The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-07
Mr.. W. V. Clifton is to build the
Powell bridge over Neuse.

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Tho Senate has "a Lawyers, and the
Supreme Court yesterday heard % ap'
pIcations for License. Twenty go'
through; one negro fell, and one passed.
Mrs. Elk -Governor Swain died OIL
Monday, at her residence IN faleign'
closely following her sisters the MISSES
White, whose deaths we recently noted a
trio of very superior women. they were
Mrs. Bennett Proctor. near Rocky
Mount. fell in the fire, while in a tit, and
was burned to death, says the Reporter
and Dilsy King, colored. aged SO, did n
same thing at Newbern, the same day.
-Messrs. w. j. Best, Judge Carruth'
Basil Manly Master Machinlst OF n
Newbern r. R., conductor John a.
Richardson of that Road. Col. +. Z. Vel,
lowly of Pitt, MI. w. G.. Rencber Of
Pittsboro, are in the city.
-Gustave Dore, the French painter,
whose brush pictured hell more frlght-
fully than Milton and Tasso pencllled
it's dead. Wonder if he could mol
improve his painting now:
At an enthusiastic meeting in Stanly
county last week, Capt. H.. T. Guess
and Mr.. A. d. Jones, Cary, and others
made speeches favoring the proposed
Railroad from Hoffman; and committees
were appointed to push things. Push 1t
on, gentlemen.
-nReyerend', Henry Ward Beecher
has given a certificate to a soap-maker,
beginning as follows :-"f cleanliness
is next to Goodness, then soap must be
considered as a ''means OF Grace and
a clergyman who recommends moral
things should be willing to recommend
soap" This is printed in large letters
in the New York newspapers.
1t does seem as if some buildings
are ~''unlucky." The old "Rock Island
factory at Charlotte, caused failure after
failure. and then stood idle for ten years;
and then was leased by Eli Springs anc
r. S. Burwell for a storage warehouse,
for cotton and fertilizers. Its three
stories were packed full. last week al
incendiary, or a locomotive spark, re-
duced it to ashes. Loss about 10000
above all insurance.
Thanks to Rev. Bennett Smedes.
Principal of "St. Mary's," for a pleas
ant invitation to the concert to mem
bers of the Legislature on Monday night
The programme provided for a very ar.
tistic entertainment. and we understand
that the performance met it. DR.. kur'
steiner, the Music Director OF the
school, is superintendent of the Raleigh
Philharmonic Society.
"A new l,0OO-copy, edition of Theo.
II. Hills poems is being printed by p.
W. Wileys's presses, and will be hand
somely bound. In addition to numer-
ous new poems, the older poems have
been ~re-touched, beautified, and extern
ded by the poets maturer pen and al
though Poetry is of all things the least
appreciated in New North Carolina
at this epoch,-we think the volume will
meet with prompt welcome.
Graham Brothers in Winston, and
r. r. Ray in Charlotte have failed.
With great regret we add that VIM. S.
Battle, Esq, of Rocky Mount, has been
forced to an assignment: Messrs. r. III.
Battle and Judge Howard trustees. Liza
bilities about 5000, 900. Other failures.
and losses by fire, caused it, we hear.
He is a leading stakeholder in the Rocky
Mount Cotton Mills. but they will 90
on.-k. NJ. Robinson, of Raleigh
failed fer $4,000.
Some of our exchanges think we
were in error III stating that Marshal T.
Polk was a North Carolinian and
nephew of President Polk. We were
correct, however. His name was never
"Childress." He was born in Morgan.
ton, n. c., May Is, 1881, and educated
at Georgetown College, and at West
Point. He was a school mate of Col.
Wharton J.. Green. who says that even
as a boy he had the handsome face and
popular manners which have won so
many hearts. He married Miss Eyaline
Bills, of Bolivar, Tennessee. and lost a
leg at Shiloh. He attended the Meek
lenburg Centennial in 1875, as one of
the descendants of old Col. Tom Polk
who read the famous "Declaration ,,
He was also selected as heir-apparent
to the Polk mansion at Nashville. which
President Polk in his will beoueatbed
Ito the most deserving of the Polk
famlly'-to be selected by the Legisla-
ture.
MIR. +. j. Hale, Jr., has purchased
the Fayetteville Examiner material and
revived the Fayetteville Observer
which under his father was a leading
organ OF the Old Line Wings in the
South. 1t will be a large, 2S-column
weekly, at 81 a year, Democratic in
politics, and devoted to the interests of
North Carolina. Many old friends of
the paper Will hail its revival with salts
The last number of Mr..
Spelman's State Journal its
suspension pending the establishment
OF a new daily in Raleigh, thoroughly
equipped, and thoroughly independent.
We notice also that an Act to incorpor-
ate the Raleigh Daily Mail publishing
company has passed one House,
The Church MESSENGER will he nr,. >.