The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-19

i he Oxford Free Lance enters it's
third volume with handsome new
head representing mailed Knight
with lance at rest, and banner floating
with the legend inscribed thereon
Death TO Fraud" The Monroe En-
press also hopefully en'ers its third
year. Success, friends
Nebraska is So ''loyal' that the
act Of admitting her as a state helped
10 break up the Union. Yet she had
nine m,trders in Il single county in one
week, recently. And her governor
says he has no money TO keep order
with. Why not call out the United
States Army. with Bond 10 help:
-Methinks there is mighty little
milk of human kindness in some folks,
Why should that Tar-tar-ian Tar Heel
on the tar-ry banks of the Tar, SO
ruthlessly expose to the cold, cold
world our very natural, if quite harm
less, iniirmity: And why should the
scribe of the Cape Fear. and the Phar-
aid and abet the Tartar of Tarbo
Thanks to Dr.. a 3. Chaplin, Of
Hadley's Mills, for copy of County
Homes, pamphlet issued by the Well
known Boston Agency. DR.. e. is en-
deav oring 80 have Southern branch
of the house established here in the
I, 10 :, l,,.,,,
settlers. So may it be . North Caro-
lima can never be equal to her advan-
tages until she becomes more denselv
populated.
There are said to be S-yes. ac>
tuaily more than half dozen, farmers
in Congress, and only two (20O hun
dred lawyers in the House OF Repre-
sentatives alone But then you must
remember every farmer breaches the
doctrine that fai mcrs ought no. to med
die with politics-oh, no .-''let polls
tics a!one"-say they. Let all public
affairs alone, and let Tom. Dick, or
Harry, do your law making for you.
We are glad that Bro. Blair has
opened his Reporter among the breezy
hills and valleys of Macon county.
| There are some dozen or more South
western counties which by reason of
| their distance from the capital. and
! their geographical association with
| adjacent sections of 'uth Carolina
nd nj teln
from us. The Repo t.r will do good
service in bringing that magnificent
| region more prominently before the
| public.
The Mayor. and other gentlemen
| OF Charlotte, asked Janauschek to let
them peep at her jewel casket but
| she said she couldn't see it"-because
! it had been sent on ahead to New Or
| leans. This shows that Johnny hasn't
| got good sense :; for the small towns
are the very places in which to "cut a
| shine" More people would attend to
see her wear her trinkets than if she
wore nothing at all. True, she knew
/
fans nobody could insure that she
wouldn't be carried Oft. bodily; dia
| mondS and all.
VIM. Grimes. Esq, is much pl. as
ed with his Norman -Percheron stud
colt, which he purchased from S w.
Ficklin's Virginia Stock Farm. He
thinks this class of stock the very best
kind for North Carolina work horses
Mr.. Grimes has some thought of es-
| tablishiug a stock farm on his planta-
ton. But he wont try to raise sheep ::
not this side of the passage of a Dog
Law. at any rate. You see. he has
experience, He bought fine flock
one Or two years ago, and gave them
great care, until one Sunday while
the negroes were at church, the dogs
male an evening call and slaughtered
all but IS of the gentle b-eaters The
experiment was then abandoned : the
% survivors were allowed to run on
the farm until one solitary mutton re-
manned to tell the talA. He ought to
have been made a present to the Leg
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