The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-07-26
Hon. Chas. VI. Cooke was recently
ordained as a Deacon In the Baptist
church at Loulsburg, the Times says.

Mrs. Rebecca Backus, the South,rHer rays
was found, starved to death, near Gen.
VIM. CASTOR Lewis house, in Edgscombe
county. Shocking.
A live alligator, seven feet long, wa,
captured by s negro near Wilmington
with hook and line. He was on exhibit
ton in rear CT Preston Bridgers' store,
and the Star says knocked a youn. man
into his jaws, and gave him a very pain
full bite on the leg.
Mr.. Chas. A. Cooks letter to Char
lotte Observer will make a talk in War
rem. He states hat the Democratic
County Commissioners paid the expenses
of a number Of persons, white and color
ed, to go to Raleigh and Henderson, and
e~lectioneer against Vance county.
The English iron-clad, LaferiJle, car
ries four guns, each weighing 100. 900
pounds. 1t cost, $500 to fire each of
them. The ball is about the size and
shape of a iour barrel with one end poin-
ted like d cigar. 1t is thrown with ease
four or five miles and at the distance Of
one mile will pierce Though a solid wall
of iron. two and half feet thick! OF
course when one of these iron -four bar
rels comes rushing down from the clouds
and bursts into ten million pieces, which
GO lying each with a maniacal screcch,
for half a mil. ia all directions, the
neighborhoos is apt to feel sort Of un>
healthy, and a good place to ''li9ht-o out
of.
As is scarcely necessary to mention,
the f. & NJ. takes much pleasure in an
bouncing that Col. Wharton j. Green, Of
Cumberland, has been chosen to carry the
Democratic banner for Congress, in the
Cape Fear District, the oldest in the
State. We advocated the nomination OF
Col. Green, because Of his personal
merits, party deserts and available
ty. Say what you may, Cannady is
the strongest Republican in the Bird
Dist; he knows the meaning of Ropes"
and how to pull them. To beat him, a
man had need to have every Democratic
vote in the District. Col. Green is the
man to do it. He IS a Southern gentle
man that is to say, honest, chivalrous,
steadfast to convictions, true to friends,
courteous to all! Moreover he is widely
known, free from factional prejudice, a
believer in a little good wine for the
stomach's sake, and on friendly terms with
all the eminent compctitors-Messrs.
Waddell, Short, Rose, Mclean, etc.
The people of Cumberland had another
f~avorite son in the lists, but no sooner
was Col. Green's nomination flashed over
the wires than they prepared to give him
a welcoming ovation. One hundred guns
were fired, bands played, and the arrival
of the delegation was greeted with LOUD
cheers, etc.
The old North State is noted for
Conservatism and other good qualities.
We are 10th to take up new-fangled no
lions. The press i. truly representative
in this respect. There are some articles,
of which, as soon as we lay eyes upon
them, VI know that we shall receive an
hundred copies; for they will appear first
in the dailies, then in the rear weeklies,
then in the far weeklies, and finally in
the monthlies.
The same thing IS noticeable in news
paper The Graham Geaner has
already one n~ame.ake, the Norwood
Cleaner, and now is 70 have another, the
Fayetteville Cleaner. The Newton En-
terprise has four namesakes, the Laurin-
burg Enterprise, the Whiteville Enter
prase, Pamlico Enterprise, and Goldsboro
Enterprise. Raleigh Ne,cs has four
namesakeS, Asheville Netcs, Kernersville
Ne,rs, Weldon News, Roxboro Ners.
Reidsville Times, Wadesboro Times,
Davie Times, Raleigh Times. Charlotte
Home, Toisnot Home, W~arrenton Home
Journal. Warrenton Gazette, Gastonia
Goz'He, Lcaksville Gazette. Whining
IN Post, Mt. Airy Post. Edenton and
Monroe have Enqurers. Charlotte o.
serrer, Raleigh Obserrer, Hillsboro Obser-
ger. Hendersonville Herald, Smithfeld
Herald. Winston Sentinel, Enfield SEN
tnei- Wilson and Goldsboro Adraace.
Salisbury and Fayetteville Examiner.
Salem Press, Hickory Press, Washington
Press. Hickory (arolnaan, Elizabeth
City Corohnion. Wilmington Star.
Montgomery Stor. There Is no obiec
ton to this duplicating of names, EXCEPT
that when one paper becomes more
prominent than the other it gains by hav
ing SO many namesakes.
Three curious instances ofremorse IN
the part of murderers have occurred this
month. An old man. before dying in a
Milwaukee hospital, confessed the killing
ola peddler 20 years previous. He was
not believed at first; but investigation
brought the whole affair to light. Anoth-
er man who was at work in the Tunnel
under the Hudson, became sick and
frightened, and confessed that he helped
a man IN Pennsylvania to kill a Young
man, who was counting the %latter's
daughter. investigation showed hat If
was true, and that the Pennsylvania was
still running a summer hotel within 40
PAGES OF the spot where he had helped to
Kill the young man, eleven years ago.
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