The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-02-05

PERsoNAL.-The Goldsboro Nni7 says
''If DR.. LedOux's place is to he filled at all
We suggest that Prof. Redd, Of the Universe
tv. be appointed THE New Bcrne DEM
Ocrnt is excessively severe upon Senator
Ransom, who. it says. 'has drawn his saia
ry, and nothing more" Capt. Latham con-
tinues. las we swim among whales. North
Carolina has but one GROWING glory per So.
one statesman, who stands a head and
shoulders above them all, one bright shin
ing light. one jewel, one koobinor, one
Augustus S. MerrimoE. North Carolina has
honrrei Ransom long enough. We con-
strue. that the people of North Carolina
want a Senator less given to oyatory and
more to work. We want a MerEimon and
not a Ransom."-By the by, Senator
Vance is pressing a resolution for the lesto.-
alton of the North Carolina 'Letter-Book,'
stolen from the Governors office 10y oher-
mans Bummers, and held for fourteen
years. (''The receiver, says IT, law, is as
bad as the thiefr') Ivy the Yankee Govern
ment. Al they could do the Government
no good, and as their detention works in
jury to the State. and to individuals, the
tact that such a resolution is necessary should
reflect disgrace on the Washington authori-
ties "A Nortlern mining expert, who
has been operating in North Carolina for
some time, told the Reidsville Times, in
casual conversation, that Gen. r. F..
Hoke Cranberry Iron property is paying
we'll. II believe, sir'-he said. if Gen.
Huke lives twenty years longer he will he
the richest man in the South. He has a pro-
position t. furnish iron for an elevated
railway in New York. and if he does 1t,
that of itself will pay him handsomely"
IF l may be permitted to say it, you people
are wonderfully blind in not aiken hold and
1vnrlyiur m yOnr min,pr irtorocfS IN fhio
state. Strangers will soon have it from
you. 1t is astonishing that you get up no
sensation over your gold mines. Your state
might be made an FL Dorado
"Why, SIR" lie continued, there is the
Collins mine in Cabarrus county, now [
know Some of the members of hat Com
pany, and their financial and moral stand
ing is of the best in New York they are
all millionaires and in and if such men are
interested in your mining affairs, 1t must
mean business, here's w. Hams President
Of the Dime Saving Bank. Mr.. j. w.
Best, who is a Bank Examiner from the
state of New York and the Bircssll
Brothers. wealthy English gentlemen one OF
the Trust Company. These gentlemen paid
a man twenty five hundred dollars to come
out and Inspect that mine before they took
stock, and go prompt was Mr.. Best to be on
time with the others hat though he had
just broken his leg he suffered himself
to e carried on a stretcher from the town
Of Concord out to Capt. Orchards and it
isn't money he's after, for he has enough Of
that, but enterprise, sir, the love for en-
teiprise. Why your state has as much in
her to n AXE her great and wealthy as the
state of Pennsylvania. DIR. p. A. Holt,
the Cleaner says, dangerously low with
| paralysis In Florida.---COl. John Norheet,
of Tarboro, and w. H. Arlington, of Hall
fax are dead A. j. Rutjes. formerly of
the Exchange Hotel, Raleigh, has leased
Glen Alpine for the ummer.-Capt. E.
S. Holt, member Of the Legislature from
Johnston, and an excellent one gave US a
pleasant call yesterday.