The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-23
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Office 2 doors ADORE Simpsons Drug Store.

Office 2 doors ADORE Simpsons Drug Store.
Rev. Father White leaves Raleigh this
week to make a twelve month tom through
the North and Europe in search OF funds
for the church.
joe Bradley's SOM Seven to Eight
Joe, who aliunded r utter fraud Hayes into
the White House)-is to marry Don Cam
eron daughter.
1t was remarked BY a newly married
Bennedict-'Yes, we have gone and done
it. after a long and tedious courtship which
she bore with christian fortitude."
Blackwell & Co. are going to take a share
In the Industrial pageant or street parade
during Fair week. We hope Durham will
have a dozen or W of wagons In the train.
MIR. r. III. Cowan will start the Anson
Times, at Wadesboro, on or about the lst prox
He has ordered an entirely new outfit, and
will print an handsome paper in all respects.
Our best wishesl
The Atlantic & n. e. r.. r.. stockhol-
ders on Thursday last decided to postpone
the question of the lease until Nov. %,
q fortnight after the election.
An old man named Maj. j. f. Ray was
found dead in a small stream near kyser,
on the l4th inst. 1t is supposed he had
been under the influence of liquor. ard hav-
ing gotten down on his knees to drink from
the branch, pitched forward and was drown
ed.
st. Mary's opened on the 9th with an
excellent showing. 1t is found the accomo-
dations for boarders will need to &c extended.
The venerable institution is taking a new
youth, under the management of the Rev
Bennett Smedes, the son OF his father.
The fashionable firt and Il scuppcrnong
grapefruit have a common aspiration II. e.
to make some unwary youth slip up and use
anti prayer meeting language. And they
have a common destiny. The grape has
been sque IN. B.-The resi- OF the word
rhymes with succeed; and the other might,
could, would, or should De.
The Dairy at S1n Mateo. California,
uses upward OF COO gallons of milk per day.
The big churn turns III from loo To TO lbs.
of butter at a churnlng, and IL worked by
goat power the goats being shut ur into an
IS-toot slat wheel, like tie turning wheel OF
a squirrel cage. Their natural fonaness for
great force. 1t is the first instance we have
heard of Il Butter churning butter.
We have several times heard recently OF
a project likely to be brought before the
Legislature this winter; namely to get the
Stat to buy back the Lockviile Canal, etc,
which was sold" during the flush times to
private individuals. The Messrs. Lobdell,
Heck 4 Co, it is said, have found the Canal
rather like an elephant" on their hands,
as the Buckhorn mines are not being work
ed, and the canallocks are out of repair.
We give these reports for what they are
worth pending further developments.
The Democratic committee of the md
District decided to call a Congressional con-
~vention at Goldsboro Tuesday, Sept. %. By
virtue Of having upwards of six hundred
Democratic subscribers in thai District, we
feel a particular interest therein and would
be specially gratifed were that true man,
uncompromlslng Democrat and liberal
party-supporter, Col. Wharton J. Green,
of Warren, selected to bear the straight-out
banner. He can be elected as readily as any
other man for even the darkeys appreciate
u sauare-and-fa gentleman.
Col. John r. Winston will greatly iniure
himself by his candidacy for Congress. So
long as he merely advocated G1eenback
views, and fought the Gold bug Bond Hol-
ders, he had the good will of hundreds of
persons who will contemn him, and suspect
Nun Ol UGIu8 III Il HAS Niii0Ida1S Siioulu
ieopardize Gen. Scales election, or elect
keogh. For our part, if the circumstances
were different, we should be we'll satisfied
tn see Col. Winston succeed in his aspira.
tions but at present there is no chance for
him to do anything but damage his ow.l
reputation.
From the Mooresville Go=cite we gather
that the three companies comprised in the
Railroad route from Danville to Charlotte, via
Winston, Salem. aud Mooresville. on Thurs
dav last. at the Winston meeting. consolida-
ted under the name of the \. {. Midland
X. h. Co. The new company elected Col.
!. :. Barbour. President; Col. j. I. More
head. Vice President Col. J. W. Alspaugh,
Secretary and Treasurer Directors A. NJ.
Booze, W. G. Wilson. 7. w. Hairston, L..
". Anderson. !. NJ. Vaughn. j. w. Fries, j.
+. Gilmer, 4. Leazer, G. Fl. Wiley. The
best Of feeling prevailed and it is confidently
expected to begin work inside of60 days. The
stockholders are to meet Oct. 20, at WIn-
ston, to ratify or reject the constellation.
1T i often very difficult to reconcile the
canons of gentility, with success, and con
seouent usefulness, in the journalistic field.
Many things which good taste would reject,
from a social point of view, are almost in
dispensible to the vitality and popularity of
the paper. Aud in editing it is the Many,
not the Few, that are to be considered. The
usefulness of a paper depends upon the nun
Der of its readers. A high-toned. dignifed,
c,rrect- English. polished paper is a good
thing. and will deserve success but will
have two or three hundred subscribers, of a
clas, who do not need newspaper %instruc-
ton. \ sprightly, slashy, slap dashy sort
of a paper will be re,,l (even by the refned).
and going ont to thousands of home will
carry much good seed amid its chaff, and
above all will inculcate lore Of reading,
which is the really important need in the
majority Of families. Compre"e= roos,
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