The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-09
Office = doors aJore Simpsons Drug Store.
Our Historical Sketches are omitted

Our Historical Sketches are omitted
this week owing to want of time to prepare
the weekly instaliment, a we are Just now
entering upon the dreadful period OF lie
construction. lso-called) IN North Carolina,
the Freedmen's Bureau, the Radical
Leagucs,-Democratic Klans, etc, etc.
Our sincere sympathies are rendered
Bro. Caleb T.. Green IN the loss Of ms COM
Portable new establishment, which had 50
recently arisen from the ashes OF his former
Office. The net loss i stated at 500. The
Tobacco Plant is an excellent, free spoken,
nevSy paper, and we trust vii! re appear
this week.
The Light Fantastic Toe folks have
had several warnings of late Young Austin
fell on the ball room floor in Mecklenburg,
and Byron G. Pierce, a Naval cadet, went
home from an Annapolis ball to die In a
few hours. We don't wish to raise a
Racquet, " but really the girls oughtn't to
hang to the boys SO tightly.
The Huntley House, at Wadesboro, Is
always filled, because George Huntley, the
proprietor, Is always looking to the comfort
of his guests, made numerous by the new
railroad direct to Charleston: In connec-
ton with his house, Mr.. Huntley has d
number one livery stable, and is always pre-
pared to accommodate his guests with first
class turn outs.
Robert Moore, OF Pittsburg had 4 speci-
men of Ring, Round, and ROSY such as
rarely befalls a man. He was holding up
a bar Of red hot iron in the Iron foundry. 1t
slipped from the tongs, and fell around his
neck. Quick as lightning he lifted it off
but his face was badly scorched, and his
hands burned to the bone. When the ring
cooled it would barely fit over his head.
-Horner's Classical and Mathematical
School, at Henderson, Is advertised IN other
columns; it will speak for itself. As for the
Messrs. Horner, there is no need of intro
duction. Perhaps a single name connected
with Thorough English and Classical Edu
cation in North Carolina is better known:
Their Academy, we notice from the local
papers, is not only doing well, but growing
steadily. This Is as it should be.
Under the head of Questionable Wed
ding-a society event in Lebanon, the
Daily Times. of Lebanon, Penn, has a long
account of the wedding of Capt; }.
Lee Hall, formerly of Greensboro.
GER" and Miss Bessie Weidman, VINO is
described as lone of Lebanon's fairiest
daughters who takes with her the vel
wishes of hosts of friends. JAS. X. Hall
of Greensboro, and Capt. W. \. Thompson
of the u. s. A., were groomsmen-
Boston affects a superior virtue, anC
Sara Bernhard affects loOslty SOthere will
be a pair of humbugs gazing ut each othel
in a few weeks. For the Bostonians have
already paid $50, 900 in securing seats to sec
Sara. The Frail Frenchwoman is rather thin
and so are her petticoatS likewise some OF
The stories about her genius. But there Is
no gauziness in respect to Der specie value
Her speech is 'silvern,' her silence "gol
den" and her tears rain ducats in the door
keepers box, like a barrel Of coal down th'
cellar stairs.
ESgrRaleigh's cotton receipts have ALREADY
reached IS, 600 bales, a gain of 1900 owe
last year. Wilmington shows 1900 bales
4 gain of 10000. And prices have beer
reasonably good the whole season. Striking
an average of ten cents per pound, and 45i
lbs. to the bale, we have more than IRE an.
Il half millions Of dodarS pail o1t for TIL
single article Of cotton IN t'co Of orr cities
Yet the price of the Farmer ard -NechoHG
remains at only $500 a year. Do'st SCI
the point, gentle friend?
In the matter of Thanksgiving Til
never too late to mend" So last week, 81
day after the Fair" so to speak, Mr. VT
Chamblee, the clever young salesman of j
b. Andrews 4 Co., nailed a turkey Qegiti
mately, we suppose) at Linke's sbOotin!
gallery DIR. d. +. Everett bivalved anC
bisected the trophy; young steward Rad
cliffe, of the National Hotel, boiled, basted
and baked the bird aud We sat smiling OF
he small set of seven to save Seymour
Whiting a severe spell of sickness Selah
st. Mary's Muse announces that appli
cations for the "Alumn;r scholarship viii
be heard up to Dec. Goth prox. Particular:
furnished by DIR, Smedes. The same au
thority mentions that among the finest con
tributions to the Loan Department OF tn,
metropolitan Art Museum" in New York
are some old paintings. the property of Gen
one of the most beautiful faces we have
seen Is a portrait on ivory, row half a cen
tury old, OF a lady relative of that gallan
officer and estimable gentleman.
The Pocket Pistol" or private flask
Is getting IN some very superior work o
late. Aided by the locomotive, it manage.
to pick off a few hundreds of lives ever!
week. At Enfield the other day, a youns
man fell out of a wagon and was carried
home unconscious. After he died it wa,
found that a piece of his glass bottle had
penetrated his side. At Greenville, 5. c..
the engine caught an old man on horseback
Around the neck of the corpse was found
string tied to the neck of a bottle. III
life they were bosom friends, and In deatl
were not asundered.r At Wilson last weeI
two negroes were crossing a bridge-toc
drunk to see the locomotive. One wa,
knocked hfeless, the other INTO a ditch. HI
fell on his head, aad Is all right, -unles.
they put a bigger engine on that route.
We observe that a Franklin county
postmaster prints a notice warning the pub
lie to keep out of the office during mai
opening time, and to keep hands off the mai
matter which does not belong to them. Iii
singular such notice hJuld be required, yet
we venture to say there are one thousand
offices in the State which allow outsiders t.
come behind the distribution desk. and ex.
anime papers, and even letters, at pleasure.
Generally the privilege is confined to a ia
vored few; but it is just as unlawful to allow
1t to a nelghbOr as to a stranger. OF course
it Is very hard for the postmaster to refuse
his intimate friends (who if he keep a store,
a mill, or a shop, are very likely
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