The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-16

AND BLIND TELEPHONE. a Queer
combination IN an up town parlor the other
evening. The bashful beau was all in a
qulver, yet confessed himself the target Of
Cupid deadliest darts, weights 50 pounds.
Tie was an Archery meeting all to himself
PROT John Burwell notified the Board
OF Health that parents were alarmed BY re-
ports of epidemic dphtheria in Raleigh.
President r. B. Haywood, and Sup,. Nc
Zee thereupon gave him statement for
publication to the effect that not only is
there no epidemic, but noticeable decrease
in cases; and that the health average of
Raleigh IS surprisingly good. -- What a
change from mlrth to mourning befell our
old friend Gen. Drayton, of Charlotte, on
Wednesday night The OJses7c,. states
OF the oldest, and formerly wealthiest, fami-
lies of South Carolina, was conversine with a
lew friends over the marriage at that hour
OF his son Edward to a lady in Florida, there
came telegram announcing the death of
another son, w. S. Drayton, in Georgia
-Rev Dr. Pritchard has been invited
to deliver an address at Sampson Fair
Lieut.. j. A. Harris has been elected captain
of the Raleigh Light Artillery rice Capt
Lee, resigned. 1t will need six months
penance for some of the girls to get absolu-
ton for fair week firtations. .-- Messrs.
Uzzell & Wiley, who print the OLse,ycr for
Capt. Ashe, are getting out Moore's Library
Edition Of his History of North Carolina.
-Adah Richmond gave a so-caled sssa
cred concert in Charlotte on Sunday night
~ daughter of Prof Agathe, former
ly of st. Marys, was married on Thursday
evening, to Mr.. Robt. Hamilton, Of Win
ston, in the Moravian church Of that city
-A young son Of Esculapius, up town,
has applied the stethscope to ''ye tender
passion with the following result:
Love it is curious beast,
'Tis shaped iust like lizard,
1t ourls it tail upon its back,
And crawls right into your gzzard.
Mi>s Glenn, OF Eorsythe, is visiting Miss
Williams. An old darkey called on
Charlie Mcdonald, the popular young pos
tai clerk, to send dirty little mop of
dog through the mail to Apex. Charlie
tries to accommodate but the ycIpnc
''purp' was unmaiIable. Well, said the
old man, Il spect you'd charge NE quar-
ter anyhow, and me an Julius Caesar kin walk
it just about as soon He shuffled out,
with Julius at his heels At the Min
nesota conference last week, "a so-called
Grey Dr. Brush, of Texas''-a Northern
MClllOtllSLj ucCldtCi StuCAdl SIdHIdlu u
of morality North was superior TO that Of
the standard of the churches South and
proceeded to tell stories by the hour. to an
immense audience, detailing the way in
which negroes were shot and scourged for
irving to get to heaven-on the Northern
Methodist stair way. Brush ought to bor-
row the blood hounds with which a scoun-
drel is pretending to show the North how
slaves were hunted by the wealthy planters
before the war; True, he has a white
skin. but with so black a heart the dogs
would never know the difference between him
and born darkey. -A gallant youth
courted s'ladye faire, with yellow green eyes,
and dark blue hair, sunset hour atop the
stair, on the capitol's dome, cCnspring
there. to test We maiden tender fears by
vehement vows close kin to swears, if she'd
have him not. he vault into air, and des-
cend very fast. full fifty feet clear, leaving
nought but big grease blot to mark the
spot! Now that girl was girl knew thing
or two. Her number four foot wears a
shoe); so she sighed, Dear
Orlando, make no more ado for like Barkis
I'm s'willin'' and real Hdnk-ye too"'
Alas now that youth doth ri and doth rear,
and garments of sack cloth and cigar ashes |
wear, and handsful of capillary top knot
tear. as in accents of martyrdom he doth |
swear, that Of all the grey geese that cackled
at Rome, the goosiest goose is the youth On |
]ome. who tries to work up the maidenly |
fears of a skittish young thing OF twenty I
81 ipht years