The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-31
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road tor $50, 600, under decree of court.
Thanks to Senator Ransom for ,
large volume on American Ethnology
1t contains some facts about North Caro-
lima aborigines. We are always pleased
to get books.
"A big Strike, embracing an hundred
of the leading Penna. and Ohio lror
Works. is to begin on Thursday. Thirty
thousand men will stop work. Southern
iron men will not cry.
From Mr.. Battle, of Earpsboro. we
learn that Capt. Phillips who has been
teaching school in that neighhorhood wa.
taken suddenly i'll with affection of the
brain a few days ago, and yesterday was
believed to be liz u~rttculo mortuis. He
has friends and connections. the Reds
and Brodies, near Wake Forest, who are
desired to know oft.
There is d new invention in France
which might work wonder. in our North
Carolina sound fisheries. A globe of
electric light is let down into the water
at night. The fish ,eeing the light, come
In millions, and are then enclosed by a
net.
Miss Sarah Debnam ha. been com
misioned Postmaster at Earpsboro John
K. searboro at Mt. Gilead G. A. Mich
OILS at Barnard Madison Co., w. L.
Pickup from Char !otte Observer.
Same papers Washington letter saws.
Gen. w. r. Cox now wears mustacbe
and imperial, and is the life of his com
mittees.
Aud s o it turned out. As soon as
Mr. Jas. G. Jenkins subscribed for the
Farmer and Mechanic his thoughts, like
q young heart in spring"-(saith the
Poet Eighty turned to love-" He was
married last week, to Miss Sue, eldest
daughter Of Hon. w. L. Scrugss, U. S.
Minister to Colombia. Says Charlotte
Observer.
-Odom d. Wilson, formerly of Fay
etteville, was brutally hurled out of ex-
istence by a volley through the window
as he sat in his home near Chesterfield
5. c., last fall. HIS wife and a negro
named B. F. Sect ded to North Carroll
ma They were captured, tried, and &C
but have been re arrested, on
another charge, and are now in Jail at
Chesterfield. Gen Prince, well known
at Charlotte and Wadesboro, defends
them.
By vote of 81 to ~, the Presbyterian
General Assembly decided to admit the
negro, Parks, Of Memphis, to the minis
try. Thus day by day the work of rails
ing the negro to equality with the whites
goes forward. We venture this predic-
ton, that if the Democrats fail to elect a
President, and thus change the current of
events, in 1884, it will not be ten year.
Republican, and Yankee, or Radi-
ideas will dominate one half of the
South. The Color line" is the true
oeodC VI IL oOllQ LOuCu. uH IL
down, and down comes the archl
Judge Tourgee is having more fun.
Davis. n of his two partners, has step
ped down and out, on score of i'll health.
leaving Tourgee and D. G.. Briuton az
sole proprietors Of the Continent. and re-
port says its profits are light as a Ply
mouth Rock crossword, namely, "a Con
al darnl"
The Judge, also, is actually accused Of
! sentimental! leaning towards Dixie
Think OF that, will you His poetry to
he Confederate Memorial Day has stirred
Up many subscribers to stop their paper;
.hough he wrote another poem to the
FEDERAL Decoration Day. Let US have
Geo. Junkin, who has been nomi-
hated for Chief Justice of the Supreme
court by the Penna. Independents, or
Antl-Cameron clas, lis a son of old DR.. |
deo. Junkln, at one time President Of
Lexington Va. College. Stonewall
)ackson's first wife was his sister: ana
ieo. Junkin, Jr., was for a time on
Jackson s staff. He was captured aud
leld IN Fort Delaware for some months
finally took the oath, much to the
1isgust of the writer, who was also a
prisoner in the same ''durance rile." and
nearly connected with Junkin's family
How the sons of '76 revived patriotic
memories returning from Charlotte Cen
:ennial. Bro. Caldwell, of Statesville
Landmark, records the inspiriting cffec,
of Senator Bayard's speech as follows:
People who came up on the States
vile train Saturday evening had a great
1eal OF fun. The painted liquor which
he free American citizens imbibed 10
asserted its sway over every.
thing. A majority of the passengers who
did not fall off the train cussed and quar-
relied and fought all the way up. Eye
balls laid around on the floors of the cars.
like muscadines, while one could
scarcely step without treading on teeth.
pieces Of ears and noses and shreds of
clothing: Knowing how it would be,
writer, having no fancy for the
methods of Donnybrook Fair, waited over
in Charlotte until Sunday. preferring
to violate the Sabbath than to
fight for forty-ive miles"
-Messrs. Geo. Allen & Co.. of New