The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-15

creation are the young married f1lrts
with no turn for either reading or sew
ing. and nothing to do but to bang on
the boarding house piano.
1t is said Senator Blaine Of Maine
will speak piece or two in the first
Congressional District of this State.
The Democrats have already arrange d
to Give him Jesse.'-if he comes.
The eclipse of the moon on Monday
night was fraud and wouldn't show.
When 10. Turner opened SO heavily on
"Rings" from the National Hotel
porch, the old girl skurryed behind
some clouds, and stayed there.
Judge A. w. Tourgee yesterday
packed up his household goods, and
he will huncefourth reside. 1t is his
intention, we learn from undoubted
authority, to run for Congress against
Gen. Scales.
An ordinary Jet of gas flame re-
quires as much of air as NINE persons.
So say the scientists. What an awful
quantity of atmosphere, therefore.
must be wasted in keeping alive that
natural gas pipe-He National Mdepen-
dent Union, peoples, &c, &c, candi
date +.
The National, the new guide to
ty of greenbacks, was issued on We'd
nesday. We haven't seen a copy but
understand it is neatly printed, tat
the office of the Raleigh Register, the
late organ of the Republicans) and
floats the name Of Josiah Turner for
Congress.
-Messrs Dortch, Scales, and Rich
ardson, Directors of the Western n. C.
r. r., all filed their designations in
the governors office prior to their cleo
ton to the General Assembly. There
are, therefore, three vacancies on the
Board. John S. Henderson being
elected by the private stockholders is
not a state officer
Senator Allan G.. Thurman has
consented to attend the State Fair,
Oct. 18th prox. and while he declines
to make formal Agricultural Address
Gherein showing a cart load of horse
sense) he will be expected to ''make a
few remarks, and be invited by Gov.
Vance to review the military, and
shake some hands.
The force OF habit and domestic
system, is shown in the fact that peo-
pie who live at hotels and boarding
houses rarely attend church regularly
They can have breakfast at any hour:
hence grow lazy in rising. lazy in
donning the Sunday garb, and lazy all
day except about the dinner hour.
Tonight at the White Sulp hur
Springs occurs the Sd Annual Memo
rial Ball to raise funds for the Valen-
tine monument of Robert 4. Lee. Two
full length portraits of Lee and Stone
wall Jackson, in full uniform, painted
by the distinguished Artist Elder,
will be sold tomorrow. Four Govern
ors, two ex-Governors, half-a-dozen
Brigadiers, and many Colonels. inclu-
ding Col. w. f. Green, of n. c., are
on the list of patrons present.
-Greensboro District Con ference of
the NJ. E.. church, adopted .'by a
large majority' a resolution introduced
by Rev. Dr. B. Craven, declaring that
no person who dances, visits dances or
is voluntarily present at such amuse-
ments, or a. parent permits the child
rem under his parental authority to en-
gage in any way therein, should be
continued as member of our church,
if after proper admonition, the person
should persist in this evil
The Potato Bug is undoubtedly
a "hard egg" Thousands of them
recently infested the country round
Saratoga Springs, and did so much
damage that the farmers set up shouts
of Joy when the - bugs" began to
swarm across the lake, and drop there
in. But their rejoicings We're soon
turned to dismay when it was found
that the fish having eaten freely of the
bugs, We're unable to digest their han d