The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-30

f delivered by Gov Thomas ]. jarvis, Rev.
f. f. Swift, d. D., Chairman of the
Board Of Missions to Freedmen, Rev. A.
G.. Haywood, of Georgia, and other dis
i ,iuguished gentlemen, at the dedication
i of Bjldle Institute on the 30th inst
A collection was taken up Sunday at the
\ First Presbyterian church, 10 aid &C the
Neckleuburg Bible society. As many as
=. 500 families and individuals in this coun-
1 ty, who were found to be without Bibles,
have been supplied by this society.
Mrs. Tate, of Hendersonville, the
mother of the young lady whose name
was involved with that of Thomas J. Bar
Der, of Chester, states hat her daughter
did rot elOpe with Barber, but that she
and her daughter and the other members
OF her family were completely dec lived.
Mrs, Tate further said that the statement
Of the StateSville landmark that her
daughter had eloped this and several
times before was without any foundation,
except that her daughter, when a girl of
fourteen, had attempted to run away with
a hoy Of seventeen and get married, but
their efforts had been thwarted.
....Several days ago Messrs. J.. J.
CuIber>on and r. \. Jones, Jr., had a
quarrel when the former drew his pistol
and shot the latter twice, one bullet
striking his left arm and the other his
left side just above the hip. Neither
wound is serious, and Culberson vas
bound over In a bond of SODA
white man named. Bryant billiard. in a
paroxysm of anger struck his three
months old infant so violent a blow on
the head that it is expected to die. He
i now hiding out to evade arrest. Pitts
b0ro Record.
THE late Professor Faraday adopt
ed the theory that the natural age of
believed to be measured by the time of
growth. In the camel the union takes
place at eight, In the horse at i've, in the
lion at four, in the dog at two, IN the
RABBIT at one. The natural termination
Is i've removes from these several points.
Man being twenty years 10 growing
lives i've times twenty years-that Is, lou;
the camel is eight years in growing, and
lives forty years and so with ether ami
mails. The man who does not die of
sickness lives every where from 50 to 100
years. The professor divides life into
equal halves growth and decline-aDd
these into infancy, youth, virllitv, and
age. Infancy extends to rhe twentieth
year, youth to the iftieth, because 1t is
IN this period the tissues become firm,
vriity from fifty to seventy-five, duf1ng
which he organism emalnS complete, and
at seventy-fye old age commences to last.
....All the old cavalryman Of Stuart
in the army Of Northern Virginia,
SAYS the Baltimore San of the 2ist inst,
viii remember Yon Borcke, the chief of
taft of the cavalry in the campaign of
,sG3-64, the superb Prussian officer. who
was first IN every charge, and whose
chivalry inspired the ''crlttur companies
from Wiiliamsport to k~elleysville and
Brandy Station. He bestrode a steed
seventeen hands high, and welded a
sabre OF phenomenal size and length. and
the story used to be that when "Old
Won swung that sabre in a right cut he
swept a swathe like a circ'e around him.
Men and horses, arms and legs went ny
Ing from the impetus OF that tremen-
dous weapon At Aide he got a terri
bic wound in the neck and throat, and
IN 1865 he returned TO Prussia.
an the Honlgsrats campaign OF the Aus.
tro- Prussian war be was on the staff OF
the General Prince Frederick Charles,
whom the Germans know as the "Red
Prince" In the Franco Prussian war he
had a cavalry command. He represents
a great family in Prussia, one of his an
cestors having been a General under
Frederick William, father Of Frederick
the Great, and his grandfather command
eG one of Frederick's army corps IN the
campaign of Silesia.
Count Won Borcke himself isa great no
bic ~ the Newmark, IN Prussia, where
he now resides on his estates. Like
Lafayette, he cherishes a great love fol
his old comrades, and last fall, when he
was visited by Col. Chas. S. Nenable,
Gen. Lees Aid de-Camr, and now Pro
tessor Of Mathematics at the University
of Virginia, he he'd the standard of Prus'
sla lying from one turet OF his schlos.
aud the battle flag of the Confederacy
from the other. On state occasions hC
wears his badge of the army of Northern
Virginia, along with the Iron Cross anC
the dozen other decorations he has won
lie will visit Baltimore early in May. anC
will be treated with great distinction by
the old soldiers of both armies, both here
and Washington. The Confederate so
cieties will give him a public reception
aud the hospitality of Maryland will BE-
lavished on him. While here he will b,
the personal guest Of his old comrade
Gen. Bradley i. Johnson, and be 10 spe
clal charge Of the Society Of the Army
snd Navy of the Confederate States anC
Of the Maryland Lire. Gems. Hampton
aud Butler, of the United States Senate
Ftz Lee, w. H. f. Lee, Payne anC
and Wickham, of Virginia, will unite il
welcoming him.