The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-16
J. J. NowELL-Notice.

J J. NowELL-Notice.
Mr.. G. j. Shaw is going to open a store
In Pittsboro.
Grand mass meeting in Oxford, Oct. IL.
Jarvis, Fowle, Merrlmon, and others have
been invited.
Charlotte contractors report more build
ing than at any time since the war, and
every mechanic employed.
-Ex-Congressman Jos. j. Martin was at
the National on Friday, bringing a daughter
to Peace Institute.
Judge Fowle speaks at Clinton to-day
"wednesday, Sept. 49, Magnolia to-mor-
row at Rockingham on Tuesday, and at
Fayetteville on Wednesday next.
The Republicans L, cently sent out a
ten-thousand-copy edition of the S,gnol.
Somebody must have rc-''spond'-cd to the
call for sinews OF war.
Gov Jarvis will not proceed along the
DucktOwn Route farther than Waynesville,
the home of DIR. Sam L.. Love, where he
will address the sovereigns on the Dist
prox.
1t is said that no less than four Of Raj
eigh's young men came back from the sum
mer resorts each with six months leave of
absence lTOm ali HelEcSS Afl HOW III
price of postage stamps is bound to rise.
Justice Ashe returned to the city on
Thursday of last week, shortening the two
weeks vacation Of the court in order to
finish certain work in hand sacrificing
home comfort to the public good.
-.Ayoub Khan has skedaddled to parts
unknown-''over the hills to the Poor
housc,"-and the British Lion is again ram
pant atop the Afghan rock pile. Ayoub
might as We'll shut CUB; he khant come
III.
Raleigh taxed the circusses OIL y $25 !;
whereas in Charlotte they were made to pay
5000. Bailey's Great London circus has
cleared nearly S400, 900 this season. We
asked Col. Coup if there was any bottom to
this report. He said there was hot much
doubt of it /; but that the case was excep-
tional, as they had the "B 10y Elephant. =
the only one ever BON IN captivity, which
of itself drew mul;itudea.
See the benefits Of advertising. Peace
Institute aud Blngham's school have done
more advertising this summer than perhaps
ever before. Result Most schools are
rather hin this year; these schools are
better filled already than ever before, and
have only begun to feel the effect of their
efforts. For advertising does not always
show its work Immediately. The reader
sees the card, reflects over 1t, and in time
acts upon 1t.
The Republicans carried Varmint by
1000 majority-a slight increase over last
year. The Democrats managed to elect one
State Senator; and he was let in merely for
the look of the thing. IL would have been
awkward for the truly lOil," In the midst
Of their blood curdling howls against the
Democracy to glance around aud see not one
dod drafted Democrat In the House Be
sides who would yell NO" when the
Ayes and Nays were called?
Thomas b. Keogh, Register in Bank
ruptcy, was nominated for Congress by the
Greensboro Republican convention on We'd
nesday last. J. W. Hardin, of Alamance
was made District Elector. Thomas lone
somely ~s0liloquitor, on the evening of Nov.
7th.-"keogh thou art "heno-d; weighed
in the SCALES and found wanting, about
500 votesl Gin me a ticket to Deidwood,
via Salt Lake City. I'll find Il more congo
NAL land and write a sequel to Tourgee's
FOOLS Errand.'
The Chicago I INES says a young Mil
waukeean has invented a machine for walk
ing the water. Making progress by an
actual walking movement There was no
striking back or sideways, but a straight
forward walk at the rate of at least three
miles an hour. Thousands of spectators
Witnessed the feat, and the crowd was very
enthusiastic Judging by the size of tie
average Hoozier's feet, there ought not to
be any difficulty III his walking water. Some
fiat boats make very good time on only one
foot, of water.
The Fhila. Record remarks that bust
ness men of the North are not going to al
low the Bloody Shirt cries to disturb the
country any longer. There is sense in that.
The only qualification we old Bourbons have
had Tor twelve years past, has been the
knowledge that, in trampling upon the
South, destroying our trade. and our credit,
and crlppling our efforts to rejuvenatc and
rebuild our material Interests, the out
rage" yelling fanatics inflicted millions upon
millions of damage to their own section.
The Republican county convention on
Monday nominated Il. w. Wynne for the
Senate Stewart Ellison, lcol. w. II. Per.
r, J.. Futon Bledsoe, and J. n. Bunting
for the House; Sheriff Novel;; Treasurer
Neathery Register White Coroner Rich
ardson Surveyor Beavers. Considerable
opposition was made to Ellison, who was
personally assailed by members of his own
race. lie is getting ahead in the world,
and will run propoitionately behind in poll
&C. By all accounts he discovered a gold
fnlne while a tending the Chicago conven
uon. j j. Terrell. vi N'B. Gilbert, and
-hlbert Hagnin were named Tor the House
hut Ma nm refused To serve with men who
defeated him last term. This was aimed at
Bunting and Terrell. The latter gave the
lie to Magnin, and a lie Wy time ensued.
But the ticket. We suppose, is a. good AS
he, can afford.