The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-10

,NIDTS.
W. have been looking over the
Auditors report and ind some lunny
i,em.. As for example the regularity
Win which big fees are drawn IN the
svep,on case. More anon
-Ae.srs. Inboden q Co., represent
ing the coal and iron company near
Bristol, have made a bid to the o9yer
nor for the purchase Of the Cape rear
and Yadkin Valley Railroad. lhelr
first figure. we're $50, 900 for the States
interest. or stock but this was consld-
cred too low for even a start. 80 better
proposals will or have been made.
Perhaps the most eloquent men
Der of the Confederate Congress was
the Reverend Colonel J. L. VI. Curry,
D. D.. now occupying a Baptist pulpit
IN Richmond. And DR.. Curry is IN
luck. He has been elected General
Agent of the Peabody Fund at a salary
of s., 900 a year and expenses. ANA
there were nineteen other poles poklng
after the persimmon. Oh the power
of eloouence! The daddy who doesn't
train his child to speak-to think stand
ing-to be ready with his tongue
ought to be fed on chips and whet-
stones.
On behalf of North Carolina, we
have to thank,-in addition to those
mentioned last week,-the Murfrees
boro Enquirer, Kinston .Journdi, Greens
boro North Stute, Goldsboro HeS-
senqer, and Chicago Lum6ern,an
for assisting to circulate, wholly,
or in part, our letter on the Resources
of North Carolina" 4 day is coming
when those who dwell where now we
live will refer with wondering amaze
msnt to a by-gone generation who pot
tered and piddled out their lives with
scarcely an effort to develope a country
which God had blessed above all the
countries on the American continent.
-Thos. H. McKoy, Jr., has settled
in Clinton, Sampson county. to open a
branch office of the Mckoys" law
firm, or will settle as soon as his SER
vices in ''bridaling' his friends are over
for this winter. Mir. 1. A. Mont
gomery, of Warrenton, comes to Raj
elgh to go in business. -Mr. Bruce
Wright has taken the Cape Fear Flour
ing Mills, and will hencetorth turn his
attention from the flower OF the taml-
ly'' to a more profitable sort of sweet
biscuit.
Rev. Geo. w. Sanderlin, of La
Grange, gave us a pleasant call last
week. He was formerly pastor of
Franklin Square Baptist church;
but being sent by his physicians
to take a FIVE years vacation has made
quite a success as a progressive farmer.
His articles on upland rice, based upon
practical success, have set a good many
people to thinking. --Wew were also
glad to meet the coed looking young
Sheriff of Orange, John Knox Hughes.
And hat enthusiastic farmer, DR.. j.
+. Newsome, of BERTHE.
Major Jesse J. Yeates draws ten
thousand dollars for his ten OF twenty
days service. OF course, ifhe fairly re
a majority of. the vote. in the
lst District, (and we have no reason to
doubt it,, be is fairly entitled to the
money, and in truth should be paid ten
per cent interest on the time he was
kept out of his dues. But as Mr.. JOS.
Martin has, also, drawn about 50, 900
for the same period, isn't it pretty steep
the taxpayers pockets? For
.tunately for the Democratic party, the .
In Congress first unseated
Hull, of Florida, latter he had enjoyed
a SO, 900 suck at the public pap who is
a Democrat, and seated Bisbee, Repub
lican so that 1t cannot be said Mr..
Yeates was seated to get another vote.
But there is not much doubt that many
a Republican contestant, after March
will make some Democrat march
We despair of North Carolina.
She is too slow. And a little near a.
the Scotch say. Nature has given her
over all of her Southern sis
ters, but she won't take advantage of
Natures gifts. She refuses. or neg
Immigration; though 5-6th of her land
is lying idle. How a she compete
South Carolina who offers three
years exemption from taxes to all new
Or how compete with Texas
when the Lone Star State is spending
hundreds of thousands of dollars In adj
vertising her resources? We have
Just received a book, which has 100
pictures OF farms, towns, railroads, |
ETC., together with offers of
cheap lands, free tickets, etc etc. We
have also a book from Kansas that
would ornament any parlor table. No
wonder we creep while these States rush
forward like wild horses. Our Legis
lature ought to appropriate at least
SIC 1000 for advertising the State.
Conscience is termed ''the gnawing
TOOTH and conscience" saith the
Poet, ''maketh towards of US all p And
that's what's the matter with tooth
ache Men of nerve are nerveless as
school-boys when the iron clad nerve
begins to twitch. and throb, and thunp,
and howl, and yell, and pull out every
hair in your head!
Tooth-ache herein illustrates the plus
zeal strength of mental enthusiasm.
Soldiers who marched 40 miles In TWEEN
ty-four hours without rest, and fought
all next day without food, and stood
upon the outposts all the next night,
without sleep, and finally sat smoking a
cigar while one of their limbs was being
sawed by a clumsy sawyer, such men
have been known to whimper, or NOPE,
for weeks under the sting of a single
tooth. Statesmen whose names are
synonymous with moral courage have
sort of stamina against the-''bad
We hear of a distinguished
Southern Senator well known to our
readers who was the picture Of despair
as seen by an unsympathetic friend last
week. He felt the touch that makes
all mankind akin (achin', you
know ,
Dante and Milton and Tasso ought to
Y a rn1xInl thoir .tn.a, &c Ta. IL