The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-05

1t the Governors high Clrcult-rlderly
qualities may enable him to live down
this wink at Mr.. Beecher's progress
s%iveness' and make him solid for anoth-
er term in the executive Office Char.
Observer.
The New York Tribune has fisIed
up and published an old letter written
buy Horace Greeley in 1864, in reply to
three soldiers Of the Army of the
Potomac, who had laid before him a
proposition looking to the assassination
of Jefferson Davis. The country will
be shocked to learn that there were
men in the Union army no better than
Wilkes Booth, and as wicked as the
gentlemen who tried to sow yellow fe-
yer IN the Northern cities-men who
believed in the efficacy of d s~sassination.
But the good Mr.. Greeley was equal t 0
the occasion. lie wrote to these would
be murderers as follows: Trust God
in all things AMI work by His means.
| submit that assassination is not
among these. You greatly mistake in
supposing Davis of any special conse-
guence.
The Goldsboro, Snow Hill and
G~reenville Railway Company is to he
organized at Snow Hill on Saturday
next. Tie Messenger says that the com
mittee appointed ut a recent meeting
OF the citizens of Go,dsboro, to consider
the proposition of making a subscrin-
ton to the road, met last Friday and
passed resolutions recommending that
Wayne county subscribe $40, 600 and
requesting the commissioners TO put
the question Of subscriptions or mo
subscription to the voters of the coun-
~ on the first Thursday Of August
next. The committee further recon-
mend that after the county shall have
subscribed $40. Gee the town of Colds
boro shall subscribe $40, OU0, making a
total Of $50, GOO fer Wayne county.
\ few days since a party of gentle
men were together. One man, a Joker.
stepped up 10 a member Of the party
and, holding a long hair before his
eyes, said. See here, old fellow, this
looks suspicious. Where did this long
hair come from Z" "Why that's from
my wife's head = Are YOU sure of
it p Sure Of it (? Of course / am.
You don't suppose you would find any
other woman's hair about me, do you -
"No, probably not, but / am sorry
YOU are so sure it is your wife's hair.
for | just picked it off the coat of this
gentleman pointing to a friend near
by httehGH Times.
The conservation Of the splendid
st. Patrick's Cathedral in New
York, Sunday, proved the most i'm
religious spectacle ever witness
ed in that city. Every prominent
Catholic diocese in the United States
was represented. The number OF peo-
pie inside the building was estimated
at between 4, 200 and 5000, and the
Of tickets of admission were -
for front seats, 50 for middle seats, and
81 for admission simply. 1t is said
that nearly one half of the tickets were
purchased ly Protestants or non
Catholics.
Gen. Grant Will leave Yokohama by
the next Pacific steamer, about the last
Of June, and Will reach San Francisco
in the neighhorhood of July 20. The
arrangements for an excursion Of citi-
to meet him on his arrival have
been completed with the leading trunk
lines between the East and Omaha. !
md from there over the roads Of the |
and Central Pacific companies.
The programme Of arrangements is |
new preparing, and will be made pub
lie shortly.
The Wilmington Recie,c says that
Jack Davis. colored, who, at the last
-erm of Brunswick Superior Court, was
sentenced TO be hanged on the 18th
lay of July, next, for the murder of
NicDuffy, made Il desperate attempt
morning to escape from the
Jail at S~mithville in which he is con
ined and was SO far successful as to
get out, but was soon re captured when
about half a mile from the village.
Il is announced that the authorities
IF New York, New jersey and Penn
.,vlvania will work in unison in the eff
to stamp out the cattle disease.
low important it is to pursue this
work may be gathered from the %statis-
les of plcuro pneumonia in England,
where 5000. 900 head of cattle have
,een lost since 1862. representing Il
-alne of about $500, 00O, 0G0.
Embroidered stockings have nearly
aiken the place of the striped ones 4
s.. retty red rose" is a fayorite design
With the ladies, but there is no rose
Without a thorn, and each foot will
ave It's corn, i'll spite of all embroid-
ry.-Nco Hacen Register.
When they start in TO have a big
ime in Kansas they have a big time