The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-23


white, and his body turning pale Several
such cases have beeu reported in New York
wapers OF late years. Physicians thought
1t might arise from some chemical change in
the blood. Soap and water appear not to
have been thought of.
The Free Lance tells OF meeting of
citizens at Sassafras Fork, Nov. 7th, to con
slider the question Of railroad from Dur
ham to Keysville. via Oxford and Clarks-
vile. A similar meeting at the last named
town on the Sth. There are 90 hands at
work on the Oxford and Henderson Rail
road Col Beaseley has obtained force Of
convicts to begin on the Henderson end this
week.
1.-Two or three young merchants went to
Baltimore to buy goods. Seeing the crowded
streets, one exclaimed, Plague take it.
its court aceek,, an noJodyW tend to u.s."
Never you mind," said another of the
party, I've got thousand dollars in my
pocket, and nloren half tie to,cn IS u acotch-
ma ont to sample IT, Each had his idea of
things.
As Confederate re- [ MON we are pleas
nd to note that the Salisbury meeting bids
fair to go off handsomely Gen Robert
The railroads will carry visitors at nominal
rates. The fire e-works will be on an exten-
sve scale. The Salisbury NclCs mentions
the following ladies as having canvassed the
town for barbecue meats, etc.: Misses Lena
Shober, Jeanette Schloss, Carrie Crawford,
Mary Henderson, Elizabeth McCorkle, Ell
len Brown, Saie Marsh, Minnie Ramsey
and Mrs Grace Halybuton.
Another ofthem has been caught prom
enading along the track at train time Please
step up and tell about it, Lr. Nessengcr:-
"We learn that an old man named Mark
ham, said to have been deaf, was run over
and killed by the down train on the North
Carolina Railroad yesterday, about one mile
west of Brasfed, in Orange county. The
old man was walking on the track with bag
of meal on his shoulder, and all efforts on the
part of the engineer, Capt Witsett, to make
him hear the train, failed, and he was killed
instantly y.
1t is currently reported that certain
newspaper arrangements, present and IN
.futuro, have been effected with design to
ring in a large-size candidatorial boom,
when the bloom is on the rye, 20 to speak.
Look out, Mr.. O'Trigger; it may prove a
Boom-r' rang, if not scientifically handled.
Curious that candidates can't see the palpa-
BILE truth that newspaper to benefit them
must be utterly free from even the suspi-
con of being their organ" and must DC
edited by a man whose views cannot be
bought. Even children will not believe in
Punch and Judy if they see the chap behind
the curtain.
North Carolina, according to the Wash
ington Bureau of agriculture, has decreased
her cotton crop slightly; but increased her to-
bacco by IA point-larger per acre gain than
anv other State. The average IL Pennsylvania
is higher than any Of the tobacco growing
States, towit, Ill. In Connecticut, the aver
age is 10; Massachusetts, lob; Indiana SO;
MARYLAND 98; Kentucky 90; North Carolina,
9O Virginia 81 This is bad showing for
Virginia and North Carolina, considering
their advantages. They raise 500 per cent
more tobacco than Pennsylvania, OF Massa-
chusetts, but much Of it is not worth rals-
ing.
Prof. Geo. T. Winston, after setting
forth in letter to the OJserrer the advan-
tages of the school bill, which was halfpass-
ed, but is now wholly defunct, says
gentleman of thirty years experience IS a
teacher in private schools, public: schools,
graded schools and colleges, a native North
Carolinian, who has made school systems a
study, remarked to me Of 4he bill, 1t Is the
best school law ever passed IN North Caro-
lima - Possibly the bill would have reach
ed maturity as law, but tor the sSquab6l!e7s
of the Book-Agents. The public, while
slow to blame any one, lest injustice should
be done the innocent, yet feel that blame Is
due somewhere.