The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-05

cents TO pay TOT N0SiSt0TiIiS tu0is
letters. No danger of floss.
Mr.. Frank 3. Arrendell has gone
to Chicago to Engage in business.
We could fll q dozen papers with
accounts of the fearful accidents and
crimes Of the past ten days.
There is a case of small pox at
Winston, but it il ~quarantined outside
of town.
Northern passengers coming south
were surprised to find snow in North
Carolina. GOOD Lord! is this the
Sunny Seuth'2"
Mai. Samuel s. Kirkland came
friends were pleased to see him getting
about Sc readily, on his crutches.
DIR. J. NJ. Worth, State Treasurer,
has printed = letter in reply to the
Chatham county resolutions consuming
Gov. Jarvis and himself. We have not
seen it. Mr.. G. r. Renchsr replies.
There was a merry family reunion
At Hslsnwood Tennessee on christmas
day. A fxht occurred over a eur dog
and eight men were shot four of them
to death. The cur escaped.
Married at Woodville, BERTHE coun-
ty, n. e., feast of the Holy lnnocents)
Dec. 2Sth, 1881, by Rev. Edward
Wootten, DIR. Edward w. Pugh and
Miss Sadie w. Harllee, all of BERTHE.
Mother Shipton" has made a
Miss of it. The lend of the world
hash come, in eighteen hundred and
eighty one" Now let her hang up her
fiddle. As the mar said to Moab
"Drivs on with your ox-cart there amt
going to be much Of a shower after ALL"
The Editor reached home a few
hours before the time for going to press:
hence can barely def his hat, and wish
his readers = bright and happy New
Year. Likewise, moreover, more anon.
Several hundred letters which have &C
elnulatsd in his absence will receive
attention as rapidly as a crippled arm
will permit.
From . Durham Recorder extra
We learn that Mrs. W. G. Matthews,
formerly Of Fayetteville Of the Dur
ham hotel, went to Hillsboro to see an
An orphan nsice, Miss Maggie Williams,
who was sick at Misses Na.h's school.
While descending the steps at the school
Mrs. NJ. slipped and fell head long,
causing her death in three hours.
The venerable John G. Davis, of
mas present to the Ed i i Ia us ,is. Cnrrs W.
a four dollar renewal to the Farmer and
Mechanic. He is 70 years old, and is
still active and fond of hunting. He is
one of the old time gentlemen for which
Warren is noted May he live to make
a score more such Christmas presents.
Married in Oxford, Mississippi, at
Dee Is 1881, Nr. P. B. Barringer, and
Miss Georgia Shotwell. The groom
is of the we'll known North Carolina
family (Greensboro); and the Oxford
Falcon aas a kind notice of both bride
and groom.
"A very handsome and tasteful New
Years card from our young friends,
Uzzle & Wiley, reminds US that they
are taking new and larger quarters to do
more and better Book and Job Print
ing than ever before, which is say ing a
great deal, as they have been very sue
cessful.
-Mr. F. B. Gibson, of Gibson's
Store, (postofice at "Old Hundred, N.
GU four miles from Hamlet, in send.
ing his renewal for the Farmer and
Mechanic, mentions that he wishes a
house servant; one who understands
cooking, ironing, and general house
work. 10 any one who can give good
references as to competence and relia-
bility, he will pay good wages. Our
readers might do ONE industrious we-
man q service by passing this around.
Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon il dead.
10 is f. Joy Morris vhe once owned a
paper in Nswbern. So is Col. H. S.
lcCoHb, Of Delaware, the Railroad
nagnats, Of Credit Mobilesr notoristy
He left nearly So, 900, 600. But w. +.
Weld, Of Boston, died the sane day
and left Sol, 900, 900. If wealth could
be carried to Heaven, these shrevd
4es.'e.i OF segGe!1. selves It must be a
sad thought fer them, that in the ..xt
vsrld some poor devil who was toe
liberal, charitable, and honest to get
rich On earth, will have a better stand
Ing than themselves.
Mr.. Robert w. Scott, . wide.
awake young farmer of Alamance. was
IN Raleigh yesterday en- routef for Haupb- |
ton Model Farm, in Orange county.
New York, where he will spend six or
eight months. studying the methods Of
the finest farming community i,
America. He viii enter upon regular
work, as a farm hand, and 20 tArouoh
the several branches of practical plow-
ING; sowing, reaping, moving, together
with the housing and handling of crops
ana cattle. Mr.. Scott is the first south
srAer to undertake such . course. and
the New Workers appear gratifed t.
have hin come. Nj. j. E. Sect. O. the
we'll known Msbanesville s'Tried and
True tobacco house, came down with
ms brother. His firm will enlarge its
factory early in the spring.
The lumber trade of East Tennes-
see Is growing to immense proportions.
The r.. I. d Va. r. r. carried eleven
hundred car loads during the wear. {
1881, but this was a chin to a wood t
pile compared with the lumber RATS of G
the Holston, Cliuch, and other rivers.
Marble is also a source of vast reve.
nue.. A score of quarries along the
route and its branches, particn. \
!!arly the Rogersville branch, urn ont n
heavy train loads every week. More 81
han ! 900 car loads of fine yarigated Fl
marble went from Hawkins county last Fl
and the furniture topped with G,
! ennessee marble sells In New York SC
or higher prices than the Italian stone.
Is we have Il varieties of marble in c.
,orth Carolina, these facts should be
f interest.
Poultry is another fat export. We ha
Nv a train lOa1 Of fbo D w,