The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-21

purpose. Every saIaried Otnelal Connect
ed with the company i handsomely paid.
from Dsurhin, the ofhce manager, who
gets So 900 a year, down. aud its service
Is more sought after than that of any
other establishment 10 the .ity. The re
ceipt Of the company are said to average
something over s. 900, 900 per nun
1.-The celebrated Professor Slliman,
Of Yale, is dead.
...NcClure has begun to write up
the South for the Philadelphia Times.
....Capt Isaiah Rynder-, zone Of the
old boys Of !ammany, Is dead OF apop-
lexy.
....Dr. j. y. Vandiver, e Weaver
vile, Is making a very pronounced sue
cess Of his enterprise in the garden seed
business. For the more southern mar
kets orders are now being filed By the
score. -Asheville 1}rance.
And a good man he is.
~....Search among the State records Of
New jersey shows that Robert Fulton
was not the inventor Of the first steam
boat. The first steamboat was launched
on the Delaware river near Texas. in
1887, W years before Fulton steamer
appeared on the Hudson. John Fitch
was the inventor.
THE engineer Of a fast train out of
Raleigh says it goes ''slicker than a
square yard Of lightning" and that one
Of the mail clerks, the other morning,
Just as the train started, leaned over to
kiss his wife, who was standing on the
platform, and bless me if he didn't SIS q
COW out at Moncure.'
1.-THE officers of the Grand Lodge
for the ensuing year are as follows:
Fabius IL. Busbec, Grand Master !;
Charles II. Robinson, Deputy Grand
Master; Samuel Ii. Smith, Senior Grand
Warden; IL A. Gudger, Junior Grand
Warden; William K. Anderson. Grand
Treasurer, Donald W. BAN, Grand Sec
rotary.
....ill the mills ia Lawrence, Mass,
have agreed upon a reduction Of wages
10 take effect this mouth. Oliver
Bros. 4 Phillips. the greatest iron firm %
Iittsourg, Pa, have failed; liabilities re
ported at three to five million dollars,
large blocks of their paper are hcld in
New York, Philadelphia and the Eastern
States.-Ihc Banking firm OF John
j. Cisco 4 Co., New York, have made
an assignment.
...Lamberton RoJesoatda. Thos.
Wallace, a young white man, has been
arrested near Keyser, Moore county, on
the charge Of larceny. - Melvin Moore,
coiored, and his wife, wishing TO attend
a festival and not caring to be bothered
with their children, aged / aud 6, locked
them up IN the house. Next morning
the bones of their children were all that
were left to tell the awful story.
...Columbia, s.. g., January ID. =
The Red Bank cotton manufacturing
company in Lexington county, has made
an assignment. The assets are $50, 900,
and liabilities less than So, 600, Twelve
per cent. dividends were declared an
nually till last year. The company's
capital was insufficient to run the mllI
til the market improved.
....Suicide among colored people is
something very rare, and but very few
cases have occurred III the history OF
that race in this couatry, but the darkey
is 2 adually working into the ways OF the
ape him eveu in this extreme. At Kings
Nonntain, on the Air Line road, about
forty miles from this city, a sensation
was occasioned night before last by the
suicide Of a colored man named Bill
Smith.-C. Obserrer.
decentralization Weekly The work OF
laying iron on the Louioburg railroad has
| been suspended for a while, through q
failure on the part of the Company to
make requisite deeds to road bed. etc.
The Company were under the origIua
agreement to grade and cross-tie the
roal-bed and then deed il to the K. & q.
4. r., who we're to put on rolling stock.
They had neglected TO procure rights VI
way from d~Ifcrent land owners, aud ecu
s~equent,y we're not ready to nake deed
t. the r. & 6. Il. L
....Ne have talked with number 0
Chatham farmers, who have been raising
tobacco. Ihey are all pleased with tie
success they have had 1t is niue bet
ter money crop than cotton. HE acreage
will be greatly increased Results show
tbat there are as fine tobacco lands y
mics south of Chapel Hill as are to L,
found n Person and Gasweli These
lands WA soon b. Id great demand Care
fui farmers tell lis tnat an acre in tobacco
will bling IN from 1925 to 300. Ten do
lars per acre will buy lands now, that vii
cost nearly twce as much III the not dis
tant future. Plttsboro Home.
....Noore county is nov entering hei
l0lst year aud in the march # rr,gras
may claim to have kept pace With any
county N the State, indeed, /. no hiyia4
nutstrippea some. Her c~iiizens have en-
countcrcd and overcome diff %as'tie, mn
tituiinous and are rct n ,urteringthcm
The Appreciation of '~igLoranca has 81
most been laid away BY thos who - 4
applied it to her. And ~ell :hcV u,ar =
aside for it is no longer appiiclflc. II
citizens are at last recognizing VII pr'i
that the eyes of capitalists are gazing a
her fertile hills and pine dcckci forest.
with an eve Of favor and the pride thus
awakened needs only time to effect mark
ed improvements. -Gdzefte.
lin common with a great many pee
pie the Ilcdace would rejoice if the Raj
eigh newspapers would publish reports
Of the Legislature which could be un
darstood. In publishing the proceeding
of the Senate last Friday the paper
stated: "Mr Means introduced a bill too
restore certain persons to citizenship I
more vague statement of what Mr.. Mean:
desires could not be written. Is Gov
Holden one Of the number of certain
citizens whom NJ Means d~esires to re
store to citizenship? Or are they ex con
victs from Cabarrus? Or who are they
The AduGnce calls upon the Raleigl
dailies usually 50 accuratc-to improv