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

The next annual Fair Of Roanoke
and Tar River Agricultural Society VIII
be held ut Weldon, Nov. 10th. 18th,
inclusive. 1884, writes Secretary l. NJ
Long.
AT Weldon Fair. Jas. Norwood
Esq, Of Hillsboro, took thirty Prem
ums: a total Of sl15. Senator Rasnoms
stock, Is Premiums. sl50. Samuel True
blood Esq. best cotton and corn. Mr..
T. A. Clark took a number Of Premiums;
as did also Mrs. r. w. Brown, and Mrs.
a. NJ. McPheeters.
There is considerable wind up north
this fall. One telegram tells OF . man at
Buffalo who was blown OFF the upper
porch OF a tall house. and bis neck
broken. Next came a telegram that a
drummer from Phila. who came out on
the platform of a Lake-Shore train near
Erie Pa. which was running at IS miles
per hour. was blown off. and when The
train backed back half a mile to get his
body. ne got ~. busted the sand of his
b-eeches, and said it was all right,
though rather blustry. What next.
Capt. ID. FL. Rittenhouse, who has
numerous acquaintance in this section
of the State, has purchased (in partner
ship with Mr.. Calvin the "Crabtree
Falls" of Pinnacle Mountain. on the
line of The Shenandoah K. r. in Vir-
yinia. and will erect a summer hotel.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly has a
picture of the Falls, with lengthy de.-
cription. The stream starts from a
spring, at the home OF an old Revolu-
tionary soldier. $500 feet above sea
level, and jumps from crag to crag, in a
series of c~ataracts, the highest of which
is 500 feet in the clear.
Hickory Nut Gap Falls. in Ruther-
ford county, n. c., is go feet high, a
good size stream, in a wonderful canon
6 miles long. and full of beauty. But it
has no railroad. nor enterprising men
like Messrs. Rittenhouse * Calvin to
advertise it. and work it into notice.
So the Virginia Falls will take the lead.
IF | hadn't been drunk, | could
have qottea. o,eoy,"- said a prisoner in
last week. He did not seem to remem-
Der that if he hadn't been drunk he
needn't have tried to get away. His
being drunk had caused him to draw
an axe on several parties, and TO make
threats, and get into trouble, and get
a bullet in the thumb and Que IN the
back. as he was running away-an old
trick with him. He once fired of a pls-
tol in the streets of Raleigh. and then
galloped out 81 flown, ahead of the police
This little esprit Cspree, the French
pronounce i'll with its fen de Joie, iremem-
bered by the police to his sorrow will
cause him to have a rather erprtt-less
time in Wake county work house, where
he is to work out the penalty for his al
coholic, pistolic practice in the street.
Il declare on my soul | didn't know it
wur sgin the law to tote ~pistols'-he
SAID TO a visitor on Sunday.
"Iryou had kept -ober, and read the
newspapers. you would have known all
about it replied his friend.
The letter of our correspondent, X.
ID. G.. very cleverly illustrates what We
believe to be the truth OF the Mecklen-
burg Declaration matter. by drawing a
comparison between North Cardinals
practical secession the day after Lin
coins proclamation of war. viz April
18th, whereas her official separation
from the union was not declared until
May Goth, a full month later.
Having resided for several years in
Mecklenburg, at the time when several
''Sons Of the Signers' were still living
to bear testimony to their fathers ac-
ton, and after careful study of the
Gen. Davie." aud the John Mcknitt
Alexander" accounts,-we feel not a
particle OF doubt that the mass meeting
OF May Goth IT'S did vote for "INDE-
PENDENCE," -straight-out and une-
quivocal. If you reflect that the meet
in. had been widely advertised, so that
men came in wagons Camping OUT for
fifty miles around; that the convention
sat until far in the night, Cnstesd of
adiourning at Sunset, as county meet
ing always do); and that the resolutions
were deemed sufficiently important 10 be
read outside Of the court house. Though
hundreds had already heard them as
they were adopted within) and that the
reading of them by Col. Tom Polk
brought a storm of shouts and throw
ing up OF hats, YOU will see how I'M
likely such demonstrations should flow
from anything short OF a real Declara-
ton of INDEPENDENCE. A mere
series of Resolutions of grievances rare.
" arouses the populace. They listen.
and approve. but feel vexcd but if the
resolutions end by declaring-"and now
we have borne long enough; we hereby
declare ourselves free and independenf!''
the whole crowd losses its hat and wells
itself hoarse!
We suspect that the real secret OF the
Goth and the 's3lst" Resolutions NAV
be found in the fact that when Polk. and
Brevard. and the others. found that the
Independence cry was becoming too
loud. they deemed it prudent to substi-
tute the tanner wording of the 31st Res