The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-07

"A great many items crowded out.
The University graduated 81, Trinity
IL, Rutherford 5.
B. F. Montague, Esq, delivered an
excellent address at Clayton on Friday at
the Academy commencement t.
City is full of strangers attendingt the
school commandments, the courts, and
the convention.
Rev. DR.. Wilson of Greensboro got
40 votes for Bishop instead of nineteen
DR.. Craven got ii. 1t required 125 to
elect.
Col. w. H. Cheek will spend a con-
siderable portion of the fall in lecturing
for the Grange at different points, North
and West.
The Mining Rer,e,o says that Ore
Knob copper mine in North Carolina, has
paid in diaridends (besides improvements
1910, OOO. And that Copper Knob has
paid SI5, 900 in dividends.
-Statesville Landmark says the DIR.
Mott investigation is already in progress.
Capt. A. d. Cowles, and others, have
been summoned to Washington to testify.
Charles K. Dabney. bookseller and
s~tationer, p Chambers street, New York
City, is commended by N. c. friends to
Southerners wishing to order new, old or
Iare books, or European publications.
Very handsomely spoken of by Kerr
neTsville Macs and other papers, is Pres
ident K. J.. Battles address at Oak
Ridge. 1t is said his illusions to the an
cient history of Guilford were new to
even the oldest inhabitants.
There is a good deal Of Confederate
money still in the land. More than one
dozen different persons answered a three
line paragraph in week before last Far
mcr and Mechanic. The writer's of the
letters will receive a proposal, or offer,
in a short time.
To show how the rage for bicycles,
prevails at the North, we mention that
nearly one thousand wheel-riders were ID
the parade in Chicago last week. An
equal number could assemble in Boston
at q few days notice. There are about SO
wheelmen in North Carolina. Twenty
were in line at Charlotte Centennial.
Capt. G. E Dunn, of Leadvale,
Tenn, q native of Wake, took a premi-
nent part In the recent meeting of the
Tennessee State Agricultural Association.
We note that he mentions making 10
bushels of corn to the acre; and that he
was appointed at head of the committee
to memorable the Legislature for a Rail
road commission.
We have alluded to the fact that a
deserted ship the E. L. Cam Was seen
floating along the North Carolina Coast.
She might easily have been captured and
would have been a rich prize as she was
worth $40, 900 and her cargo insured for
$I25,O0 o The Underwriters sent two
steamers to hunt up the wreck, and final
ly found it floating in the Gulf stream.
The Captain will be tried for deserving
the ship SO soon. He says she had : feet
of water in her hold, and was expected to
sink every hour.
Capt. j. B. Lindsey of Arson is in
town, called, VIZ regret to say, by the dan
gerous illness of a young daughter. He
was q gallant and stout armed soldier,
when first we met within a circle of Yam
kee bayonets IL years ago, aud though
hardships and Imprisonment have cut
down bis former strength, his sentiments
are true as ever.
John w. Thompson, Esq , being en-
crossed with his duties as steward of the
Insane Asylum. resigned the chairman
ship Of the Wake county Executive Com
mittee on Saturday. He served faithful
ly and theoretically during a number of
campaigns. Mr.. Samuel Wilder Was
chosen in his stead. He is a young
lawyer, well-acquainted throughout the
county, and a very active Anti-Prohibi
zionist. He has called Wake county
convention to meet
The Virginia Methodist papera speak
of 1.-The Tennessee set" rs trying TO boss
the recent General Conference. The
Richmond ADVOCATE suggests that if one
of the new Bishops had been taken from
North Carolina, the Episcopacy would
bs-not Weoker than at present. Latter
ty says "when / think of the monopoly
and gorge Of great positions by a single
Conference around Nashvillve, and the
slight to distant Methodism, fear for
the future"
There is a littl e section of South
Alamance county that deserves honorable
mention as having the first cotton factory,
and the first iron foundry, ever started in
North Carolina. The latter has been in
the same family tDixons) for about SO
years, and without susperding during
the entire half century.
Cane Creek Quaker church, in the
same vicinity, is one Of the oldest in the
State, and the only one which can show
an uninterrupted record of semi-weekly
lSundays and Wednesdays meeting.
since 1851. Lord CORVALLIS camped