The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-23

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tobacco plants come from all quarters.
Bishop Peck of the Northern Meth
odist church is dead.
A chance for work. BlackwelFs To-
bacco Factory wants 100 girls aud boys.
Light work-weekly wages.
The steamer Lygnet, which plies on
Albemarle Sound. was burned at Nor
folk. Crew escaped in Adamic costume.
-Dolph Harris who burned Mr.. A. j.
Hester's barn, and J. w. Farrow of Du-
pin, escaped from Pearson Jail, says
Daily Obserrer.
"A mandamus emphasis on third
syllableD is being sued by Alderman
Stewart Ellison in re claimaIce of his
seat. 1t is said he will also bring suit
for damages for being elected from the
Council Chamber by the police, at order
of acting Mayor Dodd. Spring suits are
likely to be plentiful.
Nothing in a name! Andrew JOY
ner, of Toisnot, says the Sunny Home,
found a man named Andrew Joyner in
Pitt. Botn were of an age, recently
married, and had a sister named Bette,
and both the girls had married men
named Turner-both named Henry
Turner! We will bet their babies both
have red hair.
From Gen. Thos. l.. Clingman we
have a copy of the New York SIN, of
May 18th, containing his reply to Hon.
Jacob Thompson's denial that himself
and others went to North Carolina from
Washington in 1861, with President Bu-
chanon's knowledge, to hurry the Seces-
sion of that State. There is not much
doubt that Gen. Clingman is in the
right and we wonder at Mr.. Thomp-
sons equivocation.
The n. {. Grand Chapter of Royal
Arch Masons held an interesting sea-
sion in Raleigh last week, and elected
DIR. Eugene Grissom Grand High Priest;
VIM. Simpson, Grand Treas; ID. W.
Balm, G.. Sec. These gentlemen take
an active interest in the various frater-
nal and charitable orders, and their
names usually come to the front when
honors are being bestowed.
Rev. DIR. Alfred Randolph has
been elected the Episcopal Assistant
Bishop for Virginia. The Tennessee
Episcopalians last week voted by a
large majority to divide that Diocese !;
and the North Carolina Episcopal con-
vention at Charlotte tomorrow will
probably follow these illustrious ex-
amples though it is thought that Bish-
OPP Lyman viii st~renuously oppose.
The death of ex-President Jefferson
Davis IF We give Gen. Lee and Gen.
Jackson their Confederate title, why
not give Mr.. Davis the same:) which is
probably destined to be one of the
events of 1888, will very likely have a
marked effect upon the countrywide
eating the rebellion into the realms of
history-and closing the bloody chasm
forever; or 1T any rate until the great
struggle betW cen the Atlantic and the
Pacific sections.
Tomorrow will be a big day in
New York City and Brooklyn. The
wonderful bridge which cost over five
millions of dollars is to be formally
opened to traffic. More than a million
OF people-as many as the entire pOpu-
lation of North Carolina-will witness
the event. The President and the
Governors will be escorted by the mill
tary forces of the two cities, with many
miles of civic societies. The bridge has
three floors so that trains of cars.
rains of wagons, and columns of
troops, can all cross at once; while
large steamships pass beneath. Big
thing!
The opinion long held by the friends
of Augustus NJ. Lewis, Jr.. that he was
murdered by a gang of desperadoes
named the Perkins brothers, has been
verified by a letter from the District
Attorney of Atascosa county, Texas, to
MIR. b. b. Lewis, Jr., describing the
capture of the gang, and the confession
OF one who vas mortally wounded.
The Perkins boys were hard cases. and
had escaped from Jail. Mr.. Lewis dis
covered their lurking place, and they
resolved to put him out of the way.
Going to within sight of his home. they
camped for several days watching for
him. Finally he came near the ambush,
on his return from a cattle roundup
One of the gang whom he did not re-
cognize, walked up to him, with friend
ly sa~lutatiOn, and shot him in the back.
They then riddled his body. and threw
IL into a ditch.
The employment of ~convicts to
work outside of the prison walls. is be-
coming very unpopular all over the
South. 1t is not permitted at the
North and all the States will have 20
break up the practice ere long. The
terrible stories from the Greenwood
Railroad in South Carolina; the worse
stories from the convict farms in Geor-
gia the Impeachment of member, of
the Texas Legislature for convict con-
tracts. ETC, ETC., are now followed bv
shocking accounts from the convict
camps in Kentucky. Gov. Blackburn.
of Kentucky, has recently inspected tic