The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
lInlei9I auo roundabout
VOL. Ii.

State Dental Association meets in
Charlotte, Sept. 81.
Clinton, Sampson county. tonight, we
have hedrd.
Our young townsman IommIe
Foust has opened small store at
Gamer ON.
Gen. \. NJ. Scales and Col. j. II.
Winston opened the Congressional
canvass at Graham on Tuesday.
One white, and seven negroes, in
cmding Il woman. arrived from Edge
rombe on a visit at the Penitentiary,
on Tuesday.
The Democratic Congressional
Convention of the 4th district is in
session opposite this Office to-day.
Josiah is also in town.
A letter from Portland. Maine,
says-.'I and a number of my friends
are thinking OF moving to your State,
having heard it spoken of very highly"
Judge Mackey has set aside the APP
pGintment of a receiver for the LenOir,
Lincoln, and Chest-r Narrow Gauge
railroad.
Three mad dogs have been killed
i'll Wilmington recently. Two went
mad on Sunday last; they belonged to
man named Whitaker.
The despatch from City Marshal
Melton to Gov. Vance asking aid for
Grenada says that town is largely
composed of North Carolinians Mel
ton himself died last week.
The Messenger learns that Gen.
Robt. Ransom Will have charge of the
Neuse river improvements, provided
for by at of Congress, and will begin
the surveys at an early date.
We fellow our last weeks article
on "Sumac" with an editorial by
Prof. Kerr showing by practical OBJ
servation how vast the supply, and
how readily rendered profitable, we
have at our very door
DIR. Sears, agent of the Peabody
Fund. in sending the last batch of
$1,000, to this State, says he would
have increased the amount, but for
the falling off of about 40 per cent. in
the income of the fund.
a number of complaints reach us
as to non-promptness III delivery of
mail matter on the line of the n. G.
Ii. K. Letters and postals, it is said,
are often carried past their destina-
ton, and either retained, until next
tnp, or altogether lost.
DR.. Chopin, President of the New
orleans Board of Health, expresses the
opu that persons who have once
had yellow fever need not fear a
second attack, even if they have been
absent from the city two winters.
key Geo. w. Pepper, who was a
VHal'la Ii In a negro regiment, and is
Known to many persons in Raleigh,
mas been nominated for Congress by
the Nationals of the 10Th Ohio district.
several political preachers have been
nominated for the same office in other
States.
-AShevlliei is as lively as bottle full
vi heaS. Wednesday night of last
week promenade concert for the
''PlScopallans Tuesday night a sacred
I'l'ert for the Methodists, and Thurs
u"y night ball at the new hotel fer
''e -- majority. Excursions go to
''0'eo peaks every week, and fiirtations
ut iashlonably fast and furious.
lie Nautilus (23 feet long, the
'i'aiiest boat ever crossed the ocean,
safely weathered the many dangers
mich 1t was exposed. One of these
school of enormous whales
came so near that they might
'e been touched with a paddle had
'he bold navigators been trembling
~" We'll grounded fears that some
r.. VI the huge fish would sportively
'' Ills tail and end theirs bv knock
4, 'lem sky high. The trip occupied
croe' and proves that very small
am 'i weather very big storm on,
much bigger pond of water. and sue
foT transport the biggest pair of
The two continents.