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

oosition. Nash and Franklin counties
did likewise.
1t requires less than a week to
cross the ocean Low. y steamer made
the run in G days % hours last week
the quickest thus far.
Pretty Patti vows and declares she
is regularly married to Nicolini; and
that she was divorced, and he divorced,
before they twain spliced.
Two hundred barrels Of gunpowder
went up the atmospheric spout near
Shamokin. Penn, and II persons were
injured. The city thought a comet had
hit the planet.
Two things which harrow the souls
Of the colored congregation list, To
get up before S O'Clock on Sunday, and
2nd, Not to 20 fishing on Easter Mon
day. If the first doesn't kill, the Sec
ond will
Capt. r. +. Fleming and /. Edwin
West Northern soldiers who settled
in Newbcrn, and for ten years were
prominent n politics, are now both at
Fargo, Dakota, holding Federal Offices.
West is a Judge" though OF what
court, we are not informed.
D. Mac Lindsay, whose fame oe'r-
spread the State in the days of Kirk and
Bergin,-was in town last week stimuli
t~aneously with Albion W. Tourgee. He
is about TO establish a Radical paper at
Weldon, We hear.
-Caswell voted 500, and Perquim-
mans $50 for State Exposition pur-
poses. .Guilford Voted to employ a col
lector of specimens. Moore county
commissioners adjourned without ac-
ton.
Bro. Caleb b. Green, of the Dur
ham Plant, and recent Representative
in the Legislature from that county,
was in town Monday, looking as bright
and healthy as his paper looks prosper
Gus. We get many items from it every
week.
DR.. Geo. w. Deans, of Spartan
burg, who highly commended by
well known citizens of that region,--
wishes Agents for the Taylor 81 Cox
cotton gin and Factory safeguard, a
method by which the peril of cotton
ginning can be prevented. Certificates
from parties, whose names We know,
give it high praise.
just in rear of the court house at
Charlotte, a two-story brick building is
being erected by Col. John l.. Bro Hn.
1t is to be a nest for lawyers. a large
circular room will be the library, and a
dozen doors will open into consulting
offices. \ courtroom for magistrates
will occupy the upper floor.
ID. II. Walker" of the Observer,
looks as little sentimental as q bale of
cotton, but in speaking of the Monroe
Academies he murmurs that the moon
light melody of the pianos pervades the
atmosphere sweetly as the Wilson Mr.
ror editorial on Senators, Ga misprint for
seRatoritaS, we reckon.)
The noted Tom Shields, who killed
his brother-in-law, Sitton, near Char
lotte, Oh the charge of seduction, and
was sentenced to be hanged has es-
capped from Charlotte Jail, through the
fundamentally of friends who dug
through the wall, and unlocked his cell.
1t seems a curious story, but it is pro-
badly the best ending Of the matter.
Suicide has been filling graves by
the hundred every day of late. Two
men, who killed themselves in New
York last week, left notes saying they
didit to ''keep from going crazy" One
was a millionaire the ether left 60
cents in his pocket. Two men, broth.
ers.in-law, went out on Goats Island,
over the brink of Niagara Falls, and the
rich n killed the poor one, and then
jumped into the deadly whirlpool!
In the rock quarry of the K. & c..
X. Il. near Youngsville. on Thursday
morning a group of negroes built Il fire
warm themselves while awaiting the
hour to begin work. Dock Robinson
started TO kick the chunks apart, and
knocked a spark into a can of dynamite.
He never knew what hurt him. Edwin
was fatally wounded. Four other
negroes were Frustrated, aud bruised,
have recovered. The noise of the
explosion was heard for miles.
Col. w. II. Crow is down town
again, much improved, we trust.-
Sheriff j. Knox Hughes, of Orange, was
n town last week.-Col. T. c. Fuller
to Oxford on Monday.-Capt.
3. L. Williamson was vi in the Ken
lucky Bourbon region last week.-
NiSLa.li1lh, LSq', was Ill Town
Saturday, returning from the University
committee.
Mr.. Graham Haywood who has been
a tour through Harnett and John
ston counties, for Messrs julius Lewis &
Co., brought back some big pine apple
pine cones, specimens of which We have.
They could be easily trimmed, vanished,
mounted on a pine block, to serve as
card-racks, mantle ornaments and the like.
The French, and the japanese, MAKE mil
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