The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-26
,NOL. NIII.-NO. )
son Items.

From the Naie>horo Tn,rs. MIR
II. Behrcn, oi Waic~toro. has the
contract 10 blJ.i the new Round Uou,,
Tor the tat'tlna Central, At their shops
AT LAuruburs -- Parties sunpoSed
e have bceu duplicated IN breaking IN
the residence - Mr. \ - Howell. on
last Naturitv night a week ago have
been arrested
irum AnsonvIilc reports Can't.
I. Is. benson ; lecture in cnwIcr's
Hall, on The March ut Sclen.s, IN
Century. For more than an hour the
eloquent gentleman held HI, audience
IN "rapt attention b, beautiful sen
tences IN well rounded periods. portray
iny the beauties of everything from
the moss AT his feet Ia the ,tar, I'm the
SKY lie pad an eloquent tribute 10
Humbolt livingston, Aga, IL. Naury
aud others and ~ the words or More
W hat hath God wrought" lie
Shove the march Of science. like EN-
pire, westward took its way" from
the orient to the setting sun. mention.
ing the dial, the clock, the cup th.t
eheers, bat Mt lnebria,c>, steel OF
Damascus, hsures Of arithmetic. lcci
mal notation aud Algebra spoke OF the
persecution oi Gallleo, while the Caliph~
were actually engaged In measuring IN.
ecIlptlc The 10Th century gave n,
.olumbus the 10th, kepler the eth.
Newton, the 18th, Lcycrrier, and the
l9,h host OF representative. Of The
throng, ever pressing forward The
speaker illustrated the ierful pro
grcss nude, by comparing the dwelling
II our English forcf,thcr,, with ii cl,v
floor and diamond windows which AL
nittod lIkht, but no arr, aud the com
uodlous dwellings OF the present day;
their straw pallets, and log of
WOOD Tor a pillow 10 our lux
urlous couches Of down and more
than all, the condition of women
then and now. Ninety years ago the
u Il steamboat was launched on "A South.
G river, accomplishing the e<traordi-
nary feat OF eight miles An hour against
the current, aud yet the inventor died
poor and pennliess ia foreign lands, with
" ashIngton certificate of this fact nm
his pocket; told how the first railroad
"a' Inaie IN lA2b, making - miles an
hour, Ildscrou,ly describing the great
opposition made to it; what wonderful
progres' steam had wrought in half
century: Then electricity - talking
across the ocean. soundindlng our alarm
alarm bells, lighting our houses, cook
our meals; Its wonders the Magician
nor sorcerer never dared to conceive.
low the first cotton gin was made by
W hltney. In l7Si eight bales of cot
ton were received in LIVERPOOL from
America and seized for fraud, for al,
tempting to evadc the custom duties
aud now American cotton, not only
clothed the world, but fed the moor
and made the nlagnatcs Of the earth
the IRON clad, the monitor and the
torpedo We're all the invention of South
crn genius, and IN fact the first
steamer that ever breasted the Allan
tic banding nations together with hooks
Of steel, sailed from a Southern port.
| HE Gatllng gun Of North Carolina
wrought revolution IN war; Mau9y
Of Virginia; Howe and his sewing ma
chime; the microscope, the large tcle-
scopes on 300 obscrvatories La 1888
came the balloon, fore runner of the
ArshIps; the demons Of another world
gas hrst known IN 1915; progress made
IN agricultural chemistry, nineralogy
and geology old Rip Van Winkfe en-
u'led to the honor of having made the
nr't geological survey. Advances made
IN the knowledge OF the human body;
from the prescription Of black helli
+ bore for melancholy to auscultation;
the ophthaiinoscopc angsthetics and
SKID grating; compared the asylums
+ OF l5OS, with their inmates chained by
i the arm or ne lsO tn the wall -,
many wild animals, to the present hu
man treatment and frequent rs.tora
tiOR.