The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-07-24

FOLKs.-Ksv " }. A. Oertell. the artist
pr acher. has taken charge of the Morgan
lon Epi>c >copal [ hurch and viii erect a
4, side ce opposite that Of NJ. f. ( Natt,n
.GOv Vance Is at AshevilIe BIai. +.
and amiy will spend some " ee k a. Black
Mou tain AID the region round about +
he hunting up the Governors dead men
the ores lie slaughtered during the war
because they couldn't take a Joke Dir.
d. f. Everett was elect Il Secretary of The
Nttional De tai Association. at Atlanta
recently. Fe Is at Warm Spri,,os
M Harrison Watts. OF Char
lotte as appears from his card is the vonrg
man who did not cOwhide Babir gton the
Shelby newspaper fellow. for saying some
ladies We're drunk ana misbehavins on the
street. We do not understand how the
squib could have been made 20 apply to
ladies at Cleveland Springs. bnt it seems SO
to have been applied though since volun-
talily re racted. The retr ctioa shows hat
it ought never to have been printed Last
year we were solci ed by Babi gton to al,
vprtisa he sale Of his paper. We gave him
$l2 worth Of advertising. and answered
several letters in his beha f Then he
gratefully repaid us BY allowing harmless
youth abOn+ Shelby 10 write tvO columns of
Latin Greek poetry, &C.. heaping abuse
upon our devoted head, in the mos ,haue-
ful manner ard matter. which went forth
as .'editorial' in the AurOru. at the time
we were already involved in controversy
with another party. We cared veIv little
about If. aud only allude 10 it. now. by way
OF prelude to the remark THAI no SOUTHERN
newspaper ought To lend its columns 10
abuse OF laies. even if il were tru, thas
they happsed to act impru lant'y X k
leseness in la ~ rsptvs Use f: lai .ha
Southern gntlsman woId r&thar SHE'D
the indiscre tons Of the sex than m k
them ring iOund the community ...Col J.
- l.,l- Itch ffif,,, / 4
he NOrthe'n n amy. says the capt. Jud-
SON" " hO allied Gen. Dick Tdy! r.. fnr
mentioning hat he hal seen dea Fsderal5
wearing breast plates. Is the rot liaus
novel writfr. Ned Buntline' who had an
exceedingly poor reputation as a sold er.
tol Baker $ SAYS he saw scores q tie
bred et~latAs, aud kn"W tuem to be offered
foe 81. They We're aon discarded a
they were found to afford little raj protee-
ton. By the way, there ara sp mens
of the cuirasses "a Fayetteville.
and in he hall of the Dapctic Society
at Chepel Hill. :. Bro. r hinson. oi the
capital Leddor SAYS John Fioch of David
son harvested &c bushels Of excl
lent wheat from one acre Mr. }.
G.. Cox, a merchant of kinston, has
made assignment. The II st woman
license to practice medcire IN the Unted
States Eliz 4beth Blackwell, studied under
DR.. Johu Dickson. in 1919, at Aohevilie;
and now another woman ~dOctor, Mrs. N+ry
Noxoa OF New York, earns SO 900 a yeats
Better than schOol-teaching that :. Mr.
T. p. Dever, ux has returned from Florida
whose Democratic Governor thinks to,
much of the health Of Gen. NJ. ;. iIttlefield
TO allow him to come to North Caro,lna IN
this heated ason. He wouldn't grant the
requisition. Miss Lau'a Norwood. OF
Lenoir Caldwell Co., a graduate OF Cooper
Union Institute and for several years a
mn Of II A N
ged as teacher of drawing ani painting at
ST. Mary 's......Dr. &. Z. Mathews writes TO
the GoldSboro NAL that Judge Fowie VIII
have h avy following when the time
cones to chCse Governor ...... Mss May
E len Jones, Of Forsythe, the RepuOhc.h
says, is Il years and / months cid. weighs
81 pounds and is about 81 or 32 inches IN I
height. Her father, Fletcher Jone a tar
mer in good circumstances, mafr!ed Mar
garet Fowler nearly 30 years ago. and they |
have niue child en-. Mary being their thlrd
child. She talks fluently, and IS not mai
formed in any marked d gree 70 a asuai
obSe rver she has the appearance oI lWo-
year old child. "......... Maj. Pat re geson
who was killed at the battle OF Kings /
pair of oval shaped, silver kneeeuckies IN
which there were thrty-siX sets that 500,
like aud had the appearance OF ulamohus.
One of the buckles he lost on MS marcn
through North Carolina and offered mana,
some reward to the finder but the reward
was never claimed aud, until few days
ago, that buckle lay buried within three
hundred yards of the public square in Shell
by when it was found, the aurora says oy
\ man hoeing watermelons. 1t is OF pure
silver, with 26 sets. and sockets Tor ten
more...... Mrs. 81. w Miller is quite Ill. at
= resid ence of T. NJ. Argo. Esq: kew.
u. S. Gross, Of Wilmington, held dlvine