The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-28

purchase or sale are legal and binding
contracts" This decision establishes
the legality of future sales. The
question has long been a disputed one
among the produce dealers Of the coun-
Try.
Hon. Rowland E. T'arbridge, late
Commissioner Of Indian A%tf4lis, dlcd
at his home, eight miles from Detroit,
Monday evening.
Within the last few years the father,
Jordan Ransom and five Of his children
have died Of consumption. Before they
we're freed this disease YVES OF rare o.
currence among the negroes, but W 1t
IS very common.
The Winston .Seattnti says: tyouns
bride, from M~ecklen0urg county, Is
boarding at the Salem Hotel, and at
tending the present session OF Sllem
Female Academy. She was sent there
by her husband after a brief honey
moon, that she might be enabled to
complete her scholastic course.
Graham Cleaner: Thursday morning
Bill Hawley, the colored man IN the
employment of the sheriff, went to jail
to feed the prisoners; he found, upon
opening the outside door of the cell IN
which three negro prisoners were con
fined, that they had broken the tasten-
ing Of the inside door, which they i'm
mediately threw open ami two OF them
attempted to escape. Bill resisted,
%whereupon they seized him and choked
-, ,.l Dfina I,trral him, on.l
then fed across the fields south OF
town. The sheriff immediately organ
lied a posse and started in pursuit.
Weldon News: Mr.. NJ. +. Hill,
daughter of the late Mrs. Gov. Branch,
died suddenly last week. She was in
tered in the new cemetery. Nv
are informed that on Sunday last Rev.
j. Wood, who lived in Greenville cOun-
", Va. near the Northampton line,
died suddenly at his residence. Mr..
Wood. who was about fifty Years OF
age, was apparently III very good health,
and ~conversed with visitors at his house
for some time in the afternoon. -
the late term Of the Superior Court OF
Northampton county, w are informed,
a suit was tried which involved the
large amount Of sixteen cents. The
plaintiff asked for that mount a. dam
ages for trespass, and the jury refused
it. As the case had been pending for
several years a heavy bill OF costs re
suited, amounting to TIRES hundred
and eighty dollars, which the plaintiff
had to pay, it occupied four days vi the
term.
Mr.. Ed. Scott says the cotton boom
in Southern Alamance and Chatham is
on the increase. Wagons 20 into Me
baneville every day, and trade is good.
Mcbaneville is prospecting. The sales
of fertilizers will reach sever hundred
tons this year for cotton, tobacco and
wheat. The mercantile business has
increased more than two fold. \ to
| bacco warehouse is in course of erection.
| Messrs. ID. Y. MebaEe and Jas. +.
Trollinger are managing the enterprise.
Mr.. S. A. White will have a brick pos,
office completed by the middle Of july.
DR.. Mebane has ordered brick for a
drug store. L. l.. Warren X Son will
commence building Il store o in
| June. Scott 4 Go. will make an add
ton to their store room and commence
the summers work in plug and twist in
! May. w. O. Fowier's factory will BE
completed in two months. Verify Me
baneyille is booming. - icdner.
Utterances Of famous men: 1t looks
like rain.'-Plato. Pass the butter. =
Horace Greedy. Cold day, isntit?'-
Martin Luther. You can stop my pa
per.'-Napoleon Bonaparte My head
aches fit to plit.'-Goorge Washington.
Is this hot enough for you?-Cardina
Richelieu. Here's another button of
this shirt.'-Daniel Webster. Send
me up two pounds teAk.'-Thomas
Jefferson. These potatoes amt more 1
half done.'- Socrates. You're Fuller
than you were before dinner --Confu-
Gus. Gail around next week and IL
pay il. '-Edgar Allen Poe. Can't you
keep your cold feet of my back p
| Brigham Young. 'You needn't sit NJ
for me, l shan't be home till late
Thomas-a-Kempis. Can't you leno
FIVE dollars till next Monday|-Johl
Howard Payne. 1 suppose | We got to
80 out shovel off that sidewalk =
Charles Sumcr. - Ia, III nd on.
Garner.
Adam and Handy Bass were hal.
brothers, the former aged - and 20 a.
already stated \ icud had * s:ed
between them for the past three month
about a colored gjri whom they wert
both in the habit Of visiting. Oh Wet
nesday night, Adam Bass. Who waS at
work with Mr.. Charles Mai5ew~ oH ia
Magnolia section 81 the W, Is ". Il. II
went to the house OF the girl. about ore
mile from Magnolia. About 8 O'Clock
Handy Bass also arrived there, ana; com
mencing cursing and abusing adam. The
latter finally told Han ~ tic understood
he was going to shoot him, uIon which
Handy, with an OATH, replied that he
did intend to do 50. Adam then caught
hold of Handy, when the latter drew a
razor and flashed il across ms throat,
cutting it from ear to ear, ahI Jncn fled.
Adam, accompanied ny tnc u !, started
Immediately for Magnolia 10 get the
services of a phyei;iar, but the wound
ed man gave out when about half way.
He was taken to a house ncar by, aud
Drs. Mcmillan and Devane were sum
moned to his bed side. There was no
help for the poor fellow, however, ald