The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-17

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Big picnic at Stephenson's pond on
Saturday.
Mrs. w. B. Bogart, of Greensboro, is
dead.
Macon College to-day. Rev. DIR. Moses u.
Hoge will reach nome next week.
Bingham College! that is what it will
be called within a few years. La number OF
students it eads the University this year.
Glad to have a pleasant chat with Prof.
Redd. recently of the University. Not from
him, but from many sources, We hear regret
at his withdrawal and the accompanying
discOrd.
Bro. Boylin, of the Monroe Erpress.
would be glad to see Col. r. L. Bennett, Of
Arson, at the head of the State ticket If
things do not work smoothly in the conven-
ton.
The FARMER N MECHANIC office is
over @ ausman's store, two doors above
Simpsons drugstore. Latch-string always
out, and a welcome for our friends, patrons,
and visiting guests-always within.
Bro. Evans. of the Chronicle, doesn't
ike ANYTHING fshy. Speaking of the Chi
cago nominees he saith: well we'll take
FIELD, but none of the Gar for US, if you
please.
Donaldson, of Idaho, is reversing his
ideas of negro suffrage. He remarks that
Southern darkeys sold for more money at
Chicago last week than they ever brought
in the a my days of slavery
Mr.. J. c.. jenkins. who read law in
Raleigh last Spring, has won a $40 prize
for the best Essay at Columbia College Law
School. We thought he had gone of to
get married. But such is life.
Wake Forest College is fourishing.
The Bursar's report shows that after pay
ing all expenses, Including some unusual
ones. the sum of $450.CO remains i'll the
treasury. Few schoo 5 do SO we'll.
1t seems we were wrong about the
Star. At all events the paper resumed It's
visits a few days ago, and we were heartily
glad to see it. For as a daily newspaper, com
plete in all departments, 1t has no superior
we had nearly written 10 eluaD-ln the
State.
In former times newly married couples
nearly always vent to Niagara to cool of
Turing the hot months. Now they honey
moon it at Saratoga. 1t was often found, we
believe, that the roar of the falls often kept
folks awake at night, and threw a dampel
over sentimental soft-sawder by day.
Mai. A. NJ. Lewis and Geo. II. Snow,
ESQ, ale authorized by the Wilkes county
convention to cast the vote of that county
Cor Fowle, Robinson, Tyre-Iork and w. 7,
Caldwell, for Governor, secretary OF State
and Attorney, IN case none OF the delegates
attend.
All aboard for Charleston! This is the
cry that the good people of Wadesboro ex
pect to hear within a fortnight or SO. The
work is being done in the most substantial
manner, and the track going down day by
DAY. So says the Herald. And now lie
Raleigh cotton buyers mind their eye.
BY expiration of his lease, Mr.. F
Brevard Mcdowell retires from the Char
l0tte Southern Home, and from journalism
The paper goes on under the control of ID
Harvey Hill, Jr., son of Gen. d. III. Hill
the owner. Our young friend, Harvey
has Just graduated from Davidson College
where he stood high, and was Captain o
the college military company, His frs
number shows knowledge of the work ; an,
we feel sur he will do well.
The sudden taking away of a mothe
from a family of young children is perhap
the saddest of all visitations of the Dreao
Archer. But by common remark an in
stance of far more than ordinary afhictiol
was that which on Thursday, last deprive
the household Of Col. Edward Graham
Haywood of it's estimable mother. Mrs
Haywood was a daughter of Louis D
Henry, from whom, and from her mother
she inherited many gifts and graces whic
go to make up a superior woman. TIL
funeral services on Saturday evening wer
attended by an unusual concourse of friend
and relatives and general sympathy wit
the bereayed family is expressed.