The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-04

....h OIL VIII De reported 10 lOngress
TO reduce newspaper postage from two
cents to one cent pound. mines
Of the Cnited States produced more gold
IN 1884 than during the proceeding year
Capt Marshal, conductor on the
Air Line road, reports that the people
about Gainesville are excited over big
meteorlc stone that fell IN the vicinity
of that town Tuesday night about Il
0 clock
-. Mr.. T. b. Kings bury Of the VIII
mlngton Star stafi, has been invited To
deliver an address before the next ses-
sion of the North Carolina Teachers
Assembly, to be held at Black Noun
tain Hotel III June next. The teachers
mar prepare TO hear something good
from him on that occasion.
-. Lady Strodbroke, who is the real
author of the libel about the alleged
elopement of Lord Lonsdale with Lady
Grace Fame, daughter of the Earl Of
cstmoreland, Is ostracised from society.
Her punishment, though not at the hands
of the law, is much more severe tan
that of Mr.. Yates.
-. Miss Susan b. Anthony's brother
in Leavenworth, Kansas, has been slap
ped over again. He was abusing the
Southern people, when Judge Green,
Democrat, reminded him of some of his
own bulldozing and viliany when he was
Mayor of Levenworth He then INSULT
ed Green, who knocked him out of his
chair.
We notice in the argus, paper
published at Brinkley Arkansas, the
death of Doctor John Campbell Nc
Kethan, cousin Of Mr.. A A. Mex ethan,
aged 81.
Doctor McKethan was we'll known to
Bluff Church, in this county, attended
to 90 to Chapel Hill, where be graduated
Kemp P. Battle, and others.
-. The Womep's Silk Culture Asso-
citation, of Philadelphia, presented the
Senate and the House each with silk
flag made out of American grown silk.
--Sidney West, son Of General A.
NJ. West, of Holly Springs, Miss, while
handling pistol was shot and killed.
The Chicago police are greatly
exercised over the finding Of an internal
dynamite machine among the lot of books
stolen from the Chicago Public Library
"A box Of dynamite was found near
the Hannibal and St. Joe Railroad bridge
at Kansas City, Mo. A paper of that
city says the box was thrown off train
by John Meehan, one of O'Donavan
Rossa's agents, who was shadowed by
English detectives. ~ Efforts are being
made through the Philadelphia courts
for the release OF DR.. Henry T. Helm
bold, Of buchu fame who has been con
fined in The Norristown Insane Asylum
for nearly four years.
The cause of woman's rights is
gaming ground IN the ,Uuuh. IT, ye-na
ladies have been chosen engrCsslng clerks
of the house Of delegates OF the Arkansas
legislature. 1t Is also noticeable that
there we're several female candidates tor
these position, one of whom was urge
by an enthusiastic solon as peculiarly
fitted for the work OF an engroSslng cler k
by reason of her exceeding great beauty.
Yet it Is gratifying to record the fact that
the successful parties seem TO have been
selected on account of their qualifications
for the place and. in the case of one, the
additional claims OF gallant service rem
dered the state by her father. We are
pleased to see the South thus accord re
tcognition to her daughters and admit
. them, even if at first in limited degree
to fair and honorable competition witt
men for employment for which both sexe
: have equal physical and men al equip
} ment And as for the moral effect which
female CO worker will exercise upol
men, it ought not be too lightly estimated
el -. Washington, January 21.-Secre
: tary Lincoln has received a Telegram
from Major General Pope, commandin
the department of Arizona, torwardln
a telegram from Lieutenant Nc Donal
;, dated January 25th, in regard to bis en-
+ gagement with Mexican mutineers o
the Mexican frontier on the 2 tn instant
He says his troops were in ambuscad
IS when the leaders came along, and tn
k man 10 front made a break with his RI
= volver, which caused the troop to iir'
A charge was then made by Lieutenar
le jerks, and four mutineers were kllle
and twelve captured in about fittee
minutes. The mutineers were scattere
along the road for long distance. I'll
day after Lieutenant Mcdonald left tt
~ field the governor of Lower Calitorn
came along with about thirty armt
~ men, claimed to have been picked |
7 II from ranches. and gathered in nine othe
il:e who were still in hiding, half starvt
10 and frozen. Indian runners intormt
Lieutenant Mcdonald that more mu
neers were coming to water ar I'll
t Knob, and were anxious to fight u
he troops. No attention was paid to Il
"a challenge, and the two parties march'
all away together until they had pass
as few hundred yards into Lower Gallo
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be
ut The Farmer and .necAdHic Is one
S. those papers VIII ich has predicted la
ad times and sought to prepare our peoI
% for them; if they could not be warded {