The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-09

CHIT-CIIAT: BI CUR DEAF AND Dunn
TELEPHONE Want the city chit-chat. eli
Wei, goodness gracious, don't speak q
loud There 40 uee yelling through the
telephone. Some folks would save money
by just stretching lot Of stocking warm III
stead OF wirc because they hawl loud
enough to be heard N the other end Of the
line anyhow. Another thing, if you talk
with Your mouth about ten inches in front
Of the tube the transmission will be more
sical cabinet, up in the parlor OF the Ma
tional Hotel, IS q real curiosity. The young
girls play it all day: or pretcnd TO play, for
they use only their little toe-ses to work the
bellow-ses. And the music Is right good :
especially slow metre sacred nusic--
Fair folk ali fixing for the fair Every
young belle has bunch of flax, or zephyr,
or some sort of yarn, in her lap from marn-
ing till night, crocheting things which they
call work. : good many. visitors are
coming. they say-Miss Agnes W. Of
Charlotte, is expected down tomorrow. and
Miss Lou I. on Monday. Miss Sarah G.. is
visiting Miss Bette H.: Miss Lavine H.,
Miss Placide 81, Mrs. Jarvis, and one CT
two others are spending couple OF days at
the residence of Col. Thos. Holt, on Haw
River. bachelor brother will bid
adieu to the fraternity during the first week
in November Lucky man !---AIiss
Mamie G. will return to her home near
IIillsboro next week k--Ma W. l..
Saunders is back in Raleigh, and Jolly as
ever. of the best singers in the
city chors will aid in the cantata at the
Baptist church on Wednesday night next.
SLATER dancing school three nights
in the week. \ young physician, stylish
postal clerk, and others, are tripping it,
with steel-pen coats In preparation. -~----
Mrs. Hardie has some captivating goods,
and the ladies are focking to see them.
-Louisville offers $500 in various
sums to the ten largest shippers Of cotton to
their city. If Raleigh should offer some
such premium it would draw trade. .---
Drs. Burke and Hubert Haywood have en-
tered into partnership to practice their
profession I'VE learn from Auditor
Love that the original draft of the Constitu-
ton Of the State Of Frankland,' (now
TennesSeej North Carolina rebellious
young daughter, turned UP recently among
the old documents on Handsome
new hon~c~ going up on nearly every street.
-Prof Fairchild is pushing up his big
green house on Nash square. Capt.
Jos Davis spent Monday in town. --
Chief Justice Smith Opinion on the School
I)lll case IS printed III Iull III tHc hbttJ W
Serrcr Of Tuesday morning: --The lots
belonging to the estate of Miss +. Il. Hay
wood sold on Monday for Sl3, 725; Mrs. Or.
E. Burke Haywood, Alfred William and
.Alf W. Haywood being the purchasers.
- Gov. Jarvis IS reported to deny the
statement that at Wake Forest he advocated
State aid for denominational colleges. The
denial is slow coming but perhaps better
late than never: and we are glad to have
the denial even late. It Is astonishing how
such stories get afoat. ---Robert 4.
Swepson, a relative Of Geo. w. IS one OF
the young men who purchased the Rich
mond City Railway for So. 900. He
Gently the remains Of a Mrs. Toole, who was
buried some time ago near Louisburg Frank
lin county, were cNhumed and were found
to have petrifed \ Raleigh -Ne,cs cores
pondent says the nose and one finger broke
of. -Midshipman Perrin Pusbee is an
nounced in the New York Ilori, to marry
on the 18th inst. Miss Lilly Worden, daugh-
ter of Rear Admiral Worden, who won his
rank by the famous Montor-Nerrlmac fight
in Hampton Roads.