The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-06

-Vennor predicts a steady rain du
ring q :tober.
The Supreme court assembled on
Monday for the Fall term.
DR.. +. Grissom was quite laid up
last week from the liberation arising
fron a wound received during the war.
Charlie Hunnicutt, aged 5 lost an
arm in Stricklands cotton gin at Stan
tie Sunny Home says
Mr.. James G. Jenkins who read
Law in Raleigh two winters ago, has
hanged out his single at Gainesville,
Ga. He will no doubt 10 well.
f.s-Our fr;ends visiting the city dur
ing Far week viii lind the Farmer and
Kech.tJc door wide open. All plenty VI
welcome. Off &c second building below
Tu-her Hall, or first above Simpson
D.rg Sore. on same side of Fayette
vile street.
The excessively warm and dry
weather still adds to the Sick List
There are few dangerous cases, however,
DR.. Sexton has unwell for several days.
Mr.. Walter Hay, has gone to Beaufort.
). C., for his health, which Is quite IN
firm.
Col. John ID. Cameron. long editor
Of the Hillsboro. now Durham, RecOr
der. aui one of the two NEST elegant
editorial writers Of TIE State Press, has
retired to his home in Hi!lsi,oro, and Is
lie Louso of receiving proposals fIr either
literary or editorial work.
Mr.. w. S. Primrose has quite a
large aui fine collection of Indian relics;
| hatchets, arrow heads, aud the like.
The little nigs around town have learn
ed nat he will buy such thing SO
the acour the fields and often hn very
handsome specimens.
Miss Julia Moore /. visiting in
the family o: John Ii Wheeler Of
Washington TO copy record. for her
fathers 'Confederate Roster. Mis-
Anna Saunders has returned from q
lengthy visit to her uncle Alfred w.
Bacot, Esq, of Society Hill, ). G.
The change of location Of the cot
ton yard is already changing the current
Of business. All day long the stream of
country wagons and carts pass through
the streets to the Northwestern part Of
town, Instead of the Eastern; and as
these vehicles generally bring the fami
lies Of the farmers, the stores nearest to
their unloading place will catch the
most trade, in curse of time.
Terrible cyclones swept over the
Western States last week. One hurri
cane near Emporia, Kansas, killed five
IT tx persons, and DESTROYED 500, 900
worth of property. Another neal Wan
tonil, Wis, did equally as much dam
age, add seriously injured half a score
of persons. Madison, Nebraska. a town
of one thousand inhabitants was ,evelled
fat as the prairie; houses, churches,
railway depot, etc all ruined Several
persons were killed; many wounded.
A lot of Southern soldiers Joined
the Yankees" at the Chata: ooga
Army he Union, in cljlUbin1 the heights
of Lookout Mountain, and celebrating
the occasion. And the 'Grautl Army
Posts OF Carlisle, Penna., have been
entertaining and parading a big deiega-
ton of Nirgin;ans headed by the old
"Stouewall Brigade" band. We trust
these signs of returning concord will
prove more lasting han the similar de-
monstrations III the Greeley campaign,
and in 1878.
Gen. Robert B. Vance, of the
Mountain District, is very practical aud
a strict Methodist. yet is rather disposed
to cJquette with the MUSES.. While a
prisoner in Fort Delaware he wrote nu-
merous poems which were copied into
hundreds of Autograph Albums, and
still are heard of occasionally in print.
tie recently wrote some verses entitled
a Mountain Storm" published in the
Salisbury Wutchman, and dedicated to
Miss Frances Z. Fisher, or 'Christian
Reid"
Pleased to see the Raleigh & Gas
ton Z. II. declaring a dividend Of 3 per
cent on the stock. Many persons have
complained that heretofore dividends
were swallowed up in the continual
Improvement and extensions" But
all must o admit that 1T was the true
policy; and in our Judgment it would
have been better to have deferred divi-
dends still another year, and built the
Oxford X. r. and a branch from Sand
ford TO Charlotte. Sooner or later
these improvements would have in
creased the dividends largely. But
Maj. John c. Winder's general manage
ment Of the two roads (Weldon to Ham
leu has been judicious and praisewor-
thy In marked degree.
The Laulinburg Enterprise tells
how one of the little %pug-nosed sharp
ers' accompanying odd John Robin
sons circus, He'd the credulous
masses. He brought with him a car
bethag full of pill boxes. and early in
the morning filed them with axle
grease, of which he bought two boxes
from a Laurlnburg merchant. Then he
mounted a stump aud began to har
rangue the crowd on the wonderful vir-
Corn Salve." Exc nightfall he had
sold an hundred or two pill boxes, and
pocket,ed So for % cents worth Of
axle grease 1t ought to have been
Goose grease, to suit the gulls who
purchased it.
Many of our we'll known white citi-
zeuS are contributing to the Premium
List of the State colored Fair, which
begins Oct. 3lst. Among them we no
tice the following subsclil err, OF the
Fa.mn and Nechonic: Battle aud
Mordecai, s.; Hon. j. G. Scarborough,
a copy of Wooster's Unabridged for the
best spelIer; w. l.. McGehee, 81 for
the best corn Ballard & Green, O.
Franklinton, a s. pillow; Sheriff d. \.
Grantham, of Wayne, S. for best pigs;
George Allen, three IS plows; R +.
Marlborough one s. pillow; r. r @lIarri>