The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-23
Lord Eaoil apd AlfroJ Nooo .

lord Cecil and Alfred Mace, son
of Jem Mace, the pugilist, held ~evangelis-
tic services in Montreal on Sunday.
millions Bible has found its way
into the British Museum. 1t contains
the dates of the birth Of his child in the
poets hand writing.
....Bishop VIM. Taylor, who is get
ting ready to go back to Africa for mission
labor, was given a reception by the
Methodists of Boston on Monday night.
MIR. Hendricks. the paternal grand
father of Thomas A. Hendricks, kept a
small country tavern near Pownal Center,
W.T. in the early years OF the century.
1.-THE entire state Guard will be
present at the State Exposition in DC
tober. From what we learn, the Guard
will be assembled here, if possible, on
the evening of September Both.
....A bank at Jackson, Miss. failed;
also, r. II. Smith, hay and feed, Rich
mond. Va, and Fendel Horn, wines
and liquors. New Qrleans.--New
York markets . Money per cent; cot
ton steady at 1l(aIlic; southern -four
firm at s3.50(g6 25; wheat, ungraded
red 7Od943c; corn. ungraded white
744c; rosin steady at 81 2210274; spir-
its %turpentine steady at 32(a32tc.
THE new building, or addition to
the Raleigh & CASTOR chops, to be used
as a car wheel foundry, is completed,
and as soon as the moulding sand
(Which will make the hoor) is laid. will
be ready for occupancy. The addition
improves the appearance Of the shops
and gives much more space. All the
car wheels used by the Raleigh 81 Gas
ton and Raleigh & Augusta will in flu
ture be raad2 here.
1.-The only negro Of the Yale grad
uating class, A. NJ. Thomas, Jun.5, was
born Of slave parents. at Charlestown,
West Virginia, in 1854, graduated at the
head of his class in Fiske University,
Nashville, Tennessee, in 1881, went to
a law school in Memphis, and has been
admitted to the bar in Tennessee.
A negro who attempted to outrage a
little white Girl was hanged by a mob in
Tuscaloosa, Ala. -The town of Belk-
nap, Mon, destroyed by fire; only five
houses and adepot building remain
At Iron Gate, Va, a boy jumped in the
river to escape a whipping from the step
father the latter followed, and both
were drowned.-Thres cases of
cholera in Paris-two have proved fatal;
there have been five deaths from cholera
in the department of the Lower Alps.
The Cabinet council at Washington
decided to establish a Gordon along the
coast by vessels Of the ReYenue Marine
service, to prevent the landing of all
vessels from foreign ports which do not
possess clean bills OF health.
-. .Eashington. july I7.-Private in
f,rmation received here from New York
is the effect that Blaine and his mana
gers are growing nervous over Ben But
ler's programme. They are afraid that
he is gGing'' to run as an independent
Greenback Labor IEiCI candidate. and
they have become Suddenly impressed
With the fact that if he should become
spch a candidate he would probably in-
jure Blaine &c g greater extent than he
would injure Cleveland in the doubtful
States, Congressman Scales, the Dem.
ocratic candidate for Governor OF North
Carolina. Is here. lie says that Blaine
hls no chance whafeses OF Carving that
State. lie says that $4,000 majority for
the Democratic ticket in North Carolina
i& 8 nGdest conservative estimate. SEN
ator Yoothaes, Why te4ched Ee.e 10
day from INDIANA, Says tGsstt lie State
is as sure to go Demccratic in Soyem-
Der as is Kentucky. He declares that
the assertion that Mcdonald is indiaer- |
ent to the sIccIss Of the Democratic
Presidential ticket IS utterly Untrue.