The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-21

Grounds, we shall be glad have a call from
them at this office.
e. Number One, Seventh Volume, = is
this number of the Furmer and .Nechaaic.
1t is toillng slowly inward.
m. A. Steadman. Jr., a brother of Maj.
G.. vi. Steadman, has been nominated tol
the House in Brunswick county.
Miss Johnnie Maskett. of Nixonton,
n. c., died last week, aged Is, and three
weeks in advance of her wedding. The bri
DIAL dress served for a shroud.
Gov. Vance is announced to speak at
Durham Tomorrow, Tuesday. He Is ex
pected here, with his lady, on Wednesday
and Thursday.
-Thos. s.. Vickers is running for the
Senate in the .Orange-Person District
Henry Brown and Lewis jenkins are rum
Mug Tor the House, as usual.
Thirty acres make a good farm in some
parts of the world. But the St. Louis Col.
ton compress company has that number OF
acres OF flooring, and can lock up half "a
million OF bales In its warehouses.
The Wilmington Rxrtp notes the fac
that the barque Ihoodor has lett that port
with III more bales of cotton than she on d
former trip was able to carry out of Sayau-
nah harbor. Good for the Cape Fear!
-Soa,eb2iy out in the Ba-bary States.
Africa, i. sending US an Aigier's daily pa
per, printed in French. Much obliged {;
but Garfield isn't elected yet. And oul
States have been gradually working out o,
the Africanized. Barbary-ous condition.
since Sammy Tilden unsested Grant.
Cotton, a New York Journal devoted to
the great staple, gives nine estimates of the
amount of the incoming cotton crop the
lowest estimate ST millions bales; the high
est six to 81 millions according to picking
season. At 10 cents a pound either eSti-
mate should scatter several dollars through.
out the SOUTH.
The old homestead of John C.. Calhoun
Was destroyed by fire last week 1t wa
within sight OF the Air Line Railroad fir Dm
Greensboro to Atlanta, which he predicted
would one day be built Though at that date
there we're not 500 miles of railway in the
country, because the old trails made by the
annual migrations Of Buffaloes showed tina!
it was the direct route North and South.
"A lacy travelling in the Orient sends
US large photographs of the Colosseum, and
several famous paintings. at Rome, ana
elsewhere. Fully as interesting to US are the
Asiatic postage stamps on the envelopes
They are green in color, about the size and
shape of our own, living the Turkish half
moon, enclosing Turkish characters, and
the Ottoman Empire: 30 paras, in En-
clIsh letters.
Some weeks ago we expressed the opin
ion that the old parties would be broken VI
during the next tour years, and the Tariff que>
ton again would be the bone aud contention,
A dispatch from Indiana SAYS: The Re
publicans, after being whipped out on sew
eral issues, finally took up the Tariff. and
pressed it with great vigor. 1t is now seert
that this was a big card, and that operatives
aud working men in both States we're delu
ded into voting against their lite long politi-
cal convictions for fear that otherwise il
would be a question of bread tor themselves
aud their families.
-Coup's circus is having nearly as bad
luck as Rubinson's. Down at Macon, Ga..
Col. Coup, and one half his company were
taken down with malarious fevers. Nell
vile. the rider, who made the astonishinp
leap from the ground to the back of a run
ming horse. and stood up right on its back
with his boots on, fell and broke his skull.
Then the eight legged horse got loose, and
was chased all night before he was caught.
Guess we shall never see either Coup o,
Robinson on this saw-dust pile again.
n. B-Mr. Sinner of Robinson's CROWD
fell from the cars and broke both legs.
A school among schools is else
where advectised-the Goldsboro In
stitute for young Ladies, by Mrs
DIR. Chapman. 1t would be a work o
snperarogation to praise the capacity IF on,
who has educated so manS of the most &C
ccmplishcd daughters of the State. Blu
there is q feature of her Furnishing institu
tion worthy Of special note. as tending t.
hor0ughness Of instruction; towit that al
the English teaching emenates dlrectl, from
~ OIL Ill
eiGn Languages from highly educated Flu
ropeans, without the intervention of tn
assistants" deemed indispensable in lar
ger Seminaries.
The editor was much mortified to re
ceive last week s. renewal of Subscription
accompanied by the remark 81 don't hay,
time to read your paper, but I know yo,
have suffered heavily for standing up f
your principles, so | want to help yo,
along ETC., etc.
This was equivalent to making us a con
tribution Of 81. We returned the none
by next mail. And as we have had several
more or less plain, intimations of the same
character, this is to say that any man VIII,
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can do US no greater favor. Send us tn,
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