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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-01

the marriage of the Doctors last 70.
naming daughter which took place ON
Tuesday. A large marriage bell ~
evergreens and white chrysantheuams
hung from the centre Of the ceiling.
while the monogram of the groom and
bride IN green leaves was placed over
the mantle with appropriate sentences
all IN green leaves, o~rnamenting the
walls. The parlor at Bellevue can
show an excellent portrait in crayon of
Governor Graham, cabinet size, done
by Mr.. Eugene Harris, who i AN mn
doubted artist and one of whom not
only Granville county, but North Caro-
lima, should be proud.
The Granville Railroad is now re-
garded as a certainty by most persons
and L am assured that visitors to Belle
vue next summer can reach S~aSsafras
Fork By it. With a railroad within
i've miles this will then b, one Of the
ntoat desirable summer resorts s0r quirt
people. This l. my .a,t letter from
here this season, and | shall leave With
regret what has been a pleasant home
IN a hospitable country neighborhood
but shall look forward to coming back
next summer, on the Granville Railroad
and seeing the little church at Sassafras
Fork completed with a good melodion
to lead the singing. Who will help to
hnlsh 1t ! All may speak at once, ifso
inclined, to the Rev. Mr.. Vaughn, of
Oxford, who will be glad of any help in
his good work. NJ. b. G..
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CoNCERNlNo Col BEASLEYS RAIL

CoNCERNlNo Col BEAsLEYS RAIL
embark in such an enterprise, starts at
the right point and is working in the
right direction and is spending his own
or somebody else's money other than
that OF the people of Granville, why
we say let him go N.
Railroads, like all other eeterpr ises,
have to nave a beginning and we are
sure that whom two mites of a distance
of twenty five have been graded that
that Is a beginning.
1t is pretty generally understood
that the Oxford 4 Henderson road be
longs to parties interested in the Rich
mond and Danville Company. 1t is
known that the Richmond and Danville
controls the character Of the Clarksvillc
aud Keysville road. Why then what Is
the trouble about building the road to
Clal ksvllle when about half the line Is
already graded to GAINESVILLE and seven
or eight miles of the old Roanoke Val
lev can be used in coming to Oxford.
The Richmond and Danv;lle people we
learn, will not work on the
Keysville line until Spring, and even
then did not contact to build the road
in a less time than eighteen months.
But suppose in the mean time that Col.
Beasley had built the Granville road to
the Virginia line can any believe that
the Richmond and Danville would re-
fuse him connection and to give and re-
cieve freight from him?-Oxtord Torch
Hght.
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"ortnern liberaIity and Public
SPiritedness Compared
with Southern.
NEW YORK. Nov. 81. i

NLW 1ORh, o u. ISL.
Editor Ecaminer:-How differentl,
different people views things. Here i
lreneus, Uhe Rev. DR.. Prime ii
the y. /. Observer, quoting with warn
approval the remark, that 1T Is a grea
privilege to live in New York, bccaus,
you have an opportunity To give money
70 every other place IN the country.
And on the other hand the Boston TT
ucdttonal JOUrnak, which says, "O4l
Northern cities, just now. are svarpling
with pilgrims from the South. solicit
ing aid in every quarter in behalf Of
schools of every kind. II j. said that
Nr. Seeney received, recently, sixty ap.
picatlons Of this sort IN one forenoon
aLd the .J9D,tid goes on 10 rad i long
lecture 70 the pilgrims. | comics
that ! wish our weak Southern people
would not 80 ytten call upon the Ngrh
ern Hercules, but would exert their own
powers. call up their own energies, put
their own shoulders to the wheel, aud
above all preserve their own selt-respect
and independence. But they have
large claims upon the rich North, which
grew to be rich out of that which made
the South poor indeed. And wonder
fully does this city acknowledge the
validity Of those claims. whatever Bos-
ton may do or leave undone.
But what strikes me az most worthy
in the North of Imitation at the South,
are the large gifts and bequests OF
wealthy people to churches, schools,
colleges, and charitable institutions.
Scarcely a day passes without some
such case being published. La one pa
per now before me there are two-T hos.
Messenger, OF Brooklyn, devised b. will
500, 600 to two churches, and Sl6. 800
To several charities. And Mrs. Cary,
also of Brooklyn, left SIG, 900, in sums
OF from $4,000 down to 81. 900, to
twenty-one churches, colleges, asylums
Tor orphans, for aged women, for aged
men, for children, for friendless women
and children, for hospitals colleges,
Libraries, nc. And In the paper OF the
day before, 1t : recorded that the late
Mr. Phoenix, OF this city, had devised
his valuable collection Of pictures, stat
uary, blc-a-brac, and gems, to the Me
lropolitan Museum Of Art. OF course
such examples will be followed when
the South shall have become as rich a.
the North, for human nature Is pretty
much alike In all sections, only more SO
at the South III benevolence. according
to ability. | have been glad to see also
within a day or two that three gentle
men in North Carolina hal given $1,000
each to their church, the Baptist. The
work will surely go on. One other rea-
son than that of less wealth there. Is
that there are fewer people at the
south who are without wife or chill
dren. Estates there are more general
~ subject to long DIVISION" tol they
marry and fill their houses with chi!
dren, having faith in the Bible declara
lion, happy he who hath his culver
full of Them" whilst hereit is only 1.-The
poor or moderately well of that think
they can afford the luxury Of children:
prattie. E. u. Hale IL Fayetteville Er
dmtner.
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The LOST Books OF THE BIBLE A
correspondent writes to the New York
Sun a. follows: Mr.. fl. w. Turner say >
the appearance Of the revised edition
of the New Testament reminds him that
he heard long ago of s lost Gospel to
the Hebrews. f Mr.. farmer will take
the trouble to read the Bible over care
fully h, will find the therein proof that
twenty-threc books of it have been lost.
= few of which | will name for his in
formation. la the Book of Numbers,
xxi, IA, occurs the following reference .
Wherefore it is said in the Book Of the
Wars of the Lord" Now where is that
book Lost. In the Third Book Of
Kings it is recorded that Solomon
wrote three thousand proverbs. There
are not more than fifteen hundred in
the present Bible; the rest are lost. In
the same book it is mentioned that he
wrote Que hundred and five can't; .es.
Then we ind an allusi"n to the Book
Of Nathan the prophet. There IS NJ
such book; it is lost. IN Chroaiclei
we read that the acts of ID tvid are writ
ten in the Book OF Samuel the Seer and
Nathan the Prophet. There is no sucl
book; it is lost. There vas an tpistl.
Of st. Paul to the CollosiGns; it is lost.
St. Paul wrote five EpisIles to thu
Corinthians we have only two of then
the rest are lost. Altogether twenty
three books of the Bible have beer
lost nineteen from the Old Testamen
and four from the New.
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HENDERSON ITEMs.-Frou the Free
Lonce.--The TOJaccOnist and Rerteao
has suspended, and Pete gene to drum
ming for = New York house. There
nave been several parties negotiating
for the office this week. We hear that
it is likely that the office will be pur-
chased by a JOINT stock company, and
the paper enlarged and improved in
every respect, and that one of our law
yers may become its Editor. MIR.
Thad. r. Manning is to start a new
paper here.-Mr. Wirstead, OF Per
son county, has moved to this place
and entered the mercantile business on
Main Street .I Henderson Nov.
both, Mrs. Belle Young. wife OF DR..
Sam Young. The death Of this lady
was peculiarly sad. are in
erection this time II dwelling houses,
besides many other buildings. Posses
factory, when completed, will be an
ornament to this place, and Jsnkin:
Boyd & Cos, large warehouse speaks
well for this energetic frm.-There
are o four gentlemen corresponding
with our townsman A. R.. Workman,
Esq, with a view to locating here -
Mr.. Major, of Warrenton, has recently
moved t 0 this place.
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Nash County ITEMS. Tournament
at Nashville on Saturday. Mr.. Wv
rett, with his brother Robert, VIM.
Green and Amos Whitley, were in the
woods squirrel hunting, and Mr.. Wv
rett, after discharging one DARRELL of his
gun, set 1t down on the ground, when
the other DARRELL was discharged the
contents of which entered just below his
left ear, killing him almost instantly.
One of the party was Immediately sent
to Toisnot for Dr's. Herring and Whit
ley, who went at once, but only to see
George brought to the house a corpse.
The cause of the premature discharge
of the gun is a MYSTERY. Some think
that the hammer must have come III
contact with something as the qua was
set down; while others think it was
caused by heat from the barrel which
had Just been discharged. The forego-
ing is from the ToiSnot Home. The
following is from the Wilson Adcance
Mr.. o. ID. Mann, living near B~attlebore
had his barn burned Wednesday night
the 10th inst, with several bales of cot
ton, some corn, and all of his farming
utensils by incendiary. No insurance.
a sad case of burning occurred near
Nashville, Thursday morning. While
the wife of William Cooper, Jr., was out
Of the house the clothes of their little
boy caught fire and be was SO burned
that he died Friday night.
Two colered prisoners from Battle
boro lodged in Ill to-day. Wiley Pee
bles charged with stealing money from
Isaac Powell, James Smith charged
with the murder of a white woman nam
ed Mary Eliza Hawkins. She claimed
to be from Washington n. G., and had
been living with negroes In or near
Battleboro for a year or two. She was
living with Smith at the time, aud on
last Friday night while she was in an in
toxicated state they had = difficulty
and he SAYS he shut her out Of the house.
On Saturday morning she was found on
the railroad dead, her head and body
being horribly mangled by the cars
Foul play was suspicioned, and Smith
was arrested. From the evidence elici-
ted on the trial the Justice thought
proper to commit him to Jail for farther
investigation. | hear that the evidence
was entirely circumstantial but very
strong against him.
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CUTTING A STEAMSHIP IN Two.-The
Campana, an iron steamship, built In
Glasgow, Scotland, in 1878, has been
bought by a firm in Toronto for business
on the great lakes. Her length is 25i
feet, and in order to get her through
the Lachine Canal her owner caused
her to be cut in two. The sections were
then mounted on pontoons aud terrled
through. On being put together again
she gathered up her pretty form and
went through the water like a duck.
She is built entirely of iron, in the most
substantial style, and can carry two
hundred frst-class and four hundred
second class passengers, and at the same
load up skip thousand bushels OF grain.
To accomplish such a feat rs cutting an
iron teamer of her dimensions IN two
and putting her together agpln Is a kind
Of steamship surgery somewhat rare
but then these Canadians are exceed
ingIy smart, and they want to show Us
what they can do before they apply for
annexation,
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Dsiiada ved a. ar;ist-snd twas re-
the least surprising
That no used her "a a model-for 81
had . pretty shape;
AID - many hours daily -. she a.
tudisizing,
That she vsaried Of IL truly, s-d
would fsis have made escape.
The other sister w2s more practical
for the poem sav,:-
Deroths4 wed q farmer. one -ao louc
had loved her truly,
And though not .; al aesthetic thought
the maiden "sweetly s-set
Aad having tod hss passion. Ike as
honest fellow. duly
With decoruG aid ni. f~ortuse-. a her
decorative feet.
The last staaHa moraljT-s ., folio "
A. the Decorative a. -. wan - an
sod ARR tossfs
Ano then mac Asi.ta :. as
absura.Ue> .eVru
4 single glance al them, I'm sure will
Dol convince You Wh-tisF
Dorothea or D~rluda i The laypisr
Of the two.
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The LEG OF TO-DAY AND THE LEG
OF TWENTY YEARS AGo.-A manu-
iacturer OF these useful appendices said
10 a New York reporter: THE leg of
to-day IS very different from that Of
twenty years ago. Then it was a heavy,
loose jolnted, cumbersome, creaky at
fair. Every one remembers how easy
it was to tell a man with an artificial
leg as soon as he came within sight or
hearing. The creakIng was perhaps
the most disagreeable part of the affair.
That has been done away with by means
OF Il or TWO patented improvements.
The principal one of these Is a conceal
cd screw at the point OF the leg aud
foot that enables the wearer of the leg
to stop the creaking at any time. Once
upon a time he would have to send it
back to the maker to have the joints
frightened, aud the cost would have
been so Now he eau do it for him
self without a cent Of cost. Then there
is a contrivance worked b. a hand pa S
throw the leg forward as the waarer
moves. This is particularly useful to
ladies, as it pushes the skirts with no
more effort than the action of the ma
ural limb occasions. But, above all,
the support of the body has been trans
ferred to a different part of the leg.
Formerly, the stump rested on "A cush-
ion In the socket. an the weight fell
upon this sensitive point of contact.
Now, by means of steel braces, the re
gion of contact is almost entirely at
either side Of the thigh, where there is.
comparatively, no s~ensItiveneSS. y
man with an artificial leg nowadays eau
do almost anything that a man with
two natural legs can. For instance, in
this letter here a MN writes that he has
travelled horseback and afoot thousand,
Of miles over Wyoming, Colorado, and
Mexics on One.'
What provision is there for a person
who loses the whole or a part of al
arm?' asked the reporter.
The manufacturer stepped to a case
of hesh-colored artificial members anC
took out an arm. The hand was GOV
erel with a perfect-titting glove. Their,
was an arm to be worn by a woman
hanging next to the one that he select
ed, and the small hand was encased IL
a long many-buttoned white kid glove.
He put a loop at the end of a white
wooden band attached to the upper par
of the arm around his right arm. Slip
ped the band about his shoulders, am
then inserted his hand into the socke
of the artificial arm. Then he took of
and replaced the reporters hat, tn
artificial fingers being worked by mean
of mechanism In the socket. He ais,
raised and held an open book up betor
, him.
|. Il am not at all expert in the man
agement of these arms" he observed
but if | had TO depend upon one o
them for the remainder of my life,
suppose that | would soon learn how t
make the best Of it." The stump, act
ing upon the mechanism in the socket
opens and shuts the fingers and make
them hold any article desired. Th
fingers are composed of q steel skeleton
covered with soft India rubber. vel
shaped, and they have a natural feelin
to another person.
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LITTLE STORIES FOR THE AMUSEMENT
AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NURSERY
BRIGADE. Daisy is crying. Poor little
Girl. we are sorry for her. james has
Hit her ID the eye with a Dornick.
lie on James to DO SO, and tie on Daisy
lot to hit him back. Will Daisy pray
for James to night No. She will
Dull the Stats from his bed, so he will
fall and break his ann on the floor.
rhat Will be right, will it not, Child
rem
Has the printer tobaccoa He has
but he will not tell you so. He carries
it In the leg of his boot, and when he
wants a chew he sneaks down in the
back Alley where nobody can see him.
When lie spits tobacco it sounds like a
Duck diving in the water. The pvin-
ter ia a Queer maa. He is a Tickle
person. Sometimes be Has ten thous
and Ems on the String, but tkoy are
Always his Dupes. If you are a printer
Do not Be IA Blacksmith or 70 will
get Fired.
This is a Boil. 1t is on the Man's
Neck, Would you like to Feel it II
you do, the Man will Feel it. too. The
Boil is a mean Thing, and it is a
Coward. Ii you Strike it it will Run.
But the Man will not Run. He will
Dance and make Remarks. BOlls may
start Way down near q little Boy.
wast-band But they always come to q
Head at last.
The Stove is Red Hot. Run Ella,
and get the Castor, and put some Rec
-. Ill., 4- Af,~1
comes in She will be Red Hot, too.
Who put the Salt In the Sugar bowl
Mamma is Anxious to find Out. Wilt
is Busy looking Out of the Window
Can YOU Guess what he is Thlnkln!
about Perhaps he is Wondering wha
Mamma will Give him before be Goe
to Bed without his Supper. If we wer'
Willie we would Zeal safer with a Latin
Grammar in the Seat of our Pants.
Can you can See the Ink bottle OF
tt G Table 1t is Full Of Nice, Blacl
Ink. If you want to you can Pour tn
fix out on the carpet. 1t makes tn
Sit down on the Carpet and put bot
of your Little paddles in the Ink. See
your fingers are Covered with the Ink
What a Nice picture you a MAKE o.
the Wall Paper now. Make a pictur'
Of a Big Man and Little Girl. Do ye'
want to put some Ink on the Lace
Curtain? Very we'll. Put 1t on care
fully, for you Should never Waste tn
Ink or anything Else. This will b
Quite a Surprise TO Mamma when SD
Comes in.
What a Delightful Mud Hole. 1t /
quite deep and inviting. How Coo
and Pleasant it must be In the Mu'
Hole. Good little Boys and Girls ca
Play in the Mud Hole and Make Lot
of Nice Patty Cakes. Tell the Bah
to como. too, and then You can Pu
Mud in his Ears and he will Splash tn
pretty Black Water all over Susie D
Frock. -Denrer II Iune.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-01

REGULATE TIE S~kCRETIONS IN uur
endeavers to preserve hcaith - l. III tht
utmost importance that W.. keep ia.
secrstory system in perfect couclion.
The well known remedy kidney Mort.
has specific action on Tie X dne : and
liver. Use ii instead Of dosing with
vile bittels or drastic pills. Ii is purely
vegetable, and is prompt tut mild i
action. 1t is prepared in both dry an,
liquid form and sold by druggist every
where.-Rendtng Euglc.
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Raleigh Visitor: Those who c u
aorse-hair, t%urnin. into snass> ~iIl cai
at the larbolough House and see >
couple OF snake seat ~. blarkuali '
Mr. {. W. Rau.y, Of hIt,rcil. Nj
Raney says there can BE 10 doubt that ii
was produced from hair .--
Aunt Abby House, a. she i. familiar,
known Throughout, the State, died at
her residence. l. this city, Al ; @ clock
yesterday morning, a quite Al adNsnc.
ed sge. bier remains were TAX q 1,
Franklin county for Inttrmtut.
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For the Farmer and Mechanic
BELLEVUE SPRINGS, Nov

BELLEVUE SPRINGS, Nov. lSt.
Why is there 50 much more of the
spirit of christian brotherhood, the
highest expression of christianity, tax
ing that word to mean the spirit of
Christ's teachings, aud not the dogmas
of ~theologians, shown in country con
gregations than in those of the cities
and towns? This is a question | asked
myself as | rode home last Sunday from
attending the services held by the Rev.
Mr.. Vaughn, of the Episcopal church
at the little church at Sassafras Fork,
where the congregation was so mixed
that except from their promptness in
making the responses, 1t would have
been impossible to tell the few Episco-
palians present from the members of
other denominations participating In
the services. The old question that no
unmixed good or evil in this world is, it
seems to me fully demonstrated here.
Of course it is pleasant and profitable
to be able Sunday after Sunday to at
tend our own Individual church, but
country people cannot do this, and
those whose church anity is not too
strong for their christianity will attend
the service of their neighborhood
church whether it be Presbyterian,
Episcopal, Baptist, or Methodist.
Consequently there is a more friendly
feeling between different denominations
IN the country than there is in towns
where each can attend his own church
and naturally does not wander from 1t.
1t rained in such torrents on the sth,
wheh Bishoy Lyman preached at Sas-
safras Fork, FIVE miles from us, that
Bellevue household was not represent
ed there, but Mr.. Vaughn having
changed his day so as not to conflict
with the services at Shiloah, two of us
mounted our horses and put in an ap-
pearance on the second Sunday In No
yember. The church building is small,
and, owing to the hard times consequent
IN that terrible drought of fast summer,
could 0 be completed as the Rector
" ned and consecrated by the Bishop
a, his last visit. But if all things go
well ne hopes to finish it next year.
SSssaaras Fork bids fair to become quite
a illage when the Granville Railroad
l. quilt to that point beside the church
ere are already two very nice country
stores, one kept by L. w. Stovall &
Co, and the other by w. H.. Gregory,
Esq, who has recently purchased a
r-sidence there which he intends i'm
r~oving. DIR. Harris, the father of Mr..
t.1geue Harris, the artist, and MIR. 1:
Z Harris, of the State Agricultural
II, partment, as well as of DR.. Harris,
q Henderson, has a very comfortable
house here, the grounds Of which are
p~rettily laid out and ornamented with
rock work. As he is the postmaster |
be occasion to call at his house the
0tner day, and found the parlor beauti-
fully decorated. by his artist son, for
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The Mahonetics Coming to
Raleigh--A journalistic
Fence Rider

Il Is believed that Congress will re.
main IN session until July or August o!
rs-t year.
1t IS stated here that GeI j. NJ
Leach, formerly = member OF Congress
from your State, and Mr.. \. II. Dowel,
An old and brilliant newspaper nan,
formerly Of your State, but more recent
u of New I-rk, will start daily news
paper In I.slei:h on the first Of January.
The type and material have already, it
i stated. beeG forwarded. Iti.under-
stood that the new paper will he indie
pendent IN politics, with 4 Republican
leaning. In size and makeup it will
be similar 10 the Charlotte Observer,
and will b. issued IN the morning.
Postal chan..s have occurred .s fol
Nv North Carolina Offices e.,ab-
shed W"edhurn. Person .ouut;.
". VI. F4ulAeLcr, postm,.tet lausls
Warren county, j. F. Vaughn. post
J. + King, appointed postmaster vice
j. X. Harold, resigned; River View,
MecklsHburs county, J. L. NIXON, aP
pointed postnaster vice W. Il. Withers
resigned.
Slar Rout. changes: Auburn to
Spin. LAKE, North Carolina, from
November |, supply measure or Route
aad increase in distance.
Col. ". \. Cheek and wife of War
T"nton. are here attending the session
Of the National Grange. Mr.. Cheek is
one Of the most prominent members
letter from Washington City, n Char
iotte ObSerrcr.
As the Wilmington Rerte,o remarks,
the general opinion, when Col. Tom
Cooper announced a Coming Malone
in North Carolina" was that General
James Madison Leach, would be the
man as he has two or three sons in
position at Washington, which is athing
not easily effected by Democrats of the
straight u stripe.
The young man. Albert Fl. DOxell,
was editor Of the A,heville Pioneer, in
It's most blackiy Radical days. He re
ported the Ku klux trials for the Wash
ington Chrontcle, and pulled Jetfrey's
Bond, and abused the hapless prisoners.
regardless alike of their innocence, and
their shackled situation.
IF the government, and the Republi-
cans, really wish to build up a Liberal
Party in North Carolina they will take
care to secure a different class Ct men
break the ice.
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DRYING SWEET POTATOES. The
Rev. A. d. Belts, .! Duplin county.
writes US: MANY Of your readers IN
Eastern North Carolina might make
hundreds or thousands of dollars by
driving the sweet potato. A trlena 0.
mine in Guilferd makes every bushel OF
green potatoes turn him out a dollar
The Drying Machines are cheap an !
there will be almost endless dcman
for the dried potato.'-Home.