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

We go to press at sunrise edneSdav.
Three cases of sunstroke this week.
Good humor prevails on all hsnds.
Sleeping quarters seem destined TO be
scanty for the demand
Judge Barnes. and Capt. J. @. VI oorc,
of Hartford came on Monday night.
Gen. Clingman. Col. Walter l.. Steele,
and many notabilities are here present.
As we 90 to press above 100 delegates
have arrived, and many hundred visitors.
Bros. Ward, Biggs, Amis, London, and
perhaps others of the Fourth Estate
already arrived as we go to press. Glad to
see them, one and all.
The Greensboro Patriot, and the Char
lotte Observer, which have been for Gen.
Scales now say his name will not be pressed
in the Convention.
Special train, with delegates from Bur
ham convention came down Tuesday night.
Judge John A. Gilmer was renominated on
the 7th ballot. Hays, Manning and Ruthn
ran we'll. All ended tremendously.
A serious charge against Judge Fowle-
and one that has been entirely over looked
is that when a boy, five years old, he did
| steal a watermelon! But as Gov. Jarvis
and most others of the great statesmen did
nkoW Use, we III Simply give IL lOI WudU us
worth -Murfreesboro Enquirer.
The second Presbyterian church was
| opened for worship on Sunday, and the
larye audiences were free in praise Of the
n~eatness and beauty Of the edifce. The
pastor, Rev. DIR. Atkinson, took occasion
to acknowledge the catholic generosity Of
the contributors of ali denominations who
had made this second church a possibility
and a fact.
Alas. for politics! Here is Judge
Fowle deeming it necessary to gravely deny
| that be ever said the time would come when
a Confederate soldier would be ashamed to
confess he had worn the grey! Well, what
next? The first time we ever heard of
Judge Fowle was in connection with a
Memorial Address. The first speech, land
the second), we heard him make was full OF
honoring illusions to the Lost Cause J.
And-but what is the use of saying more
Judge Ruffin as attorney for one of the
Bond holders in the Sway matter moved
in the Federal Court for an order to sell
the States stock in the North Carolina
Railroad to pay defaulted interest. The
court thought that such an order if now ex-
ecuted would iniure the interest Of other
parties: but intimated that a similar appii-
cation in 1885, might meet with success.
Judge Marshall, Mr.. Dortch, and Mr.. Bat
tie opposed the order. r
-Allusion is elsewhere made to the fact
that Judge FowIe was one of the volunteer
counsel in the "Ku KluX cases before Je :
frevs Bond. in 1871. The fearless eloquence
Of his speech on that occasion made him
SO obnoxious to Bond and Brooks that for
several years they would not speak to him.
The editor of this paper can never forget
the manly etforSs, day after day, without
money and without price. Of the ''prison-
er's counsel, Thomas Bragg, Daniel G..
Fowle. Geo. Y. Strong, and hos. G. Full
Ter.
Justices Ashe and Dillard have ta1ef
rooms at Mrs. Montgomery hotel, on
Hillsboro street. Mr.. and Mrs. $. A
Brewer have taken rooms at the National.
Mrs. W. II. Pace has returned from Old
Point. Mrs. Z. NJ. Hale gone to house
| keeping. Capt. J. ]. Thomas has a fne
new turnout. Col. B. b. Lewis, Of Geor-
; gia, was expected to arrive yesterday.
MAJ. \. NJ. Lewis is again able to come
down town. Mr.. Ludlow, father OF Mrs
Dr.. Skinner. is dead.
: -Chas W. jerks has an article in the
New York South on North Carolina corun
: dun. The editor of the FARMER AND Me
, CHANIc claims the credit of first bringing
E this valuable article to the notice of North
ern dealers. In lo67, being then a residen'
Of Rutherford county, and learning tina
Capt. Joe Mills was finding many small
; crystals of corundum III his Brindletow1
placer mines. we wrote to a number o
! prominent manufacturers among others
to Jackson 4 Sharp, car builders, at VII
: mington, Del. The result was that j. Nor
ton Poole & Co., of that city, sent out
young mineralogist, a son Of the leading
5 partner. The writer escorted him to severa
localitipS. and sent him through McDOweI
r to Buncombe. and other counties. Tn,
writer also published an article in his paper
a the Western indicator, specifying thu
scarcity, the value, the appearance, ETC., o
the mineral which, he said, would undoubt
0 eddy be found in large quantities somewher
), in North Carolina, and prove "a rich find
e to the discoverer. About this time, Gen
u T. L. Clingman, who had long been on th'
lookout for valuable minerals, set out on