The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-16
The fast mail from Washingt,

The fast mail from Washington
south has been discontinued.
Only six hundred invitations are
''out' for a big wedding in Baltimore.
Gen. Cox is doing what he can for
the Durham Federal Building, and
there is some hope of success.
DIR. E. Grissom is writing a series
of papers on masonry for the Oxford
Orphans Friend.
-Berthold Aurbach, the German
novelist, is dead. So is Gen. VIM.
McRae, a noted Railway engineer.
Maj. Frank H. Cameron has re-
signed the Presidency of the North
Carolina Life Insurance Company.
w. j. Best and A. B. Andrews
were both in Washington OF Saturday,
but not at the same hotel.
Mrs. Rufus Upchurch, residing a
few miles from Raleigh accidentally
ignited her skirts at the Fireplace. and
uaS fatally burned before they could be
~uished.
tfreedful girlr' Proposing
'kaS --k floor was bad
s the SUGGESTION that the
OF o.. vicar life preservers made
for utterance@ners) is too utterly inter
Among the responses to Rev. R,
l.. Abernathy's appeal for aid to build
an house for his old age, we notice S.
each from Gen. r. B. Vance, and Mai,
Blow 1our-Horn William Smith.
If Seymour succeeds in securing
Brook shoes. Gov. Jarvis will appoint
Maj. Henry A. Gillian to succeed Sew
mour, the Greensboro Patriot saws
"Judge Gilliam!" That name has beer
heard before, on the N. G.. Bench. n.
B.-Seymour got it.
Iy@Asa matter of accommodation,
and with the consent of the proprietors
of the Daily and Weekly Observer, Col.
w. w. Carraway, the genial canvassine
agent OF that paper, will receive and
bring to US any monies that may be
handed to him for the Farmer and Ne
chanac, during his travels.
Judge R. Tyler Bennett is holding
Wake court, and has made a fine i'm
preston with our people. We were
with Col. Bennett in Fort Delaware in
1865, but he has grown so much
er and better looking that we did not
recognise him when he called to renew
tor the Farmer and Mechanic, a most
excellent evidence, by the by, of mems
saao ct corpore.
There must be some mighty care.
less people in Washington City. Sena
tor Lamar while walking along the street
allowed a wagon to run over him, and
bruise him severely. John I. RAYMOND.
of Mulberry Sellers fame, stood on
the side walk until almost smothered
under an avalanche of snow and ice from
the roof of an high building, He was
severely cut and bruised.
Maj. Winder, with the Messrs.
Kingsley d Co., and others have got
ten the Raleigh Car Factory fairly on
It's feet. They concluded not to stop
at 5000 but raise the stocks to 500.
900, and make a first class establish
ment. They already have work for the
nrst SIX or twelve months assured them :
and can reasonably count on all the
business they wish for ten wears to
come. We should like to have a cou.
pie OF thousand in such an ENTERPRISE.
And Raleigh ought to nave oDe million
dollars Ia similar manufactures. The
city has no seaport Except Fayetteville
street,, and no speciality except its ad-
mirable location for manufacturinp
purposes.
1t Is scarce two years since a fine
new gin, Clubhouse, and crop of cotton
belonging to Our worthy county man. A.
L. Mial, ESD, was destroyed by an in
csndlary. The gin was rebuilt, and was
packed almost full of seed cotton, worth
$4,000 or Whereabouts, when, one night
last week, an attempt was made to DESTROY
it a second time. The gin house was on
Squire Malls lower plantation ard Mr.
Willard Mial has been sleeping on the
premises to keep an eye to it's protec.
ton. The i~ncendiary appears to have
watched his movements. as the first time
he returned to his home, several miles
distant, some one lighted a large bunch
OF broom sedge and threw it through
the Aperture cut for the betting; and
Ignlted the mass of seed cotton on the
lower floor. The lint, of course, flashed
In an instant but the room was very
tight, and the seed was slow to ignite
At all events, the flames had not made
much Roadway when discovered next
morning, The farm bell was rung. ard
the neighbors rapidly rallied; and the
gin was saved. The loss was only SI5
to $50; out the risk was as great as the
vInaipu of fha .noocJ.-