The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-17

Rr Office two Doors Below fuckers Aal!.
Quite a number of communications
on file.
Mrs. Haywood Griffith died sudden
ly near Auburn yesterday.
The arrival of Maj. Nellord Oh
Richmond with a projected charter Tor
the Raleigh, Henderson, and Richmond
Route produced quite a fiutter.
The manufacturer from whom we
ordered our Premium Pencils stll! dIsap-
points us. Says he had a very large Or
der from the American Agricultural to
fill before ours.
Capt. v. Q. Johnson has resigned
from the C c r r., and given up rail-
reading.
More fresl The famous Planters
Hotel in St. Louis, which Dickens de-
scribes in his book on America, was
burned last week. Four lives lost! The
panic was shocking.
w. T. Dorsett, Esq, of Chatham
has removed to Cary. Sorry to learn
that VIM. Crawford Durham, brother
of the lamented Plato, has removed to
Tennessee, or elsewhere, to seek his
fortune" He is a Iephew OF Judge
Baxter, of the U. S. bench, and also OF
ex-Gov. Elisha Baxter, of Arkansas.
There was a panic in the leading
New York theatre a few nights ago, and
several women tainted. The Milwaukee
fire rendered the audience nervous and
when two or three person. jumped up the
whole crowd took alarml
And no wonder. Atheatre burned IN
Russia on Saturday, and three hu"dref
LreS Uere lost!
The ignorance of the South display
ed by Northern men, ever of the social
ed Literary class,"-is amazing. Here
for example is Redpath. the noted Abo-
l~itionist lecturer, describing Josh Billings
life, and telling how he ran a steamboat
up the river to Charlestown. Va.,-"a
town afterwards distinguished by the legal
murder of old John Brown" OF course
he refers to Charleston on the Kanawha
river in West Va, 100 miles from the
Charlestown, where Brown very proper
ly swung for the crime of making mid
night war, with fire and sword, upon I'M
offending citizens of Virginia.
The Marquis of Lorne, Princess
Louise, and nine members of the suite,
reached Richmond on Monday night and
spent yesterday there. To-day they go
down the W. & w. r. r. to Charleston,
where a British vessel. the Dido, awaits TO
carry Louise to Bermuda. Ever si..ce she
got spilled from a sleigh in Canada, she
despises cold climates. Your head is
level, my dear! Wood is so high. you
know, don't you see?
The words of the hymn-'Death
takes a thousand shapes,"-have be, =.
strangely illustrated of late. Last week
We noted a man pierced by an &icicle; an
other burned to death on horseback. an
other frozen to death while walking IN
his sleep. Now we note the killing of a
man and his wife by the sudden plung-
ing of a railroad car upon the top of their
house, while they were in bed aseep. 1t
seems there is an high trestle OH the
Pennsylvania Central R. R., passing near
the cottage of family. By some acct.
dent a car was derailed, and hurled upon
the dwelling.
Last week we noted two terrible cat
astrophes at sea. This week, death
leaves the water, but floats in air, and
RACES in fire, and pursues the hapies-
miners underground, killing hundreds .
1t is stated, and We suppose correct
ly, that Julian S. Carr, Esq. has pUr-
chased the interest of Co. ". [. Dlack-
well in the famous Durham factory for
the sum of $3.50, 900. At this rate the
total business must be near half ami.l.on
dollars, enough to make an ordinary
head swim. Bully for the Bull brand,
And We not only congratulate Ai;j Carr.
but also the town of Durham. I,un
yet experienced, progressive yet d
cious and prudent, the new pIopri.tor
will lose no time in carrying out his idea
that such a business must be pushed; be
cause like an insurance company the m"-
ment 1t ceases to grow, it begins to ial.
off. Many good wishes, Major! Tho
greater your success, the more you WI.
aid and advertise the Old NortL State.
Thanks to Dr.. Eugene Grissom fc
a copy of tie "Annual Report of The
State Insane Asylum. We shall exam.
Inc it hereafter. At present We note al
important item: the total number of pa
tients on the rolls of this (the wllite) in
stitution is about 800. DR.. Grissom
wrote to the Sheriff of every county ask
ing the number of insane persons, I'll
prison; in the poorhouse, and in privat,
families" The table of replies shows
225 white males; 3O4 white females; G.
degrees, and IS negresses; total jS3
Grand total (allowing for the colored asy
ium at Goldsboro,) about 1000 lunatic
In North Carolina. Tie largest mum
bers are: Northampton Is, Pitt 20
Rutherford 10, Mecklenburg and For.
syth IL each, Burke and New Hanove
IL, Chatham and Jackson Is, Randolph
and Surry IA, Wake, Sampson, CASTOR
Lincoln, BERTHE, Cherokee IL each.
Alas for the human being who's