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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26
For the r armer and Mechanic
RINGwooD. y. c.. March 81.

blNo NccD. ~ N.. AIdIC II.
Rev. NJ. II. Moore. one of Tie young
est members of the y. {. Conference
NJ. T.. Church. now stationed at Mt.
Airy. Surry county has been on a short
visit to his family. WHO live near here.
Mr.. Moore preached for us Sunday aud
Wednesday nights, and many hearers
his sermons of the first or
der.-able. eloquent, and impressive.
Mr.. Moore is author of 1.-THE pioneers
of Methodism in y. c., and Va, and
his book is pronounced by competent
critics to be readable, even fascinating.
We are always glad when he ONE TO
his boyhoOd's home, and hope to have
him preach for us often.
Joe Dickens Ga brave Confederate
soldier who was shot in the lung during
a bloody engagement in last war; died
at his home last week near Brinkley-
Vile from effects (remote cause) of said
wound, leaving a family of wife and
small children who have been depen-
dent on him for support. Men were
told in the beginning of the war to 20
forth like heroes and they should never
want, but there is not much difference
now between those who fought and
those who didn't, except those who
didn't. have the advantage. Most of
our people with whom l have %conversed
oppose county appropriations to tie
State Exposition. Bridges are bad,
taxes are high, poverty is extant in the
land, therefore say they let individuals
who wish an exposition, have it at their
private expense, &c
l passed the farm of T. V. Avent,
Esq. in Nash county, to-day. Mr..
Avent is a large and successful farmer
and Is going in for tobacco this year. as
well as other crops. He has four large
barns in process of erection, and thOus-
ands of plants. and if any n succeeds
at the business, he will, as he never
does things by halves, believing that
what IS worth doing is worth doing
we'll"
There is said TO be an unusual dull
ness and indifference by both the masses
and managers politically. Both parties
seem to be striving to get up issues
on which they can go before the people.
1t is to be hoped that these signs are
suspicious, and indicate that wisdom is
pointing III to the managers that the
party bidding highest for the suffrages
OF the people in the shape of a MAI OF
principles, whether they run in the po-
liticai grooves or not, will be preferred
to the principles" of party hack candi-
dates. There is no doubt but indepen-
dency in politics has become an alarm
ing factor to the machines and bosses,
and this independent element repre-
senting intelligence, morality and re
sponsibility, uniting against the corrupt
hot-beds of dollhouse henchmen, our
country's redemption will have begun.
May this influence triumph in our next
election. G.. f. NJ.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26
srrnoI ann gburrb department.

Mr.. Frank p. Wyche has a hrst rate
s.b9ol at Laurel Hill.
Rev. s. Fronts, A. NJ, has a very
e.Yri,hins school, at Mooresviile.
Miss Lucia NJ. Vail, formerly OF
Peace Institute, is teaching at Fort
WAYNE, Indiana.
Miss Alice G. Page, a graduate of
Hollins Institute, is assistant teacher IN
the Morrisville Collegiate Institute.
Miss June Spencer, art teacher at Peace
Institute, will, We learn, spend the sum
mer vacation in Europe-N {. Iedcher
Rev. J.. b. Thomas, ID. d., OF Brook
Ign. New York, will deliver the address
at Wake Forest Commencement ID June.
Prof. Silas F.. Warren, of the Nor
r~isville Collegiate Institute, has sixty-tive
pupils. The school is issuing a neat
monthly journal
one of the public school houses in
District No. B, Wake Forest Township
Wake county,, was destroyed by the late
cyclone.
The Colored Normal School at Frank
linton, under the supervision OF Rev. NJ.
A.. Hopkins, has 100 pupils III attend
ance.
The New Bern Academy, the oldest
school building in the State, is to be re-
built, and 81, 600 has been appropriated
tor that purpose.
Jas. W. Reid, Esq, of Wentworth
has accepted the invitation and will de-
liver the Annual Address at Rutherford
College Commencement, May DIST, 1884.
Il. c. Linn, Esq, Superintendent OF
Public Instruction for Rowan, gives notice
to all teachers in that county, through
the School Times, that he will not renew
certificates. Sensible! Many teachers
grow worse as they grow in ruts.
The President of the trustees Of the
University Of North Carolina ha, APP
poin ed as the Visiting Comm:tte for the
current collegiate year Mr.. \ II. Merritt
Chairman, and Rev. y. y. Belts. j. S.
Car, &. VI. Cooke, b. F. Grady, d. p.
McEeachern aud i B Means. Chatham
Rs1Ori.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

I'VE regret to learn the death of
Mrs. Toms. the hostess OF the Ruther
ford Hotel. She had been sick for some
time and died at Rutherfordton on Mon
day night.-Her physician, DIR. Rucker
left her sick room on Friday night and
in one hour afterwards he was a corpse,
having died of heart disease
Some of the post offices in Ruther-
ford County are not kept according TO
postal laws. The mail Is received and
poured into a box on the counter and
every man handles the mail and selects
his own letters and papers without con
sultlng the postmaster. Under this loose
management it is not strange that let
ters and newspapers are not received by
the persons to whom they are addressed.
Shelby Aurera.
Mercy Warren was a woman Of
rare ability and character, the sister of
James Otis, the wife of General James
Warren, and the author Of a history Of
the American Revolution. John Adams,
reading this book after his retirement
from office, took offense at certain
phrases, and correspondent with her at
great length about them, showing IN adj
vancing years an undiminished keenness
of mind and only an increase of touchy
egotism. He makes it. for instance, a
subject of sincere Indignation when the
lady in one case speaks of franklin and
Adams instead of Adams and Franklin.
Mrs. Warren, on her side, shows to the
greatest advantage, keeps her temper,
and gives some keen home-thrusts. She
shows clearly in this correspondence how
strongly and ever justly a portion of the
most intelligent people of Mr.. Adams's
own State dreaded what she calls his
Marked and uniform preference to
monarchic usages'; she brings him to
the admission that he hates democratic
government, and is satisfied with such
repubicanism as that of Holland "a ma
ton which, as he himself says, has no
IDEA OF any republic but an aristocracy'-
and that he counts even England a re-
public, since a republic is merely "a
government of more han one" She
even quotes against him his own words,
uttered in moments Of excited impulse,
Leeognlzing monarchy as the probable
"eStny Of the United States.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

FIFTEEN HUNDRED MURDERERs -
In an editorial in the April Century,
entitled Mob or Magistrate" the
following comparison IS made between
murder and the application of justice :
Over against the fifteen hundred muir
ders of the last year, we have the report
of barely ninety-three legal executions.
Many of these must have been cases in
which the crime had been committed
during 1882, while many Of the criminals
of 1888 had not yet been brought to trial.
1t is not, however, far from the truth to
say that, while thirteen or fourteen hun
dred murders are committed 10 this coun-
try every year, fewer than a hundred of
the m%urderers suffer the extreme penalty
of the law. When the willful slayer
knows hat he has thirteen chances out Of
fourteen of escaping the full penalty Of
the law, the deterrent influence o punish-
ment canno; be said to be very powerful.
THE small number of murderers han
ged by the sheriffs, and the greater num-
Der hanged by the MODS, should be evil
dence enough that the administration of
our criminal courts in many quarters is
fatally defective, and needs reforming.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26
THREE HrNpREp DOLLARS Z ACRE.

THREE HUNDRED DoLLARs PER ACRE.
Three years ago he sold a tract Of
land 10 a Mr.. Sprinkle for - 40, pay
able IN one and two years time. The
man put ten acres in tobacco and paid
for the whole place before the first note
was due, aud the next year cleared 81, 500
on hls tobacco crop. Maj. Rollins says
that three hand cleared for him ten
acres, built four barns aud fences aud
cultivated the same il tobacco at a cost
Of $50, and he realized there from sl,4S0.
la lss2, be cultivated four acres at a
cost Of S2l0 and received thereirom
300. The tobacco raised on these
lands is the fancy yellow leaf, aud anges
10 price from 80 cents to sl,25 per
pound"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

Fear brings disgrace, bravery brings
honor, co,cdrfice sdres no man from has
fate,' says the Caliph Omar but DIR.
Bulls Cough Syrup has saved millions
from an awful fate.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

Meft-:J. Keith is in a position to re-
ceive the congratulations OF his friends,
and the RIVER PRESS herewith makes
its offering. It's a fine girl baby, born
Monday night, and Mr.. Keith realizes
for the first time the delightful response
bility OF being p~dte,J0naiids.
Thomas Cruise Of Helena, former own
er of the Drum Lummon, is again in
luck. Be has bonded to the Montana
company two claims adjoining or con
tiguous to the Drum LummOn for $780,
600. The purchasers, it is stated, put up
$40, 900 either as a forfeit or as part pay
mept.
White plug hats are said to be the
proper kind Of headgear for Blaine fol-
lowers-the chief always sports that
kind of chapeau. This explanation ac-
counts for Col. Sanders appearance with
one the other day as he was returning
from the convention.-Livingston En-
terprise.
The notice, sheep for SALE" found
elsewhere in our columns, should att
tract the attention of wool growers.
These sheep rank among the best in the
territory, as shown by The fact that id
1882 the company got 264 cents pet
pound for their wool, and % cents id
lSS3-the highest prices paid in these
years.
A carload of machinery, including a
small engine, has arrived, consigned to
d. j. Kenelly. 1t is for use at his Mis-
sion Dairy, in the process of cream and
butter making. By its use the milk is
taken from the COW and converted into
butter ready for the market without be-
ing touched by hand.-Livingston En-
terprise.
The new banking house at Cooke City
was opened one evening last week with
a dance, which was broken up by a gen.
eral fight growing out of some trif1ing
matter. When the fight was ended the
sheriff had one prisoner and ten revol-
vers, but several individuals, including
the deputy sheriff, were next day ar
rested and fined.
Sheriff McDevitt will rattle off his
well known race horse, Lance" other
wise known as .Sorrel Nike on the
evening of the 4th-that is, after he has
cleaned up everything on the race tradk.
One hundred tickets at So each will be
sold. The horse is worth $500 without
regard to his running qualifications, but
he fact must not be overlooked that he
is a goer from away back. ~
III. McNay arrived IfOm
yesterday. He informs us that the smell
ter has closed down for the present
the supply of coal being exhausted. The
management will now make a report of
work done during the last run, after
which the programme of the future will
be determined upon: Messrs. Burg
hardt and Blattner will probably arrive
the city to-day or tomorrow.
Iy Tv@-wwv-~.Al .c ~ .oo1 Ypn
of Farnsworth & Wallcott, of Mime
appolis, arrived in the city last evening
from his visit to the Sand Coulee coun-
try. Mr.. Farnsworth has very carefully
surveyed the land, and expresses HIM
self as very well pleased with tue region
surrounding the new townsite. lie was
particularly impressed with the great
natural advantages, the wonderful water
power, the abundant coal, and the large
area Of tillable land directly tributary 70
Great Falis.-Independent.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

John Lepley came in from the round
up, at Flat creek, last evening. He re-
ports that the roundup is progressing
finely and in a few days will be camped
at the Lakes. They will be at Spring
coulee corral about Sunday week, when,
doubtless, many of our citizens will go
out to see the boys. -
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25


The river is falling rapidly and is now
about six inches lower than it was last
week.
Gov. Brooks, of Warm Spring creek,
has had several head of horses stolen
lately.
Several loads of wool-the forerunners
OF the great clip of northern Montana
arrived yesterday.
Prof. Foss writes us that his post office
address for some time to come will be
White Sulphur Springs.
The tourist travel to the National
Park has commenced, and promises to
be pretty lively this season.
Sam Kohlberg left for Barker yester-
day morning. 1t is likely that he will
visit Neihart before he returns.
The Glendive post office has been
placed in the presidential list, and the
salary of the postmaster fixed at 81, 100.
T. F. Morgan left yesterday by private
conveyance for Stanford. He expects
to be prepared to begin business next
week.
John Y. Stuart dropped dead at his
home in Prickly Pear valley last Mon
day. Heart disease was the cause of his
death.
VIM. Mcqueen, assignee of F. w.
Reed & Co., paid a dividend of twelve
per cent. to the preferred creditors on
the 18th inst.
A report is going around that twenty
five head Of horses, branded DL, were
stolen from the vicinity Of Calgary and
sold in Montana.
Mr.. Comstock, the Helena druggist,
returns home this morning. He is well
pleased with the result of his visit to
the river metropolis and will come
again.
A large warehouse owned by Caplice
& Smith, and which had just been fill
ed with goods, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th inst. The loss amounts to 500
600. 1T is believed there was no insur-
ance.
There is no good reason to believe that
1.-THE smelter at Clendenin has shut down
permanently. After-a report is made
on the last run it is very likely that
operations at the camp will be resumed
at once.
Last week, While Frank Strong and
his men were crossing some cattle a
short distance down the river, his horse
fell into the water with him and carried
him under. He had a pretty close call,
but was rescued by his men, Fort
Macleod Gazette.
An attempt was made to rob the Car
~terville p~ostoffice Saturday night, but
the robbers were frightened off by the
watch dog. The attempted robbery
gave rise to the rumor yester-
day hat the Benton coach had been
held up.-Independent.
VIM. Hickey brought in this morning
from che famous Blue Bird gold mine,
belonging to Messrs. Cotter & Hickey,
of Mount Pleasant, $4,000. The treas
ure was brought under guard by pri-
vate conveyance, and deposited in the
u. S. assay office for melting.-Herald,
10th.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25
LOCAL

From Wednesday g Daily.
A portion of Curry's wool, from Ar
row creek, arrived yesterday.
The first load of 0. G. Cooper's wool,
from Dupuyer, arrived yesterday.
The Northwest Territory is we'll rep
resented in Fort Benton at present.
r, w. Peck came as far as Highwood
Yesterday on the Billings coach, en- route
home from Chicago.
An order has been issued directing
the Fourteenth and Twenty-first infan-
try to change places.
"Another Burglary is one of the
most frequent headings on the local page
of the Butte papers nowadays.
Thirteen patriots announce through
the columns of the New North West
their readiness to serve the "dear peo-
plei of Deer Lodge county.
Two men working a small vein of
quartz between Grizzly and Nelson
gulches, pounded out in a hand mortar
$3.50 from fifty pounds of quartz.
The wool men are beginning to arrive
in numbers, and hundreds of thousands
of pounds of unsurpassed Montana wool
are now on the way to this market.
~ Proposals for furnishing beef for the
several Indian agencies of the territory
will be received by the commissioner of
Indian affairs at Washington on July
1st.
Savage & Reed, of Belknap and Heron
Siding, have made an assignment to
Portland creditors, and since the assign
ment eastern creditors have attached
the stock.
A son and heir, the "first-born," put
in a claim for care and a whole lot of at
tention at the home of d. G.. Browne
Yesterday afternoon. The RIVER PRESS
extends congratulations.
The contest for the land office at Miles
City has been settled, Capt. Kreider
retaining his position as register, while
Mr.. Chisholm gets the registership of
the Bozeman land office.
Governor Crosby has been purchasing
some fine thoroughbred Attorney cattle
and shipping them to Montana. The
governor has come to stay. He is no
''carpet Dagger. o-Inter Mountain.
Work on the Teton boom, to catch
the wood drive, was commenced yester-
day, and will be completed in a few
days. AS the high stage Of water is
favorable, the drive is expected in a
chart timn
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

fFack Lee, The Macleod stage driver,
Says the alleged fight between Indians
and cowboys, as reported in the Gazette,
Ills all a mistake. Such a report was
drought to Fort Macleod by a Piegan
named "Shorty," but he got the thing
very badly mixed. A fight occurred be-
tween Piegans and Crees below Kipp's
crossing, but with no very serious re-
suits. |
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

r. c.. Power & Bro. have the contract
for supplying the Canadian Pacific con-
tractors with beef, and for this purpose
recently purchased of Mr.. Simpson, in
beef steers. Asa Samples and D. w.
Marsh are looking after the business up
north, and a party Of cowboys recently
left here to receive and handle the cat
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

We e that A. Gibson, of Hughes
vile, has been granted a patent for a
smelling furnace. This is the Gibson
who made a rude smelter at Barker,
and succeeded in reducing ore very
nicely, only that his material was not
of the right kind. His patented fur
mace, we have no doubt, will be a good
one, as he is a practical man at that
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

Chas. E. Comstock, Of the drug firm
of Comstock & Paynter, Helena, arrived
in the city on yesterdays coach, and
will return tomorrow. This is MI. C.'s
first visit to the river metropolis, and
he forms a very favorable impression Of
orr city.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

\ The plans and specifications of the
new court house call for q shingle roof,
and besides it is a thing unknown in
architecture to put tin on so steep a roof
as that is. Slate would make a very APP
psopriate roof for such a handsome
building, but it would be a little expen-
size. The Record building, we believe.
has a shingle roof, and nj one would
designate that as a fire trap
Another branch Of the fire depart
ment is about to be organized, and it
promises to be a useful one in case the
fire fiend visits our city. Dick Brennan
has the matter in hand and the new
company is about ready for organiza-
ton. 1t is proposed to form a Bucket
brigade, composed entirely of persons
whose occupations keep them up most
Of the night, and who. in case Of alarm,
can respond at once. Each member is
to have q bucket of his own. kept in his
room, or some convenient place, SO that
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

T.. w. Peck, fresh from two CONVEX
tons at Chicago (tle wool growers and
republican national ~convention), arriy-
ed in the city yesterday from his ranch
on Belt creek. He reports having had
a very pleasant trip, and one that will
pleasant acknowledgements
Gomez Mr..Peck wrote several letters to
Frhe~RlvER Press giving the proceed
ings Of the conventions, all of which
were much enjoyed by our readers.
From Clyde Eastman, who returned
from the mines, we learn that the Dream
gulch boys made a cleanup Of II ounces
last Sunday, worth So. 1876, from 48 hours
run, among which was the largest mug
get yet found in the Occur d'Alenes, its
value being $3.50. MI. Eastman
washed out $3.50 worth of dust from n
pan, on the claim Of II. S. Back, OF
Glendive, Mont. Mr.. Back will be re-
membered as the ma whose seat was
contested in our last legislature. He no
longer takes a back seat.-Thompson's
Falls Index.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

+ The liver is falling rapidly and is now
about six inches lower than it was last
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

Chas. Boissonneault, one of the mer-
lchant princes Of Maiden, arrived in the
lefty yesterday. He reports that camp
looking up, with bright prospects for
the future.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

The placer mines in the vicinity Of
Maiden are yielding a good quantity Of
gold.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

The parties who are sinking Major
Dunne's we'll OH his bench farm are
down about 80 feet and the indications
of water are good. They expect to
sstrike it, soon.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

Melt: y. Keith is in a position to re-
ceive the congratulations OF his friends,
and the RIVER PRESS herewith makes
its offering. It's a fine girl baby, born
Monday night, and Mr.. Keith realizes
for the first time the delightful response
bility of being pdtertunlitias.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-25

! Gov. Brooks, of Warm Spring creek.
has had several head of horses stolen
lately.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-08-23

given out in the first instance instead Of
endesvoring TO conceal them.
There are two sui jecis. said friend
of mine, who is patent lawyer, "ihat
have absorbed more brain tissue from
the heads of inventive geniuses than
would be necessary to ut.weigh all the
gold that has in consequence been put
into their pockets The FIRST Of these is
the coupling of railroad cars. Over two
hundred patents in a year are Issued for
these hitchIng devices. Why so COM
parntlvely urimportsnt matter should
receive so much attention on the part of
inventors is more than / can explain.
The other great line of ratented inven-
ton is more sensible, though possihly
not much more productive of rewards for
genius, for it relates to aids for comfort
able sleeping Go to any industrial fair
and you will see numerous novelties iu
bedsteads, all intended TO conduoe TO
the luxury of slumber, The variety Of
these exhibits, however, is very small
CON pared with the patented articles that
never get SO far from the hands of the
inventors as TO reach the market.
Anumber of bank presidents through.
ont the country have written to the
Postmaster. General asking him TO ex-
clude "Thompson's Bank Note and
G mmercitl Reporter" from the mails.
In referring to these letters to day, AS
sisthnt Attorney. General freeman said:
The Bank Note and Commercial Re
porter isa blackmailing sheet pubhshe d
In New York. The plan is to send the
paper to all the leading banks, and after
a time bill foI Sj is sent to the bank.
Upon the refusal of tie bank to pay the
bill, a letter is sent threatening TO at
tack lis credit unless the bill Is paid"
The new pension office building is
progressing slowly and when completed
will he one OF tho largest structures in
the country. It is built of brick with
WI" Co'io u 'luDi iuBh CouldlnlnB repre-
seniations of military life. While the
Pension Office is often regarded as hos.
Tile to the interests of the soldier, the
Committee on Pensions Of both the Sen.
ate and House OF Representatives have
been exceedingly friendly. Senator
Mitchell, chairman of the Senate com
mittec, has been known to strongly re.
commend pension, as being just and
proper, which has been d!sallowed by
The pension officials. 50 also in tie
House committee, MIR. Patton, of Penn
Sylvania, a Democrat. has been beard TO
say that lie ouldSaoner see the Govern
ment suffer, than to feel that deserving
soldier should go uurewarded 1t is a
rare exception that Congress does not
grant a pension when recommended by
the committees