The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26

THE Fayetteville Companies prefer
to hold on to their old gray uniforms.
Sensible. Spirit Of the Age.
....A. G. Nifong, who forged a note
OF loo on a citizen OF Winston, has been
arrested in Hope, Indiana, and brought
back to stand trial at Fersythe Court.
lien. u. S. Grant will spend about
two mocths in Charlotte. for the purpose
of recuperating his health, says the o.
serrer of that city.
....Durham Recorder. We heartily
en- lorse Mr. B. IL. Cozart's suggestion
below, made in the Oxford I~OrchIght,
t. establish a stage line from Durham to
Oxford.
Tho Raleigh correspondent of the
Norfolk Tirgiatan writes on the 18th
Some Democrats say that Scales must
have the Gubernatorial nomination.
that it is due him, &c. There are re-
ports that a slate, on which his name
holds the principal position, has been ar
ranged in Washington.
...Guerrant, the ingenious inventor
of Danville, Va, is dead. He was a
man OF very clever mechanical genius.
We saw his wonderful rat trap some
seventeen years ago. He also invented
IN engraving machine and machines for
plugging tobacco and for stemming to-
bacCo.
1.-THE white polls returned we're
13l,72s; colored, Ga, 32l. From Nash
county no return of polls was made. The
poll tax was Sl.21t and the proceeds be-
long chiefly to the public schools. The
State taxes levied for schools are retained
for use in the counties where collected.
For the year they amounted to $469, :
1912, derived from a levy of -! cents
on property, 81 cents on polls, and the
tax on auctioneers tS39.S7) and on liquor
retailers ($4l, 229.S5).
....A passenger train from Chicago
was wrecked near Columbus, O., by a
landslide; the engineer and fireman
more or less injured. -Severa build
county, Texas loss $50. 000. --Osman
Digna with a few followers has fled to
the interior of the Soudan. james
Bowens shot and killed Miss Rouk, OF
Brentwood, Tenn, while handling a pis-
~ The reward offered for Osman
Digna's head has been withdrawn.
Capt. r p. Paddison, who left
here some weeks ago on the steamer
North Stote for Georgia, after making a
stormy and eventful trip. is on a visit to
his family. He expects to return to
Georgia next week. The North State is
to ran up the Alamaha river to the juno.
ton of the Oconee aud Oconee and DC.
mulgee rivers; up the Oconee river tc
Mt. Vernon and up the Ocmulgee tc
Abbeyvilie, making a distance o. about
three hundred miles. Doctortown is the
terminus on the Altamaha river, and here
the freight is transferred to the Savannah
Florida & Western Railroad. Capt.
Paddison informs US that he has met
with good success so far and the prospect
ahead is very Observation-Disclosures
Star.
....Col. VIM. Johnston said that il
the coming campaign he would be an out
and out Liberal, but wants it distinctly
understood that he is not, never was and
never expects TO be a Radical. He say:
that the chances for Democratic defeat
were never brighter and Is %sanguine that
the Liberals and Republican will carry
the State by an overwhelming majority.
In answer to the question as to who vii
probably be their next candidate for Gov
ernor, Col. Johnston replied that foul
names are known to him, one or the other
of whom will be the man. He would no
give names, but said they were men who
were formerly Democrats
Col. Johnston was in a good humol
and apparently impatient for the time tC
come when all the Democrats are to be
sent up 10 a balloon : Charlotte Obserrer