The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-19
No scarlet fever in Raleigh.

No scarlet fever in Raleigh
Joe ID. and Matt r. Pulley, two of
the trlplets, died last week.
Judge Merrimon will address the
people of Winston Oct. 9TH Dobson,
Oct. Sth
Married, Sept. 10th, by S Z. Holt,
Esq, Mr.. George z. Payne and Miss
Maggie Caps, all of Alamance.
Raleigh must have lots of young
sters. There are some dozen or two
private schools, and all we'll patron
lied.
Nathan Young, Esq, has resigned
as Commissioner of Rutherford county,
being a member-elect of the Legis-
lature.
John b. Hussey, Esq., is getting
up pamphlet on Western North Caro-
lima, for the information of summer
tourists.
r. G. Smith, one Of the defendants
in the Johnston county case, was bailed
in 1000, after habeas corpus inquiry
before Judge Strong.
Tomorrow will be observed in
Indiana as day of fasting and prayer
for the plague-stricken, by announce
ment of Gov. Williams.
Capt. j. L. Patrick, of that excel
lent paper, the Pee Dee Herald, is in
the city. Colonel Lilies had to stay at
home and "mind the cradle"
is there living woman, under 80
years of age, who can send newspaper
TO another woman without writing
whole chapters on the margin?
Gen. Beauregard, who is in New
York, preparing history of the bat
tie of Shiloh, was nominated for Gov
ernor by the Republicans and Nationals
of Louisiana. He fatty declined.
The trotter, Hopeful, is giving
Rarrs bad scare. At Minneapolis he
tr)tted , 144 to Rarus 2.14t. The two
horses, with Ed Forest, are to trot at
Hartford for $4,000
We regret that, being somewhat
indisposed, we were absent on Tuesday,
when Col Wharton Green, Mr.. Litch-
ford, Bro. Davis, and other friends,
called at the office. Owing to the same
cause, the present number of the paper
is hastily thrown together.
The Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asy-
lum began it's fall session on Wednes-
day of | ist week, with about 80 pupils
of which fourth were in the col
ored branch. The new wing is SO near
complete that Superintendent Gudger
is advertising for heating apparatus.
Warm Springs and Beaufort alone
of the North Carolina watering places
have been profitable this season.
Catawba, Cleveland and other Springs
rarely had half their rooms filled. Great
is the power Of fashion. Everybody
asks everybody where he is going and
goes along with him.
1t is part of the penalty which
Nature imposes on the man OF woman
who marries for money, that the very
wealth thus acquired brings an expan-
sion of tastes, ideas and capacities for
enjoyment which render four fold
more CALLING the golden chain which
binds them to their uncongenial hus-
band or wife.
Geo. Norwood and Geo. Partin,
the robbers of Jack Jones, were sent
enced on Monday to q and years, re
spectively, in the penitentiary. Whita-
ker, as vet, unsentenced. Tom Watson,
larceny, one year in Pen. Claude
Parish, same old rascality, 10 years in
Pen. Appeal granted. John Green,
stealing, 2 years worth in Pen.
One of the rarest things iii a
sprightly woman is the capability OF
giving "t'other fellow" a charce-we
mean, III conversationally way. She
let's you get just fairly started in your
sentence, and then she squeezes heI
own idea III past yours, takes the lead
tosses her head, and looks it, If she
doesn't say-''There know all about
it, and you doa't. Now say something
else.