The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-29

Excuse short coming of this number.
A Doctor has got us.
DIR. w. w. Jones is spending a few
days at Wake Forest. B. f. Montague.
Esq, is also there, at the residence of his
father, and we learn has been quite sick.
- editor invites his friends at the
Springs and elsewhere to send him posta]
cards with the news of their respective To-
~calities. Many little items of personal or
local intelligence would help us to make the
paper interesting.
Prof. Geo. +. Winston has been made
President OF the State Teachers Associa-
ton. de did a good deal of earnest work
last year; and if his ideas about an ssorgan'
had been carried out the Association would
show more vitality at the present date.
Ammo DOmini.
Mr.. Allison Baugh, on Sunday EVENING
yawned SO widely as to throw his lower law
out OF joint, causing him to choke nearly to
death. DR.. W. W. Jones was sent for, and
replaced the vagrant grinders. But this
should be a lesson for folks not to get too
awfully dull and tired.
Thanks for invitation to the Floral
Fair Hop, at Crowder's Hall, Wadesboro.
Wednesday evening, July 2sth, 1880. Com,
mlttee OF Invitation w. L. Steele, R. r.
Little, G.. M. Little, Jno. Burau;nn. Sam FL
{. Alexander. Floor Managers: ". e.
Hardlson, W. l.. Parsons, j. A. Leak. IT..
The young woman who tried to drown
down IN the water and mud when she saw
the police coming, gave her name as Jennie
Myers, OF BIackstock, S. G.. A young girl
from that locality was notorious at Charlotte
Several years ago.
The OceoM Ware tolls 81
citizens IN Beaufort to encourage the bnilS.
ing OF a first class hotel on the site of the
old Atlantic. About St, 900 has alraadU
been subscribed. The Railroad will contr;,
Dute the same amount it did tor Morehaad
Hotel; 3. L. Perry, r. D.. Graham and
w. 5. Chadwick were appointed q com
mlttee on subscriptions.
Mrs. Judge Buxton is a sister Of Mosos
"A. bledsoe, the man who vainly imagines he
can out-croW In November that gamest Of
game Cox, VIM. R!-It is a curious coin
cldence that Judge Buxton has a brother
named Ja'r1s. Rev: DR.. Jarvis Buxton.
excellent gentleman, and throngh d. AZ
Crat. o
The story of Peter Woodlands calm
Ael1-aonegatlon, down amid the darkness
ana roaring waters of the Hudson tunnel ;s
enough to wiring tears of regret tbat &c 10
brave a man should die But Hero;sm
does not die: 1t walks the earth to ;nsn;r;t
baser mortals. And by the by. there bara
oeen SO many Yankees acting noblv and
nerolcally, OF late, that we shall be sorry r.
bind Radlcallsm continue to force we, oftba
to sheer at all things Yankeeish,
Moses Bledsoe is displaying very differ.
characteristics from his meek I;ttlo
sake, OF the Bulrush basket unless
lt DE IN the matter Of pulling the wool over
the eyes OF the Philippians. He has entered
upon the Congressional canvass with the 49,
of old Joshua, the son Of cnn
who wasn't sick of slaughtering the s%calIa-
sags 1y sunset, but wanted to keep it IN
Ill bed time. Nose. however, onlvs laugLhp' !
ers the Kings English and sheds no !
'lood save an occasional shake of the San.
,uinary SHIRT. In fact he MANAGES 70 !
,olow-up" himself with his historical no. :
ARDS oftener than anybody else and no :
9uDt ere the close OF the CAMPAIGN he will !
omit INIT that zen. Cox's phlebotomy has JUS. =
,ueo the name OF Moses Bzedsol Ru, y
uses i0r az That is a man of rare energy 7
III zeal. During his last race, he spoke .
any IN the country and then rode ten or = I
: m:nm nes 20 speak to the negroes in town >
night; So on Tuesday after a ratber a
Gated discussion with Gen. Gov a. P;.ts :.
orc, he hurried to Raleigh and Aanned 10 u
ID nag, the old shirt, the gutta nerche = =
ores, to q large crowd of sable skins ;n ~
ae suburbs of this city. BE saws he viii Sc
mani He will have one swake yves yes o.
lack as pitch, and sad as q meiannhoIu I'll
lule, when the returns brine IN Ib,:ncnoly re
700 behind Cox. LIS name &C