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

Galloway was arrested.
The funeral Of the Governor Of Whydah,
West Africa. was celebrated by a massacre
of natives The King will homage TO hi.
father : memory By beheaiIng u captured
chiefs.
II we have lost the State there is ~csnsola,
,ion in knowing the democracy had distin-
guished timber lying around loose which
could have whipped out the world. the fesh
and the devil. -Ashesills Cti1ea.
The internal revenue agents In Campbell
county, Ga., seized last week from illicit
iistilieries and destroyed 5000 gallons Of
mash and beer. Within thirty DAYS there
have been seized in Georgia thirty illicit
dlstilleries, two teams, ani about loo gal
Ions OF Illicit spirits.
August Navarro, a gymnast, fell from a
balloon when loo feet above the earth,
near Courbevoie, France, Sunday evening,
and was crushed and mangled almost be.
yond recognition. HIS body made a hole 10
the grounds two feet deep and rebounded
.our yards.
ThadGeu. NJ. Baird, a well known citizen
Of Surry county, Va, comniaed suicide
Sunday by shooting hicself through the
head with heavily loaded musket. 4 few
days previous he attempted to cut his throat
wiah a razor. He was for many years a con-
ductor on the Petersburg and City Point
railroad.
ErprtsS: We earn that Messrs. Low
rey & Watson's cotton gin and grist mill.
situated near Long Pine church, in Arson
county, was burned down on Tuesday ev-
ening last. The fire is supposed TO have
caught from a match under the gin. The
loss, about $3.50, is covered by insurance.
Miss Bessie Bayard, young lady Of IN
sual beauty and the rarest personal accom-
plishments from Wilmington, Delaware,
will be one of the bridesmaid. of Miss
Ida Cameron, a daughter o. I. ;. Sen
stOr Don Cameron, who is to be married
at her fathers residence in Harrisburg, Pa,
I November llth. The fathers of the bride
and expected waiting lady, are antipodes in
politics, but socially the best Of friends.
There's nothing remarkable about Grants
hostility TO Hancock and his desperate ac-
tivity in the present campaign. Grant
knows, "a well as he knows anything, that
fIancock's election would mean that his
goose would be cooked as n Pres idential
candidate not only IN 1884, but for the bal
ance of his life. Desperate ends requir"
desperate measures, and he resorts to the
meanest and most contemplate.
The Brooks County (Kan.) Record tells
of a startling adventure as follows: Last
week Mr.. z. X. Allen of Brooks Centre
while sitting at his door during a thunder
storm saw \ ball Of fire strike his foot and
break into a shower of sparks which cover.
ed him completely, but did not set fire to
his clothing. The ball was Of various col
ors. composing rings one within another.
He was considerably shocked by the cleo.
tlicity and his leg was numbed for some
n ti,,,n :. ~ - rls lie laJDhtnr tyf,. vSS
in the room, felt the shock very severely,
as did a man who was working on his new
house a few rods away.
A telegram from Morganton, West Eir-
ginia. states that a son Of Judge Pearre, Of
Cumberland, Nd, aged nineteen, who had
been attending the university there, in com
pany with a daughter of IL. ). Hayes, a
welt known jeweler of Morganton, eloped
into the neighOoring county of Greene, Pa,
and were married. The happy couple are
awaiting in some anxiety the subsistence OF
the parental ire before returning.
Tuesday was a bad day for smashing po-
litical machines. 1t got badly scattered IN
Mecklenburg, it gave up the ghost in Cabar-
rus. it busted in Rowan, it was shatter-
red in Lincoln and in CASTOR counties. A
little further away by the aid Of Kelly it
smashed the Hancock train. broke down
the reign in Philadelphia by the election OF
COMMISSIONS Pattison, Democrat, IN a city
with thirty thousand Republican majority
land coming back home nearly lost Us the
! State Of North Carolina, with all that we
had been struggling for in the past ten
years. We rise to ask the question if par
ties will profit by the experience OF the past?
-Char,o.te Obser err.
The Importance of Wake county is well
Y -bo- Nv nor ypta in tho rnoapt elect ion
We polled 9,O45 votes. In 1876 our vote
was 8, $50. The increase in four years is
I 1875, and still our vote was not a full one.
Comparing the Presidential votes, the Dem
0crats have gained forty four votes and the
.sRepuhlicans 1871. This Republican gain is
lin the country, and is TO be accounted for
by the increased culture CO cotton calling
for increased labor and a larger number o.
NEGRO hands. Who have been attracted to
our cotton plantations by the good wages
which our prospel Gus cotton pl lnters could
afford to pay. 1T IS for this reason. perhaps,
that we have not overcome the Republican
majority in the county. The result. howev
err. shows what good work will 10. Our
legislative ticket runs up to about I 400, the
largest vote the Democrats have ever pol
lied. The canvass was admirably conducted
on our side. The executive committee and
Others VIC ked with vigilance an great in
ldustry, ana although they we're not success
ful, yet they have the proud consciousness
of knowing hat they did their full duty
a1d did 1t weN.-R,lei OJsercer.
Suppose that an average Of only one houl
Il day can be given to study. Devote 1t to
the perusual OF the best books IN the differ
ent departments OF learning, and as tie
years 20 by it will ensure a broad and tine
culture. This may seem a pltiiul allowance
for so important an object, yet how many
] persons in our circles of acquaintance con
secrate even 50 much to it? Three hundred
and sixty-tive hours a year are equal to SIX
y days Of SIX hours each, with flre hour:
e over; a proportion OF time which IS quite
} respectable to give to pure study. For te !
! understood, these hours of communion witt
t the best books are to be SO close aLC
r thoughtful, with the reason and memor!
5 both engaged, that it shall prove the mos
, serious form of study. Kept up unlnter
ruptedly from Year To year, 1t cannot fali t.
store mind with inestimable treasures o
knowledge. Nevertheless III arranging