The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-04

The trees in front of our office are Gov
cred with green leaves a month too early.
Where is Robinson? One rarely hears
ofthe Jarvis and Robinson Boom now a
days!
Mrs. Campbell will take a cooking class
at Charlott, in connection with Prof. Akin
som institute.
-Rumbough has added nearly one hun
dred rooms to the Warm Springs hotel, and
has a large force making improvements.
Judge j. l. Henry is attending the
Supreme Court. W. j. Best is at Ashe-
vil.e-vlewing the ground.
Book agents arc beginning to swarm
around the capitol. That is our only OBJ
lection to any action on the school bill.
Col. JAS. r. Dodge, the survivor of the
poetical trio-"Hi!lman, Dodge and DewS,"
died at his home in Rockingham county
last week
Lost. by Miss Sarah Blanche Person,
Of Franklin county, a purse containing SIC
In currency, and $3.50 in silver. A liberal
reward to finder, it lett with DR.. J. II.
Crawford.
The biggest bore in the world has Just
been completed through Mourt 81. Gothard.
connected Swi:z!and and italy. Il is eight
1ltlt ohS. u HouuG SSbIS lulHc is
seven miles. The Hoosac tunnel the longest
IN America. is only 4 miles.
The finn of Allison & Addison. Rich
mond, Va is nearly as we'll known In North
Carolina as at home. They invite the thrift
ty farmers of our tobacco counties to open
trade with them. Many will do so, and
none we venture to say, without profit to
themselves.
Mrs. Maj. w. A. Hrarne, at the Ma
tional Hotel, has a very interesting and
unique re,ic OF early Carolina times. 1t i.
= shapley Japanese, or Chinese, vase of
fine glazed chinaware, adorned with pago-
das, etc. in blue and gilt. 1t was brought
to New Berne in the days of Gov. Tryon,
more than one hundred years ago, and may
be OF even greater age.
90 subscribers last week. Here and
there a friend is at work for us, aud we feel
sure there would be more of such friends If
they knew how greatly they could extend
the usefulness OF the paper by sending us a
new subscriber once a month, and a postal
card with the neighborhood news once a
week. Who will respond?
The Goldsboro Mail wishes to know if
the late Legislature did not abolish the of
fee OF State G%eOlogist, and how comes it
tnal he SUN hangs on, ana VINO Is RESPONSE
bic, etc, etc? We fancy there will be some
interesting reading when the closet begins
to yield its information in response to Legis-
lative inquiry.
That faithful ex-Confederate soldier,
Gee. G. Mel, Of Monroe, in sending to
new subscription for a %neighbor. wrote
Il think your "Three Years IN Battle" etc.
we'll worth the price Of the paper. and l
don't see how any one with a spark of Did
time patriotism can afford to be without it,
After knowing its character"
-Tourgee has sold his book, the Fools
Grand, for $4,000. 1t ought to be called
the Fool Exposer," since it has shown
how numerous the Fool Family are upon
earth, particularly the Northern half Of this
Union. No man pretends that Tourgee's
diatribc would have reached even a second
edition upon its own merits. But as q
malignant onslaught upon the South and
ell things Southern, it is running near to
80, 600 copies. Vive La Humbug Try il
again, Turgid.