The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-24

letters. No danger OF IOSS.
-Ou Saturday the thermometer lei
) de.rees below zero IN many parts o
Minnesota. Straw hats ami white vest:
wound g rather airish out that way.
A small Seyres flower vase sold IL
New York City last week for $l,l25
snpuose this ''alahaster box bad beer
sold, and the money given to the poor
Mai. San'l Kirkland and daugh-
Ter were taken from iiutheriordton tc
Sp.rtanburg last week. By Capt. W. I.
NcEntirc. with a view Of taking the
train TOR Hilis5oro, where they have
doubtless arrived.
More editorial Iecklessness. Two
editors married last week, and now
walks up Mr.. +. w. Mooring. of the
Mocksville Times, and helps himself t.
4 fair heart mate and helper, namel,
Hiss Matte F., daughter of ii. II
Helper, Of Davie.
Capt. III. =. Guess tells us there
are 90 steam saw mills along the Il. 4
4 f. R, between Raleigh and Hamlet,
and that all the principal ones have "a
much business as they want. The
Nessrs. Guess & Page saw railroad tim
Der. and have not been up with with
| their orders in three years. Lumber
trains are continually in motion along
that line.
Rev. Father II. p. Northrop, the
new Bishop (vicar Apostolic of North
Carolina Will be consecrated In a few
weeks, and it is hoped will make the
Episcopal residence in Raleigh He
was parish priest at Newbern some years
ago, and made many friends. His fam
ily is an old one in Charleston though
we believe they have become reconstruc,
ted.
Our Cumberland friend who in.
formed us last week that Mr.. Willie
Stevens, of Clinton, was dead, writes t.
lay hat he was misinformed, very
much to his qualification, 1T Is needless
TO say. Mr.. Stevens is, however, still
very low, and his accomplished sister
Miss Mittie, likewise. Typhoid fever
is the disease.
The Elizabeth City R. R. has stir
red up the Norfolkians to make a fresl
pull on North Carolina in the shape o
a line of steamers through the Dlsma
Swamp canal. But it will enable th'
farmers OF the Sound region to raise
truck aud bundle it off to Yankee
dom before the Northern truckers thaV
out their frozen hoe handles.
Mr.. Jimmy Brown, of Wilmington
is with Havcrly's ministries playing te
male parts. His dresses are very fash,
ionabfe, and his bangs" ''banl
Bauagher !" He looks so much like
girl on the stage that only the mos
iron clad virtue keeps him from elopins
with some nice young man.
-Hurrah for Halifax! The Scotland
Neck Railroad is now laid and running
to ''Tillery' Station, niue miles ou'
from Halifax. With reasonable work
ing weather, it will be open to Look
inglass Station by Dec. is, andthrougf
to Scotland Neck by the middle of Jan
uary. the track is being laid in COCO
style, with steel rails, and with a view
10 a good business. We have no doub'
that this will speedily accrue, as the
section is one of the richest in the
State.
We doubt the wisdom of allowins
the counties to tax railroads. 1t is al
most certain to result in varying, I'M
equal and unjust taxation, according a.
the commissioners of different countie.
are composed from year to year. W.
uote, for instance, that one county has
added very largely to the taxes of The
Raj. & Augusta, and Carolina Contra
r r. The charges may o be exhor-
bitant; but they look SO as compared
with private property.
By the by, the big suit, or argument
relative to the tax of $l2, 600 on the r.
& G.. & r. RS having been decided BY
the commissioners in favor of the coun
ty, an appeal has been taken. and will
be heard by the Supreme Court thiI
winter.
Although in no wise personally in
terested, we take pleasure in pointing
our Western North Carolina readers tc
the long-e1pected book of Lyman G.
Draper, of Wisconsin, on the "Heroe:
of Kings Mountain" and ofother Caro-.
lima Revolutionary scenes. 1t is SAID
to be a book of $50 pages, with map:
and illustrations, published by Peter
G. Thompson. of Cincinnati.
W. have had some correspondence
with DR.. Draper, and there is scarcely
anybody who could furnish any infor.
nation that has not been called on by
him. Many of the older families O.
Mecklenburg, Lincoln, and Cabarrus
loaned him all of their old papers anc
records.
SO we may assume that the book viii
remain an authority on the subject.
State pride should call for a large edi
ton.
There are a lot of blamed fools a
the North who seem determined to viii
the sympathy of the country for G uitear
by making an unjust warfare on him
The thing has been going on Ions
enough. Guiteau is safely held, anC
is reasonably certain of the ~gallows; SC
that there is no possible excuse for 8
personal assault upon him. Indeed nc
one but a base coward would fire through
the bars of a cell, as Mason did OF
| shoot a man whose arms and legs were
chained, as Jones did. These braggarts
no are so anxious to kill Guiteau woulc
give him a wide berth if he we're loose,
and armed with his death-dealing En-
glish Bulldog pistol.
The assassin has not had decent treat