The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-28
....Dr. G. j. O'Hagan attended the
recent session of the American Medical
Association in Washington City.

recent session of the American Medical
Association in Washington City.
....A son of Hervy l.. Ne lson,
clerk to Speaker Carlisle, was accident
ally killed in Washington by the cavit.g
in of a bank.
1.-The Marion Lamp Post says MI.
d. Z. Pearson, of Burke, will probably
be the Republican candidate for Con-
gress in the Sth Dist.
....Mr. w. Duke, of Durham, nomi-
mated by the Republican Liberal combi-
nation for State Treasurer, has declined
the call.-Durham Reporter.
....Blue Ridge Baptist In a difficult
ty about a division of a fence, MIR. VIM.
Coston was shot by Jesse Rogers, the
weapon used being a shot gun loaded
with squirrel shot.
Congress has granted to the heirs
the late Walter f. Pool his AREA e of
pay and perquisites in all amounting to
81, 49, so.
....Kinston Press: Mr.. Lawrence Nor
rell intends beginning the publication Of
a newspaper at Greenville, at an early
date. MIR. Mcrrell is a young lawyer Of
talent.
Capt. Neil Ellington. Cashier of
the National Bank of this city, was mar
ried this morning at $50 to Miss Ida
Sloan at the residence of the brides
father, Rey. DR.. Smith performing the
ceremony Workman.
1.-The English steamship Glassalt,
Captain James Sutherland, from Jamaica
with a cargo of 20, 900 punches of banss-
as aud a consignment of %cocoanuts raj
ashore at Cape Hastcras, N. c., Monday.
Part of the cargo of bananas was thrown
overbo ard to tighten the vessel.
....Capt. Octavius Coke is not in the
field for Lie~utenant-G Governor. In fact,
he said to a gentleman from this city, a
few days since, that under no circum-
stances would he be a candidate for the
position. ReUteU.
....Toledo, OHIO nay pa dispatch
from Bowling Green says j: George An
derson, a farmer, aged Is years, was
beaten to death this morning with a hick-
DRY cane by his wife, aged IS. His head
was beaten to a Jelly.
1.-THE first train passed wei the
Dark Ridge fill, 10 miles west of Waynes-
vile a few days ago. This 'fill'' which
is one of the longest and highest in
America, is 600 feet long by l03 in height
and stands a monument to the credit of
the railroad company. -Asheville Ad-
rance.
Rockingham Rocket: We are re-
liably informed that the grading Of the
Cheraw s. Hamlet Railroad is finished to
a point six miles this side of Cheraw.
FIVE miles of the grazing is done on the
line from Hamlet to Gibson's Store. and
three miles of it has the iron laid. On
last Sunday week a force of carpenters
was at work on the Cheraw line putting
up shanties preparatory to going to work
on the grading at that point.
....Rev. John w. Lea, rector of the
Episcopal church at St. Adams, W. Va,
died near Charlottesville, Va Wednes.
day, of a carbuncle on the neck. The
deceased was a colonel of a North Caro-
lima regiment during the late war. After
the war he entered the Episcopal minis
try. He was married to Mrs. Wilson, q
daughter of the late Col. Wyatt, of Ala
nance county, during, his final Hines:
and only ten days before his death.
What the shad is to New Workers
| the pompano il to the residents of New
Orleans. 1t is a broad fat fish, with
skin soft, %silvery, and tinted as a mack
erel's when first taken from the water
1t is caught almost exclusively in the
Gulf of Mexico and off the Florida At
iantic coast. Its weight is usually from
one and a half to three pounds. Lik'
the shad, it il best cooked by stuthng an(
baking.
In Northern cities pompano is an ex
~pensive luxury. Within the last tw,
weeks fishermen on the Atlantic coas
have been surprised to find a species o
pompano in their nets larger than an.
they had ever seen or heard Of. The
weighed from ten to twenty-five pound
each, and ia every way they resembleC
the smaller variety. Some were sent t.
this city. Fish Commissioner Blackfor,
showed one which weighed seventeen
pounds at his fish stand in Fulton Marke
yesterday.
1T came from off Beaufort, n. c.
said the Commissioner. THE giganti
pompano seem to be coming northwar,
up the Atlantic coast. First they wer
taken at Cedar Keys, Fla, then off Fer
nandina, shortly afterward near Savan
nah, and now they have appeared O
North Carolina: l would not be surprise
if some of our fishermen should cate
some in a day or two. l have know
only three Of the big pompano to b
taken before this school appeared, an
within the Las. two weeks five tons hav
been captured and sold in Southern ma