The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-30

Tor SiD cash. n IcdL Ddl
DIR. Grissoms report on the De
.Jarnette case is much compllmented
by the Wilmington papers.
-N.ssrs. b. +. Long * Co, on
whose premises the Warrent"n ne
started. have made an assignment ana
the oil North State Insurance Compa-
ny has stopped business.
Mr.. Th)s Ba>hford, and Mrs. Har
riet BrimIey, the latter an English lady
of half a years residence, IN Wake
tv, died last week.
Wake Superior court opened on
Monday, Judge Shipp on the bench. ,.
NJ. Parish foreman of Grand jury.
Trial of Dick Morgan for murder set
for July 9Th.
Secretary Folks Premium Lists for
the State Fair are ready. Send Tor one,
and let us all join in getting up Il splen-
did exhibition. There is every reason
TO believe it will be a delightful occa-
sion.
The comet is said 10y the scientists
to be sixty million miles distant from
the sun, and twenty nine millions from
the earth. 1t may therefore flop Its
tale and be hanged to it. We Amt
scared a bit.
People who live uptown have no
idea how early the day begins down
town, and closes. The sidewalks as IA
general thing are silent only between
the hours of l.3O u. III. and ) 30 Il. III.
The blackberry crop is reported a
failure in some sections, but the editor
of the Edenton CIarion last week made
all hasty pie by merely dropping his
form" Sorry, Brother; but don't
get 'crustyH
So far as is visible to the naked
eye. Mr.. w. }. Best is really in earnest
this time. Three corps OF engineers
started on Monday to survey the cen
tral trunk from Salisbury to Raleigh
or Goldsboro. Col. j. b. Yates is in
command in the field. \ sol of DR.
Haywood is with one Of the parties.
Secretary John L. Patrick is work
ing up an interest in Dixie Floral Fair,
July 20 and DIST at Wadesboro, \. &.
Ladies and children will be entitled to
free admittance by sending some article
to be placed on exhibition. This must
be done by July Zutn.
Take it Right out. Take out that
little advertisement about my cotton
gin which you inserted week before last.
1t wjU break me up, Paying postage on
dnStCers to letters IF inquiry, writes
Capt. c. w. +. OF KittrelIs. You see
what kind of a scrape, folks get into
by advertising in the Farmer and Ne
chdnic!
A number of young gentlemen,
clerks at fuckers store, were taking a
gallop on Sunday morning, when one
of the horses slipped and fell; throw
ing his rider, Mr.. w. I. MCGEE, and dis
locating or fracturing his collar bone.
He was conveyed to the residence of
Col. S. =. Horton and lay unconscious
for some time. But is now thought to
be only slightly hurt.
The Commissioners after in
speeding the w. y. G. II. Il. decided to
give Mr.. Best. Tor his assignees) until
Nov. lst to complete the road.
The trip must have been dreadfully
fatiguing. Gov Jarvis FASTENED to the
breezes of Beaufort and Gov. Vance
will take a two weeks cool off in the
neiehborhood of Blowing Rock"
Watauga.
Henry Field has contracted to have
the new boys building at Oxford Or
phanage ready for occupation by Nov.
LIST. Supt. Mills says: the corner stone
will be laid by the Grand Lodge Oh the
9th of July. Capt. Williams, Presi
dent of o. & II. K. r., says he expects
~ hn npn N ,o, o,,o- L., ~ l.
fore that time, and will take all persons
visiting the Asylum that day from Hen
derson to Oxford and return for fifty
cents each.
Thanks to Hon. VIM. r. Cox for
copies of the Congressional Directory
for 1881 ; and for other documents.
The General is i'll excellent health, and
spirits, and regards the political and
material prospects ofthe country as ex
ceedlngly promising.
How about Prohibition - well,
really 1t Is surprising how much is said
for both sides. But, as you know. |
start West in a few weeks to attend the
meeting of Trustees of the University
of the South, and shall have to miss a
good deal of the campaign
The comet has stirred up the As
tronomers who not only failed to predict
its coming. but also failed to see it, not
outstanding their powerful glasses,
until half an hundred dispatches from
all parts of the land announced its ap-
pearance. Warner Observatory allows
5000 to every d~iscoverer of a comet a:
consequently there is quite a dispute
over this one.
The Banner, a paper printed in
Raleigh by John Ill. Williamson, a
colored Republican of note SAYS (.June
20 According to the action of the
Republican Executive Committee all
Republicans who shall disobey their
orders and vote for Prohibition. is t.
he read out of the Republican party.
If this be so the party will have to take
the State from the mountains to the
sea shore to find decent men enough
to run on the Republican ticket in
lsS2."
The Erenjng VISITOR reports tina,
Dr.. Willis Aston, of Littleton wo1
$40 600 in L lottery; and that =. N
Whitehurst, a Brunswick county teach
er died at Chapel Hill; and that b
Lewis, Jr. is back from the North: as,
NJ. ). Scarborough has u chicken viii
one leg, and that II Z. Strong has CON
to M~asonborO sound and that pb9ni
Good Templars will hold a Lawn part
at the Governors palace to-nieht: an
that Mrs. DIR. Skinner is very i'll y
Asheville, and that VIM. Woolcot
and family have gone to Red Banks
New Jersey for the summer; and tina
Sarah Swami, colored, Was Jailed ia
drawing her infant at LockviIle