The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-25
Rev. DR.. Wilson Of Wilmington
preached at Saratoga on Sunday

DIR. Pritchard's letters in the Re
cOrler are very interesting,
Col. VIM. G.. COup's circus vii
reach Raleigh about the middle of mex
month.
Mr.. y. Plumadore has gone to ltv'
at Mr.. Swepson's Sulphur Springs pro
perry near Asheville.
Sorry we missed seeing a number
of friends who called during the week
Come again we are not often of du-
ty," i'll or well.
Mr. Fletcher Ramsay, well known
in Raleigh, was married on Tuesday
at Rocky Mount, to Mrs. Lucy Thorpe
widow of the late DIR. III. r. Thorpe.
Col. P. Donan has been elected To-
the fourth time, Orator OF the Arkansa'
Press Association. He seems very pop
ular with western Journals.
Mr.. n. B. Broughton was elected
Grand Worthy Chief Templlr at thu
Grand Lodge |. o. G. T., at Clayton
last week. He il very energetic in thu
cause.
Pleased to learn that DR.. Carmel,
formerly of Raleigh, now of Norfolk,
is doing very well with his Granville
county ''Oppenheimer Sauce" which
is being sold in large quantities.
w have been asked fiji be fair to
support a graded school by taxation and
then allow outsiders to come in and en-
Joy its free benefits? We think not.
Such a course would ruin all private
Academies and Seminaries.
-One of the bright eyed. nimble-
footed daughters of Flirtatia, writes
from Asheville, I'VE dance every
night, and have a huge timeI' No
doubt you're right, NY dear; but you
shouldn't mistake the spelling there's
no to 1t.
Gen. Clingman thinks Garfield
should call Vice President Arthur to
his bedside and delegate to him the
powers of President. 1t would be a bad
precedent to set. The time might come
when a President would dodge his duty
by going off, and leaving the V. P. in
charge.
The Free Ldace says that Col. W.
+. Bea,ley expects to begin grading the
Granville R. r. (from Oxford to some
point on the Richmond & Danville K.
in Virginia. in a short time. When
this road is built, many persons will go
North from Raleigh via Henderson.
Capt. Tom Arlington is conductor of
the Henderson and Oxford R. R.
The continual telegraphing about
President Garfield's wounds ha. done a
great deal to educate the country in
medical matters. Thousands Of persons
who knew more about the man in the
moon than about their own bodies, can
now tell the meaning of normal pulse"
"a rising temperature, "pus," ri
gors," 'catheters," and all the rest Of
1t.
The Grand Lodge, Knights of Hon
or, a charitable organization and Insur-
ance Association whose increase is with.
out parallel, met in Raleigh yesterday.
There are more than fifty lodges in the
with a membership of 1000.
When any member dies, his family re-
ceive $4,000. DR.. Cobb, of Goldsboro,
is the present Grand Dictator, or Presi-
dent.
In a Northern pictorial is an en-
craving of the Modern Moloch." 1t
represents a large kerosene can, with a
Of women ~kneeling around it,
worshipping it, although Il continually
burns up their sisters and their chill
dren. 1t is astounding that people will
kerosene into stoves notwithstand-
ing the daily reports of terrible calami-
ties resulting therefrOm. If fire-builders
must use oil, why not have an old pan,
and pour the fluid over the wood before
putting it in the stove; setting the can
before striking a match?
The Associated Press ought to be
indicted and made to pay heavily for
the telegram sent to the six thousand
newspapers of the United States an
nouncing that Mrs. Burdett Coutt. is
coming to this country towel. ''see
her mother" The lady is an honor to
her sex and having devoted her sixty
years to charitable and philanthropic
works-giving millions of dollars to
the public-sheuld at least have protec-
ton from impertihent announcements
affecting her private life. ANY fish
woman would receive more considsra-
ton than she has had since she chose to
solace her declining years with the
care and companionship of a husband.
Let US sheer at the man, if we will.
but break our shafts of wit in the pres
ence, of n whose three score years
have been given up to good deeds.
pr. Z. P. Peace is a friend worth
having. The other day after buying a
bill of goods amounting to 500 or more,
IN a new establishment, he said to the
proprietor-"Now, sir, you owe this
trade to the Farmer md Mechanic. |
usually go elsewhere, but | saw your
advertisement, and Capt. Shotwelrs
notice, and | came on the strength of
it."
Obliged to you, Doctor! "a word
fifty spoken is an apple of gold in pic
ture OF silver, in the newspaper BUSH
ness. Advertisements are the only real
proht to a newspaper. There are few
Southern papers whose subscriptions
pay the cash expenses of the pubIica-
ton. The Farmer and MechGnic does
not average ten cents a year clear mon
ey on any subscribers substitution.
Hence the editor would work for
nothing and board himself" if it were
not for advertisements.
Now business men soon learn to put
their advertisements in such apers as
they think are read. And the only wav
they have of judging is by remarks
from their customers. Therefore if our
friends would do us a real favor let them
say when they visit a store, or when
writing to any one on business, Il saw
your card in the Farmer and UecLun-
,c," or perhaps-''I looked for your
card IN the Farmer and Mechdnic."
There a dozen prominent firms in