The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-14
Index to New Advertisements.

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If you see some figures on the margin
of your paper, it is a sign that you ought to
lend us 81 until next year.
Pleased to have visits from Bros Fur
man, and Thomas, of the Asheville Citizen.
and Louisburg Times.
The Editor, Local, New Clipper. and
General Utility man. are a little out of gear
this week, so the paper shows 1t.
-Monday-Satnrday, Oct 1873, these
he the days of Fair week; and by all ac-
counts it will be me grande atore, or
words to that effect.
The New York World wrote to the
Governors of the Southern States asking
their views on Rebel war claims. All re-
piled endorsing Hancock's letter opposing
any further payments.
&C. j. Stolbrand, formerly keeper OF the
South Carolina PeDitentiary, is the Radical
candidate for Congress In the Sd District OF
that State. He will doubtless get the full
vote OF his party as he must have made
an host of acquaintance In his old position.
-Asheville Federal court postponed to
Nov. 4th. The train arrives at Swananoa
Bridge. IL miles from Asheville, at 5.s5 p.
M, and leaves next morning at 6. 40. Pas
sengers spend the night at Salisbury both
ways. So quoth We Citizen.
-Messrs. Cooper, Newsom & Heartt Of
fer two engines and two power presses tor
sale-at their shops. This is a chance for
somebody. And they have other machinery
on hand. Engines are 20 and % horse
power, useful sizes. Call and see them,
or address p. Q. Box l42, Raleigh.
Remember this week THAT is to say on
Monday evening-Oct 18th the day the Fair
begins(, we issue a big extra edition that
will be certain to wande- into every nook
and corner of Carolina. Only 81 for a three
inch advertisement that will be read by II,
OOOl eyes-allowing , eyes to each head.
Come a runnin' We mean, you that
wish {, ex ,hange fire wood for subscrip.
tions or advertising. 4 good load of wood
will pay for two subscriptions: so club with
your neighbor, and bring it right along
And when the weather turns colder you
sball have the warm corner of our fire place
The whole continent of Africa, in size lar.
ger than North America and densely popula.
ted has not one mile Of Railway or telegraph,
not one printing press unless it be at Cairo,
and Algiers-.hat are European towns.
The ex-slave is the only civilized Negro in
existence. Is it not u strange fact IN M
man history?
Capt. JAS. A. Lockhart (son- in-law OF
Judge Ashe) has been nominated for the
Senate in Arson and Union. We notice,
also, a letter from him to the Charlotte Oh
serrer giving the true version of the Dia-
mond Hill row heretofore commented upon
by us.
Two white men robbed and raped Mrs.
Massey, a widow in Hanover county, Va.
Out came the %neighbors and hanged the
rascals to a tree. Nirginians consider that
widows, orphan girls, and other women
without natural protectors are IN the Ian
guaee of the old ku kluk oath-''under our
especial care and protection
One Of the first steps in Southern Agri-
cultural Regeneration M u be taken in the
direction of house improvement. No man
can feel a proper pride in his farm until he
has a neat, tidy, comfortable home. Unfor-
tunately our climate is SO mild that any sort
of a log pen will serve for shelter. But we
must seek to cultivate a taste for better
dwellings. Our newspapers should a~ggitate
the subject, and offer plans OF cheap but
handsome houses.
"A lady friend asks us if there could be
anything in the atmosphere to provoke
death by heart disease. She notes that
when one death by that sudden call is an
nounced, others follow in rapid succession.
There was quite an epidemic at one time
last year. And within the past two weeks,
A.. j. Partir, Romulus Allen, Mrs. j. II.
Morris, Mrs. Thos. NJ. Davidson, at States
vile. Dock jenkins, at Charlotte, and
nearly half dozen others at various points in
the State have suddenly passed away from
this disease. We suppose when the weather
Is long, dry and sultrv, with a tendency to
create %billiousness, there is increased danger
for those effected with organic cordial weak
ness.
n. B.-As we go to press a letter from
Ropersville, Tenn, tells of the death of
Henry G.. Smith, Esq. an old Pennsylvania
Editor, lat one time President of the Press
Association of that State) vino suddenly
dropped dead on the floor of his residence.
after half hour of unusually mirthful chat
with his family.
Bully for old Bob TombS, the Georgia
fre-eater! He has found the true way to
pay off the Yankees for robbing the South
of her slaves. In other words he is going
to start another big cotton factory in Geor-
gia; a $500, 600 one, We predict that if
Hancock be elected, ere the term of his
election expire, the South will have set in
motion SO many wheels of and
manufacturers that nine New Englanders in
ten will curse the day they started the
Abolition, South hating, Crusade, and
brought On the war, and forced the South
erners to form new habits and new indus
tries, giving up their old agricultural,
patriarchal, gentlemanly life and adopting
more earnest, pushing, thriving, economic,
wide awake practices, which joined to the
superior natural advantages Of Dixie must
lake the rag off the New England bush,' y
no matter whether that rag be of cotton,
~wOollen, silk. jute, or paper, textile. See
it? Pitch in, Bob! And when you go
North for factory men you can carry out
your old threat of Calling the roll Of your
slaves at foot OF Bunker Hill monument"
For Boston factory hands are more enslayed