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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
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For the FAKMKR AND MECHANIC.
The Dogs Petition.

| Inc following SatlrlcAl view came
last week, but WAS deferred by the lack
OF suitable type to set i.
To you. u Honorable Legislative
body,
The Wisdom OF the Commonwealth
convened.
and shoddy,
The proud protector Of the meek ma.
ligned.
The very humblest of your fellow
creatures,
Tho no mean factor in your cons,itu-
Denied the ballot and the direct f,a-
Of Suffragists. We vote beyond con-
futiog.
Armed with our prayer-a prayer for
life appealing,
Which hereinafter morn fully shall
appear
The canine genus-their special dan
ger feeling,
Approach your Grandeury with con-
straint and fear.
With tails depressed, aud c~rouching,
cringing, fawning,
We dare unfold q tale Of dire oppres-
sion,
Which overhangs us like q battered
awning,
And breaks the sunlight Of your bril-
liant session.
There are a few-a few for fame sore
t"hing.
In manhood liking and devoid of sense:
Their nance Of honor waning fast
90 pitching
Headlong for repute, at the dogs ex-
pense.
Carpe per diem ct carpe diem, unite
And make a motto that they dearly
treasure
And show uniquely, how these Dolons
petite
In politics., can business join with plea
sure.
They say the times demand that wool
and mutton
Should have protection, that is COW
denied 'em,
The entire yelping race not worth a
button,
But a rank nuisance-so have they :
lied EN-.
We freely own, that now and then we
worry
A sheep or two, and sometimes hunger
pressing
A flock destroy-we yet decry this
hurry
OF justice void, and cruelty distressing.
Have dogs no rights that men need to
respect?
That persecution may read p~rosecu-
ton,
They seek to reach us with a law di>
rect
And sweep us off, with grand exc
cutiOn.
We put it on the ground Of
Appealed to humane feelings to pro
Failing in this, our only hope and trust
On the strong grouud-Economy Po-
Let dogs eat sheep, or men raise goats
instead.
We see no reason why their taste for
mutton
Why not on beef and pork and goat
be fedD
Should aid North wool, supplant the
South King Cotton.
So heed u prayer. and we will ever
pray,
Your hnmblest servants in this suppl
cation.
not back on US, aud our trusts be
tray,
But save us from the rabid politician.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
Agricultural
.S,,te Board of Agriculture, lmmigra
ton and Statistics.

T. 3. VANCE, Governor and ex ohcio Chalr
nv W G. KERR. state G~eologist and ex oficio
IMP RaTiIE President State Agricultural
college and ex officio member OF the Boild;
r Il. UuLr. President state AgrlcuitIra
|Socieiy and ex ofticio member OF the noaip'
IS Master State Grange, Z.
~ and ey Osici member Ofthe b ard.
II II, THIGPEN. L Edgecombe county.
Ey =. OF Cumberland county.
IEoYID.s DIX. commissioner.
TnoS T. Io.INSJS, Secretary and Treas
ONCE. second floor of Briggs Building
raleigh, NC.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
NGORA GOATS FOR SALE.

2 pair Thoroughbred at $e5 Per pair.
1 Buck or Doe, &C Sl5 each.
20 Grade Does, at 81 each.
address, DIR. o. L. ELLIS,
jan 10 If. LouisbnrF, y. q
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
ASTON PREsENTIAENT.

tits said of Aston that be had many
previous similar difficulties IN his life,
and that be had a presentiment that he
was to die s~ndden1ylby the bullet in a
personal encounter, as had his father
before him. In fact, bis family history
includes a bloody vendetta. Hisnncie,
Augustus Aston, fought duel in
Florida with rifles masy Yeas ago ard
was killed by his adversary. a nea
sighted man, named Reed. His father,
Willis Alison. met this man Reed inNthe
streets of Columbus, Ga, subsequently,
and killed him. Reeds brother now
took up the quarrel. an meeting Will
lis Alston ia Texas one day, shot and
killed him.. aa- 50 ~ {J1si .steH
A CITIzEN OF DAVIDSON COUNTY FATAL.
E IYsHoT By ABRoTHER-IN Law.
special Dispatcht to- the Charl tie Observer.
SALISBURY, March 13, 1870.
Robert w. Hayden was killed nea
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
How the Demagogues Hurt the
South.

0OOCA.
The following sample of numerous
letters received by Commissions Polk
will serve to illustrate the effect Of the
v%illanous speeches of such political
vultures as lack Chandler, Blaine,
Edmunds, and others:
WEsTvILLE, Conn March 9Th, 1879.
Dear SIR II am in receipt Of YOUR
favor Of the Sd, as also Of COPY of
your fishery report. We are greatly
obliged for the frank and explicit tone
OF your letter. Two gentlemen rep
~resenting our association were ex>
pectiug 10 start for Raleigh in a few
days. there to meet an agent we have
employed to examine many places and
sections Of the STATE, but the uncsr-
talnty of the future that has been
aroused by the action of the late Con-
gress will postpone their trip for the
present, and they will wait for the
called session to get under way, and
then be governed by the spirit mani
tested.
Within the three past years there
has been a considerable exodus from
this vicinity to Minnesota, and some
of our association have invested heav-
lily there, but do nos wish it FOR a
residence.
We have desired to find a spot in
your State where we could build up
aprosperous village Of congenial peo>
pie, aud we sincerely hope that the
revolutionary indications in the WASH
lngton atmosphere may prove to be
winds, d~readfully disagreeable while
thew Loot hrt rn0n fnrc040r ,1n
May smiles.
Again thanking you for your
prompiness aud courtesy, I am
.tG Very truly yours, Il
The idea that the brutal onslaughts
of a few demagogues upon that harm.
less old gentleman. Honorable Jeffer>
son Davis, (whose best years were
given t o the Union before his traducers
had been thrown upon the surface Of
politics by the bite rness of their Sec
tionalism), should deter Northern men
from s ttlingin the South, is surpris-
ing indeed.
AT this moment there are in our
Office two ex-Federal soldiers, one a
Democrat, the other a Republican,
who has never Voted any other ticket.
and carriers a Confederate bullet in
his thigh; yet both make a comforta-
BILE support by businesses which bring
them n contact with every class of
III people. tLf cT1lL5
There are fifty other ex-Union SOL
diers, Of all shades of politics, in BUSH
uess within one mile of where we pen
these lines.
But perhaps We ought not to blame
the Blaines. Chambers, and their lesser
yelpers, when we see how easily they
can deceive, and fire up" the masses
at the North
As for the Jefferson Davis Pension
matter, it is astonishing the Old gem
tleman's enemies did not see how
deadly a blow to his reputation would
have been the fact hat he was actually
a Pensioner of the "Yankee Govern
ment.f,
Tennyson hates tourists and likes to
his own company even among
his neighbors. lie is a good smoker;
! liberal ein5 bpolitics aristocratic
though unaffected in manner ; a Broad
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
u Z W
READY-MADE CLOTHING
AT COST.
~ RosENBACM i BRO. ii Fay.

ett VILE Street.
Nc nave eoneiuded to devote our time 10
the selling OF DRf GOODS only thereof.
We oner our large stock OF READY.NADE
CLOTHING AT NET COST. for cash, ~
can and see what you need In the cioth,ns
line. We don't advertise often, but vh.n
We do, We mean every word we say
NJ. ROsENBACN 4 BIO
delcSm.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
Maine's LIQUOR Law.

Neal Dow is ever ready to claim great
and good practical results for the pro-
hibitory law in Maine. Mr.. Ingraham,
a member of the legislature, recently
said, in an official report, that drunken
ness had increased and business interests
declined. Mr.. Dow replies that there
is not a distillery or brewery in the
state, and that the Importation of liquor
is exceedingly small. He thinks that
$780, 600 year would cover the value
of all the liquor smuggled in. "Our
vast West India trade" he saws FUSED
to be little else than sending lumber of
many kinds to the islands, and taking
home rum for our own CONSUMPTION.
and molasses to be converted into New
England rum in our distilleries, also for
home use. In those old rum days the
people were poor and unthritty; now,
everything in the state, in that respect,
is reversed, as the result of the vast
saving, direct and indirect, coming from
the law which has driven the rum trade
out. Portland, in 1866, lost $40, DOC, 900
in a conaagration, but its valuation is
now greater than ever, having gained
$3.50, 900 last year under prohibition !;
while Boston, with free rum licensed.
lost $70,00O,000; and New York and
Brooklyn, with rum enough, have not
ainedg, think"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
The Postage Stamp Mania.

Notwithstanding the frequent ex-
posures Of the folly of the thing, there
are some silly persons who believe that
the Government will pay a good price
for q million postage stamps. Many is
the boy, or girl, who has been persuaded
to go into the laborious task of collect.
ing a million of old stamps under the
impression that one would promptly re-
ceive check for five hundred dollars, or
thereabouts, upon delivery of the pile Of
stuff at Washington. Now there is a
side to this question, which, if properly
presented may persuade the victims Of
the stamp mania to employ their time
more profitable. A writer in the Sci.
entifc american sets forth that the real
object of collecting these stamps is to
cheat the Government by washing off
the Postefice mark by means of chemic-
al preparation, and then selling the
stamps again. Investigation will show
that they will go through various chan
nels to certain parties who are engaged
in defrauding the revenue. It is hard.
~ necessary to repeat that the Govern
ment does not pay cent for old stamps
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
The First Experience of the Japanese
with ELECTRICITY.

Mr.. E. Clark, in Life and Adveutures
en- Japan, gives the following amusing
account of the first experience of the
japanese with statical electricity, The
author lived in Japan from 1871 to 1875,
and was in the service Of the Japanese
government. He describes the Japanese
as being very fond of anything practical,
and as being delighted with anything in
the shape OF experiment., even, apparent.
", when practiced upon themselves.
He says: II never witnessed more lu.
dicrous sight than the effects produced
upon the Japanese by some OF my ex.
periments. The innocent manner in
which they stepped up to the various
electric machines, and did whatever
they were told, was only excelled by
the dumb astonishment or the frantic
yell with which they received the cleo.
trio shock. No visible effect, however
great, upon the first who wanted to take
hold was sufficient to restrain the in.
tense curiosity of those who wished to
follow. They wanted to feel for them.
selves, and their ambition was usually
satisfied after one trial. Two of the
governors took spark from one OF
the machines, but the third was very
dignifed, and would not deign to come
up to the table, as it was contrary tc
strict etiquette. So politely offered to
bring him some electricity in bottle
de doubted whether that could be done
In order to dispel his doubts, and also tc
bring him down to the level of ordinary
mortals, | took large Leyden Jar
which l charged full of electricity, and
brought it to him with good grace. He
looked at the jar, and seeing nothing in
it, concluded to touch the brass knob al
the top. The effect may be better i'm
agined and described, only he didn't
show any more dignity nor touch an,
more jars that day"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
Horace Greeley's Shoe Leather.

Mr.. Greeley rolled into the shoemak-
er's store with that heavy, billowy sort
of gait he had. "Sit down Mr.. Greeley,
said the shoemaker" Greeley looked up
with that broad, wondering, half child
like look, and said, "Why, do you know
me?' Everybody knows you, Mr.
Greeley" was the reply. A comforta
bic fitting shoe was tried On. "No
that's altogether too small" Then a
shoe that was really altogether toolarge,
but that too was not large enough; then
cloth shoe, so large that Mr.. Greeley
could put his hand in and arrange his
stocking over his foot SO as to fit him.
he was amazed at the contrast with
Broadway prices, not seeing that there
was also contrast with the Broadway
quality, bought several pairs like it,
all the man had in fact,-and went
away greatly delighted, saying that he
had lot of shoes he would sen around
to be mended. Sure enough boy came
in few moments with a small basket
full. The shoemaker pledges me his
professional honor that there was not
two shoes alike in the whole basket. He
hurried around to Mr.. Greeley's house,
and suggested that, as none of the shoes
mated, it was of no use to mend them.
Weli,'' said Mr.. Greeley, with that
confidential half.whisper OF his, "the
fact is, l put 'em on just about as they
came along. And it is not difficult to
believe that he did.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
An Accomplished Pussy,

Children, partial to cats, might try
their hands in bringing up kitten to
be ever smarter than the one of which a
little girl in Berwick, Me-, is very
proud. It is said that when called by
name at dinner.time her citizenship runs
quickly to the side of her mistress, and
demurely waits while a tinney bib,
made expressly for her, is tied around
her neck. A two-ounce vial filled with
milk is then laid on the floor beside her,
and, taking it between her paws, she
raises herself on her hind feet, puts the
bottle to her mouth, and remaining in
that position drinks the milk; then lay
ing the bottle gently down, she patiently
waits for her mouth to be wiped and for
the bib to be removed. We know some
children that are not in the habit of
waiting demurely" for anything. ST..
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
Tyranny in Russia.

Among the most extraordinary Of the
tyrannical regulations Of the Russian po-
lice, is one which strictly forbids any one
to touch dead or dying man without the
direct sanction of the police. In con-
sequence of this arbitrary enactment,
it is no uncommon thing to see man
lying bleeding and helpless from severe
fall in the streets of Moscow or St.
Petersburg without any one daring to
assist him. To what extent this curious
tyranny is carried may be judged from
single instance. An English gentle
man, residing at Peterhof, a coast town
about l6 miles from St. Petersburg, had
one morning found his Russian groom
hanging by the neck in the stable, and
cut him down at once, just in time to
save his life. The next day he received
a visit from the local inspector Of police,
who, far from commenting his prompt
humanity, vehemently abused n him tor
lishman had heard him to the end with
out word, and then said quietly:
"Well, Mr.. Inspector, Pm extremely
sorry to have done anything, but III
make all the amends in my power. If
I find goy hanging anywhere, [ pledge
YOU nv honor l won't cut you down."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01

requiring small coins Zone cent, three cents,
etc., to be received at postofices for post
age stamps in sums not exceeding So was,
after discussion, agreed to. The Bill finally
passed. 1t provides that silver coins Of
smaller denomination than one dollar NAV
be exchangeable into lawful money, when
presented in sums of $40, makes lawful
money exchangeable into silver coins in q
like amount, makes subsidiary silver coins
legal tender, for all debts, public and pri.
vate, in sums not exceeding 800, and makes
the amount of $3.....Atkins, chairman
OF the committee on appropriations, report
ed deficiency bill for about $4,000,
Passed...... Then the house went into com.
mittee on the legislative appropriation bill
and debated it until Adjournment.
WEDNESDAY, April 23.-The day and
evening sessions were devoted to debate in
committee of the whole on the legislative
bill. When the committee rose in the even.
ing recess was taken until 10 o'clock to.
morrow.
THURSDAY, April 24.-The house went
into committee of the whole and continued
the discussion CT the legislative appropria.
ton bill, debating the measure all day.
When the committee rose, the time for the
tcIMlAdtlOu VI ueDAto was liked at . O'Clock
tomorrow, instead of 2 o'clock, as previous
y ordered, and the house took recess.
FRIDAY, April 25.-In committee of
the whole consideration was resumed of the
Legislative appropriation bill. Debate was
interrupted by message announced the
passage of the army appropriation bill by
the senate, at which announcement there
was considerable hand.clapping on the
Demo cratic side of the honse. After further
debate the committee rose, the speaker pre-.
sented, ss enrolled and 81 ned by him, the
army appropriation bill, and the house ad.
journed until tomorrow.
SATURDAY, April 26.-After debate
OF the legislative bill in committee of the
whole the committee voted On the amend
ments. Weaver moved to strike out all the
proposed legislation except the provision in
resart to the test oath. Defeated without q
division. Garfield offered an amendment
striking out all the proposed legislation
Defeated by q vote Of tc]!era-yeas, 1913
nays, 100. The committee then rose ant
reported the bill and the amendments to tn,
house, and all the amendments were agreed
to without division. The bill was thel
passed-yeas, 40; nays, 119. Adjournet
until Tuesday.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
Obituary.

Ex.Judge George s. Barnard, of the New
York supreme court, died at New York, on
the 9th.
Benedict Lowenstein, senior member Of
the firm OF Lowenstein & Bro, of Memphis,
Tenn, died at some point in Europe on the
25th inst. The deceased resided in Europe
for the past eight years.
Bishop Edward r. Ames, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, died in Baltimore, Md.
on the 25th inst. aged "A years, after pre-.
tracted illness.
The duke of Roxburg, head of the noted
Scottish house of Kew, died in Gerea on
the 24sh inst, aged 63 years.
Capt. David G. Woods, formerly of New
Bedford, died on the 2sd inst, at Mare
Island. During the war he commanded the
Monitor Kickapoo, end was late superin.
tendent OF the industrial school at SIN
Francisco, Cal.
Walter Jaeger, one of the oldest brokers
OF Wall street, father of Bishop Jaeger, of
Southern Ohio, died in Flushing, L. l.. aged
IS.
General John A. Dix died at New York
on the night Of the 2lst inst.
Doctor Won strampf. first president of the
supreme tribunal of Prussia, is dead.
The death Of Mrs. Rousby, the actress, is
announced.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
Cooperation.

1t is now ten years since some clerks
in the London postoffce found them
selves unable to live on their pay. They
asked for more and were refused, The
answer came on foggy November after
noon, day that was gloomy enough
without bad tidings. Three Of the men,
talking over the dismal present and the
dreary future, resolved to try what co.
operation could do. They capvassed
their fellows, and found dozen who
were willing to buy among them fifty
pounds of tea. The money was paid in
on the spot. The next morning, one of
the original three, on his way to the
office, bought at a wholesale store half a
chest of tea. After Office hours, the pur-
chase was duly divided. The amount
saved was twenty-five cents pound.
The story Of this success speedily spread
abroad. Within three days, the triumvi.
rate had orders for another half chest.
Soon they began to buy in somewhat
larger quantities. They put the tea in
an empty closet in the postofice, and
hired the porter to weigh it out to the
different purchasers, paying him for his
trouble with the pound or so which each
chest contained over its nominal weight
Little by little they added few Other
staple articles to their stock. The old
cupboard, their first store, was now toe
small. They hired little room in the
topmost story Of neighboring building
for a few dollars month. This was
considered to be most daring STEP
But their business speedily OutgreW
these narrow quarters. They were
crowded out of room after room. Five
years ago they moved into building o1
their own, for which they paid 5000, 900
It is several stories high, with a frontage
of perhaps hundred feet on each G
two streets; it is crowded with goods
clerks, and customers. The Civil Ser
vice Supply association, as it is called
sells S5,000,000 worth of goods year:
moreover, it has arrangements with s
great number of the best firms in London
by which its members can buy from these
firms for cash at from twenty to fort,
per cent. discount. The business done
in this way is estimated at $4,000, 00(
more. Nine years ago, the association
began by selling half chest of tea. It.
growth is a most joyous TACT. It ha
been, however, q most alarming fact t.
the retailers of London. Two year
ago, they petitioned parliament to forbit
the government employees engaging il
such enterprises. The petition was il
vain, but the petitioners took their re
venge by driving Mr.. Thomas Hughe
from his place in the commons. When
number Of the underpaid clergy of tn
Church of England undertook to imitat,
the civil service clerks, their proposed
league was broken up, it is said, by tn,
throat Of an organized bolt of small
tradesmen into the dissecting sects,-
Alfred Mason IN Atlantic.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
A Brush with the Sioux.

A telegram received at the military head.
quarters at Chicago, on the 22d inst, states
that Lieut.. Loder with fourteen men of the
third and seventh infantry had brush with
some Sioux Indians in Musselshell Canon in
which eight Indians were killed and several
wounded. he lost one friendly Indian. who
was killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
SOnlethiu4 New.

A negro hack driver named Bill Reed
was arrested at Little Rock, Ark, on the
25d inst, for attempting to blow up his cast
Oh wife and another woman, with gun powder.
The package was placed under the bed on
which the two were sleeping, the explosion
throwing them in the:air, seriously injuring
the wife and completely wrecking the
building.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
A Fathers CrSm,a

The body of girl named Ella Ryder, tied
hand and foot, was found in the Missouri
river, some miles below independence, Mo-.
on the 10th inst. The supposition is that
the father of the girl threw her into the
river and then killed himself because she
persisted in keeping company with dissi.
pated, disreputable man named Todd.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
Tho Fatal Taosh

Father Vineland, pastor of the Church OF
the Assumption, at South Bend, Ind, while
asleep on the night of the 10Th inst, swal
lowed four teeth on gold plate. When he
awoke they were so far down his throat that
ne could not raise them, and the surgeons
have since failed to extract them, He is
suffering greatly, and the possibilities arc
that he will hi.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01
Steamer Wrecked.

The steamer Great Republic went ashore
at Astoria, Oregon, during the night of the
10th inst, and soon became a total loss.
Inc passengers were all saved, but they
lost all their effects and many of them
are destitute. The latest concerning the
condition OF the vessel is that she is broken
IN three pieces. Ten of the crew lost their
lives.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01

RECENTLY a young man was presented
in a family where there is a manageable
daughter, and as soon as he had taken
his leave the friend who had introduced
him said to the father: "Well, how
would he suit you for son-in-law?"
every we'll, indeed says the father.
"All right, suppose he comes round to-
MORROW and Proposes?" Father with
dignity ~ Tomorrow? Pooh, pooh!
What are you thinking Of? That would
be indecent haste. Say tie cay after
tomorrow.