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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-27
ORR TINE FEEDING.-With Mai. Moore's

OLD TINE FEEDING.-N it'll Maj. Moore 8
History for a text, Prof. j. II: Mills IN the
Orphans Friend discourseth as follows:
Ancient hospitality presents a problem to
the impartial historian. We once, IN
travelling through Johnston, missed a house
at which a splendid dinner had been spared
for us. Our friend met us at the place APP
pointed, and regretted exceedingly our mis-
fortune. We told him that one dinner was
a matter of small i'm pOrtance. With a look
of astonishment, he exclaimed, dinner a
matter of small importance, you say?
Why, we think dinner IS the most impor
tant event that occurs in this country.
That man is a grandson OF a hospltable re,
evolutionary grand father. One hundred
wrappers had not begun. Wild game was
| abundant. Hogs, beeves and fowls were
| fat and plentiful. Men were given to hos
| pitality for their own pleasure, and not SO
much because the Scriptures enjolned 1t.
| Taverns were few and far etwee Public
| men kept houses, and at all hours their
friends felt tree to call. Grand dinners and
parties we're common Even the Grand
| Lodge of Masons would have a ball one
night and a sermon the next. The Cover.
nOr's Palace was built for a EOuse of medel
hospitality. Now it is considered dangerous
for a Governor to live there, though SIX
hundred boys and girls can not shake it
down. Our Governors, Jud ges, and great
men board at hotels, and ancient hOspitall-
ty has dwindled down to some solitary ex-
c%eptions, and a few circulating demijohns.
Even some of our large farmers, once so ia
nous as liberal feeders. now say grace over
Baltimore bacon, and butter their hoe
cakes with oleomargarine, while dusty
travellers, repulsed at every door, dine on a
few peanuts which they carry in their peck
okc NNo l. w ono foun IN which fhQrQ "a
only one church; but the minister is some
times perplexed TO find a dinner after he
has tied his horse to a tree and preached
a faithful sermon. How then can the
truthful historian describe the hospitality
of our ancestors without seeming to reflect
on public men of our own time? Just sup
pose the historian has seen his father and
grandfather crowding their ample halls
with welcome guests, and his mother and
grandmother have repeated the names OF
illust rious visitors entertained, and have
ings at the grand dinners and suppers thell
hands have prepared can he tell the truth
and not seem to reflect on those public
functiOnaries who now eat from sample
dishes the average hotel hash, gulp then
Rio without any cream, and treat then
friends at the peanut stands? But this de-
cline of hospitality among our public mer
results from natural causes. Wild game Ii
exhausted. Corn is two high for hogs
Cotton and tobacco override all other crops
Factories, railroads and towns must be
built, and huge fortunes must be accumu
lated. Men are very busy. "Time il
money" Yet a vast amount Of hospitality
still fingers among people Of moderat.
means. Such as they have is freely Offered
without display or ostentation. And, il
the modest cottage, or crowded cabin, W.
often find a table gaod enough for kings.
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Lincoln sends to the State convention: B.
S. Guion, w. H. Motz, A. Costner, b. c.
Wood, Manly Lutz, j. \. Biggerstaff, A.
Paison.--Judge Ruffn is renominated
for Judge: by an Orange man in the Nal.
Alamance Cleaner: Miss Jennie Albright
Of Graham, while returning from a picnic at
Carolina Mills fell cut Of q wagon and broke
her coIlar-bone. An immense crowd is
expected on the occasion of erecting a mon
Nment in commemeration of the battle Of
Alamance, on the 29th inst.
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FACT AND FANCY.-"This farm for sale.
subject to mortgages and cyclones is the
way they now hang out signs in the west.
The crater of Vesuvius is again active
and the demand for volcanoes bid fair to
be steady throughout the season.
One acre of frogs hind legs will pay as
much profit as thirty-four and one-half acres
of wheat. Farmers, why will you toll!
An Indian man named Gray has been
hunting for the remains of Prof. Wise for
the last four months, and in that time has
walked thousands of miles.
When q Georgia man gets too weak to
split a watermelon with an ak, his relatives
begin to look around and see what's the
best they can do on a headstone.
Some steamboat hands at Milwaukee in
vited a hungry tramp to eat a ''square
0eal' with them. He so overfed himself
that he died the same night.
Beaconsfcld says he would rather be
right than king of England. Most all men
who get the grand bounce have soma sort
Of philosophy to fall back on.
A woman at Fort Scott who drew $500
III q lottery started out to tell her n%eighbors
aud fell into a we'll and was drowned.
Keep your good luck to yourself.
1t is awful hard to realize that u woman
IS an angel when one sees her pick up a
clothes prop fourteen feet long to drive a
Two ounce chicken out Of the yard.
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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-07
A Card from Mr.. Royal.

To The Editor OF the STATE;
am candidate for place as delegate to
the Cincinnati Convention. The DtSpdtch
Of Yesterday said that IL would not vote Tor
me TO go there TO vote for Judge Field. This
morning IL has an editorial charging SUBJ
stantially that a ticket is to be run here to
send delegates to the Cincinnati Convention
pledged to vote for Judge Field. 1t would
be simple affectation in me 10 pretend that
| did not understand this to be aimed at me.
| wish TO state through your columns to
the public that I think Judge Field com
bnes in himself more Of the elements that
are necessary to Democratic success next
fall than any other person named, ana thefe-
fore | think, on the score OF availability,
that he ought to be nominated. AT the
same time recognize the fact that the real
battle is to be fought in the States OF In
diana, New Jersey, Connecticut, those OF
the Pacific coast, and New York. do not
attach much importance TO New YORK, De-
cause | am satisfied that her Republican
Governor and Republican Legislature VIII
take her vote away from us, which they can
lawfully do il it should become necessary.
AT the same time her voice should be heard
and attended TO.
II it should be the pleasure Of the con-
NpUIlOn 10 seUu lut W
do all in my power to convince other dele
gates that Judge Field is our most ayaila-
BILE man. If. however, after | lad done all
that | could In that direction, the delegates
from the northern and western States
named should say that Judge Field could
not carry their States, and that Mr.. Sey-
mour, or Mr.. Bayard, or Mr.. Anybody Else
could, should feel 1t my duty to use my
20 ho
agreed on.
| would not 90 to the Convention pledged
TO vote for any man; and i should oppose
our State Convention instTucting our dele
gates to vote for any person whatever with
all my might. think it would be as un-
wise as anything could be for our State Con-
vention to instruct our delegates To vote for
any particular person. We are not fighting
TO elect any particular man, but to elect a
Democratic President.
WILLIAM l.. ROYAL.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-07

A LADY BURIED ALIVE AND SAFELY Re-
sURRECTED.-[J. w. Wcayer's letter from
Franklinton, n. c., to Raleigh NeuS. i
MIS-. Martha Smith, OF Chatham. reports q
remarkable case OF suspended animation,
burial, and resurrection in the person OF a
married lady OF that county, who possessed
q gold watch and fnger-rings which she
often expressed a desire 10 have buried
with her whenever she was dead. Finally
she was taken i'll, and life seemed TO gradu-
ally ebb away until her attending physi-
clan pronounced life extinct. At her burial
her preyiously.eXpressed desire was CON-
piled with, aud on the second night after
her interment white man and negro
went TO the grave and exhumed her for the
purpose OF obtaining her valuables. AS
they took the lid off the coffin, and
the darby began pulling off a ring from
her finger, she raised up. AT this both men
took fright aud ran away. Finally, the
negro went back, aud she asked him what
he wanted. He told her he wanted her
rings and the white man wanted her watch.
She requested to see the white man, whom
the dsrky brought TO her. She requested
him to go home with her; he did so, and
when she reached the door she knocked.
Her husband opened the door, but tainted
when he saw her, thinking 1t was his dead
wife's ghost. Mrs. Smith SAYS The lady ia
now living. aud bids fair to attain good
old age. A Pretty tough story.]
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
~ TIE PEOPLES TICKET.

IF you wish 10 prosper, support this iIckes 70 has
a. BY 6n s5ge sfy Fro
civ They will continue TO make ib' r Store as at
tr,ciIye AZ ever by Offering many sJecal bargains.
Sec their stock Of DRESS GOODS OF every descrp-
CT, ks At the lowest prices ever offered;
siLKs, sATiNs, PExINs, and DR0CADEs for
bEHDSU fIifhs PERcRLEs Tor mems and
boys shirts at ioc; per yard worth 2Oc.
2.ooO yards best YARD-wTDE LON>DALE CAM
BRIO, slightly soiIed, will be sold at l2Hc. per
yAm Hu5" WIDE WHITE CAMBRTC at Oc per yard
GINGHAMs at 10, 12%. and 15c. per yard;
roE e sar pr y yard xof
iFc aG 81 22s Ses s az sa5c s $3.50
A $50. So 0, 20, $40, si2; si4. $40, and 81 8
n sci for two windows This Is The largest assort-
ment OF CURTAINS in the city, and the styles
TABLE s 20 oSIL.CLoTH, IL yards wide, at rs worth
WINDOW SHADES, with fixtures complete, al
$50 "a pair would be cheap at 81;
lana mat DSD a, $3.50 worth s4;
LINEN TABLE DAMAsk from 25c. TO w per
Large Dinner NAPKINS, all pure linen, from 81
FRiSGPsb b. NsX1P'KlNs, all linen, from 85c. to 80
ToW NJ tS1 rom coo. to sl2 Per dozen
CURTAIN MUSLIN az l0c. per ward worth &c
CURTAIN MUSLIN ~ 20c. per NaId worm 3or'
PARAsOLS and UMBRELLAS-ibe largest siOc x
and the cheipest IN The city we are running on
n lot of SILK PARASOL> at 40. 30. ana 75c.
MARsEILLES QUILTS at Sl.75 worth $500 al
$3.50 worth $3.50, NJ 50 worth 81, al SOU
worth 81. at S6 worth 50;
FANS in great variety, from So. ia 20 each.
GOODS for BOYS and MEMS WEAR In great
COLGATE's SOAPS. HANDKERCHIEF TX.
TRACTS, and TOILET WATER, ietailed at
pESDY-NNDE DRESSES. ULSTERs. and DUS.
TERS-ihe largest assortment ever exhibited:
TRUNKS. SATCHELS, NALlSES, BAGS, and
BASKETS at ,,,,,,,,e.
my LEVY BRO1HER>'
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WYTHEVILLE.

NEW RAILROAD BRIDGE-sUIT FOR S21,OOO
DAMAGES-sEYM0UG FOR PRESIDENT-iHE
REPUBLICANS RE0RGANIZISG.
Correspondence of tse Richmond DispatchI
MAY 3. 1880.
A Louisville iron con pany have Just COM
pleted very substantial and handsome iron
bridge across Reed creek, near this place.
the scere OF the terrible railroad accident
last June by which Norycll L0nghorne, OF
Lynchburg, lost his life and several others
were seriously inl ured.
1 understand the widow OF Mr.. Lang
horne has brought suit against the railroad
company for $4,000 damages.
Tho weather etill continues cool, though
grass and garden vegetables look well. The
farmers are planting corn generally.
a good attendance il expected at the
meeting OF the Conservative Democrats next
Monday. The general sentiment Of this
section, so far as | can learn, is for Sey-
mour for President.
The Republicans held the largest meeting
of their party since the Wells campaign
on Monday, April 2Sth. The action OF the
delegates to the Staunton Convention in
supporting Grant was endorsed. and they
seemed very enthusiastic over the prospect
OF The nomination OF the sod Commander"
at Chicago. lNG0MAK.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-07

Two MEN DROWNED AND ONE MISSING
[Lynchburg V,rginian. lon Sunday last
George Coleman, George w. Moore, and
Robert Perciyal, three wel-known white
men OF this city, procured boat from Mr..
Smith, who lives near Mint Spring, about
two miles above the city, and proceeded up
the river. They did not return according
TO promise, but no suspicion was felt until
yesterday, when a fisherman drew up trot-
line which extended across the river near
Guilds island, and found the dead body Of
COlemen attached TO one OF the hooks.
Tidings Of the discovery reached the city,
and parties went up and commenced 10
search for the other two bodies. About
sunset they recovered the body OF Moore
some distance below the point where Cole
man was found, but nothing has been heard
Of Perciva. IL is supposed that in attempt
ing to cross the river the boat was capsized,
and the lnen. unable TO swim ashore, were
drowned. Others suppose that they were
swept by the cuTest over the dam, and thus
lost their lives,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-07

WHY GRANT WOY'T De NONINATED.-The
Chicago Tribune, edited by Hon. JOSEPH
MEDILL, and one of the abest of the BLAINE
organs, takes the following sensible and
practical view:
"The Republican office-bOlders from the
southern States who will be here as dele
gates will have their ears and eyes open to
the consequence OF a blunder that may be
made in the nomination. They may add
mire Grant much, but they love their Of
fees more. They will not care to reck.
lessly peril the possession OF their comfort
able situations. What they want is success.
They want the party to win, and have been
acting on the supposition that the third
term issue was the strongest and most cap
tivating one that could be presented to the
people Of the North. When they come up
here they will be undeceived in this regard.
They will see that it is the weakest and
most repellant Of all issues"
Pretty hard on the Republican delegates
who are office-holders; but Just the view Of
the subject which they will take, we sup
pose.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-07
nxr seymour Well.

senator KUnxAS, who resides in the same
town with Mr.. SEYMOUR, recently pa'o
visit 10 his home, and while there saw MI
SEYMOUR every day. On his return ne was
questioned as to Mr.. sEYworR's wishes. lie
said that Mr.. SEYMOUR had requested n'm
10 discourage every proposition he heard 10
favor OF his rcmlnation at Cincinnati. och-
ator HERMAN replied to Mr.. SEYMOUR -
viii do anything you want except 10 tei'
pecp,e you are 10 bad health, when you are
going about every day on foot with an e'as'
t,c tread. and with your eyes as bright ss
when YOU were a young man." MI. say
xorR could not deny that he Is well ana ac
tive.
Can anybody produce any such direct IN
formation on the other side oil this disputed
question:
Read. too, the following. 1t Is from "ul
own correspondent, Mr.. G1InAN:
WASHINGTON, April pa was very eia.
to-day taat had an opportunity 10 TAX VIII
an official at the Capitol from Uuca. th'
home az Senators KerDan ana CchKnbt
and Goyeruor Seymour. asked bin VIVA
the people Of Utica thought OF Mr.. seymou
as a presidential candidate, and be repliet
thai ibe Democrats there all believed tbat
nominated be cannot and wall not oeSa'he
" There Is no doubt, however," said ne
"thgt he does not seek the nomination ant
does not want It," "Wbat about III
health 20 asked. I" He is as erect as Sena
tor Kernap," he replied, "and looks ever,
inch q vigorous statesman, pDysicaiIS an'
in.eI,sc.usily. Why, sir, if he and you wer
to start to-day to walk from the Cspitol u
The treasury Department, he would ge,
there before you. He walks to the banl
regularly to attend to his business ss an; an'
ooes dafiy over his farm on foot TO see ina
everything is going on properly. l tel
you." be added. "ii he were to walk int
the Cincinnati Convention during the pro
coedings, and let members behold his cree
| form and benevolent, intellectual, and states
man like face, all other candidates would ID
| thrown aside Immediately, and Horati'
Seymour nominated by acclamation."
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-07

The Dispatch saws II would not vote Tor me td!or
of this journal 10 10 Cincinnati 10 vote Tor Juuge
Field. We have 10 eoncealments 10 MAKE III III. re-
spect to this or any other such matter. he eod'od
OF this Journal does desire to te sent as delegate 10
Cincinnati, and he hopes that 1t VIII DE tne pleasure
of the Convention 20 send i'm there as such. =.
AS TO what he would do when there he has ms 10
say: lie thinks that Judge tied presents in mn
zen OF the United States. At the same tine, ne re-
eognzes the fact that The serious part oil ibis Date
is 10 be fought IN the northern and western STATES.
He should therefore never think OF undertaking 10
crowd Judge Field upon the Democracy oil 'nose
States against their will. -,
II they should say that they cou'd carry thelr
States with Mr. Seymour, or Mr.. Bayard, or GENERA
Hancock, and that thev could not carry them WIN
Judge Field, he should feel himself compelled 10
drop Judge Field aud take up the person that those
States demanded ,.,s
This Is his position. He believes that we shouid
90 for the most available ma :. He thinks Jnoce
Field the most available man, but III the northern
Democracy think differently. he should feel coin-
PEELED TO adopt their views Comm onloedtth.
We let Mr.. royal speak for himself, as
we have evidently misunderstood bis posi-
ton, and our article OF yesterday repre-
sented him as desiring to have men elected
to the State Convention pledged to send him
to Cincinnati as delegate committed to the
support OF Judge FIELD.
We are afraid that it is too late for our
peighbor to become an ardent advocate OF
Mr.. SEYMOUR's nomination. He has said
too many hard things about him. Never
theless, If he will promise to drop FIELD
auu ,aho m SEYMOUR we will no longer OBJ
ject TO sending him 10 Cincinnati.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-07

ATTEMPTED DUEL IN KING AND QUEEN.--
West Point iFa.) Star. l-Messrs. james
Warrington and Clarence Jackson decided
one day last week 10 settle a little dispute
between them by resorting to the code,
and. Judging from the kind OF weapons
chosen, we suppose at the time they were
very much In earnest. But unfortunately
one OF the parties didn't own gun OF sufll-
GENTLY murderous qualities, so be went to
Mr.. Gideon l.. Spencer, constable, Il, bor-
row one. Mr.. Spencer very promptly ar
rested him, and. securing also the other
party, carried them before Mr.. John +.
Bray, Justice OF the peace, Just as q warrant
Tor their arrest arrived from near the home
OF the other party who didn't have to bor-
row gun. While Leiore Mr. Bray their
pugnacily somewhat degenerated, and they
settled the :" affair by mutual retraclions
and hand shaklngs.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-07

How THE TELEPHONE WORKS IN AN ALEX
ANDRn CnURCH.-[AleXandria Gazette. i
Rev. J. II. Pearce, OF the Methodist EpiSco-
pal church in this city, was absent from his
pulpit last Sunday assisting at church
| dedication In LOudOun, and strange min
| lister took his place. Mr.. Pesrce had lust
arranged telephone between his house and
| the church, so that the members OF his
| family who might have TO remain at home
| from time TO time during services could
hear the preaching. The cOntrivance for
collecting and transmitting the sound was
fixed on pedestal with weighted foot so
as to hold it firmly. 1t was placed on the
platform near the pulpit. The wide blac'.
mouth OF the telephone looked like the
mouth OF an immense cannon ready to fire
upon the audience. The people who could
see it watched it with suspicion and I'M
casiness. Everything moved nicely during
the morning service, until the preacher
was closing bis last prayer and was
about to say "amen," when, like a clap Of
thunder or the roar Of cannon, the mystic
rious object on the pulpit seemed to "go
off," and disappeared. The effect on the
audience can hardly be imagined. The
preacher forgot he was praying, and, in bis
fright, without saying the usual "amen,"
turned 20 look with distended eyes at the
ruins Of the telephone. The organist, how
ever, took in the situation from the singers
gallery, and began "Old Hundred" with
all the power Of the organ, and the congre-
CATION seeing everybody was safe. and not
knowing what else to do, joined in singing
The doXology. On examination 1t was found
that the line had been drawn so tight that
one OF the supporters broke. and the line
dropping was caught by passing buggy,
which brought down the apparatus in the
pulpit with an awful crash, as above de-
scribpd
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-07

Mrs. Mary V. Mays is appointed post
master at EIou, Amherst county, Va, Ulce
Mrs. G.. 6. NOEL, resigned. John +. klrt-
lev l. appointed postmaster at Mercerville'
Lewis county, Va, DICE George W. Moore,
declined.
The Board OF Supervisors Of Scott county
have ordered levy at once OF $1,000, 10 De
expended on the Bristol Coal and Iron Mar
row-Gauge railroad.
Mrs. Eunice Hale Cobb, widow OF the
Rev. Sylvanus Cobb, and mother OF oy y, u,
nus COBB, Jr., the story writer, died IN
Boston the other day; aged seycniy-seVen
years.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott will not 60
abroad at present, but VIII take Ms rtst al
his Derby counlry.seat, near Philadelphia