The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-27


patrons, Bro. j. H. Myrover has re-
sumed publication Of the Fayetteville
Gazette, which, as before, he makes
an excellent paper.
Durham is a paradox. The more
weeds you see In it's streets the
! greater 1t sprosperity. And yetthe only
good to be got out Of the weed is in
burning it.
A writer in the Star perpetrates
an awful pun. Narrating the disaster
of drummer who was spilled on the
pavement, from a wagon drawn by
goats, he says 'Our Bah-nannies aciW
make you slip up occasionally, you
know
E-Capt. John S. Lockhart, of Dur
ham, one of the go-ahead young men
of the Bovine city, gave Us call last
week. lie says the Methodist church
Is crowded nightly to hear the preach
ing of Mrs. Mary Neon.
Our correspondent, J. s. D., asks
where he can get ,the Osier Willow,
and the Olive Planto Will some one
inform US? He also mentions a half
breed, lndian-negro, who gratis apple
twigs on gall-berry stocks, successful
ly. We have eaten peaches grown on
a limb grated to plum tre..
The Wilmington Star announces
the death of DR.. w. E. Freeman, OF
that city, who died on Sunday last
The Star adds ''He was one among
olr oIdor. -. --,.'A"o DSeh III
active practice in accordance with the
homeopathic system of medicine for
the last thirty years, during which
time he endeared himself II all but /
more particula ly to the poorer class
of our ropuiati II.
Every now and then you meet a
man who says it isn't worth while to
seek immigration Let those who
doubt the benefit of advertising for
immigrants, read the statistics given
on our editorial page. Only II per
cent. of all persons who landed at the
port of New York during the year
1878, settled in the South. The West
received some 46 per cent. Fifty two
per cent. settled in the Eastern States,
and less than l per cent. in Canada
Texas was the favorite destination.
Yet North Carolina is a far better
country for men with only few hum
dreds Of dollars of capital. -
DIR. A. B. Chaplin, of Chatham, is
in the city. and anticipates visit
from Geo II. Chaplin, Esq, of Boston,
head of the strong establishment
known as Chapin's New England
Agency, which has branches in all
parts of the Union, and come ctiOns
with all parts of the world. They
have paid as much as $50 900 to a
sin gle journal for advertising lands and
localities. Mr.. Chapin's pamphlets
(full of engravings of prominent
points, buildings. etc. des criptive of
Aiken, South Carolina, did very
great deal to build that town into
city. He comes to North Carolina to
look about him, and inform himself on |
those features Of which daily inquiry |
is being made by Home Seekers at the |
North. We trust he will find cordial |
greeting from every class Of our peo>
pie.
1t is astonishing that any Southern |
man should vote to exclude the |
Chinese from the West. Have not |
the constitutional amendments, and |
the united voice of The Northern |
Press, pulpit, and nail keg statesmen, |
declared there shall be no distinction |
on account of race, color, or previous |
condition What if the Pacific Stat
who helped to overpower the South, |
and force her to accept as fellow citi-
ZenS race far inferior and more |
brutalized than the mild ''Celestials"
do threaten to secede, and also to
maltraat their altnOpd-eyed brethren: