The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-07

Gov. Jarvis has appointed DR.. J.
. Smith a director IN the Cape Fear X.
Z vice Hon Z. l.. Vaughan resigned.
John Gibson attacked John
hatchet in hand ; and was Kill
d. This near Newbern. Thorpe sur
rendered hlaseit.
The OLselUer kilograms announce
.ha. Gov. Hold en- has teen re~nomina-
ted il, Garfield. And Col. Shatfcr has
hurried to Washington.
BY a runaway accident near the
.rabtree bridge on the Loulsburg road,
as we learn from the Observer. Mr.:
Geo. LYNN and Miss Lizzie Jones, OF
Cary. we're thrown from a buggy, and
the lady suffered the fracture OF her collar
bone, and other severe, though not
dangerous, injuries.
-Messrs. Smith & Bro, Stony Brook
Long Island, N. Y, advertise IN anoth-
sr Columns Importers and Breeders
f Devon Cattle, Cotswold and South
.lown sheep, Berkshire swine, and all
kinds Of poultry. Our Southern tar,
mers must raise a better quality. OF all
farm stock before they can realize the
full profit our climate allows.
The person who sent US an imper
tinent postal from Warren county. yes
to-day, can keep the money. Being a
gentleman, we cannot afford to handy
words with him. Happily, we have an
hundred subscribers IN the same county
who would scorn to send back a paper
.~eaving even a single dollar due the
editor.
Mr.. Straughan, assistant to Col.
Mcleod Turner at the capitol, was call
ed home on Sunday by tldlngs that his
brother had fallen in a fit, or had been
| ~suifocated while burning brush. 1t i
really amazing, the number of persons
/ burned to death of late. We think a
list of 100 could be made up in North
Carolina during twelve months past.
Bob Gunter, a Wake county Freed
man who is not willing to allow his fel-
low blacks to be free, was arrested OF
Saturday for threatening to thro"
another negro into Neuse river II ne
voted the Democratic ticket. He Is OF
powerful build, and resisting arrest
threw Deputy Sheriff o. y. Belvin sew
eral times. In the melee, Belvln's pis-
tol put a ball through Gunters hand.
The negro was jailed.
-Rumor was wrong. 1t was moi
Mr.. Slater, but Mr. Peter NJ. Wilson,
Secretary of the Agricultural Depart
ment, upon whom Fortune smiled tC
the tune of SIS 900. The Managers Of
the Louisiana Lottery advertise thai
they paid the money to his order. Alas
DO you reckon there is any truth IN the
saying hat tightening strikes
twice in the same town? 1t 1t ben
true, we want Mr.. w. to hold our ha',
w. +. Black well & Co.'S ArtesiAI
W IL at Durham, under the management
OF Capt. . r. Smith, is sinking from
ten to twenty feet a day, according tC
the nature ot the drilling. 1t is now
25G feet deep in a red sand stone fOrma
ton. Thus far the geological formation
has been identical with that OF the OIL
,egion of Pennsylvania, and should the
similarity continue, will strike the oil
strata at about six hundred feet. The
machinery is in admirable working or
Ter, and the well will be cased from
bottom up with wrought iron pipes, six
inches III diameter, three hundred feet
deep, thus shutting off surface water,
together with all Impurities, etc. The
work is fairly under way for oil, water,
Dr. China,-one or both! 1t is a grand
undertaking, and marks a rapid advance
mt of the ruts of Old Foggy SIN il
North Carolina. Once supplied with
%'lentifu! flow of good good tfa5. water, DIR aaE
The surest sign that the days of
Bloody Sbirtism, 1--WE hate that
vulgar phrase, bu: it has acquired a
definite meaning, not otherwise so
briefly expressed)-are numbered is the
act that the Republican Stock Jobbers
Land-Grabbers. like Jay Gould, Van
.ierbiit, Russell Sage, and hundreds
others, are seeking investment in South
ern enterprises, railroadic, mineral.
,ni manufacturing. Gould, who.
with i. I. Barnum, A. :. Hewitt, and
p'her New Workers, WAS in Florida
asst week, tells Il reporter hat he was
much pleased by the outlook in the
south. W. quote as follows:
Inc UiU south seems to me 10 be
actual s turning its lace to the rising
sun, not III any political sense, but in it
new and visible appreciation OF Industry,
economy and enterprise. That perfect
rider reigns is clear from the way in
which eastern capital is going in there
| find the whole country dotted with
industries, backed by capital from the
east"
Yes. and the wise Yankee will be
bin who secures a good location and
Investment before the rush Now,
Se can name a town, 20 miles from the
State Capital, that offers a site for a
.oiton factory right along side of the
railroad, freedom from taxes, plenty OF
uel and material, and u daily purchase
of J, 500 yards OF cloth, as inducement
Tor somebody to start a factory. Nay.
more t e town will take stock in the
enterprise! What a chance for some
wide awake Northerneri
RALEIGH RrPPLEs.-The Bachelor ;
club have fitted up their establishment