The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-02

r, = fortwo weeks. not months. the
supreme court has taken recess. The Jus
tees have carried with them the papers -
various cases to examine at leisure
= lot of rowdles attending John Robin
sons circus got into a brutal fight. The
sheriff was shot, and another officer killed.
Several spectators were injured. This at
Norristown, Tennessee. Our city police
should be or the lookout to suppress such
bloody affrays at the outset.
For the House in Mecklenburg oar
young friend Edgar Walker and Capt.
Alex. G.. Neal are the Democratic nominees.
W. L. Audrey, former member Of the House
carried several townships for Senator. 50
did Capt. sgd Alexander. though we be
lieve he did not 90 into the canvass for the
nomination.
Speaking Of the old Hillsboro Academy
which was recently sold and torn down,
Josiah Turner says:-This old Academy
Bingham and Berry. 1t BEING the first house
the first named ever built. 1t being the
house from which the Napoleon Of school.
masters, whipped a thousand or more boys
into judicial, senatorial and gubernatoria.
positions anu honors.
The Railway is graded to within half a
mile Of Chapel Hill, and the iron coming
Now if the classic old "Hill' had some en-.
terprising young capitalist u erect - or y
fourroomed cottages III nice locations, with
a two-acre vegetable garden to each cottage
a score Of families would Jump at the chance
to move thither and educate their sons
We need 100 such cottages around Raleigh
and if the renter were allowed to pay a GER
tain sum per month towards the purchase Q
his home, so much the better.
The Eceuiag Visitor reports an extra
ordinary disease among the darkeys in Buck
horn and Middle Creek township. 9TH
first symptoms are a disposition to shy from
those they meet, with a glariDg look Of th'
eye, growing, swapping, barking as that 0
a dog, and even the agonles OF hard hts
1t first made its appearance about three day
ago. Stree which more than ninety five hav'
been attacked and the number daily in
creases. A gentleman who thought it hum
bugry, saw a girl on yesterday in q paroN
ism and said she took the house from tn
centre to circumference and said she en-
dured the most intense agony he ever say
any one.
Ten. Clingman has filed an appeal betor
the II. s. Supreme court against the declSIo
of the Patent Office denying him a patcn
for a new electric lamp. 1t IS general
known that the failure of Edison lamp
is owing the fact that he could not find an
mineral sufficiently tough to serve as a pIc
for his lamp. Even diamond, and platinum
gradually melted under the tremendou
blaze of the electric current. Gen. Cling
man has been hunting all over Wester
North Carolina for %corundum, mica, golc
ETC., etc. He knew that zircons could b
found in many OF our mines and at length h
invented a combination Of various element
with a little ball ofpure zirconla as It's core
The device filled the bill, being incande:
cent, infusible, and incombustible. But h
required platinum wire to uphold til
zircon, and this, the patent commissions
says, will infringe Edison's patent. W
are glad Clingman appealed. No man ha
"A right to stop the wheels of science an
discovery, by claiming the exclusive use
any other mineral. Better say next tina
Edison has p~re-empted the use of electr
city. We have no stock in Gen. Ctingma
nor his invention, but We wish him and it t
succeed. 1t will be a big advertisement f
North Carolina, and North Carolina NH
! erals.