The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-04-29

The Winston Leader says it was not
true that the convict Fries was frost bitten
in Forsythe Jail, as stated by the c%oroner's
iury-verdict.
"A prominent gentleman from Eastern
North Carolina arrived in Raleigh last
night and reports Hartford, Northampton,
and other counties strongly for Judge
~Fowle.
Maj. c. Dowd is to deliver the Goth of
May address at Charlotte, and the choice
was an excellent one, as he. has long taken a
warm interest in the history of the State,
and OF Meckienburg.
Bennett, the bigamist, was sentenced
to Richmond peDitentlary for three years
Just the number of his wives. A son by
his first wife was a witness in his favor.
Capt. join Bragg's Charlotte Erening
Press has donned a new face of type, and is
altogether neat and sparkling. The editor,
like his venerated father, is a man who has
a head, and follows it. We draw MANY
items from the Press. Success to it.
PR. Hines, Esq. of this city, was school
mate Of Horatio Seymour at a Connecticut
Academy. Recently Mr.. Hines wrote his
old friend. t. urge upon him the patriotic
duty of surrendering his personal ease and
convenience with a view 10 harmonizing the
discordant elements in the Democracy, and
securing the country against the evil ten
denotes of the CentraliZatiOnists. No reply
has been received.
An Halifax farmer told our friend
Hines he had, at the cost Of so for chemi
Gals, > days labor. and the assistance Cf one
iaborer, and a bull cart. made a lot of fer
tlzer superior TO that which his neighbors
bought at $50 per ton. He has been max
ing his own compost for several years. Yet,
it Is well n that the amount offertilizers
now pouring into the State exceeds even
previous years. The railroads are redolent
with them.
DR.. Chas. +. Brem, Of Charlotte. and
Messrs. Thos. W. Porter and II. C.. Fitz-
gerald, Of Henderson,, have invented car
couplers which seem destined to sell. NJ.
S.. Shotwell, a brother of the editor, also
has one which many prominent railroad
men have endorsed. But it requires much
time, money, and intrigue to get the big
railroads to take hold of a new patent, as it
is a great loss if it prove a failure.
We have received from Secretary John
NJ. Rose, Esq, of the Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley r.. r., a neatly printed, and very
well-drawn pamphlet showing not only the
proceedings of the recent stockholders
meeting, but also the financial condition of
the company and all necessary information.
1t shows that the total earnings for the year
ending March, 1880, were $32, 222 SS-an
increase OF Sl,1j0.OS over the previous
year. Total outlay, $50, 5I.44-which how
ever included nearly six thousand of unset
tied accounts, DC. So that the net profits
for the year were $7,S7I.56. We shall give
some extracts from the Presidents report.
Mrs. Frances Ho Tyson Burnett's char
acter sketch, entitled ''Loutstana R0qels,"
is located at a Western North Carolina wa
tering place. A New York girl of the
cling and squeaking tddles Of the ''hote!
band and seeing among the arrivals am
awkward dowdy Of a girl named Louisiono
Rogers, a farmers daughter, very pretty,
and splendidly formed, but so ignorant that
she never even heard Of Ruskin, or Worth.
the man-miliner, takes into her head the
freak of dressing Louisiana in her own mag
nificent apparel, and SO coaching her
that she may deceive and f~ascinate her 1.-THE
Girl Of the Period's) brother when he ar
rives from the North. The result turns
out contrariwise. Louise, dressed in the
garb of a queen, becomes queen-like, self
possessed. beautiful, and altogether capti-
waiting. The Yankee brother drops like a
stuck pig the moment he sees her. She in
turns suffers from the Cupidian dart.
And things get ''riled" all around. And
that's as far as we nave read, or expect to |
read. 1t is a true enough tale in this, that
of our Southern girls can play the
Queen of Hearts, with or without clothes. |