The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-12

The Youngest member of the next
House will neither be John f. kenna,
Joseph H. Acklen. nor Emory Speer,
but r. Graham Frost, of st. Louis.
Rev. D. f. Jordan of the Presbyter-
ian church, assisted by Rev. Mr.. Drew
of Boydton, has recently closed a
very successful meeting in Henderson
The new Lord Mayor of London Is
a livery stable keeper. The people of
London will thus save the important
item of carriage expense on State oc-
caSlons.
Observation-Disclosures Sentinel: DR..
Robah +. Gray intends renewing to
Danville......On last Saturday evening
as Miss Cornelia Wicker was return
ing home from kernersville, a woman
by the name of Rem Self waylaid and
beat her badly.
DIR. Park, at the dinner given at
Trinity College to the Duke of Glou-
cester, as Chancellor of the University
Of Cambridge, upon the removal of
the cloth INDUCED in his eternal pipe,
blowing a cloud into the faces of his
neighbOrs much to their annoyance,
and causing royalty to neeze by the
stimulating stencil of mundungus.'
Col. Pelton, Tilden's nephew. of
cipher-campaign notority, r~esolutely
SAYS mot at home to all reporters
who call to interview him. Tilden,
when he appears on the street, looks
worn and detected. When asked by
intrepid reporters about the ciphers,
he says: Il don't know anything about
them" always emphasizing the any
thing"
A very pleasant perfume, and also
a preventive against moths, may be
| made of the following ingredients
+ lake cloves, carraway seeds. nutmeg,
mace, cinnamon and Tonquin beans,
of each one ounce, then add as much
| Florentine orris-root as will equal the
| other ingredients pu' together. Grind
tie whole well to powder, and then
put /. a little bags among clothes,
etc.
What North Carolina most needs is
some public men who think less of
their own promotion than they do OF
| the interests of their own good old
S ate. The trouble is our Legislators
when elected to office nearly all have
an eve to something higher and won't
touch any thing with a forty foot poe
that may mar their chances before the
sovereign ballot wielders.-Greensboro
Patriot.
Edison is in earnest. He at least
believes in his own discoveries in re
gard to the electric light. He is eX-
pending 1925, 900 to test fully his X
pertinent, which is to come off IN a
day or two at Menlo Park, n. J. He
purposes to start at Menlo with two
thousand lights, using telegraph poles
with fifteen lights on each arm. He
is now getting four times as much
light from each burner as when he be
gan his experiments.-Stdr
Mr.. w. D. Herrin lost a valuable
horse last week under singular cir
cumstances. He was out hunting
deer and a fine buck jumped up before
him. He at once gave chase at the
full speed of his horse, and riding with
his eyes fixed on the deer watching for
an opportunity for a shot his horse
ran into an old well. breaking his neck
instantly. Mr.. Herrin, we are glad to
say, was unhurt.-WilsOn Ne0s.
j. B Underwood. Of Fayetteville,
has invented a sewing machine chair
which confines the strain upon the
operator to the muscles of the feet and
lower portion Of the legs, thus prevent
ing the injury to health that follows
to females from the present mode of
operating. The chair has attracted
much attention in the American Insti-
tute, New York. where it is on exhi-
bition. and Mr.. Underwood is r%eceiv-
ing many orders for it.
a writer in the New York Times
predicts that the time will come when
dogs will become a favorite article of
food in civilized nations. He adds
that a young dog tastes very much
like mutton. When that time comes
perhaps North Carolina may get rid
Of some Of the dogs that now infest
her broad domain. Here old dogs as
well as young ought to taste like
mutton" from the number Of sheep
they devour -Pdtriot.
When the fence-law committees
were in Charlotte, Capt. J. r. Ting
pen, of EdgecOmbe. inquired for John
[. Schenck, colored, the chairman of
the Republican executive committee
of this county, with a view to learning
his impressions of the stock law. He
did not see him. but Schenck writes
to Capt. Thigpen a good letter. which
is published in the Tarboro ~S0uthern-r
stating that the law has been found to
be a perfect success and has met the
appreciation of all classes of our peo-
people. In this he but echoes the
general sentiment of Mecklenburg.