The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-04
Capt. +. r. Stamps spoke on Pro-

Capt. +. X. Stamps spoke on Pro-
hibition at Carthage yesterday.
-Longstreet has made a lengthy
and bitter reply to TX President Davis
in relation to Gettysburg.
Hon. Alfred VI. Waddell has con
sented to speak the piece at the open
ing Of the railroad to Oxford.
They have a Bald-Headed woman
on exhibition In New York, and she i
considered quite a curiosity. We sup
pose the hen-pecked husbands all turn
out to see this suffering sister OF totheT
sex.
The new two story brick building
adjoining the Raleigh National Bank
is under roof, and will make q capital
location for Messrs. Edwards, Brough'
ton 4 Co, and the Biblical Recorder.
A fine farm, on Neuse river, very
convenient to market, Is offered for sale,
with all necessary buildings. three
mules, farming tools, cotton press, etc.
all ready for immediate occupation.
Write to Jas y. Waddell, Esq Selma.
n. G.
The greatest Railroading feat yet
performed was the changing OF the
| New Orleans aud St. LOUIS X. IL. from
a Ave foot to is guage. The road /,
500 miles long. and the work was CON
Dleted in ten hours. 1t will cost $500, =
900 including alterations in running
gear.
Mr.. David Vi. Vance is local editor
H. Itl..I,+n m ~ Nc rarnD
Missed it before we knew it, by the fol
lowing thoughtful paragraph:-'lt
would be well these summer nights tOr
young ladies who dress in white and
leave the front blinds open, to wear red
sashes that the gentlemen who pass 10y
NAV not be detained under the lmpres
sion that they are preparing for bed.
We wouldn't give a last years rot
ten potato for the opinion OF little
Eugene Hale, and froth:ng Frye with a
z. even though they write themselves
United State senators from Maine. But
as they are widely quoted against the
Prohibition Act, we mention that the
Tarboro SOuther,er prints letters from
each OF them, addressed so w. II. John
son, and declaring that Prohibition IN
Maine is not failure, and that they
endorse 1t.
The organization of Keene's new tele-
graph company Is an undoubted fact.
1t has $50, 600, 0O1 capital, and the con
troll of three of the wonderful new
patents. One of these permits any
number of Messages to be passing oyer
a single wire, from different offices, and
going in different directions! 1t
seems incredible, but there is no 1ues.
ton Is to the fact. The New Telegraph
Company is to break up the ~postofice
department by taking messages 50 cheap
ly that nearly all business will be done
by wire instead of by letters.
The captain of d vessel from Penn
sacola to New York reports meeting a
school of at least 700 whales, passing
off Hatteras, bound Southwark. He
said they made a procession two miles
long, and the oil must have been worth
a million dollars. In the language OF
Speareshake this is quite a stretch,
and very like a whale"-story. Seven
hundred whales all blowing at once,
would raise Jonah from his grave, make
Old Ocean sick at the stomach, and
turn the hot water of the gulf stream
into "a pretty kettle of fish," By the
by, DIR. Blacknall ought to capture halt
a dozen of the big tailed Blowers to
moor in front of his hotel at Morehead
and back up his other tale about Mary
Burt Howe" who left a little Howse to
Furman. 1t would be easy to prove,
by at least the same three gifted wri
tiers, that Mary B., came over the sea,
snugly in a whales Belize