The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-03

only be made from the extract Of wood
ashes, lye or potash, with oil.
Capt. II. S. Dashiell, of Greensboro,
ha. invented a fire escape.
A large prohibition meeting was held
In Greensboro Monday night.
Citizens of Greensboro have memo
rallied Congress for an appropriation
of $50, 900 for the erection of a public
building. court house, postoffice, &c,
in that Place.
Tarboro Southerner: Mr.. A. w. Ar
rington, a leading merchant of Rocky
Mount, has made an assignment to B
IL. Bum, Esq, for the benefit of his
creditors. Debts, SIT, 900 assets, book
accounts secured, $27 1000; good on
hand valued at Sc, 600.
In speaking of the proposed South
Atlantic & Ohio Railway the Peters
burg Mder-Appeal very pertinently
says: such enterprises are Of vaster
Importance to the future Of North
Carolina than every political contest
that has worried and wasted the PEG.
pie of the State since the war"
The Laurinburg Enterprise learns
that 5000 tons of iron for the Cape
Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad have
been purchased by the Company with
which to commence laying the track
on the finished road bed from the Gulf
in Chatham county to Greensboro. and
that the work will within
ninety days.
The total population of North Caro-
lima, officially stated, is as follows. The
total population is ], 400, 900, subdivid-
ed as follows: Males, 6SS, 164 females,
III 1886 natives, 1896, 322; foreign,
S,678; white, S67,467 colored, 532,-
533. With the colored is included |
japanese and l,2l6 Indians and half
breeds.
Raleigh Visitor: A lot of colored
people near Keyser, who are working
in ~turpsntine, built a shanty recently.
and in order to keep the housaafrom
leaking they put a lot of mud on It. A
few nights ago the top fell in and kill
ed three Of them. 1.-The Nj. +. Con-
ference, North, of North Carolina will
meet in the A. NJ. E. Church in this
city tomorrow Bishop Warren will
preside. Several distinguished North.
ern ministers are expected 10 be in at
tendance during the session.
type plates for printing has been dist
coverd by NJ. Emile Jeanin, as culptor o
Paris, who proposes to employ for tina
purpose the material known as celluloid
The process of preparation takes only
half an hour when the matter is oncs
in type, and plates thus produced are
remarkably adapted for working
on cylinder presses running at a high
speed, being very light, flexible and
durable. In this last respect they are
said to ever surpass metal plates.
Wilson Adrance: At a meeting of
the directors of the First National Bank
of Wilson, held on the 18th inst, the
present efficient officers were reelected:
Frank W. Barnes, President; E. Rosen-
thai, Vice-President; John Hutchinson,
Cashier. ~ negro woman whose
name we have not learned, froze TO
death while attempting to go home one
III uoIiuS Tx CAtlCLIC " II "CdllCl.
She lived near Red Oak. She was I'M
der the influence Of liquor at the time
Of her death.
Nash Carter, who was found dead
near Hairston's ford, Stokes county, two
weeks ago, was murdered by four ne
groes. Three negroes conspirsd with the
wife of the murdered man to commit the
foul deed. One Of the negroes, Eldridge
Scales, has turned States evidence. He
saws that they went to the house of
Carter. who was shoe maker by trade,
and Ending him asleep over his work,
one of them threw q rope ever his head
and stabbed him in the neck. After his
death. they obtained two horses from
Mr.. Bus;ck, and putting the dead man
or one of them. carried him six or eight
miles from the place of the murder.
Carter lived only a few miles from
Madison. All of the murderers are in
Jail, we hear. The names ofthe other ne
gross our informant was not able to
give us.-Ledhsu1Ue Gazette.