The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-17

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week.
Miss Calhoun passed through Char
lotte and received a sortDade. The
OtScrrer says: she was delisht..iIl,
bitter against the few adverse criticisms
She has received. and her ingenious
ness was patent. Her mother. a well
preserved matron, seemed tOtakc much
quiet pleasure IN the appreciation If
her daughter. At the conclusion of
the Sercnade Miss Calhoun appeared
OF the balcony and bowed thanks to the
band. She promises 10 come South
again soon.'
Wadesboro Times: No les. than fir
teen droves Of horses and mules have
passed through W adesboro this season
The average number of drum
ners coming TO our town for the last
ten days has been about eight per day.
What would the railroads and hotels do
without this useful class of citizens p
From a mere hamlet In In 1870, Polk
ton has grown to a brisk town of some
four hundred inhabitants, and now has
thirteen business houses. four churches,
two steam mills, two schools and one
hotel. She has bought, 50 far this sea
son, eleven hundred bales Of cotton.
Railroad bridge over the Ocmulgee
river, at Macon, Ga, washed away.
"A reward is offered for thearrcst Of
Doc Wilson, a mulatto, who murderd
James Tinsley at Macon, Ga.-A
lumbcr-laden barque from Key West.
Fla in at Front Macon, \. c., in dis
tress. -One white man killed, aud
two seriously injured by two negroes in
a Justices court at Museyiilc, va
4 telegraph operator at Paris, Tenn,
fatally shot a man for insulting his wife.
Elizabeth City Ecouomist: 4 little
son Of j. +. Spence, OF South Mills,
was wounded on Sunday by an acciden-
tai pistol shot through his hand. -
On Wednesday, in WILLIAMSON. the
firm of }. ID. Biggs & Co. sold to a
man from Beaufort county one bill of
supplies amounting to $500. This
speaks well for the business Of Will
liaulston. Died, at Hartford, Per
quimans county, on Friday, the 4th
inst, Charles Barrow, telegraph opera
tor, son OF Frank Barrow, aged about
20 years.
la regard to the Spartanburg& Ashe-
vile Railroad, the Carolina Spartun Of
last week says: ALREADY there is ak
of a syndicate to purchase the Spartan
burg and AshviIle Railroad, to be sold
here at the lst Of April. 1t isrcportcd
that the Clyde Company, which pur-
chased the GreenviIle and Columbia
Railroad, is looking in this direction.
Then the ~bondholders. represented by
Col. McAden of Charlotte. will not
stand by and see their interest sacrificed
There i also a talk Of syndicate in
Spartanburg that will make the road
bring more than a mere song. 1t is a
very important link, and is bound to
become a part Of a great trunk line.
The Cincinnati Southern. or some Of the
other Western corporation should turn
attention to this road. The forty
miles, now III running order, isin
excellent condition. i large force is
at work now grading the road beyond
Asheville, and the track will laid ff-
teen miles beyond at place b. the lst
June. The road is under construction
from Wolf Creek, in tie direction of
and tie two PARTIES viii
60 to work at once, the gap between
Henderson and Ashcyille can be filed
up by that time"
"What is that the Home Rulers
were obstructing? They were obstruc-
ting the passage of a law that suspcnds
the writ Of habeas corpus in ireland,
and gives to the Lord Lieutenant the
to arrest any citizen Of ireland
On suspicion that he is a ~malcontent,
and imprison him without warrant,
without indictment or trial, or the
of babeas corpus. Tie English
demands the passage of this
bill first, before it will even consider
the wrongs of the Irish ~tenantry.
: Now, according to the theory of
the British Parliament, what should a
member do, who represents threaten
Ell constituency? Is he not sent TO
the House Of Commons to represent
the rights and liberties of his consti
Is not one of those rights the
witt of habeas corpus! Should a rep
rtsentative sit in his seat, and see hi.
constituency deprived of that right
without resisting it to the last by all
awful methods Ia this country we
should certainly think so. This is
What Parnel and the other obst ructieD-
sts' have done. They have ~:nterposed
i"ilatory motions, insisted on their right
debate every question, and to resist,
It each step of its progress, the Coer-
ion bill"
Marion Lamp Post. Bob Bailey was
hot on Saturday night last, BY an an
party, as lie was passing Bill
OVENS place, in Bracket Township, {
hree buckshot taking effect IN his {
ody 1t is thought that the party
tho did the shooting thought they /
,ere shooting Henry Johnson, R4iIey l
in company with Jchnson's wa 7
on, and bearing . torch ia front 20
ght the road. johnson had left some I
ime before on account Of a difficulty
himself and Owens. TIE par i
who did the shooting was tracked
! the direction of Owens. --The :.
rohibitory meeting or Monday was ?
attended, many townships were 5
presented, and more interest mani !
,steI than usually characterize our '
The discussion grew very y
minated, aud the remarks we're very :
1t was lot hard 20 tell where "
$3.50 F,-. H. 1890