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

1.-THE steamer Dsf1rce recently
cleared at New Berne. y. c.. for Baiti.
more, with a cargo OF 100, 900 feet oflun.
Der.
Mr.. T. J. small. Of Lewiston.
Maine. bought a tract Of l.. 500 arres.
near Edenton, aud VIII occupy il with
good Maize farmers.
&c oldsblro IL yseager. Mr. New
man Potts, a well known citizen OF Brog-
den township. was found dead in bed
SUNDAY morning.
Mr.. G. " P-gram. father OF
Prot. W. II Pegram Of Trinity College,
died at his home IN Haruett c,uuty on
the 9Th ult in hi Il b year.
....E. ID. Shaw, wool'en manufactur-
er at Wales. Mass has failed. with la
bilities Of $1,000 aud nominal assets.
Mr.. James ". Black veil bought
three horses and four COWS while North
a few days ago, for which he pads 800.
....Dr. " p. Exum Of Wayne coun-
t., raised last year $50 worth Of sweet
potatoes on a three quarter acre patch,
says Bulletin.
....James Gordon Bonnett's evening
IeeqrdBt, comes III to-day with Arthur
and Lincoln at the head OF It's columns
for President and Vice-Presideut. The
Herald Is likely TO follow suit.
Mrs. Abbott, of Cory, died a few
days since in the Warren Insane Asylum.
Her insanity was caused BY the death of
her daughter Lizzie, a beautiful girl, VINO
committed suicide about a year ago when
she found hat she had been betrayed
and deserted by her lover.
....Jugde Bond decided the coupon
killer acts Of the Virginia Legislature,
authorizing tax collectors to refuse the
coupons Of State bonds in payment of
taxes, 10 be unconstitutional. in the
States District Court at Richmond on
Friday.
From Toisnot Sunny Home AT
Tarboro last week, William Lett, charged
with numbering a man with a fence rail,
was convited Of manslaughter and sen
fenced to the penitentiary for 3 years.
Henry George, who killed his wife, was
also convicted and gets a term Of 20 years
in the penitentiary.
~ hear that you are to marlya
wealthy American girl, said one British
nobleman to another. "Ya'as," re-
piled his lordship. You must allow
me to congratulate you. Are there anv
en%cumbrances on her property -
"Ya'as, the lady.-Phlodelphia cali.
....Some people always overdo
things. 1t was so with the fellow who
telegraphed to a wealthy maiden lady
whom he desired to particularly please
on the occasion of her birthday: MANY
happy returns of the day in the future
as in the past."-N. J.. Commercial Id
Uertiser.
...."Ah," said an old Highland piper.
as he was describing to his comrades a
recent experience in Edinburgh, s'ah,
there was ae NIGHT Ill ne'er forget.
There were eighteen pipers besides me
in Mrs. Grass wee back parlor in the
Cowgate, an we were playin' different
tunes, an | jist thocht | was floatin' in
heaven"
: Hickory Cdroliaian: 1t seems iDcredul-
Gus, but no doubt true as the Enterprise
says, that Jacob Setzer had 800 In gold
blown away by the cyclone, but has since
found it.--A sack of corn was found
eight miles from Newton that was blown
from that place. Parts of the Meth
odist church have been found three miles
away, and papers were blown from Mr. G..
Jarretts house to within six miles of
StatesviIle-twenty-fve or thirty miles.
Ia mule story is told by DIR. Viii
liam A. Hammond in the Youths Com.
pantOn. While stationed at Fort Webs
ter, in what is now Arizona, he started
down the canon on a very fine and large
mule. The beast stopped abruptly, and
signitied that he would not bulge a step.
Spurs were dug into his TANKS to no u
pose. There he stood as firm as a rock.
Hammond pulled him round, and gallop-
ed back to the fort. The next morning
it was ascertained that at a point scarcely
a hundred yards in advance of where the
mule had gained his victory some Apache
Indians had amhushed the road, and but
for the brute's keen nose and ears, and
frmness In resisting au obstinate man,
short work would have been made of
both. The tale would take better if DR..
Hammond were known to be more tena-
ciou of the tertiary strata of Truth rock.
....Col. Hammett, of the Piedmont
Mills, near Greenville, 5. c., says Caro-
lima girls are the best cotton factory oper-
atlves in the world. 1t is very seldom"
he says, you lind a Yankee girl working
in the mills: All through New England
you will find that the help is Irish, Ger
man, or French-C Canadian, but our Caro-
lima girls are not afraid to work, and the
first thing which strikes the attention of
visiting business friends from the North
is the superior appearance of my opera
tives-tall, stately, with well poised heads
and faces which would do for moulds of
beauty they are as lady like at the
hearth stone as they are proficient at the
loom. They are al! under the s~alutary
influence Of home and church relation
ship, and are a class Of whom any nation
should be proud" Col Hammctt is evi
IDENTITY in love with all his girls that is.
~ a fatherly sort of way, aud The girls in
his factory may well feel glad that they
have such a friend and protector.
10. II. P. Beall, who lives at Da
wilson, Washington county, Ga, had a
fine horse stolen from his stables. Mr..
Beall was in the city yesterday and re-
ports that he recovered his horse last
week at Hickory, in this State, from Mr.
J. G. Hall, to whom the animal had
been sold. 1t seems that she horse was
stolen by Dir. Watson. formerly of Hick
DRY, who arrived safely at that place with
the horse and had a royal good time. He
would drive about the place, treating his
friends to airings behind the noble animal
and cut a dash generally. DR.. Watson
associated with the best people of Hick-
DRY, until finally selling the horse to Mr..
Hall, he went back to Georgia, stole
another horse, was captured, tried, and
sent to the penite1tiary. Mr.. Beall visi-
ted DR.. Watson in prison and offered him
500 to tell where his horse could be
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