The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

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more chatter when one frail sinner
slips than over the ninety-and nine
who stand firm Perhaps the WorlG
reflects that many of the Upriph
wsuld Backslide-if they got good
| chance.
Our people wero v'ry devout on
Sunday last. Elegant carriages lined
the curbing in front of the churches,
and every pew was filled The display
Of Dew dresses was all that could have
be, n expected, and ter all what's the
use of staying at home in such fire
weather?
-Messrs. A. & W. B. c., of War.
renton. write 1T is not too late
and will not be too late for several
months, 70 plant Prickley Comfrey
sets IL has grown for us planted
much 'ater than this, and we believe
will do till Two months before frost, if
he soil be kept moist
General Richard Taylor, the gall
laht Ex-Confederate Chieftain, who
died In New York on Friday, of Drop
sey, had just given to the press work
Of 300 pages that (had be lived) bade
fair to become the most famous south
ern Book on the war. 1t was entitled
''DestructlOn and RecOnst uction," and
hos nt
from the press.
Is The Raleigh Ward Democratic
meetings on Friday night were quiet
as stack of old hay. The nomina-
tions Were :-Fust Ward. Alfred Up
ci urcb, j. II. McAlister, David L.
Ro. ster; Third Ward: RichId II.
Battle, j. c.. Blake, M. T. Leach, G..
Rosenthal, j. A. (heatham Fifth
Ward: Jas. A. Briggs, j. H. Green,
Pc er Fleming
The Review learns of the k ling of
negro banned Jas. p. Jacobs by Ben
Groom, Ii sampson county. On Sum
day as the deceased and others
we've en- their way to church.
JAG, bs turned back after passing
Groom, and addressed him in such a
manner thai fight ensued. His foot
catching in vine, Jacobs fell, and
was stabbed to d. ath by Groom, who
fled.
-Ite ms from the Concord Sun =
Col. j. Nj. Long very ill.--People e
still, disputing over the stock law.
Two men ramed Overcash ''fi." about
It, and the top~rail in the ii hit was the
fences friend.--Mr. Mclaughlin, the |
editor, has been sick, but is again on
leck.-Elias Cress was badly hurt |
oy running away of h S team.--Con
ord Comets will concatenate sweet
sounds at Trinity college commences
nent.
Wilmington is a fine old agricul-
ural settlement" Possibly Old Simon
cameron made mistake, and instead
# sowing his ten bushels of grass seed
q the streets Of Charleston, after the
var, as he is fond of boas ing. he
catered them IN our city by the Cape
ear. Anyway, the Star tells of thirty
ogs captured on the streets in single
i hit, and many more in the pound.
Now if you were speaking of coaCs,
.aleigh could give you a dozen or SO
art, and then out-count you.
An old negro named Alvin Smith
led on Sunday of p .ralysis of the
rain, He was stricken down on
hu' sday evening, and lay in the yard
1 night, before being discovered. Mr..
enry Brown, with whom the negro
as a great favorite, had him buried
a COS ly metallic casket, with gold
I'd silver mounting, worth 500. We
hea a dark.y teamster tell
lother that his '.time might com,
ght tsi-mo.rer eff they'd put me
way in such pretty box eS {
at Rev. DIR. Andersen on preached
e funeral sermon at the 1st Presby-
rian church yesterday afternoon. In
dents of this nature show how hOr- :
bly, the cOlored man is ''bull dOze." {