The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21

The newsy IOrchfght learns that
n-edicated soap is being manufactured
! from the deposit of the Kittrell Springs
and is highly efficacious for erupuve
| cutaneous diseases.
old man lie Due Is going to turn
| the tables on those who made fun Of
| his suggestion about tea growing. He
has several hundred thousand plants
doing finely at the Department gar
dens.
The counterfeit butter is finding
its way all over the land. The New
York law against the sale, except in
branded packages. should be adopted
here. People ought to, at least, know
what they are eating.
Maj. IN. A. G."-(Gregory,J of
Granville, has revived the subject of
Railroad from Henderson to Oxford.
Maj. j. {. Winder has written encour-
agingly of the prospect; and the TOrch-
light calls for the preliminary public
meeting.
Bob Ingersoll, the "In--ferdel." :"
may very little respect for the scrip
ture ''law," but he certainly keeps a
sharp eye on the profits He has
made $4,000 already by lecturing.
However, no doubt Beelzebub blows
the bellows for his own strikers
Treasurer Worth, in answer 20 in
quiry, informs Mr.. L. C. Quin, of
Washington, that small lots of corn,
peas, and other country produce, if
bought by merchants from farmers in
the adjacent country are liable to the
purchase tax" though not if taken in
barter.
Mayor Dawson, of Wilmington,
resigned on plea of interference with
his business. The Democrats scattered
their votes, and Mr.. ID. Ii. Fishblate
was elected to fill the vacancy He is
a Jew, but the negroes seemed to re-
gard it as their victory, and forthwith
benzined themselves over it.
-Four cases of outrage of white
girls by negroes occurred north of
Philadelphia, last week. And in each
instance there was much talk of lynch
ing, but the sheriff's pistol kept the
peace. First thing you know those
Northerners will be driving the poor
freedmen back "down South to their
former masters.
A great deal is said about the in
tslligence of horses and dogs; but
neither of them comes SO near con-
firming the Darwinian theory as the
cat. What could be more natural than
the whining of an hungry Tabby for
!" Me-ouse mouse :" and then how
quickly she gets . her back up" when
miffed.
Much to our regret we must again
announce that it is useless to write to
us for back numbers of our paper.
An unexpected increase of the sub
scription list each week exhausted
files. Last week we received no less
than four applications from Baltimore
firms for the number of our paper con-
tanning the article on cotton factories.
but could not supply them. The best
way to keep posted is to subscribe.
We think very little of Mr.. Lamar's
grandiloquent vaporing about duty
to himself which caused him to disre-
gard the instructions Of his State Leg
islature and vote against the silver
bill. He was elected to represent not
Mr.. Lucius, Quintius, Curtius Lamar.
but the great State of Mississippi, and
when the State calls upon him to cast
a vote as she wishes it, he should either
do So or resign and give place to "a
man who will repesent her
Nearly all the Cardinals have ar
rived at Rome, and have been assigned |
their cells in the Sd story of the Nati-
can. There are 900 rooms in this
huge edifce, enough to accommodate |
an army. Every precaution 10 taken 1
to guard the doors and windows-the /
conclave being hermetically sealed,
like the jury ia a capital case. The
session began on Monday, and possibly
the new Pope may have been already
chosen.
N. B.-The choice fell upon Cardinal
Ill e Il