The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04

Merchants of Raleigh, and other leadin
town anticipate good trade this fall
| Had Sprague's shotgun gone off al
| Conkling two weeks ago, Mrs. Spragu,
would not have gone off to Boston on s IN
day night.
BRO. Kingsbury, of the Star, speaks il
! high terms of Maj Glen Dowd's critioue or
the legal luminaries of the State. We shal
| print the article next week.
The Moorcsville Gazette says 1875 hands
| are at work on the Railroad from Mocks-
vile to Mooresville, and in FIVE weeks the
grading will be finished to the river.
-Messrs T. n. Hill, D. C. Clark and
Halifax. Geo. T. Simmons. clerk. All
good men. r. O. Burton, Jr., the Neacs
learns, was elected Solicitor
Mrs. Sprague fed on Sunday, paying
$40 for carriage hire. She is on the way to
Boston and expresses much fear of pursuit,
though Gov. Sprague says he was aware of
her going, as she sent her jewery, papers,
and furniture several days in advance 1t
is said he has been temperate for several
months.
Our Poetry Portfolio is, we'll filled to-
day. Down from ''up the road' come some
stanzas breathing the gentlest grace and
tenderness. Then, talented friend of three
of our brightest-eyed fair folk, tells of their
graceful Service SO rare" And we observe
that Miss Kate Devereux has been awarded
the First Prize ($25) for answering the
knotty literary questions pr" ",'unded by the
New York World. Good for the girls!
The Greensboro NORTH State, the
onciliation 1t remarks that if there should
be any lack of living Federal soldiers in at
tendance on the Salisbury ere union of the
soldiers of both armies" there at least will
be no scarcity of dead ones,--in the ceme-
terry. This is thoughtful And when we
recall how poor Wirz was brutally hanged
by the best government the world ever
saw" because he couldn't furnish the pris-
oners at Salisbury better food and clothing
than our own soldiers were receiving, we
feel anxious, ---most awfully awful anxious
to go up, and join in that re union .
business
If as the Wadesboro Herald learns,
there will be six or seven miles of track laid
on the railway to Cheraw during this month,
the time approaches when Raleigh must
stir herself to draw trade Northward, else
she will lose much that now comes this way.
The day the connection is made large sec
tion Of country will turn its eyes, and It's
cotton, to Charleston, unless Raleigh can
offer much superior advantages. Charlotte,
too, will need to look out, for not only will
she lose trade, but considerable passenger
travel, which has hitherto gone by her doors,
will 60 South via Norfolk, Raleigh and
Hamlet. to Cheraw, Charleston and Augusta.
Now is the time for our business men to ad-
vertise literally and seek to establish firm
connections with the people of the border
counties.
The death of Gen. John B. Hood and
his wife, from yellow fever in New Orleans,
will awaken genuine regret throughout the
South. Mrs. Hood died first. She had re-
Gently lost her twelfth child, after marriage
Of eleven years. She leaves eleven little
ones, of whom three or four are twins. She
was Miss Anna Henncn. Gen. Hood was
truly every inch man. He lost an arm and
a leg in the war, but wasn't worried by such
trifes. His last words showed his strong
hopeful disposition Try on, and l think
we shall dislodge the enemy ak night His
was brave soul $ Hoods 1crdns were
perhaps better known than any brigade IN
Lees army. The only time we ever saw
him he acted like mad man. 1t was IN the |
heat Of the final crash at Manassas, on the
3Oth of August, 1862, the anniversary OF
his death. Several times he came along IN ~
front of his own brigade and our own, haif
hidden in the smoke, riding at break neck
speed, hatless, cravatless, with long whlskersS
blowing back like the tail Of a meteor, and
his voice raging above the roar OF the mus
ketry-a very Lion of Battle!