The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22

At the unyeiiIng of the Galveston
monument to the nine men who fell at
San jaclntu, Il lew weeks since. the ora
ton was by Mr. Temple Houston. the
youngest son of General Sam IL ,uston,
aud 4 poem by Mrs. Noilie Moore Da-
Wis was reat.
The Fir National Bank got judg
ment yesterday in the Superior Count
against the city of Charlotte tor $50
100. The Judgment is for the coupons
and interest on coupons Of $50. 900 Of
bonds issued by the city to tie Allan
TIC, Iennesse and Ohio Railroad Com
pauy. The bonds are themselves not
due until 1890. The city appealed TO
Supreme Court Chur. OLserrer.
Eenry Todd lives at Darien, Georgia.
and is worth over 500. 600 ia good and
paying investments. Although a black
man, he was himself a Slavah,l der be
lore the war. He then lost twenty
slaves, but he had d large cotton crop
tor which he received 30 cents 4 pound.
tie manages farms, own. lumber mills,
and is a merchant in a large way.
For the year ending june 80. 1880,
there were 567, 3S6, 9S2 cigarettes used
in the United States. upon which a
revenue duty was levied Of u little less
than one million Of dollars. America is
to-day the great cigarette smoking ma
ton Of the world. Ofcours, there are
millions Of cigarettes used which pay no
duty.
f. Il. Collins, of Troy, n. Y, had a
lucrative busine> ) and SO, 900 fl e years
lrn Ia SnlI amt nnI nvn,tl -, tt,A
Comstock mines Three years ago he
could have sold out for $5Oo.OJo He
failed TO do 50, and lost everything. He
committed suicide, and was the fourth
member OF the family who died violent
ly. Spectators In cotton futures"
take warning.
While recently lassooing Wild horses
with a party on our Drairi-s, the young
Count IA Andrassy left his
ions behind him in his enthusiasm, and
wandering for two days about the
prairie without drink or food: but on
the third day he He'd a hare with his
last cartridge, and the report Of the
gun directed % the spot his friends,
who had been hunting for him with a
hundred and fifty Indians.
Premium List o: lst Annual fair Of
East Carolina Agricultural and Me
chanical t',ociation, to be held II
Rocky Mount, beginning on Gath Oct.
The officers Of the Society are j. j.
Battle, President; DR.. n. B. MOBILES
aud V. B. Batchelcr, Vice Presidents;
J.. ID. jenkins, Secretary; A. w. Ar
ringten. Assistant Secretary; s. K.
Fountain, Treasurer aud JpO l.. Bailey
Chief Marshal. The Executive Com
miftee are b. II. Bum, T. =. Bra.welI
r Fl. Ricks. Jesse Brake, DR.. G.. l.
Killebrew. n. b. killebrew, DIR. T. j.
Thorp. +. ID. Foxhall. Erastus Cherry,
S II. Cherry. B. p Jenkins John Mel
son and j II. E1nm.
These names guarantee success LII
zeal, ability and determination ever a.
compli.h anything. success is assured
Sunday night. while Captain S. r.
Thompson ,siI-hoat Telephone was
going froA here to Ship Island, IA but
teIfly fish. weighing " bundrsi
pound. Jumped into the boat and
brushed 10y The man at the helm and
cam. near knocking him overheard.
With .ns tlounder the fish jumped to
he forward part of the boat and III
sn.onc several pegroes who were asleep
and such a commsiion was seldom seen.
They managed TO club to death this
monster a'.r awhile. and after cutting
ufflt. switch threw it ",erhoard. The
switch measured three feet nineipches.
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