The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-29

cents a word, each week.
See notice Of Divorce Proceedings
Ellis Markham. Robt. q. Lewis Esq,
attorney.
We know Of a member Of the pres
ant state Senate. a trained teacher, who
who would like a situation III a success
full school.
We have received from Hon. Rich
mond Pearson a three column article on
the Western \. G.. r. r., and railroads IN
general, printed in Asheville IrbUn|. 1t
is interesting and we may print extracts
The Durham & GAINESVILLE Rail
road, has been organized Senator a.
w. Graham, President; Capt. Rufus
Amis, Secretary. 1t will be surveyed
to run via the famous Blue Wing Gold
Mines.
Col. Andrew Jackson Boyd, Of The
5th Dist, will have his hands full hence
forth. lie is collector of Revenue, fre-t-
dent Of the Reidsville Bank. lawpartner
of Congressman Reid, and connected with
various enterprises.
More than two dozen persons, chiefly
negroes, were burned to death by the
Vicksburg fire. The famous lnndell
House at st. Louis was burned yesterday.
The latter city has had four famous hotels
burnt since the war-generally with great
loss of life.
The Raleigh township Democratic
Committee met on Wednesday evening
last, and after considering the petition
t4l6 signers)in favor ofholding a Primary
to express the choice of town for POST
master, decided nearly unanimously that
the committee did not have authority to
hold such an election.
Coy. Scales went to Greensboro on
private business for a couple OF days.
Supt. of instruction Finger, with Attor-
new General Davidson raj dOwn to Pen
der to take a look at the Angola Bay
folks. Secretary Saunders is also alb
sent. But the government runs smooth
as clockwork. 1t is only at Washing
ton that things ''hitch."
Colonel FL Mahdi is understood to
feel very complacently about the compll-
cations which surround England and
Egypt. He considers the British troops
very good fighters when their bellies are
full of beef; particularly the Scotch Camp
bells, who apparently had a good deal OF
sand in their gizzardS," but not enough
to camel 10 across the sandy Sahara il
search of the warm reception he haG
arranged for them.
Col. Bridgers and a carload OF rail
road men met in Baltimore last week,
and decided to lease the Columbia 4
Augusta r. r. to the Wilmington 4
Weldon; and her push the Wilson,
Smithfeld and Fayetteville extension. A
despatch from Baltimore says 'Tht
seventy miles of road between Wilson
and Fayetteville will be begun soon atte1
the award of the contracts, which vii
take place about May LIST. The principa
town on the proposed new road road /
Smithfield."
Mrs. Gen. Branch has been elected
President of the Ladies Memorial Associa
ton; Mis-. NJ. c. Williams having declin
ed. Let us hope that our noble ladie
will not weary in upholding the simple
and only remaining tribute to the memor,
OF the men who gave all that they had
all they could do, all they could suffer
and lastly their lives, to uphold the free
dom of the South.
Mr.. E. NJ. Robinson, who left las
week to accept a good salary under tn,
L, S. Fish Commissioner is at For
Washington, 5 miles below Alexandra
Va, on the Potomac, one of the beautiful
spots along the river; tho it did not lool
so when this writer was there twent,
years ago, in momentary expectation O
being arrested as a rebel Spy"
The Federal Fish Hatchery at tina
point has 80 men, and the capacity 70
$50 million shad eggs per week. Tn
hatcheries haul their SENS on Sunda,
as well as weekday making a dozen o
more hauls per day.
Nearly every one of our Contra
Carolina exchanges has items shown!
the spread of Stock-Law rabies. On,
paper tells how the county Representa-
tive was received by a series of shor
but emphatic speeches from his consti
tuents as he marched along the side
walk after his returning from Raleigh
Richmond county Rocket has an articl,
intimating that the Representative o
that county after pulling down the fence
has ~''straddled'' the ''Fence-Question.'
Report says that the same feat hai
been beaten in Wake; the parties keep
ing their legs so active that nobod'
can decide which side of the fence thei
feet bangle. Good Lord J, what a world
Mr.. Charles Williams. of Eacl
Rock, whose son took a sum of money
and ran away causing much talk in tn
neighborhood, desires us to state tina
Marshall did not take the $50 in COL
from his grandmother. She had no sue
money in an old stocking or elsewhere
The Farmer and Mechanic received it
information from Mr.. Williams cousin
who came with Mr.. W. to the F. & Nj
office to give us a statement OF the mat
ter. Of course there was no reflection
nor intent to reflect upon the old lady
1t is very common to save up a littl
cash in an old stocking.
By the by, the ~youngster who acte,
SO badly 1--WE did not mention his nam,
last week as others did has been caugh
in Durham, and s27 recovered. He hat
taken only S43 instead of S4OO as he as