The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-16

Alfred Tate and wife keep a very
good eating house on second. floor ovel
Heller's shoe store. A number of gen
tlemen take meals there, and are gen.
orally well served.
The Penitentiary Board has con
tracted with Jas. Cary & Co., Of Balti
more to furnish the latter all the shoes
made by the convicts. The shop n ov
turns out about l,S00 pairs Of brogan.
per month but will soon increase thu
number.
Dearly as the Darkey dotes on
| circus. or a kicking donkey, he would al
most as lief attend a court trial. \,
matter how hot the day, nor how crow
ded the court room, nor how trivial til
case, he will stand gaping at the pro
ceedings FROM morning till night, an,
even go without dinner ii the case bt
%'consarnin' Of a fight" or the we
ship ola cur dog.
&C. W. Rainey, Esq, Of Kittrell
offers a bargain to our farmer friends
Write to him right away, and get hi
prices for one of the celebrated
Browns Cotton Gins" Or if yol
don't want it yourself, please mention
to your neishbOrs that tapt. Ralney
has one to be sold cheaply. al Kittrells
OIL the Raleigh and Castor Railroad,
Mrs. VI. b. C"s adroit fiction abour
the old maid and her faithful lover, i:
getting DIR. BlacknalFs Morehead Ho-
tel one or two hundred dollars worth Oi
free advertising. But it is an entertain
ing story, and the Doctor has invited the
Press to spend Il day or two with him,
and a good many of them will do it.
Treasurer Worth has issued a~letter
declaring the bonds of the W NOR 4
and Raleigh & CASTOR r. r. are sub
ject to taxation. Furthermore that if
any one owns property in another State,
and not taxed in that State, but liable
taxation in this, he must list it for tax
alton in North Carolina.
DR.. j. n. Rynum who last year
1aunted the certificates of Gov. Jarvis,
Senator Vance, and others, in praise of
his liquor, stops his Farmer and Ne
because of its Temperance views.
And the Prohibitionists do not like it
because 1t doesn't whoop and howl on
that side. But it lives, and keeps out
Of debt, and steadily grows all the same.
Young Priester, of South Carolina,
who killed a negro in a Charlotte grog-
shop, while attending Col. Thomas's
Military Institute, and who recently
killed his own father, has been tried,
and sentenced to the lunatic asylum for
life.
From a note last night received,
We infer that there was an error In the
account of the Arlington divorce suit
o wit, that Mr.. A. accepted $4,000 in
leu of the custody of the children.
We gave merely the current statement,
which seemed well vouched for. Of
course we have no feeling for one side
II the other, and certainly no wish to
10 injustice to either.
We hear that Gov. Vance says the
special session was called and the W.
{. X. X. sold, as much through his
influence as that of any other man, and,
6y Donder und Blixen, he is bound to
zee that the people are not sold out
nd the Carolina system" honored as
t is by time, and the aspirations ofour
ltlzens for generations to
he ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of any clique or
ompany. He expects to stand by the
come what may! If this
e true, it will gladden. many hearts
nd the tribe of Zebulon will be greater
han ever.
Very neatly gotten up are the invi-
atoms Of the First Annual Ball of the
ance county Terpsichorean Club. at
lunter's Hall, Henderson, Friday, June
!, at 9 p. M, Henry Perry President:
: B. Clarke, Sec; II. IL. Burwell Jr.,
7. B. Boyd. w. H Wake, B. F. Hes
#, Committee of Invitation: JOS.
|. Pogue, w. P. Montgomery, and
.heIs, Reception Committee Gov.
ance. Hon. G. Nj. Cooke, Mai. Win
er, w. +. Gary, DR.. Jack Watkins.
apt. A. ID. A. Williams, Capt. w. Fl.
ay, and others. Honorary members.
will be a jolly occasion.
are In receipt of Binebam's
Elementary English Grammar, an In
oduction to the larger work by Prof.
!. w. Greene, Principal of M~oraviap
alPs Academy, Wilkes county: T. 81.
utler & Co., Phila., publishers.
lst out. 1t is neatly COTTON up. as to
re, print, etc.; and so far as we NAV
!dge from an hasty RENEWAL is well
as tirst-book for Beginners, ar
.nged to stamp the youthful mind
a correct view ofthe parts ofspcech,
eclenslons, etc. Price only 25 cents.
The fact that nine men in ten,--
GLIDING the most pronounced Demo-
inclined to sympathize with
onkling rather than his enemies.
'oves two things; viz-that nearly all
en- admire audacity and self-assertiou:
Id, second, that the world takes a
an at his own claim. Conkling has
zen a great man for a quarter of a
'ntury-nOt because of natural great.
,ss, or any great achievement. for
hat measure of Importance did he
lglnate Or what great event did :
lead In O-but solely because he is
1nclently se~lfconceited to regard him
as a great man, and to call upon the
)rld so to regard him. The result of
If observation in life is that no really
odest man ever attained power or no q
ION IN public affairs Some men j
e Stonewall Jackson are called from J
lvate life, -seeming obscuritv.-to /,
station for a time but if you SUD .
Sc Stonewall Jackson was a really u
odest man, you are greatly mistaken. ;
was a man of towering ambition. c
er MS fashion, and had the self.oS' c
'tlon OF the Cromwellian blood We 8
MT to his desparagement in saw ;
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