The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-26
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The Southerner highly compliments
President Battles address at Tarboro on
the Early History of the University.
Your sketches of the "War and
Prison" are worth all the money you ask
for bur paper, which is the newsiest [ get. y
Travis E. H., of Hookerton.
Very Hard Cash. is still current in
South Carolina. His seconds have been
indicted and Virtue with a big VI is
quoted at l 0OOth fraction of a cent advance
among our ~neighbors over the border.
The Banner suggests Maj. Jonathan
Evans for COMMISSIONS of Agriculture.
His long service on the Board, and his
thorough knowledge of the Farm, and it's
needs, are strong points IN his favor.
The four great needs of the Southern
farmer are political Peace, Cow Peas (for
fertilizing purposes) all kinds of Root-crops,
and plenty of Crop-Rooters 3OO-pound
Berkshires preferred.
Tobacco growers have the comfort of
knowing there is no probability of over
production as in the case of cotton. Year
by year the country gains in population,
and year by year nobody don't stop
a-chewin'.
-Four years ago, in Buncombe, a couple
of farmers began to raise tobacco, says the
Charlotte Observer. Then they were very
poor; now they are well off. Their crops this
year are estimated at SIS, 900.
An ''open letter." in the Recorder, to
Henry A. Reams, ESQ.,, of Durham, urges
him not to run for the Senate, as MANY per
sons desire him to do, because his active
energies are still needed in lengthening the
cords and strengthen the stakes, of the
tobacco metropolis.
The new telegraph from Enfield to
Plymouth will give communication with a
wide reach of country, indeed the whole
Albemarle sound region. The line will
pass through Scotland Neck and Windsor,
We suppose. To-day the contract for poles
will be let.
Some time ago we received a letter
from Leander l.. Green, of Watauga, init
mating that a correspondent had done him
injustice by charging him with abandon
ment OF the Democratic party for the sake
of office. The american of this week an
nounces the appointment II Leander L..
Greene, A. B. Gillespie, H. Y. Mott, and
VIM. NJ. Moore as Revenue gaugers.
The Yankee Radicals are bowling fear
fully over the increase in Southern popula-
ton as compared with their own States.
The explanation is easy. 1st. Our people
stay aC nome. ina. OUR people are longer
lived and healthier than the population of
any other section. Sd. Our young people
when they marry, leave the result to Proyi-
dence, good air, and good living whereas
in New England, as is now generally admit
ted, no respectable family ever permits more
than a pair of Pinafores in the house. Is if
any wonder the South is "Re-constructing"
even faster than the rabid Reconstruction
Party desires? ~
There is no special credit in getting the
first bale of new cotton, because some local. |
ties In the State are several weeks warmer |
than others. For example, the peach trees |
will be found in full bloom at Washington. |
Tarboro, or Newbern, two weeks before
there is a sign of a blossom at RALEIGH. |
much less at Greensboro or Statesvifle' |
Nevertheless it is deemed an honor 10 have |
packed the first bale, therefore we note that
at noon IN Thursday, Aug. 10th. M |
Marion johnson, of Johnson county, rolled |
into Raleigh with a fine bale of "middlinsS
consigned to Messrs. Latta & Myatt-- who |
sold it to Messrs. Parker & Avera for ia |
cents. The same day Charlotte received
her first bale 42O Ibis. from T. 0. Parks. |
graded middling. -