The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-14
RALEIGH, n. c., THURSDAY. AUGUSTA. 1879.

Glad to hear that Bro. Biggs, Of the
Oxford Free Lance, has been elected clerk
of the Inferior Court of Granville. He has
had large experience as former clerk of
Edgecombe
From friend in Asheville we learn
there are above twelve hundred visitors en-
ioying the cool breezes of the Mountain
City. The young ladies have no end of
beaux, and go out notwithstanding daily.
From friend in Augusta, Ga, the gal
liant Capt. Reuben f. Wilson, comes an
handsome badge printed on silk ribbon,
worn at a reunion of the lst Battalion n C..
Sharpshooters.
The editor regrets exceedingly his ina
bility to join the good people of Cabarrus
and Iredell in the Fair at Poplar Tent to-
day. He expected to go and meet many
warm friends, but he hopes for better luck
another time.
Georgia is believed to have the best
agricultural department in the South, but a
committee of investigation has inst been
the result will not be adverse, as it would
throw damper on all such departments.
Some of the horse racers which have
been training on the Charlotte course to
come down, and clean out the State Fair,
have gone to Atlanta since learning that the
Fair this year is to be-aot Racc-Pool,
with big pumpkin, and stuffed pig on the
outskirts.
The "New Issue is a good deal more
popular than in the old Confederate days.
The State Treasury officials are kept busy
attending to them; and the clever young
cashier has one at home that weighs 10
pounds. and is WORTH, you may be sure,
fully (its) ''par.
The Boltimorean copies John H. Bon
er's we'll known verses "Swananoa, nymph
OF Beauty &c. and ascribes them to 8 a
Mr.. Jacques, of Charleston, S. c." Juna-
husky, man. can't you let old Rip Van
Winkle have a little credit now and them
What's the use O robbin' poor lone or
phan?
The Greensboro North State says the
FARMER AND MECHANIC is thinly disguised
Democratic paper That's funny The
Court tho lght-and the court is supposed
to know,-this journal had for its motto in
poitics,-dte right p,lnciplc, and the right
man to represent it, And the court holds to
its opinion.
An improvement in steam eng ines has
been patented by Mr.. Henry A. Walker, of
Charlotte. The object of this invention is
to provide an improved piston connection
with the driving wheel shaft of an engine
and cylinders open at the ends, through
which the piston rod passes so that no
stufflng boxes will be required, and the loss
of power by friction be subsequently re
duced
Wanted in Raleigh-an ice machine.
Down in hot Florida where several machines
are at work, the cooling stuff sells for only a
penny a pound Our city is supplied entire
IL by railroad, and on Friday, for half the
iay during an intensity of heat which might
have melted the buckles from George Wash
ngtons bronze knee breeches, there was
not pound of ice to be had for love nor
even for the sick.
The Ecening Visitor says: }. c.
). Lumsden, Esq, is acting mayor in the
,bsence of Gen. Manly, who went to Beau
ort with his little son Malcolm. We
egret to learn that our popular townsman,
oulaski Cowper, Esq, fell and broke his
lrm above the right elbow on Monday = night. GIT!
Mr. Miles Goodwin, OF the Oak City
Iotel, is cOnvalescing. = udge a. Y.
avery is holding Wake Court: The follow
no are the grand jurors C. n Allen, fore
nan. J D. Allen, Ed. H. Lee, r. H. Smith
!. NJ. Norwood, j. A. Kelley, W. Il. I'm
erwood, J. G. Ferguson, W. 7. Scarbor~
ugh, p. C. Moring, n. A. Spence, A. r
ling, C. Powell, Geo. H. Williams. !