The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-28

PROF. Martin 0ecIlneS Tue NhaP0'
Hill professorslip. He Is conservative
in habit, and don't like to tear loose
from old mooring rocks.
The Confederate monument at Cul
peper was unveiled with imposing cere-
monies. There are s. North Caroll
mans among the number OF names on
it.
Bishop Lyman, and a chorus OF
clergymen consecrated an Episcopal
church in Durham on Sunday. 1t Is a
very handsome and commodious edltice,
seating 500 persons.
Gen Cadmus NJ. Wilcox was IN
town last week, visiting his relatives,
the Misses White. He was an old army
officer, and one of the groomsmen at
Grants wedding.
If this number seem more than OF
6inarily dull set it down to the fact that
the Editor, Proof Reader, Business
Manager. chief cook and bottle washer
have been playing sick for the past
week.
At a large Autobiography meeting
in New York City last week, Col. Fred
Conkling, a brother of Roscoe, and +.
3. Thurber, Esq, of the well known
house of H. K. & f. B. Thurber, made
speeches, predicting the steady increase
of the Anti-M onopoly organization.
A young gentleman of some jour
~nalistic experience, a member or a well
known family, and widely acquainted,
advertises in our columns for a sltua
ton as Editor, or assistant editor, on d
daily or weekly newspaper, for the
period of one year. Any of our ex
changes desiring such assistance will
please address "A" care of this office.
Napoleon B~uonaparte Taylor, who
killed Seawall, the Revenue man, was
captured by Sheriff Brewer on Monday
and is now in Pittsboro jail. He es-
capped from Carthage Jail about a year
ago., and has been making a crop, APP
~parently Indifferent to capture. lie re-
Gently drove a load of farm produce III
the Gulf, sold it, and d~rarted unmolest
ed.
Goodness Gracious, man, why
don't you come down this way? We
refer to Jose f. Navarro, Of New York
who has just bought a plot of ground
fronting 200 feet on Seventh Avenue.
New York, for which he paid 81, 200, 600,
On this bit of land (about five a~cresl
he is going to erect six houses to cost
81. 600, 600 more. They are 10 be fash
ionable apartment" houses. But just
think of the folly of piling up five mil
lion dollars in six boarding houses,
when half million dollars invested in
North Carolina lands or factories would
pay as large a per centage at less risk.
The collapse of Turkey Cock
Conkling was simultaneous almost to
the hour with hat of Sitting Bull, the
cock of the Praries His formidable
army of 1000 warriors with which he
crossed into Canada after whipping
Gen. Custer, had melted to 200 halt
starved, half naked followers; so he at
last came in and surrendered his guns
and ponies. He turned his oldest son
over to the whites to be educated at the
military schools. and then cooliy in
auircd-'Now | want to know how
am to make a living?' This is getting
civilized with a rush.
The Wilson Normal School cost the
State S720. Superintendent Sylvester
Hassell acted very generously. He gave
the use of his college building, together
with bis personal services. and seven set
lectures, free of charge. Miss Helen
Laube, of Richmond, taught a number
of classes daily, merely charging for her
expenses. Messrs. John +. Ray, S. S.
Satchwell, Smith and Won Jasmund
delivered lectures free of charge. State
Geologist Kerr, who has 81. 900 a year
from the State, delivered four lectures,
and charged $50, and his expenses. As
he lectures at a number of other Nor
NAL Schools, the fees must amount TO a
neat supplement to his regular salary.
Pleased to have a visit from that
wide awake Edgecombe planter, Capt.
Jas. r. Thigpen, who has above 700
acres under pillow, and employees nearly
an hundred persons on his premises.
He is a great advocate OF Home Sup
plies, Home-Fertilizers, and small store
accounts, as against All cotton and all
the profits to the merchants. He has
reduced farming to a system charging
every penny against the farm aud cred
iting it with all its product. One OF
his accomplished daughters took a
course in bookkeeping to ASST t her
father, and she has every bill ready for
payment on a set day.
Mr.. Cicero w. Harris, writing t.
the Goldsboro Messenger from Washing
ton, mentions the discovery or publica'
ton in the 'Archdelogiu Americana
of four letters written to Sir Philip sgd
ney, and Sir Francis Walsingham, by
Ralph Lane, the Governor of Sir Walter
Raleigh's colony at Roanoke, the first
English settlement in America. The
letters are dated In August and Septem
Der, 1855, and are mainly devoted to
complaints of Admiral Richard Green.
vile, but they incidentally tell of the
massacre of the first colony at Roanoke,
who it seems were set upon by order o
King PowhataD Of Virginia-thougl
they were ''out of his territory" Gov.
Lane says seven of the first colony were
preserved alive to work the copper
mines owned by the Indians on the up
per Roanoke.
1t is the fashion to go down to
Morehead on Saturday evening, wash
off the dust of the week, exhibit your
good clothes on Sunday, hear the latest
gossip, eat some fish, fight fifty 'leven
billion of muschetos, aud shuttle home
through the dust on Monday morning
greatly refreshed"-in a horn,-a
liquid one, at that! 1t is needless to
say, We are now speaking of the
stays" the antlered anthropoi.
Quite an herd of these were down on
Sunday last, including Gov. Jarvis, Col.
T. e. Fuller, Gen. Roberts, Col. Ike
Young, Capt. Mid L. Leach, P. T. Fai-
son. Robert White. T. 3. Rarhee Col