The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-20

....Prof. Simmons of the Fayetteville
Graded School goes to the Durham
Graded School to take the place of Prof.
Mclver, who becomes Assistant Principal
of the Winston Graded School.
....A Special the compile
ton of track laying on the Western N.
c. Railroad to a point within FIVE miles
of Waynesville, which trains will reach
by the LIST of March.
...Asheboro Courier: The Cape Fear
Railroad is now running about five miles
above Liberty, and fifteen miles Of
Greensboro .-The Randleman manu-
featuring company sold during January
All, 900 yards of plaids.
Thirteen mills have shut down at
Fall river, of which five were closed by
the weavers' strike. 1.-TWO thousand
persons are homeless in the towns of
Marietta and Harmon, Ohio. on account
of the flood Catlettsbuig, KY, is COM
pletely submerged ; the flood is higher
than that of last year, and the water is
still rising.-Mount Etna is in a
state of eruption.
....Rev. DIR. Prime, of the New York
Observer, d%eprecates the assumption
that he has any influence with rich wi
dows. Thus he writes: perhaps l
have not yet made it plain that there
are no rich widows with whom 1 have
any influence whatever. There is not
one in the world of whom I have ever
asked a contribution for any object to
my knowledge. There was a rich mai
den lady in this city to whom 1 wrote
asking for a donation in aid of a widow,
and she sent me a sum so large that 1
was taken all aback, and wrote her a
note Ofimmense thanks and what do
you think she did? She sentme another
donation for the same object just as
large as the first! But she vas not a
widow"
1.-THE annual report of the Board of
Directors and the Superintendent of the
North Carolina Insane Asylum for the
year ending November both 1883.
The total number of admissions since
the opening of the Asylum February 22d,
1856, is 1920. OF these SS5 were males,
and Cos were females the total number
of discharged for the same time is 1920,
of which 759 were males, aud 562 fe-
males. Of these 402 we're discharged as
cured. l94 were improved, 287 unim-
proved, and 43S died. There are now
under treatment 96 males and lO3 fe-
males, a total of 1870 of these no males
and 6 females are at home, on probation
or trial.
AT Waynesboro, Pa, a coasting
accident resulted in the injury of four
teen persons, some of them being fatally
hurt. 1t appears that Second street, be-
ing preclpltous. is a ~favorite resort for
coasters. On Saturday morning a bob
sled, fourteen feet long, was started from
the top of the hill loaded with thirteen
passengers, all young men. The sled had
not proceeded more than a few hundred
yards on its journey OF half a mile, when
the velocity became so great hat all the
pedestrians stopped to watch its flight.
When half the distance had been ira
versed, every passenger lost his hat and
they were all seen to lean their heads for
ward, unable to draw their breath. The
man steering lost control ofthe sled as
the velocity was so great that he could
not see where he was going. A young
woman crossing the road was struck with
terrific force and thrown at least twenty
feet through the air. A heavy market
basket she carried, protected her partially
from the blow and she fell into an i'm,
mense pile of snow. Her body was ter.
ribly bruised and cut and one of her legs
was broken. The sled continued on its
mad race for about two hundred yards,
when it dashed into a heavy oaken hitch
ing-post. The fore part of the sled was
shattered and all its occupants were flung
in every direction. Four of them were
thought to be fatally injured. The re-
naming nine persons VINO occupied the
ear seats, escaped with injuries from
which they will doubtless recover. The
fight of the sled down the hill it is
thought did not last one minute.