The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-30
Office 2 doors aJore Simpsons Drug Store.

Office . doors Adore Simpsons Drug Store.
Several communications crowded out
this week.
Cotton Receipts in Raleigh last week
nearly !, 1000 bales double last year.
The wood cuts in last weeks paper were
not intended to represent any particular
person.
Some persons are not pretty, but when
they smile you forget they are ugly.
On the Sd of October, Maj. n. A. Greg
CORY will sell one ofhis fine farms near oas-
safras Fork. A good chance to raise Bright
Yellow Tobacco.
aH~Strangers in a city dislike to hunt up
an office, especially one above stairs. The
Farmer and Mechanic is over Grausman's
store, midway between Tucker Hall and
of a short flight of steps. Don't forget the
place, when you sell your cotton.
-Ratherecurious coincidence The re-
ceipts of cotton on Saturday were 1,Ol6
bales al Charlotte !; l ,002 at Raleigh 93S
at Wilmington, and SO on. What does it
mean? Is there some secret effort by
Northern agents to rush in cotton, and thus
beat down the price for speculative pur-
poses?
-Bailey's Great London" circus, which
has the only baby elephant" and the
''only lady in the world who turns summer
saults," and stands on her chignon. is work
ing in this direction. Bashful men will
need to equip themselves with pieces of
smoked glass to view the performance.
The Internal Revenue receipts for the
past year, ending July lst, were SIG, S4S,-
PIG. 20: of which the Southern States paid
500. 2sS, 055.S6. North Carolina was the
fifth State among them. Using Only round
members, Kentucky paid 81. $50, 900.
Virginia. So, Isl 900. Missouri, S5.446, 900.
North Carolina 81, 354, 600.
-Apropos the Kings Mountain centen-
NAL, the editor of this paper found in his
scrap box the other day a long forgotten
relic of Tarleton being a button from the
uniform of his famous troup. 1t was said
TO have been cut from the coat of one of the
party who pursued Mai. Joseph Graham to
Sugar Creek, and shot him of from his
horse. The button is O. brass, o. bronze,
about the size of a copper penny.
Mr.. Chas. ID. Crawford is Local Editor
of the Salisbury Daily Denocrot. He says
Robinson's circus gave up it's night exhibit
ton at that place, and that public opinion
greatly divided as to the merits of the show.
Senator Vance attended. And several fights
OCcuTT6u d udIhcy SttllUS Ills ear CUeNGu
off. DIR. Theo. f. kluttz reports that large
number of Republicans in the mountains
will vote Hancock.
The strange sad vicissitude of losing a
child at the beginning and the end of a
week,-the daughter by marriage.-tbe son
by DEATH occurred to Mr.. Theo. X. Fen
tress last week. The son. aged %, died of
typhoid fever, on Friday evening. He was
a young man of many excellent traits, and
his funeral from the NJ. +. Church on Sun
day was attended by a very large assemb
lage. The brass band and fire companies
turned out.
An old gentleman, a large landowner,
says that the best workers ever in the South
are the non-poiitical negroes, who own, or
have leased. 10. Is, or 20 acres land. They
make their little patches produce double its
former product: and their trade keeps up
the country stores. He thinks, and others
agree with him, tat In twenty years the
negroes will own half the land in North
Carolina provided Northern immigrants do
not come in, and crowd them out.
Thanks to VIM. Alderman, Esq, for a
card to the 18th Annual Fair of Cumber-
land Agricultural Society, at Fayetteville,
Nov. l6th-l9th inclusive. j. A. Worth,
President; \. A. Mcclellan Gen'l Supt.
With a fine region to represent, this Fair
ought to be a good thing, and we trust the
many readers of the Farmer md Mechanic
land, will give their best efforts for its sue
cess.
There was "a singular parade at the
National Sheep Show, in Philadelphia last
week. Nine hundred of the City Butchers.
all on horses, and dressed in long white
blouses, with black pants, stove pipe hats.
silk and gold badges, long blue sashes. and
each horseman with "a big boauet
of flowers in his hand. paraded the
street, accompanied by six bauds of
music. Between the carriages there
was a cart with d pyramid of horns,
another with a calf and a sheep. another
with a sausage machine and still another
with cases of lard, representing the various
interests which form a portion of the trade.
An interesting feature of the parade was the
presence of a large number of boys the
butchers of the future, who, like their sires,
were mounted on pranclng steeds.
In the list OF Legislative nominees, two
things are noticeable, lst, that nearly one
half are old confederate officers PM, that
nearly one half are new men, that is,
new In the Legislature. This will enable
such ready debaters as Van v. Richardson,
John n. Staples. G.. Z. Parish, JAS. T..
Legrand, Theo. F. Davidson, Armstead
Burwell and others In the Senate, and Chas.
NJ. Cooke, John Manning, f. L. Vaughan.
Melvin +. Carter, Geo. NJ. Rose, Jas. A..
Leak. Col. Sam Tate, others, in the House,
10 take very prominent position before the
public. 1t is easy 10 see. however, that
among the new members are some of the
best material in the State. Such men as
Jas. :. Battle. Frank Brown. Jacob A Long,
Alexander G.. Neal. j. + Murrill, Thomas
Sparrow, Lewis G. Hanes, Jasper Stowe,
and twenty others we could name, if space
allowed. cannot long remain unheard from.