The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-03
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w Il again SO"PSiiSN - Ill
the list of receipts, or lose the mail.
Will bring up to date mex week.
j. r. Howard, of Clinton, N. c.,
has taken out a patent for a cotton cul
tivator.
Gen. Chalmers has been unseated
from the ''shoe>string" district of Miss,
and Lynch, a negro, sworn In.
University Normal School opens
June IA. Write to President Battle at
Chapel Hill for circular giving all points
Of information.
Shoot, stab, hang, kill, burn, rape,
Destroy What a chapter of human
v~illainy the records of the United States
for one week past will make!
-Raleigh's cotton receipts for the
present cotton year are SIS, 900 bales. or
ten thousand bales less than last year,
at eame date. The falling off in the
entire crop ofthe South is not far from
one million bales.
Thanks to Senators Ransom and
Vance and Gen. Cox, for copies OF va
rlous publications. Gen. Cox has been
obliged to print his speech in pamphlet
form to meet the calls for copies.
Capt. R. f. Moseley of Halifax
had a second attack of paralysis recent
~, We trust it is less serious than is
feared. The Weldon Neus speaks of
him in high terms.
-Keifer appointed Sena tor Vance,
McDill, of Iowa, and Platt, of Conn,
TO investigate DR.. j. j. Motifs man
ssement of the Political ''Revenoo,"
in Western n. c. If the committee
have to sample" 1T, my stars Al!
We regret to learn from the Burke
Blade of the accidental burning Of MIR.
Chas. +. Mckesson's residence near
Morgantcn. Loss between 81, 500 and
5000 including q valuable library. Ig-
nited from the cooking stove.
1t is estimated by Hon. NJ. Nc
Gehee that the sale of fertilizers in this
State this season will reach sc, 900 tons,
which will require over three million
dollars to be taken out of the growing
cotton crop. Startling this !'-Golds-
boro Messenger.
Gov. Jarvis, and Col. VIM. john
ston, of Charlotte, leader of the Anti
Prohibition Liberal, go-tor-the>ofices
movement, have just passed up street,
arm In arm, sweet as two sweet pota
toes in q pot.
The State Anti Prohibition ON
mittee met here yesterday, and issued
an address.
Tho Bill suspending Chinese i'm.
migration for ten years passed the Sen
ate by 80 to Is. Six Republicans voted
for it. Ransom was paired, but favored
the bill. 1t lays q fine of $500 on ship
captains for each pietail imported, and
tables the ship to forfeiture also.
"A bushel or two of items, original
and clipped, about men, manufact Dries,
and s forth, will have to wait their
chance for a spare corner in the paper.
Meantime wouldn't it be a good idea
for manufacturers all around the State
to encourage the good work by sending
= subscription, or card?
There is a great deal said of DR.. 4
STebbs who is opposed for a surgeoncy
in the Q. S. A., because he served in
the c s. A."
Well we can testify hat be ISN'T DIS
qualified. He was surgeon of the
writer's regiment( Sth Va. Vols.,) for
the few months he served, and not many
of Us would swear he assisted the
Confederacy, to any remarkable degree
1t was a genuine pleasure to read
the intelligence from New York that
Mrs. Rev. DR.. r. H. Chapman, of
Goldsboro, has won her suit for the u,
s. Bonds deposited in Phenix Bank,
which we're sequestrated by the govern
ment during the war. The verdict,
(~sustained by the Supreme Court gives
her some 500, O0e,-a nice little sum
to have about the house. 1t could
not be in better hands.
DIR. John P. Lipscomb wa. rich. DIR
Sterling Edmunds wanted q rich son in
law. Wedding. Liquor. Squabble. Wife
saucy.: husband a tool. Old man, dis
to. Both the men wear pistols.
you've abused my daughter long
enough !" ''Get out Of my house!'
Lipscomb shoots across table and mis-
ses. Edmunds shoot. across the table
and kills. Nice state of things for one
family. All this in Danville, Va.
The view up the Main street of
Raleigh, from the steps of the Federal
Building, is one of the prettiess to be
seen anywhere. 1t Was particularly
striking yesterday in the morning sun
shine I; the stately structures Of granite,
and brick, and iron. washed clean by the
recent rains, forming a strong contrast
with the vivid green of the spring
foliage of the shade trees. while above
the mansard roofs, arched the azure
dome of Hea,en,-brightly, boundless-
ly, beautifully Blue! More SO, in fact,
than an editor on Pay Day.
The Greensboro Neus' musqueto
hoped "onto" Hon. Benjamin Wilson,
Nj. f., from West Va, on Thursday
and reports him thusly Judge Will
son is an influential member of Con-
sress and is regarded as one Of the
solid men of the South. Recently he
purchased some valuable coal property
at the Gulf, in Chatham, and is deeply
interested in the early construction Of
the Cape Fear q Yadkin Valley Rail
road. He talked freely about the con
struction of the road, and deplored the
action of the State council IN not call
ing an extra session.
The MeUs put the question bluntiy.
"If the charter is modified, is there
assurance that the road will be built?
Yes sir" was the prompt and EN-
phatic response. If the Legislature
will meet aud modify the charter. the
money will be forthcoming to build the
road at once. Nobody will undertake
it in its present condition. The road
ought to be built, and ought to be built
right away. 1t is valuable property,
and opens up n of the finest coun-
tries in the world. Why, we've got
coal enough on our place at the Gulf to
pay all the running expenses Of the
road. Stir up your people and make
the politicians give an extra session Of