The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-11-04
1856 E~lectorals elect!

1856 Electorals elect!
-Franklin court, Nov. Sth.
Judge Buxton reached Raleigh late at
night on Saturday and remained over the
Sabbath in city.
Col. w. A. Allen, having CO. partnered
with s. W. Isler, c~ontemplates removing
his residence to Goldsboro.
Some of the Radical candidates we're
kind enough.to send their tickets through
the post Office, to well known Democrats in
Raleigh.
CONSISTENCY, thou art a Jewel p
saith ye poet; but old man Jewell, of the
Republican National Committee, must be
long to some other family.
-Dossey Battle. Esq, of Tarboro, offers
for sale a fine Ayrshire calf, four months old,
and in good order. DOssey says it Is OF the
best strain in the world" Butter milk?
MIR. Peyton J. Brown, who was quite
unwell at the time of his marriage with Miss
Jennie Sorrell a few weeks ago, was in town
yesterday looking better than usual.
Col. j. c. r. Little offers his house
and household furniture for sale at moder-
ate prices. He will remove to Arkansas, We
regret to state.
Garfield, who belongs to the Campbell
lite, or christian, =" or Disciples of
Christ church, sent a fine Bible to a church
ofthat denomination in Rockingham county.
SO says We Reidsville Times.
The Epizooty has swept through, Char
lotte, and is generally prevalent at Raleigh,
Wilmington, and all large towns. though
in so mild . form as to create little uneasi
ness.
MIR. G.. H. Belvin, the accommodating
oa,L.>. e <la Noto,l Rail 80 Poln.rl
has been elected a Director; and Hon. f..
G. Reade has become President, rice Chas.
Dewey, deceased.
More than II, 600 copies of the Signal
have been issued every week for the past
two months at the expense Of the State Re-
publican Committee. And a number of
strong writer's were employed on it.
An illwind is that which blows into NO.
body's barn door. The burning of a dozen
or more cotton gins, recorded in this weeks
paper, besides a large number last week
will send grist to the mill OF our Insurance
agent friends.
We regret to learn from the Raleigh
Obserrer that Col. W.. A. Faison, of Samp-
son, ard living four miles from Magnolia,
had the misfortune to lose his residence on
Sunday last by fire. He and his daughter
were both confined to their beds by sickness,
and had to be carried out of the building.
His loss is about $4,000.
A kitchen attached to the residence of
Mrs. Moore, mother of the late Adolphus
Moore, of Haw River, was burned last
week. A tour years old negro child
its parents. The childs clothes took FIRE
she ran to the bed Setting it on fire. and
was so badly burned that death ensued in a
few hours.
There are many small towns in North
Carolina whose advantages of situation are
excellent, and whose prospects would begin
to brighten from a certain hour. The hour
referred to would be the one which witnessed
the opening of q new neat, and comfortable
hotel. Look at High Point, and Durham,
and Monroe, and even Charlotte. These
towns owe much of their prosperity to the
fact that when a man had business in them,
he found also a place to stop at. Hundreds
of Drummers strain a point to reach these
towns to spend Sundays, or other idle days.
-Southerners, in their poverty; find it
hard to realize tho enormous fortunes of
many Northerners. The war which i'm
poverished us, enriched thousands and tens
of thousands of them. Think of 80 mem
beers of a Blue-stocking Presbyterian church,
all worth over FIVE millions apiece! Think
of men giving IS. 900 and 800, 90 as election
contributions. Think of birth day gifts of
100000; two Of which were given last
year. Think of $500, 900 as bridal present !!
Millionaires are common. Ebenazer Roo
berts, Of Hartford, last week handed young
Skinner, who married his daughter Florence,
cheous for $l00, 900, to start with.
The Greensboro State makes some
charges against Democratic Judges that
assuredly would have a bad look, IF true, and
IT without accompanying circumstances to
account TOR the seeming inequality of the
sentences. That such circumstances exist
we have no doubt since so far as we know
there is no Judge upon our State Bench
certainly not more than one-who has any
prejudice against the negro. The old slave
holding Judge are more apt to be ~lenient,
than otherwise, with petty offenders among
the Blacks, because they know the weakness
OF the dusky citizen in respects to chickens,
pigs, and such ''unconsidered trifes"-left
lying around loose.
Col. S. P. Horton who spent a day at
Cameron last week speaks highly Of MIR. H.
V.Kelley's Hotel. The Proprietor was cour-
teous and obliging; the accommodations
good. At this point, Mr.. August Knob
loch is. at work with his factory for distill-
ing spirits of turpentine, and Naptha from
pine wood, by the dry process. He
claims that it will be a success and a great
economy in raw material, fuel, time, and
labor. In this connection, we have a very
kind communication from a friend at Cam
eron who regrets that Maj. w. j. Young is
about to remove to another State. The writer
speaks very highly of Maj. Young's many
excellent qualities of character and intellect,
and considers that Cameron's loss will be
the other ~community's decided gain.
The editor who endeavors to make a
versatile and popular paper is bound to
write a great deal of nonsense, and use a
great many popular and comprehensive ex-
pressions which he would not think of using
in other literature or in polite society. This
may sound as if reflection on Newspaper
readers; but it is not. 1t is merely a recog
milton ofthe fact that in this world there be
IN my men of many minds" and many
tastes of many kinda. There may be
two thousand readers will notice some
thing they deem crude. mistaken, or
utterly ridiculous in this copy of the