The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-14

nlanshlp of the FARMER AND MECHANIC
| office to-day. and, as there Is no better
printer or more efficient foreman, IN
| the State. we expect to see the Me
| chanicai Department much improved.
The Ladies of the 1st Presbyterian
congregation will hold another Dime
Party" at the residence of Mrs. Julius
Lewis. tomorrow night week. 1t will
be a very charming affair. We doubt
not. and we have begun saving to get
our dime ready.
-'' Don Pasquele,' in English is pro
nounced squeal, and people unaccus-
toned to operate airs, will consider
it squealing, indeed By the way,
Brignoli's high-priced, folsetto voice is
attributed to a $3.50 set of false teeth
he recently bought.
-Prest. Jones took SO convicts from
the Pen, on Tuesday, to begin work on
the extension Of the Western r. R.
from Egypt Station to Greensboro,
When the road is completed we shall
have three routes to Charlotte, and
two 10 Greensboro.
Was Fanny Davenport 40 years
old, or only 2S: This is the question
which racks society. But for all the
dreadful possibility of the former
being the fact she had 500 or $500
house in Raleigh, and sold $500 worth
Of
The Boston Agricultural FldpdOo-
die asks this conundrum-'' Why does
black hen lay white eggs?" We
reckon it is because she is opposed to
negro suffrage. If that isn't the an
swer, give us another that isn't one of
your family secrets, you goose
The amateur concert for the bene-
fit of ST. Paul's church, Wilmington
was large success. Prof. Van Lear
was assisted by Messrs Geo. Myers, w.
F. Hargrave, w. H. Northrop, Prof.
Halter, Hall, Johnson, Thorpe, ct al;
and lady performers OF high talent
AT fashionable ball in Baltimore
last week, the tickets of admission
were $50 apiece; every lady had
boquet costing between $12 and $50;
and the aggregate cost of jewelry
exhibited was above half a million
dollars. But the times are very hard
We regret that we were not in the
office, when Bro. w. j. Yates, of the
Democrat called. He is one Of the level
headedest editors, in the South, and the
only one in the State, who can give his
check for half an hundred thousand,
the fruits of his own industry and
foresight.
pa 900 copies of Fanny Davenport's
photograph have been sold; Maggie
Mitchell and Clara Morris had $4,000
apiece; Parepa Rosa's picture sold to
the number of $4,000 copies greater
than any other in the world. Mrs
Siddon's went to 10000; John Wilkes
Booths, sold 10000.
Greensboro Patriot. established in
1891, p. F. Duffy, Editor and Proprie-
tor, Wednesdays, $a.1O a year -Nur-
serymen preparing to do large bust
ness.--Survey of Fayetteville Rail-
road making good progress BAL
masque at the Benbow, and lots of
poetry in the description of it.
Judge w. A Moore is one of the
Honorary Commissioners to the Paris
Exhibition. He will have CIV. Childs.
of Philadelphia, as colleague and
can amuse himself making funeral ep-
taphs as they sail DER the the salt seas.
Gen. Pierce B. NJ. Young, of Georgia,
is also one of the commissioners.
Rev. VIM. Grant, with Miss Kate,
his daughter, of Jackson, Northum-
berland, chaplain of the State Grange.
spent day in the city last week. He
was appointed to act rs lecturer for
Eastern North Carolina Rev. DIR.
Davis to hold the same position in Wes-
tern North Carolina Good men for
the work.
Bishop Gibbons, who was installed
Arch Bishop of Baltimore, with great
pOmp and ceremony on Sunday last,
was born in Baltimore, July %, 1884.
He was ordained a priest in June 1861;
was consecrated Vicar-Apostolic Of n.
G. by Archbishop Spaulding in 1868:
and succeeded Bishop McGill of Rich
mond, Oct. 20, 1872.