The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-12
Important to Subscribers.

The only legal way to discontinue their
subscription is TO pay up all arrears and or
der the paper stopped. A paper in New
Haven sued a man for forty three dollars,
due for papers furnished. The defendant
set up the plea that he had several times
ordered the paper discontinued but the
court held that, under the ldW Of the State
and ofthe United States, q publisher should
continue to send his paper und all detn-
queactes ocere settled up, and that the parties
to whom the papers are sent are liable tor
all copies SO sent, and judgment was rem
dered for the amount and costs !t-LdO
JOurndL.
We print the above merely as a matter
for the information Of the public in general.
It is not likely we shall ever resort to law to
collect sums due us for subscription, not
outstanding that we have nearly $4,000
due us for various papers during the
mast ten wears. If any reader of the
FARMER AND MECHANIC is willing to
stoop so low as to take advantage of our
courtesy and confidence in him Shown by
our continuance of the paper after the eX-
p%iration of his term of subscrlptlon,l we
can only dismiss him, with contempt,
as a man willing to pocket a trifling
sum from our welI-earned and very small
profits. 1t is, indeed, the same thing as pill
fering the amount out of our pocket, because
all the time that he has been reading we
have been paying. The profit on SIX months
subscription is not more than E CENTS, SO
that the man who writes that-"nay time IS
about out''-when he in truth owes for
several months subscription, does actually
put has hand IN orr pocket, and take ont
q dollar or HereaG0uts.
Perhaps this is due in some cases to for
getfulness, or thoughtlessness. Time flies
rapidly, and few persons remember how
their account stands. Where the person is
an old subscriber he is apt to think of last
wears pagnent, and count a year from that
date-forgetting that he was perhaps several
months due at the time of that payment.
However, as we said, this article is meant
for general information. Now and then a
man abuses our confidence but the readers
of the FARMER AND MECHANIC, or a large
majority of them, act fairly by us, and we
are glad to have such men on our books.
We began one year ago to keep a list of
the dead beats" and are thankful that as
yet it has not reached above one In fifty of
our patrons.
Our edition fell short last week and we
were unable to send any extra copies. For
this reason, we reprint the publication
our friends will ''pass the word among
their ~neighbors; and let US hear from them
during the present months. Every dollar
paid into newspaper offices at this season is
worth a very large per cent more than in
the fall when money is more plentiful. And,
by the by, we like the spirit of our friend,
j. B. Sherron, a one eyed ex-Confederate,
and successful farmer of Granville. Coming
into the office, the other day, he laid down
ST. 0 {, saying-''you have trusted me near
about a year; now | trust you for the year
to come" Col. Travis E. Hooker, of
Hookerton, did the same thing. Bruce
Smith, Esq, of Sumerton, Va, followed
suit. Who will next second the motion?