The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-16

q. L. Matthews. one 81 the largest
merchants Of Rocky Mount. failed last
week fo- oyer So 900. He made an as
si9nment to Grandy X Sons. Norfolk
Va. -Sunny Home.
Mr. VIM. Hodges. of Edgccombe
county, raised this year 300 bales OF
cotton on 100 acres OF lanl using most
" home manure. He stands forth the
champion on 50 large a scale.-Tar-
boro SoutLerper.
William Beach left his wife and two
little children at Plumas, Cal. to
dertake a years mining job in Nevada.
He provided Il comfortable home for
his family, sent money regularly for
their support and received letters at
short intervals from his wife. At the
end of the year he returned joyfully to
Plumas. Mrs. Beach as soon as the
greetings were over. confessed that she
had fallen in love with another man
during his absence, and begged tear
fully for forgiveness. He replied that
he could not Condone the offence. and
should procure a divorce, but that he
would not separate her from her chill
dren, and would let her live in the
house and take care of them. She was
grateful for this concession, and the
fact of the divorce was not generally
known, but the sorrow drove her crazy
after a few months, and she is now in
an insane asylum.
Marion Lamp Post: G. VI. Young
has a hog ten feet ten inches long.
fourteen feet round, and weighs 1912
a,-l. h, 49, raI., rnL - YhrAn
months and has not walked for four
months. Mr.. B. Or. Gaier., who
has had many years experience as d
gold miner, and who has recently be-
come interested in gold property in thi.
county, says that there is gold near
town. Mr. Edgar Shaw, of Boston,
Massachuss is, has bought the Weaver
gold mining property in this county,
and will commence mining operations
Immediately after the holidays.
Mr.. VIM. Brandreth, Of New York,
President of Gold Mining Company,
reached here Monday, and will proceed
at once to resume, operations on their
property. This company have made
large investments n this county and
have taken a great deal Of gold from
his mine.
statesvi.le Amer1cun: The first .a q
Of tobacco by Jourgenson x Co., in
this town, took place this week, and
the prices realized we're generally salts
factory. The amount brought IN for
sale exceed ali expectations, and it be-
came necessary to rent three addition
al warehouses. About 500 lots. weigh
inc so, 600 pounds. were sold at an av-
erage price of eight cents per pound.
This is a new experiment in Statesville.
-Special DEPUTY Collector X. A.
Cobb, writes as follows: while in
charge of "a small force, we visited the
residence of Mr.. Il. Il Gallon. of Ruth
erford county, and found in his possess
sion $50 gallons Of brandy, conce died to
avoid the payment OF tax. The same
day We visited the residence Of javan
Gallon and the same amount We
learn that at Ore Knob Nine, IN Asne
county, a strike has occurred among
the charcoal-burncrs, wood choppers
and haulers, including over three hun
dred men. The strikers demand 30
per cent advance IN prices. The com
pany has refused to accede to any de
mands made in the spirit of intimida-
ton. Owing TO the strike six Of the
comrany's furnaces have been stopped.
The company Is arranging to commence
in early spring to furnish Its own fuel.
The strike can only temporarily affect
the company's prosperity. 1t IS to be
reQrettel that the leading mine OF the
South, ard one that has paid over $780,
900 dividends in the past fifteen
month";, should be de.hed.
1t is we'll known that in working
iron. such as welding two pieces to-
gether, and even in It's manufacture,
hollow places or flows occur, with mere
ly an outside skin over the defective
parts. which any test but a destructive
one would fail - discover Nor would
il be difficult to point out numerous ex
amples of disaster thus occurring. 10
test the homogeneity OF the metal Cap
tain Saybv takes a bar of iron and pla-
ces it on the equatorial line. He next
passes a compass with a very sensitive
needle along in front of the bar, the
needle of course pointing at a right an
gle to it. Ii the bar is perfectly solid
through its whole length, the needle
will remain steady. If. however, there
should be a flaw or hollow place IN the
bar, the needle will be detected as 1t
passes from the solid to the hoiio"
place b1ckrurd toward the solid iron g,
passing en- over the hollow place. the
needle will come within the range OF
thu solid iron at the other end of the
flaw. and will again be DETECTED far
Uor,I. If the bar be cut through any
where between these two points of de
Election. a Fl Nv will invariably he found.
Many thousands of pieces OF iron
some prepared for the purpose of test
ing this method of trial, others 10 the
ordinary course Of businsss-have been
operated upon with the same unvary-
ing.