The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-01

Greensboro and Tarboro show above
$500 Inhabitants each.
The singing of Miss Lulu Felt, in the
Baptist choir, has many admirers.
Judge Nickoy hac been commissioned
to ho'1 u i eclal term OF Rowan Superior
Court. Aug. 9th.
Mai Jchn ". Moore will return to his
home III llerttord next week having com
pleted his historical work. He will be
missed by many warm friends here.
Talking the census proved a delusion
and "a >nale 10 many Of the Brethren. They
toW Il that instead of being a soft thing
1t Was the hardest kind of hard work.
DoZeil> OF enunIerators resigned in a dav or
two
1t Is safe to wager that Gen. Grant does
not say Let Us have Peace" now-a-days.
anymore, very seldom, hardly, Unless it
be ID piece OF his mind" and that he is said
TO privately give away to Garfield.
Not as puff nor at their sugges-
ton, but from a desire to see a thoroughly
reliable house extend it's trade in North
Caroilna we invite attention to the adver-
tisenent vi Talbot Son, Richmond, Va.
There was no foundation for the repor-
ted riot IN Tarboro, nor the reported duel
between IA. {. Jones and J.. f. Moore.
a prettler story was never manufactured out
OF small cues.
We regret to learn that Capt. W. B.
hendrick, so widely known as the general
Southern Agent of the University Publish
ing Company, had the misfortune to lose a
bright and attractive child during his recent
absence in Alabama.
The Greensboro Patriot mentions that
two car loads of New Orleans fashionable
folk passed Northward, en- route for Sara
toga. Robt. j.. Mebane, a student of Da-
wilson College. from Greensboro, was
drowned in d mill pond near the college.
Mrs. FL. G. Dick is dead. Miss B. G.. Wood
l s organizing d class in elocution.
Mrs. Bishop Lyman and Mrs. Dr.. Skin
ner, OF this city. have the distinction of add
ing to personal graces and accomplishments.
a larger amount of earthly possessions than
any other ~clergymen's wives in the ST ate,
and perhaps the South. Mrs. Skinner has
recently inherited several hundred thous-
ands OF dsllars by the death of her father.
MIR. Ludlow of New York.
Excursion trains will be run TO the Dix
lie Floral Fair, at Wadesboro, July 2sth and
29th; and extensive arrangements are being
made by President Robinson and Secretary
Patrick, to insure a success. Persons de-
string to rent rooms. furnished or %unfurn-
ished, with or without table board should
address Capt. John L. Patrick at Wades-
boro.
-Ihere Is no greater humbug than the
usual motion to make a nomination '.unan.
lmous.' 1t is in effect a piece of hypocrisy
An acted lie; because no matter what
the mover OF the resolution may feel, it is
not one time IN a thousand that the entire
minority cheertully hurrah for the majority.
1t Is rarely that any opposes the motion to
make unanimous ;" but in this secret
hearts of the multitude there is ANYTHING
but "unanlmity.'
1t is to a source of exceeding regret that
we cannot be present with our Brethren of
the Press Association at Asheyille this
week: FROM our knowledge of the good peo-
pie OF the mountain metropolis we doubt
not they will make each individual editor
forget tor the time that he ever was person
ally pestered by the Devil or persecu-
ted by the De- lis private Plenipotenti; ry,
the "Oun;;' or ever lost time and temper Ia
bootless endeavor to out Brass We una.
Dashed Book-Drummer; or ever suffered
from poverty of tissue in the Pocket or
gan; In short will make each individual
newspaper man have a good time for a cou-
pie OF days and nothing would gratify us
more than to meet our brother Quill-men,
few OF whom ever known personally. But
alas Duty, and the Deficiency Bill, forbid