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

ty is Democratic on a full vote. We are
pleased to note the reelection of Sheriff 4.
J. McBryde. Capt. Lowell by the by. is
building a handsome residence at Boone
and a new Baptist church Is being built.
The Tone reports one merchant "a sending
off eight wagon loads of produce aud w.
r. Lewis sold $4,000 lbs. of butter.
Cups \ QUIRPs. PARAGRAPHS
Picked Up AT ODD MoMtNTs.-We like
Gerald Griffins lines
Like the oak by the fountain,
In sunshine and storm
Like the rock on the mountain,
Exchanging in form;
Like the course Of the river,
Through ages the same
Like the mist, mounting ever
To Heav'n, whence it came.
SO firm be thy merit,
So changeless thy soul,
So constant thy spirit,
While seasons shall roll
The fancy that ranges
Ends where ii began;
But the heart that nee changes
Brings glory to man
And adds a thousand lovelinesses to wo-
Hal : bOIhS SiiIy clLI piCtplS VI pOtu StAGN
pretend 10 scout at ''senttmeat' in all t.
varied shapes too ignorant to reflect that
all that is noblest, purest, and most eieva
ting in human nature may be traced To some
one Of those same springs Of sentiment.
Soul makes the man, and want Of 1.-THE
fellow
The rest is all hut leather or prunelo."
Women ac very various. Some are
Cpn3eij1s tail, beautiful, symetricii, but
cold. ~oiofics, and unattractive. Others are
Roses, -beautiiti, round, rosy, plump. pleas
ing, dispensing tie fragrance OF lovely wO-
manhood upon II VINO know them. Put
that in VI pipe an smoke 1t!
Are these things, then, necessities!
Then let us meet them like necessities"
King HeHry, ".
What a pretty passage Is lis, from
,'Old Curiosity Shop" when Death
strikes down the innocent and the young,
for every fragile form from which he lets
the painting spirit free, IN huadref rtrtues
rise, in shapes OF mercy, charity, and love,
to walk the earth and bless it. OF every
tear that sorrowing mortals shed 0 er such
green graves some good Is born--SOme gen
tier nature comes. In the Destroyers step
there spring bright creations that defy his
power, and his dark path becomes a way OF
Light to Heaven !"
Wild Tom Hood, also thus touchinely
portrays the death scene of q child ::
1--WE watched her breathing through the
night,
Her breathing soft aad low.
As in her breast the wave a life
Kept heaving TO ana fro.
Our very hopes be lied OH fears,
Our fears our hopes belied
We thought her dying when she slept,
And Sleeping when she died.
Monroe Enquirer: 4 little child If Mr..
Thos. Polk, living near Stout Station, WIS
burned to death on last Tuesday. We
ha, no further particulars than the child
was playing around the fire nlacc and its
clothing cauIht on fire. f rolling
stock on the Carolina Central Railroad is
proving 1, mu h for the oquiacs, and the
bovines. and the p~orciue- 20 down every
now and then. MG. Bergh Watts lad a
horse killed thu, week .- On Tie 22nd
ult. Il 6 year old son of ,ir. Holm y War
wick tas playing around Mr. sam d How
ards self-leeding cotton gin, anu unkncwn
to any one else tried to rake away tie cot
son seed. Ia doing so his right hand was
caught by the saws and badly cat.
Ne,rs AMI ObScrrer: Cotton receipts yes
tcrday 7G2 haies.-MaJ. john DeyereuN
has a curiosity in the shape of a policy in
the Moth America Fire Insurance Company
issued IN l716--Tacre were twenty-five
c~onvicts at the works on the Jones 4 On
slow road. 1t was from this gang that the
eleven maie their escape on Saturday night.
There were 10 less than nine guails in
charge OF tiie gang, and the escape must
have occurred through the grosscst negii-
gence. say the pcnitentiary authorities.
Tie c~onvicts were kept III a log cell, mean
Pc locksville. They cut their way oft OF
this and got away ID safety. There IRE at
present 40 conviots on The Western North
Carolina Railroad, OF these $50 are able
bodied men. actually at work OF the road.
Last week forty enc conyicts were sent ~
to the road from the University Railroad,
the grading of which is now finished.
Statesyiile Lun1nlurh: \ white woman
of the name Of Dovcy II. Honcscrt, living
in SharpcsIurg township, has u chsid whict
Is a rare looking object. Ii is now about
months old. and around the waist. it meas
uIes l6 inches; from the chin TO the top 81
the head it is Il inches around the neck j,
measures 81 inches, while its head measures
81 inches. At birth the child appeared
natural enough. When 10 days of age j
was taken with spasms of which it had many
hundreds, almost without intermi5sion.
These left it with a head OF almost extraor.
binary size. and what lent to the oddly D
its appearance was the fact that while it,
head assumed a size larger than that of the
largest man. the face and features were still
those of an infant. Alter a time, however,
It's facs grew out 10 a level with its brow,
giving i n head Of wonderful proportions,
while its neck, limbs and body are slnallel
than is usually found in children of its age.
o. course the chila calpo. lift its head uI
nor support it when it IS raised. It's moth.
Ell has therefore. NATE q Cushion an3 fas-
tened it to a plank, and on this plank the
child lies all the time, even nursing fro "a
it as it is held up in its mothers arms.
Miss Dora Stuart, Of Our German Sen.
ator Combination" died in Charleston. S.
c., on Monday. from the effects of a fall