The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-10
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a grocery store in Raleigh. Write to
this office.
The Winston Lntder says a daugh,
Ter of DIR. Craven. of Trinity College,
wa, ha3l burned at Greensboro Female
College.
toy K X. Scott has been acqult-
ted al he charge Of murder. w arc
dad to hear it.. Scott acted Infamous
~ while Governor OF South Carolina
but he was not on trial for that.
Ii is now stated that as soon a. the
Elizabeth City and Norfolk road reach
Is Edcnton. it will cross the river and
push on to Washington. y. C.. opening
NJ one of the richest portions OF the
state.
Prof l. T. Buchanan, late of Dur
ham Academy, gives notice through
Attorney Montague, of the settlement
of abe estate OF his uncle, W. /. Safer,
of Wake. who was recently killed by the
springing up Of a plank in his circular
saw mill
Typhoid fever has killed more lives
in North Carolina during the past year
than were killed at the battle Of Manas-
sas from the whole Union. But Death
: a sly dog, and excites no alarm when
he snatches his victims one by C
The President has named Thurs
day Nov. %, for the usual Thanks
giving" lie ought to lead all the
land in thankfulness, since by a dis
pensalion of providence Giseeau's
pistol popped him from the dregs to
the top o tie pot.
-Forepaugh's show drew the LARGEST
crowd 20 Charlotte that has been
seen since the big Centennial in 1873.
The ObSerter praises the circus moder
a'eiy; but says many persons considered
it a failure. At Greenville, the concern
created much Generalization. As many
ls 30 drunken men were IN the guard
house at one time.
Business men generally ad v~ertise
ID papers which they think are most
read. So. if our friends in any part
OF the State wish to do Us a kindness,
let them be sure TO mention the Far
mer aud Mechanic when writing to any
business man. If the latter have no
card IN tie paper, it will do no harm
to ask h.n why he does not advertise
IN 4 paper 50 widely read.
We suspect there is not a parallel
IN the history of Southern newspapers
for the remark of Father Evans. of
the Milton Chronicle, that for 40
years he has printed papers in that
Forty years. 1t is more than
Al generation. AMI u old friend,
whom we have never seen, but who we
esteem, makes As sprightly a paper as
foity were the days of his " years.
Pro-. o. r. Smiths cotton picker
is the best of 10 machines on exhibition
at Atlanta. One patent, cuts If the
and threshes it on u lot Of wires.
Another puts cups over each bowl, ans
up the lint by an air- Exhaust.
Another has a cylender full OF long
b~ristles which rolls over the plant anu
knocks of the lint. Another has two
revolving brushes. But al are failures
for real work.
The old Boston Boot and Brogan
House, OF Bachelor 4 Co., has a repu-
tation back @ de war Its shoes
we've standard stock with well known
firms at Raleigh, Fayetteville, and
Other Carolina towns. Their make has
a fame of its own. MesSrs. Y~eargan.
Petty * Co have taken the Agency for
the Bachelor goods, and have an tx
~tcnsive stock now on hand. Country
Merchants would do well to write for
prices anG always mention the Farmer
and Mechanic.
The success of the colorcd Fair
has done a great deal to encourage and
improve the Blacks. 1t has made them
feel more like men, and citizens. As
there are Il few thrifty and Industrious
Blacks In every county, it only needs
the bringing together of these men in
one exposition of their own handiwork
to show what can be done land we think
UiU be done when the coloIed people
as a race begin to fully comprehend
their duties, their necessities, their de-
6~ciencles, and their advantages.
We believe Gov. Nances talk did
good. Three hours after his speech, a
colored man brought us 81 which he
had been owing for six months.
1t is noticeable hal the colored
Fair owed its success t 0 the absence OF
the old political schemers and dema-
gogues who usually lead the Freedmen
by the nose on all public occasions.
Stewart Ellison, Jim Harris, and 9th,
SIS, We're not prominent this time.
Even Bruce did not come. But Gov.
Vance, Gov. Jarvis, Gen. W. Il. Cox,
VI. McGehee, Esq, and others, al
Democrats and OK slave~owners, made
friendly speeches which not only en-
couraged the blacks personally, but alsc
stimulated them iDduStriaily. Gen
Cox alluded to the fact that some of hi
own slaves John O'keliey for one
were on the platform, As Directors o
the Fair, and had already amassed ;
competence for themselves
Ladies, or at any rate women.-ar
now admitted to the medical clinics a
Phi'adelphia nd from 20 to 80 youn.
women shove and struggle with tn,
male students to get on the front seals
TO get a better view of the naked sub
jects, under dissection. Last veel
some of the girls came late, and wrot,
a note to the professor complaining tha
the young men wouldn't vacate tht
front seats in their favor. The profes
sor sternly replied that if femaiel chos,
to attend the Lectures, he could no
prevent it, but they must expect t,
have no favors. They must come a.
Doctors and not as ladies" AnC
he should address the class Just as free
ly as if no p%etticoats were present. III,
was right. Women should be laugh
in their W clinics. We entirely ap
prove of female Doctors. and thinl
there are many cases wherein thew ar,