The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-16

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Prof. Hanna adds, by way of COMPARE
son, that South Carolina with 60 stamps
yields about S57.O0O and Georgia with
GOO stamps yields 5000, 900.
Shelby aurora denies the ruuIor OF the
100000 offer for the King Mountain
tin mine and says that while the tin ore
is certainly there, the value thereof in
actual Tin" is yet to be learned.
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ANY person having a saw mill and
wanting a good location convenient to the
Railroad will do well to apply to j. +.
Buchan, at Manly n. c.
John Jay Knox has resigned his
position as Comptroller of the Currency
to accept the Presidency Of a New York
banking house.
...Carthage Gazette says: Mr.. A.
b. Mcdonald, who in working with a
pointer at the y. c. Mill Stone Quarry.
got his hand caught in the %jointer, which
cut OFT three of his fingers.
....Dr. Skinner has secured as his
J supply for atime during the coming sum
! mer months, Rev. + Nj. Poteat, a SUI
dent of Louisville, Seminary. Bro. Po-
teat is a graduate of Wake Forest Co.
lege.
Rockingham SPIRIT. While Master
George, son of Col. w. l.. Steele, was
out cunning neal town last Wednesday
evening, his gun was accidentally dis
charged, taking off the end of the little
finger.
....Since- last Monday, ifty-one fiat
cars have arrived at Salisbury from Rich
mond and gone up the Western North
Carolina road. All were loaded with new
steel rails to be put down on the Western
n. T..
....Asheville Citizen is considerably
exercised because some of the trustees
of Chapel Hill have voted down the
mencements. The Institution will sur
vive.-Salisb bury Watchman.
....Toisnot Home: Capt. w. H.
Blount, the talented editor of the w ilson
Muror, has been brought forward by a
Nash correspondent to the Raleigh Ne,0s
and Observer, for Secretary of State. We
know that he would make a good one,
and a good run.
AT Durham Monday a Mr.. Level.
len, brother of officer Harry Lewellen was
shot in the foot by the accidental dis
charge of a revolver in the pocket of MIR.
Edmund F. Smith, of this city. The
unfortunate affair caused much regret.
The discharge ofthe pistol badly scorched
Mr.. Smith.-Nel0s- Observer.
....No. 10 is a beautiful new passen-
ger coach just turned out from the Rich
mond 4 Danville shops, at Manchester
and is said to be the finest car ever put
on the K. 81 ID. rails. 1t is a beautiful
coach and is pronounced by travellers to
be as fine as any hat they have seen on
the Northern roads.
....When the conve ntion meets in
Raleigh we hope they VIII nominate a
Public instruction. In the present con-
more Importance Mdn any other on the
State ticket Washington Gazette.
....Louisburg Times says A teLart
house was burned on the plantation of
Miss Stella Perry, about 4 miles cas- Of
Louisburg.-I In Jefferson, Texas,
March 1lth, Blair Perry, aged Is years.
The tldiugs of this death brought sorrow
to the heart of kindred in y. G..
....A lively scene occurred in a san
Francisco court. Mrs. Schevan was
witness. a lawyer attacked her moral
character. She reached for her pistol
but was checked. Whereupon her son
approached Judge Tyler, when he.was
stopped by a son of the Judge, with pis-
tol in hand. The court at once adiourn.
ed.
....Ex-Gov. Jno. NJ. Gregory, O.
Virginia, died at his home in Charles
City county.-A fire at Huntsville,
Texas loss sac. O00.--A public
building at Asheville, N. c., to cost
$4,000, will be recommended by the
House committee.
MIR. G.. w. Nicholson, ofHawtree.
is taking a lively interest in the EXPOSE.
ton, and will get up a collection of woods
and products ofhis farm.-Mrs. Gen,
Green, while on a visit to friends In Hi
nois, was paralyzed about three week:
since. We earnestly hope the good lad,
is out danger ere this -Warrenton Ga
zette.
Alabama Republicans selected
Arthur delegates to the National Con.
ventioD.-New York markets: None,
II per cent; cotton firm at ii 15-16(0
II 3-l6c; southern flour So 3O06 25
wheat. ungraded red S3c(dsl 03; corn
ungraded Asa 5G!c; rosin dull at 81 4:
a Az; spirits turpentine steady at 80.
f q 33c-
...Secretary Folger directed the dis
missal of John T. Cramer, a clerk il
the Fourth Auditors office. because O
his insulting attentions to a lady clerl
, in the Department. In addition to thi,
= the clerk was subjected TO a severe
thrashing at the hands of a relative o
the lady. Cramer is from Davidson
! county, y. c. He got the lady a posi-
ton as copyist, and her wrote he
notes insisting upon an appointment.
....Adam Badeau. consul general Il
/ Havana. has rendered his resignation
-Charles Reade. the novelist.
4 dead.-Atlairs in the Soudan az,
A ASSUMING a more nIenacing condition
4 more of the tribes are in a state of in
surrection.--The Detroit Times wa
I burned out yesterday.--An acciden
a on the Panhandle Railroad. near Day
: ton, O.; the engineer was killed, tt
fireman fatally and tie baggage maste
and postal clerk badly injured.