The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-07

and education, a wv aShlngton cor
respondent could be constructed who
would not be-spatter the members OF
Congress, and other officials, who
deign to patronize him, with falsome,
nauseating compliments . We have
noticed column after column OF the
grossest flattery. spun out to slckenlng
attenuation, in dozen papers recent
ly.
At fashionable wedding in Ber
tie. Rev. Edward Wooten, Rector of
Grace church, Woodville, and ST.
Thomas, Windsor, united in the holy
bonds of matrimony Mr.. Richard Ur
guhart Norfieet, (son of Col. Stephen
A. Norfeet, and Mrs Frances U. S.
Pugh Norfieet, with Miss Laura S.
w. Pugh daughter of Joseph j. and
Mrs. Charity d. j. H.W. Pugh), amid
many congratulations by large as
semblage Of friends and relatives.
Married in this on Wednesday of
last week, John w. Evans and Miss
Mary C. Towles-Rev. DR.. Atkinson
officiating. No cards. The happy
couple left the same day for the
grooms residence in Pennsylvania.
Also, on Wednesday, Mr.. Alex. II.
Hanff of Newbern, and Miss S. A.
Merrill, daughter of our we'll known
townsman Samuel Merrill, Esq, Rev.
lFa H. ~.
ment, after which the bridal party de-
parted for Newbern.
The robbery of Stronachs store
was bold stroke, but the capture of
the burglars followed on its heels
with equal brilliancy. Three negroes
were implicated-two Of whom con-
fessed. Alfred Whitaker, Ben Lips
comb (eX-convicts) were arrested and
bound over to court. They divulged
the whereabouts of the stolen goods,
and Chief of Police Lee recovered AZ
bags of smoking tobacco, boxes of
cigars, and one bladder of snuff.
Stronach has named the recovered
cigars after the rascals.
-''Was the deceased armed:"-asked
the lawyer of witness at the Brantley
Moody murder trial, last week. "Well,
no, the kurnel wasn't to say armed:
but after he fired his seven-shOoter,
we found couple of five shooters in
his pocket: and then he had savage
kind of knife-eighteen inches long
he carried in his belt. OF course,
he had his rife-he always carried it
wherever he went; and | did see
big hickory club in the buggy along
side of him. Well yes, l reckon the
kurnel was armed"
We shall be pleased to receive sug-
gestions from our friends in all parts
of Carolina with regard to the manu-
featuring capacity of the State. We
should like to publish, for the infor-
nation of Northern capitalists, and
men of moderate means, the opening
for small manufactures in wood, iron,
leather, cotton, wool, fruit-canning,
broommaking, &c. &C., where an en-
ergetic man, with So, 500 to 5, 900 might
engage with reasonable prospect of
remuneration. In such small man
ufactures lie our hopes for the future.
North Carolina is only half an agricul-
tural State. Nature has lavished upon
her too many valuable resources of
minerals, forests, water powers, etc.
ETC., to lie quietly ignored, and unde-
veloped.
Though we have no special prefer
ence, we may remark that every mem
Der of the last State Democratic con-
vention will remember how the vast
metropolitan Hail., in this city, was
packed and jammed to suffocation, and
to keep order was almost impossible.
Besides the unlucky delegations
which happened to get seats in the
rear of the Hall could rarely catch the
speakers attention, or make them
selves heard above the murmur of the
multitude. Now, neither Charlotte,
Salisbury, Greensboro, or Goldsboro,
has hall as large as the "Metropoh-
tan," and as there is likely to be con-
siderable discussion in the next State
convention, we should not like to see
it jammed into a smaller hall, where
the ''tricks of polly-ticks' might be
put in operation.