The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-29

Ecu can say Al that 10 necessary In . few WORDS
"A number of items on outside pages
were set last week. but crowded out.
We did not believe any paper in
North Carolina had 5000 subscribers +;
but the Goldsboro Messenger shows a
detailed statement of 5000 circulation,
ten times greater han the average of
weekly papers. 1t shows that North
Carolina is waking up.
The fact that the first large ship,
the Goldbranger, coming with iron for
the North Carolina system" ran
aground in Beaufort harbor need bot
discourage anybody. Southern Rail
road stocks are apt to be sufficiently
"watered' for all purposes.
Seven men were hanged in Yam
keedom last Friday. We suppose it
results from the ''debasing influence of
mot Southern civilization" P. S.
Our remark refers to the circumstance
that only sever we're hanged.
MIR. Kingsbury has done some fine
writing of late. Aside from his conclu-
sions, and from the question of selection
of topics, there remains enough to pay
high compliment for directness, correct,
ness, purity, and tensility of Editorial
English. The Star shines as an illus
tration that brilliance involves two es-
sential elements, or prerequisites, viz,
Light and Solids; or, to speak after
the manner of journalism, capacity in
the "Oface" and in the "Sanctum."
The Episcopal Church Messenger
warmly favors the division of North
Carolina into two Dioceses. and says
that action will probably be taken at
the Tarboro Convention, May 10; the
death of Bishop Atkinson having re-
moved that tender personal sentiment
which killed the movement for a di-
vision in 1877, Notwithstanding that
Bishops Atkinson and Lyman both
favored it.
Col. Burnaby, q noted author, sue
ceeded in crossing the British channel
from Dover to Paris, in . balloon, last
week; thereby adding to the laurels Of
his Ride from Khiva, and making
an home-run for the title of Champion
Fool. True he escaped the fate of the
member of Parliament who was drown
ed last month in making the same
experiment; but this eniy proves that
there are Fools with luck, and with
out.
The colored conventions in various
counties to pint DELIGHTS to the Colds
boro convention, have amused them
selves with firing off a variety of resolu-
tons. At Winston, they clamored for
the official head of Collector Everitt at
Salisbury, they recommended Maj. J..
A. Ramsay for postmaster, and DR.. j.
6. Ramsay for Congress at Charlotte
they clamored for a taste of the impor-
lance and dollar and half per diem of
the Jury Box, and vented severed
"specyfycashuns agin'" the DAILY o.
server of that city for "sassin'" them
with good advice.
We make our acknowledgements to
Col. w. j. Long, of Longs Mills, for
some splendid samples of timber, vari-
ous hard woods, from Woodstock Mills.
of which we shall speak in another con.
nection. Also, for a yard sample of
the goods manufactured by Messrs. L.
s. and L. B. Hollis Mills, referred to
IN last weeks paper. In strength, tex
ture, and finish it can challenge com
parison with any we have seen. Col.
Long sends it as-''an apron pattern for
your lady" Thanks, sir; but who will
send-a wearer2
About day-break one morning last
week, at Philadelphia, there was a
terrific explosion at one of the river
wharves. A couple of seconds later, a
man struck the shutter of a third story
window OF a warehouse 800 yards dis.
tant, splattering the window and wal
with blood. Then he dropped 80 feet
through a network OF telegraph wires,
and was cut into sausage meat. He
was Captain Ed Scully, of the tug Pratt,
which had exploded at the wharf, kill
ing five men, and throwing him two
blocks, and entirely over two large
warehouses, 3 storey's in height. Ye,
he lived two hours after this fearful
flight and fall.
A large part Of the Pratt's boiler flew
across the street and utterly smashed /.
large brick building. All the window
glass wa broken for many squares O.
the city. The tug Ella took fire anc
was burned with the Pratt !; two of he,
crew being SO nearly drowned that they
had to hang to their necks in water. OF
the side of the burning boat till rescued
An old cat. burned and halt crazy will
fright, was the only living thing to es
cape from the exploded vessel.
Two days after the above, an ex
Plosion OF three tons of powder in thu
Vulcan works in California, killed eley
en- men, badly wounded four, anc
caused a loss of $25, OO6.
On Monday, at Richmond, Va, in 8
gale of wind, the Petersburg r. r.
bridge over James River took fire anC
speedily destroyed it,-thereby makine
a break 10 all the Railroads which rur
North and South through Richmond,
as they all used this bridge, we believe.
When the flames reached the Rich
mond side, they seized ten large fac
tories, twenty tenement houses, ten
new freight cars, Smiths grist mill, the
long trestle of the Tredegar Iron Works,
and large lots of lumber, coal, etc.
the total loss aggregating from half, to
three quarters, of a million dollars; and
throwing hundreds of poor families out
OF employment. The three and four
story tobacco factories of Rutherford.
Patterson, Williams, Hutchins, Banks
dale AnOrn otc Uoro 1so,ol