The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-06

uuICS DSIOIc Uuc SdIOlIlld IdlT S1SSOCldtlOu
last month upon the best methods of cotton
culture, which seems destined to do good,
as it has already been copied by four or five
papers. Gov. Vance has made speech
on the kellogg case.
RAILRoADIC.-Says the Reldsvil!e Times:
''The Richmond & Danville road has been
sold to Col. Buford, A. Y. Stokes, Thorn
as Branch and a few other gentlemen of
that city, and it is nov entirely in the
hands of Richmond The Granville Rail-
road Company was organized last week, the
Torchl0ht says, ''by elec;ing j. w. Sto-
vail. w. NJ. Tanner. NJ. II. Hester, n. A.
Gregory and w. F. Beasley Directors. A
meeting of the Directors was at once held,
and Col. w. F. Beasley wrs elected Presi-
dent and Maj. n A. Gregory, secretary.
An engineerer. with a corps Of competent
assistants, has gone to GAINESVILLE, Va,
and will begin at once to survey the route.
1t is gratifying to know that our people are
subscribing most literally towards this en-
terprise. and that confident hopes are en-
tertained of it early completion. 1.-THE
Greensboro State, -(Republican, says
The Atlantic r. r. Co. sent Judge Thomas
to New York to investigate Best before
they would entertain his proposition for a
lease of their road. 1t is said Mr.. Best
grew very wrathy at the insoleDce of the
"MulIet' road people presuming to ques-
ton him after he had been vouched for by
Gov. Jarvis, Senator VaEce and the legis
%lature. We hear Judge Thomas went to
New York and returned with an u~nfavor-
able account President John d. Whit
ford, with considerable b@revity, SAYS
through the Observer the above lis not
true Only this and nothing more.
"A writer IN tho CharI,t+a
Observer states that Senator john S.
Henderson is entitled to the credit of hav-
ing inserted in the Best Sale" the p1ovis-
ion subjecting the Western n. C.. r. r. to
taxation. We quote: ''To Senator Hen
derson, of Rowan, is due this credit and no
other member of either House is entitled in
any way to share it with him. Mr.. Hen
derson saw Mr.. B est before the bill was in
troduced and said to i'm that this proper
ty must be subjected to taxation like 9th
er property IN the State, and provision to
this effect must 90 in the bill. Mr.. Best
after some h~esitancy assented to the prop-
ositlen and Senator Henderson, had it IN
serted in the original bill as introduced in
the Senate. In the different oyerhaulines
through which the bill passed, before the
committee, &c, this provision by some
means ar other was, when the bill was
about to pass It's final reading, found not to
be IN the bill. The close, scrutinizing eve
OF Senator Henderson saw the omission
and he at once called the proceedings to a
halt and had it inserted. He repaired at
once to the House and found that Mr.. Car
ter, the chairman of the House branch of
the committee, had also left it out and he
there had inserted
These are the facts a they are we'll known
by many members of both houses. This
wise provision accomplished by the fore
sight OF Senator Henderson adds four mill.
ion dollars to the taxable property of the
State and in this proportion relieves the
burden OF taxation. "-'The Charlotte
Ecentng Press says: "Knowing railroad pee-
pie say there is no doubt that Mr.. Best is a
Central man and that it is his
to change the guage OF the IVES
tern North Carolina Railroad to the Eve feet |
guage to correspond with the Richmond
and Danville, and it is also stated that fine !
will be run through from Boston
to Asheville this summer. That looks like |
it,