The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-20

Warren and wife, of Edgecombe. J. J. Oak
lev and G. S. Guess, of Orange, have come
to Catawba to live.
Salisbury Ners Mr.. j. S. McCubbins
returned with his bride on Saturday night.
Majority against stock law in Litaker town
ship, 26. Bishop Lyman confirmed 9 per
sons.
The Asheville Journal, Radical organ,
sa~s Gen. 4. r. Hampton has gone over to
the Democrats. It says:-'He is gone, and
we are glad of it. If the Democrats can do
ANYTHING, it is more than the Republicans
could Let us have peace!
We regret to learn of the destruction by
fire of the cotton gin and store house of MIR.
w. T. Dorset, of Hadley's Mills, Chatham
county. Some weeks ago, Mr.. ID. came to
this office and wrote out an advertisement to
sell his property, but concluded to wait a
month or so. We do not know if he was in
sured.
There is everything in a name. For ex-
ample, the broad strip of ribbon which the
ladies call their surcingle, in the old Roman
times was called the 'Cestus,' and took its
ago it was called the belt Children call
t-'waist-hand Farmers call it the belly
band Yes, indeed, there's "a heap in
names!
1t has been understood for some time
that Mr.. Lee s.. Overman will return to his
former home at Salisbury to practice law.
Report says Gov. Jarvis will probably con-
fer the Private Secretaryship upon Capt.
Dudley, chief clerk in the Secretary OF
States ofice,-the vacancy to be filled by
Mr.. f. B. Englehard.
The marriage of Lieut.. Perrin Busbee
and Miss Lily, daughter of Rear-Admiral
John l.. Worden, (who will be remembered
as the commander of the plucky little Mont-
tor in the naval combat with the M7rlnac
in Hampton Roads, will occur in Washing
ton City this "Wednesday evening. Charles
and Fabius, brothers Of the groom, are at
tending the ceremony.
One of our letters last week had the cor
ner torn off. The Investigator finding non
negotiable p. o. order within, kindly sent it
on. If this should meet his eye, thanks I!
But don't repeat the thing too often. There
is a good deal of complaint floating about !;
and ten years in Albany Penitentiary (the
lowest sentence for robbing the maiD would
make an editors two dollars look very small
pay for SO much candle.
S. T. Everett, Bank-President, of
Cleveland, Ohio, married Miss Wade, daugh-
ter Of another Bank-President, last week.
The groom gave the bride a necklace worth
$4,000. The brides father gave her anoth-
er necklace worth $50, 600, and a check for
$4,000. Lots of other presents were given
by other bankers. Cresus was a fool to die
in advance of these times. Hurrah for the
money-bag, Cod-Liver-Oil, hog-fat, %aristoc-
racy Hurrah for a strong government,
with the rich growing richer, and the poor
growing poorer, and the South strung up
by the neck!
The Asheville correspondent of the
Neus says Mr.. Dave Vance, son of Gen.
Robert B. Vance married in South Carroll
ma Miss Catlett, a lovely young lady,
Mrs. Julia @. Welborn, of High Point, died
in Ashevillo.-The Republican office hol-
ders and their colored satellites, fired cannon.
made speeches, and jubillated over the
Northern elections.
Greene county correspondent of the same
paper says: DR.. +. nj. Rountree lost his gin
house by accidental fire. Dirhtheria is Civ
ing trouble. Charlie And cws and Miss
O'Hagan and Hornaday removed 4 carbun-
Gle from Ned Carmond's back.
Capt. T. j. Robinson, Secretary or
Treasurer, and brain-works, OF the Agricul-
tural Bureau, went home to Fayetteville last
week quite sick. If his illness should be of
long duration it would be a sad mishap for
the colonel commanding. Because, as is
well known in Raleigh, if not elsewhere,
Robinson, (who for many years was in the
Washington Agricultural DEPARTMENT. has
more knowledge, both practical and theoreti-
cal, of farming matters than any of the
crowd unless it be some mem
bers of the Board. He don't make
speeches, or peddle palaver, but you
can always find him at his desk, and
solid as a sack of salt. If any other man
were drawing 81. 500 a wear Simnly to keen
a few accounts, we should be disposed to
complain about it. But Capt. Robinson,
we think, earns his salary, in other WAYS.
Our best wishes for his recovery.
The FREEDMEN's FAIR.-It would be
worth an hundred thousand votes for the
Democratic party could each Northern State