The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-12

ana W. ID. UlcuH, VI IOioyI HC;
ed for Senator.
Copying from another paper, we gave
the growth of Col. John G.. Washlngton's
cotton near kinstOn at one inch per day,
when the fact was sths of an inch per day,
a rare growth at that.
Nash county commissioners: D W.
Winstead. Jas. Harper, John Bone, r. F.
Drake, Wesley Privett. The county is out
of debt, and has $3.50 in her treasury. So
says the Rocky Mount Progress.
-Henceforth any person advertising in
our columns to the amount Of SIS, and up
ward, will receive the FARMER AND Me
CHANIC during the term of his advertise
ment.
-Mecklenburg county commissioners
r. NJ. White, DR.. T. T. Sandifer, I. L.
Vail, J. r. Morris, Thos. G.uyas. The
last named having resigned from the In
ferior court, Mr.. S. H. Hilton was chosen
to fill the vacancy. SO says the Southern
Home, and also announces by authority that
Capt. Armstead Burwell will accept the
county Senatorship if rendered him by the
Democratic convention.
Judge Fou'e, Gov. Vance, Senator
Ransom, Gov. Jarvis, Fabius H. Busbee
and James Madison Leach Rave all consent
ed to awake the numbering echoes long the
Cape Fear, at the Wilmington mass meet
ing, August oath. Counting Hon. Geo.
DAVIS, and others who will no doubt be
present, the oratorical phalanx will exceed
anything assembled on the stump since the
war.
There are a great many small farmers
around Raleigh who could send their child
to school on the profits of a couple of acres
planted in grape vines. Grapes ought to
- loIo~l, - aontco Sn1pI rnf
hundreds upon hundreds of pounds are re-
tailed in Raleigh every summer at Is cents
per pound. Small farmers might under
sell the big vineyards, and make a fair profit
for themselves.
The Fifth District Convention unani-
mouslv re nominated Gen. Alfred M. Scales,
with Frank C. Robbins, Esq, for E.ector.
Jas. w. Reid, of Rockingham, was chair
man; and Capt. r. L. Fulghum, Secretary.
Speeches were made, and good humor pre-
vailed. Reports say that Col. John K.
Winston, the grand chief of the Greenback
party in North Carolina, is likely to run as
the opposition candidate. We doubt, how
ever, Of the Republicans giving him the 7
support.
-Lenoir county elects a new board of
commissioners, VIII. Harvey, w. II.
West, A. w. Whitfield, Jesse L. Kennedy
and NJ. Wooten. Mr.. j.. c. Wooten pre-
| sented a statement of county finances show
ing So, 249.4 cash on hand 81, $4,000 due
| on judgments besides $3,629.O6 paid on
the court house. So it was decided to omit
| the special court house tax; )" to abolish
the Interior court ; and to take measures to
detect the parties who burned the last two
| court houses. So we learn from the jour
nal.
The colored citizen of Edgecombe is a
"gen'man" Of versatile genius One Oh
him named Amos Clark is in jail for stealing
a church bell and another of him named
Daniel Cobb is in the same durance fol
| stealing a baby. The adjacent cell is occu-
PIED by Martha Bullock for killing her baby.
| She is the negress who while at work in the
field gave birth to a child, climbed a fence,
killed it with a club, and resumed hel
p%loughingl If she be not insane, what
shocking proof of Darwins theory of brute
ancestry!
The sequel to the suicide of the fasr
young Philadelphia grass widow, Mrs
Annie Wetmore, Whose sad history We
gave last week now comes in the announce
ment of the sudden marriage of the Mar
quis of Anglessy (the seductive young no
bleman, of the drama) with Mrs. Wode-
house, nee Minnie King, daughter of the
late Rufus King. She no doubt felt tina
she had a narrow escape and in dread o
her tickle lover finding another sweetest
bestest Annie" snapped him up before the
matrimonial altar, quick as a turkey COB
bier gobbles the fat Angle-worm. She
must have wanted him pretty bad, to thu:
swallow him after all the nauseating storie:
of the Wetmore escapade.
To "Give the dell his DUE" it mus
be admitted that Buxton scored a fair point
when in answer to the charge that Garfield
''voted for the Civil Rights Bill" he re
torted-'well, your late candidate 70
the Presidency. Horace Greeley, wa
the father of that Bill; yet you hur
rahed yourselves hoarse for him" However
Gov. Jarvis might have answered that tn
Democrats adopted Greeley as the choice 0
two evils, and because his fanticism abou
the negro was merely the weak spot in
grand character; whereas in Garfield, sec
tionalism and Negroism are predominant
| characteristics. unonaE6ed nv Graalev'