The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-25
DR.. d +. Everett brother died sudden

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Our friends may be sure of a cord a.
welcome at either the Editorial Office oven
Grausman's store, or at our rooms III the
National Hotel.
Mr.. John r. Doughty, ofNewport Tar
teret county, presented a bid for the North
Carolina System Railroads provided he be
allowed 20 years to pay for 1t. Geo. \
Fitch on behalf Thomas Wallace also
offers to buy the same route.
The Joint Railroad Committee on
Tuesday reported the Jarvis Davis-Ruffn
Best Bill, with a few lamentations, which
the Syndicate accepts. 1t is plain that a
large majority of both Houses will adopt
the Report but a dozen or two long
speeches must first be let off.
1t is very pleasant to have our friends.
the 'Members," with us once again. They
make the town lively and being, as a gen
eral thing, gentlemen of character and stand
ing in their communities, are enabled to
converse intelligently concerning public
questions.
BY all accounts Washington City is
only about an inch, or an inch and half,
less deep with social sin" than was old
Seldom in the days of the birthstone shower.
We suppose all of the North Carolina Con
gressmen are virtueus; but il is sad te think
how Lonesome they must feel IN such shock
ing bad company.
Capt. Audrey, in the House, the other
day, tr%uthfully said that 5000 for the killing
of a desperate like Bob Pharr was cheap,
and the State could afford to buy up a good
many similar characters at the same price.
1t costs more than one thousand dollars to
convict an ordinary murderer; and Pharr
had escaped several times.
BY all accounts the Baptist Festival on
Thursday and Friday nights was very sue
cessful. Mirth and music, sauces and solids,
singing and speeches, sweet meats and sweet
maidens en- attendant, combined to give two
dollars worth Of entertainment for ten cents
entrance fee. The earnings were substan-
tial, and many a needy little Sunday school
scholar will thank Mrs. Lewis and the lady
managers for assistance not otherwise attain
able.
The purposed removal of Raleigh Bap-
list Female Seminary has taken this com
munity by surprise, and would seem to be
ill advised, though we confess entire igno-
rance of the arguments that may favor the
change. That Oxford is an excellent loca
ton for such a school, no one can deny,
even if DESTROYS of doing SO. But Raleigh
has still greater advantages, If we except
the single item OF lower rents and economy
in personal expenses. We regret the
change, mainly on Prot. Hobgood's account.
AS no doubt the Seminary will be continued
here.
Since the foregoing was set, we note
Mr.. Hobgood's card in the Biblical Recor-
der, explaining that the present session of
the school is the most prosperous in its his
tory, the building being filled with boarders.
But in going to Oxford, he will have a fine
new edifice, sleeping rooms for 10 boarders,
and will start with a school of SO girls.
The advertisement in Plumadore's new
monthly advertising sheet which reads
''The Farmer and Mechanic Is the best Hre,
90 ahead Ueekly az the STATE, was written
told him to insert a card for u.s.; and will
be changed in next number; as we can
not make any such claim, and ,coud not If ue
could. We simply follow the rule of the press
(of all classes, and descriptions, from the
mammoth Herald to the tiny sheet that a
postage stamp would hide in printing the
kind words Of other journals in regard to
our paper:
Ist. Because it is customary to make THU
kind of acknowledgement of the voluntary
courtesy Of brother editors.
2nd. Because 1t strengthens the utter
ances of the paper by showing that other
journals approve its curse. The individual
opinion of the editor of the Farmer aua
Mechanic may amount to little but when
that opinion is backed by a dozen intelligent
contemporaries the dictum should have in.
creased weight.
3D.. Because, in a business point of view.
it Is beneficial. We could name a score oil
subscribers who were influenced to send u.
their names, because in some stray COPY
they noticed remarks of other journals com.
mandatory of it. A Richmond merchant
saw a note by the Wilmington R9rjew sub.
scribed, and subsequently became an adj
~vertiser.
To our mind no man should edit a paper
unless he believes his journal to be doing a rea
work for good in the land. And if he Sc
believe, is it not his conscientious duty to
seek to extend the circulation of the paper
so that its usefulness may be increased? We
do not believe in "Cheap-John'' journalism
and the fact that we have reasonable rates