The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-21


...Orlethorpe Barracks, Savannah,
Ca. sold by auction for $g7.Ssl to a new
hotel company.
....A steam barge, with a cargo of
wheat, from Chicago for Buffalo, sunk IN
the recent gale the captain was drown
cd.
Messrs. Alfred Williams s. Co. have in
press and will issue in a few days a new
and enlarged edition Of Gen. Bryan
Crimes Letters, &c
...Bulwer's Autobiography Is said to
abound with alIusion TO the peccadlloes
of his father. to which he refers with
greater ard more distastetul frankness if
possible. than Dickens and Trollope do
10 referring to the short comlngs of their
parents
....There was a very sad accident at
Hartford on Friday Claude Sanders.
son of T. ID. Sanders keeper OF the hotel,
was PLAYING base ''all with a bat and It
splintered and a fragment struck claude
over the eye and pierced his brain. He
lived UNCONSCIOUS and died on Sunday
morning. 1t was entirely accidental
Little Maggie. the four-year old
daughter or Mr.. :. A. Ogburn, OF this
place. was playing i'll the house on Sat
urdav when she fell on the floor aud got
up apparently unhurt, and resumed play.
While at the supper table she fell asleep,
something very unusual for n so full
of life. She was aroused and about
8 O'Clock was seized with a violent vom-
iting which continued accompanied by
five spasms dun ing the night. On III
day sh" had one spa,m, after which she
lapsed into a dropsy state and remained
until : O'Clock last night, when death
bore her away Winston Ledder.
DIR. j. Marion SINS died at his
residence in New York, OF heart disease.
"A boiler in a Louisiana sugar house
burst, killing three persons. - The
schooner Arab, and a tug boat, from Mil
waukce, supposed to have gone down in
the storm on the lakes with all on board.
Masked men broke into the jail at
Commanche, Texas, and took out and
hanged two brothers named Bailey
Howell Byrd, colored sentenced to be
hanged December 18th for the murder
Of his wife in Halifax county, \. C.
Three colored men crushed by a falling
wall at Richmond, Va, one Of them IA
tally. -ApplIcants for department
service at Washington will be examined
Nov. 23d, at the post office at Raleigh,
y -Emory Speer, OF Georgia, has
accepted the position of special Y. 5.
Attorney in the South Carolina election
cases - fire at Shenan-
doah. p; loss $500, 900; many peoI lie
were ma c homeless. - James Mat
Unison lined $50 for playing faro, at
Toronto Carada. -1hirty railroad
lahorers. injured more or less severely, by
an accident to a train near Rochester.
....When Gen. Sherman, who burnt
Columbia, S. G.. and Atlanta, Ca, was
snapped for Sheridan as head Of the army
the country did not gain much. For our
part both men are detestable. We pre>
fer. however, the Great hummer who
destroyed two Southern towns, to the
Great burner who destroyed the old men
and old women and children of the Pie
gan tribe Of Indians and who conducted
war IN Virginia as Hun or Goth would
have conducted it amid the darkness OF
the .Miaidle Ages. The Raleigh Farmer
md Nechnnic has lawn upon the Rock
iaghan \ a } Reg,sfer Of 1864 Tor some
statistics of the losses entailei upon the
people of that one county by one e,psl-
ton only Of the Vandal Sheridan. 1t is
ii most Infamous and damnIny rec trd,
and no Southern man ought ever to con
done Sherican's crimes against humanity.
Here is the exhibit as made by the Coun-
~ Court after due examination.
This Is what the mlscreant n w at the
head of the T.. 5. Army did in one coun-
y 10 Virginia. The loss is estimated at
a great many millions of dollars. There
are some things that occurred in the war
that ought never be forgotten The burn
ing Of Columbia, the burning Of Atlanta,
aad the organizing Of 4 Corps of Bum
mers by Sherman (rile Drapers History,
i Northern work., and hi base attempt
to tasteu the destruction OF Columbia
uaon an innocent Southern soldier oi
Spotle-s name, Gen. Wade Hampton,
ought never l. be forgot or c3ndoued in
the least. We can have no respect for
such a bot upon the name Of soldier
VII. Star.