The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-29

heCCullN IN 1tdltlSu a "a
en- days on a chimney without ever leav-
mo.
Col. W. II. H. Coles cut grass measur-
ing - inches on his lot in Wilkesboro.
During the year 1879, % miles of broad
gague railroad were built in North Carroll
na.
The board of health for Wilkes county
was organized on the 9th inst, aud DIR. X.
I. Hackett was elected medical superinten-
dent.
DR.. E. O. Elliot lost near Catawba Springs,
one day last week, a pocket-book contain
ing 500 or $500 in notes.
Mr.. John Mccullough, the actor, has al
ready earned $40, 900 this season as his W
share clear Of expenses.
The New Garden Agricultural Society will
meet at their fair grounGs on FRIDAY, the
23rd Of January, at = p. M, to elect officers
and transact other business.
Mr.. Tom Jefferson, son of the comedian,
has made a favorable impression as Anatole,
in "A Scrap OF Paper, revived at Wallack's
this week.
Wade Twitty, colored of Rutherford coun-
ty, was recently cut with a knife in the hands
of George Mathis, from the effects (which
he died in a few hours. Mathis escaped.
A number of passenger coaches and freight
cars were destroyed by fire, together a car
shed, at the South Carolina Railroad Depot,
at Charleston, South Carolina, yesterday
loss $50, 900 insurance So, 600.
Greensboro Ratriot:: Messrs. Houston &
Bro. bought and shipped the week ending
yesday, 200 chickens, 500 dozen eggs, 2 car
loads empty kerosene oil barrels, s, 7O5. rab-
bit skins, &c Opposum skins, and II raccoon
SKINS.
Goldsboro Messenger: Twenty adult exc
busters left here for Indiana Monday night.
Fifteen more hailing from Jackson county,
left Tuesday night, and another small crowd
is now collecting here to leave tonight,
Wednesday.
Five colored hunters were drowned in
Camphell's bayou, near Galveston. Texas,
on Saturday. They were missed. and on
Tu esday a party went in search and found
the corpses in the small sail-boat used by
the men, which had sunk near the coast.
Winston Sentinel: Some of the citizens
Of Mount Airy have sued out a writ a man
damus against the president of the Cape
Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad to compel
him to commence work on the western di-
vision of the road according to the terms of
the consolidation.
Durham Plant; Sales of tobacco stamps
to the Durham manufacturers from Jan. 1st
to Jan. 10Th amounted to $34, S9l. o.
We are glad to learn that Merit Cheek, the
worthy Mayor of Chapel Hill, is at home af-
ter a painful operation, and is doing well.
Monroe Erpnss On Friday night the
smoke house Of Mrs. McLarty, one and a
half miles from town, was robbed of about
700 pounds Of meat and several large stands
of lard, and then set on fire and burned
down. The loss will not be less than $3.50 or
$3.50.
With Settle and Buxton for our oppo-
nents, and Keogh, with large sums of money
at his command, to plan and execute, we may
expect = determined, desperate fight. Our
standard bearers must be the choice of 4
large majority of the whole party. and not
a triumph of political chicanery and wire
working -Lu1sbe,ton Robesonian.
Elizabeth City Economist: According to
advertisement of the trustees, the Swamp
Canal was sold at public sale tn Norfolk Vir-
ginia, on Thursday. The purchasers were
John B. Whitehead, Cicero Burruss, John
l.. Roper, Judge H. G. Undertook, of New
York, and A. Tompkins, of Baltimore, for
themselves and other bondholders. The pur-
chase price was $275,OOO in case. We fear
this purchase does not mean any material
improvement in this important channel Of
internal communication
Henry Townsend, . stock trader from
North Carolina, shot and instantly killed
Jasper Deal, at an ill-famed establishment
in Greenville, S. c., On the 18th inst. Deal
was very drunk at the time and had threat
ened Townsend with a fire shovel. As Deal
advanced on Townsend the latter fred on
Deal with a pistol within a few feet of him.
the hall penetrating the brain. The cor
oner's jury this morning returned a verdict
of felonious killing. Townsend has made
his escape.