The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-14
lIalci9b ano Roundabout.

Ii or 80 winter guests at Warm
Springs.
One cargo of Steel rails for the New
bern road has reached that city.
Mrs. Mary Bayard Clarke has writ
ten a Lenten Anthem entitled Ash
Il Wednesday,"
Sun will rise tomorrow at - min
j utes after six. and set at six minutes
4 after SIX. Arise and see how does it.
More than 500 tons of guano have
been received at Rocky Mount during
the past month. At this rate, imagine
the amount used in the whole State.
Does every lawer in North Carolina
expect to be a judge, and every judge
10 be a Chief Justice? 1t looks that
way at this writing.
An establishment at Chester, Pa,
is manufacturing molasses from corn,
consuming near 5000 bushels daily.
The syrup produced is pronunced SUI
perior to ordinary molasses.
A letter signed "Willow the
Wisp," praising DIR. Montgomery
speech at Gibsonville, has reached US.
1t is anonymous, and written on both
sides of the sheet, hence cannot ap-
pear.
-f1S9 persons from Ohio and IN
I'm
the past nine months, according to the
Memphis appeal. Wait till next year
and YOU will hear a better report from
North Carolina.
1t is curious reading to follow the
s. average obituary through five pages
of bad spelling and worse grammar;
but YOU can bet it makes a saint of
" the subiect-"the deceased who is
4 dead"
Thirteen drummers for Northern
houses aIighted at the depot from one
I'D train on Tuesday night, besides others
already here. 1t will be necessary,
@ after while, for merchants to hang out
a placard-"No more drummers need
Napply: twenty-siX have just left
When woman tells an admirer
that he is 'impertinent," without also,
81 at once assuming a dignifed reserve,
. 1t Is equivalent to saying-''You're
naughty, but nice: YOU needn't do it
I'll any more unless you want to-
Il Prof. Fairchild treated his class to
4 tip through the State Geological
i Department on Friday. There are
many of our most intelligent citizens
who have never treated themselves to
an examination of the numerous rare,
and novel, specimens therein.
jefferson, in Ashe county, has |
had wonderful revival, or two of |
4 them few miles apart, aggregating
10 to 120 conversions, of the toughest |
Y cases thereabouts. The work origi- |
s mated in the Methodist Church. in JEFF |
# lerson, couples of months ago.
The body of Rev. Mr. Brewer, the |
acoIportear, who was drowned recently !
a WelIon Bridge, was found on Fri |
10y last several miles below the bridge |
us watch, papers, $62, and other |
|.AF mall articles were recovered
The Southern Baptist Theological |
emlnary has been removed from
'ieenvllle, S. c., to Louisville. The
'aptlSt General Convention will meet
Nashville on the 9th of May. These
-" other straws seem to indicate that |
e haptlsts are growing rapidly west
p the Blue Ridge.
lie county papers are better ners-
'PerS tins year than ever before For
i&ny years it has been the custom of
,'''ofS to relax their efforts between
"e great political campaigns, but the
moves, and ''all of US" are
earning to see that the "longest (and
s? pole knocks the persimmon
+ public patronage.
~ The Supreme Court held its last
sssion Yesterday, and the Justices de-
"''ed to the place where their wives
T. 1t may be proper to say "well