The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-13

Our friends. will ilcase excuse the
defciencies IF this number which IS q
day ahead Of time.
One of i State papers offers 9
'arye pair Of ''double-clapper bellows
for ~ale. Suggestive article, in a news
PAPER Office
BY the explosion of a lamp in Mai
! Dicks5n's boarding house at Wax.
Forest. there was considerable alarm.
though little damage.
-Rer. +. II Harding, the gifted ra.
tor Of Charlotte Second Presbyterian
church has resigned. Hc h4- built up
. fine. strong church. With ? verr hard
some ellhce, from smaii beginnings.
The present number OF the Farm>r
and .Nechnaic Is printed a day in adj
vance of the usual date, owing u : e
Fair. and in consequence i hurrlediE
prepared; bit gives the Levs u t. the
hour Of going TO press.
-Dllrymple'. Dakota wheat farm
t this year has harvested 60I Coo bushels
of Wheat. and 10000 bushels Of ost-.
lie gets 81 p per bushel for the .heat.
and pockets halt a million dollars TOR
/ his crop. over ali expenses.
The "Righr Of Way" ~ar At Hen
ierson has resulted IN a Treaty OF
Peace. Capt. Williams brings his
track into the centre OF town, and
"All- well that ends well. '-particu-
lsrlv ifthere be a comfortable depot al
the end.
DIR. J. NJ. HAppholdt, The noted
hotc,ist Of Norgsnton, i dead. - i
DR.. e. P. Bailey, Of Rockingham coun-
-. Tie little son of Mr. Wan r..
Pace and Mrs. CLoula Heck Pace died
Oh Saturday, aged II months. and was
buried from Dir. Skinner. church Do
/ Sunday afternoon.
In the absence of Gen. ". r. Cnx,
the direction of the Soldiers Re I'M
ion'' has been delegated to Col. ". K.
Beasley, Of Granville, who Is said 60
have been the youngest colonel Of the
Confederate service. Col. Beasely aud
Maj. Nath. A. Gregory are stopping at
Capt. Dugger's.
DR.. Geo. w. Blacknall struck con
.~ternation TO many a naughty heart. on
Thursday last, By the simple announce
msnt in the daily papers-"1he Dend
/ LIPfII LIs( ~ StSsDgHffStJ u re- Itctti o'"
, ma Far ueek |" We cannot blame
him for now that Raleigh 10 SO poorly
supplied with hotel room, the demand
upon the Marlborough will far exceed it
limits.
While one of Mr.. Geo. H. Shows
children were sitting at the window one
evening last week, a bullet penetrated
the easement on a line with her body.
A little higher, and she would have
been slain 1t was, of course, a stray
bullet; but that does not essen the
guilt Of the reckless person Who fired 1t.
1t was an error to say that Miss q.
d. Neares has published a couple Of
pieces of music. The author j. Mr..
Geo. ID Meares. ! student .f tEc D. ID.
i B. Institution. Mr.. VI is a re-iden,
Of Buncombe (formerly Of South Caro-
lina) and is much devoted to music.
His pieces are for sale at Prof Walter 9
music store.
The county commissioners have
authorized the purchase of $4,000
worth of corn in Eastern Carolina, TO
be scli to the farmers of Guilford at 5
cents advance on the actual cost. This
[ III DS Il Slthl EtlpLAl ~ LIS t'GClCA
/ classes and if other counties should
adopt the same plan il would make
business for the North Carolina Sys-
tenn" and a profit for Underwater corn
planters.
Marvin, the bigamist, forger, and
Hellion, finally confessed. and was sen
fenced to the penitentiary for ten years;
an average Of nine months for each of
the young women he ruined 1t Is
true, he is of an age that will make ten
years seem the remainder Of life and
As o a. released he can be arrested
BIZ each Of the fifteen other woneE
whom be betrayed. The scoundrel ad
mit.cd his guilt, but complained that
be had been sLondercl! His last vic
tim. Miss Louise Turpin, is a cousin Of
the beautiful Matte and Sallje Ould.
Gov. Vance is blamed for having
exerted himself to Best aid, when the
Man OF Magnificent Promises played
put. This is not fair to Vance. He
was not working for himself tfor he was
snEe; having a six year Office, but he
was trying TO save Jarvis, who was in
extreme danger Of being beaten; first for
the nomination., and if nominated sec
ondly in the election. Vance had little
to gain, or lose, by the collapse of
Best Big Bubble (which cost the State
heavily but Vance pulled off his coat,
and incurred lite long enmlty from more
than one quarter by trying to save Jar
Wis. Is Jarvis not standing up for
Vance, Some say not!
Admiration for courage Is so strong
in the human breast that many persons
will be almost sorry VIXEN Ja@se james.
the Missouri outlaw, comes to grief, as
he il sure to do in time. Perhaps, too,
the fact that he was burned out Of
house and home, and his parents killed
during the war, because Of their South
ern sentiments, and that after the war
Jesse aud his brothers dare not return
to their old homes, will account for the
shelter and sympathy which has 50
long kept him from capture.
The Williams brothers, Of Wisconsin.
are equally brave, bat more bloody and
treacherous. 1t will be remembered
they killed the sheriff, and his brother,
who captured them some time ago
Hot pursuit was made aud several la
dian scouts with blood hounds were put
on their track. Recently they were
nearly surrounded, two parties, each
commanded by a sheriff, coming upon
them in a little valley. The Williams
BOYS. being armed with long range rifles.
killed Sheriff Lany and another man.
wounded two others. and several horses,
and escaped in a -kiif to the other side
of the Mississippi river.
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