The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-11

car loads of Excurslonlsts from fhlladel
phia and New York passed up the road
towards Asheville on Wednesday morn
ing, said to be on a prospecting tour.
The girls at Beaufort are delighted
with the surf-bathing One OF them
let the cat out Of the bag. She sa5s
the s.Breakers'' steal up around your
waist before YOU know it, and there 5
mighty tight squeeze getting out oil his
reach!
Some editors have got him badly
mixed. The Bishop Ravens who died
last week is not the nasty cir Haven,
who professed to be a = shop OF the
negro church in Georgia, and was self
poisoned by his own malignlty several
months ago.
The loud noise heard about eight
O'Clock on Thursday evening (after the
polls had closed, and the wires began
to click the returns) is now discovered
to have been the roar Of an hundred
thousand pairs Of feet jumping down
off the fence.
The Sunday school of Calvary
church (Rev. DR.. Cheshire's) at Tar
borough have presented "N. Philips, -
the new Episcopal church at Durham,
a beautiful Baptismal Font, construc
ted in New York, for 500 The church
is now complete, and neatly furnished
1t is announced that Conkling will
made a tour of the Southern State
early in October visiting the Atlanta
Cotton Exposition, and other points.
II is alleged by his near friends that he
is bent upon becoming President, and
is not at all discouraged at his prospects
His visit to the South is to do away
with the effect Of bitter stalwart speeches
during late years
sn-The lady who purchased our $6o
New Home Sewing Machine is greatly
pleased Herewith. Now, We have a
$40 machine of the same make -four
drawers, handsomely cased suited tt
any dwellingl; and a splendid, ) drawer,
$50, Singer Machine: and we desire tC
sell one Of them. For the one we vii
take $44 cash; for the other, $50 cash.
If you know any one wishing a machine,
please suggest this.
A note from Col. Polk enclosing q
ticket for the State Fair, anticipates {
very successful and enjoyable occasion
SO mote it be! With good crops, i'm
proved stock and farming implements.
improved prospects in every directions
in every direction, our people are sure
ly better able to hold a grand and usefu
exhibition than at any time since tht
war. Will you help readeri
John W. Daniel, the gifted youns
LAWYER who looks like Edwin Booth
and talks like Romeo and Juliet, ha.
been nominated by the Democrats o
Virginia for Governor. He and Col
VIM. Cameron are talented orators, anC
will make Patrick Henry urn over,
and wonder if it isn't daybreak, before
the campaign closes. In Mississippi
after a long contest, Gen. Featherstone
whom we knew as a gallanG Colonel a.
Balls Bluff, and Maj. Barksdale, an,
Judge Calhoun, men of note, all with
drew in favor of Gen. Robert Lowery
From half a dozen recent ~lllustra
lions hat have figured in the newspa
pers it would be easy to prove that an
man is a fool to marry a woman who ha
an independent income of her own, un-
less she be loving enough to transfe
it all to her husband. No true wifi
should have interests separate from he
husband and no woman with the secre
feeling of pride and independence whic'
a separate income fosters and DEVELOPS
can hope for q lifetime of peaceful dc
mestic union. Sooner of later, Their
will arise difference /; sooner or later th
money will make quarreis, accompanie
by the cutting retort which Stays Love
dead as a door nail! We know, i,
our own knowledge, at least one doze
marriages that have been turned int
mockery and misery by a few thousand
of dollars. Of course it is very commo
for husbands to mis-manage, or squan
der or speculate with, the propert
brought to them by their wives; bu
hal is the fault ofthe latter. Because
no woman, having means to suppol
herself, ought to marry until sh
meets a man whom she can trust to tn
utmost, rely upon fully, and find plea.
ure In placing her person and propert
forever in his control. Any other sol
of marriage is a mere convenience,
little more permanent and solemn tina
the agreement between a rake and h
mistress who keep house together,
Then here is a romantic suit i
progress before the Supreme Court {
New York. Miss Mary Anne Beau
mont Campbell, aged -, was led to tn
altar. three years ago by that gallan
Lothario, Walter Campbell, aged sc
1t was not exactly a case of Love
Young Dream" for according to Mr.,
C's. statement the bridegroom made he
various promises which proved eve
more ple-crusty than is common i
such matters. She says Walter vowe
to her that he had an income of $500
a year whereas twas only $400. Wa
ter, on the other hand, claims to hay
sacrificed his youth and beauty, an
bargained that to make up the inequa
ity of years (66 to her ~ she Shout
pay him $25, 900. Mr.. Campbell say
his wife is worth from 1925, 600 t
$3.50, 900 in money and other propert
In her W right. He declares hat O
the voyage from Europe his wife too
away his scarf pin-in which were tw
stones, q sapphire and a ruby-an
5000 in money; that at keyport sh
took from him a diamond ring wort
$l.I00; that she took his watch an
chain, worth $500, that he was oblige
TO hire an attendant to prevent he
taking other things, and that this a
tendant caught her trying to remoy
clock worth $12 and a shawl worth $le
The present suit is brought to recove
S55,O 00 worth Of bonds which the loy
ing Walter stole out of the tin box j
the Safe Deposit vaults. The Gent
Anne" suspected he would steal EN-
and telegraphed across the ocean to SCI
up the box but Walter managed t
get the bonds, and now claims that sh