The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-13
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Col. Bell, or Enleld, Tell a victim
to diphtheria.
DR.. w. W. Jones won the last rife
match with a score of 20.
The Grand Lodge of Masons will meet
IN Raleigh Tuesday, "a December.
Willie Hunter, aged 9, son Of Judge
Geo. 4. Strong, died yesterday Of typhsid
fever.
Mrs. James Adams, Of Lancaster, S. c.,
cut the throats of her five children, and
burned herself to death.
The Governor has issued his proclama-
ton naming Nov. 27-Mr. Hayes Turkey
Day, for Thanksgiving and Prayer.
-Messrs. Atkinson, Bingham & Wagstaf,
are about to open a tobacco factory in one
Of Judge FoWle's new buildings
The exploit of the California horse, St.
Julien, in beating Rarus' time by a score of
2,l2ff, in the presence of Grant, is making a
big sensation.
Cornell and T. B. Keough have called
the Republican National committee to meet
in Washington Dec. II. Keogh wants to
be Secretary.
1t was very pleasant to have a daily cali
from our friends OF the Oxford papers du-
ring the past week. Hope to have them as
regular visitors when the Railroad comes. =
Married near Princeton, n. c., by Rev.
DIR. Hall, Of Wilmington, Mr.. Henry G..
Pearce, ofNew Berne, and Mrs. Willouehby
L. Avery, step-daughtcr of Maj. v. y.
Smith.
--latest returns show that John Kelly
received close to so, 900 votes, double the
total vote Of a number of States. Had these
been added to Robinson he must nave been
elected by above 40, 600 majority.
Mr.. Jas. H. Ennis has issued his An
nual North Carolina Almanac, highly es-
teemed among farmers. He is ready to sup
ply orders for the same. We are indebted
Tor a copy.
George Augustus Sa'a. the eminent
London novelist and journalist. will short
arrive in this country for winter tour in
the Southern States. He i severely af1ic-
ted with bronchitis.
The venerable DIR. LovicA Pierce died
at his home in Sparta, Ga, Nov. 10, aged 95.
He was called the "father of Methodism in
Georgia-Hon. Richard Schell of New
York is dead.
We hazard little in predicting that be
fore the conservative nominating convention
Of next year, the question OF RAILROAD Ap-
Preparations will assume the proportion of
a very attitudinous boom" You are in
yited not to forget it.
A meeting to organize a State Lumber
Dealers Association has been called to meet
in this city November Goth. The call is
signed 10y a number of prominent saw-mill
owners. 1t means business. If you design
getting married and building a house next
year, better buy your lumber in a hurry.
Some OF the debt-paying politicians of
Virginia show a suspicious over-zeal in
the cause. We favor the McCulloch bill,
but it is all bosh to say that any man is
unprincipled, or lacking in State pride, who
opposes it. Might as we'll say the McCul-
lockites are dishonest for not favoring a
tuH payment.
The Baptist ministers in convention at
Oxford, paid a visit to the Orphan Asylum.
Now most clergymen keep q small premature
.orphanage at home. SO their hearts we're
touched. and one by one they laid down a
good will offering. And So were taken up.
And considering their means, it ought to be
accounted to them as ten fold.
Capt. Fulghum's Greensboro Patriot
starts of handsomely. Printing is good. ed
i@toriaIs gooder, locals coolest. Our young
friend Wade Hampton Harris, with a fresh
button-hole boquet, a new lead pencil, and
one Of Dukes cigarettes, will teach Green's
boro local items, ike Davy Crockett's coon.
to just drop down and surrender without a
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