The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-15

cradle James Parrish, aged about 20. died
ct his home near Prospect, in Caswell county
. few days since.-Mn- Moon has receiy-
ed three calls to other towns, one to Milton,
TO Asheboro and to Laurenburg she will
likely accept the last as she got it first.
This Is the thirteenth DAY of her meeting
here, and there have been about twenty-six
conversions up to date. She will hold as
long as the work goes on.-On Saturday,
the 10th of December, between 3 and 4
O'Clock IN the morning. the storehouse. with
goods and furniture of J. H. Waddill. at
Douglass, In this county, was burned TO the
ground de only saved his bed and wearing
apparel. The fire broke out in the long l.
to the house, in the shed room. There had
been none about that day He thinks il the
work of an %incendiary. There was only $500
insurance.
The worthy Representatives of the Fourth
District, Hon Joseph J. Davis. has intro
duced q bill to repeal the 10 per cent. tax
on State banks. The Raleigh OLserrer
says: I'm the preamble he ~recites, among
other things, that The tax of 10 per cent
On State banks and banking associations
produces no revenue to the government.
= but is intended to secure a monop.
oily OF the bank business to . single class OF
property owners, to-wit: the owners of ma
tlonAl bonds, thus enabling them, in a great
degree, to control the value of money and
the prices of property. Mr.. Davis will doubt
less push his measure, and get it passed ut
the present session of Congress-"
The Alumni Association of the Universe
ty OF North Carolina will meet on the 22nd
of January inst, at 7:3O o'clock D M.
in the Governors Office in the capitol The
object Of this meeting is to perfect the or
ganization and the efficiency of the a~ssocia-
ton. The press of business at the Univer-
sity during commencement week affording
scant time for its deliberations the asso-
cation resolved at the last mencement
meeting that it would hold an annual
meeting also in Raleigh at the same time
as the meeting of the board of trustees
Kinston Journal: We regret to learn
of the death of r. G. Creech, of Hooker
ton, on Sunday night, 4th inst, He was an
energetic, business man.-From Septem-
Der, 1878, to June, 1879, there were ship
ped from LAGRANGE Z, 3O2 bales of cotton.
and from September 10, to January 1880,
2,O65 bales.-Mr. Levi Hill on twenty
acres raised %, 800 pounds of seed cotton,
which turned out 1866 pounds of lint.
He sold it at ten cents per pound. Mr..
Hill is one of our good farmers, uses no
but such as he makes on his farm
oIu 81 III lila liz UuyS.
Mr.. A. w. Finley, a well known farmer
of Wilkesboro, writes the Raleigh Observer:
II see from your paper, some man is Samp-
son, killed a hog suppose to weigh 500
and seven head to weigh 1900
This county can beat it. killed
hog that weighed $50, pounds, and an
other that weighed 627 pounds. 1 also kill
ed seven head which weighed 1886 pounds,
not including the two just mentioned. l
sold a lot of cattle in the spring that
weighed an average of 1,422 pounds. The
bullock weighed ,, I22 pounds.
City Marshal Mcclure, of Lake Provi- |
lence, while attempting to arrest a number |
fiat boatmen, was shot and killed, Jan. !. |
Five men were arrested on suspicion and
under guard. A number of Nc
relatives broke into the room, open
I'd fire, and MORALLY wounded two. The
other three were crippled. The jury of in
inquest discovered the man who killed the
was James Brown, who escaped
n a skiff, and the five who were shot we're ,
innocent. !
The Rockingham South tells of a lively
Grenade in Utah section, Little River, Rich
nond county. A mock serenade with bells,
lorns, Nc, was given to a daughter Of Mr..
Nash, who had recently married. Old man
Nash dldn fancy it, so he opened fire with
double barrel gun. List of casualties,
wounded in the legs. Nash was put
Under bond.
A negro named Cannady, in Granville
brew 4 stone at one white man and struck
aother ON the head. The Free Lunce saws:
The negro was arrested and put in a house
or safe keeping. During the night, while
be guard were asleep the negro jumped
rom the house, and in his desperation ran
gainst u stake with such force as to rep
ure his owels. He died in q few days.
David Meisenthaler, stockman of Whites
tone, Kansas, lately, while driving his
ows to the barn early in the morning, was
truck by an aerolite and instantly killed.
The stone is described as about the size
a common water bucket, ard it was form
d of iron pyrites.
Fourteen hundred sacks of salt we're re-
eived at Morehead City one day last week,
nd shipped over the North Carolina line
D.. M