The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-14

tor told Charleston Courier that ABOVE
| 900 persons from North Carolina went
South in December II January. Many
were negroes: but any able-o"tiled and
Industrious negro is worth sloo a year
TO the State. More than forty white
men have left Raleigh since the first OF
January 10 find homes in Georgia, South
Carolina, and Texas. FULLY one dozen
! Industrious mechanics, from the Raj
NAYS alone, have left the city. Last
week a party of seven went 10 Texas.
Two days later 3 party OF o u leis ioF
Columbia one or two pawninc Their
watches IL settle their debts before 90
ing. Yesterday we received subserIp-
| tons from Mr.. Arch Sexton, and an
other. al Sumner, Ga. The last ISSUE
of warrenton Gazette says:
Il. f.- ~ ~- can learn some three hunarci abe-
scdi-d eelor-t men. left THIS county within The last
thirty dsy. for FLORIDA. Louisiana, etc.. ard many
% ;hem Arr carrying their fa4aIAes- somethins :hsi
"a. n-ve done ueforr. These three tundred. 10
cav zo,hins .. tncse Who have lett heretofore,
easA 10 have made, ala reasonable e.IeHisiaoa.
Ave- each shove their co.;-vhich 10 SO 90 loss 10
Newton Enterprise says:
we learn the following important nsure~ con
eernins the lat, nisr alton OF 80 many Of the good
citizens OF this LOCALITY TO the far West: The total
forty wsre farmers. Their railroad tickets co.;
them IN numbers nineteen handr'd dollars Th-y
carried away in clean eAss something over thirteen
thou sand deilars."
Think of it,-65 farmers and $4,000
in cash going in a gang. y gentleman
writes to Raleigh Observer that whole
sections of Eastern Carolina are being
depopulated.
SO it goes! Every paper you puck up
reports the departure of Young men
whose talents and industry are needed
in North Carolina but who feel that is
useless 10 waste their best Years fight
Ing old fogyism, and political s,heiner,
And what is the result Of all th!s? LIS
ten a moment =
BUSINESS CATASTRoPHEs
Warren county joined the procession
last week with a shower Of failure. Il.
r. X ng, .pothecary, popped wide upen,
Feb. I. Nj. j. ;. Tarwater. assignee
nessrs. ". +. johnson X Co., assigned
TO Mr.. j. ". Waldell. Mr.. O. White,
Of Warrenton ; alton. assigned to Nr. j
@ ID AXE.
The failure, in Raleigh recently were
as a general thing small firms. usually
Jewish grocers, such as CRAFTSMAN,
Gellman. ct al, Except MesSr>. X. B.
Andrews & Co which was not 80 much a
failure, a. a Temporary embarrassment
But the atmosphere j. getting frosty
Last week two FRESH failures were an
nounced. Mr.. X. VI R9bnsnn, ciothier,
and d~ry-goodS. went down under weight
If $4,000 Mr.. W 3 Hutchings, az
old aid widely known saddiery house,
went under. with 50 600.
AT Charlotte, MIR. Leroy Davidson,
one of the most eDterpri~ing of the young
elooeis in the State, tel beneath SIS.
N0
At Rocky Mount, Nr. X. g. Ball, a
Subscriber Of ,hi- paper, aid termed by
Wilson Adcd.cc "a :cry deserving aud
excellent man, assigns Tor about $500.
At Wilson, the same paper Mr.. }
j. Jackson has made an assignment 10 ).
N. Warren. Mr. X rs Ter, o! Nhitakers
has quit the grocery aut liqu business. =
Tarboro Southefaer says he big farm
of ,, 600 acres, known as the "MordecaI'
place, VERY fine cotton land failed %
pay expenses by SI3, 900 the past year,
owing to the low price of cotton, we sup
pose. Richard II. Battle, Jr., Erq., of
Raleigh, purchased MIR + Battles inter
est one third in this farm Tor Sl5, 600.
Mr.. Whitfeld's farm in Martin was sold
at a%uction-a loss of s., 900.