The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-28

Cox favor a directly opposite policy -
revising the tariff by reducing excessive
protective duties on raw materials oi
manufacture a. well as Decessaries Of life,
and Of mataining the internal revenue
system. IT The House favors repeal f
the internal taxes aud i. opposed to
tariff revision III tie present Congress Mr.
itandd!l Is unquestiOnaDly the man.
During the whole course the session no
more important question i. likely TO arse,
Tor Oh It's determination viii largely &C
pend the policy of Congress
...Newbern Joarnal: Mr. j. J..
Wollenden has planted out one hundred
thousand cabbages.
IA son Of Clarke Hall was shot and
urobibly fatally wounded by 4
son Of Constable King. A di-as-
trou- Kerosene oil explosion occurred IN
the ObserUer office, &c.-Charl0ttc NJ
81 rer.
....Onc Of President Arthurs special
weaknesses l. an open fire Of pitcl /, ~
kn.ta IN his bedroom. He has the wood
>ert by express, in ~hogsheads, from North
CaroIlna.-Er Mistake 1t wasn't
spirits OF piue, but of corn.
....W eidon and Halifax Methodists
raised 81, l50.sl for the year. That in
nearly as muc,. as was raised on Roanoke
Circuit twenty years ago with its thirteen
churches. The Weldon and Halifax did
not raise over $3.50, all told. This shows
progress.
1.-Two Store houses at Sunny Side,
one occupied by Mr.. j. b Glasgow, 10
which was also the Post office, and the
other by Mr.. Harris, We're destroyed by
fired on Saturday night. SIR G~lasgow's
loss is estimated at about 81 ,OoS aud Nj.
Harris at 500 No insurance. Little
ton IRdcr.
A boom in early marriages is prevail
ing in Georgia. Miss Georgia Garrett
between II and - years old was MARI Ell
on Thursday, and became Mrs. Vim.
lIogg. \ sister when at the same axe
set the example. la Americas. Robert
Sullivan, aged II, and Miss Eddie Cobb,
aged IA, have been married
...,Audy TAYLOR, a Tennessee des-
perado, taken from Nashville to Lon
ion to be hanged while on the cars lie
made a desperate attempt to Kill the
sheriff. -Nine pension claim agents
at Washington, ID. c., are to be prose-
cuteu for inducing eX-Confederate sol
diers to file claims for pensions and
taking fees from them.
THE Durham Rec0rder says: 1t
is with pleasure that We welcome Rev. f.
y. Joyner and family, of Pittsboro. TO
Durham, where they will reside perma-
nently. The Church Messenger, Of
which Mr.. Joyner is editor and proprie-
tor, will be enlarged and otherwise i'm
proved. Mr.. Joyner will also act as as
%sistant rector of st. Phillips church.
...Raleigh is talking about a big
hotel TO accommodate the Northern peo-
pie Of wealth in search of a milder eli.
mate, as well as to meet the increased de-
m,nds of travel. Wilmington has been
talking about the same thing. Savannah
is about done talking and is now acting.
Wilmington Star.
,,..A variety actress named Lilly Dale
is being sought for throughout the coun.
try. She has been connected with Hol-
lands Variety Theatre in Dallas and
Fort Worth, Texas and skipped out
from Dallas on Friday week, IN the dis
guise of an old Woman. The rext day
s., 200 worth of dIamons had been stolen
from a person whose name is keI from
the public.
.,..''The New York Sun mentions
among the Democratic members twenty
who might well be elected speaker,
Among them is our Congressman, Judge
" IN. II. Cox. AND, says the Sun M
one name among the twenty which doe.
not stand for a Democrat of sufficient
calibre 20 command the respect of the ma
ton in the speakers chair
The San is quite right, and il a. By
no means exhausted the list. lien. Coz
certainly would grace the speakers chair
and so would Gen. Scales
.~...Scotland Neck Commonwealth
The members of the Baptist Church
here, on last Tuesday morning, presented
Rev c. W. byrd, the pastor of tn,
Methodist Church, with a handsome sui
of clothes .-Mr W. 7. Whitehead
residing near this place, has a field Of A.
acres in peanuts which he says will yielC
an average of $50 bushels per acre. From
the entire field he will obtain probab
5000 bushels, which will bring an aver
age of 81 % per buShel, making s. 500, %
for the crop.
Snow Hill Telegraph: Mr.. JOIN
II Dixon lost his gin house on last Mon
day morning by fire. He was ginning
without Il spark arrester, and tie cDttol
caught and burned the gin down so quick
ly that it was impossible to save any thing
\ young negro man was burned so badl.
that he died this morning MIR. DlXol
and MIR. Bullock, who were at tie gin
both were quite painfully burned. Tn
!oS> to gin. engine, &c., was about $50,
or 500, AID Mr.. piyou' lDSs "a iuttor
and ein house oanuot iall much short .
81 500.
80. Greensboro PatrG,t;- ''One of liz
iewelry peGdlers, who w. in Gloehehur
some DAYS ago, was on the Ra',igh trail
Monda,. He fell in with Mr. Arthu
Cuwlcs, Of Charlotte, and when the con
ductor made his rounds. the weir, led
der pulled out a thousand mics tickle
and insisted OH paying Mr., (owlps' fare
As the result al the intimacy that Wa
forced on III. Cowles, he found, on reacl,
ing Raleigh, a handsome gold rim in hi
overcoat pocket. The names vida al,
W. Scott" were engraved on the ring,
evidently being an engagement ring. |
WAS believed at the time the burglaric
were committed here that the two jewel
= ~ peddlers were in some way conuecte
with the gang, and developments sine
confirm that belief
After losing 81, 900, 900. 900 worth {
slaves and a vast amount of other pre-
perry after being ieeced by a proteotiv
tariff which has made her people ''hev
ers Of wood and drawers of water to
: body If millionaire manufacturers of tt
? North; after being plundered py carpt
Lnunor, Who Uern sent South hpcan.