The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-29
Thanks TO Capt. r. T.. Gray for


In firing minute guns on Monday,
in Wilmington, John Sneeden, of the
Cape Fear Artillery, had both hands
bio wn off, and will die.
Capt. r. Conklin and family left
the city on Sunday night to return to
Bmgbampton, New York, whence they
came. Alas for our money!
If advertisers will read our Cash
Receipts from week to week, they will
get an idea OF the locality and influsn
tial character of our subscribers.
Very sorry to learn from the BLADE
that Maj. Jas. w. Wilson's new -four
ing mill o. Liaville river has bsen
washed away a second time, after be-
ing inst rebuilt.
In last weeks number of Andrews
"American Queen" We observe some
neat stanzas by Mr.. Edward A. Old.
ham, a rising young journalist OF VIII.
mington, entitled The Lily and
dedicated to the .Esthetics.'
The blue Of the sky on Tuesday
fereaoo. At Raleigh was beautiful II
cssdingly. 1t was SO brightly, YET
deeply blue, that the few big white
clouds seemed like mamaoth fsscss o.
wool, floating across ibs Empyrssn, a
most within reach.
At the big Ecumenical Council, IL
London, Bishop Wood, Of Fayette.
vile, y. Csc runs the despatch.
'held the audience intensely Interested,
while he spoke of the condition OF thu
blacks in his episcopate.' The Dish
op" referred to is J.. w. Hood, moi
Wood.
A correspondent of the OJserue,
writes that on Monday morning Spencer
II. Harper, one of the prisoners IL
Nashville Jail swOre he meant to marct
out. The %jailor, 5. S. Sorsby, resisted,
xnd shot Harper through the neck, Kill
ing him instantly.
Large Extra Editions next week
and Fair week. Be sure to send ar
Advertisement; for every body will read
the "Fdrmer and Mechdnic.' Ii you
haven't tine II write ont your adver-
tismsnts, send . clerk to give VI thu
main points, and We will fix it up our
self.
Still raking them in. Tho Newton
Enterprise says: 1T is no longer a Sc.
cret that the Richmond & Danville r
X. wish to purchase the Chester anC
Lenoir Narrow Guage." That road is
built to Lincolnton, and is being push
ed rapidly to a connection with the
Western Y. c. r. r. at Newton. We
suppose the object is to use the little
road as a club to thresh out bigger ones
Gov. Holden has made two speech
es in eulogy of Garfield, though the lat.
ter evicted him from office. He also
wrote a hymn on GarGeld's death which
was sung at the Union Memorial service
on Monday. 1t has the usual rhymes,
=" hand command, "dust-trust, >
given, heaven" heart DEPART" etc
but is far better than the average hymn
book hymn.
1t would have provoked a smile OF
derision ten years ago if q had pre-
dicted that the time would eve come
when almost the entire business of Raj
eigh would cease for a day, and hun
dreds Of the chief building be draped in
mourning for dead Republican Presi-
dent-particularly one James A. Gar
field. But this spectacle was witnessed
on Monday And vast crowds attended
religious services in his honor.
Work was begun on the middle di-
vision of Mr.. W. j. Best's road on
Monday morning under supervision OF
that veteran road worker, Jos. ]. Rob
inson, of Newbern. Only about 60
hands we're set at work, and only FIVE
miles of Right Of way" is reported as
secured; but Mr.. Best advertises for
one thousand laborers, and we suppose
if the public become convinced he is III
earnes; as to building the road, there
will be no trouble about the route.
1t is a bad practice TO go to law"
but the man who goes to II. d. Law
car have no excuse for going wrong, or
or getting left" for he keep an hun
dred or two of clocks all ticking togeth-
er and always Right"
Ladies who wear clocks on their
stockings, ought, however, to go down
to d. S. Watt, who is just back from
New York, with a new stock, and will
Wait upon you with pleasure.
The great fault Of the American
people is their deposition to 60 to e1-
trsnes. and rush rapidly from abuse to
gush, or vice versa. 1t is not half =
dozen years since We were ell denounc-
ing Garfield for every crime in the
decalogus. He Was theichiof actor in
the 'stsalags committee" called the
visiting statesmen" who went to
Louisiana, and stole the Presidency
from Samuel J. Tilden, by Throwing
out 5000 gesd and legal votes.
This was it 1876; and now, FIVE years
later, We see ten thousand Southern
mas n~sstings' praisiag the dead
'.Statesmaa' ~ the aoblsst Of earth!
The letter from Randolph county
describing the North Carolina Lowell,
will be read with interest. 1t may
open the eyes of our Northern brethren
to learn that on two small streams, eth
er of which would be called a creek at
the North, and both of which have to
run an hundred miles before they unite
to form the Cape Fear, are no less than
twenty cotton factories, a~ggregating
several millions of dollars capital, en-
ploying more than 5000 persons. and
using more than so bales of cotton per
day; or 10000 bales a year.
Mr.. Swepson's new mill in Ala
nance is being rapidly erected and the
machinery has been contracted for. 1t
will run night and day, and use six to
eight bales per day, or about SOOs bales
a year. Poor Raleigh! She has lore
cash capital than any town of the size
in the South; yet because a few enter
nrISaS failed a d0zoD voorS a Do ubop the
country was in such condition hat sue
cess was scarcely possible, our wealthy
citizens refuse to risk even small sums