The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-14
Rev. DIR. Rankin. of Washingt

Fleming shot and killed by +. l.. Gun
ningham, at Fort Worth. Texas.
....Rev. DIR. Rankin. of Washington
City, is an open advocate of m~iscegena-
He says he favors mixed schools, mix
ed churches. and perfect equality. He
goes the whole negro skin. hair and
odor. The papers are after him.
IA correspondent of the Nashville
relates how during the late
war % Confederate soldiers were ambus-
caded near Warm Springs by 300 FEEDER
al guerrillas. The Confederates charged
their cOwardly assailantS and drove
them pei nell through the thickets with
the bayoment. The Confederate leader,
Lieut., Bryson and several of his brave
followers were killed in the charge.
ia negro boy of thirteen years was
kicked in the head by a mule last month
in Cleveland County. That afternoon it
vas reported that the negro was danger
.usly wounded. This proved to be a mis-
take, for the negro was in town next day
smoking a cigar and happy az a big sun
flower. 1t is now said trat the mule was
worse hurt than the negro's head.-4u
rOrd.
AT Gastein, during Prince Bis
marck's late visit, his famous dog Reichs-
bnnd, which nearly killed Prince Gorts-
chakoff at the Berlin congress, attacked
and killed the dog of a Gastein house
holder. Bismark, who witnessed the
scene, not only punished his dog severely,
put after a few days called on the owner
of the dead dog, ~apologized for the sava-
gerry of Reichsbund. at the same time
promising a new and better specimen in
place forthe slain hound.
Ill he choice should be made in all
qnietness and decorum. without trickery
and without passion. Our margin is too
small for domestic feuds or heartburn
ings. La harmony and with a judicious
ticket we can carry North Carolina, and
we can do it no other way.-GoldsborO
messenger.
Yea verify If We 'Hatchet" be not
buried" it will bury itself in We Par
tvs scalp
-. Washington, Nor. "A recep-
ton was given this evening by the Rev.
DIR. and Mrs. Bartlett in honor of Pere
Hyacinthe. 1t was attended by a brill
liant company which included many OF
the most prominent clergymen Of this
city, several Justices of the United
States Supreme Court. and other dlstin-
gulshed people. Pere Hyacinthe. who
was accompanied by his wife and son,
awaited himself of the opportunity to
explain what is his present position and
his relation to the various denominations
of the Christian Church in brief. He
said that he is not a Protestant nor a
Roman Catholic, but a Catholic Refor-
mer He seeks reform within the Cath
Ole church.
MARY Barry, eig~hteeD-year old
Germantown, Pennsylvania, died from
hydrophobia, after twenty four hours
of most intense suffering. Six months
ago Miss Barry Was bitten by a pet
dog. The wound was apparently tri-
fling in its character. The accident had
been almost forgotten until last even
ing, when the young lady's strange ac
lions attracted the attention other father.
She became desperately i'll and was put
to bed. She was speeches., and was
subsequently seized with violent spasms,
barking and snarling in a vicious manner
at those around her bedside.
During the early part of the morning
she grew calm and made motions to her
mother, which indicated that she desired
to put on paper what she was unable to
express orally. Paper and pencil being
furnished her she scrubbed the follow
ing:-"Tae dog has done it ALL" She
then fell back exhausted and was i'm
mediately seized with commissions, when
death relieved her sufferings. Miss Bar
ry was an accomplished young lady, and
her terrible death has cast a gloom over
the entire neighborhood, where she was
held in the highest esteem.
....Newton the county site. has eleven
brick, and seven wooden stores, she buys
many thousands bushels OF wheat, corn,
and oats, thousands of pounds of dried
fruit, besides eggs, chickens, butter, &c,
a half dozen farmers in Newton township,
each raise enough to feed the town,
farmer Rheinhartt. MIR. Wilson, and 9TH
ers raise from 1000 to 25CO bushels of
wheat, many others are large grain rails
ers, you can see at any time, the streets
lined with wagons, loaded with wheat,
corn, oats. flour, bacon, dried fruit, eggs,
chickens, butter, &c. and as a result, the
people are wearing better clothes, driving
better horses, riding in better buggies.
than any county in this section, and
prosperity Is seen on every hand. The
farmers are buying grain drills, mowers,
reapers, threshers, horse rakes. improved
plows &c-the taxes are lower-the
schools are kept longer-and best OF all,
tic county is out of debt-don't owe a
dollar. This much for Catawba county,
a grain growing county. Now take a
growing county, Wayne ifyou like
pick up a paper and see what you find
advertised for sale by our merchants,
they will run thus, 400 bbls Northern
flour, all grades, IS boxes Western bulk
rs bbls Mess pork, talso Westerly
100 buckets lard, come out this same
meat, tpressed out of %course) 400 bales of
Timothy hay EASTERN not Eastern
North Carolina. but from the Northern
100 tubs Northern butter, baggin
and ties in abundance al from the North,
and cotton Gets per pound, In payment
for the meat and guanna bought during
the Summer, on a credit, and a lein on
the crop to secure the payment. The
result two failures in a week and more
to come money scarce, people
able to pay for their home paper, la
borers out of employment, unless they
pick out cotton, farmers depressed
aud gloomy, credit run down. county in
commissioners have to sell the pub
lie property to try to keep buckle and
together, taxes high, schools
for the want of funds to nav
teachers, and the general out look not
good by a jug full. Now farmers how
DO you like the comparison? We are
indebted for our depression and general
bad fix too much cotton and not enough
Catawba County's products. it is time