The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-14

a dispatch from Athens says tha
Premier Cournouniro> will telegraph I.
the Greek agents in Europe ,ha
Greece cannot accept the Porte's pro
pOsals-
The Tennessee Senate rejected tn,
House bill TO settle the debt at par anc
3 per cent interest, the vote standlug-
ayes II. oes Is. \ motion was enter
e. 70 reconsider.
George Tucker wa tried for murie,
Off Is. Johnson. at Halifax lat week,
convicted of m~an~iaughter, sentenced
Tor twelve years 10 State : prison, and
pI.ealed.
The experiment Of lighting portions
Of the city OF London by the Brush and
Siomeu'> electric system Thursday
night, Wa entirely successful
Gon Coxrgs,sis the Macs anil OF
serrcr ~ >ay. there will Ie a conpctive
examination held in Ra'cieh. On he
18th 81 NV. Open 10 al young mep
IN bis district ~'.etnren the ages o:
5 vehfccn aud twenty.wo Years III
West Pom.
y. Y Pary + VI son or Hor
Aaron + prrr,. III OHIO. j. n1w y
North Carolina Tor The purpose Of ex
aiming ltp,Wo acres II iron land in
which many Cincinnati capitalists are
inteiested-WInston Ltueicr.
Salisbury U~afchn,ra: The workmer
are buslly engaged on the new foundry
and blacksmith shops for the Western
railroad. They intend building a large
number of box aud fat cars As soon "a
the lumber arrives. They will have
ready to run out this week a new mail
and express car.
Messrs. Evarts, Thurman and Howe,
on board the swift Arizona, are nov
cleaving the waves OF the Atlantic on
a hopeless errand. They 90 to estab-
lish an unvarying rate Of value between
gold and silver by Z kind of Internal
ional bull. They might as well try to
fix an unvaryirg ratio Of pr &C between
corn ane potatoes.
Raleigh Nttcs and Observer: Mr..
Ii. Z. Stone. aged twenty two years.
died at his fathers residenc. nine miles
west Of the city, at $ O'Clock Tuesday
evening Of typhoid fever. TIL
annual commencement of Wake Forest
College Will be on the 9Th of June.
The orator chosen to address the two
literary societies is Rev. j. b. Hawthorn
ID. d., Of Richmond, Va. The sermon
before the graduating class will he de
livered by Rev + I. Winkler, ID. D..
of Marion, Alabama. The address be
fore the Alumni Association will be de
livered by that able gentlemen, Hon
John G. Scarborough, Superintendent
of Public Instruction. --Mr. Victor
Dockery, son of the Hon. O. II. Dock
cry, United States Consul at Leeds,
England, passed through the city on
his way home.-Gen. Cox requests
US to say there will lie a competitive ex-
animation held in this city on the 18th
of May. Open to all young men in his
district between he ages OF seventeen
and twenty-five .eaIs.-The exam
nation is for the purpose OF selecting
a cadet to the West Point Military
Academy, whom The party selected will
be expected to report early in June.
Engineer White WAS scaldel on
the leg, but not Othel wise hurt. though
Uduly SuAhtu up. TllclnoH ctcT DcH-
ton, colored, Received the most serious
injuries, being hur; in his eye, arm
and leg. Conductor Watt, We learn.
was injured on the leg, after the acct
dent, by the slipping of IA block and
tackle. The train WAS mixed one.
The engine, tender and six box cars
only were wrecked. None Of the other
freight cars on the passenger car left
the track. -T crime Of murder is
one, happily. not common in Wake OF
in this immediate section. But re
Gently two negroes have committed
this awful offense against law and hu
mainly, and both now lie in one cell
together. while with them is another
negro whose attempt at murder was 5 o
base, SO tiendish, that 1t is only equal
ed by the extremity Of the crime itself.
These three men all negroes. two mur
dererS in fact and one at heart. are
Morgan, who, last autumn. crcpt up to
a cabin and shot Monk Bunch anoth
er negro, in the head, with i full charge
of buck shot as he lay bg the firesidc;
Rufus Fuller. who, on the 18Th of the
present, took the life OF Isaac Taylor.
another negro; and Chesl.y Bass. who
attempted to crush the skull OF Mr..
CALVIN lates.