The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02

haul OF HerrlnSs al hloohaii0
cries.
Nearly all the Sherifl~ have pub
lished long lists of delinquent taX-pay-
er.. The total for the State must be
above 20, 900.
An opinion of the n G. Supreme
Court, delivered by Judge Ashe IN
Daniel VS. Hodges) is be ny widely
copied in Northern law Journals.
Gentlemen from Durham say the
State Tobacco Fair has been postponed
until the fall in order to give time Tor
a more general advertising and prepare
ton.
Raleigh subscribers of 81. Nary's
Muse will find their copies at the look
store of Messrs. Alfred Williams & Co.
The number for the present month quite
intqrcsting-aboye average.
Mfr. j. s. Mackey, who married
Miss Devereux OF Raleigh, has purchas-
Mr.. G.. f. Webb's interest in Durham
Recorder. Messrs. Hackney and Mac
KEY will add another bright page to the
Recorders long record.
Frederick Paulding dodge, the
actor. while ''slushiu AROUND with
his ''trusty sword, "-slashed a beef
steak out of the corpus of one OF his
brother players, aid it came near being
a tragedy" sure enough. At last &C
counts, the stuck pig still survived.
The feminine habit Of looking under
The bed-we mean the rumored habit
has been proven wise one in one in
stance. Miss Maggie Henley, of Ran
dolph county, found q negro named Hen
derson Brewer under her bed and he
was promptly jailed, We learn from
Asheboro Courier.
A negro named Wyatt Banks was
hanged at Frank lin, Texas, on Friday,
for murder. He was very cool, and talk
ed for two hours, on the scafiold, with
the rope around his neck, warning
the colored people to beware IF liquor
gambling, and lewdness, tie causes of
his untimely taking off.
-Gev. Jarvis; Col 7. VI. Holt, and
Col. W. Ferney Green. of Franklin, now
compose the Executive Committee of
the Board of Agriculture, rs Managers,
so to speak. Prot. Dabney is a, SISTED in
the Chemical Department BY Messrs.
BALDWIN Won HeIff, Herbert Battle,
Frank Dancy and Andrew Mickle.
On Tuesday night amid the darkness
and rain some scailawag placed an iron
rail across the track, on the long down
grade beyond Apex, where the speed is
usually fast. The point of the plow VI
engineer Lacy's engine luckily caught
the heavy bar near the middle an sent it
whizzing along the rails knocking show.
ers of sparks, until thrown aside. Mai.
Winder offers 500 reward for informa-
ton.
Much excitement after the Ward
meetings Monday night, caused by the
stabbing of VI. L Haynes. by Charles
Lambeth, Jr-. ron of the City Treasurer,
the alteration growing out of some re-
marks by Haynes relative to the city
finances. The wounded man was TAX en-
to Peso I'd Lee & Cos drug tore aud is
thought to lie seriously hur.; one cut
penetrating the abdomen.
-Tarborp GUIDE says Augustus Rob
erson, son of Col. III. d. Robertson, had
an alteration with a photographer nam
ed e. +. Badger, concerning q picture.
Several shots wers fired, and Robson
was wounded in the breast aud thigh.
There are hopes of his recovery. Col
Il. is one of the leading citiz rs Of Mar
TN, and was in the Legislature a few year,
ago.
Democratic nominees for Aldermen
of Raleigh First Ward: f. O. Moring,
Phil. H. Andrews, ALI. U~pchurch.
Third Ward: John b. Martin. J. Frank
Redford, David s. Avera, G. ID. RAJ u.
G. Rosinthall. Fifth Ward: Z. B. Ed
wards, 2. {. Fleming. Julius Lewis.
Republican nominees in Fourth Ward,
Martin Van Buren, Gilbert A. ". Sha.-
fer, and Alfred Tate, colored.
-Heroism takes some curious shape.
nowadays. 1t actually turned up tho
o-her day in the shape of a travclliHs
Drummer" and worse still his name i,
WAS Higgins aud it is even alleged thai
he hailed from the land of cheek and
Michigan-ders! All these things al,
greatly against him: yet was ii "a jus al
hero! For when the Railroad collision
occurred near Bait Creek. Mtch Az
tho passengers were spilled down a steer
bank into a swamp, where some were
burned and some were drowned, am
sume were in a swoor, dusty
drummer named j. W. Higgins wa.
dreaGfully hurt.-scald, until hi.
flesh dropped in bits as he moved. ii,
was the first tG be dragged out IF The
burning pile. The only words he sai,
we're, Boys, I'm going to die any way
Just leave me here and save some of tn,
Others" The workers then turned ava,
u release other passengers, and in a few
minutes Higgins was dead.
Hail to the Hero.,-
BY the name of Higgins !
A much talking trunk tourist
OF Michigan, it is said but We doubt
Larry O.Brien, a switch-tender on H.,
RailroaI, at New YoIk tried TO rescu,
an old lady who was deaf, and like nearly
all deaf persons sc'ected the Railway
track for a promenade. She failed t.
c,mprchcDd Iii, eft II to get her off tn,