The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-12

--lne ColOreu people are DeStlrrlng
themselves to aid their brethren in the
yellow fever districts a dime party
at Metropolitan Hall tonight will be
attended by the three military compa-
nies, band, etc.
The Green River bridge on the
Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad
has been completed and the track will
be laid to within two miles of Flat
Rock by the meeting of the stock-hol-
der's of the road which is to be held At
Hendersonville, N. c., on the 18th
inst.
Many of our readers will read the
article on Gov. Vance and Spinoza
with interest. The cultivated editor
of the .Siar, of yesterday, also has a
long article, more particularly referring
to the Biblical Recorders comments on
the Governors address The discus
sion will do no harm.
Col. Polk left for Point CaswelI on
Tuesday, By the way our Pender
friends may not know that he is mar
ried so it will be as we'll to make
'.wall-fower" of him at the BalD and
will go thence to some point in Bladen
county to address the people to NOR
row.
NORTH Carolina h as ,025 distille-
ries" We should like to ask the man
! that turned loose this item among the
Yankee newspapers whether he knows
| the difference between turpentine
| tub, and an illicit ''sour-mash" Dar'l
And if not, why not? And who has
been around doing SO much counting?
The Tarboro Southerncr says Hy-
man Stanton, colored, was dancing at
ball on the premises of John w. Phil
lips, in..Edgecombe county, last Satur-
day night, when pistol dropped from
his pocket, discharging a bullet
through the brain of colored boy ly-
ing asleep on the floor, killing him in
stantly.
The Hon. Emerson Ethridge, of
Memphis, was nominated for Cover
nor, by acclamation, at the Republi-
cam State Convention of Tennessee.
He has changed his mind since he de-
clared =" May the grass wither under
my feet, the woods deny me shelter
the earth a'grave, and heaven a God, if
ever vote the Republican ticket.
The worst visitation of yellow
fever was in 1858, when New Orleans
lost nearly $4,000 and the state of
Louisiana an aggregate loss of 10000
souls And this within ninety days
There were 2S3 deaths in New Orleans
within "A hours. During the next two
years the loss was about 1000. In 1867
it reached nearly 5000.
Mrs. Jas. E. Nash, assisted by her
accomplished daughters, recent gradu-
ates of well-known Female Colleges,
will reopen her school for girls at
Newbern, Oct. 1st; and will take as
boarding pupils three or four girls OF
IL, or upwards. We do not know a
lady better qualified to instruct; both
by precept and example,-the rhetoric
of a noble life,-than Mrs. Ellis
Nash.
There are no less than 25 weddings
on the Raleigh carpet; all to come off
this side of Christmas, if the engage
ments strings will hold the victims
until the legal moose can be adjusted.
The Baptist and Episcopal churches
seem to have the best prospects but
the Presbyterians and Methodists arr
said to be doing considerable courting
and there is no telling who will have
the most fun out of this KnCt-ty busi-
ness.
The Ledger announces that the stu
dents and faculty of the University
have decided to put down "hazing.
Sensible in both. The practice Is
silly, sometimes barbarous. invariably
injurious to the morale of the class
and never otherwise than disgracefu
to the faculty which tolerates it. Sen
sitive, shrinking youths have
had their whole college cours
embittered by the rough usag o
their fellows; for as a general thing tn,
half-grown boy, of the fuzzy-mous
tache, and cane-twirling period, is
, good deal rougher than the bear in hi
"fun.'-