The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-13

y being organized near that place.
e Tarboro Southernu; The colored leg
b i@slators from BERTHE aud Washington
c counties tramped TO Tarboro through
the snow o. Sunday to take the cars FOL
Raleigh
Pitts6oro Recorf We learn tnat y.
B. Taylor was recently seen Creek town
ship ofthis county. He Is a noted des-
perado an! Is indicted for murder IN
Moore county.
!, The steamer Gov. Worth wa
snag.ei ami sunk in the Cape Fear
i er, 4rl Council i afs, about thirty
10 = below Wilmington, on Wednes
DAY mo.niag Her cargo was saved.
Charlotte Democrat: About 200
cords q wood have been distributed
to the poor or the CITY within the past
week. Those who have money 20 pay
for wood find it 4 difficult TO get q sup
pig.
LoUisburg Times: Jos ". Fuller,
of Harris Township, made this year,
with one horse IL bales of cotton,
AS bushels Of corn, 9S. bushels OF
wheat. AMI 1000 pounds Of oats, 40
bushels OF sweet potatoes, and killed
l,'23 pounds OF pork.
Raleigh Star: Ms. Kate Nckethan,
wife Of Maj. 4. 4. Mckethan, Jr.,
died in Fayetteville on Tuesday. the
4th inst. -The Wilmington Star
prOnounces Colville, the ~spiritualist, an
unmitigated fraud and humbug. That
Is right. Write them down correct.
\ negro boy named Booker Watson
was accidentally shot last Friday by
Dick llughc~, Esq. The ball entered
Just above the eve and ran around be
hind the ear. Eooker is all right, bat
It .u;ned the ball. So says the Hen
deI>on Rer:eic.
Hickory Pess Eessrs. S. A. Hawn
and j. I. Jarrett, OF thi. county, made
at their factory thi. season 1000 gallons
Of moiasses 2,200 of which was Mr..
Hawn's own crop. Their factory is the
most complete one in the county. The
mill is run by water power, and the boil
ing is done IN eyaporator,
Oxford Friend: A great revival in
Tarboro, The religion is of the right
kind No counterfeit about it The
converts at the first collection after their
admission, put IN, one SIX thousand,
and another two thousand dollars to
build a church. This reminds us of
Zaccheus who, when converted, gave
half his goods to feed the poor.
Charlotte Observer: A telegram from
Statesville the death of Col.
Andrew G.. Cowles, of Yakkin county,
at his residence in Hamptonville yester-
day. Col. Cowles was for many years a
leading spirit in Western North Caro-
lima, having served for severel terms in
the North Carolina Legislature, both
in the House and the Senate.
As Mr.. Ed. Baily was sleigh riding
yesterday with Miss H,xeline Norwood,
Of Hillsboro, the horse ran away and as
the corner of Trade and Tryon streets
was turned the sleigh was suddenly
overthrown emptying them both into the
snow. Miss Norwood received a slight
cut across the face and was d little
hurt about the shoulder but not at all Sc
%riously. Mr.. Baily escaped unhurt.-
&. Obse1rer.
Oxford 1orchHght On the night Of
December 9th Dennis Webb, a colored
man, took on too much Of the ''tangle
leg while in Oxford, and going home
he fell from a log In crossing Shelton's
! ClNCh' VAIL was Othy W wv
deep, but be was unable to move.
Coroner Jones held an inquest and his
fury returned a verdict to the effect
above. 1t is reported there was evil
dence Of a lick on the head Of the ne
gro.
Judge Howard, of Tarboro, with
genuine philanthropy and generosity, |
came to the rescue of the poor. The
SOutterner says: six stick-loads of
wood jumped from so cents to a dollar
and scarce at that. At this juncture
Judge Howard, as large hearted a phil
anthioplst as exists in America, put
four double team wagons to hauling
wood for the poor and delivering it at
their doors gratuitously, thus saving
life and suffering of many shiverlng
wretches." The Judge has also given
the Bapiists alot at ToisDot upon which
to build a church.
Minnesota Millers no longer grind"
wheat into flour. They ''crack" it,
and the people Of the Northwest claim
that the new process makes their hlth-
ertO inferior wheat the most valuable IN
the world. Burr stones ale things of
the past and Hungarian steel rollers
have taken their place. These rollers
are about thirty inches long and eight
inches IL diameter. 1t take five sets of
steel rollers to finish the flour. Each
set of rollers run closer than the proceed
ing. After the wheat passes each set
Of rollers it is bolted or sifted through
coarse cloth. This cloth lets the disin-
tegrated PARTICLES of wheat through and
passes off the bulky and larger pieces,
which are run through another and a
closer set Of rollers and cracked again.
The last rollers have little else but
wheat hulls aud waXy germs Of wheat,
which do not crack up, but smash
down like a piece of wax, The germ OF
a kernal of wheat is not good food. 1t
makes fiour black. BY the old mill
stone process tins waxy germ was ground
up with the starchy portion and boil
ted through with the -four. By the hey
system Of cracking the kernel instead
of grinding it this germ is not ground,
but hattened out and sifted or bolted
out, while the starchy portions Of the
wheat are crushed into powdered wheat
or flour. All the big mills of Minneap-
oils now manufacture by the new pro-
cess.
Charlotte Observer: The widow of
Engineer Smith. killed on the Airline,
about eighteen months ago, has recov-
cred Sll 900 DAMAGES from the road