The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-01
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-Messrs. Carpenter & Latham. OF
the Ne,rJernian, nominate Col. John
y. Staples for Governor IN 1884.
Wake county will make ha.fa crop
Of cotton. and some sections VIII so
nearly two thirds.
franklin county sent in couple OF
bales of new cotton OIL Friday, raised
by Mr.. w. II. Joyner, and consigned
10 Nr. j. d. Joynsr
The Raleigh Liquor Dealers have
. issued d call for a meeting OF llquoi
men and Distiller> in Raleigh, on W ed
uesday of Fair week, TO organize a State
Association.
The vote of North Carolina in ISSC
wa. 237.4l7. and Gov Jarvis had 6,237
majority. The vote in 1881 VS. 2ll
I 746. and Anti Prohibition has li>,ooI
maj.
Acknowledgements to Ma. l.. NJ,
Long for Entrance Ticket TO Weldon
Fair. Oct. 3lst-Noy. 4th inclusive.
This fair is becoming secsni only TO the
State Fair.
A meeting of Directors Of Rocky
Mount and Tarboro Railroad will as
semble in Raleigh, Sept. 10. We SUP
pose the Raleigh aud Tarboro Road vii
then receive a boom. 1t is needed.
Col. John n. Whitford has gotten
UP a reunion OF the old 9th y. c., at
Morehead. Sept. :, with an excursion
from Gold5bero to that point the pro
ceeds TO 60 to Oxford Orphanage.
Thanks to Messrs. Il. II. Bradley,
w. G. McMackin. and A. NJ. Powell,
committee. for an invitation to the
Grand Lodge Banquet. By some pc
cuIiarity, possibly Post Official, it ar
rived after the Feast"
-Messrs. Walter Jetfreys, John
Robinson, John Dunn, aud severa
other prosperous Neuse river farmers
are at Beaufort en- a fishing frolic. Geo
W. Norwood, Esq, and son returned
to-day from the Virginia Springs.
TO Hon. JOS. J Davis we make &C
knowledgements for a couple of I. 5.
Special Reports, n on the Culture
land MANUFACTURED Of the Sugar Beet
the other on Cotton Insects" Both
are Of real value to persons interested.
The grand excursion to Norehead
did not come off. \ number of gentle
men and ladies left Raleigh by the reg
ular train; but there was no excursion
rate; Col. Andrews and Mr. Best being
disjointed at Goidsboro, SO to speak.
There are probably five hundred
daily papers which will have to lay
aside their long obituary If Pre,iaen;
Garfield" until q more suitable season.
Many of them have had the article in
type for a month past but the subject
proves contrary.
Ten dollars reward for information
sufficient to convict the thief who stole
a letter mailed to the Former and lie
chan,c, by Mr. r. +. Jones, of Colds
boro, enclosing five dollars. Address,
in confidence if desired, the editor OF
this paper, or call at office any day be
tween 10 and >.
AT the famous Fulton Street
Prayer Meeting which began before
the war, and has been continued every
day for "A years, a Baptist preacher
from North Carolina asked the pray
ers of the day that he might be return
ed TO his people with increased power
for Good.
Flour, meal, lard, etc, have in
creased in price, by retail, Is to 20 per
cent. Sacks of -four jumped IS cents
in three days. Corn meal jumped from
10 to Sl.10 In less than a week. Il Is
unreasonable Everybody knows there
has been no real reason for popping UP
the tariff in this style. We should
have no objection to seeing one or two
of those Western spectators who got
up the recent panic In breadstufs,'
helped to the top of q tree by means of
a neck-rope. They have no right to
stuff their pockets with millions wrung
from the starving stomachs Of the poor
Pleased to have call. from numer
Gus friends during the week. Col.
Thos. Webb, and Capt. Jos. ID. Myers,
came In with the red badge of the
Knights of Honor on their lsppcls
Good and true men, both of them
Hillsboro and Washington are we'll rep
resented by them. Myers is an old and
tried friend, and Mr.. II. B. Duffy. one
of the intelligent young business men OF
Newbern is an old friend. though you'll
tul in years. Oh these summer trips
by the Raleigh girls. They alway.
bring profit to the Railroads bef5e
Christmas
"A good thing for Raleigh. Char
lOtte, Fayetteville, and Greensboro
The sale of Mr. Lawrence Haughton'
coal mine, elsewhere mentioned. The
new owners are from Pottsvillc, Penn
sylvanla, where coal-mining is the stud,
of mems lives. They have plenty o.
capital, and have ordered machinery tc
at once develope their mines to the full
est extent. We understand the coal
seam averages from 5 to 2 feet in thick
ness, and a good article. The sale ha.
aroused interest in other mines I'm Chat
ham and Moore; SO that we may rea
sonably u on having an ~abundanc,
of coal next year, If lot this winter, a
about 81 per ton. Cheaper coal shoul,
give cheaper gas. Cheap fuel and ligh
should remove the last drawback t,
Raleigh as a manufacturing town.
Two Girls of the Period, at t.,
North are nov throbbing with del;rh
at the consciousness of having made ;
sensation, ana gotten their names In tn,
papers. One Of them a rich Califorui;
gIll caned a one legged British officer Il
the porch of a West Point Hotel be-
cause he remarked that in England nc
decent girl would be seen Distributing
German fayors" in a public Bal
Room. The report indicates that the
grl had rather set her cap at the cap.
tam, who Wore Il number of badge.
given him for gallantry on his coat
lapel; but that she was not eGcour.
aged.
The other fast" one ran away and
married one OF the "niggers' in Bun