The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-14
VOL. III.
Raleigh ano Aouuo=About

BRO. Furman, of the Citizen gave
us a pleasant call yesterday.
-May'nt we have q gleam of Sin-
shine every day, Messeurs, our friends
by the ser.
-There = but one profitable .wA.r
for farmers, and even it should oniy he
burned. We allude to the weed that
smokes
Mayor Long, of Newbean, il the
NewbeTnian. and Dir. Harris Of the
Wilmington Sun, make eloquent men
ton of the late Mrs Vance.
Splendid Northern apples which
at the North sell for Sl,25 per barrel,
here retail for FIVE cents piece. or
about So barrel.
-Twenty-one licenses to drummers
TO sell goods in n. c., were issued last
month IL TO New Workers, Z to Balti-
moreans ; one each to Norfolk, Rich
mond and Louisville.
-Thos. w. Bennett, of Wake county.
gave $500 bond, at the suggestion OF
U. ). Commissioner PurnelI, to appear
at the November Federal Court. re-
spectjng non-licensed liquor selling.
For our part we are glad the Dem
ocrats will have SO small majority in
the next Congress A thousand re
forms and retrenchments will low be
possible, which would have been post
poned, if not utterly defeated, had the
Democrats swept the country. Our
experience in the late Legislature with
its three score and ten majority con-
vinced us that too large a majority is
the next worst thing to def, at.
The Best quality of Big Baldwin
apples sell for only one dollar barrel.
including the barrel. Where?-Alas!
away up in Maine, the cline of Blaine.
Moreover corn is worth only 6 cents a
bushel at Virdun. illinois: and hay is
only SO ton Dubuque Iowa, And
now Will you diet on apples, or hay?
1t will furnish 4 small idea of the
large amount of tobacco handled in
this 9th Revenue District to state the
collections for Octob r. Tobacco
stamps, $92. SO; cigar stamps, 800
50; snuff stamps, SO 4 "a: Total S92,-
AGA, 80. Nearly one hundred thousand
dollars in taxes from single District
in single month, and yet they say
we amt 'loll -
Gov. Vance yesterday ceived a
letter from Hon. Jesse j. y Gates stating
that his opponents majority of 81 votes
would be contested, on the ground of
frauds. A proper the matter i. was
rumored in Tarboro yesterday that
Yeates had been elected by 80 odd ma
jority.
Peter Freeman, who killed man
at the Phosphate Works in South Car
olina, and escaped in a sail vessel to
England, was captured by telegraph,
brought home in a steam ship, and
Wa, executed by the wheels of a
locomotire, while he was attempting to
escape from the Sheriff at Augusta.
Thus is seen how the three great mod
ern agents, railroads, s'eamers and
telegraph, play their part in Furnishing
crime-provided the criminal be poor,
and silly enough to trust TO old fash>
ioned sail-craft Tweed fell there.
old married folks needn't COM
plain at our extensive notices of we'd
dIngs. The bliss of finding yourself
caught in the matrimonial goose>trap
with pretty girl for an accomplice,
pdriceps criminis don't generally hap
pen more lhan once in life time and
who would ''be-grudge' little am
plitude of rhetorical exaggerationabil-
lty on the momento Gus occasion. For
our part, we always endsaVor
10 help the newly welded pair to
self-deceive themselves into the no
Ton that they Were specially made for
each other; in fact both marked with
red string round the lit toe, from