The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-07

"
mon men call it staying out at the Lodge
to initiate a fellow.
In the beautiful county Of Caldwell last
week Tennyson McCloud, aged IS, was
Joined in marriage with Dorcas Turnmire,
aged %. Mark you the Pathological pecu
liarity of these names! Tennyson Make
Clouds cognomen is highly poetic where
as Dorcas Turnmire is plain and practical as
a pitchfork. Yet assimilated in the sweet
unity of Loves Young Dream, their lives
henceforth shall flow on, flow ever, peace
full as two ri, lets joined in a river!
We offer for sale a splendid Norwich
2 seat pleasure waggOnette," (such as a
prominent family in Raleigh uses every
evening" or a superb fashionable phaeton,
made by Tuhcr Bros, Of Columbus, Ohio,
known for 20 years in their business eacn
fully warranted, at $500, which is so less
than the cash price of each as they now
stand in the factory. We see precisely the
same vehicles c~atalogued by other makers at
1920, and 1920. Here are bargains for
somebody.
The Presidential struggle will very pro-
badly come to an end at sunset, October
18th. On that day, Ohio, Indiana, and
West Virginia, go through the motions OF
deciding, by means of small bits of paper,
which of the two parties has imported the
most negroes, and bought the most voters
We notice, by the by. that 5000, 600 was
raised In Phila. and New York two weeks
ago by the Republicans to spend in Indiana.
OF purse if Garfield comes in, the contrlbu-
tors hope to steal it back again; but-there
Is the "if!'
Three men have been reduced to hash
by locomotives in North Carolina during the
past week one on the Carolina Central,
one on the Charlotte Air Line, one on the
Wilmington and Weldon. Do you suppose
they were deaf mutes walking on the track ?
Not thts time. They were merely members
of that large fraternity, who after w~altzing
with the fascinating jug, go off to the near
est railway track and lie Town to pleasant
areams,-half an hour before train time.
The sequel indicates that they suddenly
awake to a mistake. The whiskey is no
doubt very strong and rampagerous, but
it can't butt an engine off the track
1t is said Fred Douglas was paid 800
for his speech at the colored fair and that
he threw in the political speech at night
gratuitously-''for nothing" He was right {;
it wasn't worth any thing. Because instead
of being a TRADE against the Southerners,
the old man nearly cried as he voiced his as
constituent at the freedom. the cheerful
ness, tne prosperity, anu progress vi Ills race
in North Carolina. He declared he should
publish it everywhere that the North had
been deceived that at least In Moth Caro-
lima, the blacks were utterly undisturhed
and unintimidated and in fact living on
terms of remarkable amity with the whites.
We hear the Radicals begged him not to
make al y such statements.
Hon. VIM. =. Schell, the excellent Au-
ditor General of Pennsylvania, replying to a
letter of inquiry, gives the interesting in
formation that at the close of Jackson's ad
ministration, after half a century of Demo-
cratic rule, the enormous amount of thirty
six millions of dollars had accumulated in
the National Treasury as a surplus 0rer all
expenditures! By act of Congress this
amount was divided among the States, &C
cording to representation This too, be it
remembered, in addition to wipeiDg out the
War Debt of Iel2-I8l5 which in the
latter year Was close upon $50, GOO, 900.
see, In the old days of Democratic rule,
office holders didn't steal Congress didn't
vote away millions on millions to corrupt
uses President did not receive $40, 900 "A
year, and no end of gift brides; and the
Federal Treasury Was not managed IN the
interest of ten thousand idle blood-suckers,
the Bond Holding Gold-Bugs Of Wall
street! See?
ten. Daniel f. Sickles who lost IA leg
at Gettysburg, has come out from the Re
publican party and declared for Hancock.
His course has had a very depressing effect
on Republicans -Erchdnge.
1t ought to have a much more depressing
effect on Democrats. 1t is not pleasant to
see such cattle, after a long career of devil
try under Grant and Hayes, turning to Han
cock at the moment of Democratic success.
and making a virtue of coming when n
fact they would turn back tomorrow if the
tide should turn.
Sickles has a vile record. He killed Philip
Barton Key for not being as Big a fool as
young Joe when Mrs Poti-but YOU recollect
about it; and then coDdoned his wife, and
doubtless does so yet, if she hasn't changed
base with some other fellow. Sickles at
that time was a Democrat; but soon after
ward joined the War Howlers. and in 1866
was Satrap of fine Carolinas. You remember
that when the order of a North Carolina
court was presented to his Leutenant.
Ruger, he tore it up, and revoked the sen
tence by a mere order through a courier !
How differently Hancock would have acted !
Yet Dan hurrahs for Ham,
One of our contemporaries observes
that the Farmer and Wechantc wood cuts
evince a spirit of prOgresslveness but not
much skill in execution. The remark was
meant in kindness, we presume but the
effect is about the same as if we should say
THE weekly 4tunanceun, under its new
editors, shows a spirit of improvement, but
lot much skill in carrying it OUT instead
Of thus retorting, we shall only suggest that
(while our contemporaries criticism is doubt
less %cOrrect) the true way to help and en-
courage a brother editor is not to throw
cold water on his earlier efforts, no matter
how ''unskillful' they may be. Do you
know the reason so many Northern picto-
rials, and fancy papers find their way to
every nook and corner of the South? 1t is
because our people have been taught to
consider that mo good thing can come
out of" the Southern Nazareth" Hence
all Southern magazines and periodicals
soon fail, For our part, we often
strain our conscience to say a good word
Tor a Southern enterprise, simply because
We know that our people, especially
our iuurnalists-without capital, or adequate
patronage, need all possible encourage