The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-03-10
Judge Settle has brought bis IAN
,lv to Greensboro for the summer.

Charles, a brother OF ID. Otls
Manson' had his leg amputated in a re
cent railroad accident.
The negro, Bass, who assaulted ana
robbed Mr.. Calvin Yates at Cary. was
cantured near Fayetteville, now lies ID
iail in default of So, 900 bail.
-Webster's Dictionary lone copy OF
which we can furnish for S9) contains
nearly 5000 new words custom has Gre
ated.
Our game report for this week IS as
GOOD as last: to wit, one large bear, one
farge beaver, one large pelican, ana =
600 rabbits.
TIL. fact that from three to tour
hundred North Carolinians attenaeu
Garfeld's inauguration, shows no"
time is improving our pocket-psoAS
and patriotism.
A Prshibitory Liquor Bill sub
hitting the question to the people nas
nassed the Senate. \ clause putting
probibition straight out, without sub
m;ssion was defeated; only Messrs:
Tarr Faison. Merritt, Gudger, and
Spears voting for It,
From DIR. B. T. Mebane we learn
that Shashane Richardson, a young
student of the Junior class from View
bern. died on Friday at the University
after an illness of only a few hours.
The ssmember from Guilford." that
: 70 saw one of him, the Republican
one, Mr.. J. A. Pritchett, goes west tins
"wednesday afternoon to take unto
kI,saIf a bride, Miss Olivia Brown, Of
HillsborO.
All is not gold that g%litters but
Arthur Butts glitterlng "RevelatloDs
bara coined so much Guinea stamp,
that he is no longer poor, but has re
turned to Charlotte to paint a better
ono. while his father travels on trans
Mississippi.
The First National Bank of Char
lott. has sent Sl35, 900 of its legal ten
ders back to Washington, to AVOID the
Funding Bill. and Mr.. Rufus Y. Me-
Aden. President. writes a letter to the
OLserrer iustitying the action OF the
National Banks.
With exceeding regret we learn 81
the destruction of Capt. EDWARD j.
Parish's handsome residence at Dur,
ham OH Saturday morning, 1t lgnlted
from a Aue, at the top of the roof, and
was speedily wrapped IN flames.
most of the furniture was saved. Capt
.John s. Lockhart's and Hon. Z. b.
Green's residences were rescued with
difficulty.
Think how profitable silk raising
must be, when every yard OF SIX rough
over the ocean must pay an import TAX
of from 80 to l2O per cent. IN aduiIion
to the cost of freight for 1000 miles
In other words, every yard or pound OF
French silk must cost double the cost OIL
American silk. Yet, last year we import
ted s33, 500, 900 worth OF silk an III
crease of SI3, 000,0 900 IN W years
Suppose we had raised this Silk, and
pscketed the difference.
-Report says that ex Sheriff Tn
Lee. backed by the Harris and
Upchurch family, and others, /;
making a flank movement u.DII
the Raleigh postoffice. But the
friends of Postmaster Holden some
months ago passed a paper recommend
ing his retention and received the sig
natures of a large number of the towns
neonle. It would be hard to dlslodg'
him; and we presume the community
Including the majority OF Democrats
would lust as lief see him retained a.
any other Republican.
How much for that arm full o
wood?'' Zone dollar, sab "Oh, yes
YOU mean to throw IN the steer, ant
geer, of course Well, leave the Woo
and cart; you can keep the steer n
afraid it would die on my hands.
"Sah |, sab !, dem remarks Oh, your
'stonishes me! Why, sab, dis spirited
%ye'rlin' hab earnt nigh on to slXteel
hun'did dollars sim Christmas.
The would be Buyer moved sadly on
ward rejecting upon the great super
ority of the curbstone capitalist owe
common wood burners.
On Monday morning there wer
only one more than a quorum presen
in the House, and as nearly half wer
Republicans they might have forced a
adjournment at any hour. They stl
possess sufficient strength to defeat an
measure by flibusterlng, but 1t is sal
will make no attempt SO to do. 1t ma
be admissible, as we are not anybody
Organ-grinder, to say that the cours
Of the Republicans at the present Sc:
sion has been very greatly to the
credit" They have made no factltlou
opposition where opposition was ust
less, and have wasted comparatively IL
tie time In speeches.
We notice that in several Instance
notably the passage of the bill to allo
the Richmond & Danville r. X. to sli
into Best's shoes, the majority r.
fused to grant the call for we;
and nays. We do not say this
'cowardly," because possibly tt
members have not looked at it as
test but certainly ali must admit til
people have a right to know who vot
for and against certain measures OF puI
lie interest, and any man having vote
for or against a measure ought to hav
nerve enough to allow it to go upo
record.
-Ji-l Garfield, His Excellency,
is t. : first, of a long line of chi
magistrates of the Republic, to speak
the Southern States as a distinct Sc
ton; thus recognising the existence
sectional lines. Repeatedly in his |
a~ugural Address he refers to I'll
South" the people Of the South,
her interests" "her acts, ct
Other Presidents have said ''certa
States" or "the States lately in II
bellion." or some similar paraphras
But Garfield plumply breaches at tt
South" as a kind Of outlying regio
formerly in the Union, but now on ST
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