The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-03-31

! -t0a county, was destroyed b. fire lat
~ Sunday afternoon. The los i abou
$1,000, aDl there a. no insurance
The cause i nJt known. Tut supposed
to &c accidental.
We learn tntt til Pc. ,-terian PR
san4re Ut Durham .o4k fire II d.y j
I'D .. IN. The alarm Wa gwen. n til
flames were 5000 e~xtin-ui.he,i ~ TIL
tire company. Damages iight.-Putriot
No man eilI ever he 4 candidate far
Speaker in future without expecting
from hence forth aud forever pein4
burthencd with . gold watch. Mr
Robinson was watched before and
now gets 4 silver service for doing his
duty, which we mag hope has not been
neglected nor overlooked. -HickJrs
CdrOitatta.
The New York NcraiTs Washing
ton correspondent, in the dispatch
published elsewhere. seems to lie con.
tident that the President has already
thrown in among his leaders a bomt
which i. liable 70 burst at any moment
with frightful results. Coukling ha.
been offended BY the appointment Of
Blaine's man Robertson in New York.
and by other appointments. which do
not meet his approval. This element
of discord will hardly appear 50 soon,
but 1t will appear; nobody can dOub'
that. Tilden says Garfield will have a
stormy administration, and he is nc
doubt correct.
Concord SIN: Judge Merrimon is to
speak in Concord soon In behalf Of pro
hibition The cork tree in the yard
of Mr.. George Patterson is a victim TO
our cold winter. II is killed TO the
roots Last Wednesday, DR..
Mears returned from Philadelphia ac-
companied by four capitalists whom
ne at once conducted to the mines.
Yesterday Mr.. Tre!oar returned from
the same place accompanied by two
capitalists and prosecutors They are
in search for gold and will find no
richer mines in the South than those in
Cabarrus county.
We have heretofore alluded to Bone
Taylor, the man who murdered Seawell.
in Moore county about two years ago,
for whose arrest a reward OF 500 was
paid, and who afterwards escaped rom
the Carthage Jail. On last Monday,
as we are informed, several of the
friends of the murdered man went in
search of Taylor, and coming in sight
of him. near Prosperity lin the north
ern part of Moore), they fired on him.
one bullet grazing the back Of his neck,
but he escaped. 1t is said that Taylor
is running an illict distillery, and that
some days ago certain Revenue officers
made a raid on it, hut injured it SO Ii,
tie that he was using it again on the
nexi day.-Chatham Record
Falcon Items: We learn through
Lieut.. Nevcomb that old Capt. Jesse
Etheridge, of Body. Island, Dare
county, shot and dangerously wounded
himself on Thursday last. 1t is not
known whether the old man will re-
cover.-Mr. Jesse c.. Jacocks, died
very suddenly at his home at Heltford,
on Friday last. Mr.. Jacocks was for
many years Sheriff of Perquimans
county. A wife and several chill
dren, and friends innumerable lament
his departure.--Dr. Underwood, of
the AlbemarIe, met with an accident
that came near being serious, while
driving on the canal bank last week.
His horse became frightened at a pass
ing steamer and ran in the deep swamp
ct the Doctors peril.
IfJudge NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is cor
rect and we opine the Supreme court,
If it has an opportunity, will SO hold,
the Western n. G.. Railroad already
owes the State a handsome sum IN the
shape of fines. 1t has now been viola
ting the law for some four months,
snd a fine of $50 per mile per day on a
hundred and forty miles. who now az
greoate eight hundred and forty thou
sand dollars And there is a clause
that says. 1T shall be the duty of the
Governor of this State to cause to be
instituted immediate proceedings for
the recovery of such penalty and the
infiction of such punishment in case Of
any violation of this act" Has this
clause been complied with2 We have
never seen any evidence that it has
Wadesboro Times.
The rock was literally filled with
gold, there being about 800 worth in
all. Mr.. Hagler was offered $50, but
refused to sell at that price. The story
of his finding it, is a strange one, but
true. Mr.. Hagler On Sunday night
dreamed of finding a rock of gold at a
certain spot on DR.. Bob McEachern's
land. AS soon as he walked he went
over told his dream to DIR. Bob and
proceeded to search for the spot. Mr..
Hagler says he had not hunted ten
minutes before he found the place and
to make it all complete there lay the
rock of gold Ia full view. 1t was GER
tainIy a lucky dream and vas worth
almost 500 to Mr.. Hagler. This beats
any gold mining we ever heard Of
Concord SIN.
This morning as the mail train on the
Western North Carolina Railroad was
coming west from Salisbury an axle of
the freight car next the engine broke
when the train was at a point about five
miles east of Statesville. The breakage
threw every car composing the train
from the track, leaving only the engine
on the rails. The accident occurred
upon a slight embankment and the
cars being turned we this constituted
a complete wreck. 1t is miraculous
that no one on board was killed. AS it
was nearly every person on the train
was more or less injured but none very
seriously. A lady sustained a severe
cut over one eye, and Mr.. j. y. Gam
mon, of Durham, received a painful cut
in the head, together with ut and
bruises upon the left leg. The track
was torn up for a considerable distance,
and the cars were smashed, several of
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