The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25

....A bin to incorporate the Stauiy
and CAbafrus Railroad Company has
been passed by the legislature bill
has been presented 10 the senate to IN
corporate the Shelby aud Spartanburg
Railroad Company.
....At the burial ground attached to
Pisgah Church, five miles from Point
Pleasant, W. Va, the sexton Oh Tuesday
found a half-dozen bodies taken from the
graves aud strewn about the ground.
There Is 10 clew to the perpetrators, nor
to the motive
Some ofCharlotte's visitors to the
New Orleans Exposition have met with
bad luck Miss Louise Morehead was
robbed Of a diamond crescent pin, and
Mr.. Josiah Asbury lost her trunk, the
contents Of which we're valuable.
...Washington, Feb. 23 John 7.
Fra cy, the coIored postal clerk injured
ia the collision at Four Nile Ruu, Thurs
DAY night last, Is dead, making the sew
enth life lost from this accident. It Is
stated that the loss to the Adams express
company will reach 50. 900.
....A big meeting Is to be held in
Shelby on the first Monday in March to-
discus, aud lay plans for the extension Of
the Carolina Central Road to Spartan
burg, and the practioabiIity Of a new
route from the Air Line to that point and
on to M~orgauton.- Obscrrer.
Wilmington, H., February b
Mrs. Nancy Cas- Wilmore died in this
city on "Wednesday at the age Of llG years.
She wa undoubtedly the oldest person
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She was born about the year 1869 in
North Carolina.
....A bogus Mrs. Scoyille, a sister
Of Guiteau, y stopping foE a week rast at
the best hotel in Cameron, w. Va. under
the pretence OF looking for desirable TIM
Der lands. has victimized merchants aad
others there for quite a large aggregate
sum.
....Mrs Hattie Hardie, whose home
is on East llargett street, has cause for
the deepest grief, in the sad death Of
two Of her little children, bot4 from the
same cause, measles and Pneumonia.
Vile, aged g years, died Sunday at +
p. NJ, and Hattie, aged > years aud .
months, died Monday morning at 4.
...Clayton Bird: Col. r. r.. Bridgers
was iu ~Smithfield last Monday ADD talked
freely. He stated that the contract tor
grading the road would be let out in sec
tons Of ten smiles each. He will com
merce grading at Selma. going towards
Fayetteville, and at the same time com
mence at Fayetteville coming this way.
The work of grading he says will be com
meuced In May, AMI within twelve months
thereafter the road will be completed.
...Warrenton Home Jou,auI: \ gen
tleman from Hawtree township of this
county told me to-day that he planted
three acres in tobacco. The cost Of labor,
fertilizers. curing. etc. all told-amoun-
ted to so. He sold the tobacco for
$3.50, leaving a clear profit of $3.50. He
says further, if he had planted the same
land in cotton it would have made about
900 pounds of lint cotton, putting the
cotton at lG cents per pound would
amount to 500. Now put..the labor, fer
t~ilizers, etc, at $50, it leaves him $40
profit, against $3.50 profit on his tobacco.
....Paris, February l2.-Miss Eva
Mackay was married to-day to Don
Ferdinand julien Colonna, prince of
UdlulIO ut CtItlIIOlN was private.
and was performed with pOntiical high
mass by MonsignOr De Reudc, the papal
nuncio. in the nunciO's chapel in this
city. There were but forty persons
present. The nuptial bencdiction was
administered b, Monsignor DE Reude.
who also delivered the marriage address.
The civil ceremony of marriage, which
is required by the French law, was per-
formed yesterday. The witnesses to
this were Prince Colonna~Doria. Prince
Colonna. United States Minister Nor
ton and Duke Decazes. After the cell
ebration of the religious rite to-day, Mrs.
Mackay. the mother of the bride. gave
a grand bridal reception, which in every
respect must rank with the most mag
nifcent festivals Of French history.
...Salisbury, Nd, February 20
Rev. Alexander Sinclair, pastor OF the
PRESBYTERIAN church of this town, died at
his residence, on Division street, at >
O'Clock this afternoon, after a ong and
serious illness. lie was unconscious at
the time Of his death. Rev. Mr.. Sinclair
was born on the island Of Mull, Angles
hire, Scotland. March II, 1884 He was
the son of ". j. CampbeIl Sinclair.
He was a graduate Of Prince Edward Col
lege, Nova Scotia, and also of the Wes-
tern Theologicai Seminary, AlleQh eny
City, Pa. Since 1887 he had been en-
gagged in the ministry of the Presbyterian
Church. during which time he had served
as pastor in the following places. SharpS
burg, Pa Charlotte n. c.. TituSyiile,
Pa, Aiken, 5. c., Barnesviile, O Ma
rian, O., and Salisbury, Nd. The First
General Assembly of the Southern Pres
byteriau Church convened at Charlotte,
\. Z. during the war, at which TIM he
was pastor Of that charge. Two OF his
brothers served in a North Carolina
regiment. Mr.. Sinclair, though during
his stay here feeble in health, ably filed
his pulpit here, aud was "a ma4 Of rare
oratorical ability. He WAS much liked
and generally respected.
1.-THE despatch from Lord Wolse-
ley advising the government of the
death Of General Stewart says: Gen.
Stewart will be buried at the entrance
OF the valley leading to Gakdul. lie
viii received "a soldiers funeral. No
Drawer soldier or more brilliant leader
ever wore the Queens uniform. Eng
land can i'll afford to lose this young gen
| eral."
EULLER CONSIDERABLY ANNOYED.
\ despatch has been received from
Korti, dated Yesterday, in which the re-
treat of Gen, Sir Redvers Butler from
Gubat is flu Their explained. This de
spatch says that FL Mahdi, on the Ilth
instant, had been engaged for three
days in the work ofcollecting an army
outside of Khartoum for an advance
against the English at Gubat. He was
loading steamers with guns and ammui-
milton. On the Sth instant he despatch
ed two sheikhs, with three thousand
men and four guns down the right bank
of the Nile to erect a fort opposite the
English camp at Gubat. \ message
from Lord Wolseley says: General