The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-18


the encampment of the state Guard at
this point, during Fair week, surpaas
anything of the kind ever known in
North Carolina. Target practice tor
the champion Flag viii be one of the
features.
Judge W. Il. Cox has completed
his circuit, and announced To the
Governor his withdrawal from the
bench. We have never heard a word
of enmity uttered against this right
eous Judge, and excellent gentleman
Justice Faircloth of the Supreme
Court, in the case of state IS Patrici,
from Lenoir, holds that an Indictment
for stealing lone pound of meat is too
vague and uncertain. 1t should read
baron. But suppose it was Pork:
The Governor. on Tuesday, issued
a proclamation offering a reward OF
$500 for Isaac Bynum, colored, the
murderer of Thomas Saunders, and
also a reward of 800 for Edward
Morrow, an escaped convict. from
Rutherford county.
-Commissioner Polk, and Superin-
tendert of Public Schools, Scarbor-
ough, went to Chapel Hill yesterday
to deliver addresses before the Nor
malites. The latter officer, before
leaving the city, deposited 81, of
Peabody money, for the Wilmington.
Magnolia and Greensboro schools.
The gentler sex have oceans Of
advantage over their pantalooned fel-
| low citizens in this hot weather. They
can put on a loose wrapper, hang
| ribbon round the waist, and float
about the house as cool IT'S forty Gu
cumbers, and none but married man
can guess exactly how cool they be.
.'-Gentlemen, let's Danish the word
puff from the newspaper vocabu-
larry. Charlotte Obsel GER. Agreed:
aud then let us stop doing the thing
described by the banished word. We
would propose to add Honorable" as
among the tabooed words. but that
would cause revolution.-lIU.iS Il. star.
We would propose to add titular '.Col-
onels." but this would cause murder.
Reports of the ravages Of the heat.
at the North. are terrible. We advise
all Northern people who have means,
to flee from the heat, the communists,
the sanguinary Linenists, and so-forth:
the climate is refreshing, and devil
ment unknown. At st. Louis, on
Monday, there were fifty-four deaths
from sun-stroke and heat. On Tues
day there were fifteen cases.
A good many of our people (in the
state) who heretofore have spent tl,e
hot season at the North. or the Viz
ginia Springs, are contenting them
selves with our North Carolina water
ing places. and mountain villages
Hendersonville, LenOir, Asheville.
Warm Springs, Catawba Springs,
Beaufort. and Smithville, all have
numerous guests at present. and others
expectant.
Young and good looking clergy
men get married with an alacrity that
would make an old bachelors head
swim There was a young Presby-
terian minister went to Rutherford
ton, popped the question to one of the
prettiest blue-eyed girls in the place,
and within nine days was married,
and marching away across the Blue
Ridge to his BlueGrass home in Clarke
county, Kentucky. What altitude
would YOU pronounce this 10 be? But
he had known her some years before
he left Nortl Carolina.
Col. Polk's last crop report is on
our table. and is of unusual value to
farmers 1t contains articles on the
Potato and Sherman" bug, Beetle
Eating insects, etc: and has an appen-
dix giving the Produce Market Re
ports of Raleigh. Goldsboro. Green's
boro. Newbern and Salisbury. Also a
tabulated statement of the important
crops of the State on the 1st of July,
as follows: 600 representing maxi
mum, or perfect condition.) Corn. 90;
wheat. 10: cotton, IS; oats. SO; tobacco,
%: rye. "a; barley, 1O1: flax. 9S: peas,
"a; peanuts, 93; millet, 81: clover, 1Ol: