The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-28

DTlR2uc Is ucdu'
w. G. Burkhead Of Catawba, will
remove to Goldsboro.
Edwin c. Burt, who made Burt
Shoes" is dead.
There were l. men hanged by put
lie execution last Friday.
-School-teachers see your chance
in u advertising columns.
Mr.. A. II. Vann, Of Wake Forest,
has been appointed a magistrate vice
+. +. Gill.
The closing exercises of schools ought
to be called Terminal Exhibit instead OF
Commandments.
Prof Sanborn at one time connected
with st. Mary's School, has leased Da-
venport Female college at Lenoir.
The school at Waco, n. G., probably
needs the services of a teacher; Prot.
Blair having removed to Lenolr with the
Rural Chronicle Of which he is editor and
proprietor.
-Thos. Dixon, the young Wake For
est graduate, who abandoned the study
of theology for the theatre, has returned
to bis home in Shelby. He viii write a
play.
President Fish, President Emo, Bank
or Ward, and others are in jail and
President Ulysses has moved over into
New Jersey. New York will soon begin
to brag about her responsibility.
Conrad King, book agent, has been
knocked down and robbed near Baltimore.
Barnum ought to use every effort to cap
ture the rockies. creature who dared to
'tackle" a Book peddler. Anybody would
pay 10 cents to see him.
Capt. Jas. r. Thigpen was in town
last week visiting his brother who is very
ill.-Dr. p. l.. Murphy, Of the Western
Asylum, spent several days in the city
last week and made numerous ~acquaint-
ance.
"A North Carolina negro named
Fletcher Lowery, formerly of the Henry
Berry Lowery gang, was convicted of
murder in Georgia last week. He killed
another negro in a quarrel about a wo-
man.
President Scott. of the r. Il d. r.
r., accompanied by Vance, Jarvis and
Worth, Capt. Andrews, and others, in
Andrews private car, rode to the brow
of Balsam mountain, ten miles beyond
Waynesville last week.
"A letter from Washington City to
Charlotte OJSerrer represents Mai. c.
Dowd as not an aspirant for re-nomina-
ton in the 9th Dist. Also. that c. Il.
Watson is expected to get the 9Th Dist.
nomination.
Frank Leslie's Weekly contains 4
picture of Hon. Tyre York. 1t is re-
cognisable, but rather flattering. Tie
same paper contains pictures of Char
lotte's Revolutionary buildings that are
recognizable, but unflattering-decided-
ly!
"A terrible affair in Deyonshire,
England. \ rich lawyer from Austria
Tia eloped with the daughter of a veal
thy country gentleman. y few weeks
later she was found drowned and bat
tered. 1t was supposed to be Il case of
suicide until the husband betrayed him.
self, as he had betrayed her.
The story of the great storms last
month is yet incomplete. A French
vessel sailed March 9TH for St. Pierre, on
the Banks :of Newfoundland. She has
just been discovered, lying at bottom of
the ocean, with every one of the IS souls
on board! Last week the British Ship
Syria vas wrecked in the FIJI Islands and
20 lives lost.
The Medical Convention was highly
successful, in the social sense, and has
selected an excellent Board of Officers for
the year. President McDuffie, Secretary
Walter Murphy, Essayist Hubert Hay
wood, and the rest, were well chosen, we
think though among so many eminent
gentlemen it must have necessitated a
tossing of the penny to decide.
The "Swiltfoot" Base Ball Club
having o the first game of their match
with the Carolina Club, of Henderson,
by scoring 10 to 13,-will to morrow
marppr looya far uopI4ao~ lz
second game. Fare for the round trip
$3.50. The Cyclones of Durham have
challenged the ''Swiftfoots" for a match
game to be played in this city on Monday
afternoon next. Capt. Askew, asks us
to say that seats will be reserved for the
ladies'.
Not content with playing stool pigeon
for one Ward, Gen. Grant now asks to be
re warded with a pension of SD, 900 a
year, as a retired veteran. The people
have been tired and retired of his un-
blushing begging for a dozen years past.
1t is estimated that Grant. the ex-Butch-
er, ha, had more than half a million dol
lars given him in reward of two years SER
vice in closing the Rebellion, cutting
the wild boars throat after it had been
run down, half starved, badge,el, wound
ed and rendered helpless.
Lightning fired the big Oil Refinery
at Point Breese, near Philadelphia, and
$500, 900 worth of property was burned.
The oil tanks exploded one after another
until 100000 barrels of kerosene were
blazing together. The ground was hol-
low, and the oil soon made a burning
lake, which sent up immense sheets of
flame to the skies! 1t was possibly this
big fire which PRODUCED the min that L.