The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-09

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ty, an old ex-Rcb writes under date of Octo-
Der 2d: Enclosed hand YOU s.. You may
put Inc down for life subscriber. now
take and pay for six papers and consider
yours the most satisfactory. 1t Is a ire
newspaper. A newspaper properly conduc-
ted, Is Il tremendous lever III forming public
opinion, and | am glad that you are do
ing your whole duty to the people.
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Letters of this nature are the one pleasant
feature amid much editorial hard work and
dlsagreeable duty.
Married b. the Rev. Z. Il. Rich, on
Thursday evening, Capt. J. c. r. Little and
church of the Good Shepherd failed to seat
the large assemblage Of friends and the
ushers, Messrs. Andrews and Smeedes, were
compelled to be content with rcserving pas
sage-way for the fair bride, who was escort
ed to the altar by DR.. G. w. Blacknall. there
being no attendants In Castor county,
on Wednesday, Mr.. n. Dumont, of Con
necticut, recently of Charlotte, and Miss
Julia Lineberger, only daughter of Mr. c.. J.
Llnebcrger, a wcll-known cotton manutac
turer of Castor. We have been willing to
stake our primary dollar on Dumont ever
since his success last winter in engineering
through the Legislature the bills to print
10000 copies of bis Proceedings in pam
phet. 1t is safe to say no other man in the
State could have done it.
Here is your red-tape We spent four
days of last week getting little bill of $3
paid. 1t was due by the Insane Asylum.
Having made it out against the Superinten-
dent, we found that the Steward was the
right party. Steward signed correct "
Superintendent ordered paid. Sent to
Treasurer-but it wasn't readyyet. Hunted
up one member Of the Executive committee
couldn' find the other. Sent to his house
sent elsewhere. Found at last examina-
ton search for pen and ink; signature
Repaired to bank; closed for the day
Tomorrow we shall realize our three dollars
minus 10 cents boy hire, - cents shoe
leather, % IN "c-ss words" and 50 20 in
loss time, leaving us cents worse off than
when we started to cash the BILL OF course
none of the parties are to blame: it is the
law. And we make this notice to show how
the old thing works. 1t would send any
ordinary man inside the Asylum for life if he
had many such little bills to collect from it.
We do not care to handy words with
Patrick, the Wadesboro He,uM man. He is
not a farmer, and we feel sure the Depart
ment of Agriculture does not desire his de-
fence-whatever Col. Polk may desire AS
for ''pcrsonal motives" we have fatty
pronounced false a!l such intimations We
have shown rhat whatever connection we
have ever had with the Department might
have been continued indefinitely at our own
option; and by Col. Polk's voluntary offer.
We have shown that whatever is good in the
Department will have our support, regard
less Of Col Polk or his followers One thing
more: the Department is too weakly ground
ed in public approval already, for any advan-
tage to accrue to it from such silly intma-
tions through outside sources We have at
this moment communications on file suffici-
ent to fill our columns for weeks, some ia
voring, but the majority complaining of the
Department or It's management. We repeat,
the Independent press of the State is tied to
the coat tail of no man, nor men. And if
anything would stimulate opposition to the
management it would be such silly out crop
pings as those we have referred to.
We are indebted to President j. S.
Myers, and Col Chas. r. Jones, Secretary
for neat ticket TO the Carolina Fair, at
Charlotte, Nov, 4th, 7th prox. Col. Jones
writes: 'From present indications, the
management predict larger, better, and
more successful fair than has ever been held
here The last Fair was SO well conducted
we can be sure the present one,. under the
same management, will be even better We
give few of the Marshals' Iredell
Jones, Chief, Silas McBee, Frank Brown,
J. Albert Forney, j. S. Harris, p. c. Carl
ton, r. A. Bost, Alva c. Springs, r. A.
Myers, Ed Sier, I. NJ. Coldwell: X. l..
Steele, Jr.