The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-10
Clinton and Warsaw were con,
nected by telegraph last Saturday.


I'M. Worth, the Partisan fashion
king, is So years old, fat, pleasant look
ing, and most impressively bald-headed.
Livery few days some man is dis
covered who has four to five wives. We
are Indeed becoming a race of heroes.
....Young ladies should not forget
that Goliath died from the effects of a
bang on the forehead.
....Gen. Roger A. Pryor has gone TO
London to defend Patrick O'Donnell, the
man who killed the informer, Cary. He
is to be followed by e1-Judge Fullerton.
IA Texas owl mistook a sleeping
mans head for a chicken, and fastened
his claws into his nair and scalp. well ,
what the matter now, old woman p
asked the assailed, as he awoke.
Rocky Mount Reporter A color
ed man by the name o fJohn Robson. was
arrested near here last Monday and taken
to Nashville Jail. He has been rather
too intimate with a white woman in Nash.
Both parties are jailed.
....Newbern Journal: Mr.. William
Bouitz, of the Bonitz Hotel, has been
offered by a New York syndicate IS, 900
tel, provided he will make an addition OF
one hundred looms and water pipes sufi
cient to convey hot and cold water.
Says the Bakersville Democrat
Polly Mckinney lost two children las,
week, with scarlet fever, and has a third
without hopes of recovery. Judith Nc.
Kinney lost one child, two little ones ".
ing dead at the same time.
....Durham Plant. The Grand Cen
trail Hotel will change hands lst of No
vember. MIR. Rutjes, now Of the Tucker
House, of Raleigh, will take charge. TIL,
hotel will be considerably enlarged anc
improved.
THE Wilmington Star says: Hon
Wharton j. Green is expected here oil
Monday to accompany Capt. r. P. Pad
Olson on a tour up Black river, prepare
tory to e~ndeavoring to secure an appropri
alton.
...Carthage Gazette: J. c. Monroe
Esq, has a mare that run mad som
DAYS ago. She paws, climbs and bit.
the logs of the stable at a severe rate.
is thought to be something like the by
drophobia. "A revival has been go
ing ON at the Baptist church, in Manly
for several days, conducted by Rev Mr.
Hunter and others. They have had ;
conversions up to Monday.
George Brown, a colored boy abou
Is years OF age, was shot at Old Hundr
last Sunday by Frank Williams. c~olore,
and died from the effects Of the woun
received a few hours afterwards. Arthu
Bepnet. colored, was lodged in jail her
Monday by Deputy Sheriff Livingston
as accessory to the murder. William
making his scape.-Rockingham Sout1
-. Morganton Mountaineer. Messrs
Walton and Williams saw mills. nea
this place, will furnish l50. 600 feet G
lumber to be used in building a hotel O
the Black Mountain Mr.. l. c
Wolfe, at one time a prominent merchan
at Charlotte, died at the Asylum in tn
place last week. and his remains we're IL
TERED in the Asylum graveyard.
Pour suits we're begun in the Su
preme Court of New York Saturday b
henry Belden, Jr., and others. agains
William P. Clyde, Thomas NJ. Loga
and Joseph Bryan, or Richmond. to re
cover in the aggregate about 5000, 90
damages, which they claim to have 10,
by the manipulation of their stock in tn
Richmond s. Danville r. R.
Wilmington ReUie0: Some IL,
bred ~scoundrel, who ought to be horse
whipped, then tarred and feathered cam
through Magnolia. Duplin county, an
|, lust as the cars were leaving, threw o
among the bystenders, some of whor
, were ladies attending the departure {
friends, a lot of the most nasty, obscen
, trash it is possible to imagine. The Gu
was not kGown, but we would delight t
welcome him to the cordial hospitalit
with which he would be greeted at Mag
lnolia should he ever visit that town.