The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-09
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Julian S. Carr Esq bought an $500
span of carriage horses ifom DIR. NhIte-
head of Nash recently.
Residences for Miss Malta Hay
wood. and for Rev. Dr.. Atkinson are
being erected.
-Several buildings were stricken BY
lightning in Mt. Airy, and the Preshy-
terrain church damaged.
Capt. Dugger's Normal School at
Franklin starts off fuely with about GO
teachers in attendance.
We have been given to understand
that an energetic and capable teacher
could find room for a large school at
Washington, y. G.
The story by Wilkic Collins which
has 5cen dragging the year out in Hqr-
pcr's Weekly has one merit: it illustrates
how absurd and uninteresting a story
can be made.
Durham Reporter says Mr.. Chas.
St1lIn Will DC hSoAoIaIL III IA
Mcssrs. Fray & Morson's Academy
next term.
Master Geo. Blacknall, son Of DR..
Blacknall, was painfully, though not
dangerously, injured in the foot, by fall
inc while attempting to board a moving
train at Kittrells.
Cotton Gin, and engine, and boiler,
in good order, at moderate prices,
are offered by that thrifty and successful
farmer, NJ. J. w. McCauley, Esq. at
Chapel Hill. See card.
Winston Sentinel says five buildings
now in course of erection III that town
will cost 500. O0.--Mrs VIM. Dun
man was killed by lightning at Green
Hill in Surry.-Mocksville has a
colored lawyer, J.. +. Berry ofAiamance.
The fact hat Gen. Scales weighs
over 200 pounds must have a melancholy
interest for DR.. Yorke. To be sat down
upon" by a man of that size with To-
900 majority at his back would be apt to
make a Liberal grease spot even IN Nc
yember.
Suffice it to ask attention to the new
card of Peace Institute. by the law Of
gravitation or the magnetism due to Thor
oughness in Equipment, in Methods, ard
in Management, the school advances SEES
sion by session. The new buildings not
only increase the facilities for teaching,
but also add to the beauty of the grounds,
and the comfort Of the inmates.
Looking back over the years one can
realize the advances since the McssrS.
Burwell took charge of Peace.
Mr.. Bayard's sympathies were cer-
tainly with the South during the war,
and it is for that reason WI should favor
him beyond all other men for President.
Had he not been for Peace at that time,
and situated as he was,-he would not
be ans puer ct sans reproche. We sat
in his parlor as late as two weeks after
the Battle of Bull Run, and have reason
to know whereof we speak.
Officers of Central Lodge, No. 3,
knights of Pythias, installed by D. d.
CT. c., Charles MckImmon: p. &C.
w. Lambeth: c. C.-S. c. White: VIC.
F. A. Watson: NJ. A.--Frank Stron-
ach: l. CIV. W. Wilson: o. CIV.
f. Taylor. The number of members of
the Lodge in this city is 10. among
whom are enrolled some of our most
prominent citizens.
From friend Duncan Z. McIver Of
Moore we learn that Sanford High
School has engaged the services ofProf.
G. a. Smith, a son CT Rev. DIR, J. Henry
Smith OF Greensboro,-to conduct it
next term. The trustees aim to make Il
iirst-class Academy: and Sqndford is
well located for one as it has an healthy,
economical, moral status, with railway
routes to all the cardinal points. Moore
county has made uncommon progress
since the war, and will keep a-moving.
A pleasant call from Prof. J. f.
IIeitman, formerly of Chapel Hill, but
now Il of the active workers at Trinity
College, and editor of the N. c. Jour
nal Of Education. He speaks hopefully
of Trinity, and looks for at least 100
students next session. Certainly the
Methodist denomination of North Caro-
lima is able to support a tlourishing col
lege.
Even the women are at it,-lhouoh
things have need to be pretty bad te-
fore a oma deliberately shuts her
eyes to jump into the Eternal Dark.
y woman named Mrs. Mary Whitley is
said to have committed suicide near
Winston and a woman named Mrs.
Sidney Bryant succeeded in snuning her
self out in Yancey county last week.
The fact that a pistol, a bottle of whis-
key, and a deck of cards were found on
her table signifies that she was tired of
FUN"
AT Stonewall, N c., Mr.. j. NJ.
Lane was shot three times in a fight
with a man named Osmond. AS if this
were not bad enough he had a narrow
escape from being burned to death
Tuesday night. Johnny Cooper and
Billy Gaskins were sitting up with him,
and while Billy was dressing Mack's
wounds, Johnny holding a large-sized
lamp full Of oil we Mack's head for
Billy to see, Cooper tainted and fell on
the bed, dropping the lamp on Mack's
head, breaking it into atoms and COM
pletely saturating his head, face and
III, u,;tb borosopa oil His hair CAUGHT