The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-22

TIM LEE-Raleigh Club House.
THE taylor M'F'G. Co Steam Engines
r. M. SULLY-S Schedule of trains.
Jules Favre and the Duke De Gramont.
French leaders, are dead.
The mother and sister of Mrs. Capt. j.
w. Lee were burned to death by the burst
ing of a lamp at Danville.
-Newbern jail was fired and burned. The
prisoners, %(nine), were removed in time
j. p. Fosters store in Chatham, the Record
says, was robbed and fired but only partly
burned.
The marriage of Mr.. Maurice Rosen-
thai and Miss Hannah CRAFTSMAN. the
sprightly daughter of Nj. CRAFTSMAN, grocer,
by the Jewish ceremony, Rabbi Mendelsohn
officiating, attracted a great deal of interest
on Tuesday.
The Swepson case from Wake was ar
gued on Tuesday by Messrs. Kenan, Deve-
reux, Maj. A. NJ. Lewis, and Gillian &
Gatling for the State. r. G. Badger, Ruff
fin, Fowle, Snow, Merrimon & Fuller, for
Swepson.
The Recorder comedies the University K.
r. will not come to Durham. Can it be
true, as reported, that certain influences OPP
lear that it will be extended Northward to
connect with the Virginia roads.
Capt. Ashe, of the Observer, says in ref
erence to the mention of j Judge Ashe's name
for Governor, that while the latter would
appreciate the honor, yet being on the
Bench and not desiring to be named in the
Convention it is hoped nothing further will
be SAID in that direction"
At the wedding of Albert Schif and
Miss Steigerwald, in Baltimore, a great
many presents were given, including "a
beautiful Dresden China set; from Mr.. and
Mrs. Schiff, Charlotte, N. c., a costly silver
water set from MIR. and Mrs. Rosenthal,
Raleigh, n. c., a bronze mantel ornament"
What wonderful weather! You frost
bitten Yankees, stumbling about in three
feet of snow, what would you think of sit
ting by an open window working in shirt
sleeves, as we did nearly every day of last
week! Monday and Tuesday were almost
uncomfortably warm.
The Star tells Of a Presbyterian dime
party at Burgaw, attended by the youth and
beauty of the surrounding county. whereat
after making $55 in aid of the church the
young folks adjourned to a private residence
and danced till daylight. That's Jolly.
Next time we get a free pass we mean to go
down to Burgaw.
"A little over four hundred and forty
bounds of newly welded bliss spent the
night at the National Hotel last week. The
groom, a New Yorker, several years the
junior of the pair, weighed about 10 lbs, or
say onetourh Of the tami1y-the balance
being bride and as jolly a three-parts as one
can see between Raleigh and Petersburg
where she is a native, and we'll esteemed,
and owns the Bolingbroke Hotel, we under
stand.
1t is very gratifying to find our subscrip-
ton list growing at the rate of from two to
three per day and to receive very cordial
letters from our old patrons. It is crafty
ing not so much on account of the profit,
(or the net profit does not average 20 cents
per subscriber on a years subscription) but
because each new name introduces the pa
per into a new circle of readers, and adds
four or five more to the number of our con.
%gregation, as our brethren, the clergy, say.
Speaking of the clergy, we give else.
where a number of instances of outrageous
conduct by Northern ministers.-not to
throw discredit on the ministry. wherein
our own venerable father has sacrificed fftv
years of his life, an ordinary fortune. and
no ordinary worldly prospects; but we
think the natural inference will be to the
honoring of our Southern clergymen. who
do not dabble in the cess pools of politics.
nor run fashionable churches, nor preach
fashionable" or "sensational'' sermons
nd are very rarely indeed heard of ia con.
ctlon with d~isreputable occurrences.