The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-28

in Iredell.
Ladies. remember YOU are cordi
ally invited to contribute 70 thes
columns.
Half a dozen instances of mal-prac
ticc have occurred at the North within
a fortnight.
Mrs. Banister Cards, of Currituck
became suddenly speechless on Sunday
the 18th inst, and died next day.
Miss Addie V. Wriston and Mr.. j.
l.. Scales were married at the residence
Of I. G. Allison, IN Charlotte, recently.
Mrs. Lucie Maynard Leach. of
Johnston county, has published aneat
volume of poems entitled Scattered
Leaves"
Jos. Cliff N, and lady "a resident of
Mobile, Ala spent a day or two III
this city last week, en- route for their
home in Louisburg.
IL always find you alone'-QuotI a
chronic newspaper bore, as he slapped
the editor on the shoulder. But YOU
cannot say you often leare me alone"
grOaned the victim.
The Gazette speaks highly Of the
reading of Longfellow's ship" and
Cartoons "Betsey and | are out" by
Misses Lille Baker and Nettie Easter,
Of the Fayetteville Lyceum.
-" Word-catchers that live on syl-
tables;
Commas and points, they set ex-
actly right,
And ,twere a sin to rob them of their
might
"a visitor to our Academy of Fine
Arts being asked whether he preferred
pictures to statuary, said he preferred
the latter, as you kin so all round the
statOos; but you a see only one side
of the pictures"
The young ladies of the Baptist
Female Institute, at Murfreesboro.
gave a concert and cantata recently;
in which the performances Of Misses
Moore, Je1fress, Phillips, Prince, and
others won the ~eulogies of the En-
quirer.
An Iowa school mistress has been
discharged because, for the amuse-
lnent of the children during recess.
She stood on her head. One of the
CHANGED to see the feat-Er-
This comes of having such big feet
p. DOMAIN you've done it This
wrctched man has but four lady friends
North Carolina: for he has dared to
fOu of the lovely creatures as
bellies" of the State. Very royal
bellies they are, but sakes alive, man,
there are four hundred just like 'em.
Mrs. Moon can Indiana Quakeress)
to have worked up a high de-
gree of interest in the Methodist revi-
val at Greensboro. More then sixty
converts reported already, by the Pa
There are double daily services,
business houses close to allow en-
to attend.
A Washington paper says 1.-THE
beautiful and accomplished daughter
# Hon. VIM. NJ. Robbins is conceded
be one of the handsomest ladies in
.tashington.' And that's SO 90"
say we, in the language Of the old
ong; and there are several of Il Car
lima girls astonishing the natives" Of
hat sleepy old town.
Plato, hearing that somebody had
allied him a very hard case, replied
i shall take care to so live
hat no one can possibly give credit to
hese accusations
Cowper puts the same sentiment into
.erse:
'Assailed by scandal and the tongue Of
strife,
lis only answer was a blamelcss life"
Many women" says Mrs. Harriet
Stowe, in her Minister'S {
Vooing,' ARE won by men whose
My w~ooing is the rhetoric of a noble :,
:
The L. S House Of Representatives !,
' a vote Of 169 to SO agreed TO allow !,
-male lawyers TO practice in tile Su- =
Court. We hope the bill will ,
ecome a law; not that we approve Of j,
omen entering such pursuits. but be- :
we believe that the gentle sex has I
legal, personal. and natural right :
nat can be claimed by her brothers. i
Is astonishing that she should ever u
been restricted in these matter (
he only ground upon which such linn .
alton a be based is the law of "
might makes right" If men choose, Q
ley have the pouer to exclude. but :
ley have not the right, or justifca- +,
On, t,