The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-11-25

.sEminent men of North Carolina:
ready for the printer. He is quite unwel
personally.
We are pleased to learn that the for
tunes of the South atlantic, Mrs. Cicero W,
Harris magazine, are much improved by
the transfer to Baltimore.
Tobacco sold in Henderson last week,
the Warren Ne,rs states, at only eight dollars
for a pound. In silver, the cash would out
weigh the weed.
Hopping the matrimonial twig, and
t-seeingi it we'll DONE appears TO be the onlv
prospect of amusement for the winter, in
the States Social Almanac.
Their name is Legion''-the aspi-
rants for Legislative clerkships. But we
will wager a green dried apple against a
frozen ~persimmon that the lucky ones will
be those who generally are.
Maj. John w. Moore has now in press
(Messrs. Edwards, Broughton & Co, OF
this city, publishers a novel entitled the
Heirs of st. KIda," a Southern story of
quarto and be gotten out in good style.
Some one prints in Edenton Clarion,
an advertisement to run six months, as fol-
lows-''Projected Railroad from Raleigh to
Plymouth. Five hours schedule time.
Way stations: Capeheart, GAINESVILLE, Will
liamston, Jacksonville, Bethel. Tarboro.
Sharpsburg, Nashville, and Gold Hill, etc.
Trains to connect with the Sound Steamers
for Edenton, ETC." We doubt not its com
ing one of these days.
Joe Brown, the man who divides with
A. II. Stephens the dishonor of playing
mar plot in the extreme hour of his coun
try's extremity. has been elected to the T..
8. Senate by Republican and Democratic
votes, 10 Georgia. 1t is said he is under
pledges to the Radicals but his friends
deny it, and we suppose it is not true.
At all events it is we'll known that
As a poor man be would have had no sort
Of show.
Capt. J.. w. Thackston, formerly of
Milton, he's taken apartments in Raleigh,
as General Agent, for the South-Atlantic
States. of D. Appleton & Cos mammoth
Book Publishing House. He has held the
position for several years, bnt with head
quarters at other points. An intelligent
and energetic gentleman, he will doubtless
conduct the affairs Of his house with dill
gence and discretion. The Appleton's are
Democrats, and they publish a large proper
ton of works by Southern writer's, in
Guiding those of Miss Fisher. of our W
State.
-1Hc weather UurUeu COlU anu wei last
week, and Whitaker, the wood man, pop
ped his prices to 81. 90 per cord for mixed,
pine and oak. Strange that some one does
not make a specially of the wood business.
There are ten millions Of cords that can be
laid down in Raleigh at 81. so per cord in
the railroadic dull season. An immense
pen, enclosed by high plank fence, near the
railway, would store 20, 900 cords which
could be cut, and retailed at 1915, or
S. 90 at the worst, with a clear profit of 80
cents per cord to the dealer. The Charlotte
papers are complaining of wood at So. SO and
$2.CO per cord.
Wealth is beginning to make itself felt
at the South. We all sheer at the Yankee
shoddy-crats who fattened On the war and
then used their ll-gotten riches to buy pc
litical and social position for which they are
untitled by nature and education. But hu
man weakness, vanity, self-conceit, and cor
ruptlOn belong to no particular latitude OF
longitude. And there is little reason to
doubt that within the coming decade, yea
In less than two Presidential terms-we shall
witness that, in the South, that which ought
to sicken the heart ~ofevery high-minded low
er of his section, but which we shall all 10
time learn to accept as quite a matter OF
course.
Our townsman, Fabius Haywood Bus
bee, ESQ, is small. but good looking; short
in stature, but high up in statistics of popu
larity. By the official figures he stands "A
No. l." at the head Of the Hancock Flee
tors, having received Ala votes more than
Gen. James Madison Leach, the next high
est. Busbee's majority over Oliver Dock
cry, the Republican top-knot, is SIS.
The figures are: B.. 124,204 d. lis, Gle.
The Greenbackers poIled 1,134 votes.
Blow-your- horn William received II, $40
votes; and John w. Hardin, 10. O95. But
as they weren't running for anything, nor
%anybodv's electors, the impression prevails
that either the ballot box got drunk in some
localities, or that Rip Van Wrinkle has been
taking another seven years Tar Hollow
nap, and thought the old 1872 ticket still in
the field.
1t seems to have been generally over
looked that the late Presidential election
was decided by the darkeys. Ever since the
war, swarms of negroes have been crossing
Mason's & Dixon's line in search of easy en-
pigments, as BARRIERS, boot blacks, hotel
walters, etc; and while not missed from any
one locality the general decrease of the
blacks is noticeable I'll over the South. not
outstanding the natural increase which is
SO marked in the whites, and should he
greater among the prolific blacks. Here
may be seen one cause of Southern solid
NJT ohu oN II CailS tIhhS II val aus "
Garfield election 1t is now known that
Hancock polled many thousands more votes
in New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana,
than Tilden; yet We lost all these States.
1t is now known that in Pennsylvania 49,
364 negro votes were cast. Take these out
Of the Republican column and the State
would go Democr .tic. Indiana has near
10, 900 negroes. Subtract these, or even
the half of them, from Garfield's side. and
the Hancock ticket would lead BY several
thousand. As for New York it is undoubt-
ed that there are more than 20, 200 Gar
fields majority negroes in New York City
alone. Thus we see three great States with
a Democratic white majority turned and
held year after year by an army of ragmufin
immigrants who receive no sort of political
or social recognition from the party, or the
individuals for whose sake they vote early
and often" Let us remember these things.
therefore, and refrain from .imprecating our
Northern Democratic friends; since they
have not only stood firm, but largely added
to the Tilden vote of four years ago. I'm
fortunately, unlike the Republicans, they
have not the means of importing thousands