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

make the race. Doubtless tley Will
be the better of the failure.
Gen. Jones announces the follow
ing mi itary promotions Francis II.
Cameron, Colonel ard Inspector Cen :
eral Peter f. Pescud, Jr., Lieut.
Colonel, and Assistant Adiutant Gems
eral; Henry G.. Flanner, Colonel and
Chief of Artillery Oliver P. Robinson.
Lieut. Colonel, and Assistant Surgeon
General. So our handsome Insurance
men walk right up into the front rank
of the Coionels.
toy. Samuel j. Iilden was invi-
ted 10 deliver the address at Trinity
COLLEGE commencement. He was Mt
able TO attend, and the College is
lucky in getting Gen. w. 4. Cox III his
stead. We feel sure no Que will regret
the change Ihere isn't any absolute
necessity for calling upon Northern
political figure heads to harrangue the
public over tie shoulders of our sch opl
boys; but then Thurman or Tilden
VII draw crowd, and that is one adj
vantage.
Neither Chief Justice Waite nor
Jeffreys Bond came to hold court in
the new Federal Building On Monday.
The money 10 pay expenses has been
Squandered in various ways, by the
so-ca!Ied Department of Justice, E"
and as this is an : otf-year il poll
ties, there was no special reason for
harrassing some Luadreds of poor
countrymen. so the court was not held
Judge Brooks opened the civil docket
on Monday, and heard rumbar of
non-jury cases and motions.
Judge Merrimon's address on
''Prac ical Education" before Jones'
boro High School, and Ia ge audi
ence, is spoken of as aa earnest, sensi-
ble, and instructive discourse, we'll
delivered, and calcu lated to bear fruit.
The Fayetteville Gazette has a very
kind notice Cf the distip gu shed
speaker, who stands stronger in North
Carolina to-day than when one year
ago he stood on the iioor of the
National 'Spouting Springs" other
wise called the Capitol.
DR.. Moses d. Hoge, who breaches
at Chapel Hill to-day, has received a
flattering call TO & large congregation
in Philadelphia but viii not accept.
...D DR.. Ben Whiteley, son of B
Whiteley q Co., the wealthy Balti-
more firm, was married on Wednes-
day, to Miss Rebecca, a niece of Chas.
j. Baker Esq, at ''Athol," his elegant
country residence. The young couple
70 to San Antonio to live. &. . Mrs.
Englehard, and family, will shortly re-
urn to North Caro- ina, aud probably
reside for the summer 1t Chapel Hill
Mary Anderson has ''gone back |
7n" her ''blue-grass" raising, and has
purchased an handsome homestead at |
syracuse New York, the antipodes Of |
kentucky in every respect.
MI. H. II. EoNc iJoOlii Il iS iJicN Oi |
leo. w Sweps0n, Esq, has purchased |
he splendid residence Of Gen. Bradley |
Johne ton in Richmond, for s22 900. |
His skin hand turn -out at the White
Sulphur Springs last summer attract
ID widespread attention. Gen. John
ton has settled in Baltimore. Mr..
Ben t. McAden, another nephew
# Mr. Swepsou, had serious accident
n Charlotte the other day. He at
empted to drive, tandem, the team
which his father (Rufus Z. McAden,
ESQ had purchased from the stables
# the late Bayard Taylor, in New
York. The spirited horses dashed
Iown Trade street, spilled out Mr..
icAden, (who, however, escaped with
nly few bruises) smashed buggy.
nd fiually piled themselves upon
ray team; strangely enough without
any great damage. ne run
way created "a lively sensation as we
earn from the Charlotte OOSer0eT; not
VII hstanding that runaways, ana
mash- ups, and spill outs, are daily &C.
.urrences in that burg.