The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-23
journalistic.

journalistic.
1t is very in~convenient and provOk-
ing for a wide-awake journalist to edit
a small paper, with only half enough
type, and a small force of printers. Be
cause there Is not a week IN which he
does not see scores of articles and items
which would either interest or instruct
his readers, and which no decently con
Quoted News paper ought to let pass
unnOtlced
So too in relation to other matters
One of these is the courtesy OF notlng
changes, improvements, ETC., OF State
contemporaries. 1t is a pleasure to do
this, for our brethren of the Pen and
Type, almost without exception, have
shown not only courtesy, but kindness,
in their references to the Farmer and
WechuHtc.
Unfortunately the mental notes we
generally take of journalistic items fire.
q~uently become buried under the stack
of unpublished items, letters, clippings,
etc which accumulate faster than the
types can clear them off.
Quite a number of changes have oc~
Cured in the State Press of late. We
believe we have mentioned that Capt
p. f. Duffy has succeeded Mr.. Chambers
as political Editor Of the Charlotte
Daily OJser er. He is an ex-Northern
Soldier who early cast his fortunes with
our people, and from the first gave his
best endeavors to the restoration OF
kindly relations between the sections
IL, .o,.I ~, thn St,to n
Convention Of 1868, was greeted with
thunders of applause not only foritse lo
quence, but tor the rare spectacle of an
ex Union Solder saying kindly things
to an ex-Rebel Convention. We trust
he will find his present pursuit pleasant
and profitable. -Acr )ss the State, in
the Bright Yellow" section, the acces
sion of Maj. Gregory to the TorchHght,
is followed by the loss of Capt. VIM.
Biggs, a veteran and talented Journalist
from the Fee-Laace, Oxford. The
latter paper has been purchased by
Messrs. j. G.. Lockhart formerly ofthe
Weldon Netos) and II. w. Kronhcimer,
of the Henderson Rcrietc previous tc
its consolidation with the lobuccouist.
These gentlemen, In common with the
papers named, have one of the bes,
newspaper fields in the State, namely 3
region in which nearly all the farmer.
are well supplied with cash, from theil
fine tobacco, and are of an intelligenl
class. --Th publishers of Greens
boro "Battie- GrOund' are throwing
good deal of spirit into their little daily
1t is Dry only in subject .-Th
Concord SIN, edited by our youns
friend Wade Hampton Harris, Ia.
passed the Ninth milestone of its life
and is wide awake as ever. We otter
wish we had a larger number of sub
>cribers in CabarruS SO that we NIGH
b ,rrow more frequently fro m the columns
OF the SIN and the Register. -Th,
address of Y. b, kingsbury, Esq, 70
the Wilmington Star at Wilson ap
pears to have more than met the ex
pectations of his friends, which were "a
from mediocre Mr.. kingsbury ha
the points, of a polished speaker, name
ly a good presence, self possession, dis
tinct enunciation, carefully cu,turec
critical training, and Journalistic
insight to popular interest. -
Mr.. Tasker Polk has retired from the
Warrenton ''NecS." We do not know
whether he, or Mr.. Boyd wrote tn,
sharply-pointed shafts which the Netc
has been firing for some months past
but we presume Mr.. Polk had a hanc
land pen) IN them|.The OxforC
Orphan's Friend is greatly enlarged
and well printed, from new type, max.
ing as handsome appearance as any
weekly We get. 1t occupies a some
what singular relation to the State
Press; being not a religious paper,
though mainly filled with religious ex-
cerpts, not a UNCONVENTIONAL D
though Mr.. Mills is an old Baptist cdi
tor, not a secular paper, though it fire.
quently fires crisp shots at current top
les of discussion, and contains a week.,
review of literary matters from the per
of its corresponding editor, Mrs. Mary
Bayard Clarke, of Newbern. 1t viii
doubtless find a warm corner in many
homes.--St. Mury's Muse (which
we see semi-accidentally, or at any rate
enthusiastically, which is as tantalizine
as an eighteen year old girl in a white
dress, blue slippers, red lips and pink
bonnet, has been made the organ o
the ol- hdTy : AlumDae, ID Is SAID Il
have an 'unprecedentedly large circu
lation. BY the by, the Oxforc
Frtend misues the adjective vicious
in its allu>ion to the Farmer and Ne
chantc. This paper does no ~viciously
assail anybody but when lnsolently at
tackled it resents as sharply as the CASE
calls for; although in no instance in
vicious temper. The editor Of the
Farmer and Nechantc, during lively,
years of journalistic life, has neve,
started a controversy, nor has he ever
knowingly, given occasion for being as
sailed. And has never failed to detenc
his paper, Oh his own course, if h.
deemed the attack worthy of notice, o.
saw that hi, silence would be miscon-
strued. At the same time he has al
ways felt that nothing is more uniour-
n~allstic and detestable than the hab;
which is too common with the South
ern and Western press, namely th,
heated s~quabbles, filling column OF
column OF type, every week. concernins
mere petty personal matters, that ar,