The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29
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VOL. IL.


Judge Cantwell has opened law
school in Wilmington.
-Ciranville and Franklin crops are
r.-uortcd excellent.
Polite and petite are neally alike,
and one who is polite is always polite.
I'D. Click, member elect of Iredell,
resigned his county commissionership
in due time and is eligible
The trial of Bowman of Guilford
tor wife murder began at Ashboro yes
trrlay.
-Messrs Barbee and Latta have mu-
tuaIly dissolved partnership. Mr.. CT.
C. latta will continue the business
The Jones as. Jones divorce case
was decided on Wednesday of last
week by acquital of the wife. The
charges We're unfit for print.
Mr. A. S Lewter, Agent of the n
C.. R. r. at Salisbury, lost all three of
his children within ten days, the last
one dying on Saturday, of diptheria.
Mathew o. Beatty, who has made
and lost two or three large fortunes, is
again coming to the front. with a new
set Of III chine shops at Concord.
Grenada truly lies in the VALLEY
of the shadow of Deathr' Read else
where the horrible statement concern
ing it.
There is one worthy couple in this
city who will need to follow kearney's
advice to pool your issues - Because
who can afford to rock three cradles at
time?
Rev. Wade Hill didn't shoot Andy
Seoggins; he only beat him, and we
are sorry to say, he is sorry for even
that. Scoggins used to beat and shoot
pretty much as lie pleased in the last
years of GrantiSm
If DugaId Maconchie, formerly of
Campbeilton, Scotia, is anywhere
about will he rise up:--will he howld
up his right hand? 1oa bet, he wull:
there a big pole of money left TIL,
him on the ould sod.
Prof. w. B. Dwight, a relative of
the editor of this paper, has accepted
a Professorship in Nassar College. We
mean to pay him visit, and have a
good time sliding down the baluster
rails with the girls.
We were pleased to have call
FROM Col. T. b. Venable, Roger 0.
''rc-gory, \. s. Peace and Mr.. Davis
Of Granville; Judge Howard of Tar
boro and n number of other friends
daslng the past week
young white man named Jones
died Of hydrophobia near Manchester,
Va Parents who have as many dogs
as children in this weather should be
careful that they don't have some un-
pleasant recollection of the two, in after
years
Two negroes quarrelled at Warm
Springs. Later in the day, DIR. How
rrton had some trouble with one of
the darkeys, whereupon the other
negro ran up, shot down the Doctors
man, and skedaddled in search of
cooler springs
director of L. S. Mint wrote to
"oy. Vance for statistics of North Car
"lna gold yield for past year, to go in
As Annual Report. The Governor
called on Prof. Kerr, who after careful
inquiry, reported 100000 as the
amount. Nice little pile.
The young rascal, Henry Davis of
Nhapel Hill, now in Jail for burglary
Was at one time clerk in Raleigh
Hotel. He afterwards held a similar
position at Salisbury, and being an ex-
eeIlent dancer soon danced his way
INTO Society" Then followed the
'0'h OF young irl,-the usual Sc
quence of taking fast young men ''on
trust"
Old man Lord, whose fetal sons
e'fiy succeeded in locking him in
house, because he married the
r'et'y widow, Mrs. Hicks. is now so
:, cole, he is lifted into his carriage by
nee men. The wife always wears an
"'"y veil when out riding with h M