The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-22
Miss Althea Harris died at the res
idence of Dr.. Harvil II. Harris, near
Fo~restville on Monday.


Miss Althea Harris died at the res
idence of DR.. Harvil II. Harris, near
Forestville on Monday.
Miss Emma Brothers, of Stantons-
burg, drowned herself, while suffering
temporary alteration of mind.
Miss Emma Key, daughter Of the
late Postmaster General was thrown
from a buggy and seriously injured.
Miss Laura Williams Of Warrenton had
. similar accident and broke her arm.
W-A rare chance, we should think.
Examine the advertisement OF Mr..
Geo. H. Hall, at Hoffman, on the Raj
eigh and Hamlet Air Line. Here is
land, timber, and an offer to take part
pay in lumber cut off the land.
W. believe that every dollar invested
in along that route will double itself in
a few years..
If you know of a white girl, 10 to
comfortable and permanent home,
write to Mr.. F. B. Gibson, LAUREL
Hill, Richmond county. n. c., a few
miles south of Hamlet. He wishes a
young girl to learn to cook, and keep
house, and eventually relieve Mrs. q.
of these cases.
Mr.. Geo. w. Nicholson. Of Oak
vile, Warren county, wishes to buy a
pair of bronzed turkeys.
A gentleman in Caldwell county
wishes to buy some Cotswold or South
down sheep, we forget which.
We are frequently asked why Stock
Poanc IL not o1rocn Tba Sorth-
ern people are just beginning to see the
need of good horses, cattle, sheep and
fowls.
1t is said Co. Ike Young will be
run for Congressman from the State at
Large by the Republicans. Report
also says that Holden is developing
strength as q claimant of Young's col
lectorship. He has the assurance of
Grants good word in his favor; and is
backed by T. B. Keogh, ID. A. Jenkins,
ct al.
Mr.. Logan Harris vent to Washing
ton, and New York, on Monday to look
after campaign funds.
The Wilmington papers tell of q
singular occurrence. The German bar
que, august, ladened with 1900 bales
of cotton, was struck BY lightning when
$50 miles out in the ocean. She re
turned to S%mithvil,e, and was lowed
up the river to the Wilmington wharves
and the fire department called to pump
the vessels hold full of water to drown
out the fire in the cotton which had
been smouldering for about a week.
The sailors we're in great peril and
lived in hourly expectation of a col
lapse. TheSessel is considered a wreck.
Insured.
Fearful suffering! Eighty thous-
and People Homeless and Hungry
Five States partially flooded. The
Mississippi river converted in q vast
finland sea-" ONT thousand miles long,
and from 20 to 100 miles broad! The
entire MississippiValley from the mouth
OF the Ohio to the Gulf, from Eve to
atty feet under water. More han one
hundred lives lost. Men, women, chill
dren, and cattle, struggling to keep a
foot hold on the mounds, and tree tops,
until rescued. Whole villages washed
away. Sheep, hogs. cows, etc, all
drowned. Horses and mules gwen to
anybody who could rave them.
The above will give some idea of the
great disaster in the South West. We
have a dozen columns of shocking
stories of the food in Arkansas, Ten
nesee, Mississippi, Louisiana. Let
North Carolinians, as they gather
around the hreside, or the supper table
mo matter how frugal) thank their
stars that they are not freezing to death,
like the people In the North West, nor
drowning like rats in the South West,
nc subject to the epidemics. the cy,
clones, the grasshoppers, or other
plaques, which lay waste the lives and
property of their fellow men elsewhere.
YazOo CITY, Miss, March 1.-THE
entire country to Silver Creek, a dis
lance of sixty-fve miles, is submerged.
the only land visible from the steamer
being the tops of mounds. On every
mound were gathered as many persons.
horses, and cattle as it would hold.
The people were taken on board the
steamer, and some Of the stock which
TODD belly deep in water. On one oil
the mounds, not ever five feet square,
stood four women, six children, two
men. and W horses. Some of the
houses passed had occupants in the
upper stories. On the roof of one
cabin was an aged negro signalling
for help. A yawl was sent after him.
He had rugged up a scaffold or shell
back of the cabin chimney, and on this
were huddled his wife and children
The people are penniless. and the cit,
is already crowded with refugees,
Steamers are engaged night and day in
Isscuing the people. There are now
one thousand homeless ones around the
Court House here.