The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-08
Prof. 4. w. Mangum has been made
a ID. d." ty Randolph Macon College.

Col. +. B. Cash, of Camden, South
Carolina, killed lawyer Shannon, aged GO,
in a duel.
The nomination of Hancock and Eng
lish was a God-send to North Carolina. 1t
postponed for six months the advent of a
New Party Movement that would have
greatly complicated affairs.
Col. John A. Fagg, Postmaster of
Asheville aud a strong Grant man. is said
TO be out spoken for Hancock. SO is w.
A. Guthrie. of Fayetteville. Report says
that Postmaster W. w. Holden leans the
same way.
The Ladies of Christ Church nave or
ganized a ''Church Aid Association" to
have permanent existence, and secure GER
tain Improvements; notably an iron fence
around the lot, Cat present badly needed)
and a new organ. 1t is possible the latter
will be first worked for; as an earnest effort
to improve the church choir is being made.
Good singing is very necessary in a city
church Strangers spending the Sabbath
in Raleigh invariably ask for the best choir.
And once in church they must listen TO the
sermon as we'll as the song.
The Republicans of the Ind Congress
slonal District can now have a fine large
time "Wheeling' into line around their
"Huhbs,' who was nominated at Goldsboro
on Thursday by a single fellow, after the
convention had become "tie'-red out on a
tie between Carpetbag and Scallawag, res
pectively represented by o. Hubbs and Lott
W. Humphrey. The latter is an unlucky
Lott" : for the vote stood 7 to 8; and as
Uncle Samuel j. t, of the electoral com
naaiss-ion can tell him, 8 is almost certain to
beat sewing" unless you happen to have
"elevlng' hid up your coat sleeve, as would
be the case were elbow Your-Horn Will
liam" In charge of the cards. Well, we
should advise Humphrey to roll on his
wheel regardless of Hubbs. He is a better
''spokes' man, is better acquainted with
the track !" and has a hotel at each end
OF the line to stop at. And he has more
go" IN his go-cart.
An epidemic of runaway accidents. Mr..
d. E. McGill, with Miss Huffstetler, the
daughter of one of our Castor County sub
scribers, were runaway with, and roughly
spilled one after the other; the lady last,
with the buggy piled on top of her. She
jumped up, hunted up her escort, and got
up behind him on a borrowed horse, and
went on to the picnic. And that's the
kind of girls they raise in CASTOR. Not
SO lucky was Mr.. Levi F. Furr, a well-known
citizen Of Stanly County, journeying
to Charlotte with a three horse team and
his Son-in law, James A. Polk, Ia distant
relative of President Polk in the wagon.
Three miles from Charlotte. the Observer
pants of the wagon were dumped on their
heads. Mr.. Furr's neck was broken. Mr..
Polk wasa good deal bruised. Mr.. J. V.
Ellis was stunned for a few moments. The
dead man was 20 years of age and we'll re-
garded at home. The death of a brother
Of Sheriff Robinson of Lincoln by fall from
a wagon is elsewhere reported. The Con-
sttutton alse tells of an accident whereby
the little son of E. w. Stubs had a leg
and an arm broken by a wagon wheel run
ming over them. At Monroe, the Enquirer
states Messrs. Horace Smith and HI. Mccall
were buggy-wrecked, and the last named
received a severe cash in the head. In
Faisen's, Duplin county, Johnny Cowan was
run over by a wagon and killed.
-" lor Poput," when signed to a glow
ing communication in the ~partizan press,
should very often be read with heavy en-
phasis on the final syllable. In the matter
of lie it is equivalent to ''many citi-
zens or" coo ct pr0te1e0 mlhiI.
Which being translated reads-"Wind and
nothing else ~
This reminds us that a Press convention
40 oiuoO OIC OIdIt IL vi HOCuluR more
than to allow the brethren a chance to COM
pare notes in relation to the breed of dema-
Amid a group of editors last week
some one dropped remark about ''Booms,"
and the way they were recently worked
up" Presently it was discovered that each
OF the newspapers represented had received
a communication from the same pen; |
though in each case a different date and
postofhce were given; and the name of a |
might suppose that "Currituck," 'tCum
berland," "Catawba," and Cherokee"
were simultaneously fired by an i~nextin- |
guishable anxiety to nominate a certain Gel |
ebrated chronic candidate for county com. |
missioner, or-any other vacancy. There |
was ar hearty laugh over the discovery; |
but it was not a subject for laughter when
considered as it should be considered, a
moral forgery dishonest attempt to de-
celYe and mislead the nuhlic Tho rosul4s |