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Mohave County miner., 1882-11-12

TRE LIME PROCESS OF BLAsTING.-A new and interesting method, called the dime process" has lately been discovered in England for breaking doRnJcoal in mine without running any of the risks inseparable from blasting. The process. which is said by the London Echo to be decided success, is briefly this Holes are dril- led ib the solid coal at intervals near the roof, and into these are in serted cartridges" of highly com pressed very caustic lime. The car tridges are three inches in diameter, and of any desired length, but they aIe mhde with $ groove into which a sniall iron pipe can be inserted. The
 ls being filled and the pipe inser-
 ed, its plugged or tamped to pre- Event the escape of steam, and a num- Der being ready, small force-pump IS attached by flexible tube to the pipe and the water forced in, which, s>e6Sing, vets the lime. The pipe
 alPn closed by stopcock, and the Same operation repeated at the next hold The first result IS the conver- sion O. the water into steam, which itself tends to force the coal down; tut after time the lime swells with irresistable power, and the sprags bsing removed, the coal comes down in large blocks. The operation of watering the lime is performed very rapidly, few minutes suficing to I ire" any required number of car 7 tidges.
Mohave County miner., 1882-11-12

Fuller Wenham, "but the state of his illness wouldn't!"
 The sorrowful tree, so called be cause it fourishes only at night, grows upon the islands of Cos, near Bombay. The flowers, which have a fragrant odor, appear after sunset the year round, and close up or fall off as the sun-rises.
 Venice and Amsterdam are the cities of bridges. The first has 45O, the last 300. London has 15, Vienna 20, and Berlin will soon have 50.- Altogether the most beautiful bridge in Europe is that over the Moldeau at Prague.
 Do you know in what month of the year my wife talks the least?" "Well, I suppose when she catches cold and loses her voice" Not at all. It is in February" Why is that?" Because February has the lowest days"
 Sympathy.-Paterfamilias: q see it says here, my dear, that the House hold Troops haven't been abroad on service since the Battle of Waterloo." Our cook: "Lawk, Mum! What a shame for Go7'ment to send them poor old men out to the wars again." Punch.
 A sad-eyed man, says Bill Nye, the other night fell out of his bed into the aisle of 2 Pullman car and skin ned his knee. He now claims that he was lame from his berth. When he passes C3rbon he will be hung by request.
Mohave County miner., 1882-11-12

gbe upcle of Sir Garnet Wolseley's great gransS.thsr was the Colonel Wolseley wld, in the old ''No Popery'' days, gaine9 the battle of Newtown- butler, and used the Mayor of Scar borough to be well tossed in blanket in the market place for making 8 speech in favor of King James, WbenSir Gsrn etWolseley was young he was 8 good deal of a flop in Dub lin, as was the Duke of Wellington in his youth, and he used to drive 8 drag 6fs brothers daily into by certs re re,ository, now the family seat, near D 1blin. He then wore long c1rls Time ha' worked much change. He is now spare, lantern iawed' Tith short gray hair, and 8 bIondo D austache. In the field he woara q E~ n-heIsnet, wound ! aa2uNl 2fhat4sroHief of check; T7is red cd da- is q,en ,at the clica-, a1d spatted VI y many stains of grease; . s7u gated ecavat,a woollen . @s2s patt,c1xs.77 ay-clsskad
 I'd snisa 4-eusers, l-OW rlo1IS pOOU0 anu spurs, ano-ra-glass. Eith yellow case and srap.sya ow revolver a|''.sis SEith .'Ttridge-case; yellow
 liolet pocket-bandker-
 his red coat, a gigan |
 blue spectacles, and
 fourishes a fan to lHes-Argonaut.
Mohave County miner., 1882-11-12

A pcstofice agent was inspecting the office at Iron Rod, Montana, which consisted of a saloon, a post office room and faro bank. 4 hard looking case emptied the mail bag on the floor, the crowd overhauling the ers,Iegistered and all.selecting what thFy wanted, and tho rest were dumped into a candle-box. "Where's the postmaster" asked the agent of the bartender ''Out mining Where is the assistaut-postmaster?" ''Gone to Hells Canon; and,- by thunder, .rS;Il Jones has got to run this office SSxt week it's his turn" The goy- ernment official demanded the keys of the ofief. The bartender coolly took the Andle-box from the bar, placed it on the floor, and gave 1t a kick, sending it out of tbe door: ''Thers6 your postofice; and now ,e agent says: ''Knowing the 0f the country, I lost no time
 ing this advice, and got"
 hY the postoffice at Iron
 iscontinued.-Argonaut.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

The lively little city of Winston ha,
been visited by another destructive fire,
the third in the past few years. At two
clock last Tuesday night, fire was dis
covered 10 the large tobacco factory OF
W. W. Wood. The alarm was sounded
and the Winston fire company turned out
promptly with their engine and had the
lire subdued in very short time, and all
would have gone we'll but for an unac-
countable accident to the engine. The
flames had been extinguished and 10th
ing remained but few smoudering EN-
lers, when the fremen found cause to
change the coupling of the hose from the
butt on side of the engine to the butt n
the other side, and while doing this some
difficulty caused delay. In the mean
time, the water IN the engine had run
down and the fues became So heated a.
to cause the engine to be useless. The
fire had sprung up anew and before an
other stream could be thrown, it had
gained great headway and was beyond
control. The large tobacco factory Of
Major Scales, near by, caught fire, but
was saved by hard work. In this factory,
great quantity of tobacco was stored
and it was pitched out of the windows in
all directions. The boxes, as they struck
the ground, would burst open and send
the plugs flying about. Everything in the
Wood warehouse was consumed.
The loss is about $4,000, on which
there is an insurance of $25 900. The
origin of the fire is not known. Char
lotte Observer
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04
DIR. John Hall. the celebrated Pre-

DR.. John Hall, the celebrated Presby
terian divine, who has just returned from
Europe. assumed this week the duties
of Chancellor of the University of New
York His effort will be to restore life
to an almost defunct institution, which
not only has serious rivals in Princeton
and Yale but is also handicapped by the
wealth of Columbia College. Fashion
varies very much in regard to col
leges, and forty years ago the University
took the lead in this city. OF late the
classes in the literary department have
not averaged more than ten or fifteen mem
bers each. Just now the tide sets to
ward Princeton. DIR. McCosh is a great
favorite with parents, and there is his
toric favor about the institution that
young men admire. Columbia College,
with its property and funds now amount
ting to 100000 finds it hard work to
make headway against Princeton, and
the class entering the academical de-
partment this fall is not expected to mum.
ber more than fifty members.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04
A Manly Utterance.

Squire N. G. Gulley is one of ths
leading citizens of johnson county. TIC
hail from anywhere 10 this region apd
not know of Uncle Needham" would
be not only to argue your self unk nown''
but prove yourself not many miles down
the road from lie.
Last week Squire Gulley, for the first
time in his life, wrote a piece for the
newspaper. II is SO sensible and straigh ht
forward that we copy an extract, from
Snithtield Herald as follows:-
Il am truly sorry that our County
Convention bad much the features of al
Anti Prohibition Convention. had
thought this question was settled last
year by large majority for whiskey, aud
that prohibition had nothing to do with
the present campaign What purpose
does it serve1 Was il the deliberate 90.
ject Of those by whom it was brought up
to destroy the Democratic party. No
man who thinks for moment can shut
his eyes to the painful truth that to re-
open this question will be the overthrow
OF the Democratic party.
While the last Legislature was in ses
son there were presented to that bod,
petitions numbering over two hundred
thousand, praying for the passage of a
law forbiding the making and sale OF
liquor in North Carolina.
Now. when we consider the fact that
this was not political, but a social quss
tion, and in company with about fifty
thousand men l voted for prohibition, |
have never regretted it. as l felt it my
christian duty to do so. Now, my fellow
countrymen, who were the fifty thousand
they not as intelligent, honest and up
right as any equal number in North
CaroliDa7 Without boasting, l may say
they were the equals of any other fifty
thousand intellectually. Were the Dem
ocrats of that number behind their
brethren in fidelity to their countrya Not
BIZ of it. They present to-day to North
Carolina a sublime spectacle of patience.
lnsulted and disfranchised, shall en-
deavor to hold my position. have been
in the Democratic harness over forty
years, and | shall endeavor to hold my
position, for the reason | should deplore
the return of the Republican party to
power. | shndder at the thought Of the
re enactment of the laws of 1868 80
My countrymen, it will not do. |, as a
prohibitionist, feel have right in the
party. Ihore no apology to nuke to anu
one l cOted as 1 thought best for tie
good Of my people. The principles Of
Democracy are as dear to me to day as
ever, Jut there is a point beyond ,ohtch
endurance ceases to be q Utrtue.
Then let Democrats ,oho are making
proh,Litiou the test tpke heed We caHnot
afford to play into the hands Of the enc
my, the example set by the Prohibition
Republicans should be a rebuke to US,
they ,UW not leta dead issue diU,de them.
EUen the negroes laugh at the action ofthe
Democrats. The prohibition element of
our party did not seek to take advan-
tage of the people in this question. 1t
was fairly submitted to the voters OF
North Carolina and they recognized the
will Of the majority as binding and set
tied for all time to come apparently"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

REVIEWED BY EX PRESIDENT DAVIS.
When the train reached Harrison sta
tion a stop was made to take on board the
Hon. Jefferson Davis and his charming
daughter, Miss Varina, who had come by
express invitation to be the guests Of the
military. Mr.. Davis looked very well.
and, although he said he had lately been
quite sick, he was very gracious and
friendly to everybody who approached
him. Miss Davis is a sweet girl Of eigh
teen years, simple in her manners and re-
markably free from atfec,ation and the
banners to be expected from the petted
tavorite which she is. She appeared to
take the deepest interest III all the sub
sequent proceedings of the excursion, and
made friends for herself of all the people
who were SO fortunate as to meet and see
her. On reaching Ocean Springs, after a
three hours run, the excurdonists were
met at the railway station by a reception
committee. A hospitabe and abounding
punch was in waiting in the Van Cleve
Hotel, and after which the parade was
formed, and the German Battalion was
inspected and reviewed By The ex-Presi
dent. He manifested the utmost interest
in the exercises, and his bearing was as
lofty and dignifed in reviewing a bdttai~
lOn of militia as when he was looking
down upon the grand armies Of the Cou-
federacy marching past with their glori-
Gus array of historic captains at their
head.-Neac Orleans Picayune, Sept. II.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04
Very Hard Mrs. Cash. :"
Nkd4tU &:A.-r

! Schesectddy, Sept. le-Ten months
ago Alanson Cash, well preserved bach
elor OF nifty, welded Niua + H.iien
beck, sprightly Miss Of seventeen. IL
Dornansviile. After brief tour they
returned, and two months later Nj. Cast,
was called TO the far West on business
1 While In the train Mr.. Cash went into
the smoker and fell asleep. Some one
awoke him and told him that his daugh-
ter was having tins time. He went To
the door and saw y sleek Young man
hugging aud kissing Mrs. Cash. The
young man disappeared INTO AN adioin
ing car on the husbands return. Cash
| demonstrated with his wife, but she re.
Piled that size had the same privilege.
On their arrival at SYDNEY she told him
that she was going 10 leave him and hive
with the man he had seen In the car
Then Cash missed q considerable sum 81
money and several articles o! jewelry.
Suspecting his wife Of the thief, he re
fused TO let her have any OF her clothes
unless she returned the property. She
restored all OF the jewelfy except a ring
and soon afterwards disappeared. Among
the articles was watch which he offered
for sale at low price \ deputy sheriff
who was looking tor a watch that had
been stolen IN Cheyenne, concluded that
tins was the one, ana arrested Cash,
who was locked up for SIX days, when
the mistake was found out and he was
released.
Cash on his return to Dormansvile
found package of letters addressed in
masculine hand TO his wife They were
dated at Glenville, Schenectady county,
were hlled with expressions OF love, and
one of them containing proposal of
marriage. 1t is believed that the writer
OF the letters and the young man on the
train are one and the same person. The
episode on the train vas the subject of
an illustration in recent issue of a fash
paper. Mrs. Cash returned to DoImans
vile last week, and was visited 10y her
husband yesterday He sought TO induce
her to accompany him to Albany, but AS
she refused, he shot her. injecting
mortal wound, aud then shot himself
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

Col. l.. L. Polk, they say, has found 8
remedy for diphtheria. 1t has been sue
cessful in numerous cases. He is pre-
pairing to furnish the world with it. God
grant it may be sure remedy. Graft
tude will be ours. Col. Folks will be
wealth and fame Durham is pre-
pairing for tobacco fair Durham has
Atlanta's enterprisiug spirit. We spent
the summer of 81 there for an absen,
pastor. Those Durham people don,
like slow thinking or slow preaching OF
slow anything. People like that may
have good fair. Christians like that
may bring this apostate earth back tc
that shining system of worlds which have
never lost their first estate. - Rev G.
T. James, of Virginia, has been called to
sue, eed to Rev A. T.. Dixon at Asheville.
Mr.. Harrison, the hoy preacher >
about thirty five years old, gets 5000. OC
per week and his board for attending tc
revival services. -Rer. ". r. Pttnadn IN
WadesbOro Mte1ligencer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04
Brave In War True in Peace.
Manly at all Times.

Maj. I. D. Love, addressing Re-
Uuion Of Survivors of the Highland
Boys " Company g, oath n. =. Volun-
teers, at Lumberton, last week, said -
IF you did well as soldiers, as citizens
none have been truer to the best interests
of the country. While not aspiring to
political preiernent many of you have
held offices of honor and trust. Your
gallant Captain McIver carried Moore
county by storming majority, and made
her an able and faithful representative in
our State Legislature. Lieut.. Purcell
has been a member of the Legislature of
Alabama. Lieut.. Hector McEachern has
represented your own county and high
private Judge" d. ?. McEachern has
been your State Senator. | might per
haps continue the list No Highland
Boy has yet betrayed trust. 1t was not
tor fame that they went forth to battle
Offices went begging you We'd with each
other In serving in the most lowly posi-
tlons, and yet many of you were compe
tent to be generals. \ musket, forty
rounds of ammunition and three days
cooked rations seemed to satisfy your
ambition. A constitutional coward would
tight with a field or general officers com
mission in his pocket, but it was true
test to use musket in the ranks"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

GOLDsBoRo.-F Fifteen year have pass
ed since the Messenger issued its first re-
view of the trade and growth of Colds
boro. Since then many are the changes
that have taken place. The population
of the city has nearly doubled in numbers.
The trade of the city has grown beyond
comparison with what it then was On
all sides and on all the streets of the city
we see improvements indicating prosper
ity and thrift. We now boast of hand.
some stores and residences, of extensive
machine shops, buggy factories, rice mills
and cotton seed oil M ills, and more graft
flying than all these, we enjoy the advan-
tages of Graded School patronized by
over 500 children of all classes of our So
ciety. As community we have during
all these years been free from contagious
diseases. The mortuary statistics of our
little city bear evidence Of its healthful
ness when compared with other town and
cities.
The business year just closed has done
much for Goidsboro Trade has been
generally healthy. and our business men
enter upon the fall trade with good cheer
and encouraged by prosperous outlook.
Goldsboro ranks now as the fourth lar
gest cotton market in the State, and after
Wilmington does not fall very far behind
Raleigh and Charlotte Indeed, we ques-
ton whether the receipts of cotton actu-
ally marketed and sold here are any be-
hind the two last named markets. When
we state that nearly 81, 500, 10000 was
paid out for cotton sold in Goidsboro the
past year. our readers can form some idea
of what GOldsbOrO is doing.
The rice mills now most completed will
add to the wealth and Importance of the
Goldsboro market. We expect to see a
great deal of rice marketed here this
season. Messenger.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

A REMARKABLE MAN.-Mr. Joshua
Hudson lives few miles from Norwood,
and is respected citizen of the county
He is now in his eighty>eighth year, is in
good health, and never took dose OF
p'edicine in his life. He was in the wal
of 1912, since which time he has never
been more than 35 miles from home.
He never bought pound of Baltimore
bacon in his life. nor more than 25 bush.
els of corn; never saw railroad nor tel
egraph wire, nor never wants to. He
can now do good day S work-did work
on the farm part of the past summer
Mr.. II. has been married three times, has
20 children, about 100 grandchildren
and about $50 great grand children =
.Stany Cleaner.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

CoTToN PICKER. to cor.
respondent OF the Augusta (Maine)
Chronicle, cotton picker that Will 20
the work Of twenty men, will be put in
to use this fall The machine is manu-
featured by the Carver Cotton Gin Com
pany, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
The principle upon which this machine
works is the production of partial
vacuum in hose by means Of suction
fan, the cotton being drawn into the
hose as it is pointed towards the open
bolIs.'
The vacuum must be in the head of
the inventor; or he would know that d
suction strong enough to suck the cotton
of the stalk would bring a cart load OF
dry leaves and trash
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04
The fight between Hubbs and O'Hara

The fight between Hubbs and O. Hara
is growing in bitterness. The Hubbs
faction now charge that O'Hara has two
wives and that he is not eligible to Con-
grers, and the u Hara side retort By
charging perjury upon HubLs in that he
swore to his being worth IS 900 While be-
coming one of Tim Lees bondsmon, and
afterwards, when judgment was rendered
against him, (Hubbs) he as sheriff of
Craven county, returned the same en-
dorsed no property t be found to salts
iy the wlthiu execution bessenger
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

From Eminent w. L. Almon, Presi-
dent Medical College, Halifax, N S.
"Colden's Liebig's Liquid Extract of
Beef and Tonic lnvigorator is invaluable
for feper, Indigestion, and ,oeakness, and
cannot b. surpassed for female com
plants Take no other) Of drug
glsts.
LADIES beautify your complexion
with Glenn Sui phur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye SC.
CHURCH YARD coughs can be cured by
Hale's Honey of Horebound and Tar
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one
minute
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

A good Baptist clergyman of Bergen.
n. Y, a strong temperance man, suffer
dizziness almost to blindness. over two
years after he was told that Hop Bltiers
would cure him, because he was afraid
or any way prejudiced against ''Bitters. y
Since his cure he says none need fear
but trust in Hop Bitters
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

arc in Raleigh almost everv

Wagons arc in Raleigh almost every
morning to beg negroes to come out and
pick cotton. The farmers have to haul
them out every Monday morning, and
haul them back every Saturday evening
and pay tbem 50 cents per hundred
pounds. Rapid pickers can make from
IS cts. to 81 80 rer day.
Other wagons are going through the
country to buy Up fruit. The scupper-
nong grape buyers have almost .cleaned
up the vines TO make wine and brandy.
ISrWe would not willingly wound any
ones feelings, or give annoyance where
no moral principle is involved but we
have certain old fashioned ideas about
dealing equal justice to high and low,
rich and poor, titled Rex or plain John.
And, although We can do much for q
friend. we see no reason to screen the deeds
OF prominent personages simply because
they are prominent" The wise plan
for those who object to seeing their names
in print, in any connection is to refrain
from doing the thing which they are
ashamed to let folks know of.
When new daily was wanted at
Charlotte, and strong induce meLts were
offered Mr.. Jos. P. Caldwell, of the
Statesville Ldnln,o,k, to remove thither,
the business men of Statesville held a
meeting, and made up purse of 81 900
which they offered him as token of good
will, and an inducement TO remain. He
decided to stay, and at once ordered a
new $1,000 power press so that he could
enlarge the paper. We mention the fact
as showing how the Old North State is
waking up. 1t is not likely that many
communities would contribute one thou
sand dollars to keep a weekly paper
among them but it is interesting to
know there is even one
Some sound Democrats down East.
MIR. B. H. Bum of Nash declined to run
for the Legislature, because he deemed
1t best for the party not to have both its
candidates FROM Kocky Mount. Mr.. VIM.
Woodard declined to run, but like Mr..
Bum, will take the stump for the ticket.
Mr.. II. G. Connor, rising young law
yer OF Wilson, was nominated for the Sen
ate, but apprehending that his activity for
Prohibition might damage the success of
the party, he declines to run; but will
canvass for the ticket. 1t is none Of our
business, and we do not know all of the
facts, but if he was forced to come down
because he voted for Prohibition, those
who voted for Prohibition might we'll ask
-'and how are aoe going to vote!"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04
A HORRIBLE DEATH. Daniel McNul-

len, employed at the Smelter at Leadville
on Tuesday made misstep and fell TWEEN
ty ieet. into the molten mass of metal be-
low. He caught at something aud held
his head out of the metal, and was hauI~
ed out as quick as possible, but he was
SO awfully burned that the flesh fell away
from his bones. To ease his agonies be
was put under the effects of anaSthetics
till death.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

SMITHFIELD DoTS.-From the Herald
Dr. q. J. Robinson has resumed practice
in and around Smithfed. Miss Julia
Sneed has returned from Raleigh, where
she has been on visit for the last two
weeks Hon. r. T. Bennett and Gen.
w. R. Cox will speak in Smithfeld Oc-
tober 17th w. j. Stephenson has
just completed the two new stores of S.
r. Il j. A Morgan.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

COMING. G.-Charlotte Journal SAYS that
w. w. Cole S and Sell Brothers circuses
are coming to N. c., in few weeks and
that Fo-epaugh May be expected late in
the season.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-04

A true friend to the weak and conva-
lecent IS Browns Iron Bitters.