers.
Statesville Laadmark If the Democrats
have carried North Carolina it has been in
spite of the Democratic State Executive
Committee. which. during the last weeks OF
the campaign, unconsciously TODD between
the party and victory, by conceiring the
erroneous idea that Mai Latham district
was the State of North Carolina. Since
our last issue two of our physicians, Drs. II
Kelly and ". VI. Campbell, have suffered
strokes OF paralysis-Dr. Kelly Friday night
Of last week, DIR. Campbell last Monday al
ternoon. The former gentleman, after hav
ny rallied. has had a relapse and is con
inned to his bed the latter has almost en-
tireiy recovered from the effects of his
stroke and is resting quite comfortably.
Raleigh Ne,cs: There are at present 40
c~onvicts on Western North Carolina Rail
road. OF these 800 are able bodied men.
actually at work on the road. Last week
forty one cOnvlcts were sent up this road
from the University railroad, the grading
of which is now finished. At the
home precinct of Col. Col. John w.
Cunningham, Of Person county, he received
as candidate for Senator every vote (2l6)
that was polled.-The voting in Per
son for the House was a tie between
James Holeman, Democrat, and G. s.. Win
stead, Hancock Republican,. At a meeting
If the County Commissioners on the eth
inst, we are informed that 1t was decided IN
favor of Col. Winstead
The papers have spoken frequently about
the case down in lenoir county where a man
tried to kiss a woman without her consent.
What became OF the rash man who made
the attempt is shown in a paragraph from
this weeks kinston Journal as follows
The case of Stephen c. Spence, who was
sentenced to thirty days imprisonment for
an assault by attempting to kiss Mrs. NJ. h.
Waller came up last week before Judge Gud-
ger, on appeal from the magistrate court.
The jury quickly returned a verdict of
guilty. and the Judge reafirmed the
thirty days Imprisonment, afterwards chan
ged to a $50 fine, and expressed great re
greet that the law limited the punishment az
he was satisfied the otfense deserved a much
heavier sentence
KinSton .JournoI: Ex-Sheriff Morley, of
Jones county, tells us of a terrific cylone that
visited the Tuckshoe section of that county
on the 9th. 1t swept through field and
forest for over a half mile, in a belt about
two hundred yards wide, carrying destruc-
ton and devastation through its whole
route. 1t first struck the house of David
Craft, a two story dwelling, and levelled it
to the ground, with every other building on
the place. Fortunately there were no per-
sons in the house. Next it struck Stephen
the face of the earth. Here Howard him
self was badly bruised in the debris, while
his little child had a thigh broken. Finally
it swept away the Jim William mill house,
on Tuckahoe branch, sucking up in its vor-
tex nearly all the water in the mill tail and
and nearly drowning the miller, who was
found on the sheets.--Mr. J. w. Sat
tons gin house, press, gin and some over
three bales Of cotton were burned at
at la Grange last Friday. Engine was saved.
Insurance 555. Fire originated on the sec
III a., - Wr,6t IoStor .olpra1
I~tenant on Mr.. Tnos. Thos. Sutton's farm, in
Bucklesberry, reports that he has has gath
cred from a one horse farm ninety barrels
OF corn aud will get twenty more. From
tins same farm he has out eight bales of cot
iton and will get another.
Kinston .Jourual: Z. NJ. Foscue, one %
Jones county NEST successful farmers, will
average this year, on a six horse farm. 10
bales of cotton, 80 barrels of corn, and 50
bushels of peas to the horse. They keep
iJoseph Dixon, of Greene, Josephus Holton,
of Pitt and r. b. Bright, ali well-to- do citi
2cns, contemplate moving to kinston this
winter .-The corn crops unusually good.
Mr.. Jerry Watson. in the neighbOrhood of
Helletier's mill, has made this year, with
one horse rs barrels Of corn and five bales
of cotton. -From the census notes Of
Lenoir we find that there are 2,941 voters
living in the county. In the vote last week
for President, which is the tairest test Of
the party strength, only 2,4S5 votes were
cast on both sides, showing that there were
462 men in the county VINO failed to vote.
.. III. Kennedy brought Us last Saturday,
a stalk of cotton sprouted from an old
stalk that had lived through last winter.
There were twenty-five boils on it and one
or two branches had be torn off. DE.
Hyatt proposes to build a brick dwelling
in kinston on a somewhat novel plan. lie
intends framing and weatherboard with
brick-that is. have the only one brick. He
thinks to make So 900 brick take the place
of $40, 600. -Lenoir voted 324 for, and
1921 against the amendment relating to the
Insane. A majority of 1,l97 on the side
recommended by the Journal The town
clock has come, costing 1926.
Murfreesboro Enquirer: The Methodist