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

Fayetteville Baaner: Te-dly the Banner
is ten weeks old and has ubscri ption list
numbering 624-3DO of which we have re-
celved since our first number was issued
--Mr Charles Mcdaniel. young white
man about 10 years old, was stuck with a
knife by some one in the crowd at the mar
ket house Monday night. and slight flesh
wound inflicted on his shoulder He has
no idea who perpetrated the deed. We
learn from a secretary that at meeting of
the Directors Of the Cape Fear Il Y. V.
Railway, held on Saturday, the 24th inst.
Ca ma jority being presently President Gray
was enabled TO make an agreement betw cen
the Company and the judgement creditors
whereby all the Judgements against the
Company were satisfied and released and
that for the first time IN many years the
road is entirely uncumbered.
kinston .Iouynol: J. B. Westbrook.
killed wild turkey gobb,er weighing IS
pounos Il II. Haskins made 2s bush
els Of rice on half acre of upland, with
out manure. the rice weighing after being
cleaned "a lbs per bushel Mr. William
Phillips who lives in the pocosin in Ora
ven county, heard his dogs barking and
fighting with something coming towards
the house one OF his dogs ran in the house
rushed under the bed and was engaged in
furious battle with wild Cat that had
got through hole in the roof. Mr.. Phil
lips turned in another dog and the cat was
son killed While the fight was going Oh
Mrs. Phillips and her children took lef-
uge on the bed under which the cat had
taken sh elter.
At the battle Of Belmont on the Miss
issippi river. in 1861, 1t Rhea, of the 9th
Tennessee Regiment, was surrounl led by
Federal troops, shot down, but refused to
surrender He was on his knees fighting
with his sword, his assailants begging him
to surrender He was finally killed and
his sword taken away frem him. This
sword was of peculiar make, and bore
this inscription as we'll as can remember
1.-THE continental Congress te
for gallant conduct at the battles OF Gull
ford Court House, N c., March 18TH 1871
He was the first American that left the
field The name not remembered, but
was the ancestor if Ii Rhea. This sword is
wanted in Greensboro fer the ceming cen
teniaI-says Col. Winston in the Beacon
Reidsville Times: Late last Friday even
ing. just at twilight, perfect shower of lit
tie gray bugs fell aronnd here. They even
got III the house. and as the little boys call
ed out, there were millions of them in the
yard We see from the Raleigh Observer
that the shower struck Wake county about
daybreak next morning We are informed
by citizen Of the county that the shower
fell at his house steadily from daybreak till
sunrise. Their fall resembled a snow storm.
A brisk breeze was blowing from the east
He found these bugs of dull gray color,
something less in size than a grain Of corn
The Richmond Dispatch gives Tilden
New York with its 20 votes in Convention,
nd ho II oh
which send 81, he will still lack 1872 Of
having one-third. This is important. Un-
less he can command 246 votes he is power
less to dictate terms or name men. There
will be 73S delegates in the Cincinnati
1t remains to be seen if he
can control Missouri and Kentucky solidly
The candidates and their friends are at
work and will continue to work like bea-
vers until the conventions are held ANY
gentleman who does not work personally
or though his friends stands no chance at
all. His name will never be proposed even
1t would be nice if the plan Of the Index
would work. but it went, and the candi-
dates know it Warsao Brief Mention.
Wadesboro Heral6 We learn that Mr..
John R. Dunn's dwelling house and almost
it's contents were consumed by f:e one day
last week The following tickets were
nominated at tbs town convention yester- |
day. For Mayor H. A. Crawford; for |
NJ Little, ]. c. Nc. |
Laug him, w. J. McLendon, I. H. Horton
and Joseph C-ewder.
Elizabeth City Falcon: The large store
house in Woodville recently occupied by |
Mr.. Fletcher. with dwelling overhead. was
destroyed by Gre on the evening sfthe 2lst
nst