The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-05

months, IS; one year slo.
1t is pretty steep to have your
postage bill raised S2.l6 on the month.
Gen. John C. German has been APP
pointed route agent between Raleigh
AMI Norfolk, vice w. w. Wynne, Esq.
resigned.
-Rev. II S. Abernathy's College at
Happy Home, Burke county, has 200
students, about half of whom are girls.
Senator Merrimon will deliver the Com
mencement address, May 9th.
1t speaks vel for the prohibition
convention, that last Thursday our
streets were fairly brilliant with gally
dressed ladies. They rarely venture out
when there is a big Political Conyen-
tion.
The telegraph has reached Wash.
%ington, y. c., going from the Railroad
at Tarboro to Greenville, thence to
Pactolus, thence to Washington, open
ing communication with a wide scope
of country, whose isolation from Raleigh
was wildly realized some time ago
when public interest in Gen. Grimes
tragic death was at his helgth.
A straw of encouragement for the
Prohibitionists. Jolly Col. Carroway,
travelling correspondent ofthe Observer,
tells of a race at klnston, between
''Loger Beer" entered by Joe Lassiter,
and 'Froh,Jttion" entered by Dempsey
Wood. Lager got half a mile start,
but Prohibition numbered himself and
won the election by a large majority.
We have a copy of the Gardtner's
Monthly, edited by Thomas Mehan,
Esq, ol4 Chestnut St, Philadelphia.
1t is an excellent periodical for Hortl-
culturists, and gardinees: We note an
a%llusion to the writings Of 1.-The dlstin
guished North Carolina Poetess, Mrs.
Mary Bayard Clarke.
Rev. DIR. Chapman's school, at
Goldsboro, has completed its corps OF
instructors by securing an excellent
Musical Director, Prof. De La Croix, of
Paris, who, to a splendid baritone voice,
adds thorough knowledge of, and fond
ness for, the science OF sweet sounds.
Mrs. Chapman accomplishments, and
thirty years experience, commend them
selves without words, but we know no
u1OIC tctotV I"ttHo t'Ahtb0 III
structor in the State; and that ought
to be suggestive to parents having
daughters whom they desire to thor
oughly educate,
sA~Time is flying! If you wish to
take advantage of our offer of half-inch,
advertisement from now until January
/, 1882, for only s. cash, you should
not lose a day in sending it in. Re
member that the Farmer and Mechan-
&c is read by the very best land best
paying) classes Of our people, both In
the town, and in the country. There
is not a School, or Factory, or Foun
dry, or General Agency, or Summer
Resort, or Wholesale Dealer, or Pro
.tes,ionol Practitioner, in North Caro-
lima, that will not derive positive profit
from a card, standing ten months in a
paper which goes to every nook and
corner of the State, and has half a doz
en- readers for every one of its subscri-
bers.
Fifty cents a month for ten months
Why, of course it will pay you!
1t has been a pleasure to meet
many friends from various sections of
the State during the past week.
Among them, our journalistic brethren.
W. e. Wolfe, of the Monroe Enquirer,
Capt. Woodhouse, of the Register, Mr..
Mclaughlin, Of the Salisbury ProhtJi
ZIONIST, Capt. I'll. B. Adams, and j. J.
Nann, Esq, of Monroe, Mr.. Jonas c.
Williams, Of Warren, Rev. Samuel
Caldwell Alexander, of Arson, VIM.
Wallace White, Esq, of Granville, w.
IL. Worth, Of Kinston, Mr.. Thompson,
of Reidsville, Hon. A. II. Merritt, OF
Chatham, DIR. Geo. c. Newly, of Sand
ford, Capt. S. S. Alternately, Mr..
Richardson, of Nash, Messrs. Watt.
Green: Temple, Lloyd, DR.. Peace, ct al,
Of Wake.
Many persons in arguing against
the insanity of Dejarnette ask why he
did not Kill his sisters seducer, instead
of herself? They overlook the fact
that : have done as they suggest
would have been far more sane and
rational than to do as he did do, name
ly ire three shots into The breast of a
beloved sister for whom he had been
giving up his earnings, even selling his
watch to pay for her education. We
do not believe that Dejarnette was in
sane to the extent of irresponsibility.
but We think he inherited sufficient
lack of moral balance to save him from
the gallows. But he should be locked
up for life.
-PhilanthrOpic observers find many
noteworthy occurrences recorded in the
press now -a-days. but perhaps nothing
can compare with the prevalence of exo
traordinary casualties. Last week at
kanzas city a man stood upon a second
story balcony watching the flood of water
rising around the streets. Apparently
he was safe as the man in the moon
Whereas a moment later he was a life'ess
corpsel a large steamboat broke loose,
shot down the current, and came crash
Ing against the balcony crushing him in
an Instant Another instance was on
Long Island. Some IL en- were shooting
birds in an old field. The explosion OF
their guns exploded a nitro glycerine
factory several hundred yard distant,
and blew down all the buildings within
half a mile, MORALLY wOundlng one o,
two persons. IL Brooklyn a building
burned: the inmates escaping by iump
ing from the third story windows. One
man made that fearful leap in safety.
then ran into the stable when a spark
fired the straw behind him. He scream
ed and howled, and the firemen tried to
tear off the boards, but he burned to
death.
AT Elgin, Ill.,, the town is divided by
a small ST. eam. A freshet washed away
the bridge, SO a ferry boat was used.
1t answered YER well, and for a w.,k
was crowded with children going and
returning from the public schools. Sud