The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-29

inches. This is thought worthy of being
te~legraphed all over the country.
Several farmers have written and
spoken to us to urge the Board of Agricul-
ture to place a thorough farmer in charge
OF the Department; and not replace Col.
Folk who was a merchant, and an editor.
at the time OF his appointment by SELECTING
a lawyer, or eminent Statesman, no matter
how merltOrlous as private individuals.
We should like to oblige our friends: hnt
Gov. Jarvis, President Battle, Prof. Kerr,
Grand Master Cheek, and the others of the
Board. probably know more about FARMING
than we do and they have the selection Of
the new commissioner If they want a
lawyer or Statesman to head the Farmers
department, we reckon we can stand it.
A "parlor match that went off, in a
most striking manner. is reported from
Wilmington, Del. Laura Courtney, daughter
OF Swift: Courtney & Co., manufacturers of
Luclter matches ''scraped" an acquaintance
with a young gardiner, named Hayden, and
eloped with him. The social sensation was
all that she could have desired especially
as her father had no good looking coacbman
Old man Tatnal, the employer of Hayden,
enjoyed the match" nightly, and said so
But on Friday i'll luck carried him in front
OF Courtney's house. Out rushed old Mrs.C
with a cowhide, and welted him for half q
mile up the street. Her husband trotted along
to see fair play, and furnish fresh cow-hides
as fast as needed. And now the Court-nevs
are in court, and Tatnal is in court -pla sters.
"A very nice young woman in Spain is
about to have a baby. Such accidents arc
liable to happen in the best of families bnt
this one Is going to come off in stvle.n
The following is thought worthy to be tele-
graphed 5000 miles across the ocean =
When the Queen, Maria Christina. came
to Spain she only retained one Austrian at
tendant' a young and able physician, who
insisted at the end Of June, on account of
Her Majesty's health, on the transfer of the
court to La Granja.. The Spanish doctors
hardly concealed their jealousy of the for
eigner, who now advises the King to nro-
the stay OF tie court at La Grania until
after the Queens confinement. which is ex-
pected IN August, when the heat in Madrid
Will be very great, The senior Spanish nhv-
sSlclan resigned, and others would have fol-
1--WE his example had not the King de-
cllned to receive his resignation. The opin-
ION OF the Madrid surgeons is that with care
the heat might not be dangerous. Premier
Canovas del Castillo shares this opinion h
the La Granja Palace will be very
insufficient tor the state ceremonies attend.
ing the birth of an heir to the throne. The
AUSTRIAN physician sturdily defends his
yUlew. The Queen prefers to remain at La
= unusually sprightly and newsv for a
new journal IS the .Sunny Home, printed at
l oisnot' by Mr.. Theodore Hobgood, former
y OF the Wilson 4dUonce. From the sec
ond NUMBER we borrow items elsewhere
;redlted to it; By professional courtesy we
congratulate Bro. Hobgood; but in reality
he growing young town of Toisnot Is H..
most entitled to felicitation; because the
will at once advertise it, and the adj
accent country, aud no doubt cause an in
;rease 'ot business In thousands of dollars
yol. l.. L.. Polk, late Chief Engineer of onr
state Agricultural Bure au, understood tho
Of the Press in blowing un = town
he IN 1873 owned some hundreds of acrns
II common land upon the line of the nm.
'ompleted {. G. Railroad. One dav listen
az to the distant whistle of the Locomotive.
ne Colonel determined to turn his little
arm INTO a town. The location was good
ne surrounding country we'll settled. So
le lald on the young city of Polktoa. There
vas put one house; but it was a good size
ne and by converting one room into .
tore, and another into the postoAicn
retty good start was made. But the COL
mel knew that a city even one that IS .sset
pom an hill,'-must not be covered j v S1e
hal1 oushel; Its horn must resound in
ne land else it will soon &C to seed. and I
and tor Tor a mere fyspeck on the map {
lence ne established a small printing Office y
tne room above the postotfce, and soon
lie weekly, Ansoniam began to walk the
'rtn, warbling cheerfully of the fi,tn,e nf +
olkton. Meantime along came the tracI. J
! yers' and the Iron Horse, and then a c
ores, two or three churches. two mr. thuao :
drug store, in short, the town ars f
Ved, with trunk, band box and cradle /
lere is not a bit of doubt that the pewsna. "
= brought the location into notice, and in e,
IOn y J,easea the W tho of course, the "
'ionel $ energy as farmer, merchant, ed. $,
:, postmaster, politician, etc, was the G
aaihg factor IN the creation. 1t is a pitv ~
ne subsequently lost all that he baSS m
= tor. and then the town lost him. B
: Sstoppage OF the paper leaves us with NJ
{ late Jews from the nlaco IN IL