The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-03-17
Squibs and Quibiets.
Malone, of Virginia, took a seat

lie SlOi" oh III NVa-t Va
Britain last week destroyed a Dozen
vessels, and above 100 lives. Nict
country to live in
A mine near Leadville. Colorado,
exploded last week; and above 50 lives,
10 of them Chinese, were lost
The mine Is still on fire. Nice country
10 live in.
-Clisby, the bar-keeper. who killed
DR.. Bland. at Edgeield, South Caro-
lima. In a row over Wet and Dry
election, has been acquitted after al
eloquent defence by Gen. VI. {. Gary
Mexico is now connected with oui
system of telegraph. by a wire fron
Brownsville to Vera Cruz. Thus mil,
by mile, day by day, the dark corners
Of the earth are opened TO the sun 0
civilization.
An earthquake on the island o
Ischia DESTROYED a village or two, and
killed one hundred and thirty people
The ground cracked and yawned in vas
chasms, into which whole houses Were
engulted. Nice country to live in
Now that Carl Shurtz is out of /
job. he might be employed in ~decypher
ing the Egyptian obelisk, in Contra
Park. By hard study, and a diet o
sauer kraut. he ought to be able tc
discover .'Whar' wus Moses when the
Light went out"
A recently married subscriber
wishes to know how long the average
honeymoon lasts" Not having tasted,
We caw'nt say, but judging from what
We see when we look cross-eyed, il takes
about three weeks to transmogrify Bliss
into Blister. Awsk y'r mother in-law.
Our Cape Fear friends will be
pleased TO learn, from the Reutetc. that
Mr.. Walter Taft, of Wilmington. has
built a light draft e inches of water,
stern wheel, passenger and freight
packet. 10 feet long, to run in the up
per reaches of the river during shallow
water.
Two fights between members, a
challenge sent, one member charged
with forgery, one member arrested for
stealing. -this is a curious showing for
u Legislature, not a ''calpet Dagger
crew. Alas for the times
This looks like business The
Danville Neacs says: -"Colonel Thomas
tracted with the rolling mills of Allan
ia. Ga., to furnish iron rail sufficient
for the Danville, Mocksville and South
western Railroad to LeaksvilIe, and
they are 10 be sent to DanvilIe With D
two or three weeks"
Two persons have asked Us if we
endorse Mrs. Persons Indian cure,
which was SO lavishly written up in our
columns last week. We do not. We
know nothing for or against it. We
printed Mrs. Judge Clarke's letter to
obllge her, and because Mrs. Person is
a North Carolina widow lady. We
were willing to give her the advertise
ment and let it speak for itself.
Good for Raleigh and Wilmington.
Railroad meeting at Bennessvllle,
South Carolina, last week, subscribed
enough money to ensure The building
of the railroad from that point to Ham
let. When built, this branch will
draw the cotton of the rich Marlboro
District to either Raleigh, or Whining
ton, which are about equi-distant from
Hamlet.
Strange to say, two Of the largest
Insane Asylums in America have been
burned this winter, and both by appa-
rent accident. The Minnesota asylum
fire cost the lives of 30 persons. But
the great fire at Danville, Pa, wa. en-
tirely without loss of life the six hun
dred patients being at service In the
chapel when the alarm sounded. The
loss was above half million dollars
pretty severe upon taxpayers.
Judge David Davis, of Illinois, was
selected as chairman of the judiciary
by the Democrats of the
Senate, as the best method of binding
him to their side. But he was TOO
smart to be caught with a minority
party at the beginning Of a long term
therefore declined, with no very gra-
thanks, making a statement that
he was neither Democrat nor Republi-
can, but would continue to support his
$50 pounds of flesh on two stools as
heretofore.
South Carolina is being dotted
with cotton factories at a rapid rate.
Two or more are going up at Columbia.
The Greensillc, and the Spartanburg,
mills are ttourishiLg. The Enterprise
at Augusta last week declared a diva
dend Of 10 per cent and decided to
their building to 600 looms.
35, 500 spindles. The net earnings Of
the company during the year, over all
expenses interest on bonds, etc was
Sll, 6SS. ~.
A meeting Of the friends of the
newly chartered Danville, Haw River,
and Pittsboro Railroad is to be held in
to-day, March Il; and a dele
CATION Of prominent Danville men will
likely be present. The road will be
one of the best paying ones in the
as it will open up a fine mineral
will take the freight of % cot
ton factories, and will afford the short
est route from Raleigh to Richmond
and Washington. Go it, R-Jas, aDd
JAS G, and G. H., and the rest of you'll
1t is said Mr.. Best and his friends
were quite pleased at the defeat of the
Bill to allow the Piedmont Road, that
is to say the Richmond & Danville r.
R., to extend itself. The idea was to
this charter as a whip" over the
heads of the North Carolina Railroad
as, under it, the Piedmont
road now running % miles FROM
Greensboro to WINSTON could be ex-
tended Southwark through Mocksville
and MooreSville, to Gastonia; thus Civ
.ng a continuous Air Line" from Dan
vile to Atlanta. OF course if this
were built it would command
line-tenths of the Southern business.
md the North Carolina r. r. would