The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
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Charlotte has raised sl3 for the Hood
fund +.
Cherokee county has forty-one differ
cnt kinds of marble.
The Neuse Paper Mills will be sold at
auction on Tuesday.
Blackwell & Co. have given case of
smoking tobacco to the Hood fund.
The sale of Hon. Montford McGehee s
mills. library, ETC., will take place Nov. 3.
Capt. r. t. Fulghum, we learn, will in
brief period, take charge of paper at
Greensboro.
Raleigh has 10 white churches, and a
prospect for at least three more inside of
three years.
Judge Kerr's life was insured for
$1,000. The Reidsville Times says his love
for his family was surprisingly great
DR. Jack Watkins, of New Berne, has
bought half interest in the Watkins ware
house at Henderson, and will live there.
Maj. j. G.. Winder has been appointed
consulting engineer, the 7orchhyht says, for
the Oxford and Henderson Railroad.
-Rev.ssDr. Plummer, of Columbia, the
venerable Presbyterian divine, completed his
18th year the other day. He has published
% volumes, and 81 tracts, and Is still a Wig
orous, cogent writer and speaker.
-Grissom, jenkins, Humphrey, Russell,
IL L. Cho1
ceive the Republican votes for Governor
next fall. And the two first named may yet
have to draw straws for the nomination.
Oxford had big time Monday. The
7orchEght captions its article thus-''First
Earth Broken - ''Town Wild with Ex-
element and Enthusiasm =" III CT. Coop
er Throws First Dirt !" Ladies Turn Out
in Full Force - &c.
-Dossey Battle, after furnishing ''tafy"
for the whole State Press Convention, in
ouires of the brethren whether we shall be
slaughtered with or without the benefit OF
the clergy. Want to get off some epltaph-y
on US, do you, hey?
-Solon Robinson, one of the oldest and
best practical farmers In America, says
respectable home for tea drinking old ladies.
He refers to the Washington Department,
We suppose.
A little soft saw;ler' goes a long
ways with the average human nature.
Every now and then we see evidence that
some ohice-holde has called or sent friend
TO say such and SO, or offered free treat,
at the public expense. OF course big men,
with big offices, wish to keep them.
President McAden has located an Office
tor the Spartanburg & Asheville Railroad in
the latter town, T. Van Glider, agent. Tick
cts Will be sold and freight received and de
loot OF town hill. Wagons will haul to
hendersonyille, the present terminus Of the
railroad.
a North Carolina editor has been rob
ped OF 5000. Regret to say we don believe
IT, IT, Sorry to say it was Bro. Tomlinson.
flaq to say he got back half of it. Pity to
say Bob James, his printer devil stole
IT, Sorry to say it wasn't Bro. T.'s own
money; but belonged to the railroad, of
lIf "tfh he IS agent. Hope to say he will
catch the thief
\ prominent man in North Carolina a
lew years ago was urged to take stock in a
newspaper "Pshaw!'' said he, contempt
%oTsy 1oTsy why should | spend a thousand
To1th ,Iat editors at SO head by giving them
th ,ii". amount OF advertising, and showing
',lan .,Vl little clvility. The man would be
asto his words. ''0 ~ '''ns oA"0' i''o'