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

sey.
R. F.. Jones Of Goldsboro is show
ing a good deal of push in the car
rage making business.
A good motto for Prohibitionlsts
"Kcepyour powder Dry Cold water,
c Ill facts, AMI a cool temper, are what
is Leeded.
1t actually laid the du~tl" That
loi o expected, many times promised
daily threatened, sofely needed Ran
that didn't come, but merely went
throup h the m%otious, on Thursday.
Judge Nathan Clifford, of the l..
s. Supreme Court is de ID. So Gar
field can pick out another subsidized
munopaIist 10 sit upon the Bench with
Stanley Mathews, "Aliunde' Bradley.
Harlan, and Company.
-Rt. Rev. Arthur Stanley, Dean OF
Westminster, is dead, in his Goth year.
He was better known in America than
any other English divine, because OF his
oftcn expressed liking for this country.
1t is not long since his last visit. The
name Of Dean Stanley is OF course
very prominent in the field of literature
ara pulplt tloiueuce.
With regret we note IN the Orphon's
F.iend that Miss Mary A. Anderson,
who retired to Mcbanesviile a few weeks
ago to r~ecuperate her health, withdraws
from that paper, and the institution.
We trust she may speedily recover. Mrs.
Mary Bayard Clarke IL acting a. editor,
ard displaying her wonted zeal u
ability.
The Census statistics show that
the consumption of Lagar Beer III this
country has increased one million gal
Ions yearly for five years. This year the
increase is I,240, 00O gallons over last
year! If lie, n would drive out Whisky
and brandy the change would be far the
better.
The big robbery in New York has
a certain significance. The money, so,
60, belonged to a Brewery, and was the
| , e ;eipts for a single week. There are
more than ! 90 big Brewcries in and
around New York. If they gobble up
ten thousand dollars apiece, every week,
it is easy to see where the earnings OF
the poorer classes are swallowed up
Our Northern readers whoimaginc
North Carolina to he a low, maIshy
REGION" given up to Messrs. Tar,
Pitch, and Turpeutinc," should visit
Durham (Which is low in comparison
with the average Of Central Carolina),
and see Blackwell & Cars artesian
~well-augur going down through l, 100
Of dry sand, aud returning without
either water oil" "chilIs and
fever" or "Muschetoes."
-P1pular Science Monthly for August
has a review of Prof. VIM. G.. Kerr's
paper in the American Journal o.
Science describing the Frost formed
Earth beds, oil glaciers Of rock disin
tcgrated by the action of intcnse frost,
and converted into earth. Interpreted
with minerals. One of these beds is at
Yancey county mica mine.
Col John A. Mcdonald has been
forced to follow his file leader, Gov.
Holden, and like his son, step down and
out to make room for a negro! Stewart
Ellison tHow that shrewd old darkey
manages to pick up any little office ly-
ing around loose , is the new custodian
of the Federal Building. Col. Melon,
aid has gone to his native county Of.
Chatham, whence comes a fiattering
report of his temperance talks. But
DIR. Chaplin, who n month ago SAID
Chatham would give $50 Prohibition
majority now says the outcome will show
quite as large an hole on the other side
Of the hill.
In old times all the Southern fash
ionable brides went to Saratoga or New
Port. Now a-days, they take their
Saratoga" in the shape of a truck,
and sail for Old Port Comfort. (sugges
tive name), thence to the Green
Briars Suggestive of scratches White
Sulphur Suggestive of matches); thence
to the Warm Springs Suggestive of
hot water: thence Home,-(sugges-
tive of first lessons in House keeping,
and last in music); thence, for forty years
a grand couglomerate compondation Of
Comfort, Briars, Sulphur, Warm Water,
Music, House keeping, Hash, and Hap
piness. mixed and mingled according to
taste. temperament, AMI too tool
1t seems that if people wish to be
sweet hereafter they must pay a ROYALTY
to certain Sugar Reiners of New York.
A meeting of the largest Refners
was held last week, and after agreeing
that sugar is too cheap, they made a
compact to reduce the weekly produc-
ton of their Refneries from 80 million
pounds to 20 million. This action at
once forced up the price of sugar a cent
or more in the pound. Now let our
cotton farmers follow the example! Let
them agree to raise but half a crop, and
demand Is cents a pound for that halt
crop By this means they will make
more clear profit, and have plenty of
room fer meat and bread crops.
An article from a Boston paper
praising Mr.. Lafayette Holt for taking
off his coat to learn the manufacturing
business, is going the round of the
press. Without drtracting from Mr..
Holts credit we wish to say tina. this is
not a thing SO uncommon at the South
as the Boston paper supposes. We
have heretofore alluded to L. S. Sena-
tor Manly's son, Basil, and Rev. DIR.
Lscy's son, Ben, who took Of their
coats, and entered the Railroad shops,
to learn the business from the bottom
rail. We know another Young man
who shall be nameIess, who left Prince
ton College. and did the same thing.
There is also Mr.. w. L. Brewer. a near
relative OF Rev. DIR. Marshall, of Christ
Church, serving apprenticeship in a
Northern Factory, to learn the bust
ness. And W. hear that Messrs. Chas.
Holt and Hal Worth have some such
intention. Of course there are hun
dreds of others we merely give those
which first occur to mind.