The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-28

connected with the Office.
DIR. JOHN Mcdonald CT Washington n.
G.. sold a pair of Colts to Nr. Reavis, OF
Henderson, fol 81. 900. And the North State
Press naturally considers that q good price
for native products.
We learn from Mr.. III. j. Bark er of
New Hill that a neighbor of his, w. +.
Booker caught his hand in a cotton gin,
and tore it so badly, it was obliged to be
amputated.
"A splendid line Of buggies, and pleas
ure carriages, were those Of Col. X. +. Jone,
of Goldsboro, on exhibi ton at the Fair
Grounds last week. We have heard more
than one person say iu.
"A party of ten English people, evident
ly persons of respectfully and intelligence,
arrived at the National Hotel last week,
and are still in the city, We believe their
wish to locate here if suited.
We hear that Harrison Holland who
was sentenced to six years in the Peniten-
tiary, for stealing cotton, but carried his case
to the Supreme court, has departed for
scenes unknown. John Branch, colored
was his bondsman.
You never saw nicer or fresher trees
than those from the Cherry Hill Nurseries of
Westchester Pennsylvania, now ready at
Col. S. p. Horizons lot, corner of the Got
ton Yard"
The fact that this years peanut crop is
estimated at 2 ,22O, 600 bushels, will, We fear,
greatly increase the number of Independent
candidates for the Legislature. And what
thrill of joy must run through the Girl
boarding schools of the land!
ALI person who purchased trees. vines,
or plants, of Pole Gardner, G. VI. O'Byrne,
or Walter J. Mcclure, Agents for Cherry
Hill Nurseries, of Westchester, Pa, will
find them ready for delivery in Col. S. p.
Horizons lot, south west corner of the Got
ton Yard
All last week the Railway depots here
we're full of freight. At the Raleigh and
Hamlet depot, the platform was packed
with cotton, and the warehouses with pack
ages, so that merchants were notified on
Thursday to withhold everything that could
possibly be delayed. How is that for a
business boom?
Two companies Of regular soldiers were
last week ordered from Little Rock, Arkan-
sas, to Florida. And why this long and ex-
pensive transfer? No State in the Union
has SO little need for troops as the "Flowery
Peninsula" But the four votes of Florida
are needed for Garfield, and it is said a des-
peratc effort to secure them will be made.
Is THIS the mllk OI the COcdDuC!
Several days of last week were 50 balmy
many persons wore white waistcoats, and we
sat all day near an open window, writing. III
shirt sleeves. At the same hour In Wis
consin, and the Northwest the heavy Rail
vav trains we're biockaded by snow drift.
ten and twelve feet" Who would live in
such a country after knowing our blessed
climate.
Sarah ~Bernheardt, the slim and slippc.
ry sylph of Genius, Is just now sailing the
ocean blue, in search of new worlds to con
auer. She will arrive in New York to-mor
row. Alas |, already the gales that whisper
of her coming stir the gall of bitterness il
the breasts of every Miss Flora McFlimsay
Throughout all Shoddydom. And hath no,
We fashionable Fair one with only eight oil
ten trunks full causes for cart burn wheI
she reflect that Bern-heardt is bringing four
teen tons of fnery to bedeck her own meagre
10 pounds of flesh and bones?
On Thursday evening after dusk, a.
Capt. C. B. benson, and Mr.. VIM. Hunter,
of Kinston, assistant marshal, were return.
ing from the Fair ground, driving rapidly
in consequence of the rain, another vehicl.
was met, near Temples store; whereupor
they attempted to turn aside, but were over
turned into a ditch, and dragged some dis
lance before they could escape from benefit
INC OuSgN typ. dull WCIc ScNtItlN HuIl
Capt. benson in the head; MIR. Hunter in
face, and arm which was torn in a very
painful manner. Capt. benson was taken
to the residence of DR.. Grissom.
Capt. s.. S. Alternately, of Wake Forest
Sergeant III. c.. King, of Haw River, anc
other old confederates, gave us a call during
the past week and all unite In declaring tina,
our Point Lookout-F Fort Delaware Prison
Journal merely skins the top of the rea
story of outrage and suffering connected
with those Prisons. They bring to mine
many incidents which we overlooked at the
time, either from negligence. or because to,
miserable to set them down In all the bold
ness Of pen and ink portraiture. MIR. Aber
nathy was one of the unfortunate Isl,
Hundred who were sent to Morris Islam,
to incur the fire of our own guns; and Will
there he became one of the 500 victims O
Scurvy. They were given a pint of sou
corn meal, and half a pound ofsour pickles
for a days rations. Not a morsel of meat
except the white worms of which he pickec
as many as ll6 out of a single tea cup-fuD,-
and this wretched disease so shattered his con
s~titution that he is to-day a life long sufferer
Hon. w. NJ. Robbins publishes, in tn,
Charlotte OGsereer, a card in reference to
statement by Gen. Rufus Barringer in
public speech that He had met Robin
and brought out the Twenty Dollar
change, and after two days Robbins wa
willing to retire if the charge were no
brought up again" This statement Mai
Robbins pronounces ''stupenduously false
and further-'Gen. b. we'll knows that
urged him and Col. Dockery to allow m,
to go on with them and meet them at tbei
appointments even on the same terms the,
gave me at Hickory, to-wait, one houl
sandwitched between him and Dockery
they being both unlimited ip time ; and he
we'll knows that the only reason l left then
was because ! was notified that no .ims
would thereafter be allowed me at their ap
pointments, either before. behind or in the
middle. Why, then, does he say BY inuendc
that retired willingly for any reason
Especially, why does he do me the great in
justice of saying l was willing to retire il
he would not again bring up against M
that ridiculous charge he alludes to? He
knows, for l told him so, that | regard
that charge with contempt, except that the
heralding of it against me has always seem.
ed to presage some new triumph or good