The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-15
Garfield has been elected to the Senate

-GarIelQ mas Deen elected 10 the senate
from Ohio.
Marriage is considered a blissful state
by young lovers, but a bliss fooled condition
by those who have been there.
"A negro was leading a 81, 900 colt in
kentucky. 1t became too frisky. Darkey
broke its jaw with a club,-killing it. We
suspect hat negro is looking for a new place
to break into.
Capt. Theo. F. Davidson spent Sunday
in the city, having come to attend the Rail
road meeting. There are few more wide
awake young men on either side of the big
Blue Ridge.
The Neuse Cotton Mills Company, on
the 5th, r~eorganized as the Newborn Man
ufacturing Company" Thos. A. Green,
President; Geo. Allen, Secretary, Treasurer
and Financial Agent and Henry Rishton,
manager.
A correspondent wishes to know how to
keep fresh pork from spelling in this hot
weather. We suggest to leave the smoke
house door open, and start a negro camp
meeting in the neighborhood.
Last week we copied from another pa
per a statement that Gov. Jarvis had APP
staff. It is now said the appointment came
from Gov. Blackburn, of Kentucky, and we
make the correction, not wishing to do an
injustice. Col. Moss is agent at Charlotte for
a kerosene oil company, we believe.
Frances Hovey, a beautiful young girl, a
conscientious christian, became deranged by
the death of her lover. Going to her faith
er's store she shot him through the head;
tEen went up stairs, took aim at her own
forehead, In a hand-mirror, and pulled the
trigger. She left a letter to her pastor say
ing she was heart broken, and wished her
father to rejoin her lover. Queer world
this!
The Norfolk papers tell of a bale of
cotton shipped by Roundtree & Co., of vii
son, which contained I'm the centre a stone
about a foot and a half square by two feet
and a half long, and weighing between two
hundred and fifty and three hundred
pounds" The compress rlatens were crush
ed before the rock was discovered. 1t was
no doubt sold to the Messrs. Roundtree by
some rascally negro.
1t is said in many portions Of the State
especially the patriotism which is as careful
of the memory of its heroes in defeat, as it
could be if they had been victorious. 1t is
said that although Raleigh is the State
capital there is not enough interest shown
in the memory Of our dead, and our four
years struggle, to even form a Confederate
Historical Society, or Survivor Association.
We shall not concede such sneers to be true.
But We trust our people will turn out en-
masse tonight to hear Col. Green's lecture
in aid Of the Lee Fund.
People are very thoughtless when they
boast of good health. A common remark
is-"oh, | never was sick a day in my life,
or Il never have any such ailments" Or
Il am not so weak as that" Yet few per-
sons have a right to brag in this style. An
elderly person who has taken care of his
health may be entitled to congratulate him
self: But the young man or young lady who
has a sound constitution, yet is no better,
no Drawer, no more amiable, and good ma
tured than the fragile brother or sister who
cannot eat a meal, or take the least exertion,
without suffering from weakness, has not
only no right to boast, but actually ought
to be ashamed of the fact. Health is
a mere accident of birth: good charac-
ter, patience under pain, and unselfsh-
ness amid physical poverty are acquired,
and deserve high honor. Many of the no
blest souls that ever walked the earth were
cribbed in bodies that never drew an healthy
breath, nor presented a single feature Of
beauty.