The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-06
A party of I6 Southwest GeorgIans

made an assignment last week.
Capt. X. z. Paddison, at Point
Caswell, wants 100 laborers, at good
pay, to work on the Railroad to Clinton.
An English paper says Mrs. Langtry
sends $l5 a week to her husband who is
taking life easy in a WEIGH village.
Rev. DR.. Philip Schaff who was at
the head of the American Branch OF the
Revising Committee, on the Revised
Bible, says God inspired the original,
but he did not revise the translation.
Paul II. Hayne prints a card deny
ing that Gov. Colquitt gave him his cot
tage and Is acres of land al "Copse
HILL" He paid for them from his own
earnings.
TWENTY-FIVE Railroad "Deadhead"
Passes, each with au editor attached
turned up in Atlanta last week under
the title of the Editorial-Journalistlc
Press Convention of Alabama.
Very p~retriiv t"f"0f "' ZIG verses
uuI esteemed townsman, Theo. III.
Hill Esq, in another column. 1t is a
neat epigram In four stanzas. Let the
gifted author take the precept ne e%njoins
in the fourth verse;
The two Fayetteville Military Com
panies were in the famous Battle of Big
Bethel, 1.-THE first of the war; where Ben
Butler was bounced so badly. They
will celebrate the anniversary, June 10th
by a picnic.
An aunt of Gen. Bradley I. John
sou of Baltimore, has brought suit
against her brother in law, DR.. Epson
Belt for seven thousand dollars, which
she loaned him to invest, but which he
'.hilt hold on" This is a curiou. world.
Il. \. Kingsley, Esq, Supt. of the
IN. e. CAR Co." has received an Or
der for a lot of narrow-guage passenger
coaches, gay little Dudelets, for the
Danyille s. New River II. Il.
A National Convention of Fertilizer
Manufacturers was held in Baltimore
last week, to organize for protection
against unjust and unequal laws, and
excessive taxes. Such a movement has
long been anticipated, and is not to be
wondered at, in view of the legislation
In some States. The following are the
officers of the Association president,
Charles Richardson, Philadelphia vice
presidents, Col. w. l.. Trenholm. Char
lesion, s. c., John NJ. Glidden, Boston,
and f. Frank Coe, New York treasur-
er, W. HI. Graffling, Baltimore direc-
tors, Charles j.. Baker and Robert
Ober, Baltimore, John OFT, Richmond,
Va, and NJ. a. Stovall, Augusta, Ga.
-Asheville Ners. copying our re-
mark that the tobacco dealers of a STEW
towns like Durham, Winston, lender
son, Oxford, etc, have been ..uise
enough to ddrerti,e and work up a repu-
tatiOn for themselves, so that nine men
in ten imagine that all the tobacco trade
OF the State is confined to those points,
proceeds to Inform Brother Shotwell
that he Omits Asheville and StatesyiIle.
and that they are making a reputation
among the BEST tobacco markets"
&c., &c. We are pleased to hear that
some tobacco is sold up that way, but
what a pity they don't advertise and let
the people know of it! The Farmer and
Mechanic has nearly 800 subscribers in
Durham, Winston, Oxford, Henderson.
and Mebanesville,-and they are as
prompt-paying, liberal-minded, intelli-
gent people as the country can produce.
We never lose an opportunity to say a
good word for them, not only because
"Turnand turn is fair-play," but also be-
cause We believe that business men who
appreciate a good paper must be bound to
succeed, and they are the class of per-
sons upon whom the prosperity and
greatness of u grand old State must
hencetorth depend.
A wonderful people, those Yam
KEGS are. They never make a success
OF ANY Iublic enterprise without first
killing Two or three dozen persons by
way oi .reaslng the wheels. as it were
brooklyn Bridge Was opened a. des-
crlhed III last weeks paper. Then every
body n 'he twin cities hurried of To pav
his benny, AMI walk the wires" More
THAI utr uudrcd thousand people cross
ed day alter day. The walk-path being
10 feet wide, was crowded like a car
door when the conductor yells-''Two
minutes for dinner." The pickpockets
saw their chance and started a panic.
There was a sudden rush. and the dens.
stream OF human beings poured down the
night OF IA steps at the end of the CEN
ira span. The brutes behind kept
Growdino upon those i'll front. until
10 lives were lost, and 40 or 50
Others crippled and bruised, 1t was a
shocking spectacle. Great rutfians rush
ed down uIon the struggling mas. of
women and children, trampling them
under feet, and crushing the life out of
them. Dozens of women had the
marks OF mems beotheels upon their
faces and necks. Several women had
all their clothing torn off. The Her
aid gives - columns of small tyne
to a description of the affair. 1t
was shameful. We do not believe that
any crowd of Southern men could be 20
frightened that they would trample upon
the faces OF delicate women, and plead
ing children!
New York, of course. is made up of
immigrants from every cline and coun-
try but We rejoice that the South ha.
never lad a Brooklin theatre-fire,
Reecher scandal. Dor Bridge brutality