The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-10

liz IL. JULIUS IL IL Iduui-
date for Assayer of the Mint at Char
lotte.
..Wadesboro Intelligencer: The
Wadesboro postofice question has been
settled by the appointment of Mr.. 7. j.
Hardison as postmaster.
....At Oakdale, Tenn, on Wednes-
day, Sam Scarborough shot and killed
his brother Talbert, who came home
drunk and attacked Sam with an ak,
tire atening to kill him.
wv. w. Fuller has purchased the
residence of VIM. Lipscomb on the cor
ner of Main and billiard Streets. The
sum paid was $1,000. Mr.. Fuller will
move to his new home the first of Octo-
Der neXt.-Durham Plant.
....Samuel J. Randall for President
and Julian S. Carr for Governor of North
Carolina would make a rafting 1888
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Patriot.
Wrong young man that team would
be too 'ssolid'' to rattle.
MIR. Logan's boom for the Presi-
dency iii 1888 is being worked with much
skill, though it has behind it a genuine
popular force which the managers ofrival
candidates will do wrong to underrate.
1.-THE managers of the Albany
Young Mems Association library have
appropriated $1,000 for the purchase Of
books for the present year, as follows ::
For current works of fiction, 5000" aud
$500 for books of reference aud replac-
ing old books
....London, June S.-Gas which gen
Grated in the coal bunkers of the British
iron turret ship Infiexible, at anchor off
Portsmouth, exploded to-day. Fifteen
of the crew were severely injured. Three
of them fatally. The vessel itself is
somewhat damaged.
....Mr. James Anderson having re-
signed the Treasurership Of the Carolina
Central Railroad Company. has been APP
pointed Cashier of that corporation; and
Capt. John H. Sharp, who has for some
time been Secretary, now fills the dual
position Of Secretary and Treasurer.
tT....Dr. Edward Warren. Bey, has
sailed for Paris and left his appointment
to the Consul Generalship to Paris in
the hands of several North Carolina
Congressman and his friend, DIR. Boy
kin of Baltimore, who takes up the
cudgels manfully for him in the last
issue of the Goldsboro Messenger.
Nv. II. Marlborough who was on
Monday nominated to be collector OF
internal revenue, is a merchant ofLouis-
burg, about 45 years ofage- He served
in the Confederate army. entering as a
private, and retiring with the rank Of
colonel. He is a native Of North Caro-
lima and belongs to one of the most
prominent families in the State.
...Lexington Dispatch A North
Carolina man failed in business twice il
his native State; then removed to a dis.
tant State and set up in business again.
Now he writes to an acquaintance anG
says lowing to hard times, &C., ]
have failed. My liabilities are sos, 0Or.
| go from here to-The next time
fail, my liabilities will be $3.50, OO0.'
1.-THE employees of the G. f. Il Y,
V. II. r. Co. presented Col Jas. S,
Morrison, late Chief Engineer and Gem
Sup't Of the road, with a handsome sill.
yer tea-set. E. T. b, Glenn, Chief
Clerk and accountant, made the pre-.
sentatlon speech.
....Capt. d T Ward has an alligator
in his fish pond. He is about three feet
long.-W. II. Joyner, Esq, has
bought the RIGHT to manufacture and sci.
bed springs 10 Franklin county. He is
now making springs and they are very
highly recommended. Messrs. f. w.
Morris, H. c. kearney. E. B. Clegg &
Bro. & w. L.. McGhee have bought the
rights for Vance and Granville and will
soon begin work.
....Pierre B. Manning, Gates county,.
subject, "A Defence of the Invisible EN-.
pire." This speaker, with ~commendable
GOODNESS and clear judgment, declared
that he did not wish to appeal to any
prejudice in discussing this subject, anC
he wished his hearers to lay aside all the
preiudices and to look at the kuklu1
khan as it appears in the clear light o
history. Mr.. Manning did not claim thai
the khan was perfection, or that its act
we're always Just or right; but, owing t
the lawlessness of the times, the perver
sion of justice by carpet baggers, The
danger which threatened our homes, ane
the insults of an inferior race intoxicated
with their new gotten freedom, the klar
was the last resort of a down-trodden PEG
pie to protect their homes and lives. HaC
there not been a need for such the organ
~ization, argued the speaker. would no
have spread so rapidly, and it would 40
have had within its folds so many of TIL
best people of our land. History, Will
recognizing its errors, will vindicate tn
last efforts of a crushed but noble peopl
to preserve whatever remnants of libert
still remained to them. Mr.. Mannin.
was the recipient of many congratulation
for his clear, strong, and manly presenta
tioa of a subject about which fingers S
much nreiudica.- MSeri.er'S Renort q