The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-06

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-1l33 points.
-Four tramps were taken from jail
atAuderson. Ind. Wednesday night.
Is forty meu armed with long switches.
aud whipped until they bled.
Mr.. J. ". 5. Robinson, Represen-
tative in the Legislature from sampson
county, was happily married on the I'D
inst. TO Miss Nettie Corbett, a beautiful
and charming young lady Of the Black
River section.
1.-The j.. VI. Worth Manufacturing
Company are putting into their cotton
factory at Worthwhile. y. G.. twenty adj
d.tional Lowell 36-.uch ,heetng looms;
also one Harr.e-Cor.is, l25 horsepower
engine.
1.-THE following Is the programme OF
he Superior Court, for Wake under the
new a~pportionment July Is. two weeks,
criminal causes only. August 81, two
weeks; civil causes only. September =,
two weeks criminal. October 20, three
weeks; civil causes only.
1.-The war cloud 10 Europe seems
suddenly to have dissolved -kgyp
tian advices say that Nahdi men are be-
coming more daring every day and a Tor
ward movement By the BRUSH troops i
expected. Two ti,emen were crushed
to death at a fire in Chicago.
....WheeIine. W. Va May This
city Is no longer the capital OF West NIr-
GINA. Charleston was invested with that
honor to-day. All the official documents
and ofice furniture and books and papers
we're removed yesterday and to -day. GOV.
Wilson and the other state officers babe
f farewell to tho old rapItal IN day.
....Panama, May Sunday night
last a tracas occurred between some
Jamaicans and national soldiers at Cu!e-
ora. The latter were disarmed, aud after
ward retired. After procuring reinforce
meuts they returned and broke into the
barracks, where the Jamaican> we've
sleeping, and in a most barbarous man
ner killed twenty-five Of them and wound
ed twenty others. Only one Colombian
was killed and none were wounded
Jamaicana are leaving 10 great numbers
Their departure will delay work on che
canal.
....A very remarkable Incident Is re
!, ported BY the Greensboro Workman
which is alike honorable and exceptional.
Mr.. j. Porter Paisly contemplated en-
tering the Presbyterian ministry and was
a beneficiary OF Orange PrtSbytery. to
which he was indebted several hundred
: dollars. Mr.. Paisley having concluded
that he was entirely mistaken IN assunt.
ing that he was called to the ministry
has refunded 20 the Treasurer the entire
: amount advancing with interest.
\ We are not informed as 10 the vocation
| the young man now intends 10 follow, but
J the Ga4ette tenders to him its most court
; eous salutatlon and assures him that he
! coulG not better begin life anew than "
! canceling SO honest a debt.
Richmond, Va, may Rich
mond society Is deeply interested in the
# announcement just now OF the engage.
ment Of Miss Julia Jackson, the only
daughter Of General Stonewall Jackson
to Mr.. William +. Christian. The mar
y riage will take place June ., at the SeconC
: Presbyterian Church, and the ceremoDy
be performed by the pastor, Rev. DR.
Moses d. Iloge, who was a dear friend d
e the Confederate soldier, and conducted
! hi, funeral services from the same churcl
in which Miss Jackson is to be welded
The lady is as we'll known 10 Baltimore
as in Richmond. Sire is universally ropu
. lar. Mr.. Christian is about twenty-eighr
years of age, and one of the most popular
:, and successful business men of Richmond
J After service Of several years in a large
. banking house OF this city, he begar
business last fall on his own account, a,
y the general Southern representative o
> NcDcrmid y Co ofChlGag0.
....It really seems a truism that time
: at last sets all things even saw TX,
t Senator John j Patterson moving along
g the street, looking but little older thar
when he sat IN the seat OF John {. Cal
houn in the Senate. lie did MT look IA
ii prosperous, however, as IN days OF yore,
q and has lost that rather independent
bearing that he used to have when en-
dowed with political power. But there
q must be something in this man, for it i
a not often that one commits as many mis-
, deeds as are set down to the credit of thu
q person and escapes the penalty ofthe law
[ can readily understand how his politlca.
concessions IN seating General Butler, the
\ present Senator from South Carolina
q wGuId give him some immunity, but the
statutes of Imitation vii not u againsr
everything, and ii is said that fortune il
turning against this singular character
! Patterson has had a strange career. He
r. was delegate to the atIoual Convention
: that nominated Mr.. Lincoln. He wa.
! afterWard a whisky dealer, then a railroad
= contractor and afterward a Senator of the
e United States without power or respect.
! Finally he went back to his original voca
: ton Of contracting, and it would he a fit
ting end to his rather curious carcerl Ii be
should turn to keeping a saloon.
y ....Aktapa is . village on the KushI
5 where there IS an important bridge, the
crossing OF the main road from lIerat
q and also from Sarakhs, to Pepideh
q From Penjdch, which the Russians arc
reported to have occupied, to Iierat is
about 100 miles.
The broad. leye! Murghah valley. five
or six miles wide at PcDjdeh and twice
that width below the kushk. was once
very fertile Now it is a desolate waste.
Reeds and coarse grass abound. but
trees and vines are nowhere seen. Here
n and there are mounds which mark the
e sites % ruined towns. Indeed, from
Penidch t. tkt&pa there Is almost a
continuous series OF thea. indicating
that this strip ofland between the rivers
was once a garden spot with a teeming
Y population. The kushk valley il much
k like that OF the Murghab, but narrower.
n The bordering hills are generally low
e but bold in outline and sterile.
. Aktapa, though on the kushk. is Sc
I. near the junction as to command both
e rivers. Its name signifies The White
Mound, and it was once d large place;
/ but now the mound is about all there i
OF it. This is a huge. artificial heap OF
earth, loo feet hight, $50 wide, and 900
: long. Once it was crowned with the
ancient citadel, but now it is bare and
bald. VI for g few rude Afghan
earthworks. Close by it passes the only