The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-09
Comics of the Farmer and Nechdni

sonic Grand Lodge which convened IN
this city Yesterday evening. Although
m, = Mason. we honor the motives OF
the Mystic Order, appreciate Its good
works. and endeavor to practice (feebiy'
nerbans. but we'll Intentionally its car
dinal principles of Fidelity, Charity ana
Morality. We trust the Lodge VIII
have a pleasant session
The n G. Grand Lodge. Knights OF
Pythias has been called to meet IN kal-
eieh, on the second Tuesday in February.
Eugene @. Ilarrer!, G. {.
in Wilmington, Christmas eve, Pres
ton l.. Bridgers store was broken into
Gas it was on Christmas Eve of last year
also); but without much loss.
More than one dozen persons com
mitted suicide on Christmas in various
cites, from mental prostration. the
o,ntrast of their own lives with the lives
of others.
1.-The wicked stand on slippery
places, saith Scripture. but it wasn't
much consolation to the upright men
who slipped and sat dozen bumptiously
yesterday.
The Catholic convent at Belleville,
ILL.,, burned or Mo1day morning, during
the intense cold. Five girls leaped from
a 4th story window. One was killed;
all will die!
-Messrs. Wetmore & Co.. of Thorn
asville. have leased the Penitentiary
Shoe Factory, and will turn out several
hundred pairs per day. Negro farm
hands generally send for ''penitentiary-
made" brogans.
Mfr. 3. II. Woodell offers to furnish
tobacco seed free 10 all Wake county far
mers willing to plant them. He realizes
tiat extraordinary efforts ought to be
put forth by all of our citizens to build
up the city.
The Knights-Templars of Raleigh
Encampment No. 4, are a fine looking
body ofmen, and the other night when
arrayed in their w%ar-dress of white
plumed, helmets, sashes. swords and
spurs, they looked very gallant and
knightly indeed, the ladies say. Grand
Master Grissom and Grand Marshal
Nichols conducted the Installation ccre-
monies. The Knights will give 4 public
parade on horseback during Exposition
week, we hear.
1t is said the mercury has not been
down to zero at Raleigh, siuce lS57,--
the "cold winter We spent that win
ter in Middle Pennsylvania attending a
small Academy, and we recollect that the
building was nearly buried in snow, which
was six feet deep on level ground, and
sometimes drifted into mountains. Few
farmers could leave their homes for
weeks. and only the main stage roads
were cut out. The cutting OUT
caused huge banks on each side OF the
rad so high hat even the four-horse
sages could not be seen. When the snow
crusted, people in light sleishs rode all
across the country passing over fences
like a boat on the water.
We learn from w. b. Smith, Esq,
and others that the Stock Law continues
to spread in Wake. When a township
has adopted the law, it is allowable for
any adjacent and connecting farms to
be included if desired by the owners
Thus the circle has grown wider and
wider. and we hear that it already in
cludes portions of Franklin, Nash,
Granville, and Harnett.
Meanwhile we notice the adoption of
the law by townships i'll Cumberland,
Chatham. Iredell, etc. A map showing
the amount of territory already under
the ;egis OF the Act would likely sur
prise those who have not been CONVEX
SAINT with tile matter.
Maj. Crenshaw believes in Thor
oushbreds, and in doing things in
Thoroughbred style. Visitors to the
F. & NJ. office will notice a neat frame
enclosing the Registered Pedigree of his
Jersey heifer. Tolet 44lphea,-a great
granddaughter Of Rex, and Alphea
whose record runs as high as % pounds
of butter per week, or seven days. Mai.
Crenshaw wisely feels that the value of
such al animal is largely contingent
upon the ''clearness of title or strain
hence his care in preserving an official
pedigree.
BY the by, we notice that Capt. sgd.
B. Alexander, of Charlotte, last week
received a 5000 Jersey hsifer, and DR..
Mott and Mr.. VIM. G.. Upchurch each
lost animals worth s2iO, or more.
These prices indicate that Mrs. Lang
try's mild-eyed namesakes, like herself.
know how to tickle the public eye, and
purse. 1t is said there arc 600 Regis
tered Jerseys in Georgia.
Newspaper men, who are constant
~ looking over the papers, notice many
curious occurrences. We alluded last
week to the succession of tragedies in
the Watkins connection in Northern
Wake,-one young man accidentally
Killed by his brother; another killed in
mistake by a midnight assassin, etc.
Now comes the death of Jesse Watkins.
aged so. the Neuse River Hermit. He
was indicted at last term of Wake court
for the killing of Gray Strickland, in
Neuse township, during the war. We
are not acquainted with the particulars.
1t may be remembered, also, that Mr..
PEBBLES, the nan who SO narrowly es-
capped the lurking bullet, is a relative of